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> no project would move there because "everybody is on GitHub".

If they had a solid sync service between GitLab and GitHub; PRs, issues, code, everything then things could get interesting and some people might consider the switch.
You could setup a complicated series of plausibly deniable encryption, steganography, and so on and I suppose that might work. But you need to maintain perfect opsec as well as hope they don't already have sufficient evidence that you possess the information they're after. They might have already installed a keylogger plus covert video surveillance and your denials are now contempt of court plus obstruction of justice.

In your burial scenario, they might already possess video surveillance of you dragging a body into the woods, then leaving 30 minutes later but they'd like you to provide an exact location to avoid an extensive search. Telling them you went to the beach with your metal detector won't bode well.
> A good welfare system pretty much solves it. I'm not sure why America is struggling to create one.

America is still divided even on the question whether healthcare should be universal, which other states introduced ~50 years before unemployment benefits were invented, so I think this will still take a while.
I get the frustration. But I think that war's been lost.

Within a given organisation (if you're exceptionally lucky), or on some mailing lists, you might be able to enforce discipline. At large, though, this mostly doesn't scale.

I think it's unfortunate -- there's a very strong degree to which standards of message formatting are useful and helpful. And, in counterpoint to much of the disagreement to your point, it's not as if a bunch of Unix geeks in the 1970s and 1980s started the concept -- go through any "how to succeed in business without really trying" manual from the 1920s through 1970s, and you'll find strongly specified guides on how you are to type and format your business correspondence (using your monospace Royal, or later, IBM Selectric, typewriter). And deviations from those standards were not appreciated.

But until and unless some Hand of God comes down and enforces discipline again, we're in our current State of Babel.

On the other hand, client quirks are so common now that configuring you email stream to:

1. Render all incoming messages as flat, 72-character, ASCII

2. Outputing messages with same, '> ' quoting, etc., etc., is pretty much perfectly justifiable.

"Oh, my email doesn't handle attachments or binaries, I'm sorry."

If you are in a position to ensure people talk to you on your terms, so much the better. I can approach that, but there are sacrifices to be made.
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+1 for the Zenbook. I've got a UX31A (which uses the same body as the Air) and I've been running Ubuntu pretty much stock for 3 years on it. Best ultra-portable I've had (had a couple of the older XPS 13's but not the newest)
The article clearly talked of how they aren't.

Though motorbike taxis are illegal, they are ubiquitous except for temporary crackdowns. Though the raves were against the rules, they were advertised publicly for four years before any action was taken and there will be more publicly advertised raves that police ignore next year.
> What's worst, however, is the deterioration of customer support. Lenovo has introduced this 'community' concept where users are expected to post their woes to a forum, hoping that a mix of other users and Lenovo affiliates (not sure whether they are employed by Lenovo, or just volunteering) would solve their problem.

... but there's still regular customer support you can call. The forums are optional.

My T460s is the best laptop I've ever used btw. They reverted to the old trackpad, it's as light as a Macbook.
Got paywalled, but everything would be more complicated, with the only benefit of making the conversion reversible.

Just take the simplest button:

- if you rewire: rip out the button, extend the two of the 3-4 cables (common earth, button, status led) to a micro controller, screw it down somewhere.

- if you build a robot: take your micro controller, send a wire to an actuator to press the button, build a fixture so the actuator always hits the button and does not slip, get extra power for the actuator (your micro controller is too weak on its own) and something to trigger it, build in a photo sensor to check on the LED, cover all windows in the cockpit so lighting conditions remain stable, build logic that could detect a broken LED or a stuck Button, make all these moving parts resistant to wear and don't forget maintenance.

reading the other comments: they don't even want the strap-on solution, pfew?

edit after reading the article: They want to build robot arms. The advantage would be, that they need sophisticated robot arms, but just 2 of them and one hardware fits all, the rest is software. For bulk conversions this might be actually cheaper.
On January 2011 I read about Bitcoin as a lurker on HN.

I thought it was quite a novel idea, but needed to prove its worth to the world. I didn't want to take part in it, use it, as I saw no direct benefit to me; and without an underlying economic activity, buying Bitcoins was a purely speculative Ponzi scheme. I came to learn - through HN - about Silk Road and how people were using it to animate their illegal endeavours. Bitcoin had economic sense, so in April I bought 50 euros worth of it, to give it a try.

Price went from 7euros/BTC then to 500euros/BTC now. It has been, and will ever be, my single best return on investment. You just can't beat 70x. HN has literaly made me richer.

Had I invested 1k euros 2 months earlier, my life would have taken an entirely different meaning. It has taught me the importance of being bullish on novel ideas.

