Choose an answer to this question at random, what's the chance you're correct? - <AUTHOR> https://plus.google.com/116264189418994838408/posts/CSXeyftovTJ

<comment><USER2> It's clearly option B. Whatever answer you choose is either correct or false, hence 50% :P

<comment><AUTHOR> The comments on the post seemed to hint that it was more of a semantic question rather than a math question.

I didn't want to ruin it for myself so I didn't read all the comments.

However your answer seems to make the most beautifully simple sense.

Thank you!

<comment><USER2> I used to wind up a work project manger with that response.

He would always ask "whats the percentage chance of this working?" around problems that where difficult, and often needed trial and error investigation.

Since you often don't have a clue whats wrong or whats the best solution you can't really give any feedback till you've spent some time investigating.

He couldn't handle loosing control no the time frames, and hated to 'waste' time on investigation, so I slowly evolved the response "50/50, either it works or it doesn't" so that he would fly off the handle, vent and then be calmer to deal with a few minutes later.

He's fall for it every time, start firmly almost yelling "Its not funny, can you be serious... its not 50%! whats the likelihood of it working!, do we need to put more resources onto this, can you please be serious for once".

Then later in the day he'd get his estimate, but not till we had some time to mull it.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> a fairly classic nerd sniping question ( see: <http://xkcd.com/356/> )

</comment><comment><USER4> None of them are right, so I suppose 0% - none of the above.

</comment><comment><USER5> One stable solution is that none of the answers are right.

<comment><USER6> I think this is correct. However, if you change (c) to 0% as some of the comments have suggested, it gets more interesting.</comment></comment>


Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn't Better - <AUTHOR> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/science/06dumb.html?_r=1&ref=science%26pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

<comment><USER2> The disadvantage of intelligence is probably due to single trait selection and not the extra intelligence itself. Temple Grandin's book Animals In Translation has a chapter about this. Ridiculously insightful book too.

<comment><USER3> I'm inclined to agree with you. It also occurred to me that the quinine could be disrupting fly DNA. I don't expect the journalist to detail all the researchers' lab controls but it certainly appears these biologists negligently compared multi-generational quinine exposed flies with a pristine fly colony. If that is true, I hope their paper defended the methodology or significantly hedged the results.

In humans, it is usual for small doses of quinine to cause cinchonism. From Wikipedia: "Symptoms of mild cinchonism (which may occur from standard therapeutic doses of quinine) include flushed and sweaty skin, tinnitus, blurred vision, impaired hearing, confusion, reversible high-frequency hearing loss, headache, abdominal pain, rashes, lichenoid photosensitivity, vertigo, dizziness, dysphoria, nausea and vomiting, and diarrhea. Large doses of quinine may lead to severe symptoms of cinchonism: skin rashes, deafness (reversible), somnolence, diminished visual acuity or blindness, anaphylactic shock, and disturbances in cardiac rhythm or conduction, death from cardiotoxicity. Quinine overdose can also result in a rare form of hypersensitivity reaction termed blackwater fever that results in massive hemolysis, hemoglobinemia, hemoglobinuria, and renal failure. In very high doses (higher than those used to treat malaria) during the first trimester of pregnancy quinine may act as an abortifacient, or cause birth defects, especially deafness."</comment></comment>


The R. Kelly 'cult' story and the 'Gawker Effect' - <AUTHOR> https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-r-kelly-cult-story-almost-never-ran-thank-hulk-hogan-for-that/2017/07/30/19e1f8ea-72c5-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html <comment><USER3> Gawker posted a sex tape of Hulk Hogan online, without his consent, and refused to take it down. It was a tape that the Gawker editor who posted it had to admit in court had no news value. It's pretty disgusting to hear WaPo hand-wring over rape culture without addressing the fact that Gawker's non- consensual posting of two people's sex act is the very definition of rape culture. Peter Thiel is an unlikeable human for many reasons, but let's not forget that Gawker also outed him as gay without his permission. WaPo skips over that too.

It sounds like the outcome of Hogan v. Gawker is that news media - <USER2> especially the ream of online-only "news" sites that have sprouted over the past decade - are far more likely to fact check their stories before they publish stories that only serve to humiliate and degrade their subjects. Sexual predator or not, slow coverage of the R. Kelly debacle can hardly be pinned on Hulk Hogan holding Gawker accountable for their actions.

<comment><USER4> I agree: my attitude towards the Thiel/Hogan/Gawker fiasco was, as someone else put it, _first they came for Gawker, and I said nothing, because fuck Gawker_.

But what's your point? The Gawker fiasco absolutely did spook other media outlets and has made them nervous about publishing negative stories about other media figures. That's what WaPo is observing here.

<comment><USER5> > them nervous about publishing negative stories

But thats a good thing. We are witnessing checks and balances in play. The Fifth Estate is necessary, whether we like it or not - power always corrupts, and media have power that we, the people, do not. How else should things continue: totally unchecked?

<comment><USER6> I think you meant Fourth Estate

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate)

<comment><USER7> The fifth estate[1] has apparently existed for a while now, despite my hatred of all "nth estate" nomenclature

Seriously, in the US, if you regard the clergy, nobleman and peasants (the traditional first 3 estates) as the most important power structures, then you need to recalibrate your world view.

[1][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Estate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Estate)

<comment><USER8> That's the origin of the phrase, yes, but in the US the phrase "Fourth Estate" has been bastardized to mean "Fourth Branch of Government".

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Am I the only one who sees a major difference between publishing a negative story about someone and publishing an illegaly-obtained sex tape in its entirety, and refusing to take it down after a judge orders to do so?

I get the concern that blowback a could happen, but Gawker died because of Gawker, not just because some rich guy went after them.

<comment><USER10> > but Gawker died because of Gawker, not just because some rich guy went after > them.

No. Gawker died because of a billionaire who wanted to take it down and the mass PR firm he hired to get people on his side on social media.

Also, the top comments on this thread are repeating the same lies over and over again.

> publishing an illegaly-obtained sex tape in its entirety

Was it illegal? Then why isn't the gawker people in prison?

> and refusing to take it down after a judge orders to do so?

They have a right to refuse an unconstitutional order and their refusal was vindicated by the courts.

"The injunction was quickly stayed on appeal, and was denied in 2014 by the appeals court, which ruled that under the circumstances it was an unconstitutional prior restraint on speech under the First Amendment."

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker)

The courts ruled that the judge's injunction violated FIRST AMENDMENT FREE SPEECH RIGHTS.

The top comments in this thread repeat the same debunked lies over and over again. But I guess that's the power of billionaires and their PR firms. A lie repeated over and over again becomes the truth?

<comment><USER11> You have the right to appeal a temporary injunction for your sex tape and publish it without the approval of the subject, but people also have the right to judge you for that. You're also ignoring the part where Gawker lost at trial. They lost because the Gawker editor admitted under cross-examination he did not believe a depiction of Hulk Hogan's genitals had any "news value."

On a more personal note, I really don't see any difference between this case and "revenge porn" cases.

<comment><USER10> > You have the right to appeal a temporary injunction for your sex tape and > publish it without the approval of the subject

I know. That's my point. Not only that, the appeals court ruled in favor of gawkers.

> but people also have the right to judge you for that.

Sure...

>You're also ignoring the part where Gawker lost at trial.

No I'm not. I actually addressed it.

> They lost because the Gawker editor admitted under cross-examination he did > not believe a depiction of Hulk Hogan's genitals had any "news value."

No. That's not why they lost. Trials are FICKLE.

> On a more personal note, I really don't see any difference between this case > and "revenge porn" cases.

What does this have to do with "revenge porn"?

<comment><USER11> I've looked at the facts of the case, and it seems clear to me that Gawker was guilty of an invasion of privacy, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress. Can you give me an argument, based on the facts of the case, that Gawker did not commit those violations?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> I feel like virtually all of the comments here are focusing on the fact that Gawker, as a company, was generally unethical and harmed a lot of people for no good reason.

This is _not_ the point. Hulk Hogan is entirely moot to the issue at hand.

Hogan's case was just a vehicle for Thiel's goal of getting back at a company who had written articles that he disliked. What Thiel did was to tell people with deep enough pockets to see that it's possible to destroy someone for writing articles that they disagree with. The case was structured to ensure that Gawker could not rely on insurance for paying certain damages and that people became personally liable for the damages arising from the case[1].

So, imagine that Warren Buffet dislikes an expose in the Chicago Tribune about him. He then waits for someone to have a grievance against them and then tells that person that he'll provide all the financial resources to drag this case on for years and refuse to settle or repeatedly finds various proxy parties and repeats this behavior. Tronc is then forced to sell assets to keep afloat while dealing with this litigation.

Thiel's behavior shows this works and that most people seem okay with it. That's the problem.

[1][https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/business/media/nick- dento...](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/business/media/nick-denton- gawker-bankruptcy.html)

<comment><USER13> I don't follow the logic here. Gawker was brought down via the Hogan case, which was financed by Thiel.

Do you believe the Hogan case was an illegitimate suit? If not, why does it matter who financed it? I find the fact that it requires huge funds to win a case much more troubling, personally. If the suit itself is legitimate, then him winning is a good thing.

If you take exception to Thiel financing Hogan's case, why? Hogan very likely would not have been able to afford the case without the financing, meaning justice wouldn't have been served because he was not rich enough.

<comment><USER14> It goes both ways. If Thiel's money was necessary for Hogan to get justice, that is indeed a problem with the US legal system.

But, on the flipside, Thiel was financing numerous lawsuits against Gawker due to a personal vendetta, many of them much more frivolous and defensible than the Hogan case. He clearly intended to bury Gawker, the Hogan thing was just a way he found to do it quickly rather than waiting for their legal defense funds to run out.

