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I think "get your own mail server" doesn't necessarily imply that you're doing all of the setup yourself. Using a provider like fastmail (or Google apps, fwiw) is a good way to be sure that you set it up right.

Granted you can't set up your own Google Mail domain for free today like you once could, but some of us are grandfathered in... I am, and I'm still looking at this as a better alternative to Gmail because even though it is Gmail, I can take my address with me if I do ultimately change my mind about Gmail.

(That's the first step, at least. You can never take @gmail.com with you, but if you want to start moving away, you could forward to your own domain and start thinking about where you would host it.)
This is simply too naive. We need regulation to stop global tech monopolities shamelessly exploiting their dominant position, be it Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Samsung and so on. I doubt this can be done properly on any other level than national.
>Another confirmation that engineers and product developers are no longer in control at Google.

The engineers not being in charged happened a long time ago.

To wit: the current CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, was never an actual engineer.

He actually learnt the ropes of his job at McKinsey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai
ActiveX wasn't really used outside of enterprises. It was also used for creating wave-effects on an image, cool stuff.

The desktop was never threatened, most people were on dialup. Javascript was about changing link colors, not creating "software".

Since IE was so much better than the competition it didn't really matter that it got monopoly. Until it stagnated. Same as today, since Chrome was so superior it didn't really matter that all other browsers faded into niches. Until google started abusing it.

Maybe we should start prioritizing open software rather than waiting for a monopoly to be formed?

The reason for why Fusion 360 is "free" isn't because autodesk are nice guys, it's because that's an effective way to ensure that they won't have to deal with competition in the future.
? china does pretend all of the evil things they do are for the good of their citizens and to uphold their societal morals
Not necessarily. E.g. making Ramen noodles, much cheaper to go to a ramen shop than to attempt to make it yourself. Economy of scale.
Leaving Apple and Google
> For some people, the mere fact that what they're working on produces joy

Besides joy, games can also bring social alienation and stunted development for kids and teenagers. I for one am not sure if games are making the world better or worse.
Let's not perpetuate the idea that Google is primarily a web search engine.

It hasn't been ever since Gmail, Google Calendar, Chrome and Android took off.
IIRC, Firefox did that once, and then apologized. Unlike Google, who keeps doing the same thing all the time.
Because nobody pays for software but most people don't care about privacy.
Hi author here.

Logging is hard but you can't avoid it (https://kerkour.com/post/logging) so I'm trying to create an improved experience across all programming languages, let me introduce to you: Astroflow - The unified logging layer.

An unified API for fast and configurable logging libraries.

There is currently the Go version: https://github.com/astrocorp42/astroflow-go

and the JavaScript version: https://github.com/astrocorp42/astroflow-js
It doesn't matter: We know this isn't something that the world is going to do. This isn't really something viable and for most of history, has been something necessary for survival. Not only that, but it would seem better to get the overall birth rate down since the goal of no more children isn't really something to look forward to (though it should be a viable choice). It really is better to look at the other options that provide more reasonable solutions.

We aren't really in danger of the population dying out, but we do have a need to balance out population and get health care (including birth control and other family planning) around the globe. For this, we need generous immigration policies and folks willing to redistribute money or otherwise spread these things.
Yeah, well, but what keeps them from silently changing that, seeing that users are already logged in? The UI for the sync preferences is sketchy at best as it is right now and you're basically just one misclick away from handing all your browsing data over to Google.
No, it's successfully and continuously convincing others to suicide by any means necessary.

And it's not the logical extension by the way. Not creating is not the same as destroying.
It depends on your needs. If you are absolutely certain that you are going to rent skis so often that you will spend more then buying them (plus the costs of storage, transport, and maintenance), then buying is the right choice.
If someone breaks into my apartment, I have more problems than losing my Yubikey. And my threat scope does not include agencies that would get my passwords AND be able to break in and steal my key. And if it did, I would think they could just take it from me.
Re: "This incident happened -before- the EU upload filter law had passed"

AFAIK this actually is only a directive and not a law just yet. As a directive it will be down to the individual governments to decide how it will be implemented. The final vote will be in Jan 2019.
they begin the article by saying pasture raised, organic meat is better for the environment than single-crop, fertilizer grown crops, through a reduction in emissions and and increase in biodiversity and health of the soil. It does not compare it to the obvious alternative of more sustainably grown crops, using crop rotation, cleaner sources of energy for farm equipment, etcetera.
This looks like a good solution for a developer. Most people who create slide shows won't be tech-savvy enough to use it, so an interface (dare I say wizard) to get anyone started with a few slides i.e. images and text with sound default values would lower the barrier to adopt this.

