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Apple should fire Steve Jobs and go back to selling colorful plastic computers that are more in the price range of their Japanese competitors. And give up on OSX already, Windows has clearly won.
There is one apocalyptic scenario here that everyone ignores: it is monetary compensation that keeps the social norm. Remove that, make it so only the rich or the obsessed write, make music, etc, and they will increasing do so for their own ends, because there is no reason not to. Social alone approval will motivate very few to commit to the amount of work necessary for most creative endeavors.

On the surface, of course, this would seem ridiculous. But we only have to examine how much cultural capital is employed to keep writers writing toward the money and controlled by editors, and ratings boards, etc. And the common consumer expects what they, the consumer, to always be delivered unto with exactly that which they claim to desire. Under the monetary system reproductive advantage slates toward those who accrue capital. However remove that, and the 'shock value' of 'independent artistic work' becomes the most viable remaining path to mate attraction.

So, remove the money, and the only artists, writers, etc, who remain, are the ones that the mass of consumers despise as 'experimental' and 'weird', etc.

And given that humanity is pretty much by definition a story species, the resulting effects on society as a whole, with such a major hit to the mytho-poetic infrastructure that undergirds any society, might be very interesting. Most likely some government or wealth-backed cultural production engine will emerge in the vacuum, however, the question might be whether it will do so fast enough.
The big public thing they have coming up is a new online card game with a Dota 2 theme, it was initially booed when it was announced, but after they showed gameplay and announced that the creator of Magic the Gathering is one of the lead designers, it's getting glowing reviews from fans and proffesional players in other card games.

The only behind the scenes thing I've seen is a lot of work on VR, such as pressure sensitive controllers that translate your grip strength into effects in game, like crushing a small rock if you squeeze the controller hard enough.
A public company.
How is that a "fact"? Pretty much every time you upload data to a website, there will be some sort of validation of the uploaded data that will happen. That's not "surveillance" it's a basic process that happens on the Internet. "Surveillance" requires going a step further to track what users are doing. (E.g. checking your ID at a club is not "surveillance"; having the bouncers file a report so someone can track what clubs each person goes to is surveillance.) Mozilla points to nothing in Article 13 to suggest such tracking would be required. They seem to be speculating that such tracking will happen. That may or may not be a good conjecture, but that doesn't make it a "fact."
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Oh yeah, last campaign of the kind worked great. Members of Parliament really appreciated to have their mailbox (and their voicemail) mail-bombed by hundreds or thousands of such spam and reacted super well.

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No, in fact, no matter which side and party they belonged to, it really pissed them off and turned them against what the spam advocated for. Many thought it was orchestrated by some GAFAM.
You shouldn't be sad by articles like this, but it can prove a valuable lesson for why things actually fail in practice (rather than in theory), which is why you shouldn't ignore it.
I think we've reached the point where we need to adjust our concept of what constitutes a tech company. Many of these companies do develop their own technology but it's only a means for improved delivery of their primary product or service, rather than being the product or service itself.

The default definition of a tech company lingering in peoples' minds seems to be any company using in-house software to conduct their business, but that describes most of Wall Street, the entire automotive industry, and so on. Why not be more specific?

Lyft, for example, is a transportation company - providing software and/or hardware is not a primary revenue stream. Similarly, Opendoor is in the real estate business, DoorDash is in the food delivery business, etc.
Was there something particularly convincing there that should've swayed me?
What books do you recommend do a university student without much familiarity in the subject looking for practical design advice?
damn, semicolons

damn semicolons
No, the data do not back that up: https://www.theurbanist.org/2016/05/27/rents-in-san-francisc...

In order for new construction to materially affect rent rate we would have to build more housing faster than it has ever been done before, for decades to come.

Leaving aside the question of whether it is desirable to convert SF into another Manhattan, we could actually do it: there are modern methods to build entire new apartment buildings in forty days, etc. We could, in theory, convert the Richmond and Sunset districts from mostly single-family homes to three- and four-story apartment buildings, and do it quickly enough that rates rise slowly. Not fall, or stay static, just not rise as quickly as they are now.

But still, how do the people not earning $100,000 or more afford to live there?

Just building the buildings would require a sizable portion of the entire California construction industry. Where does that army live?

How do all these people get into and out of the SF peninsula? You're talking about eventually two or three million people just in SF, South SF, and Daly City.

How long before those teeming millions forget how much we value nature and start eyeing the Marin Headlands, or all that beautiful land south of Pacifica? San Francisco is the largest city with the most wild land around it in the world.