Both of these are problems. What's troubling/chilling is that Thiel hasn't stopped, he's just agreed to finance other peoples' vendettas (in the first case, Shiva Ayyadurai, about whom Techdirt are telling the absolute verifiable truth when they say he's lying about inventing email). That's where it crossed the line, and created a dangerous precedent that has a real chilling effect.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> The Gawker Effect is that journalists are now, for perhaps the first time in modern history, contemplating if a news story that is going to print is actually news, or merely gossip. I don't think the Hogan or Kelly stories should have been printed. They're gossip about someone's private life. Even if they're in the public eye, I think they do deserve privacy, and media publications should avoid reporting on what happens in bedrooms.

<comment><USER16> I think the Kelly story is valid, since it does involve behavior that might very well be illegal.

The Hogan "story", however, should indeed have never seen the light of day.

<comment><USER15> I agree, and when the media reports on something that may be illegal, or harmful to the public, that's news. A videotape of a man's private sex life is not news.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Well. It almost never ran in Buzzfeed (or the other 3 outfits DeRogatis pitched it to). But it certainly would have run! DeRogatis has been on the R. Kelly beat ever since he broke the original story about Kelly's statutory rape. He didn't report this story on a whim. One way or the other, it would have gotten out, and it would have gotten attention.

Not only that, but it's possible the story would have been better, or at least sharper: Buzzfeed's lawyers cut back the allegations.

</comment><comment><USER17> Author complaining about chilling effect after venomous 'journalists' that have outed someone as gay before, publish a sex tape without consent.

I honestly can't feel sorry. And the fact that this journo from wapo is only victim blaming doesn't surprise me one bit.

<comment><USER18> Gawker didn't 'out' Peter Thiel. Everyone in the valley had known for years that he was gay. They posted a link to his public tumblr account that showed him cavorting with young men in exotic locales.

<comment><USER19> Fine, they made his sexual orientation more widely known.

<comment><USER20> Hardly. The last time I was in the valley was over 30 years ago, and I still knew from Europe that Thiel is gay. Not that I cared about that, only about his hardcore libertarianism, german roots, questionable investments and chess skills.

Eg the New Yorker outed him 2011 [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/no-death-no- tax...](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/no-death-no-taxes)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> Gawker didn't have to defy a judge and leave the sex tape up. Why is the author blaming the victim here?

</comment><comment><USER22> What I read between the lines here was that publications will fact check they story and ensure that before they publish the story has actual value?

News Media has really lost its way, it needs shook up bigtime.

</comment><comment><USER23> The real horror-story is, how some parents educate there children to be such authority puppets, that anyone speaking a little louder can hold force and influence over them. Thats a attack on free society, right there, weak individuals because so much easier to control, to educate and far fewer suprises.

</comment><comment><USER24> God it would be amazing if BuzzFeed was destroyed after Gawker was hulked to death.

<comment><USER25> BuzzFeed has a lot of BS, but they really do support quality journalism as well.

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> _> Peter Thiel is an unlikeable human for many reasons..._

Care to elaborate? I always thought he was just a startup investor, albeit a very successful one.

<comment><USER27> In his own words:

"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible"

[https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter- thiel/educatio...](https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter- thiel/education-libertarian)

<comment><USER28> I tend to agree with him. Look at what happens whenever we put things to a popular vote in this country. Even in places that re known as being very liberal, like California, half the population regularly votes against gay marriage and marijuana legalization.

Either way, someone expressing a loss of belief in something makes them unlikable? You don't like Peter Thiel because he's become cynical about democracy?

<comment><USER27> I think that someone who thinks democracy cramps his style has no business advising the president.

<comment><USER29> The president isn't elected via democracy. It seems like congresspeople should be most concerned with democracy.

<comment><USER27> The electoral college is weighted representative democracy as opposed to a direct vote. It's clumsy but still reflects the popular vote.

<comment><USER30> It's actually unequally-weighted doubly indirect representation with structural incentives (but no guarantee) for the representatives actually tasked with choosing the voting representatives to both delegated that task to the citizenry and a separate set of incentives and abide by the results and a separate set of incentives (and, again, no guarantee) for the set of voting representatives to vote in accordance with the preferences expressed by the voters by whom they were elected.

And neither of those sets of incentives is, unlike the doubly-indirect structure itself, part of the federal Constitution; they are both much more recent federal statute and state law incentives.

<comment><USER27> Yah, so like I said it's clumsy.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER31> As a media group they did some incredibly shady stuff, I recall Gizmodo obtaining a lost iPhone prototype instead of encouraging the finder to return it.

<comment><USER32> That's not shady in the least. That's journalism. They got the early scoop because someone left it in a bar. The fact that Apple's hype machine wants it to be a surprise isn't a consumer tech blog's problem.

<comment><USER19> Not if it's someone else's property, and you take it for your own purposes rather than hand it in to the bar/law.

<comment><USER32> That isn't what happened. Nor is it the case that they discouraged the finder from returning it. Finder tried to locate the owner, and then contacted Apple multiple times, eventually getting a support case opened that went nowhere.

So, Gizmodo said they would return it to Apple, and paid the finder. Then they promptly returned it to Apple, directly contacting the employee who lost it and making arrangements.

 _J: You work at Apple, right?

G: Um, I mean I can't really talk too much right now.

J: I understand. We have a device, and we think that maybe you misplaced it at a bar, and we would like to give it back._

<comment><USER19> I'm not suggesting they didn't return it, but that they _specifically_ didn't hand it in. Why did _they_ have to hunt down the owner? There's no reason they had to maintain possession.

> Finder tried to locate the owner, and then contacted Apple multiple times

Give it to the police. No consumer-electronics publication required.

Is this the device? : [http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next- iphone](http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone)

They take the thing apart? So they "said they would return it", but not before taking the opportunity to fully evaluate the thing they decided to keep hold of?

Also, how diligent were they as self-appointed owner-finders?:

[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7731500/Steve- Jo...](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7731500/Steve-Jobs- personally-asked-Gizmodo-to-return-secret-iPhone-prototype-to-Apple.html)

[https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/how-gizmodo-escaped- indictment-...](https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/how-gizmodo-escaped-indictment- in-iphone-prototype-deal/)

It's not Gizmodo's business to handle lost property, especially when they intend to gain something from the possession.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER33> I'll be honest, the only R. Kelly cult story I care about is Trapped in the Closet - seriously, even if that's not your scene, watch it, you won't regret it.

I think currently it stands at about 3-4 hours of comedy gold, whether it's intended to be or not is another subject entirely...</comment>


Ask HN: How do I reach a fair agreement with my co-founder? - <AUTHOR> Hey HN, I need your advice. I'm re-negotiating equity stakes in my start up and want to be fair to my co-founder but don't see his long term role in the company. What should I do?
At the beginning of this year I participated in a hackathon with two co-workers. One of the guys is a web developer and techie like myself, and the other is a database admin and project manager with no programming background. We built a pretty cool web app and won the top cash prize at the event. We decided to use the cash to continue improving the app and were accepted into an incubator program over the summer. At that time the other techie guy had to stop working on the project because of a new job.
So my co-founder (the db admin/project manager) and I went through the incubator program. I was working part time 2 days per week at our old job and 3-5 days on the start-up. My co-founder was working 4 days a week at our old job (where he is a minority shareholder) and 1-2 days a week on the start-up. After graduating from the incubator program I decided to quit my job and work on the start-up full time. My co-founder is continuing to put in 1-2 days per week.
Now we're at a crossroads. We've got the product to a point where we can start selling it, and we've both been talking with potential customers and investors. Sales is neither of our strong suits and we agree that we will need an experienced CEO shortly after landing our first customer and raising additional money.
I envision my role as CTO and doing primarily product development, but am having a difficult time imagining what my co-founders long term role will be. He is not interested in sales or the CEO position, but can't do any technical work other than database design and maintenance.
We've been renegotiating equity stakes because we are rasing a small amount of angel money to keep the doors open as well as bringing on a subject matter expert to help with improving the product. I know this is all pretty vague, but I wanted to get your advice on the situation. I'm asking him to drop down to a <10% equity stake if he's unwilling to start full time. He can't be full time now because of other financial responsibilities, but I'm willing to wait until we can raise some money to pay him. Maybe this is a mistake... I don't know that his full time involvement is what the company needs right now.
I've talked to him about my concerns, but I get the feeling that he doesn't agree with me. The conversation didn't really end in any sort of agreement or mutual understanding.
Am I being unreasonable? On the one hand I want to be fair and I doubt the company would exist without his involvement. I've done the solo founder thing once before and wouldn't do it again. On the other hand I don't want the company to have a bunch of equity held by anyone who isn't working full time or 100% dedicated and even if he were, I'm not sure what his role would be. Has anyone gone through a similar experience before? Any suggestions for how to evaluate the situation in a fair way? I am stressing out about this and would really appreciate advice. <comment><USER2> Some brutal advice: your team has failed and the project has no customers and no revenue. You have an overloaded executive team (3 founders) of non- contributors whose main form of involvement is working with you to maintain the fiction of their constructive involvement. Meanwhile, there is vital work that no-one wants to do (sales) and a misguided belief that the only solution is getting someone else to do the heavy-lifting of figuring out how to make money.

Wake up! Are you so desperate not to call yourself a single-founder that you are willing to be one in practice? In this situation your BATNA is closing down the old site and building something from a clean base. If you want someone else to tell you how to make money get a job and go on salary. If you think you can do it yourself, a clean-room build should take no more than a month.

