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> who are these people who have hundreds and thousands of tabs open,

I'm one! I'm a happy software/systems/knowledge engineer.

> and how can we get them the help they need?

Thanks for asking! Here is my idea:

Make an even better solution! What I need:

An effortless[0] way to research big topics. This includes

- multi-path discovery (currently solved by ctrl-clicking to open links that looks useful or interesting in a sub-tab-tree while continuing to read the piece I'm already reading.)

- possibility to bookmark stuff I work on effortlessy and with cross-device sync. I currently use pinboard which is great. I'm not even fully utilizing it (.tags for instance is a part I'm sure I'm not utilizing as much as I should.)

My current setup has a few weaknesses, e.g.:

- I want a way to stash away everything down to the position of the windows (no, I actually don't think I need that, but I really would like: the current windows, the current tabs, nested the way they are etc etc). Why? In case I want to switch to another task (e.g. urgent request).

- I want an even better "OneNote" that integrates effortlessly with FF (or whatever you create to replace it).

- A tool to automatically transcribe booooring videos or at least extract the juicy few seconds that I need :-P

Feel free to suggest more great ideas here.

[0]: Yep, if you want a chance to replace my exiting system effortless is your goal.
Do you know if this talk will be recorded? I would love to watch but it is a bit far from NYC :)
Cool website. Domain in Columbia TLD. No examples. No street address. No identity info in SSL cert. Anonymous domain registration. Very little info in Crunchbase.[1] Not in Dun and Bradstreet.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/d-id#/entity
>The only people who care about the life of this product are those who invested in buying and learning how to use it.

And the ones that have content currently deployed on the platform.
A few of my clients still have sites in Flash that I wrote for them in the early 2000s.
Every year I try to convince them that they need to switch, but they can't justify the cost.
I've been to most countries in Europe, but I have only seen large swaths of land fenced off in the UK. So freedom to roam must be working well enough at least somewhere. There are a few legitimate reasons to have fences e.g. to along highways to keep out animals, but there is no reason why there couldn't be a gate every few hundred meters.
I've considered multiple times writing an importer/exporter against their API so that I can use Gramps[1] to manage the rest of it.

[1]: https://gramps-project.org/introduction-WP/
honest question, when would you query several tables without joining them somewhere?

you can do that on postgres as well btw, my first idea would be to create a function [1] and just throw the rows together. still can't imagine a usecase for that though, i'd always want to get them separately if they're unrelated.

you're correct on the GUI side however. Everything i've tried is a buggy mess. i've actually mostly given up on that front and just went with pgcli [2]. its pretty good for ad hoc queries. But it doesn't really help if you're trying to write a function. Its just nice for selects with lots of joins or nested selects.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createfunctio...
[2] https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli
The Road to UChat: Building Uber’s Internal Chat Solution
Didn't we just discuss this on the front page two days ago? Seems like a dupe/linkspam post to me...

Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823807

Original blog post: https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
I shared the article in my Facebook feed. It will reach at least a couple of friends that are habitual troll victims. I guess to your point, that probably won't stop them from being victims/easy bait. At least they'll read it, hopefully.
Sling Studio makes multi-camera video production so damn easy
I'm guessing a photo op? I mean, if they were using the systems they were building (or building replacements for) in that training exercise, there could be some value. It's hard to build something well if you've never been a user or worked closely with the user to gather feedback.
I dunno about you, but I clicked because of the sensational headline.
yes, i have developer edition installed for testing, but still use the release version as my main browser. it's just a couple weeks left to wait so i think i can hang on until then. =)
Some kind of conversion is needed to help hosts keep their flash content alive - visitors will ignore what is not accessible.
You really need a graph with a timeline / histogram or similar. See my previous comment which has more ideas. I hope someone builds this, but I know that the way to see it happen is to go do it.
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Hi sixdimensional, thank you for the insightful comment here. I've been researching this area, and I'd love to chat more with you, would you be open to that? My email is on my profile page, feel free to email me on that address and I'll follow up.
> I also think that the impact on American workers in this salary range from H1B is pretty low. Many companies with salaries in this range are always hiring provided you have the skills.

Actually most companies that you are referring to want tech salaries to decline. One of the best weapons against high tech salaries are H1B visas and offshoring.
Why not fund the welfare state with a 100% inheritance tax?
You basically have the same problem with high speed trains, or even ordinary trains. It's just that all of the "control" is entirely passive. If your drive and control systems can be made as reliable as the passive systems linking train cars, then that should meet the same level of safety. Also, have you been on the highway during rush hour? There's not that much buffer against a pileup, in a system much more prone to failure!
There was a time that was a great career path. However, you never can predict how well a technology will perform, especially if it's tied to a closed platform. I suppose this speaks to the power of open source.

