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I think blockchains are here to stay, and that's fine; they're extremely interesting. I feel that at the moment they suffer from the problem that a few technologies suffered: they're a solution looking for problems to solve. By that I mean that currently there's a trend towards applying blockchains to solve every problem regardless of a solution for it not requiring blockchain at all. Do you want to make a transfer? Blockchain. Do you want to manage inventory? Blockchain. Do you want to help starving children in Africa? Blockchain. Do you want to transfer files? Blockchain. All of those are problems and they're problems that don't need a blockchain to be solved and a blockchain is arguably not the best way of handing them but because blockchains can be used as part of a solution, because it's a trendy technology, there's a huge effort towards applying it to solve them.

I don't think it's a bad thing to try and apply new solutions to old problems but it just feels that we're trying to apply it too much to problems that are otherwise already solved.
i've got ~20 bashes open in various tmux configurations. the amount of times i lost command history is infuriating (e.g. due to reboot or whatever).

context-sensitive completion (not necesarrily tab completion, mind you) is very basic compared to IDEs.

mouse support would be good if it was actually useful. copy and paste is useful.

zoom in/out (think c--/c-+/c-0 in browsers) would be nice sometimes, especially when i want to copy large amounts of stuff. the fact that copy/paste is the easiest way to transfer files over ssh is also mildly irritating.

option to display an image or render a webpage or pdf in the terminal directly (ala jupyter) would be nice.
I like how you couldn't use this in a war against your enemy, but you can on your own citizens.
Agreed, there is no decent choice :(

I would have happily kept using the iPhone 6 indefinitely. And given the option I would have bought another battery.
Is this a good value? Has anyone gone through it all yet? (I would like to know).

I am currently going through the Hyperledger tutorial series on edX. It is completely free to access. See https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:LinuxFoundationX+L...

I find that the course material has a large intersection with the edX course. I'm not sure why they need an Indie Gogo Acccount. You can also buy a certificate on edX for $99 but this is optional.
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It also supports youbsaying Alexa order tide, or Alexa reorder tide. And she will ask you if you want to buy the most recent tide product you purchased again.
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Would love to hear about people's setups and learn some new tricks to enhance my own workflow!
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16010930
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Learn from history.

Anyone who is working on improving terminals now, in the second decade of the 21st century, needs to learn from all of the work that went on in the 1970s and 1980s addressing much the same needs and wants, let alone what has happened since then.

Terminals got graphics capabilities. Operating systems vendors enhanced their operating systems with abstractions with far better programmatic interfaces like the KBD/VIO/MOU subsystems in OS/2 and the console subsystem in Windows NT, providing mouse and keyboard input messages that did not have to be parsed and directly addressable video buffers that could be written to and read from.

Real terminals and terminal emulators converged on the ECMA-48 and DEC VT control sequences. For terminal emulators people invented remote terminal protocols more geared towards common IBM PC compatible hardware such as AVATAR (see FSC-0025 from 1988), and even protocols for encapsulating higher-level things like TUI widgets.

* https://jdebp.eu/FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.html

* http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0025.001

* http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0037.001

As for moving terminal handling out of the various operating system kernels, people were doing that years ago too. I wrote a white paper on it for Linux in 2006, and the ideas were not new then, they having already existed in systems like GNU Hurd and Windows NT. David Herrman, one of the systemd people, wrote KMSCON; which, ironically given the comments about systemd on this page, was actually included in systemd (as systemd-consoled) for about nine months until he (with much less fanfare than accompanied the inclusion and no comment from Lennart Poettering when asked about it) removed it again. Many people wrote framebuffer terminal emulators, including me.

* http://jdebp.eu./Proposals/linux-console-daemon.html

* https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=ce7b...

* https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/747

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/177209/5132

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html
Whatever the utility, there are certain lines that I draw with my privacy and having an open mic anywhere in my house is one of those lines. It's foolish. There are millions upon millions of foolish people out there. Whether or not you care who hears you, whether or not anyone is listening, you can't argue it is benign technology. Google and Amazon are most certainly listening because it's what they do. There are no assurances they can give that would be enough. The data is one subpoena away from being used against you anytime.
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Pretty much any modern shell (bash, zsh, fish, etc) provides command line completion.
> Reminds me of the also unbroken Indus script. With all this computational power, I'm surprised that we haven't been able to crack ancient proto-writing.

