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Good summary, particularly the last paragraph. Consequences of this include using flat files in place of "heap" storage, and using JCL to chain together individual programs where newer languages would likely just have subroutines, classes or other separately compiled-but-linked modules.

Disclaimer: I worked for a company in the early 90s that made products to port (System/36 & AS/400) RPG + OCL to unix (and a few other) systems. We used C, rather than Java, as the target for cross compiling, but same sorts of ideas.
That's a broad statement: time-zones might make communication a lot harder and/or cultural differences(for other countries).

Working in the U.S with someone from Australia or Asia is a lot harder than with someone down in Mexico or Canada.
I wonder if the iPhone 6c will be the same size as an iPhone 6, the same size as an iPhone 5, or the same size as this iPod Touch.
Is there even still a market for such devices? While $200 dollars may be a lot less than an unlocked iPhone, its certainly not cheap. Plus you can get an iPhone 6 at that price if you are willing to get into a contract.
>* Updates still suck, users still can't tell the difference between fake and real ones

Browsers now automatically update. There is the issue with adobe updates, but automatic updates make this different. Yes they still suck on many applications, but doesn't that affect the article?

>* Passwords are still annoying

LastPass, keePass and other tools give uses a much more simplified way to access our accounts. Also being able to link Google/Facebook to an account does the same thing.

This article isn't 100% outdated, but it needs an update to address some of the changes that are there.

What about HTTP vs HTTPS and signing in over starbucks? Does your average user know about that.?

This is an issue of education and how to get the most bang for your buck, 2 factor authentication (easy), Password Management Software (easy), letting google/facebook/etc authenticate your account (easy).

There are ways to make peoples lives easier AND more secure, I don't know if these tools existed back then but I've been using LastPass for 2 years and back then it was clunky to use. Now I personally find it easy as heck. I'm more secure (then I was) and my life is easier. To that end this article needs an update.
Can you delete your iTunes library with Apple Music?
So now that Apple Music has had me upload all my music to the cloud, does that mean I can delete the iTunes music folder from my HD? Has anybody has success doing this?
>Such as the reasoning that, if without interference person A does action X at time T, X may be taken as the action they most preferred to do at time T, as if it wasn't then why would they have done it?

I'm well aware of the differences between the Chicago and Austrian schools, but I think this quote is a dubious assumption because it assumes human beings are primarily rational creates that act according to rules and reason. It's actually possible for people to take actions which they don't prefer to take.

Praxeology IMHO is thoroughly unscientific, contradicts modern neuroscience and psychology with many of its assumptions about people, and a dubious exercise, and its use by Austrians to argue against public policy actions extremely weak.

To me the purpose of economics is to study the real world as close as you can, and make predictions that can be used to not only understand our condition or future problems, but to make adjustments so as to create better outcomes.

It is not to provide an ideological, philosophical basis for those actions, or for no actions at all. It's the difference between Medicine and Bioethics.

Both the Chicago school and the Austrian school start out with assuming the outcomes -- a free market s what's desired, and produced the best outcomes. They they work backwards using different methods to justify their conclusions.

I prefer not making the assumption that the unfettered free market produces the best outcome always. For example, when externalities are not priced in for things human beings care about in the abstract but not in their day to day preferences, like the long term ecosystem, or the health and welfare of future generations, I prefer a system of economics that works on a case by case basis, looking at problems, and figuring out experiments to run or course corrections.

If economics is unpredictable, or the consequences of actions unknowable it also means the consequences of inaction or the 'free market' are unknowable, but that's no basis for siding against government action. We live in a complex evolutionary system, and it may be the only way to get out of local optima is to run lots of experiments that fail, including government intervention.

That's why I think a mixed economy is a more evolutionary stable strategy than a pure free market or marxist one.

I also think it's more moral than either of those.
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My theory is in a noisy office, the noise is "distracting" because there is a higher chance of noise being relevant/important to you, but in a cafe-situation the noise is "anonymous" and you don't need to critically filter it.

I too also have adopted silence as the standard working environment. I don't play music in the car while driving anymore as well. The only time I play music is when I want to exclusively listen to music.
Kids under 10 that want to play iOS games.
Spoken like someone who only knows one natural language.
As the article stated all languages are about communication. Each language has its own syntax (ie words and word order) but the concept of a rose or money is the same, the concept of an action is the same as is the concept of a pronoun otherwise people would not be able to translate between languages. The semantics of a language are often tied up in the culture of the language.

