karpodiem

Detroiter here (typing this in an apartment right off Grand Circus Park)

Duo Security (in Ann Arbor) and Plex Systems (Troy) are the two 'Metro Detroit' anchors - pure software companies doing over $100 million+ in recurring SaaS revenue.

I was thinking to myself - who is #3-5 for SaaS in Detroit?

I really only watch live sports anymore, I torrent everything else.

I love my TiVo HD 652160! I have five of them (stockpiled) on lifetime subscription with the 2TB hard drive upgrade.

My provider (WideOpenWest) fortunately has dodged the MPEG-4 low bitrate bullet that Comcast fired (which I was I left Comcast) on its subscribers.

I'll keep riding these TiVo's into the sunset, then I'll probably get YouTube TV.

I'm fine with that, just call it like it is. This is what Microsoft truly thinks of developing a 1st class open-source solution - not worth their time because it's not profitable enough. So they'll give you a second class solution with the assumption you'd rather have that then nothing.

Now I've heard it all - a company with a seven hundred billion dollar market cap can't afford it. Come on. They can absolutely afford to do native Windows / MacOS / Linux cross platform. They're lazy/don't want to.

I have a feeling that they will force the code to be 'paired' to an Disney account which can only be accessed through e-mail/password.

Yes, you can create a burner e-mail for this, but you get the point.

Android can't work its way through structured data (open app -> perform function that is achieved in two or three touches in app -> narrate back the results). There is way too much hype in A.I.

Can you describe a line of business function that makes novel use of ML?

Go Blue!

(Hope you’re feeling better)

"It was also when I discovered you can reinstall macOS without losing any data."

I discovered this as well - nice surprise!

I've switched to (almost) all Win10 boxes at my residence, except for one 2014 15' rMBP. The Windows machines have the freeware 'Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows' connected to an internal 3.5' 1TB drive (or 2.5 500GB drive for the two laptops that had optical drives and were removed and replaced with a 2.5 HDD caddy), that isn't running the OS. The OSS/C:\ is on an SSD.

Finally, the Windows machines are backed up via CloudBerry Labs Desktop Edition to Backblaze B2, in case the house burns down.

(I wish there was a product to remotely store time machine files, but based on the linking structure, I don't think this is possible? Carbon Copy Cloner is nice, but I wish I had incremental images)

Worked for me, I use Facebook though (may not work if you do not have a Facebook account?)

"When did the EU try to crush the UK?"

Loss of sovereignty as it pertains to 'migrant quotas'. A country should be able to say - 'no, we have decided to not receive these migrants. These people need to go from where they came'.

Someone will have to provide links on whether migrant quotas were part of the original agreement in the formation of the EU. So if Britain decides its more important to retain their ability to make this decision vs. remaining in the EU, that's a decision Britain can make. And they did.

The African Union/OPEC (probably the only actual authority with any economic leverage in the ME) should designate areas where refuges can be returned.

Morality aside, might/power defines reality in this world. The reality is that the US stirred the pot in the ME, and the EU suffers because of it. In the absence of war crime charges/damages brought before the ITC, this is the only recourse that is within Britain's best interest, based on the election they held.

I voted for Trump and I'll vote for him again. Hi HN!

I can see that being the case in a market where it's difficult to transport a few tons of gold (if that's your position size) but suppose I want to take delivery of the coins. Will CBOE facilitate this?

Will CBOE offer the ability to accept coin delivery in this market?

Are CBOE and CME are providing liquidity (fulfilling buy/sell orders) or are they simply operating a pool where traders bring their own positions and act as a settlement platform between participants?

How can they grantee 'legality' of the coins being traded by those participants in the 2nd scenario? Let's say then the coins being traded in the 2nd scenario are identified by the IRS as 'bad coins' - will they freeze the coins held by that account until the legal dispute is settled?

How can you grantee the legality of coins in an option contract if the coins held by one party prior to the contract expiration are seized?

I'm very curious how they're going to handle these scenarios. Personally, I wouldn't trade on this.

My phone is typically resting on my desktop most of the time. I want an unlock solution that doesn't require picking up the device.

Touch ID authentication misses are rare in my experience with the devices I've owned since the 5S.

My comment pertains to the hardware issues Google has had with Pixel - OLED bleeding, phones shipping without an OS, etc. Mostly hardware defects, not OS design choices.

There’s quite a few threads on reddit.

Yeah, the X is nice, but when I trying it out I felt a slight bit of sluggishness - like when the 6 was newly released.

A high jump in resolution/PPI will do that.

It really should have shipped with 4GB of memory.

That’s probably what’s going to end up happening.

I've owned various iPhones (starting with the 4 in 2010) and I'm going to take a serious look at the Pixel 3 in 2018.

Performance is a feature, and I don't see a compelling reason why I should upgrade my 6S. I have a suspicion that Apple will keep the '6' chassis they've stuck with since the release of the 6 (6/6S/7/8) at 2GB of memory, and will continue to do so with the 9 next year. Pixel 2 performance with 4GB of memory is impressive. And I will not pay $1000 for a phone, that's absurd.