I understand that a value is to have the slide show available as a link for someone to view at their leisure.

For the use case of a live presentation one could look into some audience interaction. Here's a side project I contributed to [0] which I used myself to poll the audience and and present the results in real-time. As a presenter you had the problem that you needed to switch between Powerpoint and the web browser, which confused the presenter. If it "just works" then there could be some value in doing something similar.

A problem with live presentation that any such solution faces is that speaking publicly and giving presentations is a nerve-wracking experience for most mortals. So:

a) Powerpoint / Keynote are viewed as safer bets (no connection issues, older projectors will have smaller resolutions and scaling content can be trickier)

b) The presentation will have too much text (a safety net for the presenter to make sure they don't get lost but a poorer experience for the audience) - maybe some constraints would nudge the presenter to create a better presentation (analogy: PechaKucha)

Anyway, thanks for sharing!

[0] http://www.ipet.io/demo/demo
Purely on hardware yes it’s no secret that AWS is more, quite a bit more, than just buying/building the machine and plugging it in. That’s for any servers no just “deep learning” servers.

Of course you’re also paying for everything else AWS brings and the ability to spin up/down on demand with nearly unlimited scalability which is hardly “free.” AWS is also a very profitable business for Amazon so they’re making good margin too on most of their pricing.
There’s a difference between coming up with the requirement and the “order”, and implementing it because that’s your job.

And don’t say they should quit. This isn’t the solution. At some point they will find an engineer to do it anyway.

The solution should be applied at the source.
Anyone can make software with unlimited VC funds and few, if any, requirements and expectations. Not everyone can make software for over 300 million people in a centuries-old bureaucracy.
>>A decision has been made at the CEO level to aggressively use Google’s grip on the browser and search engine markets in any way

Now it's obvious to everyone but I am almost certain that Google did this already with search at least since 2008. The low hanging fruit was picked with Matt Cutts being their PR mouthpiece, and what's left to do now stinks. They can't hide behind the "search" and ads are separated lie. Special mention to his pal, Danny Sullivan, the "fair and balanced" search expert.

Edited to ad: If they claim that SERPS are unbiased and not connected to ad revenue, doing otherwise would fraud. Tens of $billion worth.
Even if you can read the propaganda banners (posters are rare, banners with slogans are more common), it comes off as weird and novel rather than personally oppressive.

I thought that only applies to HK phones, but I have never tried!
I think you're out of luck. I once accidentally scratched a CD and ten years later it only got worse.
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One more thing (apologies):

If you take the engineer off the hook because “they can’t change things,” you know what inevitably happens? You discover that the product and eng managers can’t change things either. In theory, maybe, but in practice they are given accountability for revenue and growth targets, so what choice do they have?

Let’s move up the ladder. Can we blame the directors and ELT. No, the markets hold them accountable for growth, and every company plays dirty, so what choice do THEY have?

Pretty soon everyone is shrugging, and now you understand how SYSTEMIC problems persist: Nobody is held personally accountable because no one person can make change without sacrifice, and sometimes not even then, it would take mass walkouts or protests , and each person is but a drop in the bucket.

This mechanism of not holding people accountable because they don’t have sufficient authority or power to make unilateral change is how all systemic injustices persist. Racism, sexism, class distinctions, corruption in government, predatory corporations, all of them.

They persist because individuals say, “What can I do? Nothing, so I might as well go along with it.” And if everyone accepts this...

The next thing you know, they’re writing software to assist opressive regimes oppress their citizens.
And to take yours, collective suicide would work the best.
You can read him as saying "yeah, even the best of us experience this problem, so the IRS needn't feel bad that it happened to them" or "I see that this happened to even the best of us, so others needn't feel bad when it happens to them."

And if you're asking about the phrase, it's intended to mean that if a problem is experienced by "the best of us," then surely it happening to the rest of us is not something to be ashamed of, but only to learn from.
Hitler was also a vegetarian btw...he scores pretty high on reducing carbon footprints
This is so frightening. What would you guess are the odds that we can find some kind of technological solution, assuming that the political will for decreasing emissions will have arrived too late?
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It seems he's employed by Google
Soon there will be many young Bernards and Doloreses running around. Hard to wrap your head around.
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>Radio that you never lose reception with

And sadly this isn't even the case. I recently purchased a new car that came with the SiriusXM 3-month trial. We drop reception in the country and in town (among tall buildings). In fact, it drops more often than mobile internet (why doesn't XM have 10s buffer?).

