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Microsoft is moving towards and exclusively rent to own model. This is already causing problems for businesses who built adhoc applications in old versions of Access — they lose downgrade rights when moving to O365 and are often pirating Access 2003 or whatever.

That exacerbates the key issue with proprietary general purpose document formats — as users, citizens or companies we lose sovereignty over our data.

When Microsoft decides to cut out some feature in 2030, data produced with it can be forever lost. This is a big deal when Office is the universal language of modern government and business.

This is not an exclusively Microsoft problem either. Google Docs is far worse, but relatively speaking nobody uses it.
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Could you? I mean if my KSP knowledge is anything to go by, yes you could, but KSP isn't reality and I can imagine the rocket itself is already too heavy or doesn't have enough thrust / fuel to bring itself into orbit.
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Ektachrome still photography film is a Kodak Alaris product. Kodak Alaris announced its return at CES in 2017:

https://www.kodakalaris.com/en-gb/about/press-releases/2016/...

Eastman Kodak is also, as per that press release, going to bring Ektachrome movie film to market for their Super 8 camera.
It's more the fact that they hold a quasi-monopoly AND have severe interface flaws that are now "standard". If it was just one of the two, I think people would be more forgiving (see Adobe Photoshop/InDesign, which, while flawed, understand user interface).

I have seen people waste hours doing things in MS Office that should take 5 minutes because of how broken its UX is. They got a tiny little bit better but then you try setting the print area for an Excel table again and spend a good 15 minutes and you know they still have the same problems at their core.

The problem with LibreOffice & Co is that they basically just copy Microsoft's mistakes, making UX an afterthought with wobbly, unaligned buttons and illogical grouping and hierarchies of different elements. We'll likely won't escape that office software hell any time soon but projects like LibreOffice at least have the freedom to chisel at its foundation.
I tried it. I generally liked it, but was super annoyed at the lack of auto save. Even office online does this. I lost work as a result.
Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS
Are babel plugins the new C preprocessor? and have all the problems associated with that.
>So did they compare the total number of steps in the 2 groups?

Considering that between mobile phones, smartwatches and dedicated devices, it is less than trivial to do that, I doubt that is something they overlooked.
One of the main problems while I was researching about status page services and saw many having the same doubts here was about where to deploy the status page. Besides this market has a lot of players even the biggest one had problem when the big S3 outage happened last year (see ref-1).

What about do not depend on a centralized infrastructure to deploy you status page and kept always alive?

This project aims to deploy you status page on a decentralized infrastructure IPFS (see ref-2), after installed it, you will be running a status page service on top of a local IPFS node. So you’ll be able to to publish you status pages on IPFS while being part of the network.

I thought this use case fits perfect on a decentralized environment.

You can deploy this service on a VPS for 1/4 of the price you pay for your current status page service provider.

See an example of a status page deployed using D StatusPage:

https://gw1.dstatuspage.net/ipfs/QmePTzsSVae8BK8antLHfV2xWfE...

http://gw2.dstatuspage.net/ipfs/QmePTzsSVae8BK8antLHfV2xWfEf...

What are you thoughts?

https://www.dstatuspage.net
https://github.com/paulogr/dstatuspage

This software is still in alpha state with basic status page service functionalities, feel free to ask for a feature or address any issue you have:

https://github.com/paulogr/dstatuspage/issues

- ref-1: https://blog.statuspage.io/a-birds-eye-view-of-the-amazon-s3...

- ref-2: https://ipfs.io

The software will be distributed for free and open source under MIT license.
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Mom rule == "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"?
I did them for a while but then my shoulder started giving me problems so I had to stop. Definitely a quick exercise but can cause injuries.
>Has anyone been "successful" at step counting?

Err, machines can do that for you.
Always amazing to realize that at some point in the past everything we know was unknown, and someone had to figure it out the first time. For everything we do today we stand on the shoulders of giants.
As other fellow commenters remarked, and as an AI enthusiast/researcher myself, I fail to see AI as a business.
What I would like is a fund, or similar that is funding research, because fundamentally we need so much research in this area.

AI as we have it now is just a bunch of ML algos and *NNs that perform well in different niches and, well, after all cat pictures were categorized, what to do next?

So, in case Andrew is reading this post, I would like to have a chat with him about my research ideas and if they could be funded. Because if this happens, many more would follow and then we can see a real progres towards real/hard AI.
I'm not sure whether burpees are good or bad, but are you really citing the notoriously unreliable Independent's reporting of quotes from a "celebrity personal trainer" as a source?

Are there any peer-reviewed scientific studies of the advantages and disadvantages?
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So how about doing 20 push-ups and 30 sit-ups daily. Wouldn't that take even less time (just 2 minutes) and have an even higher effect?