When it comes to computer languages similar principles are at play. The concept of a list or array or matrix of values is common across a wide variety of language types for OO to Functional to Declarative. As is the concept of IO. The need to communicate with something outside of the program. The fact that some languages point out the and IO operation is about to occur does not mean that the paradigm does not use or need them.

In short: Speak English when you are in Britain, yorkshire when in Yorkshire, cockney when in London, and Mandarin when in China. Use the appropriate language for the task at hand or get an interpreter.
Cheap iOS development device?
> You can purchase the official Arduino starter kit for less than what the yearly price costs

I would expect Tron-Club to provide far more comprehensive set (in a year) than what the Arduino starter kit is. Of course I have no way of actually knowing that.
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What Beached is saying is that he's not driving a car yet. You don't have to pay for car insurance when you don't have a car.
Dear Gordon,

Indeed, as mentioned in my 4th point, the first bid suggestion is very misleading and should not be taken too seriously. It's always higher than it should be actually.

Regarding quality:
Please view the YouTube click I posted in the video, it explains quite well how the quality score is determined.
In genera, optimize mainly for CTRs by using the proper keywords etc. In the end, your QF is almost entirely depdendend on the CTRs.

And sometimes, even though you have high CTRs, your QF is shown low. Do not be irritated, the CTR is the more accurate metric.

Best,
Mengühan
I am pretty sure those numbers doesn't exist and even if they did they would be meaningless. Company culture is very unique and based on specific people being involved. One person can literally make or break the companies productivity and success.

I think the real point to be made anyway is that there isn't any numbers showing that remote work is in itself making productivity worse.

Sometimes you need to reboot (ex. Yahoo) but mostly if you have good people with good ethics it's just as good as any other setup.
That's what I'd use it for. Apple sells them at WWDC for betas, I believe.
I'm not a lawyer, but here's how I think it should work:

1. DA asks court for a search warrant because a crime may have been committed.

2. If the evidence looks convincing, court issues warrant to search suspect's phone.

3. DA serves suspect with search warrant.

If the suspect won't unlock phone voluntarily, the suspect is in contempt of court and subject to legal sanctions. Why does the phone manufacturer need to get involved?
As someone who would be interested in working remotely, I have to ask: which companies would you say have a good remote culture?
The big question is how good was latency/jitter over that cable.
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Though I agree with others that the price is a bit high, I want to see where this goes. I hope a strong community can grow around it and folks come up with interesting ways to combine previous kits. It would be really fun if some of the monthly projects consisted of compositions of previous projects. That may break with the model of each kit containing everything necessary for each project so maybe it would work better as a monthly challenge on Reddit or something. Anyway, here goes nothing :)
>Also metric trees such as k-d tree and ball tree do no bring any speed-up in high dimensions.

This is not true. Only their naive implementations don't bring speedups in high dimensions and it depends on the number of data points, query points, and dimensions. Best bin first is one common optimization.
Selling to the federal government: a bureaucratic nightmare for small businesses
This was %100 Johns work.
for alternative, http://defonic.com
Outside the US the costs of wireless contracts are much more obvious and $200 sound very different than $700. I could see parents giving one of these to their kids as a Christmas gift.
> Given the price of the parts I'd strongly consider offering the first month free, or at most for the cost of shipping.

They are offering 60 days money back guarantee, so isn't that pretty much equivalent to first month free?
More generally, you need to be aware of the ratings and proper installation methods for the equipment and materials you are using. Nearly all PV modules today are rated for a 600V system voltage, as are most combiner boxes and common wire types. Not all breakers are, though! Higher voltage requires higher-rated and sometimes more expensive equipment as well as more careful work, but it allows longer wire runs with less copper which saves money, and it may enable you to use more efficient equipment as well. All depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you aren't comfortable doing a 600V (or 300V, or 150V) wiring job, you need to weigh the disadvantages of lower system voltages (less flexible, more costly to wire, limited options for batteries and other equipment) against the cost of hiring someone qualified to do the work.

I don't subscribe to the idea that a rooftop system should be limited to 800W. An 800W system is not viable for grid-tied use (with modern modules you're looking at 3 modules in series which will not even give you 120V much less the required 340 or 480 to do proper grid-tied installation), and will not be cost-effective for an off-grid application unless you have a very small house, minimal power needs, and have a sunny climate year-round.

Know your needs. Know your abilities. Know your equipment. Safety first should not be in conflict with building a cost-effective system that meets your needs; if you can't figure out how to do so properly, hire someone who knows!
I suppose it would depend on who he's trying to sell this to ;) workers are more inclined to like the version you present while employers would be more inclined to like his version.
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C++ has supported overloading whitespace since April 1, 1998.

