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> Why doesn't search by image work on mobile?

This is a great example of Google's spotty frontend work -- especially since you can simply tap the share button on iOS, and then scroll over to "Request Desktop Site". And voila, image search now works perfectly. You can even click the camera icon to upload an image directly from your phone. And yet, this functionality is completely hidden by default on mobile.
One thing I tried to make in Emacs was a window at the top which shows the lines that you do not see that are unindenting from the currently visible indentation. It would act almost like a header. Next, would be to display these vertically inside the space created by the indentation itself. I don't see how to pack more source code context information on a screen than that
This is a really interesting article! I recommend anyone just checking out the comments to take a look -- it is quite short.

I wonder if there's a real opportunity here. Buy up Indian manufacturing firms with significant books of business and introduce productivity enhancing changes like LED lights. Of course, this is a simplification, but if the effect is as pronounced as described in the article, it seems like a fantastic opportunity.

I rarely see news about how business operates, or stories of business success and decline in India. Does anyone know where I could read more?

Thank you to the moderators for boosting this story after 3 days, it definitely spiked my curiosity. I presently import a few products from China and love learning about the challenges these manufacturers face.
I've done a little bit of arduino nothing too impressive, and I've had basic physics. I'm still having issues understanding how graphs(the data structure) come into play and how to count the resistance in those situations. I've read several books on basic electricity. As for calculus I've only had calc 1. What should be my path to learn more about these simulations?
The split between bayonet and screw in Australia does my head in, especially if you're in an older house where the landlord is cheap/doesn't care and half your sockets are bayonet and half are screw.

I need to replace a lightbulb in my hallway, but I don't know if it's screw of bayonet. I always forget to check at home, and then when I'm at the shops I don't know what one to get. It's been like that for a month now.
Great points. If only the public could elect the officials in charge at Google so these kinds of efficiencies could benefit the whole of society...

Wait...

I think that’s called democratic socialism.

Oh and hey I found a website for it. Check it out: https://dsausa.org

Awesome!

Don’t confuse this restaurant nonsense for a leftist progressive agenda. This is moderate hype designed to appease small business owners without affecting corporate profits or contending with systematic income inequality. Broadly speaking, those cafeteria workers have nothing to lose either way. A real left agenda would seek to change that.
Lots of regulations eventually shift in people's estimation from "this might be a good idea" when introduced to "this is what God intended" after years of acclimation. The shift seems to have been really fast for this regulation.
The econ professor who wrote up effective altruism's key insights decades ago
We chose Pivotal Tracker over Jira because we didn't need all that stuff, and PT fit fairly well with our existing workflow. But... is the ability to do those things really a disadvantage? Seems more like a problem with the way these medium/large companies work than with the tool itself. If Jira didn't exist I don't think they'd use something like Pivotal and just do without all the tracking; they'd just have something ad hoc and unwieldy cobbled together instead.
>incentivizing behavior that's good for the community and disincentivizing behavior that isn't.

Or what this very small minority thinks is good for the community, and forcing it on everyone else. That's how it goes with all government decisions, of course.
Alas, perhaps I have just spent way too much of my life living in startup land. I've never even heard of people using these Microsoft chat products.
Because that's not how the internet ever worked before this foolishness.
This startup uses VR for the elderly. They used to focus on Dementia but it's been a while and I think they've expanded focus now: https://onecaringteam.com
> Actually, behavioral symmetry is not an issue with React Native so much as its an issue with poor UX design. Nothing about RN mandates that the apps behave similarly.

I think the economics of RN strongly do though. Why would you use RN if you aren't planning to reuse code between environments?
Unless what I'm laying out looks just like a grid, I pretty much always prefer Flexbox. For the majority of cases where I need to do some layout with CSS these days, an image of how to do it via flexbox effortlessly pops into my head. I think that's the key: the majority of layout scenarios can easily be reduced to placing a sliding sequence of items along a string of sorts. Once you understand how that simple model is parameterized (to configure spacing between/around items, how their heights/widths should adapt etc.), I'd say (in my experience anyway) something like 80% of layout scenarios have a simple solution in terms of it, to the point where no thought is even required (though I do still often have to look up parameter names [e.g. align-content vs align-items]! which is kind of annoying).
Dude, they're trying to serve you. It's not as if you paid them anything for TFA. Yet you're perfectly satisfied for them to be threatened from abroad? Wow.
Google Play Music has a cleanly integrated locker, which I love, loads of my favorite music isn't available from services.

Disclosure: I work for Google, but not on anything related to music.
The Now of the Trade Is Where the Power Is (The State of Self-Awareness)
I was going to make exactly this same comment. (And the third text being compared was The Feynman Lectures, which is another entirely different sort of book and level.) This was the example that made me decide that this list's approach just wasn't useful the way that its author wanted it to be.

