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The first question is what are you bringing to the party? Just because you have a good idea, you might be better off hiring in and not taking salary etc. It is too easy to treat the product as your baby even if you don't add any value, which means you will make it too slow or too fast to make it viable.

If you want to bring sales skills into the mix then you need to know your target market segment. Selling cars to the public is not the same as selling robots to the corporate world.

Startups also should have multi-tasking founders. Ideally, all of you can do several things. It can be a mistake to think that person A is a sales person, person B is technical, person C is design etc. because you then need 6 or more people just to cover all the jobs.

Also, you will possibly come up against problems with investment if a Founder is seen as dead-weight rather than adding value.

Just my tuppence worth!
> Is this just an underlying assumption people have, and it goes unchallenged because of the apparent prevailing belief that contradicting a woman about sexism claims is also sexism?

I think you are not familiar with what sexism is, and confuse it with misogyny. There is nothing about sexism to contradict, and beliefs, prevalent or otherwise, have nothing to do with it. Sexism is simply a state of affairs where women have less power than men in society. Sexism in tech is a fact, especially in software, as it is the only white-collar industry that has seen female participation consistently drop over the past couple of decades, unlike other industries (including science, medicine and other form of engineering) where women participation has been steadily on the rise. As tech is an industry that holds a lot of power, the decline in women participation is sexism.

Your claim that you personally have not witnessed overt misogyny has, therefore, little to do with the reality of sexism. Arguing with women or men about the reality of sexism is also unnecessary, as it is a proven fact.
Foot traffic should be inexpensive, accurate, and available in real-time. It should be dead simple to integrate with other applications, and it should never invade people's privacy.

imo.
In this case desirability is tied to fashion, people buy an iPhone because they see other people with an iPhone.

None of the Android phones has ever really gotten the same cachet that the iPhone does (Samsung nearly got it right with the S3) but it's down to perception and marketing.

In terms of device capability Android phones are considerably higher spec and just as usable (5.x is a big improvement) but it doesn't really matter, fashion and marketing wins out.

You see this in other areas, Sennheiser headphones are demonstrably higher quality (in sound and construction) than "Beats by dre" but if the difference is small enough then fashion wins out again.
Funny how this news makes me think i may have a better deal buying an android phone next time, since they're making less margin over me.
I'd say it's like 50/50 among the people I know. A lot of doctors marry doctors, since that's who they meet at work/school. I am married to someone on the tech side of things. I like having someone who doesn't want to talk shop with me all the time, and my friends married to another doc like being able to do that I think. So just depends.
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> Or at all, for certain countries. Germany and France routinely break pretty much any parameter, in various directions, and absolutely nothing happens.

Germany has been very strict on their own budget in the last four years and tries hard to satisfy the Masstricht criteria. For the following data, cf. http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsdaten104.html

budget deficit/surplus of EU countries (% of GDP) (Haushaltsdefizite/-überschuss der EU-Länder): -3 is allowed, Germany has

2012: +0,1 %
2013: +0,1 %
2914: +0,7 %
2015 (estimate): +0,6 %
2016 (estimate): +0,5 %

which is (IMHO) exemplary.

From the Maastricht criteria only "total debt (% of GDP)" (Gesamtschulden (in % des BIP)) is problematic, since there only 60% is allowed. But also here Germany is working very hard to satisfy this criterion:

2012: 79,3 %
2013: 77,1 %
2014: 74,7 %
2015 (estimate): 71,5 %
2016 (estimate): 68,2 %
If you are going to do healthcare startup, you definitely need people who work in healthcare especially MD. Figure out areas hospitals are losing money and what they are afraid of. Make things that solves that. If you look into Obamacare, you can see a lot of consequences for hospitals/clinics. I'm a nurse and also a designer who happen to be really into tech and have developer friends. Working on developing platform to streamline patient education with a major hospital. Got into it because I was annoyed with how things were done. Thanks for healthcare experience and having other healthcare people on team, I was able to pass through a lot of the politics.
For text messaging they use Sonar: https://sendsonar.com/

Not sure what they use for payments.
Right, when people say native, they talk about connecting directly with the OS-specific UI fundamentals. An application is "native" not by virtue of its execution environment, but by virtue of the UI primitives. That's why people talk about "native look and feel".
Not arguing that one is more usable than the other (although I have an iPhone so I suppose that is a tacit argument), just stating a general opinion.
Sometime in the last year. Russia's recent I-can't-believe-it's-not-an-invasion of Ukraine (combined with its unabashed invasion of Georgia several years ago) has made it clear that it deeply desires political hegemony over the former Soviet Union states. The three Baltic states have cultural memories of Soviet aggression and are deeply terrified, and membership in the EU gives them both some measure of protection (outright aggression would likely trigger military response) and a political avenue to respond that means something (pushing for tough sanctions).