But sure, it would take a lot more discipline and will power as those aren't normal every day activities. So in the end its just a trade about time for will power.

You better have at least one of them.
If the sample is randomly chosen shouldn't it have proportionally as much fraud as the overall system?
> There's quite a bit more evidence than that:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1464209/Borders-folk-...

A unit of "Moors". Again, Mediterranean looking North Africans. Despite the misleading title.

> It does no such thing. Can you point to any reputable scholar who is prepared to state such an "upper bound"?

Of course not. The evidence is so thin it wasn't even up for useful scholarly debate.
Of the 201 countries listed on Wikipedia, 159 have free healthcare[1]. There are only 42 that don't, which includes the US obviously.

Every country offers free education up to at least primary school, with most offering free education up to 16 years old. There are currently 24 countries that offer free education up to degree level for their citizens.

I have no idea what makes you think healthcare and education isn't free around the world. They are free in far more places than not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers...
[2] https://www.edvisors.com/plan-for-college/money-saving-tips/...
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How does it decide on a Yes or No?
Just bought a GPU at a ridiculous markup. Sold my old one on eBay to make some of it back, but still had to spend way more money than I should have. Fuck cryptocurrencies.
Color me skeptical, but I'm not inclined to believe an anonymous person on the internet, who brings no evidence to the table. What's your TDEE and macro ratio?

10k steps a day is a marketing gimmick designed to sell fancy pedometers, rebranded as "fitness trackers". Literally everyone I have ever met who talks about this as a real world metric is terribly out of shape.
Clever, however their link to this chart I think ends as a net positive outcome for me:

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/
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> “keep their streak up”

I think that `how much code has been changed by developer` is not a good metric for performance. There might be weeks when I'm barely writing any code and getting the most work done.

Issue trackers on the other hand can be good to track performance.
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It seems like I will continue collecting downvotes on this topic but I will give yet another try.

I would not be totally against regulation and government intervention into blockchain space (and any other space as well). In fact, it would be really good for the space have reasonable but friendly regulation which would clean up space from outright scams.

Unfortunately, governments usually don't try to came up with reasonable regulation but rather killing regulation. One notable example is BitLicense which lead to mass exodus of cryptocurrency-related companies from New York.

Real life example of sad result of such regulation:

https://www.stellar.org/lumens/build/

> If you live in a restricted area — any country on the U.S. sanctions list, as well as the states of Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, New York, Vermont and Washington — regulations prevent us from sending you lumens. Unfortunately, therefore, residents of restricted areas are not eligible for an award.

This sentence is exact reason why I really hate regulators and people who are very enthusiastic about big government cracking down cryptocurrency space just because of few really stupid and obvious pump and dump scams on coins I've never heard of.

Fortunately, I don't live in New York and US. I'm rather give here examples familiar to Hacker News readers.

Another thing I hate about regulators is notion of accredited investor. Which says:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor#United_Sta...

> In the United States, to be considered an accredited investor, one must have a net worth of at least $1,000,000, excluding the value of one's primary residence

Which basically says - rich gets richer and you poor little guy is too stupid for participating in potentially highly lucrative deals.

I know what you will say - the governments try to protect ordinary people from scams. Don't you think it's a little overshoot??? Instead of keeping so high barrier of entry, the government could impose some sort of exams if you want to accredited investor. Or as alternative, make sure a person won't put more than 10% of early net income in high risk projects. That's what I would call friendly regulation.

So I see how government try to regulate (just practically ban things) and I tell - it's better having no regulation at all!
It would be cool for them to do a study.... have the default set to whichever version of the toolbar people use most in their settings. A real life, long-term usability study. I bet the ribbon loses big-time since it Is such a discoverability nightmare.
There are plenty of people in North Africa who have dark skin. See e.g. the following photo that vidarh linked to in another comment:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ingetjetadros/4603950662

The term "Moor" does not translate precisely to any modern ethnic term, and is perfectly compatible with dark skin. In fact, the article notes that "The unit is likely to have been composed of Berbers from North Africa, but may also have had darker-skinned soldiers from Nubia."
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Yeah, I read that too. 30C is 86 F. The OP above mentioned a 100 degree day, 14 degrees warmer, and the formula and paper I referenced above would put the surface temp of the road would also only rise 14 degrees, to 136 F on a 100 degree day.

The OP claimed 150-175 is common on a 100 degree day. No research I can find (except one single author) is anywhere near that amount.
It's hardcoded - I decided I couldn't see prices coming down any time soon.

If you've got a price API I can hit from JS, then I'll add something that checks if a 1080ti is above $1000.

