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I understand that what Google did was shitty. But then again, the Google Fonts service, as far as I can tell, doesn't have an SLA. At this point, complaining that they switched font weights without notice is equivalent to complaining that fonts.google.com servers went down on a critical Black Friday night for your e-commerce site.

I guess self-hosting is probably the best solution if you want to more 'control' over what's happening.
It would benefit society because we could all spend our outrage on things more productive than pushing on a rope.

The profits were taxed as VAT or something on the way into Apple. They will be taxed again as income tax or something on their way out again. We are free to adjust these rates as we wish.

But trying to tax intermediate steps which seem to be largely accounting fictions (like exactly which puzzle piece of the global empire actually made that profit) seems like a fool's errand.
Do you drive?

Because motion sickness prevents a large amount of people from watching movies or doing work in a car, even if you could make a decent enough workspace. The start and stop mode of car traffic is much different from an airplane or even train, and the road surface varies so much by area that potholes would make sleeping, working, or what have you a nightmare.

A lot of this discussion seems dominated by people who don't use a car or understand driving.
> Laws do not exist like a puzzle challenge to be beaten by clever lawyers

Uh, this is demonstrably, extraordinarily untrue.
Smart TV software can and will interfere with regular operations. My girlfriend's dad got a shiny new Smart TV for Christmas a few years back. He also lives in the sticks and has satellite internet that works maybe every other day.

I volunteered to set it up, and what do you know -- the "OS" was gated by a registration / sign in screen. So, no way to access core functionality (including external inputs, settings menu, etc.) without an internet connection. Even if there was some strange ritual that would let me get through (there wasn't), the average user is fucked.
I don't understand this. So just because Logitech doesn't see it as feasible to renew a technology certificate with some company, they have to step on their consumers who've already spent their money on Logitech's product?

That's just horrid, and a bad look (and bad consumer relations). I might he stating the obvious, but if a company is going to temporarily license a technology and then develop a product for consumer markets they would do well to continually renew their certs. To do otherwise and act how they did seeds doubt: are we simply buying into a temporarily functioning product that can cease functioning at any time at the whim of the manufacturer? If so why are we buying from them at all if the product we get isn't truly ours?
"Luckily you can disable the CEC stuff on the TV, which solved the problem."

...But then totally defeats the purpose.
Clanus action lawsuit.
> The problem with top posting is that people systematically quote everything

I'd say it's the other way around.

Top posting fixes the problem of people quoting everything since everything is put below the signature.

The problem with inline quoting is that people quote entire paragraphs, even when they only mean to respond to a single sentence. Which leads to deluges of quoted text you have to scroll and scroll through until you reach the new content.

With Gmail and a top posted email discussion, I can catch up with the entire discussion with "n", read a few lines, "n", read a few lines, ... With inline quoting, catching up on such a discussion is exhausting.
expect this to be disabled in chrome if enough people do this. just like they disabled every single option to omit referer headers.

though referer header is directly tied to their monetization. the font thing is just a good to have to collect some data.
I thought it looked like a decent system font for an OS.
I would rather reframe this question: what is the reason to download fonts? Downloading leads to page rendering lags and to reporting my browsing behaviour to google, while I see no positive effects from those fonts at all. So why I should be interested in downloading them?
For a mainstream audience, the difference probably isn't that interesting. I certainly got the point they were trying to make.
Well, I think the people who are most harmed are those who never were near the top of the pile. Unless I don't understand what pile you mean.
I know it was more of a joke, but there are actual reasons not to use ZZ.

(1) The difference is small, but one could argue that shift-z shift-z are more like 3.5 clicks, while shift-dot x are certainly 3 clicks.

(2) People are used to do a colon before an actual interaction with the editor instead of the text.

(3) taste. Even if one argues that both has the same effort then taste is the final decision and there people can be different.
I think this was a power-tripping executive's decision, rather than a professional's.
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Been there; here's some amazingly stupid advice works on the mental game -- start physically working out @ mid-day. Hit the gym, go for a run. Does wonders to clear the mind, better than meditation > http://www.foreverbemoved.com/get-head-body/
Good thing they didn't use mountain goats, otherwise people would be thinking that a 3cm wide ledge a hundred meters up is a good hiking trail to use.
Yeah, the Nintendo Switch takes advantage of that. If it's on and you drop it in its cradle it'll turn on your TV and switch to its HDMI input.
This is a problem with Google only making things work with Chrome. http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-...
You're joking right? It didn't happen in a vacuum, the whole of society is not free. First off, in this case, didn't Microsoft help support apple through it's bad years specifically so they could point to them and try to avoid antitrust litigation?