There are other benefits. The shared currency and borders reduce costs of intra-EU trade (particularly beneficial for tiny landlocked countries like, say, Luxembourg). It's also another large public purse to raid for spending (e.g., CAP).
In addition, it's in the sun.misc package, if it's not in java.* or javax.* it is ripe for pruning, you'd think people would have learned by now to stop using internal classes since pretty much every JRE/JDK release known to mankind has changed them or removed them.
Very true, but Step #1 is to declare it deprecated.

Look, Microsoft is still struggling to retire Windows XP, a 14-year old operating system that was end-of-life'd over six years ago. However, at least they've been TRYING... and sending clear signals that support won't extend indefinitely.

Oracle, however, hasn't even begun the official process of winding down applet support. So why should ADP, or any other "captive-audience", "bare-minimum" crapshop even consider putting migration plans on their long-term timeline?

Just say it's deprecated. You don't even have to commit to a fixed end-of-life date yet. Just start the ball rolling with a signal that remaining on applets into the 2030's won't be a viable long-term vision. It might well take a decade or more to fully wind it down, but the first step is simply signaling your intention to eventually do so.

At this point, it's hard to argue that benefit of perpetual applet support isn't outweighed by the harm that it inflicts on public mindshare for the rest of your platform. At least start signalling that this cruft is going away eventually, to change the narrative about Java overall being cruft in general.
What makes you think OVH could cope with a 200 Gbps DoS attack of this nature? A quick look at their services indicates they don't mention what kind of attacks they defend against, and SYN floods are some of the hardest to defend against.
> The point stands. People who have a choice (have enough money) choose iPhone rather than allow crapware.

Not all people, I could easily afford an iPhone yet I stick with my Nexus 4 (which is currently Android 5.1.1 and noticeably quicker than 4 was on the same phone), it does everything I want from a smartphone and was a third the price of the equivalent iPhone at the time.
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Even with price parity through on-contract upgrades, apparently not that many. We should expect Apple marketshare to be much higher if the iPhone really is so clearly superior and more "desirable" to any rational consumer.
This came to light six years ago, and barring default or forgiveness, isn't going away soon. Young people who never voted for or against anyone responsible for the debt will suffer for it. People who haven't even been born yet might end up repaying the debt.

"Democratically-shared blame" is the ludicrous option.
My guess would be that Java continues to run an unpatched copy of MSCOMCTL.OCX. If you look at the CVE-2012-0158 patches[0] you'll notice that Microsoft had to patch a lot of software individually, I guess Java just was never fixed.

So it is a Java issue only in the sense that Oracle needs to update it. Obviously the original "bad code" was from Microsoft.

[0] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms12-02...
[1] https://community.emc.com/community/connect/rsaxchange/netwi...
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These rules were made to convince people that what is happening now would not be happening. Many parties, have on good faith exepted the EU because of this rules. However nobody cared to enforce them, theirfore the EU is based on lies and would never have been exepted by any voter if it had been known.
and how old are you?
Once again, The Platonic Engineer gazes hatefully at the gronky, ugly and awkward things that make things work in real life, rub his hands together and says...

"Burn it to the ground."
I think you're being a bit too pessimistic. As an amateur athlete, I can definitely see the utility (albeit limited) in this. There are lots of parks in my area (I live in Ottawa... obviously this is location specific) where I could set this up and not worry about it being stolen. And I wouldn't set this up for a game, but it would be useful while practicing/training - and my teammates would not give me shit about it.

I can't comment much on the other use cases that you've gone over, but as an amateur athlete this is totally something I could use. That said, I would rather rent this than own it.
This also means that they care about you less. It's a numbers game for these high-volume, low profit companies.
that won't matter for most use cases. the heavier the camera setup the more likely manual control is desired or required anyway. this is more for set-and-forget kind of shooting. On the video they've got a good size DSLR with an autofocus lens on it. If it can carry that, it's gonna work for people.
Plan for Greece :

1) overthrow parliamentary regime
2) set up a democracy ancient athens style
3) round up professional politicians of all stripes, capitalist thieves (pleonasm), media whores and economists and put them at work in labor camps.
4) tell troika that they can shove the debt up their arses
5) ban money (instead create a resource-based economy)
6) epic win
That's really not specific to a non-technical founder. Or to a founder.
We do have research collaborations with cardiologists, but we consider them to be advisers, not officially part of the team. However, two team members are biomedical engineers, with expertise in the medical field.
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> A game of football: Leaving a camera on a tripod on the sideline while I'm focused on the game? Not in any park I've ever played in. Taking the stick from my teammates for being enough of a nerd to set this up?