Attempts to crack the Indus script with the aid of computers have been made since at least the 1970s (a large Soviet team went to work on it then), but the problem is that the Indus script may not actually encode the sounds of a language. If it is essentially a set of tamgas or decorative elements, then it cannot be cracked. And even if it encodes the sounds of a language, if that language utterly died out and is unknown to scholars today, then even if we know what the sounds were, we probably wouldn’t be able to determine much of their meaning.
I'm one of the people defending Apple's charge for battery replacement as reasonable, but his point is it's actually a physically difficult thing to do, to replace the battery. It takes real skill to replace a modern iphone battery without ruining it.

> "they are running them so close to the redline that they can only handle it for a year"

As for this, he's citing the fact the iPhone 7 is affected - a phone that came out just over a year ago.
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Well, Pythagoras should maybe not be remembered, since he didn't actually discover the theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#History
I trust Amazon more than Google, though; I both expect products to be less aggressively discontinued, and data collection to be less rapacious with Amazon. Amazon also have a known and reasonably moral means of making money. Advertising OTOH is mass manipulation. And Google have too much other information on me especially from search, I need to keep things distributed.

I'm one of the people who bought my partner a Dot. It works very well for the things we've used for so far.
My zsh autocompletion list for git add actually contains the stageable files. I don't know if this is stock zsh behaviour or related to my prezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto config but it can be done

Edit: looks like it might be stock behaviour https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/master/Completion/Unix...
Are your customers people who already know Japanese candy, but simply miss it because they're abroad? Or is Japanese candy new to them and your service is a way for them to try something new? With the temporary surge in search traffic, it sounds like it's mostly "new" people. In that case, my hunch would be that a subscription for a "novel" experience does not make sense. I would (personally) try to offer other novelty items as part of the subscription (eg. other Japanese cultural products such as Mangas, or candy from other countries if feasible). Just my 2¢ of course. It's your business and I know nothing about it.
If WebAssembly is primarily used for ad tech, it may be the death knell for WebAssembly.
That is a big assumption but yes, I understand that "reserves" != "all", and you rightly describe the interrelationship between price and what is considered "extractable".

Even so, as an initial "world reserves" estimate, it's absolutely puny. Take into consideration that past the first "dozen years" demand will increase massively, at full adoption lithium will likely be short lived as a primary material to base batteries on. We don't know the extraction potential for whatever the "remaining" and "unknown" reserves are but thankfully EVs aren't intrinsically tied to lithium like ICE is to oil, so if lithium becomes overmined we are more likely to switch to other materials than go to extremes to extract more of it.
It is argued that the security services pushed for these companies to create these products in the first place. Tinfoil, I know, but the tail does often wag the dog.
Thanks for the link. I signed up for their mailing list. I agree with the other commenter that this is off thread topic, but I still appreciate the link!
I use it primarily to control lights and my thermostat. In theory I can use it to control my entertainment system, but that seems less convenient than an app on my phone.

The lighting control is great. I see a lot of people saying a physical button or switch is better, but voice control is a button that is always exactly where you are.

I live in an older house which with the exception of the kitchen and bathroom is lit entirely with tabletop lamps. Adding modern recessed lighting with convenient switches would be a major undertaking. Installing a bunch of Insteon lamp controllers took 15 minutes and pairing with Alexa was pretty simple.

Bottom line, Alexa is an I/O device just like a keyboard is. It's only useful when connected to other devices. If you find home automation worthwhile, you'll probably like the voice control Alexa provides. If you think home automation is more trouble than it's worth, Alexa probably won't change your mind.
And it sounds like you might want to invest in SEO. Your article says you dropped in relevance but does not mention whether you are addressing this problem already.
Is there a relationship between the power method and some "standard" optimization algorithm (grad. descent, Newton's, ...) applied to maximization of the Rayleigh quotient?
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Thank and share time :)
I find 3rd party skills a painful experience to use.

Having to open a skill like an app before asking what I want Alexa to do feels completely wrong. It leads to me basically never using any third party skills.