Generalizing Overloading for C++2000
Bjarne Stroustrup
AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA

http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf
>> "if you are willing to get into a contract"

Kids can't get into contracts. People with bad credit can't get into phone contracts. Sure lots of parents buy their kids smartphones now but a lot can't afford to do that. I still think there's a big market for this. Plus developers - much cheaper to buy a lot of these for a team than iPhone's.
It's weird that they are stuck to the 4" screen size with the iPod Touch. I fully expected them to make one the size of iPhone 6, like every previous iPod Touch.
No, it has the same design aesthetic as the iPad Air. The sides are rounded in a "quarter pipe" versus the "half pipe" completely rounded edges of the 6/6+.
I believe the iPhone 5 and this iPod touch are both 4 inches.
Some background to this: the author, Colby Buzzell, is/was famous for his blog "My War" written while we was serving in Iraq. It was compelling reading to say the least, for example "Men in Black":

https://web.archive.org/web/20041206093944/http://cbftw.blog...
Almost none of the solar installations today can run with the grid down. Almost all are grid-tie because it is thousands of dollars cheaper.
I'm not entirely sure about that being the Saudi's move. I suspect they cut a deal with the US to destabilize the Russian economy (remember that at the time when a lot of the big changes were being implemented by Saudi Arabia, Russia was using oil money to fund some aggressive moves in the ex-Soviet bloc). Fracking cutbacks in the US may have been one of the things the US traded for that.
On the other hand, it is annoying to be one of the people on site with a remote team in an environment where other divisions are not remote. In some cases you become the person that gets interrupted all the time while the remote workers get to be productive.
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"Just don't make mistakes." ;(
I imagine most contractors for all forms of construction are still working on paper or in spreadsheets. What makes solar so different that some organizational software will slash consumer prices? I guess from a sales, customer acquisition, permitting point of view at least.

I guess if we are talking advanced mathematics to pick out optimal installation patterns and angles (for fixed position panels), maybe this is where the software would be useful.
I like that Nadella is trying, but he's so disconnected that it's essentially all worthless. He considers Windows 10 to be the all-encompassing platform across all devices. Except this isn't even remotely true.

He wants Microsoft to focus on a mobile-first world, but the world isn't mobile first, and a cloud service approach for Microsoft is equally as worthless unless you're talking about enterprise environments. I mean who does he intend MS market to otherwise? And when you're talking enterprise, you're talking about not just an ecosystem, but a culture, of people who do not want their data handled by third-parties, even if that third-party is the platform owner itself. Amazon and Google dominate cloud space. Microsoft doesn't compete in any meaningful way here. And Azure? Please.

So what is Microsoft's goal with mobile? To compete? With who? Google? Apple? What a joke. Microsoft is essentially not even in the market.

What the hell is Nadella trying to do? I mean great job trying to unify Microsoft's brands, but that's all marketing that doesn't add up to anything other than product consistency. They've got nothing new to show other than a culture shift attempt.
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Yes. If you stare at a pure red field on your screen for about 30-60 seconds, then look at a pure green field (or vice-versa), you should see a "super-green" (or "super-red").
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I did read both article, Schneier's comments and the paper it self. Very interesting analysis of user behavior.

The first paragraph of the conclusion begins with: "“Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.” While amusing, this is unfair: users are never offered security, either on its own or as an alternative to anything else."

User do get offer security in many ways: red web pages warning of an unsecure redirect, open lock icons on the address bar, etc. But the dancing pigs will be more amusing until the user understand the underlying concept of the warnings. Security must begin with education. Kindergarden level education.

The last paragraph of the conclusion ends with: "How did we manage to get things so wrong? In speaking of worst-case rather than average harm we have enormously exaggerated the value of advice. In evaluating advice solely on benefit we have implicitly valued user time and effort at zero."

My point is that part of the answer should be making things understandable. Making things understandable to everybody will reduce the cost of dealing with them.
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I understand if you don't want to share, but I'm curious what the compensation package looks like for a deal like this.

It's interesting because on one hand you have a lot of leverage (redis would not exist without you), but on the other hand you have none at all (redis can continue to exist without you). I wonder if the redis labs folks gave up equity, or if there is some kind of profit sharing arrangement.

This is certainly a unique business scenario, so again, I'm just curious. Totally understand if you can't tell us, but I'd be interested to hear insight on this.
Working on something called Diamonds - a math worksheet generator for Teachers and Tutors. The google docs of math sheets, if you will.