If it's affordable, I can see this being big with parents and coaches of youth athletes. Go to a children's soccer game (or ice hockey here in Canada) and see how many parents have their cameras out, but would rather be relaxing on their lawn chair than making sure they are catching all the action.
> But perhaps Apple earns more for their phone contracts even if consumers pay the same.

Considering the demand for iPhones a few years ago I'd be amazed if this wasn't the case, I suspect the carriers also pay a chunk of the advertising if it's an exclusive deal.
I would theorize that they have GPS in both units, and the tag sends its position to the base. Along with a compass, you can pretty accurately tell where the camera is looking, and you can probably gauge the distance between the tag and camera by the time it takes for the signal to travel to the camera, but I'm not sure how that's useful.
IANAL... I wonder if random AMZ customers could use this clause in a case without AMZ's cooperation?
Sure, I guess the main thing it comes down to is cost, and likelihood of the camera being stolen or damaged when left unattended.

It's fundamentally very cool and if it was cheap enough to be essentially throw away, or at least pretty easily replaceable, I think there would be a massive demand. But that won't be true for a long time.
There are two separate issues being discussed at once: 1) baseless prejudice, expressed en masse, and therefore gaining algorithmic notability, and 2) empirically backed, statistically defensible stereotypes.

This second issue seems harder to resolve, because it will require lawmakers to clearly articulate a "bright line" law in the language of the algorithm itself. As the article acknowledges, algorithms can "learn" race, even if race is not an explicitly defined explanatory variable.

Looking forward to part two.

Edit: Why race? Because it's an obvious and easy example. I believe the author would be on board with your height example.
What is "Unsafe?" Is it unsafe, as its name implies? If it is unsafe, why to so many programs use it?
The site is vulnerable to xss: http://durat.io/?q=this%20site%20is%vulnerable%20to%20XSS%3C...
Chill.

There is no disaster in the making. Oracle is very much aware of the issue, and is actually already taking the very same steps suggested by the author. It has assembled a public working group that is coming up with a spec for a public "Unsafe" API[1] (that is safer than Unsafe).

In the meantime, use of Unsafe in Java 9 will be possible with a command-line flag in order to allow the working group more time to create the new API and for Unsafe consumers to migrate, and of course to allow existing libraries to run on Java 9.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GDm_cAxYInmoHMor-AkStzWv...
The only way to file a (mandatory under penalty of huge fines) monthly tax report for a business here where I live is a web service that requires Java (or ActiveX) to do a digital signature for filed documents. There is currently no alternative (JavaScript APIs for that do not exist). Same goes for all other digital banking - requests have to be cryptographically signed and Java is pretty much the only widely portable way to do it.

Is that "end-user" enough for you? All busness owners in the country and all other general population doing eGovernment?
Indeed. The roots of the words prejudice are well known to most English speakers. It's supposed to denote "pre" judgement. Judgement before actual evidence.

Regarding impact: It could well be argued that current-day impact is the result of prejudice operating in the past. The interaction of society, economics, and demographics are complex. Hopefully, we'll just muddle through, somehow.
this is a duplicate.
That is an argument in favor of increasing adoption of a feature most users would decline if they were presented with the choice.

But the question is when the choice is asked, right? If you would have the time to explain the Pocket feature to a normal users, don't you think most would say "OK, saving articles might be useful, keep it in"?

The problem is that you don't usually get the time to explain the feature well enough, and if there's no time, the user will click it away ASAP (and be annoyed).
This is very close to correct. The better analogy is something like Tesla vs the generic commuter subcompact field. The generic consumer subcompact marketplace is extremely competitive and therefore there are approximately zero profits to be made, whereas the Tesla has one model at one price and basically no competitors.

Want an iPhone, you'll buy THE iPhone for whatever Apple wants to charge.

Want an Android phone, you'll select from a zillion basically identical competitors all more or less profit free (because competitor A can't extract an extra 5% profit if that would drive 100% of competitor A's sales to sellers B thru Z)

This shows the fallacy of "the smartphone market", there's the non-competitive iphone market with about 20% sales and the hypercompetitive confuseopoly market the other 80% buy into.
I am not talking from a "Hacker News" perspective here, where we can debate the details of functional programming or talk about which language makes the most sense. I am speaking of conversations (that I've actually had, on a regular basis) that go like this:

Me: So do you plan on building that as a web app, or a mobile app?

Non-technical founder: Um. I don't know. Both?

Me: Okay, do you understand that you will probably need at least 2 different developers (and possibly 3 or more, depending on which mobile app platforms you use) to help you build that out?

NTF: It's a great idea! I just need a developer! Don't you know some developers you can introduce me to?

Me: ...

The conversation is on an entirely different level from most of the ones we'd have here.
>Absolutely folks are not rational. The entire existence of the 'payday loan' industry proves that.

