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That's interesting. I studied ASL for several years in college and got fairly competent at it (volunteered in an integrated elementary school, helped at some Deaf-Blind events, went clubbing with Deaf friends, etc) but have had very few occasions to use it in the last 15 years since graduating. In what situations do you find yourself using it?
We are aware that it is not to everyone's liking, but we've done our best to modernise and appeal to a wider audience, all the while conducting UX tests and responding to feedback.

One thing we'd really love is for there to be an "F-Droid Light" which forks the previous stable release, strips it down, and offers the essentially app store experience with no bells and whistles on the widest range of devices [0]. Alas we are a small volunteer team and this would add a maintinence burden we can't seem to muster at this point.

[0] - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48
A freshly-cooked meal that's remotely healthy (not fast food, or something microwaved at Applebees, etc) for $10?

I don't know many restaurants near major cities that do that. Especially if you factor in drinks, tip, etc.
>The software and training data set an extremely high barrier to competition.

How many technological barriers to entry have survived very long?

The industry may be huge, but it's not clear that only one company will crack self-driving. I think it's far more likely every major autocompany will develop good enough versions of self driving.

Plus, these companies won't be able to hide their software behind algorithms. Someone is going to reverse engineer anything put into the open market.
Right, its not the 90s but lots of people still print & still will for a long time. Plus consistent designs doesn't have to imply print, maybe you're targeting another fixed height medium like a giant electronic billboard.
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It depends on what you're doing. Kitchen-sink frameworks like Bootstrap are great for building tools that don't require a lot of customization of the UI, generally things like internal tools.

But for user-facing stuff, designers and PMs want to tweak everything about the interface, and by the time you're done, you've rewritten most of the CSS and you actually spent more effort doing so than had you just written the CSS yourself the first time.

Also, the way you wrote it ends up being a frankenstein-esque collection of style overrides. Zurb foundation is notorious for requiring hyper-specific CSS rules to override their default styles.

Bootstrap has made some progress towards making it more tweakable, but if you're maintaining/customizing an app long-term, you're better off writing your own css for the most part.

Edit: to add to that, the biggest problem that bootstrap solves IMO is a standard grid system, of which there are now many, more composable grid systems to choose from. Grid systems are so basic that its probably fine to pull one from the shelf, but with flexbox its really not that hard to write your own anyway.
> I think the taxis are 5 years away from 24/7 availability in NYC, maybe 3 for San Francisco

lol

That's another amusing point of view I see here a lot. The use case of taxis in a major city is by far the most challenging use case for autonomous driving. Mark your calendars for 5-10 years after you first see an actual autonomous vehicle having any type of real world application at all. Which you haven't.

The whole idea that taxis are the vanguard of autonomous driving is obvious patent nonsense, why it persists remains a mystery to me.
Paul Graham is originally from the UK. I believe Dan Gackle is Canadian in origin. Patio11 is a white American male living in Japan. Jacquesm is Dutch. Tokenadult has an Asian wife and has lived in Asia.

My impression is that the forum is fairly multicultural. It is not a monolith of white American males/white American male culture.

I am much more concerned with feeling heard than with whether or not they have firsthand experiences like mine. I once wrote the mods and made my case for why something should be deleted as I felt it was actively putting a young woman in real danger. They didn't initially see it, but they did listen and ultimately redacted the information that concerned me.

I think if I have a real problem, they will listen. This is better in my mind than having been born with the same bits between their legs that I happen to have been born with.

I don't pretend to speak for all minorities. But my understanding is that both you and anigbrowl are white males. So I thought I would chime in just so the topic isn't being addressed solely by the demographic that you two express concerns about dominating the mod staff.
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What if you decide to fund a self-destructive addiction? Or send the money to a foreign country? Is that in the public interest?
It also depends on how the project is going to grow. If I'm the only lead dev on a team that's only going to see a revolving door of junior devs and interns, it's much easier for me to point to Bootstrap's documentation page and say "just copy the example from here" than it would be to get junior devs quickly up to speed on any custom CSS framework. There's even a chance a junior dev is already going to be familiar with Bootstrap from a previous project.
No, and we had a much less cramped office in this same building before we were forced to downsize for financial reasons - most of the WeWorks I've been to have the whole spectrum of office sizes, from cramped to spacious - it's just about what you can afford.
I see your point but I'm not fully convinced. Companies outsource simple stuff all the time. To wit, I think that line you drew might vary from company to company.
>this is the future of bikes, where computer, components, and lights work as one to improve the ride.

oh god. no.
I'm not sure who's seriously interested in most of these features, fun factor nonwithstanding. One of bicycles' strengths is simplicity of critical elements, notably the gear switching. How do they make sure that the electronic system doesn't die on the rider when the battery goes flat? How do they deal with increasing slack in the lines?

