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Estsy is doomed because of this reason you stated. I call it '(downard) inflation of expectations'.

And there is a VERY GOOD information what happens with all this great 'do not eveil', do not harm, only for the consumer' startups the moment they have investors:

“The company’s historical pattern of ill-advised spending has completely obfuscated the extremely attractive underlying marketplace business model,” said by external activist investor in addition to: “We are fully prepared to take any actions we believe are necessary to protect the best interests of all Etsy shareholders.”
I have had 0 issues with it except some Audio stuttering due to DPS Latency issues.

I'm getting a replacement (Model Up actually, Dell did a 12% off offer) so we'll see how it is. I look forward to UHD Touch & Fingerprint Reader.
Yes. Recent (this administration) policies allow for demanding passwords etc. at the border. There was an incident where a NASA engineer lost control of sensitive data as a result https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/a-nas...

It's not paranoia. Welcome to 2017.

Edit: It's not like they're scanning every cell phone that enters the country... but they reserve the right to.
Besides the obvious "don't cross the border with work data", I found this recommendation much more interesting:

[ask] for someone to remove you from the Basecamp team for 1Password so you no longer have access to Basecamp logins and passwords.

Maybe we should temporarily suspend our employee's accounts too when they travel to the US.
Perhaps the pretending is what people are paying/looking for. I certainly see a lot of that kind of thing when surveying supermarket shelves.
I’ve been wanting a macropad for a while, but to be a really useful complement to the keyboard this would need a display. There appear to exist some OLED solutions, but iirc they were very pricey and probably didn’t support Linux very well.

Unfortunately nobody makes what might be a cheap display-enabled solution, namely a macropad with a regular, large LCD character display matrix, with buttons arranged on the side to each line, like a quickdial.

This is probably not super hard to realize with Arduino (though I would be unsure which interface to use; possibly serial over USB? Then implement an evdev driver?). Getting it nicely looking and sturdy would be much harder, though. So if anyone is going to market something like this let me know. ;)
US Customs asserts the right to search (and if necessary, force you to unlock) any electronic device you bring with you, and to make copies of data found on those devices. A non-citizen who refuses search can be detained and/or denied entry to the US.

Examples:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/11/30...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/a-nas...
I actually looked into this but it gets hideously expensive! Such a cool idea though
"The key is to back up what you say with actions."

It sounds like you're describing someone who over-promises and under-delivers. Or manipulates.

The article is talking about someone who shifts social interaction styles depending on who they're talking to.

There might be some reason to bucket those things together because they both fall under the umbrella of being a people pleaser. But they're separable aspects of interaction.

In my own experience, people don't actually want other people to be authentic. They want people to simultaneously be a personality type they already like (or, in work environments, expect), and exude an aura of authenticity. I've acted exactly what comes naturally to me in the past, and after hearing through the grapevine what people thought of me realized I can never be myself at work.

Over the course of one meeting, I came across as a "turbo-autist" to one person, and a "brogrammer douche" to someone from a different team. Now I give people what they want, not what they say they want, and certainly never myself. I hate it, but it's the only successful work social strategy I've found for stuck-up offices. At least until I locate the other easygoing people.

"Tech" has become very tightly wound about acceptable personality types and professionalism. My roommate works a less-glamorous job in a industry that isn't full of itself. Unsurprisingly, they're much chiller people. We go to the bar with way more of his coworkers than mine.
The "original" Coca-Cola had caffeine as well - it's in the cola nut, which is where the "cola" part of the name comes from.
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>And finally, the last purchase I made with bitcoins on steam took more than 12 hours to get validated. I used the standard bitcoin fee of the bitcoin-qt client but it seems to be far from enough nowadays.

So you know what the problem is, but you pretend that it's not your problem. If you use any modern bitcoin wallet, android or not, it'll automatically append a reasonable fee, and validate in about 2 seconds.
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Yeah, 100% this. For signatures, it's also (in a lot of cases) because people see the signature backlink as a 'reward' for using the community. Like "if I post content on a regular basis, you'll let me link back to my own site/social media presence in my signature".

This itself causes some issues (like with spammers joining simply for the 'SEO' benefits), but it's enough of a pattern that changing it will often kill a forum dead, especially in the webmaster/tech/marketing field.

