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Software Entrepreneurs: Stop looking for itches to scratch
As an SF cyclist, that's not entirely true. Most commutes in the city end up in SOMA, the Financial District, or the Mission, and require little if any climbing. On the way home, even going to areas like the Haight have paths such as the Wiggle that aren't particularly steep and can be done sweat-free.

Obviously some people live and work in areas where a sweaty climb is unavoidable, but far fewer than you seem to imply. And it helps a lot that it's virtually never hot here.

Having moved from Georgia, it doesn't matter if the route is flat when it's 95 and nearly 100% humidity. That's way more relevant to sweat than the SF hills are.
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> battery life still doesn't come close

Сlose to what?

FYI https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2017... Among other things pay attention to the weight - 1.144 kg and don't forget ThinkPad's still have the best keyboard ever.

A recent ultrabook selecting topic https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/66ad57/why_i_went...
The parent comment used the phrase mind reading. In the book it wasn't technically mind reading but picking up on body language and stuff. But to such an insane level it might as well be mind reading. Also they could literally mind control people through their voice. And at one point they drink a potion that lets them communicate telepathically and some other crazy stuff. Not to mention Paul's future seeing ability.
@shykes - so im one of the lonely few that love Docker Swarmkit (not Swarm - cos, that would be too confusing right !). I have spent a lot of time in the Kubernetes ecosystem (including several SIG) and value the batteries-included setup that Docker Swarm brings.

More recently, I was part of a discussion where Kubernetes has decided to roll its own logging infrastructure, while leaving important parts like log rotation still undecided.... driving me even closer to the Docker ecosystem.

However, it seems that Swarmkit is a big casualty of the whole CE/EE (and now Moby) split. Docker EE (https://www.docker.com/enterprise-edition) still does not mention Swarmkit anywhere. In fact, there is NO top-level page on Docker's own site that actually mentions Swarmkit [1] and even Docker "Swarm-mode" is part of some second level documentation and help pages.

It makes me really worried about how you are seeing Swarm-mode/Swarmkit as part of the long term future of Docker Inc. You guys really dont talk about it - not even on twitter.

I'm assuming this is your handle as well (https://twitter.com/dockerswarm), which has not seen a tweet since Jan 2017. However, you guys do tweet a lot about "Docker Datacenter".

What's going on ?

[1] https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1...
What if you just don't click on any links in email? Particularly if they are really important sites. Just accomplish the proposed task another way. For example, if you get an email from Paypal, stating that you need to update a credit card or something, don't click their link, instead open a browser and enter "https://www.paypal.com" yourself, and go into your account information and look for your saved payment methods.

edit: typos
The idea of using Python for high performance numerical work is daft. The whole scientific Python thing revolves around the fact that Python is an excellent low boilerplate research and prototyping language with possible production uses where performance isn't critical. Unfortunately this lead to a lot of software in this area being developed for it. You wouldn't be doing performance critical production stuff with R or Matlab? I'm afraid that for serious numbers crunching nothing can truly replace compiled, statically typed languages and additionally you can't rely on GPGPU abstractions without fully understanding the underlying mechanisms and I'm pretty sure that the same is true for NumPy. Your problem are your expectations.
I run uBlock Origin, so when I see an ad it tends to really stand out (like on the site this article is on, which has an ad that doesn't get blocked currently).

That screenshot is pretty shocking. That's an insane amount of pixel space dedicated to the ads, then the Google featured snippet and finally the actual search.
I almost asked a question like this last week with no interest in a startup. I find because of the level of expertise on HN that a topic of this sort helps round out my overall knowledge of what is going on in some of these industries etc. I am not even a programmer but I find very useful actionable information in such threads. Just my 2 cents.
The dumbing down of Chrome is seriously driving me away. There used to be a ton of power-user-friendly options easily available. Now they're all hidden in favor of simplicity.

My brother's been recommending Opera for a long time. I think it's time I listened to him and gave it a try.
I agree, reverse engineering some of this stuff is hard. I had been studying economics & systems design and put lots of interacting feedback loops into SRE so it's sometimes hard to tease out the individual effects. I've put some notes up here for anyone who wants to clone it http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE-Desi...