Also just made off-the-rip, a command line & JS soundcloud audio downloader that embeds metadata like artist, title, and artwork. https://github.com/jakiestfu/off-the-rip
You can get a 30 mortgage, as long as you have 20% down (so you don't need CMHC insurance).

The real reason why shorting the banks won't work is that with less than 20% down the CMHC insures that the lender will get their money back. For thenon-insured mortgages, the banks can also go after other assets since all Canadian mortgages are recourse loans.
Didn't congress look for evidence of them preventing terrorism and found nothing?
I don't think what we had before could really be described as a "free market system". It was an employer-based healthcare system that shut individual buyers out of the only good deals, enacted by the government via the tax code.

The new system is the same, except now there's no pre-existing conditions and the individual is forced to buy a plan. The plans themselves are the same crappy plans with a few tweaks.

The consumer of healthcare is still completely disconnected from the price of the goods sold, completely screwing up market signals and making sure prices stay astronomically high. This is not a free market by any measure.
> But, I think we should point out that those energies represent large investments at first.

I think that's part of what Musk is saying will no longer be true in the near future.
I am a key employee; as I said I invented and built the product, and I'll be the one demoing it to potential acquirers.
Was the Brazilian system set up from scratch that way? The beauty of the DTC approach in the US was that it allowed a gradual transition: people who liked their paper certificates could keep using them, people who preferred to have DTC hold them electronically could do that, and both kinds of people could trade with each other seamlessly.

Nowadays there's probably little need for that, but the anglic approach to law in general is to make incremental changes to minimize unintended harm, with much less concern about keeping the law "clean" than European-style systems. I just went to Wikipedia and discovered that the Brazilian constitution was completely rewritten in 1988 (for the seventh time) - that would be unthinkable in the US.
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Would it be so round were this the case? I assumed it would take a long time for gravity to make a planet's surface round, much longer than it would take to accumulate a bunch of impact craters.
I've been a remote worker for almost 10 years. In fact, I hardly know what working in an office is like.

I can say that remote working is not without its own set of challenges. Chief among them is the need for EXCELLENT communication skills. I've worked with supremely talented and previously successful teams that simply fall apart in a remote environment, because they don't understand the value of transparent communication. Working remotely, everyone relies almost entirely on the word of their coworkers, as its much more difficult for leaders/managers to get a feeling on their team.

Like any successful team, it comes down to establishing trust. But with remote teams, there's much less margin for error.
No Tor?
Companies do pay PR firms to get tech articles written about them. These types of articles actually make up a lot of what makes it to the front page of HN.
Thing is it is very difficult to not be signed up for 3D Secure/VbV/SecureCode. I've had friends who have gone through ludicrous arguments with banks to get them opted out from 3D Secure.
> Instead, show compelling examples of how Company-A-with-mostly-remote-workers is beating the pants off of the Company-B-with-onsite-workers.

Meh, I'm not sure throwing out anecdotal evidence would help.
I like the approach they take in Singapore - take the default posture that users will probably not be security aware and will also reject your advice.

Want to do login to your bank account? 100% required that you have an two-factor SMS token in addition to your user ID and password.

Want to do bill pay to a new-payer? Not only do you need to have your two-factor SMS token to first login, and then make the payment, you also need the physical token they sent you to do a crypto-sign of the bill payer account information before you can add the new bill-payer.

Coming from the United States, I'm blown away how much more secure (and convenient - Love bank-bank transfers, haven't used a paper cheque in 2+ years) banking is in Singapore. Probably suggests why paypal probably took off faster in the USA then here as well.
Ask HN: How many times you got promoted in your professional career so far?
I've been working for 10 years, I was never promoted. Just wanted to check about you :)
The government leaves the cheap money door open to banks like Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs lends rich people a pile of money at 1%. Rich people invest that borrowed money with the intention to arbitrage the difference.

Works great, until the party ends when interest rates start increasing or the assets plunge and one has to cover their leverage, whichever happens first.
these are also used by companies for their mobile POS devices
I would hope that the kits do include more advanced/useful stuff than the LED blinkers they are showing on their page. Compare and contrast to something like old Heathkits.
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I don't use a ton of electricity so right now if i lease I save like $15 a month.. Not worth being tied into a 20 year lease. If I buy I think my payback is like 8 years which isn't bad just not worth it yet for me.

I'm betting on panel prices will continue to decrease in cost and become more efficient so the cost of buying them is more like 10k and not 25k where it is about now.
My friend tony, that owns a startup called fleetio, made a compelling presentation about remote work and it's advantages. It also has lots of info on tools.

http://www.slideshare.net/tonysummerville/tech-tools-for-bui...
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