Other things that encourage members (but that are often seen as clutter) include reputation systems (like the green bars vBulletin had), forum cash (points given for posts and other actions), fictional shop items (purchased with said forum cash), etc. Again, a lot of people on these forums rather like said systems and often find them useful, even if to an outsider that might be seen as overwhelming.
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~3.6% of total tax revenue is nothing to scoff at.
any reason for extra security check, are you white man?
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the problem lies with payday loan itself not with the advertisement, though. If we know that payday loans are harmful for society, why not to outlaw them right away, rather than dance around it being advertised.
I think this is the trouble with being an entrepreneur. You are crazy right up until the moment you are proved right. At which point, the idea is ‘obvious to everyone’.

Of course, most ideas fail. Most entrepreneurs are just proved crazy.

It is a lonely existence where even other entrepreneurs are unsupportive.

These guys have a nice PR piece on the BBC. That will give them a big temporary boost in traffic. Maybe not so crazy?
Yes, we can only hope.
For the time being we should advise not using this as-is.
> You only need to give up passwords and such if you are unlucky.

Very comforting, isn't it? Especially when this is said about a legal process.
I've been looking for something like this for ages.

It's possible to block ports, PIDs and Users from accessing the network using iptables but it's not possible (easily) to restrict access by process name.

The only issue I have is that is runs on a single core using 100%, CPU temp ramps up to 82'c.
Luck and skin melanin content have an interesting inverse relationship when it comes to these things...
I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I'm Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It's sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with "for the freedom".
Exactly. The Basecamp instructions are written on the assumption that not all of their employees will be "lucky" all of the time (where "lucky" means "treated with what in most countries would be considered a bare minimum of respect").
I know we would only have anecdotal evidence here, but I'd like to hear from other HackerNews readers. My guess is that based on where you're from and how you look, your experience with the CBP can vary wildly.

Edit: s/TSA/CBP.
Edit: And forget about going to the doctor, too. I can't wait for an employee to go to the doctor for a medical emergency, miss an alert, get fired, and then launch a spectacular lawsuit.

Technically there is some merit in what you say. Taking the overall manual in context, I guess that notifying your team that you have to go for a medical emergency, or doing so after the fact, will make it a non-issue.
>It's hard to believe there wasn't a credible little snitch like application for Linux yet.

Why? That's the case for most major proprietary UI apps -- open source versions are usually subpar in several ways (not because of some inherent issue with open source as a license, but because of time constraints, unglamorous work, not enough UX/UI volunteers, no top/down vision, etc). Where they do get the upper hand is usually in offering more configurability.

>Even more why Objective Development themselves did not try to port their very successful product to other platforms.

For Windows it might make sense, but which other platforms would they port to? Linux desktop users are few and far between (1/5 to 1/10 of Mac users), and there's not much of a paid software market.
Freedom of speech means freedom from the government interfering in what you have to say (eg: Snowden).

Letting people say whatever they want on the Internet does result in bullies, trolls, extremists and other horrible people talking louder than more thoughtful speech, and in the end it silences reasonable people.

There is no law that forces me as an individual to respect what you say or to not try to silence you.

Censorship can only be done by the government, not by individuals; no one should trust the unfair bully who cries unfairness at being silenced.

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It's the silencing of obnoxious voices
that allows thoughtful voices to be heard.
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Given the importance of zero in mathematics to simplify a lot of things (see Roman numerals), my intuition is that affine types are much more flexible without losing the nice properties of linear types?
That's why I would like to see a hybrid of a electric van and Uber as a new city bus. The bus should have 6 doors and separated passenger space. So each passenger would have its own private space. Travel time should be much shorter due to using fast lanes and low number of bus stops. During rush hours the bus should take 5 passengers (6 with self-driving technology). Because of small size it should economic enough to use the bus only for one passenger, even in suburbs. Uber like software should be used for costs optimization, for example you could wait for the bus in front of your house or walk 500 meters closer to the main road to save $5. All needed technology already exists. No need to dig tunnels.

PS. In Central and Northern Europe bikes are only useful for 4 months a year.

PS2. I don't want to discuss how many days per year someone can ride an e-bike to work. Some sort of public / car transport is and will be needed. There is no much innovation in public bus transport therefore I described the idea about electric van / Uber hybrid.
I don't think most people who oppose these policies do so because they expect themselves to suffer from them. It's quite obvious that the US isn't going to detain 100% of travellers for hours, if only because it would be prohibitively expensive.