Anyhow my point is, enough with the "Damn NIMBYs!" rhetoric already. This is a big ol problem that will take decades to sort out and the ocean will rise before that can happen, so please stop insulting your neighbors for liking their neighborhood, eh? One way or another it's not going to last, so why not let them enjoy it. You work in tech, right? You can afford to move up/inland early, beat the rush, no? You've got just enough time to stay and let your kids deal with it for you. Forgive me if that sounds harsh, I'm keeping it real: We have bigger problems than folks not liking new housing. San Francisco is at sea level.
> Sure, call your local car service from home when you're heading to JFK and he'll be there in 10. How about when you're in the Village at 1am? How about Red Hook?

New York is a bad example. The system that was here before was pretty exceptionally good.

Standard protocol if you were in the boroughs was to simply ask for the local car service number. Restaurants, bars and bodegas all had it ready. If you were in the city, just flag down a yellow.

A car was rarely more than a few minutes away.
This new research is definitely intriguing, but at the same time I think it's fair to be skeptical of this new science. During the times of increase in global temperatures, human populations are estimated to be between 5 to 20 million for the whole planet. That is a very low density. Not to mention human farming began before the Younger Dryas (a sudden return to cold temperatures), which briefly ended agriculture for over a millennia.

Also, during more recent times the earth has swung into cold spells that had dire consequences for human populations, such as the Little Ice Age which began in the 1300s and only ended during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It's likely Earth would have continued getting colder had it not been for the mass expelling of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere at that time.

So maybe humans had an impact on the global atmosphere during the second beginning of agriculture, but it's also possible other natural phenomena lead to an increase in CO2 and Methane that just haven't been discovered yet. And as a disclaimer, I personally believe that humans have had a major impact on shaping environments for as long as we inhabited them. I'm just a little skeptical until more research can solidify these findings and explain other changes in global temps in the opposite direction when there were more people and more intensive agriculture.
Thank you, I've now used this to send an email to my representatives.
I suspect there is quite a bit of turmoil inside the walls of Valve right now due to a series of large, failed bets that will eventually threaten their cash-cow platform.

> Steam controller/Steam Link

Huge flop. These are being practically given away now as Valve looks to get rid of their excess inventory. This being hardware, it had to be an expensive venture that failed to penetrate the living room.

> Steam machines

Another stinker, though Valve was able to successfully offload most of the risk onto OEMs with this one. Opportunity cost still bites.

> VR

I commend Valve for putting all their chips in on this, but it looks like the VR industry had yet another cold start. This will go down as an almost total loss.

All the while Valve has been neglecting game development which, while admittedly much more expensive and less rewarding than running a sales platform, ensures that there's a sufficient amount of first party titles to keep users on Steam.

With the advent of Fortnite and competing platforms from other triple-A studios, it's not so farfetched to imagine a complete fracturing of the games platform market over the next 5-10 years. Valve needs a return-to-roots moment to prevent this from happening
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Oh, they use stack ranking (page 27).
Personally, no, I don't remember that, but, I know it did exist. I'm also not saying that data won't ever exist. but, the stock market, as a market, produces the data needed for the quant funds. there is enough "price information" in the market to generate the data that a quant fund needs within the market itself. OTOH, startups are opaque, and most of the relevant data is kept out of the the hands of anyone that might aggregate it. instrumentation of the startup market does not benefit people the way that trading on existing data streams benefits the public ones.

Again, not saying don't try to get more data, but, given the status quo, it is not a lot of data to go on right now.
Can be very useful when your testing is troubled by permanently changing backend data or when some cases are hard to get examples of.

Imagine writing a front-end to a third party weather API: recording gets you repeatable examples and slightly edited copies of those recordings allow you to check unobserved extremes without manually mocking out the whole thing.
It's good that they were able to work this out with their memory controller vendor, a lot of people will not appreciate the fact that that is an effort unto itself.
In my personal experience, poor population actually doesn't care about 'smartphone', though they care about 'Whatsapp'. Thankfully, Jio is bringing around 2000 INR (~28 USD) feature phones too, that will still run Whatsapp and Facebook etc.
One way that email is hugely broken for the industry I am in is the inability to send attachments exceeding 25mb without using a file sharing service. If that could be fixed I'd be happy as a clam.
"We must burn the village to save it." New housing tends to be higher rent; if you want to increase affordable housing stock, mowing down older, lower-rent buildings isn't the way to do it. (Especially in Berlin, where housing is often already far higher density than you see anywhere in the bay area.)
I prefer the term gossipmonkeys
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> Disable Google Safe Browsing and malware and phishing protection. Stop sending links and downloading lists from google.

To be clearer here, lists of partial hashes are downloaded and entire links are only sent after partial match. Still worth disabling for privacy reasons if you care more about that than safe browsing protection, but worth clarifying how it works lest one thinks all links are sent.
> But I don't play Valve games.

