skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't "win", it just happens to be in vogue right now, given the current economics of bandwidth and processing power. Give it another few years and some bright spark will start enthusing about whatever the next iteration of thin clients will be, and there will be a flood of articles evangelizing about how great it is to do everything on the server instead of putting up with all this complicated client-side crap, and oh boy doesn't the future of ultra-lightweight devices talking over reliable, high-bandwidth links to big central servers sound awesome?

Such is the ebb and flow of networked computing.
Thanks. Yes, it's not enough for there to be a need. You also have to think about how you'll reach prospects. Stylists and salon owners aren't on the computer all day every day and they don't like to take phone calls from salespeople. They're very expensive and/or time-consuming to reach. A solo bootstrapper almost by definition has very little time or money, so salons are a very bad match for the capabilities of solo boostrappers.
Oh, this took barely any time or energy at all! Picking through D'Souza for citations to back up my arguments, that'd be work. And really unpleasant, at that. Y'all aren't worth that.
Even with the surcharge view, there's the moral question of price discrimination. Because someone can afford to pay more for services and goods, should they be required to? Some say yes, some say no.

As stated elsewhere in this thread, it's not about "the right answer". It's about how individuals often act according to their moral view of the world. Just because you don't share that view, doesn't make their conclusions automatically uninformed and incorrect.
One note of caution for those skimming the release notes: v1.5.0 now allows anonymous access to the API server by default. With the default k8s authorization being `AllowAll` this makes it very important to pass `--allow-anonymous=false` if updating from v1.4.x to v1.5.0.

It looks like this is going to be set to false for v1.5.1: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38708
It seems like everybody who ever used Notes either loved it or hated it. Makes me wish I'd ever used it. Or glad I haven't?
Netflix makes a good example it is possible to make a major business model adjustment and return shareholders very well. I think investors have a very realistic view of how much the automotive market is about to switch. The companies who provide no evidence of preparing for the switch are just as likely, to me, to see their market cap plummet as ones trying a risky pivot.

Certainly some auto makers may choose to go down the route of executive assisted suicide and maximize shareholder (and executive) profit distributions in the process, as IBM decided to do. To pretend than the next 50 years will be like the last 50, I'm not sure how long that charade can hold up.

Personally I think Google and Apple are the ones who hold all of the chips. This definitely can be turned in to a commodity business with a few OS adjustments. There are some cards Uber can play to avoid this, like exclusive infrastructure agreements, although not really sure where that will be permitted geographically.

A more interesting question is will this look like smartphones where a single company gets 90% of the profits and the rest of the companies do huge volume but capture small to zero margins.
language != culture
To me these seem pretty stupid. Major features (to me) of ear-buds with wires and 3.5" jack are: 1) being attached with wires means I don't easily lose them when they slip out of my ear/hand/pocket. 2) the 3.5" jack actually keeps them pretty solidly attached to my phone (again, less risk of losing them). Walking around with two loose tiny objects seems less than ideal - at least to me; I'd lose them within days.
People pay money for productivity software/tools. Look at how many tiny ISVs are making fairly large amounts of money selling Git clients. I think 1Password has like 60 employees now. There are companies much larger than 1 person doing screen capture software and large companies selling remote desktop solutions.
I wouldn't argue the journalism point, but it's very clear that the blog post is an attempt to (1) present solid statistics and (2) bolster their own credibility because "they have good statistics".

Except what we really have is a lack of data backing up the fancy non-informative charts (that clearly in no way shape or form correspond to the so-called millions of data points).
My wife got a job at a hair salon and their software sucked. I didn't have any exposure prior to that.
I hope screen sharing comes soon. They bought Screen Hero a while back, and said they were integrating it.
The design I don't know, but the hosting doesn't seem very resilient.
I recommend switching to Safari. Faster and less resource-hungry.
Oh but it wasn't a problem in Mac OS X 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12.0, 10.12.1.

OK, got it. That makes sense.

Thanks I agree with you now. You are right, the battery estimator was a terrible idea. It is causing me confusion right now just thinking about it.
Won't happen in the USA. Due to our puritanical obsession with "earning" a living through labor, we'll never see Basic Income. It would be more politically do-able to pay 1/2 the people to dig holes and the other 1/2 to fill them in, than to implement a sensible UBI system.
Not quite. Buses have fixed static routes. I described dynamic routes optimized to minimize delays for all users, while being picked up and dropped off at the exact address they want to be at, rather than some static bus stop.
There are lots of smaller cities and towns, and not all people live in cities or towns. Nuclear attacks would not cover all land areas where people live. Thus the detonations would not kill all people directly.

Would the radioactive waste kill people? That is something which is harder to calculate. But the dangers of radiation are much exaggerated, and humans are generally more resilient than most people think.