Secondly, these competitors could only exist due to government internvention. What do you do when the government no longer "meddles" and the big guys start sending in Pinkertons?
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Apple doesn’t skip the US tax code, they pay huge amounts of US taxes. They don’t repatriate foreign earnings because it would cost shareholders over a 50% tax rate.
Also take a look at ImageAlpha - https://pngmini.com/ - great for single images (happy fan of both!).
Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
I guess the reason to start an open source project is to scratch your own itch (or because you love doing it). But finding users who will try it or collaborate with you may require some type of marketing? So did you create time to do that or is working on the project reward enough for you?

If you have a popular open source project can you tell me a few things like 1) why did you start it? 2) how did people find it? 3) did you post it somewhere to get traction? 4) do you think it's unfair to just work on something you like but never take the time to get the word out?
In such a situation I also do the :w and :q separately without even considering :x.
This is what I was hoping to find... of course knowing how to do that is completely esoteric. I don't know why they couldn't just put another button next to I'm Feeling Lucky that says "Pretend you don't know me".

My problem nowadays is with the idea that Google, et al, all believe they're own myth of being the best at XYZ user experience and if you disagree then you're a curmudgeon or an idiot who "doesn't get it".

Why wouldn't they put a button like that? At what point did optionality and customization of your user experience become undesirable to the point that you need to obfuscate or prevent it?

My guess is that too many people read Don't Make Me Think as dogma and now we're in a world where the tech industry assumes they need to do all the thinking for anyone that touches their product and the users brought up in this world have no idea what it's like to not have their UX dictated to them.
Provide value to others without expecting much in return. Work for cheap / free while you don't have many expenses.

Build up that network by helping new startups with tasks they are working on. If you help...10 startups over the next 5 years, you will build a larger network and be more valuable than just meeting people at networking events.

One of those company's may turn into something and you can get in early. If not, you will have advocates in your corner that will make introduction to others.

Get out there and do the work, make friends that are working on interesting project, provide value, they won't forget it when it comes time to ask for something in return.
Is there a parallel to :w as ZZ is to :wq or :x? With my layout at least, typing double colons is a bit more annoying than regular letters.
The main features of neovim from my point of view are the messagepack based remote API letting you write plugins in any language. Many have bindings already to go such as haskell and golang: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects

This API, for example as let people write a vim plugin for VSCode that actually runs neovim in the background.

It's pretty slick.

From a user point of view, more plugins is probably it. I don't know if vim has it yet, but neovim has asynchronous process support, so repls and terminals are easier to use.
Yes, the Logitech MX500 was the one longest lasting mouse I had. I had one for so many years (>5years at least) and after that, the mice I bought, even expensive ones, lasted only for 1-6 months, not longer.
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What is the difference in Dvorak here? Is shift not used for upper case letters?
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The title itself is a misnomer. No one checking stuff in HBR? Only denominations of 500s and 1000s were made illegal. This was replaced with new 500 and 2000 Rupee notes. All the other denominations remained valid throughout.The intent was to control counterfeit currency.
It also appealed the public to use more digital transactions.

Today, in TV there was news about a district in Kerala (Malappuram) having 50000 crores worth of old currency in the hands of various people there. The person whom the reporter interviewed was an agent who sold these old notes to some people for a percentage of the value of the old notes. They didn't say for what purpose the old notes are bought. A friend of mine who knows some Gujrathi cloth merchants in Kochi's main market was told these old notes are bought so that its thread can be taken for counterfeiting new notes.
This should be really difficult for images because different devices saves them different. The iPhone 7 and new use the HEIC format, however they are uploaded as jpeg to my iPad and Mac because they don’t support the new format (no hardware optimization). Now chances are, when I share it on my iPhone, it regenerates the jpeg again, but a bit differently, yet unnoticable by humans. This makes it impossible to use a conventional hashing algorithm for images because an undetectable change for images because an invisible change can change the hash and even alomost every byte and yet it looks completely the same.

Of course, every user can do that knowingling, just crop the image a very tiny bit or change one color of one pixel and the hash is going to be completely different.
> A vertical tabs bar would make it impossible to use many sites, like GitHub.

I use vertical tabs exclusively (for many, many years), and GitHub constantly. No problems whatsoever.
What law requires a service to run forever?
Just because we communicate just fine doesn't mean we couldn't communicate better. We communicate just fine with no punctuation and spelling mistakes, does that mean it's a good idea?

Bold, italics, lists and particularly, code snippets and verbatim text would make HN a lot easier to follow.
Although I could semi understand that rant, I didn't understand the rest of the guy's blog posts. At all. What is he going on about in that blog?
Oh and to add to this, the app seems to literally just be a waiting screen. Everything about it screams cop-out.
Obviously the kids that were there had no idea that it could be reserved. See another comment here about that reservation being available only on an app, not the website.