The only question is whether to continue using the original domain/code/design assets. Try pricing them and let your partner come up with an alternate estimate if he thinks you are being unfair. Once you do this you can make a more generous equity offer (1-2 percent) as an alternative to cash payment. Just remember that the value of the time and money you will be putting into the project over the next three years will dwarf the value of any existing assets.

<comment><AUTHOR> I appreciate the honest feedback. Not that it matters but the executive team is only myself and co-founder (2 total). I think you're absolutely right about the heavy lifting though. I need to bite the bullet and go get that first sale myself.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> One option is to make equity based on achievements. So both of you can create a list things that need to be done by a specific time and then split it between you two. This should make it very clear to the non full time partner that he isnt getting much done. If he is able to achieve the milestones then its probably a good thing to have him on board even if he's part time.

A startup is all about getting shit done. Dont worry about hte time he;s spending at the job.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for the advice. I tried suggesting the idea of attaching equity to milestones but he didn't see the need. I probably didn't explain why I thought it was important well enough. I think this is a good idea and I'll suggest it again.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Check out the 'founder's pie' calculator (google it) not a perfect tool, but a great place to start in weighing the stuff that needs to be/has been done plus a way to view, categorically, what each person brings to the table - and if you haven't already locked in ownership equity you may want to consider a performance based profit equity that leads to the promise of ownership once he's willing to commit full time to the project. Good luck!

</comment><comment><USER5> If both parties don't agree to a re-negotiated agreement, then it is not "fair". If you can't come to an agreement, dissolve the partnership and start over.

<comment><USER6> This doesn't always work if one of the parties has something invested and the other doesn't - there's an imbalance. One party stands to lose and the other party has nothing to lose. Big difference!

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> The short of it:

Split up the IP (everyone can use it for their own thing) and go your separate ways. If he's not putting in his time he won't do anything with it. Whatever you build from this point onwards to make it a product would be your IP anyways.

The long of it:

A startup is a baby. Don't feed it time and resources, it doesn't grow.

Ideas are worthless. Execution is the only thing that has value.

What you have is a broken marriage. Unfortunately, partnerships are harder than marriage. Getting on the same page and staying on the same page is very hard.

Based on that, one option you might want to consider:

Every project needs a driver. To make decisions one way or the other. Design and development by committee is lethal to productivity, clarity and progress. Usually with good co-founders they defer to each other where they aren't strong.

There's no sense in belabouring negotiations or trying to convince each other of who or what is right or how it's best to move forward.

Good luck, and share what you end up doing here!</comment>


Facebook just made a move that will infuriate law enforcement - <AUTHOR> http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-adds-public-encryption-key-user-profile-email-pgp-2015-6?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Business%20Insider%20Select&utm_campaign=BI%20Select%20Mondays%202015-06-01&utm_content=BISelect

<comment><USER2> Terrible clickbait title.</comment>


Blue Vision, which builds collaborative AR, leave stealth with $14.5M led by GV - <AUTHOR> https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/blue-vision-labs-which-builds-collaborative-ar-emerges-from-stealth-with-14-5m-led-by-gv/ <comment><USER2> I can't wait for the integration with HMDs!

It'll be so useful to see contextual advertising near all of my favorite shops with the great deals that I love -- all without having to clip coupons! It'll be great when this is paired with facial recognition, so that I can see just the ads that I need for my personal situation at that moment. Maybe they'll even give me a better deal since I'm such a frequent customer!

Two thumbs up!

</comment><comment><USER3> I totally don't get how this could be useful without smart glasses. Most people already spend to much time staring at their phones and with this crap will be even worst. Such solutions were already years ago and were not adopted because phones were too weak and software unusable. Nothing has changed except that we have better phones and rest is still a crap.

I just wait for someone to fall under the car collecting gold circles...

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, AR have a huge potential but not for flying emojis or playing RPG games running all over the city like a maniac with a huge phone.

<comment><USER4> > Most people already spend to much time staring at their phones

Compared to what? This sounds like something a closed minded person would say. My grandmother says "I cant believe you stare at screens all day". Today, people my age don't even question it.

The phones years ago were too old, and the software was pretty unusable, but now the hardware is significantly better, you can push a 100,000 poly model in realtime over 30 fps video and it's smooth. Have you used the BBC app that allows you to walk around the mummy tomb? It's smooth and gorgeous and really fun.

I'd have to say that their promo video was pretty uninspiring, I'd like to have seen a spatially aware map-type demo, or some higher poly models, or a simple RPG game. The floating 2D emoji sprites don't do the potential justice, but hey, they're just starting out!

<comment><USER3> > Compared to what?

For instance compared to talking with each other. Didn't you spot that at every bar? Snapchat or Facebook Messenger are the main sources of communication now even for people who sit side by side. But probably I'm closed minded and I do not see a bigger picture.

<comment><USER5> Yes, you are, because you seem to put everything under the common label of "staring at screens" :).

You look around the bar, and see lots of people staring at screens. Were you to look closer, peek over everyone's shoulder, you'd see that the group over that table is skimming the project document they met to talk about. That couple over there just took out their phones to skim the news, the first moment they had during the day for that. That girl next to the entrance is ordering a taxi. That awkward-looking guy fiddling with his phone just got an important message from his SO, and as untactful as it may be between friends, he doesn't feel comfortable not replying immediately. Etc.

The range of activities we do over phones is so big, that you can't just bundle it together. Many of those activities become social objects themselves, i.e. something we start talking about or doing together.

<comment><USER3> > Yes, you are, because you seem to put everything under the common label of > "staring at screens" :).

I'm not and don't exaggerate with this. I don't mind if someone commute for a an hour and a half to work and reads a book, skim the news news or prepare for work meeting. This is not the point here.

It just hurts me as I see people who evidently met to spend time together and for 40 minutes did not exchange words but they scroll through instagram or facebook all the time and I am a witness to such situations constantly.

But this is not a thread about it, anyway I think that the AR deserves better times and much more convenient equipment than the phone in hand.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> They must be seeing something I don't, if you pardon my pun. I don't see "AR collaboration" as even remotely viable outside of a few very specific niches, and will remain skeptical of this whole AR thing until I see a demo. The only spaces I'm aware of where AR/VR collaboration is currently viable all deal with the physical world to one extent or another: real estate sales, furniture sales, construction, that sort of thing. I could get behind "Kingsman" style teleconferencing if it works spectacularly well. Other than that, I'm drawing a blank.

</comment><comment><USER7> Any idea how it works behind the scenes? From some of the details, I assume the mapping is gps + sensors + something like Photosynth or this: [https://www.popsci.com/gear-amp- gadgets/article/2009-09/buil...](https://www.popsci.com/gear-amp- gadgets/article/2009-09/building-virtual-cities-automatically-150000-flickr- photos)

<comment><USER8> pretty much that.

They have gone round and taken a video of every street in a certain area, unpacked it, extracted salient points, reconstruct those points to get a 3d map.

From that, given any 2d image you should be able to extract a bunch of "salient points" or known points, which from their relationship to each other can tell where the camera is, and what direction its pointing.

The two hard parts are 1) collecting the data 2) searching the data in reasonable amount of time

<comment><USER9> you can see it here in their demo

[https://youtu.be/tXwVg2S9wuY?t=60](https://youtu.be/tXwVg2S9wuY?t=60)

the "salient points" are called keypoints and their feature vectors are called descriptors

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale- invariant_feature_transf...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale- invariant_feature_transform#Keypoint_descriptor)

you are correct that the challenge is collecting and indexing/retrieving but there have been techniques that do this for a while

[https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~michjc/papers/p144-park.pdf](https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~michjc/papers/p144-park.pdf)

(they even tested against SIFT descriptors)

the real thing that i'm puzzled by with blue vision is how they're registering against ARKit descriptors (if they are at all) since apple doesn't expose them in the ARKit api (only the point cloud itself). ARCore used to expose them ([https://stackoverflow.com/a/29012790](https://stackoverflow.com/a/29012790)) but i don't think it does anymore. they must be doing the registration because they only support devices that are running ARKit/ARCore (and without it they would just have built a SLAM system - albeit backed by an "arcloud" \- that sits beside ARKit/ARCore and would most likely be inferior).

<comment><USER10> > the real thing that i'm puzzled by with blue vision is how they're > registering against ARKit descriptors (if they are at all) since apple > doesn't expose them in the ARKit api (only the point cloud itself). ARCore > used to expose them > ([https://stackoverflow.com/a/29012790](https://stackoverflow.com/a/29012790)) > but i don't think it does anymore. they must be doing the registration > because they only support devices that are running ARKit/ARCore (and without > it they would just have built a SLAM system - albeit backed by an "arcloud" > \- that sits beside ARKit/ARCore and would most likely be inferior).

I have had a look at their API documentation, and what they do is they provide you with an anchor, and that's where you attach your SCNode-s. They use the built-in ORB-SLAM to position your SCNodes, but these are all relative to the main anchor, hence achieving stability and persistence.

<comment><USER9> yea that's clever. that way you don't have to track just identify. still leverage arkit/arcore to do the tracking.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Just looking around me now and imagining everything I see having an augmented reality overlay it seems exhausting. I guess the giant blue arrows will help me focus.

<comment><USER12> [https://vimeo.com/166807261](https://vimeo.com/166807261)

</comment></comment><comment><USER13>
         The SDK will initially be free to use

Now there's a way to get people to use it

"initially"

/s

<comment><USER9> how else exactly do you think they'll make money. or do you think they should be giving this away for free?

<comment><USER14> Sell people's tracking data like most "free" software

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> they posted on Who's Hiring back on November last year</comment>


All about Two-Phase Locking and a little bit MVCC - <AUTHOR> http://www.cubrid.org/blog/cubrid-life/all-about-two-phase-locking-and-a-little-bit-mvcc/

<comment><USER2> This is an extremely confusing explanation of MVCC an 2PL.