But nuclear winter, drastically reduced temperatures, particles in the air that prevent vegetation from growing and which thus changes the composition of the gasses in atmosphere? That sounds a real threat.
I'm more afraid of the USG than I am of Uber. And while the line you're talking about clearly exists, I consider it such a thin line as to be essentially moot.

I guess the analogy I'd use would be this: worrying about Uber in the era of rampant warrant-less nation-state surveillance is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
It became very difficult to override the position of the pin after the GPS decided it just had to know where I was instead of me.

Also the tracking you for 5 minutes after a ride is completely unforgivable.
Tool. Comment answered next question. Distributed on own site.
This is more of a split between Latin America and Spain (and the various other places that borrow language from them)

Latin America -> computadora

Spain -> ordenador
> ... and in Stores Beginning Next Week

So yes, not quite yet, but also not necessarily a full month away.
While people still drive themselves, there's a huge incentive to come to work early or late, to avoid traffic. I don't see that incentive increasing with autonomous cars. If anything, I predict that more people will join rush hour traffic if they don't need to do any actual driving. However, this might be mitigated by the better driving of autonomous cars.
> LSD (though this one does pose some concerns socially given that it can cause manic episodes)

There still seems to be a bit of "reefer madness" going on when it comes to psychedelics, even inside the legalization circles.

Some people have reported a link between manic episodes and LSD - just like people have reported links between manic episodes and alcohol, manic episodes and marijuana, etc. That doesn't seem to unbelievable, considering the vast array of things that can trigger mania (even things most people consider innocuous, like visiting another country).
Are you at all certain of this? Our current surveillance state seems to me to be a result of the compartmentization around nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project. Small expansions from Los Alamos Labs to every thing in the DoD eventually add up to a surveillance state. Every step along the way was logical and consistent and made sense to almost everyone involved.
I’m a serial tech job quitter! Should I shake it off like Taylor Swift?
That seems common.

As collaborative software, quick way to create databases, documents, forms, wikis etc - it ain't half-bad, especially considering its legacy and customers (large corporations unlikely to purchase any new, "cool" startup-like collaborative spaces).

As an email system (which is what I have to use it as), it leaves much to be desired, including performance.
The change was from 'laptops' to 'notebooks' iirc. And those griddles were hot[1]

[1]http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/09/09/blotchy...
>I just wish you guys can learn more of vi, so you can truly deliver something better. So far, these surface scratching alterations only build on irritations of those vi first-timers

Mind expanding on that, or are you just going to whine? It's not like vi is the ultimate tool.
I moved from Sublime Text to vim. Tried emacs first but for some reason it didn't click. vim was much easier to start with and I see the benefits of mastering modal editing. It's not about typing faster, but developing the muscle memory to transform text without thinking about it. That's really powerful.
There's a long queue for permanent residency for certain countries. The process of getting a temporary work visa is largely the same for a Chinese or Indian national as it is for an EU or Japanese national though.
There's like a next-level Apple marketing babble on that page:

"AirPods introduce an effortless wireless listening experience packed with high-quality audio and long battery life. These magical wireless headphones use advanced technology to reinvent how we listen to music, make phone calls, enjoy TV shows and movies, play games and interact with Siri, providing a wireless audio experience not possible before."

Magical. Reinvent. Not possible before.

None of these words applies.
I don't think I'm really qualified to give a recommendation on something like that. Even if I were, I think there are a lot of factors that would need to go into such a decision. What I might recommend is for you to look up what Rob Walling has to say on build versus buy.
6. Communist Government, a large number of US tech talent skews libertarian
Apple releases laptop with mysteriously hit-and-miss battery reviews, then with the next OS X update, removes this. Interesting timing.
This is not Reddit
ls, ps, du, df, ... pretty much all CLI tools. The kind you use in scripts.
I think that we'll see a ton of companies going after this space, but they'll be as quiet as they can. Why? Jobs. You are directly competing with humans in this space. Truck driver is one of the most common jobs in many states[1].

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...
We are using a 70 inch from DisplayTen, bundle with Zoom Video conferencing, it's much better than the skype for business, especially when we have slow internet in our office. The whiteboard and wireless sharing are great, Zoom is fantastic.
Personal issue, Gutter Oil. That is a non-starter for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
I'm going to assume that the end of the article is hinting that there is some sort of IP battle over the Go package in question i/e perhaps OP mistakenly worked on the project during work hours or over company bandwidth.

Either way, should have taken the Benjamins.
They must not think people on mobile want to see the site.

Ouch.
I've been through most Opiates, was on Codeine & Tramadol for two years (because my GP was scared of me becoming a addict), during that time I found it very hard to sleep properly (I'd even go as far as say the prolonged periods of sleep deprecation was worse than the pain).