The cluelessness is in the aggressive assertion of their "rights" and their complete failure to listen to what the local kids were saying. Hell, they couldn't even be bothered to play a pickup game with them.

The frightened / annoyed looks of the two Dropboxers when they realized they were on video adds to the hilarity. I was pretty sure they wanted to be cops asserting some bogus right not to be filmed in a public space at that moment.
I use adblock with element hiding helper in Firefox to block videos by clicking on them, especially with the new awful trend of position fixed videos that follow you when you scroll down to avoid them.
I don't find this strange when you are looking for a long term tax strategy and trying to reduce the involved risks.

For example, when Intel invests in chip plants there are big discussions about tax privileges [1]. I know this is different because it doesn't involve a big R&D but it is natural to big company plans.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-intel-plant/israel...
> they use it and say 'F*ck you' to those who laughed at them

Except that the "fuck you" goes less to people who laughed at nerds years ago and more to the local community, regulators and software users.
The smart TV can't log into a WiFi network when it doesn't know the password. And I don't think that there are any smart TVs with an embedded mobile phone data connection that you can't shut off.
Found the answer myself from the release docs:
> The Language.pipe method allows spaCy to batch documents, which brings a significant performance advantage in v2.0. The new neural networks introduce some overhead per batch, so if you're processing a number of documents in a row, you should use nlp.pipe and process the texts as a stream.

So if you have an event based system where you can process only a single document at once, it does not make sense to upgrade yet, because for a single document case the runtime performance was 10x-100x slower, at least with 2.0 alpha version.
I'm not at the whims of an add-on developer, I'm at the whims of Mozilla. The new extension API doesn't currently have the control required to make Tab Groups, if it did I would port it myself.

I won't go in to my usage specifically but windows tabs and bookmarks doesn't work nearly as well as tab groups for me personally. That's how I did it for years before switching to Firefox, and its painful for my workflow.

I used Chrome(ium) for years before tab groups got me to switch to FF, if you take away tab groups, I'd rather just go back to it, if for no other reason that principle. Mozilla won me over by having the more flexible browser, that flexibility is going away, I have no loyalty to them beyond that, honestly.
Moving to Expect-CT
Would this tool remember if it touched a younger colleague a few years ago, or is it also gay?
>We want everyone on the latest versions for caching reasons

From a privacy perspective, I'd love to know what the "caching reasons" are.

Purely speaking in terms of big data, I think being able to track users across domains by font requests, even those with ad-blockers, would be in Google's best interest.

I don't think saving money on bandwidth is Google's primary concern at this point.
This feels like such a pandora's box.

On one hand, it's important we get a better understanding of what makes us tick, on the other hand, I fear what such understanding might enable us to do to each other.
You still have double taxation because of dividend taxes. The US has one of the highest corporate tax rates already, as a country we’d be far better off making it zero.
Ditto. My chromecast just stopped working with my perfectly working 5 year old TV. Same chromecast works on newer monitors or TVs...google are just ignoring
YouTube has tons of great videos that are awesome for watching with children. My 8-year-old loves the PBS Digital Studios series like Eons and It's Okay to Be Smart, and Crash Course.

Even I like some of the better nursery rhyme videos in foreign languages, for my target language. I hadn't understood that even the good channels repackage their materials into different compilations for the ad views. But for us YouTube is something that is on the TV in the living room and we can all see and agree on the videos we watch. Still it's hard to filter out the filthy language, weirdness, and pointless cruelty.

The problem the author identified exists in other parts of the kid Internet. With Web-based games, sites are aggregating weird and disturbing games with the OK or just junky ones, and kids are sharing these sites with each other.
For most small businesses it doesn't really matter whether IBM, Google or Microsoft are dominating the market and when this changes. It's still a huge company lording over the smaller ones. I think we would be much better off if growth beyond a certain size would be disadvantageous for a company and it would become less efficient. But with today's progress in automation and communication you can run a large company world wide in a very efficient manner so it's even harder for small competitors to keep up.
A do not put any wifi credentials into the TV. Ever.

It will forever try to login into that wifi network, even if you disabled the wifi in the tv ui.
We may have a misunderstanding about formality here. While the mere use of defined software development processes has sometimes informally (and confusingly) been called formal, it really isn't. True formal methods involve developing proofs of correctness along with programs, or at least proofs of the absence of certain types of error.