The subscription is also more expensive than Apple Music or Google Play Music and the car comes with Android Auto and CarPlay. How they expect to compete is beyond me. I guess that's why they bought Pandora.
There are dark sides to every industry, for example when does a game cross the line into being a Skinner box? I don’t think it’s as simple as industry A unalloyed good, industry B unmitigated evil.
The problem is that there's already open-source nvidia driver -- https://nouveau.freedesktop.org -- but it's so feature incomplete that it's good only for hobby. You can't run CUDA on it, you can't run any recent games on it, you can run TensorFlow on it, you can't run PyTorch on it, etc etc -- it is essentially useless and has been so for many years.
Where in the world are you? It's my normal human experience from both the UK and Sweden. Of course the stuff you make from scratch will often have a higher quality (or at least be made from higher quality ingredients) and if you want to buy similar or better quality then it will cost more. But the cheapest chocolate chip cookies you can find in the food store will be cheaper than buying ingredients and baking.
> 500,000 - 1 million bankruptcies in the US a year

Really? So, assuming there's 125 million households in the US, a person has ~25-50% (derived with simple probabibility math) of becoming bankrupt over medical bills at some point of their life? That sounds like BS.
NumPy and other things in the Python ecosystem are certainly part of what they're considering.

The founder/CEO of Tidelift is actually participating in a keynote panel this morning at the NumFOCUS summit.

I get it, it's fun to be cynical about things, but these are folks that are legitimately trying to help.
"unless you’re sourcing your vegan products specifically from organic, “no-dig”"

Then veganism could be the answer?
Yes, this is true. There are always people here on HN whose brother’s roommate’s best friend makes $300k at Facebook, and conclude that everyone in tech in the Bay Area makes that much. We are talking about outlier salaries at outlier companies.
Yep, F500 companies bring in all sorts of external tools to look at their source code, for compliance, security, etc.
I tried that, but it only gave me the bookmarks.
It actually rebounded (post Internet era) and exploded locally (I live 1.5 hours from Boston). I listen to NPR, a top 40 station when the kids are in the car, and there's a local rock station that's just as good as any SiriusXM channel (the kids aren't wild about that one). More commercials sure, but sometimes you luck out and your 5-10 min car ride has tunes the whole time.
Come on, Google offices are only in tech hubs where these engineers can easily find a decent job. Not necessarily as highly paid as Google (applying to other tech giants is always a lottery) but they can still make a very good living in the same city.
If you want a webby award, that’s what is needed.
There is a wikipedia page devoted to the argument that they were only doing their job:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
They just did it again to gain a count of users who turned telemetry off.

In general, I see firefox's point that using the system extensions to deliver autouodates and allow them to iterate more quickly. However, it also feels like whenever we see these extensions that they're something shady.
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If I have malware on my computer, I assume it'll be able to capture my password no matter if they are encrypted or not.
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Never use namecheap for anything important.

I almost has a domain frozen with namecheap after one warning.
If I missed the warning email or checked my email after 24 hours they would have completely suspended my domain. I'm talking about a site with MILLIONS of visitors per month and ten thousands of posts per day, not some small blog.
I lost count after 200,003 rats :)

Do rats serve a useful (for us) purpose there? If not, can we release a rat specific poison or is that impossible without harming the entire ecosystem?
> devs will not optimize of it.

Yep.

I have been a FF user since.. well, Netscape. Yet, FireFox-specific bugs have always been a lower priority.

Because, it's "a bug effecting 100 users" vs "a bug effecting 900 users"

When you consider FF users are harder to monetise (admit it, we generally are), you can start saying "a bug effecting ~50 potential customers, vs ~800".

*(fortunately, now that IE/Edge is out of the picture, those types of issues are rare)
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That's very interesting. Good find!

I just have to find a Windows computer then :p
It's sad to see people jumping between the same browsers, when the amount of change between each jump is getting smaller and smaller. All of them are becoming more hostile, just at different rates.

The outlier is (was?) IE, it kept the same interface and configurability while others continued dumbing down (although things are changing with Edge too) and it seems the massively anti-user decisions the other browsers made never really took hold at MSFT until most recently when they began sticking telemetry up the wazoo.

If you care more about user control than web standards compatibility then perhaps IE is the best choice... for now. At least it is more compatible than the "fringe" browsers like Dillo and NetSurf, or even the text-based ones. Opera, before it became another WebKit-shell, might be another good one.

(Disclaimer: No affiliation with MSFT, just someone who has watched these browser wars for a long time and saw this gradual "illusion of choice" take hold. I use various browsers depending on which site it is.)
Hard with a 16 (actually 14) GB iPhone. I deleted my iOS music library (to free up space) and only stream now. Even with the LTE issues, it's (streaming) better than listening to the same couple dozen songs and dealing with iTunes.
False.