I do strongly believe GP's shouldn't be prescribing pain meds for prolonged periods. They should refer patients to pain specialised after six month or if the patient complains that medication isn't adequate as pain is a very complex subject.

Then I was refereed to pain clinic, I was prescribed Amitripyline (it's not a Opioid), which was used as an anti-depressant (~150mg), but in much lower dosages (~30mg) it works for nerve pain. One side effect (which is actually great for me) is that it does make you drowsy, so taking it in the evening greatly improves sleep.

I've also tried Hydrocodone (which I found very good), occasional Oxycodone for breakout-pain. I've found patches (initially Buprenorphine) to be much more beneficial as they provide stable relief and lesson waking in the middle of the night/ early morning as traditional pills wear off.

The biggest increase to my prescription was just over a year ago when I did some intensive physio to try and beat the CRPS (there's some good medical data to back this up), unfortunately it meant I need to for from 5mg of Buprenorphine to 20mg (the max dose) in the course of about three months. After I stopped the treatment the pain didn't really subside.

I switched to Fentanyl patches a few months ago as the Buprenorphine wasn't working. Initially for trial, but we decided to switch to them as there were very little side effects and these mean not needing anything for the breakout pain. The stronger meds seem to do very little for the day to day pain (pain becomes normal), but seem to be far more effective when the pain is bad.

Fentanyl is the first drug to scare me, the first thing I did when applying the patches was watch some of the material on Youtube (addiction & deaths) to give me a healthy respect for the drugs.
Another reason why private ownership won't make sense. You don't clean it, X Company does.
I truly do not get the hype around this.
Look at it this way: regardless of how dangerous you believe WiFi to be, there's a much, much greater chance that you'll die in a car accident on your way to work. Or an unrelated heart attack.

But I'll take you at your word.

Here's how you can calculate flux density caused by your router: http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/48092.

Then compare that calculation to the graph shown here for safety information: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/RFsafetyCommittee/...

Furthermore, the FCC limits router wattage to 1W. The IEEE says that you shouldn't worry about radiation below 7W. That's on the same page you linked above.

There are specific limits on this sort of radiation. If anything you've said were true, a lot of people would've gotten sued by now.

And myopic or not, true or false, I have more things to think about than WiFi radiation. Link me a peer-reviewed study or else stop fear-mongering.
AFAIK, Uber doesn't even allow to set location access to "while in use". It's either "always" or "never".
I don't think it matters. The economics of Uber are pretty grim: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...

Furthermore, if there are a bunch of self-driving car services, that service will be commoditized the same way cabs are. These ride-giving services will [and kind of already do] only compete on price.
EU Privacy and Communications Regulation Draft [pdf]
The key is in the hardware.

Yes, Uber may have a global precense, but that's from burning VC cash and they're not exactly successful in major markets like China. And for what? Uber is essentially a messaging app between users and drivers, and their users/drivers are not loyal.

Uber as a self-driving company would need to sell hardware to drivers to convert their vehicles into self-driving cars, and I don't think they'll have the bank to get that far, especially against larger companies with deeper pockets and existing hardware experience/partnerships.
This thing has been pretty useful, since the nearby Barnes & Noble cafe doesn't have any electrical outlets within reach. This really extends my ability to sit and work for long periods of time.

https://www.amazon.com/Energizer-XP18000-Universal-External-...
I'm marketing it by writing blog posts, usually long, definitive blog posts that spell out the details of solving problems as opposed to "Top 10 Ways to Wipe Your Ass" or whatever. From there, I get people to subscribe to my email list by offering a free guide as a lead magnet. Most of the sales I've made have been via my email list.
Can we expect a better sound quality, when compared with actual earpods?
Waymo will be the Android of the cars, that is, Google Technology on other's hardware.

Well decided Alphabet, very well decided!
Exactly. Search, Maps and now Android (with and without voice assistant) are basically methods to sell influence on our decisionmaking. When cars become the day to day search interface for drivers/riders, Google will be in a much weaker position for that.

Except if they somehow achieve a relationship with hardware companies as symbiotic as in Android smartphones. Just being a backend search provider would be a step back for Google, because that is pretty much a commodity transaction where gatekeepers can negotiate for a sizable slice of the pie (see Firefox).
Google, Cuba sign deal allowing fast access to company data
Here's a crazy business idea:

You know how a person nowadays can register for uber and drive people around?

In the future, maybe people will register their CAR (which can drive itself). So they sit at home, getting work done, while their car is off autonomously driving itself and picking people up. When you want it to come home, just call it home.
I spent my years struggling with Notes. See the second paragraph below, for what I'm told is some balance.

