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I had this same thought when I was heavy into Google/Android. I was running on G Suite, and frankly didn't like the way Google was going. I own my own domain name, run off of Zoho which gives me more features that I use for the same/less money, but the system hasn't been without weirdness. Syncing between all of my different devices doesn't really work right using their ActiveSync option. i.e. my iPhone doesn't sync deleted emails back to the main server and unless I run the sync tool my desktop doesn't either. There are options though, but everything is a privacy/ease of use trade off. Things that give you more privacy and control tend to come with more actions you personally need to take.

Edit: A Plex server is a really easy way to back up photos from multiple devices as it syncs and you can control that entirely in house.
An interesting approach to the criminal lack of healthcare to vulnerable populations in the US (and potentially other places with third world health systems)
The strategy only loses money because they are paying full-retail price for movie tickets.

AMC's A-List (costs $19.99) does not pay $9-$13 per showing a la MoviePass. They pay the same space/personnel costs per seat they always have. Tickets have never been a theater's largest or most desirable source of revenue.
NC rolled over for TWC against its own cities. Nice to see NY not get bought off.

I'm fortunate that AT&T fiber has been available in my neighborhood for about a year now ($70/mo for gigabit service). Before that I was stuck with TWC's ever increasing prices and worsening service. Now that it's Spectrum it's still more expensive for slower, less reliable service.
The new trend in university employment is hiring adjuncts at <$20k/yr without benefits.
I'm surprised the article didn't recommend the simplest solution for individuals, which is to use ear plugs. Nowadays you can get versions that are tiny and flesh-colored, i.e. nearly invisible. I felt a little dorky wearing them at first, but they make a world of difference, and I've seen other people start to wear them as well.

Obviously this doesn't exactly address the root of the problem, which is that restaurants shouldn't require the kind of PPE that you'd have at a concert venue.
When are you not supposed to commit a lockfile? I think the norm is to commit it.
But at least english pays proper tribute to the languages it took from (at with greek that I'm personally familiar) by adopting specific spellings.

Words spelled with "ph" for the f sound are spelled like that because they are derived by greek words. In latin languages elephant is spelled like elefant, making tracing the history of the word much harder
>Downvoting promotes groupthink and mob rule.

Yes, that's the entire point. But one person's groupthink and mob rule is another person's cultural last bastion against Eternal September.

>but to maintain civility a downvote should require an explanation.

I don't believe civility is something that can be engineered though a UI, it has to arise organically within the community, and be enforced through personal interactions, as it is within any real-life social group.

And if someone could provide a reasoned, well thought out explanation as to why they would downvote a comment, they could just as well reply with that rebuttal, and the downvote wouldn't be necessary.

Downvotes are only useful as a proxy for collective opinion, a means of adding dissent without effort. If someone is going to downvote and not bother with a reply, chances are their explanation wouldn't be worth reading to begin with.
In the traditional one room school house, once the student was beyond the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic, teachers did very little teaching as we know it.

If you think about it, that is completely obvious. How could one person prepare lessons in all topics when the students range all over the ages 7 to 15? The answer: they did not even try. In fact, you can look at older text books and see they were designed around the idea of a lot of self-teaching, perhaps with only a few pointers here and there (and if you were very bright and dedicated, you did not even need pointers).

The teachers primary job was to assess. The children were assigned lessons and expected to read that lesson several times until the teacher could get around to quizzing them. Good students the teacher might deign to allow to ask questions afterwards. If the student did poorly but was clearly trying hard, the teacher might offer corrections and advice. Otherwise the teacher had a free hand to beat the student for the crime of being stupid or lazy or both.

In the 19th century, there was nothing weird about so-so students dropping out at the 4th or 5th grade level. Even the dedicated were done at age 14 or 15, unless they intended to be a teacher, doctor, lawyer, etc. The normal means of learning was through formal or informal apprenticeships: you were supposed to either educate yourself, or ingratiate yourself to a highly competent adult and learn at their elbow.

It is a modern fad to obsess over the teachers. In the old days of the one room school house, the teachers had to only meet a rather low bar of competence, and then the onus for learning was put on the student.
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That page doesn't actually say what it is either.
Don't bin us all in together. Most of the modern world it's really not that expensive to go get real sick.
It really doesn't matter which language it is, as long as it's not super hard to learn. The hard reality is, if you have N languages and speakers, to communicate without coordination either they have to each learn N-1 other languages or just 1 with O(1) coordination. The rest just happens naturally via network effects.
This is a very hand-wavy, Web 1.0-esque monetization model.