If I wanted to open apps I’d use my phone. I want something more natural.
Once you live off $30k/yr it's difficult to go back down to $15k/yr (especially if someone else like a significant other is involved).
This sounds interesting. Could you shed some light in what hacking a kindle entails? Could I hook up my micro controller to the kindle and use the kindles display? Could I add gpio ports to the kindle and use it as a micro controller?
they don’t quite seem to form a written language

Must be a programming language of some sort :)
Not sure why you got downvoted for telling the truth. Shareblue and CTR are both comapanies whose employees do nothing all day but shill on message forums and muddy the waters in order to sow confusion online. I am 100% certain it has been going on since at least the Bush II Administration in the US.
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> "and cue incessant deluge of pushback."

But really, where else are people going to go?
Not sure what English speaking country, or even US region, you come from but “OK [name], [call to action, often one involving both speaker and listener]” is a thing. And it doesn’t have to be a response to something said previously.

Remember, people can do whatever they want with their language, and it becomes a thing even if you personally aren’t familiar with it.
> of course

This is not immediately obvious to me. Care to elaborate?
Have you thought about offering a box subscription of just one kind of Japanese candy? I’d gladly pay up to US$50/month to get Japanese KitKats sent to me as would some friends. I’m sure we aren’t alone, but not sure total market size of course or if it’d be worth it for you. Japanese KitKats are already seasonal in flavors, so makes doing a variety box even easier. Hope you’ll consider it!
Now the cat is out of the bag I hope Apple adds a "your phone performance is being reduced because of a degraded battery" message to the settings app or something.

Sad that they had to be sprung on this one and not more forthcoming though.
They're completely reliable for weather, specific queries like will it rain, timers and music. That's enough to be compelling at the price level.
I know you’re trying to help but good grief.
> Could we invent something better?

How about making just a small tweak to the limited liability corporation legislation/rules? Currently the main purpose of a corporation is to maximize the (long term) shareholder value. What if the purpose was to maximize the long term goods sold, taxes paid or salaries paid instead? Note that you would still need to pay a decent return to shareholders in order to maximize these other things, just like currently you need (usually) to sell goods, pay a salary and pay your taxes to maximize the shareholder value.

(This may sound like a joke, but I am actually serious. Nobody has been able to justify so that I would have understood why it is the common stock holders whose value a corporation maximizes instead of other stakeholders. After all, the original reason limited liability was invented was to enable projects that bring good for the society, but are so damn risky that nobody is willing to take the full liability.)
It looks like something that cannot be achieved by anyone who has to care about anything else but his/her job. The author says that he has a wife and a daughter, yet it looks difficult to me (I have two kids) to meet such a schedule.

My alarm rings at 6:30 am, and for the next two hours I am busy making breakfasts, preparing kids and bringing them to school; at night I never free myself before 9:30 pm, so there is really little time to study, especially that amount of material.

Maybe I'm limited and I have time-managing problems, so I'm interested to know the experience of other dads and moms.
Both are basically optimization processes that yield considerable risk and that are tricky to regulate, but in case of cooperations you still have the human element: vulnerability/fallibility, social reputation/integration, slowness/interpretability, empathy. The best policies to mitigating the respective risks probably are quite different.
Would a 1.5" display work? You can buy these [1] from AliExpress for $15 a piece. And for $19 you can get this board from Sparkfun with a built in LiPo charger [2]. Or course you can go way cheaper on the board + charger, but this one is pretty easy to use if you don't have much experience with electronics.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/200x200-1-54inch-E-Ink-displ...
[2]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13907
One thing I really want DarkTable to allow is deletion of images. They say that any kind of file manager features will not be implemented, but IMHO it's a great preview tool and the ability to just delete poor shots would make it much better for triaging a new batch of photos.
You mention the decline in search ranking and Google traffic.

I'd strongly suggest you set up on Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube.

I would do an occasional YouTube video, talking about and showing people the various types of Japanese candy. Maybe do just one per week, focused on a group of related candy. I read your post about YouTube traffic and correlation to sales, I think the solution to that is what it tends to be with everything marketing: consistently drive it over a long period of time (obviously along with clickable links to your site, which the blogged-about video lacked).

I'd post nice, alluring photos to Pinterest and Instagram. Making sure to update both accounts at least weekly. Every item from every box should eventually get an Instagram post, with a description. Japanese candy packaging always seems to my US eyes to be very colorful, energetic, with fun designs - which I think lends very well to a site like Instagram (and its scale is obviously immense).