MVCC is about keeping all the versions of an entry and associating an unique timestamp with each entry. Its advantages are scalability, no deadlock and simplicity. Its drawbacks are increased memory consumption, the requirement that all nodes must be synchronized and that all elementary operations must be atomic.

2PL is a straightforward albeit pessimistic approach. Lock access to your data, make your modification, and then release. Its advantages are reliability and tight memory consumption. Its drawbacks are the lack of scalability and potential deadlocks.

</comment><comment><USER3> Slight correction: Microsoft SQL Server added MVCC in 2005 (READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT).</comment>


Ask HN: Which Android audio player do you use?  Does it have crossfeed? - <AUTHOR>

There were a couple of articles on here recently about audio processing for headphones (for 5.1->stereo, and stereo->stereo-with-crossfeed), so I guess people care about this stuff.<p>Which audio player do you use most often?  Does it support crossfeed? <comment><USER2> I use Poweramp because apparently AOSP doesn't ship an MP3 player (or at least not in this Mediatek build)... quite powerful, has equalizer and some fx, but unfortunately no crossfeed.</comment>


Oxygen absorbing material may allow us to breathe underwater - <AUTHOR> http://www.gizmag.com/crystalline-material-absorb-oxygen-denmark/34064/

<comment><USER2> i already can, thanks to Jacques Cousteau. and oxygen alone is not really helpful, especially after 6m when 100% o2 becomes toxic.

that said, i'm sure one day it can be combined with other things to help make scuba diving even better!</comment>


Focus: Sound Waves Carry Mass - <AUTHOR> https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/23 <comment><USER2> "For a 1-second-long, 1-watt sound wave in water, the amount of mass would be about 0.1 milligrams."

Does it makes sense to imagine a propulsion mechanism based on that? Or is this application idea missing something obvious?</comment>


Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will - <AUTHOR> http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/06/23/feel-ux-if-apple-wont-innovate-the-user-experience-android-designers-will/

<comment><USER2> > _Making good on the trend described in mobile app designer Josh Clark's An > Event Apart talk, "Buttons Are a Hack," there are almost no buttons to be > seen at all. Everything slides, pinches and magically appears in context._

For the love of God, please don't let this start to be a thing.

I watched the video, and the phone seems like hell to use. Wait, do I swipe down or left to call? Up or diagonal to get to my address book? Oh no, I have to pinch. Oh crap, that just took a photo.

Buttons provide unambiguous affordance. I'll just leave this here, since it seems like every week new designers forget about it: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance>

<comment><USER3> Well said. Gestures are all good, until they become arbitrary and everywhere. My 1yo can navigate through the apps on my iPhone because the system's unexciting but intuitive use of buttons for the most important things: app icons are buttons, most things interesting to her are tappable, and mostly importantly, when something goes "wrong" - app showing ads, reaching an unrecognized page of SpringBoard - she could always push the only big physical button to get back and restart. Now that simplicity is another kind of coolness that we should really shoot for.

(There are definitely arbitrary use of gestures in iOS, but they are mostly for non-essential tasks or to provide shortcuts. You could swipe an item in a table to reveal the delete button, but you almost always can find an "Edit" button to achieve the same goal.)

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> What an awful, misleading title.

A) Apple is innovating the user experience. The author even specifically says that Apple is far ahead in the game, but doesn't seem to acknowledge that this is precisely because of past innovation. B) It's not even necessarily Apple who have to innovate. There are tons of developers writing libraries for iOS that make UX and user experiences better. Tons of developers meaning more developers than exist for Android. C) To claim that Android designers are innovating is just such a weak claim. Most Android apps I see are either ports of legit iPhone apps or really awful designs, note that I specifically mention the design.

<comment><USER5> It may have been true at one time that most Android apps were just ugly ports of iphone apps but in my experience that is no longer the case. Devs are taking the platform seriously and it its really coming into its own. Iphone apps on the other hand are starting to look like just mashups of each other all with the same generic looking animations and U X elements. New apps on my Xoom tend to be exciting and original. My iPad? More of the same.

<comment><USER6> > _Iphone apps on the other hand are starting to look like just mashups of > each other all with the same generic looking animations and U X elements._

Yes, if you do that you are "just mashups of each other", if you don't you are "inconsistent".

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

> _New apps on my Xoom tend to be exciting and original. My iPad? More of the > same._

That's just in the superficial sense --looking different etc. Not in any new cool interaction models.

The way Cocoa Touch works though, means that when Apple will redesign the UI elements (the "look" part), all the "generic" apps will get the new look.

In ad-hoc UI Android, not so much.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> This is pointless nonsense. What's demonstrated is a special effects video of a reworked Android home screen with a bunch of whizzy mystery-gesture interactions - the exact same kind of interactions that takes the longest for iOS users catch on to. (make a folder, edit homepage, notification center, camera-from-lock screen, caps lock)

And it's shipping for a subset of a boutique phone line sometime this summer in Japan only. Next!

</comment><comment><USER8> Okay, only semi on-topic, but I'm curious. Am I the only one who finds this interface interesting, but unbearably ugly? Mostly, the boxes around icons and the form factor of the phone itself. I usually appreciate them all - iOS, Android 4, QNX and the Lumia 800 - but this is hate at first sight. I can't even explain why.

Anyone else? I feel weird, like someone who is about to give Inception a rating of 2 on IMDb.

<comment><USER9> They took almost all of the iOS UX and pasted some new ugly graphics on top. I did not see a single thing that iOS does not do. Drag to reorder, got it, splashscreen info/camera, got it, notifications, got it, even the swipe down from the top for notification center.

So TL;DR a leap forward for Android is two steps behind iOS?

<comment><USER10> "notifications, got it, even the swipe down from the top for notification center."

You lose quite a bit of credibility by suggesting this is something any Android build stole from iOS.

<comment><USER9> Maybe I did not make it clear enough, but my point was that the title "If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will" does not make sense since iOS already has the features the they are "innovating" When I hear innovation I expect a completely new way of doing something not makeup slathered on with a trowel.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Innovate is a valueless term.

If you've got something basically right, the patience to refine it and the maturity to leave what is correct alone is more important.

<comment><USER12> Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> Designers on Android are doing wonderful stuff:

<http://mycolorscreen.com/popular/>

<comment><USER14> Reminds me of all the screenshots of awesome Linux desktops people post. However, looks nice != good UX

<comment><USER13> You're not looking deep enough.

<comment><USER13> Arg - I was hoping you'd figure out that the designers ARE the users and Android gives them a UX that's not permitted on iOS.

But hey, flame on.

<comment><USER14> Fair enough, and thats an interesting point, though I have my doubts about the relevance of the point.

First as an overall product and market strategy for a phone that's about as good an idea as making a mass market product designed for developers.

Second I think equating a handful of UI skinning enthusiasts as the whole of product and experience designers is perhaps going a bit far, no? Sure I'll admit I couldn't live without the Go launcher on my Android, but I'd still switch back to iPhone in heartbeat because the overall experience is still much smoother. Subjectively speaking anyways.

<comment><USER13> 1) Isn't Linux is a successful mass market product designed for developers?

2) Where the best designers go, so follow consumers. Apple proved that, no?

<comment><USER14> 1) It isn't really mass market except in cases where someone has built some half decent UX on top of it. But yes the CLI tools are an amazing UX for developers, no developers are not a mass market

2) Again a handful of skinners (many of whom are really just sticking half naked women on the screen) are probably not representative of the whole of design or even the best of it.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> Any time I read an article that references the 41 shades of blue experiment in a negative context, it turns me right off the rest of the article.

<comment><USER16> Yeah, it's all a question of if you have the time, resources, and most importantly a good sample.

Testing 41 shades only sounds bad because we typically have far too many design variables relative to the population of users. In those cases, we need someone with a priori knowledge of good design to limit the space we explore. When you can make billions of observations, you can start exploring experimentally much more of the design space.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> There is only 1 kind of innovation a for-profit business needs to worry about: Making a profit.

For all those ventures, which often compare themselves to market leaders, it is nothing more than a buzzword.

<comment><USER18> I hate that this response shows up on every article on HN. It offers no insight whatsoever, as far as I'm concerned. Just because profit is the "only" thing a company cares about [1] doesn't mean it's the only thing worth discussing.

1: As if it's even true that companies only care about profit--you think Steve Jobs was motivated more by money-making itself or by money-making as a vehicle to advance his vision of technology?

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> It all seems very snazzy. Personally I would love to have this UX, but I can't say the same for my parents. The gesture overload would make this UX unusable for them. Guess who is gonna get called then!!

</comment><comment><USER20> It worked so well for Gnome

</comment><comment><USER21> reminds me of <http://xkcd.com/927/>

one more ui for android :)

edit: let google choose a standard , and with any hope it will be a standard for all android.

</comment><comment><USER22> That title is hilarious. Compare user experiences before iOS and after. But, these guys made a skin so they're the innovators. OK.

And, as ever, what would this article be without the inevitable trotting out of the old "fanboy" chestnut. If there were a "tech blogger bingo" card this one would surely be a winner.

</comment><comment><USER23> For all of the innovation that Android claims to have going for it, is this Feel UX really the best that you can do? Honestly this is barely changed from the default android UI. You repackaged the widgets so they're on their own page which you could already do. You added a shortcut screen which can hold both widgets and apps and contacts which is the same as any regular Android screen and you put the apps on one page like the launcher. Changing the way the lock screen looks with swiping is cool but that's not all that special. That's a jailbreak tweak away from being an iPhone.