Acted-upon, local recommendations aren't worth as much as MoviePass is paying for customer movie tickets.
HN-material arguably includes Silicon Valley/VC-funded entrepreneurial effort, as success stories tend to spawn competitors or inspiration in other fields. Not sure the origination of JPay, but it competes in the same industry as the HN-seeded Pigeon.ly [0]. That said, I don't understand your metric of measuring a company's potential relevance to HN readers. For any given tech startup, I would think revenues/funding rounds/programmers hired is enough of a relevance metric for the average stereotypical HN-ner. But you think HN-relevance is predicated on what proportion of the said startup's userbase would include the typical HN user?

[0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/pigeon-dot-ly-yc-w15-a-startup-...
> It has more to do with judging posts as incivil or irrelevant, kind of like HN's downvote system

I have definitely witnessed HN's downvote system used frequently for other reasons, so if we're comparing against HN, I don't see how they can keep it to those reasons either...
This is still a massive change. Intel used to be 1-2 generations ahead of everyone else. Now they're slightly behind.
> Do the inmates have to use the "free" tablets?

More or less, yes.

Services like JPay are frequently used in the prison system to replace existing systems, not just to supplant them. It may be made the only way to deposit money into the prison commissary, for instance. Or the availability of video chat through JPay may be used as an excuse to limit the availability of in-person visits. And so on.
sigh your train of thought is completely turned-around.

This article is largely not about JPay. It is rather a bout of "let's express pity on these poor people because we're compassionate/upstanding/Christian/whatever".

(Those legislators were even further lacking in details, but that's typical of legislators.)

It does go into just enough detail about JPay to bring a smile to my face. But simple schadenfreude is not what HN is for, I daresay.
If the person delivering feedback doesn't "care" about the person receiving it, you'll never get the tone right, and will never create the emotional connection that is so necessary for the feedback to be internalized. The receiving end will hear the words, but much harder to act on it.

Kim Scott wrote extensively about this in her book "Radical Candor" [1]. Do yourself a favor and skip the video snippets and TED talks, and go straight to the book (so you don't get caught up on the click-baity "radical candor quadrant"). This is particularly true if you manage teams - or ever aspire to.

The author is a former Googler and used to report to Sheryl Sandberg during the early days, before going to Apple and working with Jobs and Tim Cook, and more recently with Dick Costolo on Twitter.

This is one of those books I wish I had read when I started my career. It would have saved me from so much pain and mistakes learned the hard way.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Kick-Ass-Without-Human...
Assuming you even have a degree: People like you. People who parrot the same sound bites you do. That's what is making our universities hostile.
We (The GCP Ops Management and Stackdriver teams) are working hard in multiple fronts to deliver innovation (Such as service graph highlighted in day 1 keynote at Next and GKE monitoring) and at the same time deliver first class scale and reliability. its a journey, but we have made a lots of improvements over the last 12 month, and will continue to raise the bar in the next 6-12 month. We have many very large customers as well as startups using Stackdriver as the core of their Ops and SRE command and control center. I can personally guarantee that our users getting great UX and reliability is top of mind for the entire team. I would appreciate it if you can flag to our team any time you see a page not found or any other experience in Stackdriver that you feel does not meet the bar - we listen and we will resolve bugs one by one to meet your expectations. we have an email list, bug tracker and a feature request forum all listed here https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/contact-us . you can also submit in context feedback from the Stackdriver and GCP consoles which will be reviewed by the team. finally, please feel free to DM me on Twitter @markcartertm . We care deeply and would love to hear and respond.
> New York isn't about to let every ISP in the nation run independent lines over all of the poles in the state.

Why not? I would expect the barrier to entry there to be the expense of doing so, not regulatory refusal.

It makes sense for a regulator to require "universal" coverage and prohibit cherry-picking only the profitable areas, which brings the cost barrier back into focus. However, encouraging a monopology would seem to encourage a similar result.

Has the state actually expressed or implied such a policy?
I only see name and description boxes in the dialog that comes up...
Safari will stop loading NPAPI plugins in macOS Mojave.
The ethics of computer science: this researcher has a controversial proposal
I love mixxx. It's an awesome program. I really appreciate the work that's gone into it. Especially after adding 4 decks and additional effects plugins. Combined with JACK it becomes extremely powerful It's definitely fully capable of competing with serato or traitor. I'm really impressed and very appreciative o all the work the devs have put into mixxx.