For a quick “where are they now”:

- Barren Realms Elite --> Mehul (my brother) moved from BBS games to web games, with Earth 2025 and then Utopia, and then a web portal Swirve.com, and then he got out of the games business and ran a coffee shop, Dominican Joe in downtown Austin (but it was just sold)
- Legend of the Red Dragon --> Seth Robinson (who I finally met this year) moved on to PC games, then mobile games, and now runs a successful MMO called Growtopia (but it was just sold) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Technologies
- Solar Realms Elite --> I got out of the BBS door world and went to grad school, interested in teaching. I now write interactive tutorials at redblobgames.com, starting with game development but I want to expand into math and computer science. SRE's wikipedia page got wiped by the deletionists http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/922 but was preserved by http://breakintochat.com/
It looks sort of retro 90s on the iMac but I grew frustrated with the Mail.app in Yosemite and switched to TB, which works flawlessly. The Mail.app in Snow Lion was very reliable.
I've practiced this for as long as I can recall - not because I was told to, but because I found recalling something and working with it in an appropriate mental context worked to cement seemingly limitless amounts of information in my mind.

I'm not convinced that an app or any external crutch is required - one simply needs to get in the habit of reflecting on new information, and sporadically testing retention. The first step for me to start the loop is to subvocalise (or vocalise if I'm in private) the pertinent info several times after receipt, which beds the memory of learning something in, and the context, if not the fullness of the information itself. It's enough - it's a hook to trigger recall of the full information - sits in episodic memory as "a thing I said or did", rather than passive "this happened/I heard this" information, and therefore surfaces the entry point easily. If an entertaining association rises at that point, I store that too, as it acts as a mnemonic.

I do find myself sometimes doing this with useless information, however, and end up memorising pretty much every bit of information I only intended to retain for 30 seconds (e.g. a chunk of foreign text, ticket numbers, seating plans) - and find myself doing habitual recall on them until they cement like everything else.

One thing that the article doesn't touch on but I think is important is sleep - I find if I recall immediately before nodding off the information sticks far more firmly, and I resultantly wake up in the middle of the night with fresh insights. Conversely, when I don't get enough sleep for a prolonged period, my recall definitely gets substantially worse - I find I both can't remember things and if I do, they're distorted, or I don't trust the information.
Agreed. My big problem with the H1B isn't that increases immigration, but that it does this in a very narrow way that distorts markets.

For instance, suppose that land can be used to grow either lemons or avocados. Avocados suddenly become very popular and fetch a high price. Land that was formerly used to grow lemons is now used to grow avocados. So the price of a lemon now reflects the opportunity cost of not growing an avocado.

Because people can no longer get lemons at the price they used to pay, or at a 50% markup, they claim there is a "shortage" of lemons. They create an immigration system where someone is allowed to come into the US and farm land - on the condition that they grow lemons. The immigrant is not allowed to grow avocados, nor is the immigrant allowed to do something other than farming. You're here to grow lemons buddy, because there's a shortage of lemons. Ok, fine, grow lemons for 7 years, and we'll give you freedom, but only after you've made a massive investment in setting up a lemon operation and costs of changing would be high.

What this does is ensure that absolutely nobody with the freedom to decide what to grow will ever grow lemons. It will also ensure that the price of lemons will never reflect the opportunity cost, so the market signals that would bring prices back into equilibrium, encouraging people who can choose to grow avocados instead will now be suppressed.

This is why a lot of people have no problem with immigration, but are opposed to "employer sponsored" (corporate controlled) immigration designed to fill specific shortages. What these programs end up doing is creating market distortions that make long term problems even worse, all while limiting personal freedom.

It's not that hard to solve, just say that immigrants are free to study what they wish and work in what fields they wish. Employers don't get a say in this. If they aren't offering pay and work conditions strong enough to draw immigrants into programming, any more than for people born here, fine. I see absolutely no reason let corporations tell immigrants they have to be programmers rather than real estate agents, lawyers, nurses, drywall installers, or sandwich shop owners, just so employers can get to hire programmers at salaries that aren't good enough to draw people with freedom into the field.
Well you see a 3D one has more Ds in it, so more Ds = more better?

/s

Totally not my field at all, was just daydreaming a bit. Thanks for the info.
Yea, its certainly still al ong time, but I wonder why anyone feels the need to try and beat a monmopoly when they are at their best? I don't think the wider consequences of eagerly busting monopolies will be positive.
Unstoppable Microsoft was disrupted mostly by the rise of mobile phones. As long as PCs were the main device, they were the unstoppable monopoly (with Apple capturing an extremely lucrative but rather small 10% or so Market segment and nothing else even registering).