I've got no problem with Android but when you claim to be innovating over another platform when you aren't, that bugs me.

<comment><USER5> I don't think 'Android' is claiming anything. There was a story on here a few days ago about the online religious battles between the various tech factions, mobile in particular. It was kind of pathetic. When you start anthropomorphizing an electronic gizmo, maybe its time to go outside and get some fresh air. Just a thought.

<comment><USER23> Excuse me for not clarifying: Android users, Android developers, people writing articles that anthropomorphize android. Certainly the little green robot isn't claiming anything.</comment></comment></comment>


All your Ethernets are belong to me. I'm Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet inventor. AMA - <AUTHOR> http://nr.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1x3fiq/all_your_ethernets_are_belong_to_me_im_bob/

<comment><AUTHOR> Some interesting questions and answers:

       [Q] Dear Mr. Metcalfe, First, thank you for all your brilliant work over the
       years. My question is how do you feel about the NSA collecting everything?"

       [Metcalfe] America needs an NSA, because we have dangerous enemies. Perhaps
       they've been over-doing it lately. I am worried that the current administration
       will destroy NSA in the current scandal.

It is always interesting to hear a different point of view from a person in tech. Also love his sense of humor:

       [Metcalfe] Ethernet cables should be yellow. And that's that.</comment>


Show HS: Tiny Tour – A really small JavaScript library for creating tours - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/callahanrts/tiny-tour <comment><AUTHOR> A while back I was using a tour library in ways it likely wasn't meant to be used (I wanted steps to go in and out of an iframe embedded on my page). Being frustrated with the difficulty of customizing this library, I decided to create my own. The goal of tiny-tour is be easily extensible and not collect feature bloat. Anything fancy should be left to the programmer, because he/she will most likely want to override my features anyway.</comment>


Terraform 0.11 - <AUTHOR> https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-terraform-0-11 <comment><AUTHOR> Highlights of the Terraform 0.11 include:

\- Improved Terraform Registry integration with module versioning and private registry support

\- Per-module provider configuration

\- Streamlined CLI workflow with the terraform apply command</comment>


Google News Pulls The AP's Content As Contract Comes Up For Renewal - <AUTHOR> http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/11/google-news-pulls-ap/ <comment><USER2> Google News doesn't need AP, considering there is very little in the way of exclusive news or content.

In some cases, there may be a slight time advantage to having breaking AP stories a few minutes before other sources, but I don't think most Google News readers see it as a source for breaking news -- and even among news junkies who do, they will already be plugged into alerts from original sources, such as CNN.

</comment><comment><USER3> Sounds like great negotiating tactics even if a little heavy handed. Really; just imagine the value of the visitors from google and other search channels is to the AP.

<comment><USER4> Not very much, I'd imagine. They get their money by selling content, not ads on the web site.

<comment><USER5> Google pays the AP for their content--that's what they are debating about.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> this story seems to be implying that the contract has yet to expire. how can google pull the source if the contract from previous year has not expired yet?

<comment><AUTHOR> my guess is that the contract is on Google here...i.e. they signed a contract to do with the AP stuff as they please.

Probably doesn't say anywhere in the contract that Google is required to display anything</comment></comment>


Drivers Shamed into Adopting Better Driving Habits through Crowdsourcing - <AUTHOR> http://dailycrowdsource.com/2011/10/02/community/lebanese-drivers-shamed-into-adopting-better-driving-habits-through-crowdsourcing/

<comment><USER2> _The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation has endorsed the program in an effort to reduce dangerous driving. Residents are asked to take photographs and videos of dangerous drivers which will then be posted to the Cheyef7alak website or Facebook page, where it will be available for public viewing._

I hope they aren't suggesting people pull out camera phones while driving.</comment>


California doctors say they've seen more deaths from suicide than coronavirus - <AUTHOR> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-doctors-say-theyve-seen-more-deaths-from-suicide-than-coronavirus-since-lockdowns <comment><USER2> I hope we can start talking about things like this. I find myself being attacked as a non-carer of human life for asking questions about relativity and how different scenarios might change or policy decisions</comment>


Programmers and Christianity follow up - <AUTHOR> http://www.geero.net/2011/03/humility-in-the-search-for-god.html <comment><USER2> > None of this is to say that Christianity is irrational or based on mere > superstitious belief. As far as I'm aware, it's the one religion in the > world rooted in falsifiable, historical events - the life, crucifixion and > resurrection of Jesus.

Um, yeah.

<comment><USER3> I like your elaborate argumentation.

<comment><USER2> Thank you, when debating the existence of zombies I try to stay concise.

<comment><USER3> That's a fairly arrogant way of discussing a subject. "What you say is not true, so I don't need to explain my opinion."

<comment><USER4> Well according to the article a basic tenant of Christianity is that only the gullible need apply.

 _I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children_

 _to think of ourselves as being "wise and understanding" - is a serious barrier to seeing clearly._

No, according to the verse quoted actually being wise and understanding is a barrier to believing not just thinking you are.

I know Muzza was too nice to bring it up, but there is the whole cannibalism thing. I find that a bit off putting.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


A bit of math: "No carry-on fees" simply means everyone pays carry-on fees - <AUTHOR> http://clipperhouse.com/blog/post/No-carry-on-fees-simply-means-everyone-pays-carry-on-fees.aspx

<comment><USER2> I disagree with the analysis:

Of necessity, airlines enjoy small, government-granted oligopolies on various routes. That is to say that passenger air travel bandwidth along various routes is finite and heavily regulated. The public (via the government) allocates and rations that bandwidth among the carriers. (That is why airlines are in the regulatory category of "common carriers".)

Because of those oligopolies, and in some cases de facto monopolies, airlines are in a unique position to price gouge and to use discriminatory pricing.

Charging for carry-ons, which are _vital_ to many kinds of travel, easily has the potential to be an example of gouging with discriminatory effect. For example, one can easily imagine a scenario wherein travel becomes hugely less expensive for BigBig Inc. (who can negotiate a big discount on carry-ons with their purchasing leverage) than it is for Ma-n-Pa LLC. At the end of the slippery slope, the oligopoly power of the airlines would translate into an oligopoly of consumption, at which point the public's interest in granting these routes to airlines has been corrupted. Yes, even without carry-on fees BigBig Inc. still has purchasing leverage but common carriers are regulated so as to limit the size of that price discrimination.

The situation could be compared to another kind of common carrier: providers of land-line telephone service. They too are granted monopolies and oligopolies in various markets (out of a historical engineering necessity). The regulations permit them to gouge and discriminate with fees for features that are deemed inessential - such as call-waiting or caller-id reporting. At the same time service deemed essential, such as basic "life-line" service, are price-controlled legislatively (on the theory that the right-of-ways granted to the phone companies, such as the use of utility poles, ultimately require a license from the public).

</comment><comment><USER3> Maybe you know more about the airline industry than I do, but I disagree that ' airlines like to break out fees is so that they can offer a lower base ticket price'.

Airlines didn't lower the cost of tickets when they started charging for checked luggage. They started charging to increase revenue.

Your ticket price didn't decrease when airlines stopped serving meals, they just used the cost savings to reduce operating costs.

Let's not confuse competitive pricing with cost based price reductions. They are two different things.

Further more, you mention a person 'taking up more room in the cabin' should cost more. Well, I weigh less than the average American who the ticket price is charged for. Should I pay less as it costs less fuel, I take up less space, I move faster than the larger person sitting to my left?</comment>


Local election campaign websites: ripe for disruption? - <AUTHOR> http://www.bluestreakwebdesign.net/portfolio.html

<comment><USER2> I think he was asking people's opinions on a new potential market for web developers. @adelevie: You might consider using the text box and state your position if you want to ignite some conversation. (Unless this is just to get your dev shop some exposure. If so, expect a lot of resistance with this approach.)

</comment><comment><USER3> Um, this is a link to a portfolio page with no article. Dead it.</comment>


Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple? - <AUTHOR> .. With the billions of cash lying around.  Would you acquire/acqui-hire?  Which tech would you invest in?  Which new areas would you venture into?  What else?<p>P.S.  I am not Tim Cook. <comment><USER2> Nice try Tim. You almost had me with the p.s.

I'd invest in some moonshots -

Neural computer interface.

Bio-scanners so an iOS device can (further) become a medical diagnostic tool.

A high resolution (5k+) Apple screen that I can plug my laptop into.

More and more battery research.

500M-2B on launching Apple satellites, to scan the planet daily at sub meter resolution, data would augment many Apple endeavours and they could also sell

</comment><comment><USER3> One word: privacy. They are already trying to create an image that what is on an iphone is yours, that osx does not send endless amounts of telemetry back to the mothership,etc.. But I think that in the next 5 years this image will become a very important differentiator.

In the near future there will be services like the amazon and google voice assistants that rely on you being the product and there will be services that you use in private without relying on them sucking up all your meta data.

</comment><comment><USER4> Buy Nvidia or AMD.

The race to AI will be won by hardware. Apple right now will lose to Google and Amazon without some serious help and market advantage. Sure google can build a fab or rent one out, but the army of engineers employed at either and the scores of patents would put Apple miles ahead.

It'd also give them a the back door they need into the enterprise market. Sort of how they won the consumer market back from Microsoft with the move to mobile. They'd have an AI hardware platform available for enterprise... A-nX ARM chips and insanely good graphics cards powering servers. see ya later, Intel...

<comment><USER5> I think Apple could build hardware just as good as NVidia or AMD. Apple has a software and services deficiency.