HN made me discover the Oculus Rift; HN made me see the unbelievable rise from the kickstarter to being bought 2B$ a year and a half later. I have been trying out a lot of great things thanks to HN.

To me, it is an early warning system about the best the future can offer.

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It seems to me that the bitcoins of nowadays are getting buried in noise, or are no longer here. Frontpage is covered with common law, societal problems, short lived news events, click bait, and my-framework-is-better-than-yours. I am not diminishing the importance of general news, but this is not the venue for it.

Where is the good stuff? Why don't I hear more about initiatives like RISC-V (which is arguably hardware's linux moment)? Why don't I hear more about way to do some CRISPR editing mysaelf as a side project (which is arguably DNA's linux moment)?

HN is pivoting slowly towards mainstream general tasteless news; and my source of living in the future and doing interesting things in it is drying up.

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So, my plea to you, Dang, is: could we have public, explicit, ruthless, white-list-style, displayed-right-next-to-the-post-button definition for flagging content?

My take on it:

* It must be about the future getting materialized.

* It must have a strong technical aspect, on which HN members can readily start to work on.

* No news events of any kind, even nation-wide ones like terrorist attacks.

* No societal articles. Not even about the gender gap, which is greatly affecting us all.

* No baseless day-dreaming about what the future could be. (How many of these can we have about "AI"?)
> If you're smart enough to get into an elite university, you don't have to worry about the cost. Full stop.

This presupposes that you are already in a social position that allows your intelligence to be recognised and that puts you in a position to even apply, or know that applying is an option.
> Normally you want to reduce the number of options in play so that you don't need to think about all the permutations when making future changes

Also to reduce testing overhead when you invariably don't think of permutations - which is now that much harder as you'll need to manually test with the feature flag enabled, since everyone else will probably be running with the defaults. You think all text manipulation code in and around the backspace functionality in Chrome is static? Seems unlikely to me. Also reduces refactoring overhead - less code, after all. To me, the question is which will happen first:

1) They remove the toast intentionally after everyone's muscle memory has adjusted.

2) They remove the toast accidentally by refactoring input logic and breaking the popup functionality without noticing.
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I've been using Duolingo to learn Russian every day for a few months. I'm just finally getting somewhat confident about all of the Russian characters, and the "weird" sounds made through the various character combinations that change the pronunciation of the individual characters. I'm no dumbass, being able to speak two other languages besides my native English (which weren't learned through Duolingo, though I really like it). There just must be something tough about learning the other, between Russian and English.
I'm 25 years old and I've never enjoyed any sport for as long as I've lived. Even firearms sports, where firearms otherwise interest me, bore me entirely.

The cleaner, single-purpose sports like sprinting, rowing, or cycling are dominated by min/maxers with immense genetic luck and an army of sports scientists. Who would care what they accomplish? And have you seen the hungry skeletons who do the tour de france? Who would want to watch or take part in a sport that requires ridiculous body modification or being born in kenya to compete? I don't get why people spin their wheels in these* sports* or why people care to watch them do it.

That said, I would enjoy a multi-discipline/skill level gladitorial system where the loser dies. Or giving toddlers guns, or cars, or something, and setting them loose to see who gets the highest score. Or giving them different weapons and a slight bit of training and betting on the outcome. Maybe a toddler with a flail vs. a pissed-off badger.

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> risks offending users of a "higher" or competing brand

I strongly suspect that I am not alone in the stubbornness of my toothpaste preference. I will grudgingly use a different shampoo if I have to as most shampoos don't have too strong of a smell. In any given day I use probably 3 to 6 different soaps, with only the one in my house being my preference (mmmmmmmm coconut ginger) so using some random soap at a hotel is no big deal. But I will be buried deep in the ground before I subject myself to using anything but my usual toothpaste.

It took me years to find a flavor of mint that I honestly enjoy using. Nothing else has ever felt quite right; it even has the right texture! Using another flavor for even one brushing would make me want to gag. Taste, in both senses of the word, is a very personal thing I suppose.
Some people want to pretend we still live in villages and fiefs where we can actually know and care about the people who provide for us.

I can't even number how many people touched the parts of this laptop.
I would understand if the state imposed this tax in order for this money to provide some social security to the drivers of Uber/Lift/etc. But taking this money away from them and giving them to the taxi lobby sounds almost like state imposed robbery.
>or at least the greying of text. It's antisocial and pointless.