I could take a stab at an actual list like this with better organization by recommending books for each course in the more or less standard undergraduate core physics curriculum, but I'm sure different professors would make different choices (and even for me, I know that my choices would be situation dependent). It's a hard problem, and it doesn't translate well to the very short summaries shown here.
> As of May 2017, the average market value for homes was $380,000 within the Austin city limits and $310,000 in the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area, reported Austin HomeSearch.

https://www.tripsavvy.com/austins-cost-of-living-255111

Now let's do SF!:

> As usual, the result is grim for San Francisco, since, according to CAR, a house in San Francisco now runs over $1.5 million on average.

https://sf.curbed.com/2018/2/15/17016992/affordable-homes-me...

That's almost x4 times more. Austin has some headroom still.

Moreover, don't forget taxes! California state tax for an engineer will be about 10% of gross. 0% in Austin. Quite a difference.
It's not much easier with Java applets since Oracle tightened applet security (requiring everything to be signed, which the old applets aren't), and deprecating the plugin altogether.

I had to jump through hoops to get an applet I wrote only 10 years ago running.
I don't care for Confluence at all. It feels engineered to death (as does Jira, for that matter)—it can do everything, but nothing well. I've been trying to organize my team's Confluence space but I'm constantly confused by the software which seems to be working against me.

I think my issue with Atlassian software is that it feels so unopinionated—they've added every option and customization because they have such a large enterprise customer base with unique needs—and the result is that it becomes byzantine and unfriendly because it can do _everything_.
Do you think that matters one bit to those who advocate for these kinds of measures? Not everyone is a proponent of free markets, and some of them are in positions of power - and this kind of measure should illustrate that in abundance.
That’s very interesting, thanks! I now need to go read more about those 450,000 year old fragments.
A classic trick to avoid Emacs pinky is swapping Caps Lock and Ctrl. I'm using it everywhere though; swapcaps makes it much more comfortable to use the Ctrl key on a standard PC keyboard.
> Can you share an image inline?

You can always paste a link to an image hosting service and launch the viewer as a separate application. I don't really see why viewing the image in the same application as the rest of the text is seen as an advantage. If it's inline, it would eventually disappear from the screen as more messages are posted.

> Can you rapidly search the history?

I can use grep on the locally stored log files.

> Can you customize alerts?

That depends on the client.

> Does it work reliably on mobile?

The IRC client I have on my Nokia phone works just fine.

> You're debugging something and you want to share a screenshot, inline, how does that work on IRC?

Normally, you post a link to an image or pastebin service that shows the problem.

> Can you start audio or video calls with room participants?

You would have to use a separate application for that. FWIW, I use Slack in Firefox and that feature (at least the last time I tried it), didn't work. I had to install chrome to get it to work.
I like the plaintext version better too, but when I hit decline it redirects me to the “main page” of the plaintext site which just shows a top 10 stories view. Am I missing how to go see the story from plaintext due to some browser settings or something? Running latest iOS on iPhone 7+
They'll have to provide access to the public, i.e. allow anyone to walk into their campus and have a meal there.

Plus it can't be the exact same entity, so they'll have to "partner" with some vendor to create and operate the restaurant.
I quite liked how “A Deepness In The Sky” tried to tackle this, by making the galaxy travelling traders permanently outside of the existing societies, as time dilation means they will have to be!
Proprietary? The backend maybe, but the keybase clients are open source. Some of the code is a little rough, and completed API docs would be nice, especially concerning KBFS, which is still missing. It's still under heavy development though, so these shortcomings should be understandable. (I personally won't use it much until I can actually develop my own non-reverse-engineered client, but that's just my requirement.)

I'm guessing you meant non-decentralized?
> Can you share an image inline?

Not inline, but you can share link to the image or send it to other person/persons via DCC directly, that's what you do on IRC.

> Can you rapidly search the history?

Sure, no problems with that, all the channels we use are logged and ready for advanced search.

> Can you customize alerts?

Yes.

> Does it work reliably on mobile?

Works for us.

> You're debugging something and you want to share a screenshot, inline, how does that work on IRC?

I already answered that.

> Can you start audio or video calls with room participants?

We don't do that on IRC.

If Slack works for you then great, it doesn't do anything for us. We have different workflow than you, which doesn't mean it's worse, it's just different. We don't need integration with dropbox, intercom etc, because we don't use them and we have IRC integration with tools we use already. We host all our tools and infrastructure and we need to control the whole stack.