<comment><USER4> I politely disagree, Intel can't even build GPUs as powerful as NVidia (or AMD) and all of it's offerings so far have been very sub-par in terms of massively parallel computing. They have an insane amount of knowledge on fabricating chips, researchers, and money (though Apple does too). At least, I feel that if Intel can't compete with NVidia and AMD in the GPU space neither can Apple.

Maybe with the return of the mac pro, etc, we'll see Apple focus on pure computing power in a new, unseen, way and I'll be wrong they need acquire... But short of something absolutely herculean ($100bn investment), I don't see them coming out on top.

<comment><USER5> Apple hasnt tried. Seeing how well Apple has done creating performant CPUs compared to Intel given the thermal and power constraints of mobile and how far they have come with GPUs for mobile, they could probably do well. On the other hand, the future is mobile. Has AMD and NVidia shown any skill in developing GPUs for mobile that are competitive with Apple?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Lots of big dreams here on what they could aspire to do.

The company is dangerously close to scaring off their customers because of poor software quality.

I'd set aside some money for QA...

Software quality at Apple needs a lot of help.

Every single product is suffering as a result.

<comment><USER7> I completely agree with you. I've been faithful since I was able to afford an iPhone in my mid 20s. I've determined that if something doesn't change, this is my last iPhone. I'll pile that on with the fact that Ive already decided not to get another MacBook for the same reason, and I went with an Amazon fire stick in my room instead of adding a second AppleTV.

I used to enjoy them because as a software developer, I want to come home from work and just have something I don't have to figure out.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> \- Buy Tesla and spin out project titan to the acquisition. End the distraction and get back to base business

\- Quadruple down on e-health. Microsoft gave up. No one should trust amazon, google or fb to do this with any semblance of privacy.

\- create "Apple seeds" - companies building tech for the ecosystem but too small at the present to be part of Apple. - imagine ubiquity being an Apple subsidiary like Claris was

<comment><USER9> E-health solutions are likely to be pretty US-centric, investment dollars might be better spent on global opportunities.

And why try to create Apple seeds? Apple would be better off waiting until they emerged themselves and the acquire.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> Do something crazy. Completely embrace FOSS.

Do something conservative. Invest heavily in battery research.

Make hardware the focus, make it incredible. Support software with money and project governance, but let the ties to the hardware go. Win purely on incredible hardware.

<comment><USER11> But software is clearly where Apple is suffering the most. They're still doing OK in hardware (perhaps because most of it is not in-house).

<comment><USER10> Which is why I think they should open the platform. Don't start from scratch, but relicense the OS to be compatible with FOSS and, say, make iTerm the default terminal.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> This is going to sound crazy, but I've been thinking about it for the past few months.

A fully digital city:

* Imagine a full digital office: all of your files at easy access all around you

* Imagine reading Apple News on a balcony looking out at the city

* Imagine FaceTime, but being able to walk around a room with your friends

* Imagine digital storefronts where you can look at 3D models, then conveniently buy with Apple Pay.

* Imagine what 3rd party developers could do...

Yes, it's a moonshot, mostly science fiction. But the tech is almost there. The real trick, of course, is giving it mass appeal - making it widely accessible. But if there's any company that's built on making things accessible, it's got to be Apple.

<comment><USER13> Most of those already exist, they just have poor UX.

My files are all around me, conveniently stored on the //storageserver/share/ drive. File storage UI/UX hasn't changed for 20 years though.

I can stand on my balcony reading news from my phone, looking out at the town isn't so pretty all the time though, and I'm imagine it would be even less pretty if a "digital city" where the residents are present online more than off.

You can walk around on a webcam, it's just not sociable. Do you mean you'd like a drone following you? That would just be distracting for the person you're communicating with.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> ARM64 servers.

This one is quite a low hanging fruit.

Apple has the most advanced ARMv8 based core, one that can rival Intel.

And the market is enormous, larger by far than iPad, or Mac.

Of course Apple being Apple they would ship entire boxes, and not just the CPUs.

<comment><USER15> Why not just sell kube instances? Most folk don't wat to own datacenters and there's a better markup.

<comment><USER14> Yeah, cloud is definitely an option too, but that might be a bit harder to pull off. Selling servers to AWS, GCC and Azure might be initially easier.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> To throw out something different, I would buy Sprint and provide either very cheap or very high quality wireless connectivity to Apple devices, and I would build it into all Apple devices by default. Connectivity is so important to Apple's devices and experience that I would take away the weak/expensive third-party link in the system. Sprint would also give Apple an impressive global tier-1 fiber network, but thats more of a cherry on top. Sprint could probably be acquired for less (far less?) than $30B. Apple could push device updates OTA, sell apps books movies music and tv shows, provide customer support.. all without requiring a subscription services.

EDIT: I'm sure there are loads of opportunities to optimize communication if you control both the device and network design, like building in mesh networking. For example, AppleTVs, with their permenant power connections and room for better antennae, could do a lot of heavy duty LTE comm, and send the "last 10 foot" comm to my unplugged phone over Bluetooth or wifi. Or one iPhone could fetch an update Apple and intelligently share it with other devices over LAN to reduce the load on the network when updates are pushed.

</comment><comment><USER17> I'd invest in yourself, Apple.

Get your house in order. Fix OSX. Fix or scrap iTunes. Invest in FOSS. Fire your designers... Write a love letter to your developers in the form of fast, upgradable hardware. Write a love letter to gamers in the form of cheap but fast gaming machines. And make a laptop I want to own.

<comment><USER18> Spot on from what I was thinking.

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> If I were Tim Cook, I'd carefully consider the following problems:

1.) The input problem. Phones/tablets are great, but they can only do so much when our fingertips are still the best input device available. In the future, this will likely mean some kind of neural interface. But in the present, can we fill in the gaps with something better than Siri?

2.) The health problem. Our phones have the potential to become a wonderful personal diagnostics tool. Hell, I can't think of any device I've brought as deep into my existence as my iPhone. That said, we could get better. In my dreams, I would love to bleed on my phone to monitor whether my cardiac enzyme levels are rising. I would love to be able to get a reliable blood pressure/pulse rating from my phone. And I would love to be able to track a wide variety of health markers. A tool that could collect biological data and relate it to nutrition and exercise choices would be revolutionary. A tool that could provide North American level diagnostics to remote third world villages would be life saving.

3.) The jobs problem. As automation eats up more and more jobs, we either need some form of basic income, or we need new sectors that will employ the masses. The alternative is a society where 10% are consumers and the rest can't afford more than subsistence. This represents a potential crisis for brands like Apple. I have no idea how Apple could solve this, though I do have fear of how the masses would respond to an Apple sponsored basic income program.

<comment><USER11> > though I do have fear of how the masses would respond to an Apple sponsored > basic income program.

What do you have in mind here? I have a hard time believing people would be upset if you offer them "free" money.

<comment><USER19> I have visions of problems coming from both ends of the political spectrum. I can almost hear a far right commentator talk about how giving out free money is an insult to paying customers who work hard for their money and got ahead by their own mettle. At the other end of the spectrum, I can almost hear a far left commentator talk about how this is the same old crony capitalism, dressing up marketing in generosity's clothes.

Edit - I should note that I highly doubt recipients would be anything but grateful. My concerns lie with an often very vocal minority who do occasionally create massive PR problems.

<comment><USER20> If the Right cared about how corporations used their proceeds in the public sphere, they should have taken a principled stand on the abomination that is _Citizens United v. FEC_.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> Even though Apple is all about focus, I would integrate a little more data by buying Yelp and TomTom. Yelp for a time was pretty toxic but I think they're clean enough now.

<comment><USER21> I would also lavish attention on Apple Pay. Perhaps a logo program? I frequently ask, and hear others ask, "Do you take Apple Pay?" Having to ask burns a lot of the benefit. Then it often works inconsistently. At Whole Foods I sometimes still have to sign (negating benefit). At my local Safeway, payment will fail if you've also scanned your loyalty card.

On that note, perhaps loyalty programs could be integrated. Wallet supports rewards cards but it appears to be an extra step at checkout.

<comment><USER22> Merchants can order logos here, [https://www.applepaysupplies.com](https://www.applepaysupplies.com) but really it sounds like an infrastructure and training problem.

<comment><USER21> By logo _program_ I meant a logo that could only be obtained by meeting certain standards.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> 1) invest heavily in a much better user experience: retail, hardware and software. Establish and organize deep, responsive feedback system. 2) invest in whatever it takes to eliminate all wires and adapters associated with Apple products 3) Double or triple the number of Apple retail stores. In addition to more big destination stores, develop smaller footprint stores that can go in smaller communities.

4) create entry level products for developing markets.

</comment><comment><USER24> I'd be very cautious about buying anything big or lousy. Keep buying a series of small and easily integratable technology companies - like Powerbyproxi, purchased late last year. Have 3-5 internal investments on technology and products that nobody has thought of yet. Don't be afraid to spend too much, but also make sure you can deliver to Apple standards.

If this sounds like business as usual the good. Apple has done very well so far.

</comment><comment><USER25> I'd be bold and invest in creating a new product that will be of iPhone magnitude. I think if any company could do a google-glass like AR device and make it popular it would be Apple.

But do something. Don't miss NLP/AI because Apple is sorely behind and Siri is fast becoming a joke. In 10 years, Tim Cook may look like Steve Ballmer.

Also, hire more developers. good chat Tim

</comment><comment><USER26> Open Source OSX/macOS, at least versions prior. Microsoft is going to beat Apple to it if it doesn't happen soon.

<comment><USER5> The core of MacOS is open source. What magic benefit will they gain from open sourcing the GUI framework?

