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> Clearly, a lot of work has gone into making Stadia and it deserves to succeed.

Thank you for your kind words. We're definitely excited about the opportunities before us.

And thanks for the feedback!

I agree with your critique. We definitely need a better marketing website that conveys our mission and vision, as well as product offerings. I realized as I was reading my parent comment that most of the big selling points (which are things we strongly believe in) are not properly addressed in the website.

I think I know our next action item. :)
The advantage of giving this authority to google/facebook, and not the government, is that it provides a buffer from the government. These companies, in the pursuit of protecting personal data, will not give up data unless the authorities have done the requisite due diligence. As it stands right now, they are all too willing to give up data because they are advertising companies. If they instead became mandated with protecting personal data, then I believe they could be extremely effective at this.

Take for example apple, who don't make the bulk of their money off of advertising. Their practices represent the state of the art in digital security, and they are one of the largest tech companies. They manage not just to protect data from other people, but also to protect data from themselves, and therefore from overreaching law enforcement. We don't currently get similar treatment from google, but we couldn't expect similar treatment from the government, were they to move into this space.
It catches half of unintended auto plays? So basically Google is rolling with a system that will still annoy you sometimes because that’s what’s best for their advertisement driven bottom line. The faster and more seamlessly ads can get played, the more money google makes.
> when the hell do you expect to be making your friends over 30, during your 8-hours asleep?

You neglect the other 8 hours in a day, and you aren't alone in that. I have a ton of coworkers who do their 8, go home and watch tv and have a beer, then go to bed.

Meanwhile I'm going on short hikes, taking classes or hitting the gym, or going to shows and meeting new people.

With kids, the equation is obviously different (at least the eight hours of sleep portion) but you can take the little one to the park, to play dates with other kids, and occasionally non-kid focused events (the last beer fest I went to seemed to have several kids running about).

At the end of the day you have to prioritize how to spend your time and use it fully. It is harder then just watching tv and having a beer, but much more rewarding. Take classes, volunteer, be social. Your time is limited, always use it well.
Anecdotally, I know of a Singaporean whose brother charged for taking the daughter with his kids on holiday. He didn't outright make it a billable item but made it a markup on flights and hotels. Both are HNWIs for whom the amount is as trivial as a dollar menu item at McDonald's.
> A serious enterprise version (and Pro version for that matter) should never include candy crush or ads in the first place.

They just took the default provisioning profile which is the same as a end user install of Pro. People had the same complaints about Windows Media Player, Solitaire, and even IE if you go far enough back. But the response now is the same as the response then: Provision Windows Enterprise how you want it, don't just use the defaults and then complain when that isn't to your tastes.

I'm not thrilled that ANY version of Windows ships with Candy Crush, but removing it from Enterprise is far easier than retail since you're provisioning the OS anyway; in retail you're likely having to uninstall all of the tat one by one.
Ah so it’s mostly due to engineering being interested in specifically the change in values over real world time, rather than conceptual time, or just not time at all?

(Excuse my phrasing. English is totally my first language I’m just bad at it :D )
Laborers left farms for better jobs in factories. They weren't pushed out.
You’re doing it wrong. :-)

Seriously though, marriage doesn’t mean you can’t have friends, keep friends or make new ones. It’s a twisted sort of relationship that requires you to give up your friends or only spend time with your wife.

My wife is my best friend but my 2 out my 3 kayak buddies are women, I spend that day with friends helping them build motors, I go on road trips with friends, I go off for mountain biking weekend and ski trips with my friends, etc.

I will say, my friends who have kids do tend to drop off the radar but you can’t blame that on marriage.
Adding a "click to start the experience" button changes the experience. In particular, some users might not see the button if it's subtle, and be unimpressed or think the site is broken. And if the button is not subtle that's bad too.

It's also annoying to have to do such a change to your art for a single browser.

Overall I think the artist's frustration is understandable, but I agree "destroyed" is perhaps too strong a word.
It's the opposite of what I'd want. I'd like to have a universal subscription and pay maybe x*$100 a year to read all the content I want. The manager of the universal system would then divy up my money in some pro rata system on to the sites I used. Unfortunately, either the economics won't work out or the publishers are too greedy... Too bad because Google would technically be on a good position to push such a system.
We've thought about charging more to ensure commitment through the program, but we'd like to make the program as accessible as possible (especially for our first cohort).