A Facebook page would also be ideal if you can or want to invest the time to cultivate it (a lot more work vs posting occasional media content to the other sites).

Google isn't dying per se as a highly valuable source of traffic, but things have changed a lot in the last five or six years. Google search as a traffic source no longer occupies the overwhelming position that it used to, and that is going to continue to weaken vs everything else collectively.
I am following Candy Japan for years and I like the idea. In its early years the landing page was super charming despite its bootstrapped style. Now in 2017, it just looks aged. I mean the entire presentation, the dull white packaging without any branding and the still unexciting pictures feel like somebody lost all motivation and ambition. No offense, just my perception.

I just googled competitors and all of them feel way more vibrant + being more active on social media (I checked Instagram for the first two):

https://www.japancrate.com/

https://tokyotreat.com/

https://wowbox.jp/

http://www.kawaiibox.com/

https://www.sushicandy.net/

Building a slick landing page which is also responsive can be quite some work but looking at that competition it's a must, sorry. Look, it's not that people really need a monthly candy box, it's not a rational decision, it's something emotional—an impulse buy. So, if the landing page isn't even thrilling what should then trigger the buy?

Social media in particular Instagram might be a significant marketing channel because Japanese candy and its colourfulness is tailor-made for Instagram.

Maybe the business model is also the problem. There are little lock-ins/network effects and a low-barrier market entry for Japanese entities, thus all these competitors. There might be opportunities to pivot the business or extend into new fields/models. The first thing which comes to mind is licensing successful products for exclusive import/distribution to key western markets. Different game but highly scalable. Maybe there more unseen opportunities. If not then selling the business could be an option (after a final revamp re presentation and SEO).

However, Candy Japan has still one major strength: Frequently placing stories on social news sites like HN and Reddit which always hit top 10 positions and generate tons of free traffic (should be 20-30k visits per placement which would translate in 200 to 300 subs at 1% conversion).
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I have some reading to do...
The gamification talk currently going on is painting a very effective picture of China basically taking the most evil position possible with technology.
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Please share more. I have two Kindle 3 laying around and I'd love to do something useful with them.

Everything I read about hacking older Kindles involved rooting them and displaying a HTML with whatever you wanted. That sounds too easy, and I'd like to go deeper.
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You can't criticize people for not having information you have. None of that was in your original post. Also the sarcastic 3rd person tone of most of your responses is off-putting. This comment would have been much better if you just stated how you did try to analyze the success of ADR in great depth.
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A quick intro to the SCS:

https://youtu.be/lHcTKWiZ8sI
Google doesn’t quite have that power - some of the things they have pushed have failed to gain traction, sometimes for very good reasons. For example, Object.observe was a proposal that Google themselves eventually unshipped from the Chrome after the JS ecosystem roundly rejected adopting the paradigms it enables, most notably for React’s unidirectional data flow (it always felt like a proposal meant specifically to optimize Angular). Google also backtracked on Web Components, choosing to revise the spec after some ideas became awkward when combined with the emergence of ES modules.

The other browser vendors play an incredibly meaningful role, as well as the frontend web developer community at large.
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Actually, it is. It is very much a technical problem. Technology has not yet provided a super-fast, truly decentralized, perfectly uncensorable “Internet for All” solution. If we had that, a lot of this discussion would be moot.

Someone in Dalat could teach Vietnamese to any number of foreigners, without any adversary being the wiser. Anyone in China could read up on Tiannenmen Square or the “Free Tibet” movement without fear of arrest. People in Indonesia could watch any film they wish.

“Laws” in any country on this planet are not immutable, immaculate/divine, absolute, or axiomatic. They can and should be changed — regardless of the concerns of those in power. And the only reliable way to ensure change is education, information and discussion — all unfettered, uncensored and unbridled.

Until technology guarantees that, we as ‘techies’ have not delivered. And please, don’t tell me about Tor and “teh darkwubs” — that is not a realistic solution for 99% of the online population — too slow and still not bulletproof.

Technology needs to do better.
You're dismissing everything I said because you 'don't need' to do the logging. That's not much of an argument even if we ignored the fact that governments will 100% certainly be collecting and storing and correlating and ultimately selling that data even though technically they don't need to do that in order to just make the border control aspect work - as I have shown with the AU government doing literally that with facial ID data.