I didn't said anywhere that new startup should go with IRC (unless you are already familiar with IRC with your team). I've shared my experience and opinion about IRC. We had infrastructure built around IRC already, we have a lot of experience with IRC and whole team knows IRC very well. I know some other teams that use IRC and they don't have any problems either.
wow, this looks really really really good
Why don't you deserve the free food more? It's a job benefit that the company provides to entice talent (and yeah to keep people at their desks). Do you not deserve the high pay as well any more than any other random worker?
> I think most of the "Why not IRC?" sentiment comes from a viewpoint of "I only use chat for sending short, ASCII sentences."

Most IRC clients support unicode. Also, I've never had an issue just using an internal pastebin to share code-snippets with other devs. If we needed to work on code together, we would use an application like remote desktop or a shared screen session.
According to xkcd, the world has already warmed 0.8 degrees compared to the 1961-1990 average. Something that has already happened cannot reasonably be said to be "all wrong."
Its cachet is overblown in most respects. My friends living there joke about it being due to the requirement to drive through the rest of Texas to get there.
Hipchat actually outperformed Slack for my team in every respect, with three exceptions (all of which were supposed to be solved by Stride):

1. No markdown support and half-assed code highlighting support.
2. No (real) message editing.
3. Silly parenthesis based emoji.

Its search is better than Slack’s; its performance is better than Slack’s; its integrations are better than Slack’s; its client memory and CPU usage are better than Slack’s (whether in a tab or as a real, native app); its group video chat is better than Slack’s (does Slack even have video chat integrated, with screen sharing?). Most importantly for us, its price was 4x better than Slack’s all while offering better features, performance, etc. The only thing it didn’t win out on was hype. (It should also be noted that HipChat could also be bought in a self-hosted configuration, which allowed for HIPAA compliance, something that Slack won’t even bother competing on. I didn’t need it, but hey, it matters to some people.)

Slack is an overpriced distraction monkey. They’re selling it like it’s the whole enchilada, but it’s a damned feature bullet. I personally cannot wait until Slack is dead, because it’s the worst chat service I’ve ever used (and I love full-featured integrations).

Now, I have to find a replacement for HipChat that won’t cost us US$200 per month for our office (if we pay a year in advance, more if we don’t).
Embarrassingly, I work for a company that has copied several of the recycler view layout managers out and customized them. And that new Work Manager is unusable right now without in house fixes...
This is an informative comment, thanks.

It does make more sense for a development like the Village, but I'm still concerned about the encroaching and escalating intrusion of local lawmakers in a benefit employers wish to provide their employees.
> They're just pandering to special interest groups --groups they believe will like this move, and since there is no alternative party in the Bay Area, they know most tech workers will not break Repub, so they can do what they want.

It's true that basically all elected officials in SF are Democrats, but in practice there are two semi-official parties: "progressives" and "moderates." The supervisors pushing this, Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safaí belong to the progressive wing, which recently got a majority on BoS with Rafael Mandelman taking Scott Wiener's old seat.

While pretty much united on national political issues, the two groups differ on housing policy (generally, moderates want to build more, progressives less), homelessness, and the proper attitude toward the tech industry (the progressive wing tends to blame it for many of SF's problems).
it's easier for development. os x sucks, I use it to surf the web on my ouch. my real dev machine is in my office with linux
This looks rad. Unfortunately, I won't be able to use Telegram Passport. I can't even read this post without a proxy because my government actively blocks Telegram without a publicly given reason.

I wish they'd spend more time figuring out how to get around the domain fronting problem.

Then again I'm rambling.
Not sure I understand. What would be stacked in the first chart you describe? If it's the sub-categories that are stacked, I believe that's what I've rendered here. If it's the top-level categories that are stacked, it's not really a bar chart at all; there'd be only one bar.

Either way, you'd still be comparing animals to viruses to plants with one-variable-dimension objects, and you'd have the same problem. The topmost categories simply vary too much in size.
Does he accept no campaign donations? Does he never meet with lobbyists? What do you think that is?
An alternative way at looking at this is that, if you are pushing your employees to their physical limits, you can squeeze more out of them if you can prevent them from becoming overheated.

This is a negative way of looking at it, but I think, unfortunately, that it is realistic. Beyond the short term, the only way this will benefit the workers is if there is something external to limit the ways it can be exploited solely to increase productivity. Otherwise, the market will do its thing.
Aren't there brokers to acquaint you with investors? Scratch that - you need to be an evangelist for what you're selling and try your f-ing hardest to gain traction with customers - the angels will then start showing up.
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“Jeff Dean once shifted a bit so hard it ended up on another computer.”
Misleading title, idiotic questioning. I was at this event, these three interns took the entire qa time to read a long rambling statement off their phone that made false allegations. Satya responded expertly including mention that microsoft's job is not to be sole arbiters in a democracy.