Who really benefits from turn signals? Unless they are mounted on special stalks, it's going to be difficult to understand them anyway.

Other ideas are somewhat useful, like the car detector, or adjustable lights - I already thought about relating headlight power to speed or ambient light in 2011 (shameless plug: when I started working on Jazda - https://rhn.github.io/jazda ). But the power benefits of that may still balance out with the additional electronics needed.
This isn't a binary problem: "solved" versus "not solved". There are many parts of a solution at various states of development. Research can be replicated and reverse-engineered.

It's also unclear that why there would be one vertical-integrated company in an industry built on outsourcing. There's a lot of room for collaboration at building different parts of a car. And why wouldn't a company that builds a self-driving taxi sell it to multiple operators?
> But what I have started to appreciate is that increasing automation is by default a transfer of wealth from labor to capital owners.

I think this is correct. However, one aspect not yet covered in the media as much is that if wealth is concentrated and dispossessed from labour classes, there will be a corresponding decline or collapse in many areas of the economy.

If an entire generation of labour workers are tipped out of employment, who will purchase FMCG? Sure, the market for premium/elite products could increase but I do not think this will compensate nearly enough for the lack of volume.

It is in the interest of capital owners to ensure that significant markets remain so that industries that rely on economy of scale can continue to operate. Basic income doesn't help this situation.
Ugh, yeah.
The grumpy old man in me likes my bike to be as mechanical as possible, I don't want to remember to charge my shifters, power meter, gps, etc. Maybe that's why I still ride a 1989 Trek 1200 with down tube shifters and biopace chain rings.
Hey, just took a moment to tell you it takes courage to post a Show HN about whatever it is that you built. I understand the tone of most of the comments about Gutenberg in here, but... stick to your plan and just ignore them, congrats for pushing something out of the door :-)
> The bottom navbar particularly irks me. It's a navbar a la iOS, completely nonstandard for Android, where the sliding sidebar is preferred to navigate between sections of the app.

Have you seen the YouTube app lately?
I don't question your ability to call for it, but I don't think it's realistic to expect it. HN is built on a whole lot of user participation, but YC has also spent millions of actual dollars keeping it running, maintained, and moderated. It belongs to them, not to us.

Your recourse, if you don't like how they're managing it, is to start your own site, or to move to a different site. Indeed, if value on HN primarily comes from its users, as you say, it's hard to imagine a more powerful recourse to have.

Tangentially, I think HN's value to YC is hugely overblown. YC has been privately telling batch companies not to participate here for almost the whole time the site has existed. The fundamental key to YC's success is being first to fully commit to a market for small investments in marginal startups. It was an extremely good investment thesis, and it compounds dramatically every year as the value of the alumni network increases.

YC could kill off HN tomorrow and it is unlikely it would harm their returns at all. If you're not close to SFBA tech company investing it's easy to miss the extent to which YC is currently running the table on small startup investing, and none of that has anything to do with how HN is moderated.
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> There's so much magical thinking around self-driving cars. You guys are aware that the only difference between a self driving car and not is the person driving right?

It's also decoupling some people's fundamental need to get around via car from the need to own/rent/park/maintain that car, at a cost much lower than taxis or ride sharing. We have parking lots dedicated to idle cars that people have bought because they find it more economical than taxis or ride sharing. On demand, point to point transportation at a low cost could obviate the need for car ownership and parking lots for most of us.
> What she did was at worst neutral, no?

At worst. I'd argue it was strongly positive.

http://www.catb.org/esr/guns/gun-ethics.html
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The reality is that that lightweight or even hand-coded apps and sites are faster, more semantic, and easier to maintain, and often look less cookie-cutter. But you don't get hired for knowing how to create a great web app with HTML, CSS, a server-side language, and a little JS or jquery for flavor. You get hired for becoming an "expert" in something that has only been around 2.5 years and is at the inflection point in the hype curve. What you're seeing is the result of resume-driven development.
...point taken.
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Wow, I'm sorry this happened to you. That's really messed up. The recent, "Me too" movement has made me realize even more how pervasive this type of behavior is. Hoping I can be part of the solution and not the problem. Thanks for writing this.
In addition to all the profitability arguments (and I largely agree with CPLX here), we're talking about a market into which VCs have literally dumped billions recently, with little sign of abating, so any company with sustainable pricing will have to compete against companies with venture subsidized pricing.
What do you mean by safety nets? If you mean economic need-based programs, so something like "if you earn less than X, you get Y for free", UBI generally assumes the elimination of all such programs, so yes, it does assume cutting other programs. In fact one of the goals of UBI is to replace many complicated welfare trap-generating programs with a single non-welfare-trap one, with the advantage of also eliminating the bureaucracy that those need-based programs require.
>this is the future of bikes, where computer, components, and lights work work in harmony with the thief to steal your bike as efficiently as possible
EDIT: no need to downvote wtallis, he has a valid point!