They're trying to create a new marketplace where commercial users of OSS can actually give money back to FOSS devs.

Many FOSS devs live a life of poverty because they have no idea how to actually sell things of value around their free artifacts and free labor. It turns out that selling stuff is hard, in general, and feels almost nothing like coding. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This reminds me of the saying "You're never more than 6 feet from a rat"

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20716625
Cool idea! A great way to get participants to come to these events, especially since they are usually after work during dinner time anyway.
what’s wrong with working in the mines? everyone is afraid of working hard? my parents spent every ounce of their being working hard so their children could have a better life.

you think this is something difficult try on a true “work is life” existence like the people that made your phone and laptop.

and, no one is being marched here. no one claims it is better than a slow and steady and more well rounded life. i mean besides the incessant drone of pop culture.

just a couple of counterpoints to the developing arguments.

i do like how the article itself isn’t judgemental about t. it’s a fair piece.
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See my comment above.

I repeat don't use namecheap for any meaningful business, especially anything that is "enterprise"
How is the speed now of FF compared to Chrome? A few years ago I switched to Chrome because it was way faster. Has FF improved?
Really cool, I like the documentation on the website - would be nice if the README was actual HTML though.

Does that mean I can build container images within a running container (for example the GitLab-CI) without doing a stunt like docker-in-docker or fakechroot/fakeroot?

What are you using instead of fakeroot? I've seen people like [zwischenzugs][0] using User Namespaces - which makes it impossible to be run within a container. Author also points out that kaniko still requires you to use root, not sure if the situation has changed with gVisor support, at least a related issue [1] hasn't been marked as resolved.

Have you investigated into creating reproducible containers?

Thank you in advance!

[0]: https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/04/23/unprivileged-docker-buil...

[1]: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/105

Edit: Why the downvote? Am I misunderstanding something?
I'm saying that they are normal total comp figures at outlier companies not outlier total comp figures at outlier companies. Of course they are outliers compared to the rest of the world.
I agree with a comment from the SO thread: "And thus a simple, solvable hardware or locking problem will escalate to a major problem, needing reboot. And the kernel people doesn't even understand, that it is a… a… suboptimal handling of the things"

This is an example of the kind of thing that really irks me about developers, where they insist that they know better than the user and artificially constrain them "for their own good". It's one thing to make something difficult to do accidentally, it's another to prevent it entirely. I've run into unkillable task problems many times, and every time it happens on Linux I think back to the 90s when annoying linux evangelists would joke about how Windows required a reboot to fix things.
Ask HN: Is it better to start a business in society or on the frontier?
I mean figuratively, of course.

By "society" I mean how once something is invented legisliation gets put up all around it making it more difficult for upstarts.

You have to be a lot smarter to be on the frontier but there are fewer rules. AI, blockchain, and VR/AR all seem to be on the frontier.
Microsoft is anything but dead... where did that statement come from?
Agree in spirit, but in the case of Google/Alphabet there is somewhere for the buck to stop: AFAIK Larry + Sergei (+ maybe Eric?) control more than half of the equity in terms of voting power, so if they want too promote their principles at the expense of revenue growth they can do that regardless of the feelings of other shareholders.

This is more speculative, but I think public markets don't really react adversely to visionary CEOs / founders putting principles over growth, so it's not like they would make all their paid-in-equity engineers take a pay cut for their principles either.
I was thinking to just have Firefox on my phone as well.

Is 1Password able to provide passwords and credit card information inside other apps?
That describes most professors in life sciences at top US universities, and they all seem fine with it...
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Yup I switched to FF, despite its poorer performance (on Mac, anyway). My personal mail is Fastmail. My search engine is DDG. I do use Chrome for debugging web applications, as I just haven't been able to get myself accustomed to the FF dev tools... That's probably what I'll work on next.
Yeah a mobile device that I don't own, in a location I haven't been in, buying things I didn't buy. Most of this is easily provable, and I make such assertions based on fear of prosecution for fraud if I'm lying.

Obviously if this is the case it's an issue for them to address and to not do so puts them at risk of negligence.

So I reckon I'm safe enough!
All participants are equally complicit, but some are more equally complicit than others :-)

p.s. I know the market seems to like Apple’s perspective on privacy, but unless we can examine an altrnate universe where iPhones aren’t selling like hotcakes, it’s tough to know whether the market values the eithics involved, or just thinks it’s a fine strategy.

If the latter, the market doesnkt really value their values, but rther their ability to make money. Which is mot the same thing.
Sounds like you have a pretty good view from up there on your high horse.
That's what I'm thinking as well, it happened during WebGL development with the same symptoms both time.
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