Actually, how does sound work on the Amiga? Is it more like ASIO or JACK in the way it works? Or something totally different?
I have found that reading (auto)biographies of persons in the field I am interested in has helped me. These alerted me to the original problems that the mathematicians were trying to solve and the struggles they faced.
Kicking myself for getting out at $17. Oh well, it was a good run, I've been holding it since it was $4.
if there were an anti-trust court case, maybe a court would decide that Google is required to allow, say, a restaurant review site, to use Google Cloud on an equal footing with Google's own restaurant review service.

it reminds me of the decision where ATT was ultimately required to allow user-owned telephones to connect to its wired network. (in earlier times, ATT only let phones leased from and owned by ATT to connect to its network)
I really wish they’d specify the upload BW. I have 100/5 service, and it sucks due to the 5.
So it seems like the backbone exists and gets used heavily. The next step would be a way for person to person transfers of money and person to business, business to person, etc. It seems like business to business already does, the major piece left out is a consumer account. i.e. there's no card you can use to directly send money from your account to your kid at college. Everything still requires some company as an intermediary.
I wonder what Jim Keller has to say about this, wasn't he hired to oversee the introduction of the 10nm manufacturing process?
> it has been ignored, ridiculed and hated (even death threats) [...] Maybe I interefered with some globalist agenda

This is the most likely reason, though they will disguise it by using people with other agendas against you as their useful idiot intermediaries.
My favorite one is "umpire". The origin of the word is the Old French nonper which means "not even", referring to an extra person arbitrating a match between two "even" teams.

The "per" part of "nonper" originated from the Latin "par" meaning "even" which is also the root of the modern English words "parity" and the "par" in "par for the course".

"Nonper" then made it's way into Middle English as "noumpere", and "a noumpere" soon became "an oumpere" via re-bracketing. The word pair then evolved into "an oumper", which finally became "an umpire" in modern English.
Doubt it. There are still dozens of frameworks that still link to OpenGL, and Apple’d need to drop or update them all in a year. Most likely it will remain on the system for at least a couple years.
"Prechter called the '87 crash using wave theory, but he also called for "the end of the great bull market" in 1995. Which was 5 years too early (ie. flat out wrong)."

He was in good company though - Greenspan's comment about "irrational exuberance" was in 1996, when the Nasdaq was around 1300 compared to its peak over 5000.
> by default
9th Circuit Allows Trump Supporters' Lawsuit Over SJ Protest Injuries to Proceed
Returns comparable. That doesn't mean the rest of the money is all lab equipment. Pharma ends up poaching work developed at Universities.
For 'proper' language, maybe, but for intelligibility, not so much. Especially when spoken.

"I want food", "Food, I want it.", "I am wanting food.", "Food for me; hungry.", "Want food.", "Me want food." Are all completely intelligible to most speakers, if many are not proper grammar. You can drop or add all sorts of articles and pronouns in there without really affecting basic intelligibility either.
University used to be for the elite, or roughly.

Now, regular folk, who don't come from wealthy families, have to do that as part of their education, and cost is a big deal.

It's natural that people tend towards practical educations and it's not all that bad.

As an Engineer, I was overwhelmed with technical bits and in retrospect I wish we could all have taken a full year of liberal arts type stuff.
Intel had two advantages:

1. Relentless process improvement, putting them 1-2 generations ahead of everyone else.

2. Using their monopoly to prevent OEMs from shipping AMD processors.

#1 isn't true anymore.

#2 is almost irrelevant since mobile has taken over and makes the PC revolution look like child's play by comparison.

Intel doesn't have a good graphics story. They sell hot power-hungry chips. They no longer have a process advantage. Their monopoly in x86 is increasingly (but not yet completely) irrelevant.

I'm sure they can ride the x86 profitability horse for at least 5-10 years. What then? Remember: RIM was profitable for several years after the iPhone was released. That didn't save them. Microsoft continued to rake in cash with Windows/Office as iOS/Android/AWS/GC established a new world order that threatened to make them irrelevant.
I don't think it goes very far to reassure me that a response is copy/pasted or machine-written. My name could be as easily pulled from a database as from someone's memory.
> though maybe concerning that the host OS is actively "snooping" on what we're doing in a client application

How is that concerning? The OS can do whatever it wants. If you don't trust it, you have already lost.
Mike Burrows was a coauthor on the algorithm behind bz2 [1]. It's the most mindblowing algorithm I ever encountered and so I have utmost respect for that couple of guys :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...
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‘Amiga PCs’ is an oxymoron.
I think it's fine to accept that this article was written by what seems to be a pro-prison reform group (I saw it retweeted by a friend, who I believe works in that area), but that doesn't make it irrelevant to the tech entrepreneurial crowd. Just as pricing strategies and revenues for pay-to-win mobile games is interesting to folks here who have no intention on playing such games.

But yes, there is an additional element of public policy discussion, particularly whether we should be cautious of the wider consequences of seemingly no-strings-attached contracts. Not everyone shares your clearcut perspective on what amenities convicts should have access to. But the bulk of these costs are borne by the families of these convicts, who are generally not morally culpable in their family members' crimes.
In my mind, global English style = how they speak English on the nightly news.
You stated the classic and the cliche argument of safety over privacy.
> You can't charge less than the marginal cost, it doesn't make sense!

You can if you are dumping to achieve a monopoly and/or monopsony where you will then have pricing power on one or the other side of the transaction you are in the middle of.

