skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ubuntu is good to start with. Also, you should consider the Elementary distro, they have a focus on stealing Mac users https://elementary.io/ could be right up your alley. As long as you use Ubuntu or Elementary - any of the more ui friendly & compatibility focused distros you'll avoid a lot of the common problems that frustrate new users. After you're comfortable with that... wander over to https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ and take your desktop up another level. I use both Linux and Mac and never find myself wanting a particular app from Mac that I don't have available to me on Linux. I find myself needing things like xcode for builds, but certainly not wanting it. If you're a music producer Logic Pro is the one app you'll miss.
Microsoft sells "Signature Edition" machines which are basically what you're looking for.

A friend bought one and it was roughly as advertised. The only non-Windows things on it are the drivers and a handful of utilities that come with the drivers.
ARM designs plenty of peripherals. Nearly all ARM SoCs use a PL011 UART, quite a bit have SMMUs, the Mali GPU is an ARM design, etc.

And they work very very closely with fabs; you can't really design highish performance cores like their's without working with the fabs. You'd have all sorts of weird bottlenecks, and wouldn't hit a competitive frequency (think under 100Mhz if you didn't take into account fab design rules).

What they don't do is sell predesigned SoCs (outside of dev systems). They give you all of the tools you need to integrate your own SoC so that you can take nearly all of the capital risk.
Maybe there's an element to this that I'm simply missing, but I don't believe Musk's vision has changed, and Tesla's internal policies regarding the release of crash data to consumers doesn't say anything about the 'awesomeness' of the car itself. Your ownership experience of the car will be affected by Tesla's policies, for sure, but regardless of what Tesla does or does not do with crash data, the car itself doesn't change. That might be nuanced a bit by what Tesla can do so easily with OTA updates, but just speaking generally.

I have no real dog in this fight though. Any reasons you have to choose one car over the other are your own, and it's not my intent to criticize one choice or the other. The reasoning here just seems slightly difficult to follow.
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Biggest problem I have with a mac is the " mark. On a PC (GB keyboard) it's shift-2, on a mac shift-2 is @, and " is shift-'
Doubt it. Just look at recent history (2011), back then the hype was "HTML5"[0].

[0]: https://www.allbusiness.com/web-apps-vs-mobile-apps-which-is...
Sounds like hackathons turned into a school, although I did learn a lot thru hackathons, it is easy to burn out with several in a month
Maybe you should look at this[0].

[0]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/92169/touchpad-gestures-to-c...
Sure, very simple logic. That is of course until Comcast becomes the only internet provider in your area.
I prefer my gov to have my back on those simple things just in case a particular situation that makes it easy for anyone to screw me over arises.
"64,000 took a basic online logic test to qualify for entry. More than 20,000 passed, but the school only accepted the top 3,000 due to space constraints. Those 3,000 compete in pools of 1,000 for a month to see who best completes the digital projects; the top third of performers are then admitted."

So the admittance rate is 1 in 64 or 1.56%. That is insanely selective. This is not bringing education to the masses, this is cheeping out on instructors because the students are smart enough to learn on their own.
There's definitely way more opportunity in SV - obviously. And the tech brain drain is both overseas and to the disproportionately huge local players - Google HQ in the valley is one player among many big names; Google Sydney is an insane behemoth hoovering up the talent.

It is a nice place to live, though, and the Atlassian guys proved it's not impossible to build a pretty kick-ass startup here. There's also a pretty decent pipeline of smart people around. Part of my hope is that you can do smaller-scale stuff here without the Go Huge Or Go Home mentality of SV. What would be interesting is to work on things that interest me, make some money and influence the field. I don't think SV is mandatory for that.
> I’m kidding, of course. It really depends on how well business and development understand each other.

Yup. This is the crux of the whole issue, and it's being completely blown out of proportion. There's always going to be details the estimator (dev) won't know, but the more clear a picture you have in your head, the more confidence you can have in an estimation.

This is directly related to the size of the project too, of course. If it's a 12 month project, a single developer is massively unlikely to have a reasonable understanding of all the potential roadblocks that the project will take. However a 1 day task, with tools you know/etc, you can have a pretty good idea how long it'll take.

There's always some unknowns, but that's literally what an estimate is for - attempting to plan for the unknowns. I can write an add function and I'd bet a lot of money that it won't take more than a day.

Unreasonable management seems to be giving developers PTSD here. As I'm having trouble understanding why the idea of an estimate, by definition exactly what we're doing, somehow doesn't apply to software development.