Work on this has indeed been going on for decades, and its very limited adoption so far is a testament to its difficulty. Only a tiny fraction of the code in the domains you mention is formally verified, and I notice that banking and finance are not on your list. The answer to "why would how useful Ethereum is or could be make a difference?" is that if Ethereum becomes as useful and important as intended, the size and scope of the problem will be well beyond anything that has been achieved so far. Arguably, given the value at risk, it has already crossed that threshold by a wide margin.

There are, however, people working on it, such as at Cardano [1], which is an exciting development. Ultimately, I think it will be more successful than trying to fix Ethereum.

If you don't have experience writing formally-verified code, I suggest the F* tutorial [2].

[1] https://www.cardanohub.org/en/home/

[2] https://www.fstar-lang.org/tutorial/
I think OP should have waited for that newsletter to post here. And people shouldn't upload changelogs like this. Of course, nobody has any control over these things :)
I invest with Groundfloor.us. So far it's been a great experience and have had ~10% returns. They are for residential only and have varying levels of risk based on previous success of those looking for the money. I'd recommend looking into them as well. They only are able to collect money from certain states.
Wow, is the comment dead or the author?

As I think I saw both "alive" yesterday.
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I used Chrome(ium) for years before tab groups got me to switch to FF, if you take away tab groups, I'd rather just go back to it, if for no other reason that principle. Mozilla won me over by having the more flexible browser, that flexibility is going away, I have no loyalty to them beyond that, honestly.

May not make much sense but that's how I feel.
Until Google joins Goldman Sachs as yet another unelected branch of the government, I think they're overstating it a bit.

I'm sure Google's working hard on it though!
Every time the idea comes up, "unsprung mass" is thrown like a pavlovian reflex. I'm curious about what they have in mind for solving the constraints. They aren't the less experienced people around.
The Logitech MX518 is a great mouse. I've got two that have been running forever.

Be careful though: there are cheap knockoffs that flooded ebay a while ago. I ordered some and they are definitely not the same thing as the original. They work, but the feel isn't there, and that Logitech symbol is strangely bubbled up and protrudes above the surface of the mouse.
I don't think outrage is better directed at legislators until there is some consensus on what would be changes to the tax code that would help alleviate this problem. I think we're a couple of steps from that and I see no reason why we shouldn't get angry at the large companies until they help us with that step. After all: they are the experts on loopholes and tax evasion!
Realty, investment and a startup - all rolled into one? No thanks.

I see these guys have been in business since 2012/13. The shoeshiner is one of the oft used analogy on HN. Using the same bar if these guys are getting enough traction now it means every one wants in on the sky rocketing realty prices. Though it is difficult to predict when the issues, if any, might happen.

The best and easiest thing to do is to invest in index funds.

If you really want, invest what you can afford to lose.
I've been a user for over a year now. For me the biggest selling point is the plugin architecture.
According to other posts on that thread, they were also clearancing them in the past few months with a 3-month warranty, so you could purchase one and have it work for < 1 year before it turned into a 35% discount on another Logitech purchase.

Frankly that seems scummier than just EOL/EOS of the product.
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I see you're not much of a Twitter user, so I can see how you might not be sensitive to the difference. But for me, the 140 character limit has been a great source of writing discipline, getting me to squeeze a point to its essence. If the 280-character version is only arguably better than the 140-character one, then it's circa half as efficient, both in terms of character count and the reader's time. Jack's post was sloppy writing.

And that's really my beef with this change. Twitter is seeking something easy to measure -- engagement of marginal writers -- but willing to sacrifice things that are harder to measure, like reader burden and tweet quality.

Worse, this still won't solve the "need to post more text" problem; you can find a zillion historical examples of people needing more than 280 characters. Thus the unique institution of a tweetstorm, where people had to distill their thinking into a linked set of short, punchy sentences. Thus the less appealing practice of posting an image of text. Thus people being inspired to write longer posts elsewhere and then respond with a well-phrased tweet and a link. I think Twitter would have been far better served to offer text attachments equivalent to image attachments, basically adding a real blogging feature to their existing microblogging platform.
> are we simply buying into a temporarily functioning product that can cease functioning at any time at the whim of the manufacturer?

This happens a lot. I own several software/hardware products that no longer function because the ecosystem moved on and the company stopped updating the software (either for business reasons or because they simply went out of business)..

The hardware itself is totally fine, I just can't use it anymore because the closed-sourced software is not available or not compatible with my operating system(s).

And it is a bad look for sure. I'm definitely not buying any products from any of those companies anymore.. The ones that still exist at least.
The problem is distinguishing between fonts used for fancy typography and fonts abused as icon libraries.
>Should that be free?

I think you're missing the part where anyone (well, most) who live abroad is actually paying anything.