I really didn't expect this to get votes - I threw it together in 5 minutes!
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I was so frustrated when I came out of PC literacy retirement to upgrade and found that $300 doesn't get me much further than my old HD 7870 After this many years I was expecting 2-3x performance boost.
It's super fun but I can't think of many real-world uses. Maybe in subtle, element-wise stretching and reshaping as part of more complex editing? Squeezing images is a huge no-no in any graphic design, and while content-aware resizing is a neat trick to avoid the most glaring problems, it's still image squeezing. You'd rather just crop the image or choose a different one.
Because a discipline making an error in some estimation makes it worth nothing?

I wonder were that puts medicine, computer science, engineering and tons of other disciplines that often get it wrong.

Not to mention that you haven't given one argument (or reference) why Columbus is not, or could not have been, from Northeastern Spain.

So I'd take the "toiler paper" advice with large grains of salt.
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Always check for ticks after spending time outdoors in the summer. Here's a tip: if you have body hair, use your hands to check in addition to your eyes. It's easier to feel them than it is to see them.
I use the draw program alot, so there's that.
Way to get your Bitcoin donation address on HN!
>Rvalue references provide move semantics, and they solve the perfect forwarding problem. Neither the performance issue that move semantics address nor the perfect forwarding problem exist in classic OO languages that use reference semantics and garbage collection for user-defined types.

I don't get this. The performance issue move semantics solve doesn't exist if you just use automatic garbage collection? Is this what the article is saying?
Never mind, the locale settings work just fine. Turns out they just don't update the dropdown with commonly used margins (0.5", 1.75" and so on) to centimeters.
This didn't explain to me why you shouldn't do burpees. So I clicked on the article to see if you had missed quoting the meat of the guy's point. Found out... nope, you got it. So we shouldn't do burpees because it came from the military as a way to dodge bullets? I don't get how that says we shouldn't do them. His point that it's not good for the wrist, and the spine is not in the proper position? The burpees or the sitting in the office? I'm not clear. If the sitting in the office causes the wrist and spine issues, how is this relevant to whether or not I should do burpees? If the burpees cause the wrist and spine issues, how do burpees cause that? There's no explanation in the article. But there ARE a lot of fitness trainers who claim that burpees are great. So I'm guessing it's clear why I'm still thinking that burpees are OK.
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I was 50/50 on putting it there. I decided that putting a PayPal address would be more evil than this. I also didn't expect this to get anything other than downvotes.
Eh, with transaction fees as high as they are I doubt they'll get a single donation.
I am not sure but it looks to me, like someone wants us to donate bitcoin to his address so he can buy a GPU. But so far nobody seems to have donated:

https://blockexplorer.com/address/1HKsanBZFom6WL4cGDtKPF9NTo...
Final as in this will be the last time Ng will teach the course?
Huge congrats FSF!
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I shoulda used something else! Oh well, the .xyz domain only cost me ~5AUD
When will they block all political ads?
> the menu bar was massively better. Now you know someone.

And someone else here too. We moved about a year ago to the 'the ribbon' and I detest it. They have hidden much of the functionality and it's a more laborious process to get to any feature which isn't immediately available.

Another little annoyance I have is in Outlook. Pre Ribbon you could right click on your mailbox root and select Advanced Search. This control was set up to search everything in your mailbox. The Advanced Search option has gone from the right click, I've added an icon on the Quick Access toolbar and it's also available as Ctrl-Shift-F.

What's wrong with that you think! The problem is it's no longer configured to search your entire mailbox (presumably as it's not got the context of the right-click), just your Inbox. I now need to do Browse, tick the Root using the mouse, then tick "search subfolders" using the mouse, and then OK back to the Advanced Find control. A complete PITA and step backwards in functionality.
0.01% of the Chinese soda market is hard to capture, for you or I, but doesn't provide the necessary market cap to engage in the fallacious thinking and investment at the scale that people who talk about "Chinese math" care about...

And from that VC perspective: 0.01% of the Chinese soda market is not particularly hard to capture..

> Chinese soft drinks consumers prefer to purchase non-alcoholic beverages by brands of foreign origin... in 2013, only 20 percent of the purchase came from local brands. Coca-Cola, remains the dominate brand in China’s soft drinks market.

So, Pepsi Cola invested and got a Chinese partner with a market disadvantage, from 2007 to 2012, to grow their market share from 8.8 to 12%... That's __320__ captures of 0.01% of the market in just 5 years from a single player.

... 0.01% of the $69 Billion Chinese soda market is just about $7 million in sales revenue... That doesn't leave a lot of margin to fallaciously justify a business plan with. $7 million in revenue is harder than playing XBox, sure, but not exactly a moon landing either.
Late 30s, in adult life never been fat, never been lean. Have always 'exercised', but in the last couple of years have taken it a bit more seriously. Basically an actual plan, proper stretches, decent exercise routines, conscious food choices etc.