I did, but they stopped putting them out.

That would definitely be a reason that they haven't put anything out - valve feels super weird in that it seems like the whole company is in maintenance mode and enjoying being the biggest guy on the video game distribution block.
Unfortunately I think you're probably right. It's really a shame how many otherwise great things we miss out on because people suck. Constant "this is why we can't have nice things."
its synced to your personal Microsoft account, only if your email is tied to your OS. How is that a "utmost crazy privacy problem", plenty of people do the same thing with cross platform tools.
The biggest shock to me is how fast culture changed, I go to the bar on the weekends a lot and we had a DD rotation for years. Once we figured out that we could pay $12 for an uber anywhere in town we started having so much more fun.
Postman?
Design a new better C API for Python
That's the old betahaus location. They recently moved.
It's been forever since I read about this but the map itself was generated randomly. It was then manicured by hand. The buildings and cities and dungeons were all hand made, yes. But the dungeons were all using such similar art assets and there was a real lack of variety, so they all rather felt the same. Not that I'm complaining, it was an amazing game and probably one of my favorite gaming experiences of my life. It was way ahead of its time.
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It's OCaml which generates C.
> if you are going to encrypt a message, it must at some point be input without encryption.

How do you feel about someone else composing the message that "you" (your encryption software) are going to encrypt? Because that's what the article is talking about.
He wasn’t, mostly yachting and partying, very wealthy man. But the company was lighting VC dollars on fire. Someday I’ll write an expose of that place, such an odd culture. We had a burn of something like $2mil a month, 75 employees, and no product or customers to speak of.
I was with you up until the part about cloud computing and indie developers. I don't see the connection. Steam on the other hand provides a great platform for indie developers to release their games and get some attention.
If people want it to be illegal for Google and similar companies to move in there or redevelop it, that's possible. I'm not sure that's such a good idea, but it can be done. Getting mad at Google for doing something that's a good idea for their business, is entirely within the law, and is generally ethical behavior (unless you think opening new offices or redeveloping urban areas is generally unethical somehow) is silly.

Like, the government has the power to change how something is zoned, do they not? And the government is elected by the people. And it's not like anyone thinks that no new buildings should ever go up in cities, so the clear solution here is for people to vote/apply political pressure to protect this particular area. That's the government's job.
I'm going to discontinue this as you are getting upset and increasingly personal, I'd ask that you try to be more thoughtful with your comments in the future.
> I am presuming that if the customer actually made money, these guys would pay them from their own pocket.

Set up a company, sell “shares” in Apple or whatever, and don’t actually buy the shares for your costumers. If Apple falls you make bank, and if Apple rises you declare bankruptcy. Either way the costumers loose.

That is the difference to market makers who actually buy the asserts, so the customers at worst just have a bunch of less valuable stocks not empty hands.
it wasn't purged, per say. if you click "edited by maxtaco" on KirtiRamchandani's first comment, you get a dropdown to select the versions, and you can still find the original text.
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There's little drawback to turning off Pocket unless you find the new tab content(and paid advertisements) compelling.
Given that the system makes a network request when a hashed match is found, anybody could verify this. Surely the evidence would need to go in the other direction, especially since revealing the offending websites would signal to malicious parties exactly what they need to change.
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Can this get a [2012] in the title?
Absolutely not. CEO's particularly those in more traditional industries with traditional customers do not go on popular TV shows and smoke up.

There are many odd/interesting/unique things CEO's can do, Musk has done many of them, mostly positive - this is definitely not one of them.

Given all of the negative vibe out there about erratic behaviour, making false statements on Twitter that literally put him under investigation by the SEC - this is just bad.

It adds to the narrative that something is really wrong and he's not listening to more responsible people around him.

Sending a Tesla on a rocket to Mars was a very expensive PR stunt that was 'out there' but frankly was probably worth it. It's aspirational, quirky, got tons of press coverage.

There are some that suggest he's actually trying to get the boot, I can't imagine why though.
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"Disinformation"; that's laughable. Tesla and Musk are being sued and investigated for stock manipulation, but you're crying about Reuters being off on their prediction. Who is showing bias? Where is the outrage?

I never understand how this is a legit argument.

Just because one party shows disinformation doesn't make another party's disinformation right.
We already have a distributed backup system: the keyserver network. There are also efforts like DANE to put it in DNS. They however refuse to sync with it. They only sync with their own proprietary servers using their own protocol.

Also there are projects in the OpenPGP world making very easy to use workflows and interfaces without centralizing or breaking standards. OpenKeychain for android is a fantastic example of this.