In good part, this consisted of problems and cruftiness with the UI, and Management's use of it for a blizzard of very verbose, fragmented, and therefore difficult and time-consuming to navigate documentation. E.g. what should have been one quarter or half page document -- at most -- ended up spread, sentence by sentence, checkbox by checkbox, around 30 - 50 Notes documents within an often overwhelming hierarchy of template documents only sparsely completed to alleviate the most annoying and insistent badgering of project managers and the like -- the only ones to really seem to have any oversight over the whole documentation package and to feel any ownership of same. (The rest of us? Hate, hate, hate... Not for the idea of documentation, but for the reality that could make it more difficult than the project itself.)

Eventually, I came across a description of Notes that commiserated with this state of things but also said, 'Hey, wait. You should understand that the technical design and underpinnings of Notes itself -- its data management -- was actually quite solid and innovative.

And... I guess I could see that, in terms of how it generally held up to the abuse of an entire, large corporation's daily use and abuse of it. And how it could work well, when somebody clue-full laid their hands on it.

I'm not in a position to speak to this, further. Except to say that there are a few documents out there -- that I skimmed, a long time ago -- that apparently paint a pretty good picture of this upside of Notes. Those in the know describe them as interesting and edifying.

P.S. If and as I recall, Kapor was also responsible for Lotus 1,2,3 , which was initially far ahead of Excel and had a perspective on data representation that took a long time to propagate to its competitors.
So far Trump has always said what he needed to say to accomplish his goals, not the other way round. I am sure any government funds that profit him directly or indirectly will keep flowing, but I don't think we have any reason to believe that he is motivated by the prospect of keeping jobs.
95% of cases when my headphones fall out is when I snag the cable.
As I already said above, I'm analogising; pointing out minor inconsistencies doesn't undermine the comparison. No two scenarios are ever identical. The post-IE6 history you're referring to is a bit moot: we have yet to see where Chrome will go.

Minor factual note: the Edge engine is open-source, so your arguments for studying Chrome's implementation source applies equally to Microsoft at this stage.

> IE is the ultimate evil to the internet

This is straying very quickly into hyperbole.

The debate about open-/closed-source somewhat misses the mark anyway. Opera (Presto) was always entirely closed-source and it did much more for the open web than most. The killer is market dominance - lack of diversity leads to bad things. And IE has long since lost its market crown.
Reminds me how quickly I forgot about Uber test fleet from not long ago.
> Both parts need to change. The "they aren't hurting anybody so leave them alone" people need to understand that they are hurting themselves and need to have their freedom of choice taken away.

One of the big functions of involuntary commitment to mental hospitals in pre-1950s America was for parents to put away their "troubled daughters" because of social behavior they did not approve of (promiscuity, friend circle, etc). You get glimpses of this in memoirs from the era (the most recent one I have read that comes to mind is Herbert Huncke's autobiography). This continues today for rich parents who send their children to be involuntarily committed to "residential centers," "boot camps," and certain rehab programs.

This is a slippery slope that social reformers, busybodies, religious fundamentalists, etc have used to label any behavior they do not approve of, but cannot convince legislators to make against the law, as "hurting yourself" and grounds for taking freedom away. You are already most of the way down the slope by advocating for locking away drug addicts. Don't forget that Nixon's administration ramped up the drug prohibition as a way to break the civil rights and anti-war movements: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/. Today a similar policy will just be used to target leftist collectives and human rights groups, anarchists, the groups that sprang out of the Occupy movement, left-wing hackers, etc.

Involuntary institutionalization starts as a way to help the mentally ill, progresses through to oppression of women, and ends up as a tool of political repression (as it did in the USSR, and currently still does in Belarus).
>> it became hard for Psychs to institutionalize people who need help.

> The prospect of a society in which any psychologist can,

You've mixed up psychologist and psychiatrist.

It's easy to find ways that psychiatrists can detain people against their will, and force them to undergo medical treatment against their will, that don't rely on a single doctor and that have strong protections against abuse.

Something like two doctors - one of which knows the patient, plus an approved MH professional who's role is to protect the legal rights of the patient, plus free advocacy during all stages of detention to protect the legal rights, with powers of a close relative to ask for the detained person to be released; with a default position that people have capacity to make decisions about themselves, and that any limitations of capacity are limited to a single domain (I might not be able to say what happens to my money, but you should not use that to assume my capacity chose my medication is limited); with a recognition from all involved that this is a significant interference with my human rights and that we only tolerate this because it's in my best interests.
A few questions after playing around with this for a bit:

After making a complicated selection, doing something else, I want to go back to that selection easily. Is there a selection history? A way to execute the last selection?

I tried running a shell command that waited on input and kak hung waiting for the command to finish. is there a way to kill the command? Or better, a way to interact with the command after its running?

I like it so far!