As for the VCs and angels coming to pitch week, we're actively working on this and hope to have more to share over the coming weeks.
A site-wide setting isn't good enough, every media element needs to require user action. It is ridiculous that isn't a working option, Chrome can't be taken seriously as a user agent.
Employees have a lot of expenses that contractors don't have. Payroll taxes, health insurance, other benefits, and generally there are more HR policies governing termination for an employee than a contractor, even in an at-will employment situation.
If you have solar power, why are you reforming Co2? Just use the solar power directly and don't emit the Co2 in the first place.
Some people like working. My dad retired a few years back, but recently started working again as a tax preparer. He's always liked doing things with numbers, and he likes talking to people. My uncle (his brother, a few years older) is the same way. He even became state-level comptroller or something for the organization he was working in; just for fun.
Why is /tmp not suitable for IPC? Is it because it's generally more open than a home directory?
Wow, I'm glad I don't work where a bunch of folks here evidently work. I've make plenty of friends at work and I don't see a lot of backstabbing and jockeying for positions.

I simply would not stay in a work enviornment like that.
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Plus, what kind of weirdos get divorced, then stay together with other partners in the mix? It reminds me of that Futurama episode where Frye has to share a girlfriend with a whole bunch of other guys.
I worked with a developer who was 75 because he didn't know what else to do with his time. Sharp as a whip. He's still coding for a living and will turn 80 soon.
I’ll check it out, as I’m interested in context around the types of people who have been successful doing this. Single, married? Kids, no kids?
I like Typescript a lot, especially compared to plain JS. AWS lambda, on the other hand, requires very special use cases in order to justify the complexity and learning curve, IMO. It’s not great as a general programming environment.
East Germany had a fairly credible semiconductor industry. At the end of the Cold War, they were producing 1mbit DRAMs, about three years behind the West. This plant was shut down as uncompetitive during reunification, but the legacy of the industry lives on with a lot of semiconductor companies having operations in Dresden because they had access to inexpensive highly specialized and skilled labor.
> You can express any monad with delimited continuations, and vice versa

source please.
It makes sense to me as removing the choice between, "Do I buy one-off license or a subscription?" If you get the subscription, you get a free one-off license at date of purchase.

Your way also makes sense, but they both seem reasonable to me. And I don't really care much, in that I renew when I'm regularly using their product, as I want to support them. If I just had to open an old project for something, then I don't mind exactly which old version I'm using. (And if I somehow did, I could just put it in 30-day trial mode.)
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We've hired a bunch of people from HN over the last 10 years.
I think most people 60 years ago would have not considered the workplace a "environment toxic for creating trusting friendships". In fact, most people met their future spouse from their neighborhood or workplace when they analyzed marriage records from early to mid 1900s. Perhaps the real story here is that the reason people don't make friends over 30 is that the historical avenues for adult friendships, neighborhoods and work, are no longer conducive to meeting people.
Yes, there will generally be a person designated to tell you what they want done, but they can't manage where and how you do it.
ok but what could possibly have changed in human evolution in the past ~40 years (it doesnt appear to have been a problem forever)
>can't think of a file manager though

http://dopus.com/
not exactly subscription, but you buy a major version, and each new major version is a new purchase.
No, everybody does not need health care. 90% (made-up as my wife, two daughters and me haven't been to the doctor in 2 years) if not more of health related issues while you are under 40 (maybe higher) can be taken care of through over the counter medications. However, we still require shelter, particularly since we live in an area that is under 32 degrees for 2 - 3 months out of the year.
Agreed, it should just be a permission like any other. If I'm on a website where I expect to play media I can remember the preference.

They probably don't want to break websites (as autoplay has no permissions model), but breaking the most annoying feature on the web right now is a good thing.
I was worried that this was the case since Ticki went, to put it bluntly, AWOL around the start of the year. It will surely compromise the development of Redox, but I have faith that in the hands of Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) the project will continue to progress forward.
From casual observation it appears that spouses who aren't introduced by mutual friends rarely like their spouse's friends. Friendships take time, are valued because of shared past experiences, and require a certain personality alignment to be sustained.

Also when spouses go and spend time with the other spouse's friends, its challenging to simultaneously catch-up with their old friends while also trying to include their new spouse in the conversation.

Some married couples work through this but others just privately and repeatedly criticize each other's friends so eventually they are left with only one friend -- their spouse.
Author here, OSC 52 looks promising. I didn't realize there was an escape code for clipboard integration.

You're the second person to mention /tmp for IPC is bad. Why is it bad?

[1]: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/tmux-in-practice-integration...
That was for a brief period of time. Statisticallly stranger danger is way overblown.
Anyone can do it, it really comes down to what percentage of your income you can save, but it'll be easier for people with less expenses.

Here's a calculator that's been posted on HN before to give you some numbers [0].

Also, it's worth noting that 'retiring' doesn't have to mean not working anymore. To me it means the ability to work on whatever I want without having to worry about income. I'd likely still work on side projects, contribute to open source projects, etc.

[0] https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement?income=70...
Having just turned 31 recently, this read hits hard with my own experiences. From time to time I worry I'll end up languishing in old age due to loneliness without a network of supportive friends.

Some seem to reiterate the importance of time investment into the search for new friends. I agree with this. The more you put yourself out there, the odds would hopefully be more in your favour. However, the guarantee of the outcome isn't there. One could spend hours, days, months joining various hobby and interest groups with such an agenda and still end up with nothing.

It's almost like after a certain age, new friendships become more incentivised. The friendship itself only exists because it can be rationalised with mutual benefits.
Because we have fewer and fewer shared experiences as our lives diverge and specialize. I'll go out on a limb and say that there's no such thing as a fixed personal identity that is some ineffable quality of everyone. Presumably people with similar identities could bond at any time of their lives, but I haven't found that to be the case. You are what you do and think, and people keep changing. As society becomes more complex with more unique niches, and also becomes less colocated, the chances that you find someone in person with similar experiences keeps declining. Sure you can go online but we all know that's not the same.
This is a good place to start but you also need to commit to automating these steps. Copying and pasting URLs is a waste of time, rollbacks should be automatic, contributor lists should be auto-generated etc. Since it takes time to automate each new thing a checklist is still a good idea, but you have to recognize the danger of engineers subverting/rejecting the process if you let the list grow much at all.
The blog post refers to "RCA" three times and "RSA" once, and doesn't seem to define either acronym after reading it once.

Also this?

> And once you fail a build, then every team member in your team has to do deployments and go through the deployment checklist.

Sounds like there's a piece of context missing from the section before it. You have to do the checklist to deploy, and if you fail once, then every member of your team has to do the checklist as well?
It's a good point that indeed there might be something different at actual-launch-time versus testing time, but I'd imagine that doing the whole procedure a few times (as complete as possible) would reveal any important unknown unknowns if present. (Where I define important as 'reasonably likely to occur': if they are indeed so likely, they'll probably occur with repeated tests.)
The equity is also there to ensure that the organization has aligned incentives. From our conversations with people that have just a desire to start a company, but may lack the experience, team, or social capital to do so, we believe the equity stake asked for is reasonable.
I would love to post a link to part 1 but the search function only returns five results, there are related links at the 'bottom' of the page but the results are inconsistent (i.e., part 9, part 14, part 10), but 80% of the page is comments so you can't scroll 'to the end' of the page. Clicking a section like 'usability' gives you all posts with the full content for those posts (lots and lots of images and animated gifs).

Site works well in Reader View, if your browser has that feature.

... after some clever googling I don't think there is a part 1, but this seems like the most likely link to the beginning of the series: https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/this-week-in...
This is very interesting to me. Not in SF, so I can't take advantage, but I'd certainly strongly consider an incubator service focusing on currently employed entrepreneurs.
If you do this less computer savvy people will wonder why deezer/soundcloud/spotify suddenly stopped working.
Absolutely. I love this bit:

> Just before she retired, Mr. Hyams said he saw the 96-year-old Ms. Bloom trudging out of the subway and headed to work in the middle of a fierce snowstorm. “I said, ‘What are you doing here?’ and she said, ‘Why, where should I be?’” he recalled.

It reminds me of a favorite bit from "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones":

> Hyakujo, the Chinese Zen master, used to labor with his pupils even at the age of eighty, trimming the gardens, cleaning the grounds, and pruning the trees.

> The pupils felt sorry to see the old teacher working so hard, but they knew he would not listen to their advice to stop, so they hid away his tools.

> That day the master did not eat. The next day he did not eat, nor the next. "He may be angry because we have hidden his tools," the pupils surmised. "We had better put them back."

> The day they did, the teacher worked and ate the same as before. In the evening he instructed them: "No work, no food."
There is plenty of land. The main bottleneck is regulatory approval. But high construction cost are also a dampening factor.
That’s a good point. I’m in the white middle class socio economic class in the Midwest and my experience definitely is clouded by this fact.
"you have to justify why you need it more than anyone else."

Except it's the organization that has the need in this sense, not the applicant. The organization has an open position, and a disparity they are trying to correct.
>or re upload the app under a new v2 name, but those are not very satisfactory solutions.

Not very satisfactory, but very prevalent.

And, I'd say, given the low price of apps, it might be just right to not offer any special discount for an upgrade. You could always reward older users some other way.
I’ll have to checkout black magic.
Ok, we've switched to that. Thanks!
Most of it is just lucky timing. There are a lot of people who do the exact same things but have very different results based on where exactly they fell on the economic cycle. Unless you’re in the very lucky cohort who would have been rich in any case, being set by your 40s requires things like timing the housing and stock markets pretty carefully to get the necessary returns.
Sure, but _comparably_ less cost to the business of the building plus full time staff (like you would need in retail or dining).

The other more recent innovation is "roomless" escape rooms. Basically, they'll show up at your office or house with a trunk full of stuff, set it up let you work your way through it, collect a check and leave.
I've seen this as well. Every growth hack article is to promote a growth-hack company. It's never been simply the means to an end for a regular company - it always ends up being part of their offering.
Yup. By the time SLS gets its Block 0 flying, around 2020, SpaceX will have had around 100 launches with two vehicle types (F9 and F9H), and maybe be certified for humans in Dragon.
I live in Eastern WA/Northern ID and have all of that.
Human kind will be gone in 1000 years? That’s a pessimistic view. I hope not!
A pasteurisation machine for breast milk
I'm assuming OpenStreetMap provides the vector data. OpenStreetMap doesn't charge to use their service commercially iirc, so what do you provide that OSM doesn't?
> without descendants about the only thing you can do with the money is give it to a charity and hope they don't squander it

A reputable charity is less likely to squander $8M than one's descendants are.
This flag doesn't do what it sounds like it does (and what it should). From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16367457#16370471:

> Alas, this flag only prevents video that has sound from auto-playing. It’s the inadequate option that my earlier comment was referring to.

>

> Here’s more: https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay

> https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

>

> Quoting the blog post, Google’s decision that ”Muted autoplay is always allowed” is the problem. If any other Chrome users wondered why videos now auto-play without sound (even with this option set), at least based on the relatively minimal docs about this flag, this is why.
I see it happen first hand - the people that make friends are the ones that grab them, and don't let them go. If you push through the uncertainty and trepidation that happens early in every relationship, you'll find you've made friends thankful of your persistence.
Since you're not the only commenter who complained, we've taken that bit out of the title above.
Or maybe the best course of action for HNers is to be far less judgmental and self-centered, and offer something other than snark in their comments. I don't spend a great deal of time watching TV, and when I do it is mostly DVR'd content. To have old episodes marked as new doesn't make a huge difference to one viewer - it's an annoyance that costs me a bit of time. But for the people behind this, across millions of viewers also experiencing the same thing, it makes a very large difference in terms of inflated viewership. That's a large-scale, significant fraud, likely involving millions of hours of watch time and millions of dollars in fraudulently generated ad revenue. THAT is why maybe someone like the FCC should take a look at the issue.
On the subject of database indexes, know when you should deploy the indexes. This comes up when adding tables that get populated during deploy. Sometimes, depending on your database, its a really bad move to add the index to the empty table. Its an interesting problem because it might be time critical if you are doing enterprise deploys where you are taking down the whole system for the duration. Probably a less common circumstance these days. Also, getting rid of temporary code needed only for the conversion is a super good thing to remember.
Havent used Linux outside of servers since RH7.3 (maybe around 2003), tried a few distros on my new T480s and ultimately settled on KDE Neon.
24 hrs in I'm liking it a lot.
Tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, various Arch flavours & Mint.
Agreed.

> the web’s promise of instant and free access to the world’s information appears to be dying.

That wasn't ever a promise, or rather, it wasn't "the web's" promise to make. It might have been the ad-hoc default for a while, but it turns out that it's not sustainable or scalable, no matter how much we'd like it to be.
I can totally relate to this. If I added up the price of all the various subscriptions I'm paying for right now, I'd probably be very sad. Luckily for the vendors, I'm too lazy to do the exercise right now. Sadly for any future vendors who might want my money, I'm vaguely aware of the problem to the point that I'm highly, highly, unlikely to sign up for any new subscription based service now, unless it REALLY offers massive value. And even then it's iffy.

That said, I will still take this ala-carte world over Cable TV style bundling. But if some vendors of Internet content can work out some revenue sharing / cross-subscription mechanisms, I would be willing to give that a look if it mapped to my interests cleanly enough.
I've never heard of this happening before. I'm not saying it's not common, just that you shouldn't assume it's a cultural thing. Did it happen more than once? Kids can be weird. Maybe he was just playing with some toys that he didn't want to share that day.
If we're working with anecdotes I know at least two at the company I most recently worked, when it was still only 300 people.