skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Less than $500 and you have as many buttons and labels as you can shake a stick at, and it's all behind a pretty color display.

A raspberry pi + touchscreen is 1/5th of that. RPi is capable of running Qt5 which would be a solid UI choice.

How the heck have they survived?
Another example of why even the more open minded and critical of the humanities crowd has such a difficult time taking economists seriously.
I never claimed to have researched marijuana's medicinal uses. My experience is all I have and it's purely recreational.

I do not suffer from chronic pain, and never have. Marijuana just has never crossed my mind as something to consume when injured to treat the pain.

People are downvoting my comment as if I said marijuana has no medicinal value, that's obviously not the case. I was only expressing my surprise at these applications of something which, for me, never seemed particularly numbing except in quite incapacitatingly high doses. When I take a pain killer, it's generally undesirable for it to make me completely useless for a day. I'm just curious if that's how it's being used or if my experience is not representative.

I've vaped pure CBD oil a few times as well, the effects were interesting and not at all disabling or paranoia-inducing, but no pain relieving effects were noticable either. I could see how it might be huge for preventing pain resulting from some neuropathic disorders, however.

To be clear: my post was not intended in any away to judge the patients finding physical pain relief in weed. It just surprises me, weed doesn't fill that role in my mind.
The Nobel in economics rewards a pioneer of “nudges”
Nope, article states that their privacy policy pretty much is in line with the info the FBI got. Headline is misleading.
Messenger Lite – less bloatware on your Android phone
While WM was clunky at least you could run any random piece of software you wanted. Then Microsoft tried to copy apple. I think if they had put a relatively open OS and sold highend phones for $200-300 bucks I think they could have made it. They probably would have had to sink billions and billions, but they could have done it. Look at Xbox its viable platform today.
Typography of this article was not peer-reviewed.
They somehow managed to use two different fonts within a single word.

T<span style="font-family: LMRoman10-Regular-Identity-H;">he earliest usage

oO
> Facebook fail (killed internally)

Interesting. What was the Facebook mobile OS?
> Will The 7th Continent be available after this campaign?

> Given the high production cost of the game, The 7th Continent will not be sold in the “traditional” retail circuit. As we have said on the main page “This is your last chance…to get cursed!”, therefore, please assume that this is one, if not the final chance you’ll have to acquire the game as it is now.
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I really appreciate the explanation. That is actually super informative.

I agree that I misunderstood part of what you were saying. It also sounds like we both agree that the notifications ("transactional email", from the sounds of it) should be going through. I was only ever trying to make a statement about those types of emails. I agree that upping the marketing emails is pretty bad.

I think this line in particular is where I misunderstood:

> It's not weird nor is it magic to expect Facebook to stop the notifications.

In this case, I interpret "notifications" as "transactional emails".
Fwupd hits 1.0.0
lol, so not only is the replacement technology none of the tech previously promised to replace wpf / winform, its a piece of tech that is still roadmapped?

Yeah, I don't think winform / wpf is going anywhere quite yet.
Neither is Hancock
- Amazon fail - Microsoft fail - Facebook fail (killed internally)

All fail at providing anything like a competitive answer to Android and iOS dominance.

It still seems like another way of failing. Microsoft tried a different OS from scratch, while Facebook and Amazon just versioned Android-
Currently they are still pushing it as the future, with Desktop Bridge being a stepping stone to migrate Win32 apps into UWP.
Fair point even if it is rather sad!
There really is no good way to monetize the existing open source product outside of support contracts. Developers will know that building from source is an option.

The approach that nginx and other projects use involves an open source core that solves one problem well and a series of proprietary extensions that solve related problems. It's not clear if the caddy extensions are worth paying for, and it's definitely not clear if those solutions are better than nginx offerings
I remember when they tried to push the first version of Windows Phone out of the gates. I think it was 2008 or 2009. Then - as to be expected with that ambitious projects - they already had big delays.
What happened then is a good example of how big companies seem to have problems taking the necessary radical steps when projects don't perform. I've experienced this at my employee. Only that the project I have in mind is more than 10 years heavily underperforming while spending easily over a billion dollars. Microsoft seemed to let the Windows Phone project keep going pretty much the same way as it started ... same project lead, probably a lot of the same people. What happens than typically is that good people don't work on this kind of projects.

Then the whole Nokia mess ... what a sad story.

I remember when I finally gave up any hope for Windows Phone: It was when I read that Samsung and HTC ought to pay license fee to Microsoft. That was probably the biggest mistake in Microsoft's history. They should have payed them 50 $ per sold Smartphone with Windows Phone on it.