Then again, Animate CC should allow you to use those skills for the various platforms it supports.
This is relevant to my interests being that I just got into this Arduino thing. Thank you
A strong component of what's perceived as traditional American subculture is broadly inflexible, even in the face of glaring evidence. You might be right, but then again, we've been surprised before by the persistence of this sort of cultural undertow, no?
Curious, how many tabs do you have open right now? Me:

17
Wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis...

Flash is one of the best workflows for animators ever. This is equivalent to Photoshop being EOL'd because Apple doesn't like the pictures you can make with it.
As far as I know TreeStyleTab will still not be compatiable and it getting resistance on enabling the API needed to make it work like it does today.

It will end up being a far cry from what we have today and more like the Ridiclous and unusable "SideTree" menus that are available in chrome.

No TreeStyle Tabs, no FF for me. that is non-optional. I will switch full time to vivalidi that has a less feature complete vertical tabs built in.

There are also many other Addons I use today that look like their are going to be discontinued post FF 57 for API or other reasons.
This has nothing to do with immigration policy. Our kids in the US are simply not studying STEM subjects, period. We are not keeping pace with the rest of the world. I'm currently taking lower division engineering requirements in a California community college, and perhaps 20% of my class are native born, English speaking American kids. There is just no respect for it whatsoever, in a culture where it's funny or cool to think math is stupid. We are completely finished as a society. What rises to takes it's place who knows, but there's no way a country can survive like this.
I assume they load a large buffer, adjusting bit rate to keep it full.

But I don't see the topical connection with throttling people to use a certain amount of data each 10s.
Someone here mentioned a great rule of thumb that addresses most of issues here: one team = one service.
Even admitting biological propensity, is that really a quality to aspire to at the level of a nation-state?
Is that how we should define and measure our "human-ness"?
Flash has always been crap on the Mac. Always. I was working with it around 2000-05 and the player was always like half as fast as a similarly specced Windows machine. Plus there were some wonderful Mac-only bugs in v5 of the editor that cropped up when you tried to edit files big enough to contain a whole cartoon. And by "wonderful" I mean "I lost a week of my life to editing a cartoon in five minute bursts of work, followed by having to reboot the entire system because Flash had crashed so hard it refused to run until I did that."
> but with 100 or so it would take me longer to find the tab then just searching it for in Google or history.

With FF when you start to type it intelligently suggests tabs you already have open.

Perfect for keyboard lovers like me :)
Profitability. IPOs for money-losers went out in the first dot-com boom.

The scale of the business has to be reasonably large. Market cap in at least 8 figures.
You're welcome to your opinion but I find it un-goddamned-American. This country was built on the ability to do risky things for a chance at a payout!
There is that "tree style tabs" for FF as mentioned in other comments. I too would like this, but for chrome, and working with horizontal tab bars.
> This wouldn't be necessary if we actually invested in our own citizens.

So much this - I know of this from my own life.

I got a state funded CS education for around 500$ a year (if my family had been poorer, they'd have paid me to study) - it was a good one, because I keep going back to my annotated Sedgewick.

Graduated with zero debt, with an open source project I was working on for years which meant that I spent the first few years of my work life knowing I could take risks (not that I did take too many).

In the Bay area now and seeing clearly the impact of an expensive education on people's choices - not everyone needs to be a college graduate, however putting an expensive price tag on it means that only people who are sure they can get a financial return on their education will take up that risk.

There is a chilling effect on women, who are expecting to be discriminated in the industry, driving them to other vocations where they don't expect to incur similar challenges with financial gains or professional advancements.

In fact, purely from a state investment point of view, CA is getting my tax dollars to spend while my college barely gets anything back from me.

I really wish my kids would get a similar springboard to start their life off without an albatross around their neck, but they are probably entering a system which is probably going to maximize immediate financial returns from them instead of expecting them to be late bloomers becoming productive over time.
You are exactly right. That was my entire point.

The definition of a shortage is "prices are to high".

My post was countering the dumb meme that I always see which is "there isn't a shortage of devs, companies just don't want to pay high salaries".
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At first, I started reading this, and thought it was like that lifelock service (that i used to see TV commercials for)...but then read "Our approach helps companies which handle images...to comply with privacy regulations...", and then understood. I think there is a good market for this...though for slow-moving enterprises and governments it might still be early days. But, hey, you guys will have first-mover advantage, so kudos to you!
They're all art, more or less. Most art isn't 'state of the art' and it's not obvious why that matters, unless you personally care about that. This person didn't seem to.

The existence of (lots of) 'starving artists' is pretty strong evidence that at least some people may ultimately benefit from art that doesn't turn a profit.