I'd say the opposition is fuelled by (a) an aversion to be in a situation where you have basically no rights, as opposed to the uniformed goons on the other side, (b) the fear that such policies are used to target others, such as journalists, thus having an impact on me even without being applied to me, and (c) solidarity with people who may be at a higher risk for reasons such as their ethnicity, political opinion etc.

There are other ways these policies have a chilling effect without being applied wholesale. I have, on previous flights, chosen the halal food option just for kicks (and gotten bewildered looks when I chose a red wine for dinner). I wouldn't do so flying to the US these days. That may seem inconsequential, but I can easily see someone not sharing that anti-war article on Twitter these days, at which point the possible consequences have become quite real.
Good that you didnt visit their cheese department...

Buy hey, they have 200 different types of energy bars in medium size shops ;)
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I've never seen a successful community run on top of Discourse either. However, that's because:

1. The people who like internet forums and more traditional communities don't seem to like it very much, and prefer sites using traditional scripts like phpBB or vBulletin or XenForo.

2. Those who find forums outdated find Discourse as or even more confusing than traditional forum scripts and don't really see the point in it.

So the succesful forums opening at the moment pick something else, because that's what their userbase wants. The ones trying to use Discourse for something new struggle because the software is offputting for their members and doesn't attract the new audience Jeff Atwood thinks it will. And the sites that switch to Discourse usually realise only too late that A: their forum problems are often down to their management and the state of society rather than the software and B: that their regulars detest the new design.

Discourse just doesn't seem to appeal to pretty much anyone.
I agree that it's not a good idea to bet the farm. However, I don't think any government entity stepping in to "protect these people against themselves" is going to solve the problem. Sometimes friendly advice is all one can offer and the rest is up to the man in the arena.
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I can't see it being that much of a problem for the providers, as long as running short-term machines isn't already an issue. You always run the risk that the performance of the machine will degrade over time as the host fills up anyway.
extruding glass as in the MIT project is very different then from printing material that is then thrown into an oven. the resulting piece has really different properties I imgagine
maybe just stop traveling to US would be easier and cheaper solution, why one need to be physically present anywhere in 2017?

i find it odd, i can understand it for my father that when some of his agricultural company partners has training, people from neighboring countries must travel there for hours to stay there for few hours and go back, but IT company in 2017?

reminds me of Huawei which is still organizing teleconferences (!) for trainings, because why not let people call across half planet in horrible quality instead of providing cheap full HD video stream work live chat, it's not like there are hundreds of us, max 100 people present
I thought hyper was supposed to be the terminal for the 21st century, It looks like another one of
"why not make a terminal that takes up hundreds of MB of ram because we have plenty."
FYI: TSA and CBP are not the same. You first interact with CBP when you enter the US, and then you interact with TSA for security while flying within the US.
Better (automated) driving could actually reduce wear too, especially with some regenerative braking in the mix.
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Is it me or did that making-of explain almost nothing about the video? I don't want to know how they matched a constant-speed train to the beat, that's the easy part, I want to see how they made all that scenery. Was it CGI? Was it real?
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Yes, many mouses are doing that, you just have to check with the manufacturer (I had A4Tech and Bloody mouses having this feature). Unfortunately this is not the case for all mouses of one company so while Logitech G600 have this, Logitech M705 doesn't. I found out that mostly gaming oriented mouses have that feature. As for my mouse I have shortcuts for different systems (Linux, MacOS, Windows) set on each layer. Companion utility is needed only for initial setup.
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Very cool. Signed up for the crowdfunding update. How are you designing, sourcing, manufacturing your hardware (PCB, buttons, boxes)? What about the software?

We should compare notes. I am working on geting my hardware/software project[1] ready to launch.

[1] www.riffpod.io
correct? We are in the correct one.. you cuck!
Why, though. I don't get it.
Anthropologie makes a ton of cash from it.
surprised because it was better or worse than expected?
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Nothing, he was just selected (based on who knows what criteria, they don't need warrants) to be scanned. Whether or not they actually cared about the sensitive data on the device, he still lost control of it long enough for it to be copied or compromised.
Even most IT companies in 2017 still don't allow for home office, and the few that allow it, do a very timid "only in exceptional cases".

Meanwhile working for enterprise consulting companies, all of which have offshore teams, means remote work is a daily activity.

Funny enough some customers are exactly those companies that forbid home office to their own employees.
This only reinforces my intention to postpone my first visit to the US until after this presidency and its associated madness have ended.

EDIT: at least until after this presidency.
I pity them; gone are the days when someone could pitch "a social network for X" and an investor would raise and yell "shutup and take my money".