Anyway - I still have a Windows Phone from my employee and like it.
The reason I buy coffee at a coffee shop is because I want it done properly, and "properly" is largely a subjective thing. A good shop will have someone who's intimately familiar with what they're preparing and will tune the machine at multiple times per day to get the right result.

A robot just does what it's told.

Starbucks used to have manual machines and the results were...variable. Some days you'd get a substandard drink, but if you got someone who knew what they were doing, the results were fantastic.

It's like before the coffee would be anywhere beteween a 6 and 9 out of 10. Now they're consistently 7.5 out of 10 every time. Boring, predictable, never bad, but never great.
what does this comment have to do with parent comment about site reliability/uptime ?
I'd want to know the "refresh" schedule for the ingredients. If the machine gets new veg every Tuesday then that's the best day for a really fresh salad. I would hope the location is high enough traffic to justify daily ingredient changes.
AIUI, Debian can put Caddy in the main section because it is Apache 2.0. Patches to upstream can happen.

The big question: will any Debian maintainer want to invest time in this, when at any moment LightCode Labs can say "next version will not have an open license"?

Probably it's enough. That's the situation that nginx is in, anyway.
Last updated over a year ago. Is there any benefit to using this over something like Pi-hole?
Would be nice to have the repo where the commit happened too.
There's a million fun things to do in GTA without hurting anyone, to be fair.
Yes. But not entirely. Also the set of tools that he combines is ment to be an addition, not a (potential) replacement.

(Joey is a boss, did not know of this project of his -- thanks for pointing out)
Never is a long time, but it's also a theroetical.

The sun will eventually engulf the Earth rendering this argument irreelvant.
Mostly, that's true. Or at least understand you're on the edge. Cutting or bleeding, it's hard to say ahead of time but usually pretty obvious after a week of real-world use.

I respect Apple, they take chances. Sometimes it pays off. Off the top of my head:

Products where 1st generation was amazing:
Apple ][

iPod

Lisa

iPhone

Products where 1st gen was almost unusable, but v2+ was amazing:

Macintosh (Amazing, but frequent disk swapping was an issue.)

Messagepad (first gen soured the press and the public due to connectivity issues. Modem vs cellular.)

DOA:
Apple 3 (anyone else remember the service bulletin that asked users to slam it on the desk to reseat the chips?)

Pippin
Note: This kind of has less to do with your comment than I thought it was going to, but I feel it's still worth submitting.

I think we as society will soon need to learn how to "forgive and forget".

As technology becomes more ubiquitous, we are quickly getting to the point of having the majority of our time in this world recorded and stored permanently. Every mistake, every poor decision, every fashion fad, every comment, every choice seared into the never forgetting internet.

We will need to move away from the idea that people can't change, and that something a person did 10 years ago means anything significant today. We should celebrate changing opinions, not attack someone for "waffling". We should be giving significantly less weight to actions and opinions far in the past, and more to things that happen more recently.

There are commits on some projects i've worked on that I absolutely wouldn't word that way now. There are silly jokes and things like it in messages that I wouldn't do now. But my past is my past, and it honestly says very little about my future. I know people that are consistent with some things throughout their whole lives, and others that change drastically over the course of a year.

It won't be pretty, but we will need to learn as a species that people make mistakes, and that shouldn't be a lifelong never-ending mark against someone, and in some cases the opposite is true! I lost a significant amount of money years ago because a hard drive died and my backup hard drive died as well, I now have a militant backup strategy which I am unwavering on because of that experience.

I don't think we should shy away from tools like this, in fact I think they will be more important in the future. Expose people's "skeletons" that are hidden in plain sight. Show the world that it's not a big deal. It will hurt at first, but hopefully over time society will begin to change course, and "character assassination" style headlines will be a thing of the past when "Person did something bad 10 years ago" isn't a big deal since they have 9 years of "newer" history showing they are not the same as they were.

People fear the unknown, people fear change. Showing them that the "foul programmer" is no different than they are is (in my opinion) a better way of dealing with the problem than hiding it and hoping the public doesn't find out.
Does Caddy handle upstream http/2 proxying (as a gRPC LoadBalancer)?
This is neat!
I guess that will depend on Widnows Store, if that is working, even a little, I would guess UWP is safe. The fall creator's update has some nice new features -including SQL and acrylic - it will be interesting to watch adoption rates over the next year
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12678598

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9915943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13702830

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448602

etc...

We get it, the economics prize is not a true Nobel prize. It's tiresome to hear it every time the prize is mentioned.
I really dislike the new download page, instead of just being able to download the piece of software I want I now have to jump through at least three hoops just to get the link. Meh, it's quicker to download Nginx.
I'm skeptical. This is painfully slow and handles 1 person at a time.