I use OpenKeychain on my phone and can sign files, access passwords, or decrypt email by tapping my yubikey to it. I can tap someone elses key to my phone to import their key to my addressbook. No terminals or fuss and at no point does any key come in contact with system memory of any device involved so I have strong assurances it can't be stolen even if my phone is totally compromised.

A big example of the 2 steps backwards of keybase: they use keys in system memory and abandoned any compatibility with the openpgp smartcard spec, yubikeys, etc. The industry is moving to smartcards for very good reason: malware is a thing and it can use/steal keys from system memory without user interaction. A key stored in a yubikey 4 OTOH never touches system memory and requires a physical touch for each operation.

You can have usability without throwing out security and standards. Keybase is just another in a long line of companies ignorantly throwing out any security features they don't understand using usability as an excuse for bad engineering.
I used Firefox's Reader Mode.
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Seriously could you shill for Uber/Lyft any harder?

Lets not talk about their monopoly status or their horrendous treatment of employees, oh I mean contractors...
Incidentally, one thing I'd like to know about musical anhedonia, which perhaps all the anhedonics here can try out, is whether psychedelics affect it. They are famous for heightening the emotional response to music; do they work at all on anhedonics, and if so, does it bring them up to the normal level? Surely some have tried it a few times, since music is a common accompaniment on trips.
I think you're a good person, and arguing in good faith, but I wish you could hear how you sound to "the other side", meaning the folks who just got themselves arrested for their silly stunt.

I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong, I'm just trying to point out how the same words can sound wonderful or insidious, friendly or patronizing, depending on the listener.
Right click - choose paste as plain text

aka - Ctrl + Shift + V // (Command + Ctrl + V on mac)
really? why?? that would be a tragic strategic mistake!
What I want is an alternative clipboard. Sometimes I need to paste two things many times and fairly frequently together.

I want a save this to my second clipboard and then be able to paste from that clipboard without changing the default clipboard.
To be honest most of the times he lists the multiple concurrent theories and simply points out why he believes one of them to be closest to reality.

Of course, sometimes none of the theories can be proven or disproved. So unless you want to leave a black hole you simply choose the theory that fits best, with the risk of it being overturned in the future.
Dangerous is assuming Mozilla optimized only for privacy and performance. Why would you assume that and discourage people trying to optimize for that? This list wouldn't exist if Mozilla offered an equivalent, optimizing for only those two metrics, and explaining the tradeoffs you're asking for.

What you'll find, as has been the case for Mozilla in some recent decisions, is the tradeoff includes (but is not limited to) profitability and ease-of-use, two things you left off your list of what you think Mozilla optimizes for. That blind trust and invalid set of optimization metrics shouldn't be perpetuated. Granted blind trust in this list is unwise too.
I very much prefer natural light to artificial light. I've wondered, regarding lighting windowless areas:

Why don't buildings put natural light collectors ("windows") on exterior surfaces, and use light redirectors ("mirrors" and maybe "fiber") to shunt the light to places that otherwise lack it. The light could be output through the same fixtures that host artificial light sources. (Sensors and dimmers on artificial light sources could compensate for variations in natural light.)

It would be much more pleasant than artificial light and it would save energy. Perhaps the ROI isn't high enough.
Haha I wonder what David Macaulay makes of this
You are referring to functionality my comment was more related to look / feel.

If you go with a popular framework with the mobile first approach you must design with those limitations on your full desktop site as well. If you go with Bootstrap and use the grid layout both layouts will use grid.
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All of those problems can easily be solved if you have marketable skills, live in a major metroplitsn city (not necessarily SV) and a strong network of trusted recruiters.

I don’t worry about “marketing”. I send an email out to 10-12 recruiters and they find jobs for me relatively fast at market rates. Most give you the choice of working for them either as Corp-2-Corp at a higher rate or as a W2 employee and they take care of employment taxes (the employees half of FICA), you can get insurance through them etc.

The real advantage of W2 contracting over FTE is that you actually get paid for every hour you work and you can “job hop” without being considered a job hopper.
A Popular Mac App That Sent Users' Browsing History to China Has Been Removed
Well, that is a good example actually. Of course you don't want to lose the ability to right-click, but there are also various web apps that override the right-click menu for legitimate reasons. Two examples that come to mind are Jupyter Lab and Outlook 365, both of which use a custom context menu. Disabling the context menu setting presumably breaks this functionality.
Are you saying any economically successful person is an artist, contributes to society and culture as art does?

Are you saying, some billions heavy foreign company should have the same "right" to influence a region as a local art collective has?

Because they are basically the same?

Are you serious?
There are now more than 6 PR pros for every journalist