As they say, "you can't exercise out a good diet". I've been counting macros (MyFitnessPal) over the last few months, as dull as it is, and I'm in the best shape I've been in, probably ever. I'm also nowhere near my goal, but the progression is encouraging.

Also wear a fitbit, it's nice to hit my 10k, but it's not something I go out of my way to achieve (other than, perhaps, walking up stairs rather than grabbing a lift or whatever). I do, however, pay close attention to my sleep (I'm noticeably worse at work with bad sleep) and my resting heart rate (spikes hard after drinking, affects sleep).

TL;DR: I wish I'd put more effort in (wrt exercise/health) as a younger guy and this would be much easier now. Plans/routines are super important. Sleep/alcohol/lack of exercise/shitty food affects me far more now than it ever did. Effort and tracking is dull, but the benefits are worth it.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I prefer function over form. On the other hand, for most office suite work (spreadsheets and documents) I'm not doing anything too fancy. There are occasional bouts of "how do I do that again?" But tbh I have that with PowerPoint also.

I can learn a UI, don't mind if it's klunky, but I need the thing to do what I need it to do.
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That's really good and above average. How different it is for you in the SME/SMB segment vs enterprise? Churn is much higher for small 5-10 person installations usually, as the switching costs are small and often even initial payments are to continue trialing it. Much different for 1000 users implementation.
I liked it, jokes are thin around here and this one hit the current trend! You should add in some value by pulling prices from somewhere.
If you access to a stationary bike. Go as hard as you can for 30 seconds every other minute for 5 minutes.
You might not see results but your insides will love you for it.
Not a bad start.
Agreed, I don't see any posts in this thread arguing that MS charging for office is a bad thing. And I don't see any problem with charging money for productivity software either. But since the issue has been raised, I'll bite. I can articulate an ideological opposition to Microsoft Office's proprietary file formats which are a de-facto standard.

The original Office file formats were entirely proprietary and MS explicitly used this to lock out competition. The OOXML formats in use since 2007 are technically an open spec, but one that is difficult to implement reliably. The only software product that is reliably compatible with MS Office is MS Office.

For much of the HN crowd, Office documents isn't a big part of our job, but we're in the minority here. Most people are far more likely to open Word than any code editor. In my experience outside of the tech industry, document collaboration is primarily done through SharePoint, if not emailing Word and Excel docs. Scheduling is managed via Outlook/Exchange with their proprietary protocols.

This isn't a problem as long as people are being productive on their own using MS Office. The problem is that files are widely distributed with the expectation that anyone can view and edit them. For example, my kids' school teachers regularly post homework assignments .doc or .docx format. I've also seen MS Office files from doctors' office and municipal governments.

So there's free stuff like LibreOffice and Google Docs, which are mostly compatible with MS Office, and mostly sufficient for home or personal use. Usually .doc or .docx files open fine. Sometimes they come out looking like garbage.

A typical business will want to be able to exchange documents with their customers and suppliers, to say nothing of years of legacy documents that they already have. Compatibility is important, and it is worth paying for. The notion that they're paying for software to make their employees more productive isn't a problem. The fact that they have no alternatives where to spend their money if they want to be compatible with their legacy docs and the rest of the world, that's a problem.
>Are there any peer-reviewed scientific studies of the advantages and disadvantages

Are there any in the parent comment? At least this is a reference you can check and decide.

Also, what is the "notoriously unreliable" part? The person is a professional personal trainer, has worked for celebrities, and I see no reason to believe Independent has reported their quote correctly.

You could argue that a random professional personal trainer is not the ultimate source for such advice (though, obviously better than a random comment), but not that there's something "notoriously unreliable" in Independent reporting on what they advice -- except if you extend it to Independent's political affiliations or whatever.
So is your issue that the dropdown sizes and associated font sizes are different?
Coming from the Emacs side of things, I will have to call that an incomplete understanding of the concept of extensibility.
TX fees are insanely low right now, the average transaction should cost about $0.80 USD worth of bitcoin (and closer to $0.40 USD worth if you use a segwit address).
If you can point me to an API with CORS enabled I can probably do it in the morning.
That's the reason why I have my doubts about UBI. If it shows to work there will be people calling for cuts.
If you can't beat them, join them. The current rates are like $4-5 per day for a gtx 1080/1080ti on nicehash. Super simple installation and you can set it to run whenever idle.
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Just think of it like a really slow but never ending rebate. And if enough people do it, we'll even have a chance of lowering the overall profitability.
I'd rather pay Paypal transaction fees right now :P