They woke up one day and realized people now consume media through their phone; but they were already unseated at that point (their phone ecosystem, due to tie ins into the Windows system, could not compete in the brand new iOS/android/blackberry world of the time; and shortly after, neither could blackberry)

I believe zuckerberg is branching into anything he thinks might at some point be "the next thing", including VR, because of how Microsoft missed the train.

It seems Microsoft believed they can always throw enough money while playing the long game and get a dominant position (as happened with internet/ie, Xbox, etc) - but it seems this strategy has failed miserably with mobile, tablets and may eventually cost them a lot more dominance.
Or, you can use your robots.txt file and disallow Googlebot from crawling your site.
I'm going to disagree with some of my fellow commenters and say Microsoft's position was stronger, and indeed, may still be stronger even now. Facebook lives by the social network and dies by the social network; it is both fueled by, and vulnerable to, more powerful network effects than Microsoft ever was. They have an opportunity to go MySpace in a way that Microsoft never did. Microsoft's monopoly wasn't broken from the outside by people muscling in on its turf, Microsoft was broken by failing to keep up with trends and missing out on mobile until it was way too late. Even now, Microsoft is a huge going concern making tons of money, and remains quite virile when it wants to be; witness how even after years of ignoring the "cloud office suite" space that Office 365 is pretty casually demolishing all the in-hindsight-feeble competition, which includes Google. I'd say Facebook has a much greater chance to be all but gone in five years. I am not predicting that will happen, just saying I'd say the chances are greater than Microsoft being all but gone in five years.

And I'd also suggest the behavior of Facebook shows this to be their own assessment as well. I'd suggest that the headline is wrong; Facebook beats every rival because anyone who becomes a rival they simply buy; this effect is more important than coopting features because it puts a ceiling on their competition. The feature cooption is more about minimizing the number of companies they may have to buy.
>This affects the current version of Chrome browser, which is version 57.0.2987 and the current version of Firefox, which is version 52.0.2.

Firefox 52.0.2 & linux here, and the "L" in the URL looks like a capital i with serifs - quite noticeable. Perhaps different on windows/osx though.
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There are many laptops on the market that have MBP-equivalent battery life. Trackpad is another matter, but for example Thinkpad's have a better keyboard.
I am using `jk` to switch to normal mode, <space>H/J/K/L to move around. Didn't have any problem with that.
> That's ultimately who outrage should be directed at, the police. Why did they come in the first place? Had a crime been committed? Passenger safety endangered? Police were summoned by a "private" company. They were informed that corporate policy required them to drag a passenger of the plane. They said OK, I guess that's our job.

If you frame it that way, then it does sound outrageous. This:

> They were informed that corporate policy required them to drag a passenger of the plane. They said OK, I guess that's our job.

makes it sound like the police think it is their job to enforce corporate policy.

But is that accurate? The airline owns the plane. They have the legal right to decided who is and who is not allowed on the plane. They allowed that particular passenger onto the plane, and then later they revoked that permission. When he refuses to leave at that point, doesn't he become a trespasser?

From the police point of view how is this any different from any other situation where someone is on private property without permission and refuses to leave? In most countries, I believe, removing trespassers is one of the normal functions of the police. Generally, in civilized countries, we want the police to do that rather than having the owner try to force the trespasser out themselves.
I would like to chat for sure. I ran across Anki a few months ago, and thought about all the potentially incredible interactions between spaced repetition and Natural Language Processing techniques.

For a super basic idea, imagine a Chrome plugin that creates an Anki deck out of a Wikipedia article at the click of a button? (Maybe not the most useful application, but pretty neat and a great place for a simple proof of concept.)

And what if you took that a step farther and made an app that does the same thing with text extracted from an image set. So you could take pictures of a textbook page or pages and have it do the same thing with those.

Of course, there are many practical challenges to developing the NLP process in a way that it can identify the most salient parts of a text and capture flash-card-friendly phrases or factual statements, but I think the challenges could be overcome. And it would be an amazing feat to capture the benefits of spaced repetition without the upfront cost of manual deck creation.
It's also important to check out other debugging tools for Python. If you're relying on the build in debugger tools, it's a pretty miserable experience. I'm a big fan of pudb [0] that gives a much better experience.