</comment></comment><comment><USER27> One of the problem is Apple has been following its rule of Asset less. Since Steve came back, do not own manufacturing, do not own x, do not own y. The less asset the better. The reason were simple, Apple wanted to stay slim and agile. It was the reason why Apple was so late into Datacenter, they kept using the cloud until it was unbearable. They were late to CDN, they kept on using Akamai. But today's Apple isn't the same any more, and I argue Apple should be adding more asset, like CDN, DC, and its own Fibre.

Apple Stores: I think Apple should own more of those Stores property outright. It should aims to have key location or % of Apple Store to be an Apple asset. I just dont like the idea of paying rent. I know many argues paying rent gives you flexibility, but I think we are at a time where Apple could own half of those Stores as base numbers. Not to mention the Apple Stores opened Internationally is still far too low.

Wallet: That is like being neglected, membership card, license, Bank ATM Card, shouldn't Apple be providing solution to get rid of these.

iPhone as a Services: Or basically rolling out iPhone upgrade programme internationally, and add free iCloud Backup to it. This will need a pile of cash in the bank since revenue are now spread out.

TV and Router. I dont trust the current selection of Router for its software quality. And Apple should make a TV Set.

Gaming: Forget about Apple's Services or App Store revenue. Because most of those are revenue from Gaming. And yet Apple doesn't care about games on mac.

Maps: Maps in Japan is shit, Maps in South East Asia is shit. Maps in China is ok only because the data are from government.

Homekit: What happen to it?

iTunes: Rewrite it or dump it.

Time Capsule for iOS: Not everyone has decent Internet connection, or fast connection for iCloud. We need a simple solution that doesn't require a computer.

So you ask none of these are really new. I dont need anything new. I need Apple to stop making those pile of crap that they left behind. Start making those things great again. Apple Music in Japan is a complete pile of bloody mess. And they now are working on TV series.

It is NOT Good enough.

<comment><USER5> \- buying assets - reduces flexibility. Apple can play one supplier against another. Apple already strong arms mall owners to get lower rents.

-TVs are low margin and even if Apple could increase its margins, TVs are bulky and not replaced that often - much less often than phones and even less often than computers.

-Routers - Apple can't do much to make routers easier to use than the tightly integrated model of ISP provided routers.

\- the places that don't have good internet are probably poorer regions that couldn't afford iPhones anyway.

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> The least he can do is hire a small team and rewrite iTunes. It's such a PITA, and there is no web client. Tried Apple music 3 times only to return to Spotify.

<comment><USER16> While agree with the sentiment and have done the same jump back and forth and sticking with Spotify, Spotify is losing money with a superior product.. so who is really winning?

<comment><USER27> The old Apple was all about making the best product for customers while making money.

The new Apple is all about making good enough product and making money.

It smells a little Microsoft to me already.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER29> Battery technology? Having superior batteries would surely be a selling point for all of your products since most of them rely on a battery one way or another.

</comment><comment><USER30> On talent to maintain quality with Macs & OS X, instead of only having all top notch human capital into iOS.

<comment><USER5> I would love for Apple to sell more types of Macs that were lust worthy besides the iMac line. But looking at this.

[https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/02/apple-reports-its- holiday...](https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/02/apple-reports-its- holiday-2017-earnings-today/)

I think it would make more sense to make iOS devices that could replace the need for a Mac.

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> I'd buy Brompton.

If you're serious about personal mobility, start with bikes, not cars. And I would love to see what Apple - a company famous for making things lighter and easier-to-use - could do with bikes.

</comment><comment><USER32> I'd start building microprocessors based on carbon nanotube transistors. Researches have already built prototypes, but the industry didn't pick it up yet. Time to get started!

</comment><comment><USER33> The highest ROIs I know of is early education, 700% ROI. Invest in that.

</comment><comment><USER34> Competent staff for our non core product lines, or kill them off.

</comment><comment><USER35> Mac OSX is outdated and buggy. Apple does not put much effort into fixing it. It's past time to create Mac OSXI. They need to hire more software engineers if they can't do better than what they have now.

<comment><USER5> Architectural, MacOS has a firm foundation. They don't need a completely new OS like they did in the pre OS X days.

They just need to fix bugs. Rewriting from scratch is seldom a successful strategy.

[https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you- should-...](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never- do-part-i/)

</comment></comment><comment><USER36> Battery research of some sort. please. If an iphone could last just 1 week without a charge and that stayed that way for 5 years. It would sell me over android EASY

<comment><USER37> I'm not sure selling a phone that lasts 5 years is in the best interest of any phone company. And if it took that much just to sway you and company, then they might as well forgo this segment of the market because there are bigger fishes to fry. Don't get me wrong, the battery capacity will increase linearly but so will the consumption rendering about the same 1 day usage per charge.

</comment></comment><comment><USER38> Netflix.

</comment><comment><USER39> I would invest in improving Topsy.com /s

<comment><USER39> I'm disappointed nobody knew Apple acquired Topsy and shut it down years ago!

</comment></comment><comment><USER40> Stock buybacks and/or dividends. The largest company in the world likely has poorer direct investment opportunities than their investors' alternatives, and likely does not need to engage in unprofitable empire-building.</comment>


Show HN: Sublime Text 2 Package Manager - <AUTHOR> http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

<comment><USER2> This could be huge! ST2 looks pretty flexible, but so far it doesn't match what I get through TextMate or emacs with their package managers. Both have pretty straightforward package managers that let me pick from a huge list of plugins.

Glad to know that ST2 is on the way to offering similar functionality. Hopefully this will fuel even more community contributed code, which seems to be the real secret sauce of a good editor. Certainly the ST2 developer is outrageously responsive, so the situation should be ripe for contributions.

</comment><comment><USER3> I had moved away from ST2 and back to e for a while, but I'll give ST2 another whirl.

</comment><comment><USER4> doesn't seem to work on my win7 machine (command I am pasting in console. Unable to auto detect encoding, using fallback encoding Western (Windows 1252)

<comment><AUTHOR> Did you restart ST2 after pasting the console command? After restarting there should be commands in the command palette that start with "Package Control." If not, go to "Preferences > Browse Packages…" and then look for a folder called "Package Control." If it is not there, there must have been a bug with the download. If it is, look in the console to see if there is a message about Package Control looking for updates.

It may be easier to use GitHub issues to follow up with this: <https://github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/issues>.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Why isn't this at the top of the front page yet?</comment>


What ever happened to Adria Richards? - <AUTHOR>

Looks like her website is dead and she has not really tweeted since the incident.  Does anyone know where she landed or what she is doing now? <comment><USER2> I was wondering the same thing the other day. I think she's hiding out and probably not sure about her next move. I don't know her at all but I emailed her to tell her that she has done lots of good and will be forgiven if she explains where she screwed up. Nobody deserves to be told they should be raped etc. and I think the only way for some of the public overreaction to stop is for her to admit her own overreaction. I don't think she's a bad person, but this was a bad mistake to make and stay silent after and she might be remembered as only this is if she doesn't speak up. I also worry this has made women in tech appear fragile and oversensitive. I don't like how she's trying to speak for _me_ , a women in tech, because she doesn't handle herself like a woman, she handles herself like a child. Have a tantrum and run away. The longer she waits, the harder it will be for the public to forgive her. Come on Adria, you must be better than this. You seem so smart, please just step up to the plate. Women in tech need you now to return our reputation to what it was before your outburst.

<comment><USER3> _Women in tech need you now to return our reputation to what it was before your outburst._

I disagree. She needs to attend to her physical safety, first and foremost, and her mental health, a close second. The overreaction to her tiny tweet was about a million to one and her very public flogging was so out of proportion and so misogynistic and racist that if I were her, I'd be scarred for life. It reminded me of those 3rd world stories that pop up every once in a while where some poor woman gets raped by an entire village as punishment for adultery. Let's not pile up on an already unfortunate situation by suggesting that the perpetrator of a tiny crime (if a rather temperate tweet that called a joke "not cool" can even be called a crime) has to apologize in the wake of other people's much, much larger crimes (from the firing of one of the jokers to rape threats to death threats).

On a larger note, it's never a minority group's responsibility to keep the majority prejudice-free. We really need to dispose of the silly notion that it's our responsibility as women in tech to be 100% perfect lest some men decide to withdraw their respect. We do not deserve to be held to a higher standard than men who engage in irrational, drama llama or otherwise childish behavior _all the time_ (case in point, the dongle joke that started the whole thing).

Our reputation does not need to be "returned" because it was never "lost". Adria Richards, take care of yourself.

P.S. You said, _I don't like how she's trying to speak for me_ and want her to apologize. Do you not see that she was not trying to speak for you any more than you tried to speak for me just now? That being born a woman does not make you the speaker for, or responsible for the reputation of, your entire gender? Otherwise you have exact same thing to apologize for.

<comment><USER2> Thanks for the input and keeping the conversation going. I respect you have your opinion but I want to address some points (just to specify, and you're of course entitled to your opinion either way):

I'm not putting her at a higher standard than a man and I don't think anyone else is. If a guy did this, I honestly think even more people would freak out.

I am speaking for women in tech and I absolutely do not have anything similar to apologize for, simply because of this fact: She said she is speaking for women in tech and she did something stupid. I'm speaking for women in tech saying Adria don't represent women and say you're doing something for women (you're a "hero") when you're actually doing something very wrong. If you want to represent us, apologize then. So yes, that does tarnish us to some degree. She _needs_ to take responsibility for that. If she didn't proclaim to represent us then it wouldn't be a problem to me. I really don't see how that can be argued and why you're as offended as if I ruined someone's career/life at pycon. But it is your opinion.

<comment><USER3> _If she didn't proclaim to represent us then it wouldn't be a problem to me. I really don't see how that can be argued._

 _She said she is speaking for women in tech._

Quote please? I don't think she said or proclaimed anything of the sort. (I've just re-read her tweets and her blog post, and I couldn't find anything).