If you're being pedantic you could say the same about a lot of things. How long to dig a 1foot hole in open ground? Well who knows, there might be a massive rock - but that doesn't mean you can't give an estimate. It's literally what an estimate is for, an approximation based on assumptions and expectations.
I was thinking about this the other day. For companies training is a risk because the employee can leave and take the investment with them. With platforms you'll lose your reputation.
I know lots of people here love the pointy nub, but it's never worked well for me personally. The Apple trackpad is far superior to any other vendor's offering, by a huge margin.
This mirrors my experiences. I second the advice to start small. As I get older, I'm far more interested and comfortable with relatively small doses.
This is sort of how the Buran "Soviet Space Shuttle" got built. Soviet leaders saw the American space shuttle and basically told their engineers "we need one too", despite the engineers knowing there was no point (much of the Shuttle's design stemmed from an Air Force requirement that it be able to launch on a polar orbit, go around the planet once and land back on American territory, which required the wings for that much cross-range capability. The USSR didn't have that problem due to how much longitude Russia spans; but the leaders only saw the finished product, not the politics that went into it.)
Silicon Hills actually refers to the boom in chip manufacturing in ATX in the 80s and 90s. After the dot-can boom and bust it now has the “like Silicon Valley but ‘weirder’” connotation.
Very nice.Been using the bsd/Linux support to run all my favorite Android apps. X11 throguh xiwi is seamless and already provides the gnu/Linux apps I need.
And when he returns with the ice cream I’ll tell you I wanted Hokkaido ice cream.
My greatest praise for Linux is that it's nearly impossible to completely brick the install - it's almost universally possible to recover it, no matter how broken it seems. You can potentially live-boot your XPS from a USB stick, chroot into your existing install and let the upgrade run to completion (Google around for some guides). 18.04 is a very slick OS - I'm running it at work on my company Precision laptop and it's fantastic. The '-d' flag is required until the 18.04.1 release, which is when the new LTS is considered stable enough for existing LTS users to upgrade.
What still needs to happen before launch / open to public?

Are there any other platforms/apps that try to do this?

I've been looking for a simple solution for this but haven't found anything great.

Best of luck w/ launching & getting users cosbgn, potentially very useful tool.
hmm, i think no. once you sell th company you only have to fulfill your acquisition agreement. in some cases that may be revenue targets but not always. do we know exactly what they needed to do to keep their jobs post acquire? i don’t think it’s obvious
I'd love to see the LA Times go back and revisit the Utah Valley region and the culture that helped contribute to this. The Utah Valley is chock full of startups with a serious inferiority complex to their big brothers in Silicon Valley, hence derivative name. More importantly, Utah is the “multi-level marketing capital of the world [1]” This kind of sales and growth tactic is not limited to the diet smoothie and cosmetics world, but is absolutely pervasive in the valley. Note- SLC and the Utah Valley may be united in the Silicon Slopes moniker, but they are about as similar as Austin and Waco, TX.

A few observations on Domo

1)	The product is weak. It’s pretty dashboards with very limited “real” BI capabilities. The connectors are custom, not OOB/end user configurable – unless end user happens to be IT.

2)	They seem to be aware that the product is weak, as their demos include an NDA. Until recently there was almost no “real” information available on what exactly Domo is or does. Only void marketing speak.

3)	Their absurd domopalooza (or DP for short, no joke) events included artists like Kesha and Macklemore.

4)	Their totally overblown marketing hype surrounds an incoherent me-too product roadmap. Rather than focusing on building a quality product they are going for checkboxes and chasing after Slack etc with features like Chat

5)	They have a billboard that reads “If Hillary Had DOMO She would have won.”

I've been predicting for a while that DOMO’s hubris would cause it to be one of the first in the scene to fail spectacularly. What worries me about that prediction is the economic harm that would do to the rest of the Valley especially given the impact of MLM economics.

1-	http://kutv.com/news/local/follow-the-profit-how-mormon-cult...
I find it weird that the article doesn't actually say what Domo does.
Yep. Natrium is used in Norwegian at least.
Not really, especially if the cameras are 3rd party owned. My comment was explicitly about my own devices, with the argument being that they are an extension of my brain/memory as opposed to evidence in the traditional sense.

The link provided by wang_li applies and it seems such questions have come up in the past in front of courts, and honestly I won't be surprised if they come up again.
Workers tech lead here.

On the first point: As others have noted, we're happy to lift the rate limit for any customer (not just enterprise). If a support person told you otherwise, I apologize! Please e-mail us and let us know who said that so we can make sure they have the correct info.

On the second point: You could always map your worker to "*", and then write JavaScript code that uses a case-insensitive regex to do the real URL matching. We've been trying to keep the configuration around Workers as light as possible since most things can be implemented in code in the worker itself.
I'm going to put this another way. How much of Tesla's reputation was built on their approach to vehicle safety? That's great, I don't have to worry about my life when I get into a Tesla. But I'm in that weird position in the world where I can afford a Tesla, but not the burden of a legal case. I can look after myself, but I can't make the software not fuck up.