Some people definitely need to make art, whatever the cost to them personally. I'm one of them. (And I'm lucky that my art is really cheap to make.)
When was this? They've been trying to discourage people from using flash for years now.

https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-an...
As a kid, I grew up in a country with almost no advertising. Repeat after me: No ads in the streets, in the TV, in the radio, nowhere.

One day we found a magazine (from another country), which contained ads. Two people smoking cigarettes in a strangely alien world, some kind of jungle - or a safari, maybe.

This image was so strange in many ways: Why is it there in a magazine, that was about something completely different? Who does it speak to? What is this strange world depicted there? Why does it feel a so - unreal? And why do the people smile in the picture, even though it is unreal?

Image a day in your life without coming across an ad. Or a week. Or a year.

Take a breath and imagine what the world would feel like.

The need for advertising is deeply rooted in a society, that overproduces things and where a large part of your survival depends on your skill to sell. My deepest hope is that this world will be regarded just as strange as my kids eyes stopped before the strange picture of the two smokers.
Rather than blaming Adobe, I hope some of you will be inspired to go out and build the next vector animation format/authoring tool for the web.
> Your reasoning applies equally to airports.

That's not really in dispute.

> Congrats, you just "debunked" the airplane! (duh!)

If by “debunked the airplane” you mean “demonstrated the already widely-accepted fact that air travel only is effective with considerable attention to the surface transport connecting airports to the places people actually want to go to and from in the area serviced by the airport”, sure.
Blekko exited by selling to IBM. That was a pure technology buy; the public search engine was killed.
So you had support while you were able to do those things. Most of the people you were disparaging don't.
I don't understand why putting a web service in front of mysql and a key value store makes scaling easier. Would you mind explaining?
There are JPEG compression artefacts all over this page. Horrific.
Someone from Adobe once told me the main reason holding back open sourcing the player was licensing. Apparently the player consists of quite a bit of licensed technology that Adobe obviously couldn't open up, and some of these are so core to the player that refactoring it wouldn't really be feasible or not really worth doing. Rewriting it to not use these technologies or use them in such a way that they could be plugged in with alternatives would be too expensive and for little apparent business gain.

I paraphrase of course and I can't really vouch for the veracity of these claims, but I'm hoping someone with first hand information might be able to corroborate or deny. Sounds plausible to me.
Ugg, maybe my post wasn't clear.

Obviously it is ridiculous to pay people 1 million dollars. In the same way that it is ridiculous to pay a thousand dollars for bread.
Glorious. Best part of the article is he switches to using the phone at the end, which was apparently recorded or transcripted as well anyway.
I don't like to think of a lot of these languages in terms of "functional". Haskell specifically does follow a functional paradigm, but Erlang/Elixir is more about the actor model and the functional aspects support that.
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Just an FYI - you will probably cringe when you look back at how you used to type and form sentences.
I use a browser that handles the favicons like a sane person instead of the travesty Chrome perpetrates.

http://i.imgur.com/XEXHXJB.png
User votes. Beyond that? No.
If it's going to be free in the app store, why not just make it open source?
Opposite. My post wasn't clear.

My definition of shortage is "prices are to high". And I think that it is always a good thing to drive prices down.

Obviously bread costing a thousand dollars is bad. That's why I used it as an example.

Similarly there is nothing wrong with trying to solve the dev shortage (meaning prices are too high), by importing more devs.
Just curious, how do you get your projects viral? I'll be honest to admit, I've worked on side projects before that I've deliberately attempted to manufacture virality (build viral mechanisms off simple games, etc.), but it seems hard. When the simple game with viral hooks is done, I post it up on reddit or HN or PH or whatever, and it never takes off. I know the obvious conclusion is "the game/project sucks", just curious if I'm missing anything else.
Forgive what might be an obvious question, but though I see there is a concept of trying to determine the risk of a loan, it isn't clear to me how that is actually done.

What is used as a source of identity of the borrower? IE, how do you punish bad borrowers on future loans? Or does that fall outside of this?
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Tabs left open don't feed internet addiction/ADHD. The act of opening a new tab does. ("Ooh I wonder if there's anything new on FB/HN/etc.?")

I leave about a dozen or so tabs open; they track projects I'm in the middle of but can't complete right now for whatever reason. Leaving them put is organizationally helpful to my brain. (I do the same with physical items as well.)

But the few sites I'm addicted to… those stay closed until I need a fix.
and what exactly makes you say that? your own observation of a sample size 0 or 1?
Without Flash live streams on Youtube cannot be played in Firefox 45 on Windows XP. So Flash is still useful.