Sorry I misread and misunderstood that, I did not mean to misquote.

What you’re saying is of course absolutely true, they should have done much more research at the beginning.

However, at the start of a seemingly easy task, research may not be first thing to spring to mind (although it should be).
Germany.

Something like this also needs the ability to delay shipments - old people are more likely to be admitted to hospitals or similar.
I don't think this is a super productive debate to have here, but I do want to clarify that I'm not calling for more diversity on the mod staff, as much as just an awareness of what the mod staff is.
That's a folk stereotype, not a rigorous demonstration that "intelligence" (in the appropriate sense) must cause worse social interaction, as your comment would imply.

Edit: To clarify, even accepting that (some narrow definition of) intelligence (associated with math) is anti-correlated with social skills, that wouldn't imply that someone who is already "good at parties" should worsen their social skills by improving their intelligence.

Edit2: I agree that my earlier comment was poorly worded, and that, if you knew nothing else you should expect "conventionally smart" people to have less social skills. But that wouldn't seem to be relevant here, for the above reasons. And charismatic people are intelligent, in a sense.
I don't even know what a "computer-sounding name" is. C64 and "International Business Machines"? In that case, Amiga and Apple came next, and you must have been suffering since. (Gooogol? Yahoo!)

FWIW Edward is named for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box, so they're not actually thinking as far outside the box as one might think.

In general, people are too paranoid about naming. It's one of those topics where nobody actually has a problem with a suggested name, but everyone fears others might. That's how you end up with Alexion, Allegion, Alliant, Altria, Ameren, and other names that probably cause every new employee to suffer a midlife crisis.

The best names have always been evocative, i. e. telling a story. And it's actually helpful if that story isn't just easy and happy. That's how "Plan B" works, "Virgin", or HN's perennial favourite: "CockroachDB"
Whats MongoDB's business model !? Open source, and separate "enterprise" closed source version !? Are contributors OK with this or are most contributors in-house ? It seems Nginx et.al are also using this business model ... I'm thinking about starting my own open source business.
MongoDB accrued a lot of bad-will due to some extremely questionable defaults, which remain defaults to this day. There's no question that you can write a fast database when there's no guarantee that data ever hits the disk, but developers tend not to like it when a database accepts their write and then silently loses data. It's also great for toy problems and 15-minute-demos... but then you inevitably run into its limitations and end up re-implementing a database in your app.

Even at its best, there is essentially no reason to choose MongoDB over Postgres with JSONB-type columns. They are essentially the same data model but Postgres gives you better guarantees of data consistency, plus a forward migration path to relational data when the day inevitably arrives when you need to model relationships between entities.

At this point Postgres is where most open-source RDBMS development work is concentrated. It's not only a solid codebase, it's piling up features pretty quickly and there are relatively few niches it doesn't fill at least adequately. All of these niches are covered by some commercial products built on top of Postgres (eg EnterpriseDB or CitusDB). It's pretty much a one-stop shop for application development. You can use it for everything from GIS to machine learning [0] pretty efficiently, and it pretty much will just do the right thing without you watching.

NoSQL really fits best around the margins, like as an auxiliary system for analytics. There is really almost no use-case where "user inputs data and we lose it" is an acceptable application behavior, so consistency is a business requirement for your master database whether you realize it or not. And consistency across a distributed system is hard so it almost always makes sense to sidestep clustering until the last possible moment. Buying more machine is cheap, replication/failover is a lot easier than consistency between distributed masters, and if you are really up against the wall there are those commercial products that can do this with Postgres.

If you want to make an analogy... Oracle is the suit, Postgres is the hardworking small business that is slowly but surely eating up Oracle's lunch, and MongoDB is a trustafarian with a hot-dog detector app. And that's why there's a lot of resentment towards MongoDB.

[0]: The 9.x series and 10.0 release have been absolutely jam-packed with new features, it's absurd how fast development is moving at the moment. One of my favorites... indexed cube queries. A cube is a data-cube type, an N-dimensional cube of data. One feature of this is distance queries, which have obvious applications in pattern recognition tasks (eg k-nearest-neighbor). One of the features in 9.6 is index functionality for these, so you can now do indexed KNN searches on your data...

https://www.depesz.com/2016/01/10/waiting-for-9-6-cube-exten...
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I am happy I intrigued you enough that you decided to read it too! That's exactly why I posted a TLDR. I usually skim through comments before reading long articles, to check whether the article is interesting and worth my time. There was no comment so I made a bet and gave the article a try, as a payback to all the times other HN comments guided me to very interesting reads.