[0] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pudb
Yeah, in the 90s Microsoft was basically this unstoppable juggernaut that ruled the Desktop with an iron fist. The main cause of their decline was that a new market appeared which they failed to capture - namely, the mobile market (as well as the server market that became dominated by Linux). For Facebook to suffer a similar fate, I would think some new type of market would need to appear that Facebook fails to capitalize on - but it's hard to think of an analogous "new market" that could appear that would fundamentally displace a social network in the way that mobile displaced/disrupted Desktop. Maybe VR? (Although Facebook is trying to get into that as well...)

Still, from my perspective, Microsoft in the 90s seemed as unstoppable and ubiquitous as Facebook does today - actually, it seemed more unstoppable than Facebook, because back then we weren't yet used to the possibility of scrappy startups turning into billion dollar companies overnight.
Microsoft didn't lost their dominating position. They took a hill, made themselves strong there and never lost it.

It's just that the rest of us moved to other places and leave them defending their hill.
This is a bad take. At least pretend to look at their financials if you're going to make this argument. I'll help:

Facebook has $30 billion in cash and essentially no debt. The equity value of $30 billion in cash is.. $30 billion. So it's clear that they're worth at least $30 billion. On top of that they're generating ~$4 billion / quarter in net income. The equity value of net income is roughly Net income x (1 - Tax Rate), so call it $3 billion/quarter. Discount as you'd like for them to be worthless someday, but in the mean time they have a ton of cash and are printing a ton of cash.

I bet if you run the numbers and assuming a decent growth rate, you'll come to a total market cap of ~$420 billion. Efficient markets and all that..
Facebook Work was marketed as the best thing since sliced bread but I yet to see it making any waves for example.
>I feel that Google's position is stronger still.

I'm not sure there's much in history to compare to Google. Their individual market share in search, browsers, ad networks, phones, and email is impressive. But more interesting is the synergy between them.

It scares me a bit how much we rely on them to not abuse that power. Not just in a consumer sense either. Think of some of the slimy things that were done over at Uber for example, like the "God View" app, tracking journalists, etc. If Google wanted to, there's any number of awful things they could do.
I'll throw my 2 cents in here for 2Do, which is basically a power user todo app with multiple sync options including iCloud, Dropbox, etc. Give it a shot!
Facebook also aggressively acquires competing brands that target a different/younger demographic, like Instagram.
Why Firefox? Because not everybody is a web designer, silly
On what grounds? Simply being a monopoly isn't grounds for anti-trust action. It requires some sort of anti-competitive behavior.

Now, one could posit an argument to the effect that monopolies in areas that are highly subject to network effects are inherently anti-competitive. But AFAIK that would be a rather novel argument and it's hard to say what the remedy would even be.
"I would kill for an easy to use tool like xcodes Time Profiler" -- maybe this(https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/debugging-and-diagnostics/) can help.
"I really miss c++ (or even better swift)." -- maybe this(http://mypy-lang.org/) can help.
I am just trying to help and have no intention of going into static vs dynamic typing but if you want to do data science stuff in a statically typed language, you should have a look at F# and its type providers(http://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/). I personally don't agree with a few of your criticisms of python, but you needed to rant so I'll just ignore them :)
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Thunderbird, like Firefox, can be themed, and many are available. Well, until they finish killing XUL... what an awful decision. Point being that it's a mail client for power users, and generally requires a little customization.
What is it written in now? If I remember correctly it's mostly JS with a few native extensions in the chrome.
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Amusingly, Facebook seems to block this link from being posted publicly (The site reports "There was a problem updating your status. Please try again in a few minutes" - private messages work fine however).

I wonder what Facebook's heuristic there is, since they don't seem to block all punycode URLs. Maybe something about character distribution (all latin-like characters -> probably phishing)?

Edit: Actually, it might not be a block at all. I think it might just be a bug in Facebook's URL parser, since when pasted into messages the automatic hyperlink is set to http://invalid.invalid.
Hackpad (YC W12) is shutting down
Yes, they may not be in the spirit of the web. But if you have ever had a featured snippet (or earned one), you'll know that they actually bring a lot more traffic to your site.

They hardly take away traffic from sites, as people are saying. That's just flat-out wrong.
There's also toolkits like React-Virtualized: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized .