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I've posted many times on HN an anecdote of mine regarding using Google (paid) services. Basically got my ex-employer (30 people) company on board to using google docs accounts to share documents. Since this is a corporation we decided to go with the 50$/user/year, which we duly paid each year.

Things went swimmingly well, until a user reported seeing an error message, and then not being able to access the document at all. Escalation was a joke, and after a whole week of not having access to the critical google spreadsheet, Google was still fumbling around. Finally we got the document back, because one of the employees had kept the email containing the URL of the document (sent out when a document is shared with a group of people).

If it wasn't for that old email kept by an employee, we'd probably never would have 'found' the document again. Google's support was at best incompetent.

Beware dancing with the Dragon that is Google! Backup your files, keep important document URLS!

Hope this helps a poor soul somewhere.
Most revolutions have been silent revolutions. The only one that was an instant world event was the iPhone launch. All the technologies named in the article; Wifi, Google Search, Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube and Wikipedia were not introduced to millions of people at once in a Silicon Valley event. AI will change the world, but it'll be slow, like how the internet changed the world little by little replacing retail, letters, phone calls, and now maybe 40 years later, TV. AI is a process revolution, not a product revolution. So he's right, big tech products have been mostly useless, specially compared to their promises.
Love it. But I like the skrillex steganography even more! https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/encoding-data-into-dubstep-d...
Are the files compressed at all? I can see that helping in terms of sharing this
Why not? You never had a family member or a friend who never lets you live down some silly thing that happened at a Christmas party?
Nah, I don't like ideology-less centrists either. IMO to function as a society we need to cherry-pick good ideas from left and right. Elections from both left and right (not from centrists) is a good way to find the balance good for the given moment. And it's definitely different at different points of socioeconomic cycle. E.g. economic downtown might need more right wing policies to get businesses back on track, while surplus times may be used to help the poor and cool the economy at the same time.

> Reality and objective truth leans more to the left

Now that's truly objective and unbiased! I don't see how "objective truth" is closer to the left than to the right. Both of these are subjective choices of the people. One of them is not inherently better or worse. Taken to extremes, both are full of shit.

I've to agree that today people are leaning to the left. Democracy is less and less important according to polls and people seem to prefer nanny state. Which is sad.

> which is unfortunately skewing to the right in a lot of countries

It's skewing to weird mix of worst of both left and right. E.g. socialdemocrats in many countries gave up their fight for the working class. To the point that they themselves push neoliberal pro-big-business laws. Yet right seems to be adopting more and more "socially aware" policies. Which skews the whole balance of liberty-vs-nanny-state to the later a lot. Yet nobody is taking care of labour-vs-business balance.
Its a good thing and that's how i should be. Startups have 1% chance of success and probably less when it reaches IPO. If big tech with deep pockets have far better shot (say 50%), then the level playing field would slip further and further away from startups. Innovation would stop and we will go back to the era of Microsoft/Oracle killing companies like Netscape.
Thanks for the response. That's very true. We've also been toying with different verbiage for "Pods", as I would even agree, could be many different things.

And good note on the "pet friendly" environment.

We in the processes of adding that information to outline what positions a company hires for. (Whether or not they are currently open or not) Well, more what departments that a company hires for. Going all the way down to job title seems a bit too granular, maybe I am wrong? But by department seems a happy medium?
A lot of games have been made in Flash. I'm guessing that a lot of those apps cited are games (which is true for a few other frameworks on that list).
Old-School Texas Instruments books are a treasure trove of great graphic design
there was a talk at RailsConf 2016 by Sam Stephenson about how Basecamp used Turbolinks to create version 3 of their, an android and ios version in 18 months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWEts0rlezA
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I take about one round-trip Lyft/Uber every two weeks (I don't go out much) and I walk around my neighborhood for anything I need. The only place I go that's inconvenient to use Septa is the southeast industrial area with all the box stores (ikea/walmart/home depot/big movie theater).
It's not about elitism
There are tons of relatively modest budget movies out there. They mostly aren't what draw the big crowds though. It's the big action franchises that make most of the money, not the small prestige dramas.
I know people that lease just because they want a new car every three years and can afford the $3600/yr for that.
Very interesting. Sounds like something we need to look into. Thanks for the feedback.
Why is this downvoted? Even on Brightline's website they say the $10 fare is only for an an "Introductory period"

> Real-time fares are displayed online and vary based on demand, day, time, service (Select or Smart), cities and Special Requests. During our introductory period, rides as low as $10 one way will continue to be available, but only for limited trains while seats last. Book now!

https://gobrightline.com/F-A-Q
Yes there are some idiots that dismissed the tomasetti and vogelsteinn paper due to it conflicting with their worldview, but they only got momentum because the original paper really was crap from even a critical scientific POV. What’s very ironic is that the problems with the paper seem to be the same things you’re bitching about in your post. No one smart is criticizing the paper for the “common sense” part, but because they actually tried to quantify it and their method was quite flawed.
My problem with the innovations mentioned in the article lie mainly in the ‘predictive text’ emails from the google presentation. Such a small, minutely helpful feature, and yet like the author mentions could lead to an even more technologically led “groupthink” society, where machines determine our current cliches, which no one will break from. Anyways, I get that big innovations really come as several small innovations, but who out there is imagining the future of this technology, as some were imagining the smartphone or tablet a decade before it’s advent? I have yet to read anything by anyone who has a vision for the next big AI innovation, no matter how moonshot-y
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I've been using Kotlin for the past few years. The multi platform support is getting really nice. Ios is the lagging participant, but with the upcoming conference alot of the niggling bugs should be addressed. Right now JVM, android, and js are all stable.

Writing a graphql endpoint emitting a data class. Then have react directly cast to that same data class. With proper type safety is great.

There are bugs but they feel like fringe cases. I spent half a day cleaning up my bindings to react material ui. An hour or two fighting serializaiton bugs. Those are the biggest time sinks that come to mind. It's still marked as experimental but it's something to keep an eye on.
Used to, eh?
Hardware Security Mechanism's [pdf]
At Khan Academy, our award-winning[1] mobile apps are a combination of native + React Native + web view. The React Native part is relatively new, but it's definitely helping us to move a lot faster in developing our apps.

A few years ago, I worked on a project in Xamarin with some success. The iteration cycle with React Native is far faster, though.

[1] https://blog.google/products/google-play/winners-2018-google...
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I can't forgive a government agency that waterboards and performs rectal examinations with intentional "excessive force" as a psychological technique. I don't know how it can be said that's a healthy culture, especially when they destroyed evidence about it and spied on the Senators that were investigating it.
It's more like we should start taking those billionaires to task over the world they have created in which we have to live.
Clearly they can keep things secret unlike NSA and co. Whole article is random guesses, names of building and not much of anything else, that is kind of impressive. In fact the only real stuff is from a power point shared with NSA..
Why couldn't you just search drive? It's not that big of an organization.
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Where have all the transit riders gone?
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And that is only the introductory rate.

https://gobrightline.com/F-A-Q
Yelp’s mobile website is also intentionally limited to force you to download the app (so they can mine your personal info). It’s infuriating. Not to mention the desktop website hasn’t changed meaningfully in years. Yelp is one of the least innovative companies and they manage to remain fairly dominant in their category. I really wish they had been replaced already.
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Could you point to a better explanation? I'd love to read that instead as I thought the same.
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I don't know why people are giving you a hard time here. The quote is widely-known, and I appreciated your remark about the troubling lack of falsifiability criterion.
Yes and no. In the examples given it's wrong, since it's not a topic where blockchain applies. But the moment you order any of these products, having a blockchain that includes buyer and seller might be nice, since you can lock-in the agreement of sale with neither side being able to take it back, and without a third party needed for proof. So it's totally possible to use it for something else besides coins.
I saw a funny cloud today, I took a picture of it. I usually don't carry an extra standalone camera with me all day just for moments like that.

I can also google up information about light-bulbs when I'm standing at the store wondering if I should get X or Y. Or if some product doesn't specify if it's gluten free or not and the ingredients look a little iffy.

There are plenty of tiny improvements. It doesn't revolutionize my life, but having my old Nokia would definitely be a downgrade.
The crowd on here seems to have a valid complaint against the IoTs while being very short sighted on what actually can be done.

Currently most companies want to be Facebook or Google and collect all the data they possibly can while putting out a mediocre/bad product with no security that only works when there is an internet. No consumer actually wants this.

Instead of killing the industry, we need a new generation of companies that put out products that function the same or ideally better than their analog competitors. Data collection, such as usage information, and internet connectivity will be what sets these products apart from their traditional competitors. However, the emphasis should be on sending that data to the owner of the product, instead of sending it to the cloud for the companies benefit. Optimizing energy usage, learning usage patterns, etc will be great differentiators. My products working together will be an even bigger differentiator

Aggregation of that data can be useful, and could be opt in. I'd love to know that I seem to use way more energy than other people around me. Perhaps I have a bad AC, or my insulation is particularly bad.

The biggest issue right now is that companies are putting out insecure products that are completely broken if the parent company of the product are left out of the loop. The products need to work locally, with no reliance on the parent company, and only rely on a company server for true enhancements that can not be calculated locally.
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you're saying, Mark Zuckerberg goes and admits to breaking several laws

I'm not saying that, you're saying it and it's not going to happen any more than him stabbing someone or all of Belgium getting eaten by bears.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but does it mean that my KeePass database that I uploaded on Dropbox is going to be broken in ~5 years time and I need to start changing my passwords right now?

2 decades ago we were already 5 years distance of quantum computing. THis is a warning to the future generation similar to the Bible.
Wow, kivy's material theme improved a LOT since I last saw it a few years ago.
I suppose it varies by city, but to me we're not talking about comparing apples to oranges. We're talking about exchanging apples and oranges for bananas, just in different ratios.

I lived carfree in Milwaukee for a while (picking that as an example of a city that only has bus service), and the time savings really didn't seem that bad once I got used to it. A trip to one of the shopping malls on my side of town was about the worst-case scenario, and there it typically took ~40m on the bus, versus ~20m by car. I like reading and I had a Nintendo DS at the time, so that ~20m difference was spent doing what I would have probably done with the extra time, anyway. I was just doing it without a cat in my lap.

An easy trade, I thought, considering that I was typically spending no more than $10 a week on bus fare. Often more like $0, especially in the summer, when it was more fun to get around by bike. Owning a car or using a taxi service for my main way of getting around would have cost thousands per month. That's quite a few fewer apples, and not a whole lot more oranges.
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“Now we have a big contract with Vodafone, and every month Vodafone has to give machine readable data to city hall. Before, that didn’t happen. They just took all the data and used it for their own benefit”

So, now Vodafone AND the city government has this data about the citizens. How is this fighting against surveillance? Am I missing something? :/
I would suggest you do not use your personal failures and frustrations as justification to call other researchers work a waste of time. Please go ahead and explain to us how their contribution to science is a waste of time and money (you could for example contrast it with your own accomplishments).
Previous reporting by the author of this piece also inspired a great episode of the Reply All podcast last week. [0]

[0] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/121-pain-funnel
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned/promoted a product for decentralizing GSuite.
Wonder if they just focused on one product. Say "groupware for Fortune 500 intranets". They would have increased chance of survivability.

Others think that it was one of the causes of their demise. I've deleted the link to jwz's article on Groupware because links from HN seems to be unwanted for some reason, but anyone interested surely can google it.
> The game went smoothly, apart from a 45 minute period where no moves were exchanged due to causing the previously mentioned route flap damping to activate. This happened on my side and caused Level 3 to have a less optimal route for my traffic in the 45 minute period. To mitigate this from happening again later on the game, we decided to move to a 90 second cooldown period on every move.

Must have been an interesting support call.
Clearly they value secrecy over efficient cooperation of the branches, and I'm not sure this is particularly bad for their net contribution to society.
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bcal features

- evaluate arithmetic expressions involving storage units
- convert to IEC/SI standard data storage units
- REPL mode with the last valid result stored for reuse
- show the address in bytes
- show address as LBA:OFFSET
- convert CHS to LBA and vice versa
- show binary, decimal and hex representation of a number
- custom sector size, max heads/cylinder and max sectors per track
- minimal dependencies
This would be a rather unintelligent choice as the bitcoin protocol is really inefficient while being optimized for resisting sybil attacks and achieving consensus.
One of many reasons all my vehicles are old-fashioned, analog, non-computerized motors. They're easiest to work on, too. Which sucks, because a computer system in a car or motorcycle could have really been an opportunity, but it's one that has been used almost exclusively to fuck things up for the user.
> How many American schoolchildren in the last several decades read any Byron?

I did in the late 1980s, which at three decades sago is within the minimum span that could be intended by “several”.
Extra cost and complication now versus potential costs in the future.
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DNA is inherited from parent to offspring. While new changes occur, a large amount of the DNA between the two are the same, compared to non-related organisms.

This allows us to reconstruct the history, or in cases where there is less data, infer the history of two different organisms. We can roughly tell where, and when one population split from another.

In the case of bio-weapons, we can tell if the organism came from a culture in a current laboratory, or if it was generated in secrete. If the latter, we can tell what part of the world the original sample came from. All of this are clues to discovering the culprits.

A famous example is the 2001 Anthrax attack in DC. They were able to match the DNA from the anthrax to a US military strain located in Maryland. This led them to a former researcher who most law enforcement believe was the culprit in the attacks.
Because less controversial words would be less funny.
This timeline is wonderful: https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/hypetime.htm

The IPO of Yahoo, the creation of MSNBC.
The same reason scientists gave us cancer drugs, AIDS drugs, etc without us becoming their slaves?
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Earliest evidence of Roman military found in Poland
I don't have a problem with copyright covering characters, but with the excessive copyright term. My example of Dracula is that he is regarded by most as a classical character, like Frankenstein or Scrooge, not a modern character to be licensed like a Marvel superhero. Should the works of Shakespeare be under the creative control of his distant descendants?
This is a great project. Retro with the addition of reasonable expansions.

Watching with interest.
So, $400 a month, assuming one uses this to commute? That sounds like quite a bit more than gas + parking for most people. Especially if it's a 4 cylinder with good mileage.
Why wait? :) I did this a while ago (2car -> 1car, with a child), and have zero regrets. We now have two kids, and are still 1-car'ing it, with the occasional rideshare. It's fantastic not having to deal with the crap a less-used car comes with.

I wrote up my analysis, with a spreadsheet you can plug your own numbers into: https://da-data.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-my-car-cost-more-th...

We chose not to go zero car for many of the reasons you mention (and, in fact, ended up replacing our 2007 ford focus this year). But going from two to one is very freeing.

Loading a car seat into a rideshare isn't bad, btw - the LATCH anchors make it almost routine once you're used to it. Our travel carseat is a little more twitchy, but none of it is very bad.
There are no "land" grants in space. Perhaps you mean on the moon or on mars?
I am European, I have been in most of the EU big capitals and many other cities, never seen free public transport and I almost never even heard of it.
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If the established players are all interested in siphoning that data, who will fund the development of such technology?
This is only one small part of the article, but: I think the revolution in Duplex isn't about letting customers use it to schedule appointments and stuff. I think its much more significant from the perspective of using it as a way to improve Google's data for themselves. They mentioned they're going to use it soon to improve the accuracy of their business open/close times. Imagine other applications; asking businesses how busy it is right now, confirming road closures with municipal governments, etc.

Also imagine it opened up on Google Cloud, in a product similar to AWS Connect.

Finally, imagine this: They've always had a huge amount of data for human voices to train their AI models. Here's one more; being able to call anyone on the planet and get them talking in a way that is natural, then using the data on the other end of the phone to further train the accuracy of the voices they use. Kind of like ReCaptcha, but for voices.
If you are ever in Lubeck, there is a most interesting museum dedicated to the Hanseatic League.
Any clear text version? IT looks like deep fried power point with pointless gifs.
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That was a good and eye opening episode.
> If the original business couldn’t, its unlikely the competitor could.

Considering amount of FUD spread about fines, even here, with fairly educated readership - I don't think you can really trust other people's cost / benefit analysis, even when they happen to have same variables with same values.

People are often wrong even in much clearer cases . . .
Of course, like raking leaves in your lawn, you’re going to run into a kind of diminishing returns situation. So I agree, albeit with an obvious point, My only qualm (beyond the banality of the thesis) is that this dude is forgetting about some other cool advances, such as the sharing economy (Uber/Lyft and airbnb) which kind of changed the world a little, messenger apps (which made day to day life a little more convenient for many and also played a role in some big geopolitical events). Also just b/c google launched its search engine in 99 or whatever doesn’t mean that they stopped innovating - incremental improvements in search have made it 1000x what it was then, and if you showed google maps to someone from 2000, they would think it is magic. The tools for making tech have gotten a lot better too, even if most of the use cases have already been covered. AI and blockchain can be revolutionary. The problem is how we structure society, where we’re all either just trying to make our daily bread or get rich, and this leads to a lot of misdirected effort.
That's an interesting development but all it will take to cause damage is a reversal of the fortunes of the political party that brings this about. You always have to worry about the next government, not the current one when you start creating databases.

And that next government may decide not to honor the citizens in the same way the present one does.
I think a city like Barcelona, with their theft and crime problem can make use of some sort of surveillance.

Just two weeks ago, 3 hours before ending my vacation in the city, Me and my wife were robbed off roughly worth $10k USD in a car tire puncture scam.

http://tourist-scams.com/tourist-scam-destinations/barcelona...
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I wonder what the doctype is supposed to mean:

> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Dow Jones//DTD DJ-HTML//EN">

What is supposed to be a copyright notice or something?
Well, it does have to turn in Cocoa anyways, so it wouldn't slow it down too much. Cocoa's still the most inconsequential city on this list, though.

(nb - from Cocoa)