 _I'm speaking for women in tech_.

Please stop. You do not speak for me, or any other women in tech. Your opinion is your own.

 _You're as offended as if I ruined someone's career/life at pycon._

I am not offended at all. Please re-read my post. Which parts did you think said or implied that you've ruined anyone's life or career?

<comment><USER2> You're saying I need to apologize. That shows me you're offended.

I don't have the quote on me, but it's online. Google more if you care to see it.

If you don't want me to speak for you, that's fine. I'm just saying most women in general would be offended to be represented by Adria and I'm saying most of us (all the dev women I know so far) are not interested in being made to look stupid through her self-proclaimed representation. I'm just trying to defend that and I'm sorry you were offended in the process. Your voice definitely counts too. I just don't understand it (I'm honestly trying).

<comment><USER3> _I don't have the quote on me, but it's online. Google more if you care to see it._

You have made a false claim about what Adria Richards said. If you do not have a quote to back it up, how can I be expected to? How could I possibly find a quote that doesn't exist?

 _I'm just saying most women in general would be offended to be represented by Adria._

You keep repeating that she represents all women. She doesn't. And you don't know how most women feel based on your own feelings.

 _You're saying I need to apologize. That shows me you're offended._

I said no such thing. Again, please re-read my post.

 _Your voice definitely counts too. I just don't understand it (I'm honestly trying)._

No, you are not "honestly" trying. You've accused Adria Richards of saying something she didn't, I asked for a quote, and your response was "google it", even though I already said "I've just re-read her tweets and her blog post, and I couldn't find anything". You are also intentionally arguing with things I did not say; implying that I am emotional ("offended") to avoid arguing on substance; and using sarcasm like, "most women are not interested in being made to look stupid" because what, _some_ women like me are? This is not how people maintain an honest and healthy discussion.

<comment><USER4> > How could I possibly find a quote that doesn't exist?

In any other circumstance, that might be OK. In this case though, she has written just ONE blog post about this incident. Obviously it makes sense to start there. She has given many interviews too about it, and commented on other websites. You could have left that for later.

Source [http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes- dont...](http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong- at-tech-conferences/):

<blockquote>

Women in technology need consistant messaging from birth through retirement they are welcome, competent and valued in the industry. Let's unify the message to our daughters and to the women developers we work with:

"We want you to be here and we will do our best to welcome you into the world of programming."

What has to change is that everyone must take personal accountability and speak up when they hear something that isn't ok. It takes three words to make a difference:

"That's not cool."

</blockquote>

I am given to understand that katherineparker does not believe that she's one of these women who need to be massaged from birth to retirement, and katherineparker wishes Adria, being some kind of evangelist, had stopped "representing" women in general in this manner. That's cool. I absolutely refuse to massage anyone.

> You have made a false claim about what Adria Richards said.

False claim.

> You keep repeating that she represents all women.

Odd. KP said the opposite. There is definitely more matter for me to go on about. Just not the will.

<comment><USER3> Me to KP: _You keep repeating that she represents all women._

You to me: _Odd. KP said the opposite._

Are you trolling? Let me quote KP:

 _If she [Adria] didn't proclaim to represent us then it wouldn't be a problem to me._

and

 _She [Adria] said she is speaking for women in tech._

On what planet are these statements the opposite? I quite literally quoted KP's claims _verbatim_.

And why did you post that random <blockquote>? Was it supposed to prove that Richards said she was speaking for all women? Because in what you quoted, she doesn't actually say that.

<comment><USER4> > Are you trolling?

I'm afraid I must decline to join you on that. But I'm glad you quoted KP, and _astounded_ that I should have to point out the following to you: "proclaim to represent" and "said she is speaking for" is just not the same as "represent" and "is speaking for". I could proclaim to represent the queen of Mars. That does not mean that I _do_ represent her.

The bit I quoted, constitutes "to speak, act, or be present officially for another person or people". That's what "represent/Verb" means, according to an Oxford dictionary. A bit later, Adria challenges Mark, "When was the last time you spoke up at work or a conference on behalf of someone else?"

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Given the caustic nature of the fallout, she's doing the only smart thing and minimizing any streisand effect by keeping a low profile. Note that I'm not suggesting that she was in the right or wrong, but that she's identified that there's no percentage in trying to "win" this, and that the spillover will have a detrimental effect on causes that she cares about (women in tech, for example).

</comment><comment><USER6> What ever happened to the developer who lost his job?

<comment><USER7> .. is much better question. Who would care about her? Stop feeding this particular troll please

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Just one week ago the proper way how to deal with bad publicity was mentioned on this very site: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5593326>

</comment><comment><USER9> Maybe she's gonna update her github in a few year with cryptic messages in cryptic outdated format.

Anyone knows if she ever did any Ruby?

<comment><USER10> First true laugh of the day, thanks.</comment></comment>


Confessions of a Journal Editor [pdf] - <AUTHOR> http://vita.mcafee.cc/PDF/EditorExperiences.pdf

<comment><USER2> McAfee has also written a pretty good open-source introductory economics textbook which can be downloaded here: www.introecon.com</comment>


Deutsche Telekom "transit" agreement with BND - <AUTHOR> https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnetzpolitik.org%2F2015%2Foesterreich-vertrag-mit-bnd-dienstleister-deutsche-telekom-veroeffentlicht%2F&edit-text=

<comment><AUTHOR> Article is in german, alas. tldr: Austrian MP Peter Pilz has revealed a secret 2004 contract between german tier-1 ISP Deutsche Telekom and german intelligence service BND to divert all foreign traffic going over DT's various cables connecting Luxembourg, Austria, Amsterdam, Indonesia, Philipine, Australia, Denmark, Ireland and Russia. Side note: Both Luxembourg and Austria have so far filed charges against Deutsche and the BND causing diplomatic stir.

<comment><AUTHOR> Articles about the charges filed so far:

Austria: [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A...](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fderstandard.at%2F2000016035993)

Luxembourg: [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...](https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tageblatt.lu%2Fnachrichten%2Fstory%2FLuxemburg- erstattet-wegen-Spionage-Anzeige-16361124&sandbox=1)

</comment></comment><comment><USER2> Please note that this is a english environment, please consider using another source or link to google translate.

Das hier ist eigentlich eine Englische Seite, linke bitte auf Google Translate oder auf eine Englischsprachige Quelle.

<comment><USER3> I'm learning German myself and I highly recommend it. In some ways it's very similar to English but then at the same time it has completely alien vocabulary.

English is a Germanic language that has been polluted with Latin (overwhelmingly French). German has also been polluted with Latin but at a more primitive level with the accusative for example.

Gain another soul and learn another language. Too many Americans only speak English while your European counterparts (educated programmers) speak several.

<comment><USER2> German is my native tongue.

<comment><USER3> Oh, well, this is embarrassing.

<comment><USER2> It gave me a good laugh anyway, have a nice day^^

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> the site is down. this one is even better and contains full names and email addresses.

[http://www.pravda-tv.com/2015/05/strafanzeige-bnd-und- deutsc...](http://www.pravda-tv.com/2015/05/strafanzeige-bnd-und-deutsche- telekom-haben-auch-oesterreich-tschechien-und-luxemburg-abgehoert/)

you can probably find these people on linkedin. these guys should be publicly shamed and their private addresses and details published online so every nutter can visit them and their families at home as a taste of messing with peoples privacy. fucking cunts.

<comment><USER2> shaming may help the cause, but its still destroying someones life. I wonder which ideology justifies that.

<comment><AUTHOR> I can understand the rant. But: those persons already have to deal with the charges filed against them in two countries. Let's hope those cases won't be dropped. Charges on a personal level may lead to less such contracts in the future, hopefully</comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Mental health clinic near Seattle? - <AUTHOR>

I might be suffering from depression and would like to consult a doctor. Nothing serious, no suicide attempts yet but I'd like to be on the safe side.<p>Anyone can give recommendations for a clinic near Seattle area? <comment><USER2> Are you physically active? If no do yourself a favor and exercise. In my opinion it's the first thing to rule out before taking medicinal measures.

I would also recommend visiting a therapist instead of a GP. Your primary care physician likely knows everything they know about depression from the pamphlets and samples the pharmaceutical companies provide. Your GP will have you fill out a 6 question form asking how sad you feel and then put you on Zoloft. It's worth eliminating social and environmental issues with a psychologist before altering your brain chemistry.

[http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/state/WA/Seattle.h...](http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/state/WA/Seattle.html)

Good luck. It's a really easily treatable problem.

<comment><USER3> Apart from physical activity, regularly seeing some sunshine (i.e. more than the 2 minutes it takes to walk to a car) is one of the other lifestyle-change options that can sometimes have surprisingly large effects. It's pretty easy to try, at least.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Wouldn't your GP be the right person to ask? Or the psychiatry department of a hospital?

The chances that someone on HN has this information are relatively small. It may work though, who knows!

<comment><USER2> It's a big internet, and sometimes you gotta seek help where you're comfortable.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> If you're cognizant of the fact that you aren't at risk immediately but could be, schedule an appointment with your General Practitioner as soon as you can.

Take some time to try and narrow down what is bringing you down and try to isolate those stressors for the time being. Go spend some time with those people who won't ask you questions and will just get it. We all have friends like that.

Most of all, hang in there.</comment>


Netflix to Open Source Chaos Monkey and More - <AUTHOR> http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/04/13/netflix-to-open-source-chaos-monkey-and-more/ <comment><USER2> I hope this will inspire other companies to open source their cloud tools. This is gona fun to play with on AWS.</comment>