About the time it took me to read the article, I read it during a break while working on some R code this afternoon. Based on the time of my commits, I can tell you it took me about 20 minutes. But I just went through the reasoning. I did not go into it very deeply or check the equations because mathematics is not my domain. I am in economics and IT (but going into statistics as it just seems more fun)

I will also try to go over this article in more detail with a coffee in a few days as I found it very inspiring.

Hopefully there will be more comments here to share some insights and act as a guide. Like, maybe a mathematician can spot errors in my summary, and suggest us something to read before this article to understand it better?
From what I can tell, there are issues both with sway and alacritty that lead to the current incompatibility.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/97
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1390
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1054

From what I gather, alacritty and its window system abstraction layers (glutin & winit) are still somewhat immature w.r.t. their wayland support and that sway, due to the limited nature of its wlc layer, do not quite meet in the middle. As stated in TFA, sway is moving toward a more capable wlroots foundation. And the rust-based alacritty ecosystem is also moving forward with tremendous pace. I have little doubt that class of incompatibility will not exist much longer.

Given the newness of not just wayland, but also alacritty, glutin/winit, rust, and sway, I remain astonished that they work as well as they do. But make no mistake, wayland is new tech and thus has some sharp corners where X11 is a well-established quantity after 30 years of existence.
After a miniscule run-in with SQL, the only real DB I've ever touched is MongoDB (I've dabbled in redis). I've never understood the hate that MongoDB gets, but that's probably because I primarily use Node as a backend so the object style suits me.
it's like all these self learning algorithms are doing things their creators never intended or understand.

It's kinda like that thing a while ago with Google correctly matching witness protection before-names with their new names.

Spooky shit happens when you let the computers do the thinking
You would have to pay for UBI by:

1) Cutting spending elsewhere.

2) Raising taxes. (Or collecting more from a growing economy.)

3) Printing money.

Probably it would be a combination of all 3, but since UBI can offset entitlement cuts it makes sense to me that that's where the government would find a lot of the money. Raising taxes is unpopular and can be counterproductive if done to the extreme, and printing money is inflationary and also counterproductive unless there are other deflationary forces at work. (Which there are currently, I agree with Ray Dalio that printing money makes sense during a deleveraging spiral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0)
I was hoping this article is not "me too", but it is. And it is more serious then I could imagine. It pains me to read this about him, but don't doubt it.

However unpleasant (to put it mildly) we need to go through this process and clean our act. I always saw tech as a forefront of human thought, so clearly we need to be better people.

That is all.
Turn signals can help folks that have to bike up a hill and want to indicate they are turning. :)

For the rest, I agree it increases the failure likelihood, but it is probably heavily mitigated in some cases by the fact that most of the power can be generated by the biker. These are not large gears, so the shifting capabilities probably don't require plugging in. And they should "fail to on" such that if they go dead on power, you just can't shift. Can still use the gear you are in.
Socialized healthcare should ideally capture the edge cases and provide psychiatric help to the helpless.
A good example would be when I'm out and about and see a deaf person trying to converse with others. I'll indicate that I learned a little sign language and translate for them.

Another would be when I am out and about and I notice someone who is deaf. I'm not the least bit bashful, so I'll wave and get their attention to let them know that I can sign. This leads to a conversation, pretty much every time.

It's not like they have a wide variety of people to converse with. So, they are usually quite happy to do so.

I also used to work with municipalities and there were a number of occasions where a contact person would actually be deaf. Municipalities are generally more open to hiring people who have hearing issues. So, it has actually sped things up as opposed to their usually method of writing down what they want to say and then reading your lips.

I am pretty outgoing, so it comes in handy. I haven't actually had anybody show outright displeasure, they always seem happy to find someone that signs. The closest would be a grumpy old man who was curt. He lived in the same neighborhood but would continue and we finally became friends and drinking buddies.
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Bicycles are one of the few remaining non-trivial, non-electric machines that ordinary people use.

I'd prefer to leave them alone.

Seriously, I have a hard time thinking of many machines that fit that description.
I signed up for your service. Do you have any competitors in this space? I thought the experience overall was very simple. Are you thinking about adding options for the prints? For example, glossy v. matte or 4x6 v 5x7?

Edit: I see you replied to someone else and I cannot tell if the service is actually live (as in my card is going to be charged and photos are going to ship).