Any midtown/downtown NY salad bar can turnover 10 peoples' salads in the time this machine took to make 1. There's no way this machine's operating cost is better than that. Sure, you could scale up these machines, but then the human-staffed salad bars are winning on floor space (and rent). It looks like you could only fit 2-3 of these machines in the footprint of the average NY salad spot.

The only place this might win is where salad consumption is infrequent, in which case for food safety reasons, you probably don't want to be eating the salad there anyway.
I’m not sure how your second paragraph is relevant, but could you say more?
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Just one example: every few weeks I need to manually remove old images as described here [0], otherwise security updates won't be installed. Four versions and four years later, it's still not fixed.

[0] https://askubuntu.com/questions/298487/not-enough-free-disk-...
How does this compare to Tails? Conceptually they look similar, both having the kernel enforce that all traffic goes through Tor.

But Tails is a configured with security and Tor in mind. I don't see when I'd want to install such a kernel module on a normal distribution over a specialized distribution. (Or a multi-vm setup like whonix, instead of trusting the kernel)
I see. Is this the only pitfall?

I'm used to using stuff that depends on other global components (like Bootstrap, for instance, and its non-prefixed classes), and people just solve this with correct naming practices.
OT: Imagine you hire somebody and this person publicly posts that some of your company's work "is a large mess" after you worked months to improve the situation. Even if DB hasn't deserved any credits for this "PR move", is this fair?

Why is a PR move worse than an employee who publicly badmouths his employer while being on the payroll? And why is this tolerated (upvoted) when it's a large corporation?

Edit: thanks for downvotes (this was expected)
Please, enlighten me as to how I can keep a MBP from freezing when I open the lid. Or from corrupting my Time Machine backups. Or how I can fix the fact that their applications like Disk Utility and the App Store suck.

:eyeroll:
My point was that the cryptocurrency world is enormously tolerant of clown-shoes levels of operation, ones where it's hard to tell whether the people are incompetent or just scammers.

Key differences between Mt Gox and the Wright Brothers are that a) the financial industry was well established in 2010, and b) the Wright Brothers were not offering commercial flights to a general audience on their wooden gliders.

The first means that Mt Gox was run by idiots who ignored all of the established best practices around running a financial company. (And was given money by same.) The second means that even if you were right, that Bitcoin was just too new to do well, then they were grossly negligent in offering services to the general public and managing hundreds of millions of dollars in assets.

Of course, the incompetence at scale continued long after Mt Gox. E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)

You may be right that there are now some adults running well-regulated businesses. But that doesn't mean the space isn't full of scam artists, Dunning Kruger goofs, and wide-eyed technoutopian marks. We only have to look at the latest ICO announcements to see that, at best, enthusiasm has run ahead of competence.
While the concept of peer review of intellectual property work products may be relatively new, there is long history of craft guilds applying peer quality controls on physical work products in part to protect the reputation of that class of products within the market.
Xamarin.Forms is currently available for iOS, Android, UWP.

At .NET Conf 2017 they announced support for macOS, Linux and WPF. And demoed macOS and Linux current status.

While previously at BUILD 2017 they announced XAML Standard for interoperability between WPF, UWP and Xamarin.Forms.

Which kind of implies it is the way forward.
For this local area, not only they would offer a good salary but also remote. Amazing transparency i'd say.
There must be an upper limit though. Most of those things are invisible resources for users to do other work or play.
> ... then profits will be lower.

Ah, you see, when you remove profit as the primary motivator a lot of problems go away.

Here (Canada) the insurance is public, but the hospitals are private, the doctors are self-employed. The insurance companies (plural since each province has their own singular insurer) regulate prices so costs are predictable. If a knee replacement is $X and they expect to do Y of them per year based on statistics, then it's no surprise what the final tab will be.

Hospitals and doctors are free to innovate in terms of how they provide care provided they can meet all applicable standards and regulations. If they make money, great. If they lose money that's their problem. On the whole there's no serious problem with providing the care at the regulated prices.

So yeah, it is possible to maintain the same level of care for all if you're willing to reign in profit.
The main problem with that is it can be hard to distinguish local development from internal service that is constantly being developed. The line between production and Dev can be complicated or blurry. So to keep things simple it's just straight instance counting. We lowered the price to account for that.
That would be stressing the system. My point is as a consumer, you can't continuously measure your maximum bandwidth without using it all.
The trend has been to both squeeze wages and engage in corporate buybacks, usually with the justification that the company can't afford to raise wages (which is obviously bullshit given how wastefully profits are used)
What Microsoft did wrong: charge for the OS, and then rewrite it.

I had a Samsung Omnia 7, and it was still the best phone I've had, in the sense that the UI was fast, obvious, and well thought out.

Then they brought out Windows 8 mobile. And abandoned all hardware that ran Windows 7 mobile. And messed around with a working UI and broke the 'experience' (ghastly buzzword).