But that's a game you either win completely before you run out of money or die horribly; there's no glidepath to a sustainable but not dominant position. And MoviePass seems very close to the die horribly outcome.
Some people say they have that, but I've never experienced it. I even run it out of a residential IP with no issues.

This is probably a good example of YMMV
It's also important to remember that fundamentally, humanities are a part of cultural production and reproduction. Anything that can be rigorously proven migrates to the realm of science. Humanities are by definition supposed to construct knowledge that guides our decision-making about issues where no certainty is possible.
Unfortunately, I agree that lobbying has become another "tax" to be paid, consequently a "tax" to the consumers. Tangent: I still don't understand how people find lobbying natural and a good idea.
I believe the solution you're looking for is Athens[0], right?

[0] https://github.com/gomods/athens
> the whole point of using a cloud provider is to lower the amount of ops work

In a sense. You shift a lot of what ops work used to look like to someone else. No longer you have to worry that there is some issue with a fiber optic transceiver. This is someone else's problem.

This is an abstraction though, and abstractions leak. Even with the best teams and monitoring available, they are not going to catch it all. But at least you can see if there is an issue, instead of filing a ticket to even find out if there was an issue to begin with. And they won't able to tell you that "everything looks fine in our end".

At the end of the day, it is still their problem to fix.

I think this is a pretty bold move, I wouldn't want to expose internal data like this to end customers, unless there was complete confidence on the monitoring systems. Issues with data have the potential to generate an immense amount of grief from customers.
My rent and food in NYC are less than $14,000 with roommates. I have a savings if something goes wrong.
Is there a name for the opposite of NIH syndrome, where programmers only use external libraries and frameworks, and are totally allergic to the notion of writing in-house code?
I carry high fidelity ear plugs that cut noise levels by about 15 decibels. These can be good for some restaurants, churches, and stores where noise levels are high but you still wish to hear people around you. Flesh-colored foam ear plugs can block 30+ decibels and are great for places with extreme volumes.
For reference:

College Majors, 1970-2011
Share Of All Bachelor's Degrees Awarded By Field

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/09/310114739/what...
Yeah they aren't quite comparable; I didn't want to dig into the complexities of that, which is why I followed the last thought with "incidentally".
The US has approximately 100 tech companies worth $10 billion or more. Europe, with over 2x the population of the US, has about two dozen.

Seimens is a very old - 170 years old - industrial conglomerate. That's like using GE, Berkshire Hathaway or 3M as an example.

Nokia is barely a good example. They're a $30b market cap company, Google can sneeze and lose or gain that in a day. Texas Instruments and Broadcom are worth 3x what Nokia is; Cisco is worth 7x Nokia. In a land of giants, Nokia is pretty small.

SAP is a very serious tech company, and by far the only good big tech example Europe has today. They're slow growth, have a $140b market cap, with $4b in profit (equal to about a month of Apple's profit). They're less than half the size of Oracle and will be eclipsed in size by Salesforce in the near future.

ARM was one of the more exciting European opportunities, until Softbank ate them. NXP might be able to make some good growth moves now that they're apparently not ending up in the belly of a US giant. I could see them forging a good path as an independent.

Spotify might have a bright future. They have to make a decision soon about whether they're going to be culturally an acquiring and aggressive growth company, or whether they're going to watch that extreme valuation (which they can probably never justify given the margin situation) disappear and get acquired in the next market downturn. If they play their cards right, they could be a legitimate long-term $30b-$50b market cap media/tech company (legitimate as in actually backing that up with earnings).

I think Europe's big opportunity, broadly speaking, is in artificial intelligence over the next decade plus. That's a solid inflection point where some new big companies will emerge. Europe has tons of AI talent to make something happen there (if they don't all sell out to big US or Chinese tech).
I have used a flip-phone for the past five years and two years before that I didn't use a cell phone at all. Though I didn't need to write an entire article defending my choice.
Are those both mesh networks?
Eh, I checked it out and it's indeed full of xenophobic trolls.

I am bummed again that there are so few "regular" people that care about free speech.
You're pretty dismissive of a theory I find interesting, I wonder if you've ever really entertained the idea that a wealthy country will cater its services to those who can pay, leaving those who can't pay behind.

So USA has a high median income, so we have high education outcomes, high healthcare outcomes, right? We certainly have the best schools and the best hospitals. But only the top few percentile can afford the best schools and best hospitals, everyone else gets left behind.

But we have higher infant mortality than many countries with lower incomes, and we don't compete so well when it comes to average assessment scores.

Naturally I was exposed to this thinking via a TED talk years ago, from this guy:

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson

Maybe you want to offer a rebuttal, or maybe you just want to insist he's jealous.
You're supposed to commit it for applications, but omit it for libraries. Libraries declare the versions they're compatible with but they don't lock to specific releases.