People were booing the students by the end of their long rant, which took valuable time from other participants. It was cringey and there was far far more applause for satya's answer than the question.

Microsoft employees don't care about this, and neither do interns. Internal support is fringe at best and this is just a lame hype piece. Also employees involved violated non disclosure agreements by posting event images.
The author of this piece wrote a book called "Dumbing Us Down" that is one of the most influential books on education I've ever read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbing_Us_Down
Same problem, the decline (opt-out) seems to make it impossible to read the article. Android chrome.
Years ago, my company used an internally hosted XMPP server. When you joined a group chat from another client, it would replay messages that were sent while you weren't connected (or possibly some fixed time period of messages).
Not a slack user but an avid fan of our persistent chat tool for a central place on with alerting and deployment approvals where you can immediately dive into meaningful conversations about either.

Slacks API and number of systems with built in integrations blows the competition away.
The challenge in building Enterprise SaaS is that you don't know what the right price ceiling is or how to differentiate your customers & products. You need to charge enough to have a business and not too much to scare people away.

Since there aren't that many true enterprises that will allow you to test public prices like you can with consumer and SMB products, you have to go private.

The political dynamics you mention apply to developer pull products but you can easily fix that by calling or sending an email. In many Enterprise cases you want to talk to a VP or CXO for a full deployment and the free and medium offers cover the developer pull demand. If you really don't want to talk to sales AND you can spend $500k+ a year, you're a very rare case.
My landlord offered me $35K to move out
Also, Graffiti was fast once you got it down. Newton's handwriting recognition, even when it wasn't a total disaster, was kind of laborious.

But mostly it was the price tag. Palm Pilots really did almost everything a Newton could do at half the price or less. The Outlook sync feature made sure they had a place in business as well.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182727
> compliance isn't particularly difficult unless you're going out of your way to do something harmful to your users.

Please stop spreading this FUD. There are tons of architectures (e.g. Apache Kafka) which were totally sane and require total reorganization to become compliant. Dismissing this as "not very difficult" and adding a snide little attack on anybody who disagrees is untrue and an ad hominem to boot.

Complying with GDPR is costly and significant work. If implememtations match legislative aspirations, it could also be a significant boon to consumers. However, legitimate questions about the level of compliance, particularly from companies with unscrupulous business models leave it currently vague whether the boon will be realized in full, in part, or not at all.

Though I know hacker news discourages political discourse and meta, I would interject - almost all political topics have upsides and downsides. Pretending that the downsides don't exist on any policy isn't passionate advocacy - it's just degrading the level of discourse.
They split the baby on that one too. Old people can only be charged 3x as much as young people, but the actuarial difference between an 18 year old and a 65 year old is something like 10x, which used to be the price difference too.
Good question. If someone has a tech career, which should provide sufficient income to be able to afford to leave town and head for a place where housing is more abundant, but decides to stay anyway, then presumably they can be considered to have housing. I am not sure it is fair for us to judge how people choose to live within those houses. If sleeping in a living room is your thing, more power to you.
I'm sympathetic to Gatto's arguments and also intrigued by alternative schooling models, but I wonder what has kept it all so fringe? Does anyone have insights into Gatto's credibility?
Is the developer toolbar the only native way to clear cookies still?
> Still, it's unlikely that food service and retail workers in these cities are having an easier time making ends meet. The article you linked acknowledged that the cafeteria workers were making well above CA minimum wage - do you think the same can be said for all the restaurant/shop employees in the bay?

Hit the nail on the head.

All this concern for a relatively tiny number of tech cafeteria workers who are actually in much better shape than the vast majority of food industry employees. McDonalds pays the absolute minimum to its legions employees, and has to give them booklets that try (and fail) to do the math of how they can survive on their meager income. Meanwhile, bit tech pays their workers much better, but let's pick on them since they're evil!
For us at Discourse we find Mattermost perfectly acceptable as a chat program.

10 second load times and slow/wrong notifications have not been a problem for us at all.
To your first point: I agree that as a consumer of textbooks, it is difficult to fairly compare them. But, if one were an instructor in a subject, it would probably be a bit easier to observe how groups of people react to different textbooks, to get some bulk idea of which is better or worse. So, I don't think it's impossible to meaningfully compare books and make a "best of" list, but that list should be created by people who are maybe less biased and have wider perspectives.

Of course, as your second point gets to; a book that's generally considered "best" won't always be the best for a specific reader and their circumstance.
Aren't there brokers out there who do this? Scratch that - you need to be the evengelist for what you are selling. Believe in it on every mental level and sell it on every channel you can. If customers come, so will the investors.
OK they're obviously not just involved, actually driving...