Features I focus on when evaluating a phone - how quickly does the device unlock? Does it have a fingerprint reader? How quickly can I open the camera app? How are the photos? (I really hope Android device makers diverge from Apple and pursue a under the front glass fingerprint reader instead of facial recognition). I could care less about AI assistants/animojis. Get the basics down.

Google _still_ has significant QA issues nearly six years after designing their first phone (Nexus 4) for OEM manufacturing.

RCS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services) still needs to get off the ground. Until then, iMessage will still rule. My family is familiar with the built in messaging app, and I'm not asking my parents to use a separate app for texting. RCS will be able to replace iMessage for us.

Apple is a $875 billion dollar company because they figured out how to do customer service/QA/hardware and designed an easy to use OS.

I'm not asking Google to focus on ease of use for the OS, just get QA/service/hardware correct, at a $650 price point.

fun little incident this morning - with my wifi off, I logged into iCloud.com to change my primary AppleID e-mail address from an .edu to icloud.com address (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/31/apple-id-third-party-em...

Interesting location identification for the request origination - https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9rtg1igl73gf67/where.png?dl=0

Now, I've seen 2FA requests a couple hundred miles off, but this is _way_ off. I'm in the suburbs of metropolitan Detroit.

For a lark, I googled 'NSA Texas' - https://goo.gl/maps/rb1AhG3EiE62

Hello NSA! You might want to review the process on that one.

'Jeep is worth more than FCA because the other brands, with the exception of Maserati, are losing money.'

The L-cars are profitable (Charger, Challenger, 300). Not as profitable as Jeep, but they make money.

You mean $300? ETH seems to lack the drama of BTC and Byzantium is humming along. I see the ETH dev team being active/creating off-chain solutions (whether the market will adopt these solutions is a valid question to ask) - I think these solutions offer value that isn't fully priced in.

I don't understand this market at all. I'm in cash/Ethereum. I've suspended my 401K contribution and buy a small bit of ETH every paycheck.

For example, Caterpillar -

(Revenue/EPS)

Q3 2012: $16.4B/$2.54 Q3 2017: $11.4B/$1.77 Stock price: 2012: $85 2017: $139

I'd like to see a Waymo Pacifica going north on I-75 the morning after we get 6-8 inches of snow.

To which someone on HN will respond - 'well it's dangerous to be driving during that time anyway.'

Well, yes - but people still need to get to places (hospitals). And I've yet to see regulation under what situations autonomous vehicles can and cannot operate. And the fact that hasn't been addressed yet in any legal manner/you're not seeing cars available with it on a lot other than Tesla (who is playing with fire without LIDAR) tells you where this is at.

Not saying it shouldn't be worked on/this isn't coming, but we've got a ways to go with this yet.

@markbspiegel and some of the other Tesla bears (read: those with large short positions) have documented the NHTSA cases that have been filed against Tesla.

This was an inside deal. Looking at the partners page for Fontinalis (VC firm), you've got Bill Ford Jr. and Jr. Jr.

All of their other investments are unremarkable.

I work for one of the big three - this autonomous stuff is way, way further out that what anyone is saying. I can't put a year on it because markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid but it's all a head fake/game by upper management, who have finally found the Silicon Valley playbook of making wild ass promises now they that they've largely shed their pension obligations (my Dad, a slightly below classified level engineer at GM, will be taking the cash buyout instead of pension. Who can trust GM at this point? They've gone bankrupt before).

Big Three company with that's poised to actually make real profits? FCA. New Wrangler/Grand Cherokee/Ram/Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer in the next 24 months. Today, those vehicles make the lion share of profits and its not even close. And all of those vehicle redesigns will have mild hybrids for their launch, as a hedge against oil going up. FCA improving quality by going upmarket/simply charging more. Dealer model isn't ideal, but that will change over time.

I have Metro PCS (which runs on T-Mobile's network) - I wonder if they'll offer service, or reserve this to T-Mobile/postpaid.

Had the same plan - moved to MetroPCS (T-Mobile's pre-paid network. Includes VoLTE/Wifi Calling/answering on other iOS devices) $60 unlimited. 30GB of data before speed throttling, and 8GB of hotspot data. Haven't hit the upper limit once of either metric in the time I've had it.

I was paying $140ish a month with Verizon (included hot spot, which was an extra $30 a month), now I pay $60.

Western medicine has turned into a ponzi scheme. The verifiable proof of this is to have an elderly family member in a nursing home who goes through the usual monthly trips to the hospital from 'falling'.

While Medicare covers almost all of it, it became so nauseating to read the outrageous EOB totals that I tried to put a end to it - I requested that unless the on call nurse (after hours) or physician (during business hours) deems the fall to be a life threatening emergency, they are to be kept in the facility.

They found a workaround for that real quick - it's nearly always deemed life threatening because they are 1) unable to determine internal bleeding 2) unable to determine if a bone was fractured/broken.

The obvious solution to this is to have an xray machine on site, because since everyone in the chain gets paid huge $, and it removes the liability from the nursing home to ship them off to the hospital, the merry-go-round of insanity continues. We have two family members in an assisted care facility for almost eight years now, and between the two of them, they've tapped Medicare for just under $700K. Together, the sum of both their incomes throughout their entire working lives never totaled that amount. This is why I call it a ponzi scheme.