If Tesla can't shoulder that responsibility, I'm certainly not going to.
Anything to avoid actually fixing their interviewing style.
I'm not saying they're 100% required but I've always been pro-trip sitters; preferably someone who's been there before that you're comfortable with. It can also depend on where you are / what you're doing. If you're at home vs. at a festival or out camping.

It's nice to be able to turn to someone and say, "Hey, let's go get a Powerade." and not have to worry about how to make that happen.
VideoToaster?

BBSs?

What was your first computer?
Yes, it's absolutely an allowed policy. When we made .NET (Core) open source, we meant it. We still use email like any other org, but whenever we're working on our product we try to keep discussions on GitHub. It's also made collaboration with other teams far, far easier.
Makes sense. Google runs a mono-repo. Microsoft ran codeplex[2].
Microsoft wanted to be in Github's space but couldn't compete, so bought the space.

[1]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex
I can't imagine why they'd "drag their feet" on doing free work to enable pseudo-apps with "near-native" performance and nonstandard UX.

Snark aside, I've heard very little marketing around PWA that explains why users should want them - almost everything is focused on benefits for developers.
I tried to switch to Ubuntu in mid-2015, using a VM for Adobe CS, but it was awkward, particularly with the CS working files not being easily shareable btw the VM and linux. Gave up after about 3 weeks and went back to my Mac. It will stay this way until CS or something similarly capable comes to linux (and if you're about to say "GIMP!", let me just stop you right there).
Fun fact. Some flight data recorder (black box) manufacturers use a method like this to compress the data on the recorder. They record a base, full frame of data and then take delta frames and use Huffman (variable length) coding to reduce the amount of stored data.
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Curious, based on what do you know how Google is creating profiles?
From the pricing page:

Pricing
Thunkable is free to use.

Thunkable charges a maintenance fee for the use of certain components such as Ads by AdMob and Payment by Stripe.

my comment:
"We don't get paid, until you get paid"....lol...
17,205 People Guessed the Weight of a Cow.  How They Did (2015)
It can be problematic, but so can investors in SV companies demanding that scale-out takes off too early or too quickly. It's difficult to quantify which of many problems are a bigger issue, or even relevant from case to case.
Well - thanks, guys. If you bookmark https://branchfree.org/ perhaps eventually I'll stop wibbling on about bits-to-indexes and pattern match algorithms and SIMD long enough to post some experiences and some thoughts on the modestly profitable world of the algorithmic startup, from an "expert" who is batting a massive 1 out of 1.
I've been working in games industry for almost 10 years now (mobile games), just started a new job and it's horrible. I was completely burned out in my previous company due to simplistic and boring projects (did I mention toxic management?). So I'm two weeks into my new job and I'm bored out of my mind already! The problems present at previous company are gone, but there is a whole stack of other problems, like enormous tech debt, complete lack of organisation, just chaos. I'm tired, I don't want to fix someone else's mess again. I don't want to force people to start doing things properly. They are quite happy with how it is, so why bother? Now, I can stay here, pretend it's fine (salary is decent) and just plow through. But I can't stand it. Just going to work everyday is a pain. I need to find something meaningful, mobile games are just a pile of garbage.
I remember when I started, everything was exciting, making games - a job you'll enjoy every day, yeah, right, it became the same thing over and over. And I find it difficult to work for someone else, especially if they are incompetent or don't respect people who work for them.
I was thinking about moving to PC games, maybe one of the big studios (although I've already heard enough about most of them, that I'm not really interested), so maybe indie games or completely outside the industry, simulation, VR? Working on lower level stuff seems interesting (embedded programming), but I don't have required skills. No skills, no time to acquire new skills and I'm completely stuck...
I still believe there is something I could be doing, that would utilize my skills and make the world a better place (even if just a tiny bit...).

That was slightly off topic, wasn't it? ;)

Am I working on interesting technical problems?
There were some interesting problems in the past, but I'd say just a few each year, which is definitely not enough. I still find it interesting to work on personal projects, even though they are not that different from the games I'm making at work. Just putting the game architecture together, so every part fits nicely into place, is still fun.
Not to mention Google's habit of buying stuff, getting bored and canning it.
I've heard so many good things about fedora and hardware support. If I end up needing to make the switch, this sounds like my best option.
I believe this is a translation from the original Sumerian.
I'd agree with the touchpad conclusion, with the only distinction that Lenovo pointy nubs > all other pointy nubs. I have a pointer nub on my work Dell and it's pretty poor, acceleration is uncontrollable. My personal ThinkPad, however, is superb. Just like Apple are to trackpads, Lenovo are to TrackPoints.
Also marketing. Running a successful online shop is 70% marketing, 30% everything else. Mucking about with technology should be a fraction of that.