I think I agree. The culture has changed a bit here, which is fine (or at least unavoidable). But now there's much more down-voting of things with which the voter merely disagrees (case-in-point, your comment: down-voted with no replies at the time of my writing). It reenforces the hive-mind.
and what a hassle that is!
Some related articles:

https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/moving-files-1-copying/
https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/moving-files-2-sparsene...
https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/moving-files-3-faster/
>Manufacturing happens to be as much of a commodity as air travel and gas

For low tech manufacturing, yes. But for high tech there are not many suppliers able to meet Apple's needs - how many fabs in the world could produce the A10?

Also, even for commoditized products there are many things that can set a manufacturer apart. Quality, timelines, service level (how easy are they to work with; can they help with product development), logistics. These all lead to a manufacturer being able to charge higher prices because they provide more value.
We should have some top level key to do the back or forward actions on browser or file navigator, this is a so common action, Alt + <- needs 2 hands this is not acceptable.
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The next sensor for phones?
I wonder why hotels have no vending machine to buy a toothpaste, etc in the middle of the night when no shop is opened or in general when no shop is in walking distance.
I am not saying this specifically to your comment, but to the whole thread:

Not all people can accomplish the same performance. Most HN users were just lucky. I am not sure where I would be today if I had not been born into a college educated family, had college educated friends and so on. Not all people have the same luck. Beyond that there are different levels of intelligence or just inability to concentrate etc. There are people on the job market who write and read on a level you had when you were 10 years old.

HN could really use some empathy. I would be ashamed if the cab driver, who actually lives next doors and gets up Friday and Saturday nights to drive drunk people home, because that's the only time you can make money here, would read this thread. When we talk about thousands of people we cannot just say "suck it up" and call it a day. HN should be the first to understand that the law of large numbers is at play here: People who do not want to work, will not matter for the whole group. If we do not want society to drift apart (which has enormous costs attached) we should solve the systemic issue.
"Bad driver" has a wider meaning than "has a criminal record".
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Here in the UK there were a number of Factory Acts passed between 1802 and 1961 that were designed to limit the impact of the industrial revolution on workers, lessening the pain of transition from agriculture and cottage industry to the modern mechanised factories. The one closest to 200 years ago did such progressive things as limiting the working hours a 9 year old child could do to 12 hours a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_Acts
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It looks like it's set to 8 hours or so, which for those of use who regularly sleep 8 hours, plus avoid HN while getting ready for it or don't immediately go to it on waking up, means we don't get a chance to downvote a lot of postings that otherwise might make sense for us to be able to do so.

At the very least it was a jarring change.
Barring different categories for downvotes, I strongly believe that a downvote should be reserved for cases where you think the comment does not contribute to the discussion. Disagreement should not be enough. If the issue is amenable to discussion, I'd much rather see someone type out a reply containing actual counterpoints than people simply downvoting (or worse: flagging) the parent. And if you find a well-written comment you disagree with, you might even upvote it and disagree in text form. I realize though that disagreement sometimes needs an outlet that can't be provided if a large number of replies already exist, but in that case you might just upvote the best existing reply that you feel captures your feelings.

I would advocate that downvotes be reserved for instances where the post was a net negative to the discussion, and flags should be reserved for egregious violations of conduct that call the originating user accounts itself into question.

Based on that, I think a score of -2 (is that the current limit?) and a few hours time limit is sufficient for the purpose of filtering the discussion. It should be ample time to weed out the low quality comments that should be sinking to the bottom. Once that basic weeding is done, upvoting is a much better signal to concentrate on.
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Most server-side ads still leave some traces:

* Class or ID names. Even if obscured, they're different.

* Banner sizes. Standardisation of sales blocks means dimensions to latch onto.

* URLs. Stuff that links back through tracking systems is blockable.

* If nothing else, AI training for "does this look like an ad" and nuking it.
Oh, I'm sure there is, but it's hard to do without also losing the nice properties of the purely logical formulation, and AFAIK that's the main reason why these approaches are not more popular.

If you have a link to an interesting take on it, please share!
That's because in 1999, HTML was considered responsive by default. It was up to the browser how to render it given its output medium.

AFAIK it was the iPhone's Safari that sucked first at rendering HTML without mobile-customized CSS.
I don't completely agree. While git definitely could still be more polished, the problem it tries to solve is fundamentally complicated.

Git does a good job of cleanly modeling the graph of distributed changes and providing a set of useful operations on that graph. The disagreement is more about whether somebody has learned or should learn that underlying graph.
> "why is the MA taxi industry waiting tax ride-hailing apps? Why not just ask every taxi driver for $83?"