Not necessarily. It can also mean that there are fates worse than dealing with usury. Car break down that you need for your job and you need $1200 bucks and you have $27 that's supposed to pay for your groceries for the next week? A payday loan starts to look like a very good option considering the consequences of not taking that deal.

>Rationality is also subjective. What you'd do, with your safety net and well-off family and house with no mortgage, is entirely different from what someone one check from homelessness may choose to do. And it may look irrational.

Which is my point. Even though what that person that is one short paycheck from homeless does may look irrational, it likely is not considering the information they have and the choices available to them. When someone is making decisions with what amounts to a gun to their head, those decisions are going to look irrational to those that don't consider the gun.

Many people see the decisions the poor make and say "Oh, well I would have just negotiated based on my value to the business rather than settling for minimum wage." Which is a good response and perfectly valid if you can walk away from a deal with no negative repercussions. But the poor are negotiating with a gun to their head. They either have to take the deal or go hungry or homeless or not pay for their medication or what have you. Their decision is rational when all of the information is taken into account. It just looks irrational to people who generally don't have to deal with negative utility when they walk away from a given deal.

As a society I think we should strive to minimize how many of these life and death or pain on the line financial decisions people have to make. I'd like to see us strive for a nation where no one is negotiating for their life. I'd like everyone to have the freedom to walk away from a deal that doesn't create value for them. Simple as that. It will be better for everyone because it removes value destroying distortions.
Entire companies exist around functionality provided in Unsafe. I don't see this going well if they remove it without providing access to the functionality it gives.

Java has plenty of problems, but backward compatibility over the years has been simply amazing. This would chip away at one of the few legitimate reasons to use Java in 2015.
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Andddd we're back to flying drone cameras.
I think you underestimate the utility. Think of parents or family members that attend football games. They're often stuck watching the game "through the viewfinder" if they want to film it ... this frees them up to look with their eyes. You also underestimate extreme sports where you want to film a trick over a given obstacle. This would be fantastic for skateboarders. Boxers who want to film themselves during a workout, or a fight to review their form could use this for sure.

etc. etc. ... just because you don't anecdotally see the demand doesn't mean it's not there ;)
The colloquial definition of a native desktop application is an application that runs from a binary on your system. So yes, most people DO think of these as native applications.
That is a pretty crappy explanation, on the engineer's side.

To be clear, any explanation that is not immediately followed with examples to how current valid uses of Unsafe can be accomplished without it, are simply witch hunts by an engineer that hasn't had to meet the same requirements.
I see people switch or contemplate switching pretty regularly. There are a lot of people that don't really buy into the whole Apple experience or even run mixed environments (iPad + Android smartphone being the most common one that I see).
> Dirt biking...

Right. I'd buy it for that alone.
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I think the author's point about being able to make safe Unsafe replacements and keeping Unsafe around (for the time being) to enable better compatibility was thoughtful.
sun.* has ALWAYS been exempt from that guarantee though.
Apple has for a while excelled at market striation, they tend to enter the market with 2-4 of any one product, it removes the Paradox of choice.

Laptops are horrible at this, do I want the MX50S, MX50X, MX51, MX51S and on and on.

With Apple it's Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air.

It's a smarter strategy and I wish more manufacturers did it.
Search on YouTube to get some practical demos. They're pretty cool.

(Not OP but I follow this sector pretty closely.)
The article already clearly covers your second case:

> First is the duration – the provision seems to apply even
> after a customer stops using AWS.

In fact, the text of the agreement states "During and after the Term...".
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Seems like there are a lot of use cases for this. Take a backcountry ski outfit. Set a few of these up on your trails. Sell videos to people you charter. A ski resort could even use them instead of hiring people to go out and take videos/pictures. Also, there are loads of people who go surfing alone on remote beaches.

If you look at the success of GoPro, drones, etc. then this seems like a definite winner.
I see a lot fewer iPhones among the non-tech/developer set than I used to. A lot of them are former iPhone users who have switched for one reason or another. I'm not saying they are a majority (they are not), but it is far from rare.
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>Seems terribly sloppy as an investor (or prospective employee, for that matter) to be influenced by such a personal bias.

It is but, on the other hand, it would be equally sloppy to decide to fund an idea that you think seems pretty ridiculous and couldn't imagine using in a million years on the grounds that someone will find it appealing. With AirBnB, the real trick was that there was apparently (though still to be proven long-term) a business opportunity in the interstices of couch-surfing, hotels, B&Bs, and traditional vacation rentals that has mostly managed to skirt regulatory/legal/contract issues.
From my point of view - it means that as a run-and-gun shooter of narrative, I can essentially have an extra cameraman on tap.

That means I can shoot a close-up whilst it handles the wide, or in extremis it can shoot a wide shot and I can hold the boom mic :)

Given the cost of the SoloShot is less than 1 day of hiring a camera op who knows what they're doing, it's a pretty good deal.