As someone who loves mucking about with technology, I got the balance very wrong with my first shop – spent so long getting it working and keeping it working I had no to time to tell anyone about it.
I was looking for this comment. I concur, is in Google interest to push PWA.
I tried that, and it turned out I was actually at step 3.
I can't sleep at night. My taxes and the patriotism of my countrymen have been stolen to line the pockets of armaments manufacturers and their puppets in politics and media. The media itself has been perverted to the point that "truth" is bizarre caricature, twisted more and more to make us fear more and more, when most of us have never been safer. Look at the tripe you're serving here: I can actually imagine you believe most of it. "Let's invade nations because the government killed some people! Please ignore the people our own cops, military, and contracted deathmurderdrones are killing!"

Those armaments for which we pay so much are killing innocent people in seven nations right now that they will even admit [0], with more planned soon. [1] Even in a global context of ever-increasing peace and prosperity, the bastards in our secret services are hard at work toppling more elected governments, to sow the seeds for more violence that simply must be addressed in the only way we know how.

Those same bastards have brought the same practices back home. We have far too many laws and far too many cops struggling (failing) to enforce them without turning large swathes of USA and (especially) Latin America into Iraq. We have more prisoners than any nation or empire in history, in both percentage and absolute terms. One might think we had the rest of the world beaten pretty badly on military spending, at least until one considered how much more we spend than they do building prisons.

Yeah, I'm the one sleeping. I would advise you to start following Glenn Greenwald, Abby Martin, or others who can offer a clue to the clueless, but I'm sure it would set you off on the same tired talking-point McCarthyist character assassination with which you started this desultory thread.

[0] https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3ywd5/white-house-ackno...

[1] https://www.salon.com/2011/11/26/wes_clark_and_the_neocon_dr...
Facebook having access to your contacts and maybe location too is still scary.
Musk's vision for how safe you can be when you buy their car extends only to "you can't die in one of my cars." It apparently does not extend to "you can't bankrupt yourself in one of my cars if we fuck up."
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
Yes, heroku's hosted postgres is fantastic. Once you have users you should use that, or aws rds, or learn how to do it properly yourself. Until then a cron job to backup your db every week, or day or every 12 hours or whatever is good enough.
Thanks for the kind words and we're happy to help. Lmk when we can AI-test the PWA on MoQuality.com.
> you simply cannot know all the little details

This is the reason big design up front hasn't been the gold standard in planning. Most modern methodologies acknowledge that there'll be a lot of changing requirements and learning-while-building.

The point is, given this information, you could a) run around like crazy doing all manner of reckless and crazy cowboy programming and putting out fires b) carefully plan a relatively short period of time on a small, achievable, well defined goal (not "build the project"), then making a note of what worked and what didn't, and readjust before you plan the next short period of time
>"The spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said the policy had “led to people caught entering the country irregularly being subjected to criminal prosecution and having their children – including extremely young children – taken away from them as a result”."

"Irregularly"...

The contortions which some go through in order to avoid using the word "illegal" are amusing.

By not describing the migrants as illegal, we minimize the damage done to rule of law by tolerating them. I recognize they are in plight, but they are fleeing nations where rule of law has broken down. We should do everything we can to avoid that path.
Probably meant Gmail + search + ads. Google does know much more about you than Microsoft.
Taken to an entertaining extreme, one advertising approach would be to make ads as noticeably terrible as possible so people complain about them as much as possible.
Conversely I don't need a new car and I'm unsure if we'll actually buy a Model 3 when our reservation comes up. Chances are that we won't because new cars, not just Tesla's, are ridiculously expensive and you get much better value for your dollar with used cars. However I still have my reservation because I believe in what Tesla is/has done and I strongly want them to succeed because I feel that if they fail it will give auto manufacturers an excuse to stop producing EVs. I feel so strongly that we need to get off the ICE and into EVs that I just might buy a new Model 3 solely to support an ideal even if it will put an excess burden on myself.
I dont use these sites, do you get user emails for follow up promotion?
emoji's and the like are iOS features (for now). Teen focused features drive sales of iOS devices, increasing Apple's revenue stream and your potential customer base as those teens will likely buy macOS computers. Craig owns software for both macOS and iOS, and in fact part of iOS 12 is about improving performance of the OS to operate faster, smoother and better. So they are delivering exactly that on iOS. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The military industrial complex. Those are publicly held companies, so shareholders make that money. As a bulk of the national debt is due to extracurricular military adventures, everyone who owns U.S. Treasury securities, including the Social Security Administration who bought securities with surpluses - literally every American is making some profit from this system.

USA Inc.
Absolutely correct. Fortunately, in economics, the invention kills its creator every time.

If SF stops growing, then the last drove of people will be the bag holders, and it all goes downhill from there.