And by the way videos in Twitter and Vimeo don't work in both Chromium and Firefox on Windows XP. Because HTML5 video cross-platform compatibility is not perfect and developers have chosen not to encode videos in formats supported on this platform.
Is that the Democratic party fighting the GOP, or just the GOP realizing that if they start throwing people off healthcare, especially those that both need it most and represent their most substantial voting block (middle aged, white, poor midwesterners and southerners) no amount of campaign dollars will keep them in office. They would probably never turn blue, but the GOP establishment would primary them out of their own reelections for how unpopular they would be.
Flash is not dead, only the browser plug in is going away.
AIR is still alive and well, for both desktop and Mobile
1. Interesting, except the part where Flexjobs wants you to pay to look at job listings. Primary indication of a scam.

2. Yes, it is super-easy to get a visa to work in the UK or EU.
Agreed that we've drifted off-topic. Private spaces wont solve drug use or homelessness, but it could certainly affect it. It's harder to sleep on the streets if there is nowhere to go.
"In many ways, I’m an just an obsessive builder, and like to busy myself learning new things and making cool projects."

In which case, I'd say he accomplished his goals! These sound like great projects.

Unfortunately actually building a product is only one part of building a successful business.

I wonder how often this guy talks to customers? Learns their needs? Pain points? Did he ask anyone if they would pay for a new Javascript game engine (for example) before he wrote one?

If he didn't, then he shouldn't be surprised that he doesn't understand how his products fit into the market and into his potential customers' lives. And if he doesn't understand any of that, then making money will be next to impossible.
I'd guess most people willing to do embedded dev remote would have their own workbench.

It doesn't really cost that much and I wouldn't see it as a limiting factor.

But it's kind of moot because the work isn't really available.

That's great that you'd rather poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick than do web dev. But I have skilled embedded dev friends writing php because the alternative is working at a supermarket (they're not location flexible).
> This country built itself on the backs of imported talent

No we didn't. We built our country on the exploitation of poor european factory workers, chinese "slave" labor and african slaves.

This country wasn't built on "talent". It was built on exploitation of CHEAP or free labor.

> there's no valid reason for that to stop now.

We stopped it many times in history to protect AMERICANS. Go read about immigration history rather than propaganda we are forcefed. European immigration was stalled to protect american labor. Chinese immigration was stopped to protect american labor. And if you think about it, even american slavery was stopped to protect american labor.

Immigration wasn't all great. Throughout US history, it led to lots of turmoil, displacement and heartache.

Nothing is all great or all evil like people with agenda like to believe. There are pros and cons to everything. The skewed "pro-immigration" policy the past 50 years has gutted american labor and american society. We need a more rational policy.

And the fact that america/american government shouldn't favor AMERICANS over immigrants is pure rubbish. It's neoliberal fantasy. As a nation we have gone too "left". We need to correct our trajectory lest america fall off the tracks entirely.
I am well aware of the excuse used to sell the Chrome Clone version of Firefox.

I have used Firefox since Version 1, I was beta testing Firefox back when mozilla suite was still the focus

I never adopted chrome, and I do not like the User Experience or the limitation of Chrome.

From EME/DRM, to Web Extensions, to who knows what else, Mozilla is killing the identiy of FF all in the name of chasing market share it will never get back.

FF should be focusing on privacy, stability, and the ability to customize the browser for you. Instead they are focusing on Mainstream placation, performance, DRM, etc

Mozilla has made it clear they no longer want people like me as users, that is fine after over a decade of support I will see myself out...
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> and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

It seems to have a religious "give until it hurts" type of mentality. Because giving doesn't really "count" unless it hurts. Otherwise you're just a rich dude donating money and that's not as edgy as a poet giving his last hot-pocket. Seems very Christian in nature..

But personally, if I were ever poor and starving - please, to whoever has resources (looking at you Bill Gates) - I will be equally grateful for all donations.
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Podcast, Episode 74: DevOps for Mainframes
Well you can have client certificate on hardware. Some hardware even has attestation built in [0] so you can be sure that the private key is non exportable. PIV based smartcards do not require external drivers on most modern OSes.

[0]: https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Introduction/PIV_attestati...

U2F is designed for only one algorithm and allows a lot of optimizations (e.g the private keys are not really stored on the device but rather generated from master seed and origin). That's why they are substantially cheaper than PIV devices.
That doesn't seem like a lot of money, especially for a capital intensive industry with notoriously low margins.
What they said so far is https://webkit.org/blog/7839/adobe-announces-flash-distribut...

Of course that describes what they are doing now, not their plans. Which is not surprising, because Apple never says anything about plans, as a matter of corporate policy...
Worth noting that Adobe stopped distributing Flash Player for Android in 2012, and final update was in 2013.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837817
Would certainly make the phishing scheme where "fake CEO sends real CFO an email request to send a bank wire" more successful. Send the email, follow up with a voice mail.