And all the while, trying to fight Android which was free, and Apple that just has a cult of users that will buy the new phone regardless.
> Have you worked there? Do you know what the total compensation package is or are you just knowledgeable about base salary?

There have been multiple threads about this. Some being hundreds of comments related to Gitlab's salaries, which they and some people who work there are pretty public about. I could try to find the threads on HN, but they shouldn't be too hard to find yourself.
I haven't experienced any downtime with their public service - which I think is great for hosting private repos (as others have mentioned). I actually prefer it to bitbucket.

In other professional experiences, hosting our own instances of Gitlab was a great solution. Setup/updates were easy and we had the piece of mind knowing that we were in control of the maintaining uptime. I was very impressed by how simple it was to their implement CI service as well.
If people are willing to work for them, then they are in fact paying the "market rate" - a meaningless term in itself. Anyone who doesn't want to work for GitLab can easily work somewhere else. Let them decide for themselves.
Ubuntu did not enable the energy saving options by default on my notebook and did not install the wifi drivers out of the box.

Which was a "bit" painful because the office is wifi only and getting online then is impossible. Had to hunt down the driver, put it on a stick and install them. Never again.

And the laptop was 5+ years old ...
Google is terrible for this. They haven't yet worked out that a thai ip !== ability to read thai.
I still use XAML daily to build iOS and Android apps. It's perfect for 95% of use cases.
It looks interesting but the description is really bare. You can find their website here :

http://summarizer.intellexer.com

I wonder how it works (deep learning ?) and if it's good. If there's a way to try the app before buying I'm going to test it.
Facebook didn't fail. You are not seeing their moviment with React Native & open source ecosystem (and the people saying that FB is doing "free" work aren't seeing this either, as FB is looking for a big chunk in the app development, and getting it).
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As a senior dev with 5-ish years of experience in NYC, GitLab's calculator for "Developer" is offering me a $144,106-$157,207 base pay, plus stock options (because they are options I'm giving them an expected value of 0; I could value them more accurately if they were public about shares outstanding but they aren't). If I max out the sliders and call myself a lead, that goes up to $183,408. https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/developer/

For comparison, Etsy gave me an offer earlier this year that was $185K, and came out literally in the week they had layoffs, and Google gave me an offer earlier this year that added up to about $215K (base + 15% bonus + RSUs which have an obvious nonzero cash value), with an expectation of year-over-year growth. (The actual job I accepted was higher than either of these.)

I think GitLab's numbers make sense in several markets but not in NYC and probably not in SFBA either. To be fair to them, there's no good reason to pay someone market rates for those cities when they're hiring a remote workforce, but the fact remains that they're significantly under market and probably losing out on good candidates as a result.
I guess the Facebook Home app was the tip of the iceberg that we saw?
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I'm amazed stock buybacks don't count as market manipulation...since they so obviously are designed to manipulate the share price
Nope, they adjust your salary for cost-of-living if you move. It’s on their wiki.
It looks like you are mostly targeting big customers (200k pageviews/month is already way beyond most private websites). I am skeptical whether that's the right demographic for such a service. The larger the website the less likely they use some turn-key solution. I would expect a much larger demand from small blogs.

>But the catch is that I don't have a free plan (yet) since I can't make any money off of users on the free plan

Free plans are there to provide marketing and free publicity, not direct income ;)

Just my two cents, obviously I haven't done any detailed market research.
All right, I signed up :)

The big selling point for me is that the template generation is right there. It is much easier to explain to people than saying: All right, so you download libre office, create a document, upload it here, name it like this or that...
But without the deep app ecosystem backing them up,

But there was also a genuine sense of excitement about Windows Phone 7, they had some single-digit marketshare, the other ecosystems were not as big as they are now, and Android was pretty bad at the time.

I think one of their fatal mistakes was the Windows Phone 7 -> Windows Phone 8 transition where they left many early adopters out in the cold (IIRC none of the WP7 phones could run WP8).

I agree that building an ecosystem was a large part of the problem, but Microsoft also messed up royally by making a hard cut in the platform when it was just starting to take off.
Average is not a good measure for that, because there are lots of hours during the day where even the worst ISPs don't have any congestion, and still the connection can be unusable during peak hours. The right measure would be the minimum throughput that you achieved, maybe minus a few minutes of congestion per month that are ignored. If they sell you a 100 Mb/s pipe, that should mean that you should essentially never notice that it's not actually reserved 100 Mb/s. People don't buy 100 Mb/s because they want 100 Mb/s at 3 am, they buy 100 Mb/s because they want 100 Mb/s when they need it, which in most cases is during peak load times (which is why those are the peak load times).