I guess it's because of fragmentation: the "MA taxi industry" is an amorphous unidentifiable mass made up of hundreds of individual cab companies and thousands of drivers. There's no one body to say "Hey, pay $83 and we'll make things better", and even if there were, without a state regulation to compel the payment, many drivers wouldn't chip in, leaving a much higher fee for those who did, or a much poorer investment fund. Those who did chip in would want preferential treatment or the exclusion of those who didn't pay, and we'd be in exactly the position where we are: those who want to evolve tools and invest in the industry (and have the means) do so at their own cost and to their own benefit, and those who don't, don't.

Sometimes there's a role for tax and regulation to force change. That said, like you, I'm skeptical that the government will spend the money effectively.
The underground party scene in China (especially in Shenzhen) is getting bigger and bigger. The party isn't over and raids like that are not something that party goers are not used to.
>You are testing your archives anyway, right? ;-)

Umm no, I handle errors which I expect to be reported to me.
>the solution was to slowly build a social security system

The Luddites were active around 1811 and welfare in the UK seems to have come in around 1906. The solutions at the time were closer to "suck it up". The government used "show trials intended to deter other Luddites from continuing their activities. By meting out harsh consequences, including, in many cases, execution and penal transportation, the trials quickly ended the movement."

That was the era of Charles Dickens and workhouses for the poor.
It's not so much distrust of middlemen, as it is distrust of anonymous middlemen. And also automated middlemen. People are happier getting shafted by a person they can see than a bot they can't. Otherwise, they would be hurling abuse at Apu down at the Kwik-e-mart when he charges them 30% extra for a quart of milk just because he bridges time (11pm) and space (down on the corner) to provide liquidity and make it convenient for them.

Part of this is also algorithm aversion (even here on HN) - watch how people are reacting to Tesla autopilot crashes. There is a lot of tin foil stuff about 'algos gone haywire', but I can tell you now that humans fat fingering in the market were both more common and more deadly.
So Wix should be taxed with the proceeds given to developers it has has taken low-fruit from?
Additionally, home-ownership has the unique feature to be financed with money which would otherwise be a sunken cost.

I like the idea of some kind of modern/virtual self-sustained living, where you own your house, produce your own energy and cover all costs by dividends from stocks of the same companies you buy products from.
"But not that sarcastic, to be honest with you."
Well, social mobility is the change in social status relative to others, which can correlate with income, yes. It also correlates with things like education and skills, type of occupation, etc.

> Why are they being perevented ?

Well, education is expensive -- and has an opportunity cost -- so low-income people often cannot afford to improve their skills and earn more income. If I am poor, and I have enough intelligence to become a good scientist, engineer, or artist, but cannot afford to go to university and gather the requisite skills, then this is a loss to society.
It doesn't really make sense. Banditry requires someone to threaten. If there's no driver and the machine is locked in transit anyway, then all you need are doors where time to cut them open is greater than time for police to arrive and banditry doesn't make sense.

Without people you can also do tricks like electrifying the chassis, so anyone who tries to touch it gets an electric shock.
One could argue that Uber can offer lower rates by having higher utilisation -- those people who are part time Uber drivers clock on at peak times. However, I think this argument is specious, because most uber drivers are full time.

I would argue that the reputation system for drivers (and passengers) is an improvement over the current taxi system. The online booking system (app) is massively better than any taxi booking system I've used. These are strong incentives.

Obviously taxi systems involve paying the state for a licence to operate, but the ~500k price (depending on location) is solely due to an articficial scarcity. There needs to be some external regulation, so Uber/etc should pay some per trip/km charge.

One of the biggest problems with Uber and Taxis is insurance. Basically this cost/risk is being directly transferred to the driver, who may have no assets. It isn't acceptable for a service like this to have un-covered liabilities.

The other big gap is that Uber and Taxi companies have terrible employment practices. Failure to pay payroll tax is only the tip of the iceberg.
I've been trying to like pkgsrc on Mac OS X for a few years now. The one you link to provides binaries, and is sponsored by Joyent. The main deal breaker for me there is that they only update their packages every quarter (currently 2016Q2), so you have to wait if you want bug fixes, security updates, etc.

I just had a look again and found that ffmpeg is one minor version behind behind stable, its binary is annoyingly called "ffmpeg3", and it was compiled somewhere with LLVM 6 / clang 600, versus LLVM 8 / clang 800 on my macOS 10.12 system. I tried to compile it manually (after a shallow clone of their massive, 250,000+ commit git repo), but failed.

For me Homebrew does the right thing here — they basically turn my Mac into a rolling release Linux desktop like Arch Linux, which is great for the userland type packages I use: openssh, zsh, tmux, postgresql, ffmpeg, git, vim, rsync, etc.
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