These days, whenever I go to a pitch contest and some poor guy starts with the social blah blah, the jury starts yawning and the participant is quickly dismissed: no one really could explain the business model behind his social network, besides mentioning ads.

So, does anyone know how this sports social network is going to earn money?
You closed the page immediately after learning that it has been built with Electron? Thanks for letting us know. The ideas are nice indeed, but stating that doesn't make your comment add anything to the (potential) discussion.

Electron is a memory-hog and I see how the trade-offs it does wouldn't suit an application which is likely to keep running in the background with multiple instances, and stating that would be much more constructive IMHO.

Let's hope author/poster doesn't close the HN tab immediately after seeing your comment :)
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Just don't travel there.

I'm sure I'd be fine: I've been fine a dozen times before. That was before they decided that it was OK to demand passwords and so on. Maybe now it would be worse. Or maybe my skin colour lets me off the hook.

Regardless, I'd rather just not waste jet fuel on flying to a place that treats anyone this way.

Your phone/tablet/laptop is, for better or worse, a gateway to your entire life. It contains your photos, bank account credentials, messages between friends, messages between you and your wife, photos between you and your wife…

Random border thugs absolutely should not have the right to rummage through it in another room.

There are plenty of ways to do meetings remotely. There are plenty of places in the world you can travel to for work meetups that aren't the US.

Just don't travel there.
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Could be Swedish too, that's very close to an idiomatic expression in Swedish: "there is no bad weather, only bad clothes" ("det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder", it even rhymes in Swedish).
Electron is the new devil?
Because the costumer wants some of the developers on site to see that they are actually working on his problems.
Way more than that. A large portion of the Fulfilled By Amazon program is imports like this. If the subreddit is representative, nearly all of FBA is AliBaba imports.
> They are cheaper for sone things

Cheaper than what, though? High street stores? sure. Without commenting on your specific example, the point is that much of the "hand made" stuff is just purchased from AliExpress and sold on with a markup, so it would have been cheaper for you to have bought it from AliExpress
> It seems like you run on luck mostly. You only need to give up passwords and such if you are unlucky.

How on earth does that make it OK?
Frankly, I find the thought of having to give my passwords away to be baffling to say the least. No chance I will ever visit the US under these conditions, because I tend to dislike totalitarian countries.
> the thing that has to be understood, IMO, is that everyone will say ...

> ... a complete and utter lie

I'd say that's an overly broad generalization, if it wasn' for "IMO" and the following

> People identify their ideas with themselves

Which is an obvious self-reference. I would on occasion say "you" to mean "one", but actually mean "me" in an hypothetical fashion.

But then comes the offensive attack:

> Despite the lies they tell themselves so they can feel noble and open-minded, people DO NOT want to be challenged. They want their egos stroked.

This is an informal accusation that would upset people because its unfounded. See, I can write an informal accusation all the same, but I don't expect you to like it. I can't really write a formal argument about it, because I lack training in formal rhethorics.
I never said otherwise, just responding to a question about Google specifically.
Yes, it feels strange but me and my girlfriend have decided it is not worth it to try to go to america on holidaysfor now because of all these difficulties.
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SMS is still paid in many countries of Europe and even more across world, so unlimited sms are still exception, not rule
Very nice. It's the best-looking terminal I've used, and I do like to use software that works but also looks good.

However, is considerably slower than iTerm2, which may or may not be a problem, and might be solved in future versions.

The deal breaker for me to use this version is that tab reordering doesn't work (doesn't work in Hyper, either).

It would be nice to be able to change the font size.

The real question I have is: why must we use Electron to create good-looking software? Can't iTerm2's UI be improved and be made to look like Back Screen or Hyper?
Only rational explanation: the current POTUS is a closet ecologist, decided to use scare tactics to reduce needless CO2 waste. (unlikely, but still...)
Seems like the polar opposite of the other recent terminal emulator project to gain my attention Alacritty
This has nothing to do with Trump, it was going on during the Obama era - and probably Bush and before (but I'm not sure) - but it was never a problem until now. Stop spreading FUD.
The linked to page only shows C and not C++.
What's truly fascinating is all of these innovative products made in Asia which aren't officially marketed in the West (thus allowing people to market it in smalltime ways, like Kickstarter). If you go to the right parts of Asia now you will see a wild array of amazing, futuristic products that you can't find anywhere in the US.
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This started long before Trump