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> A conservative approach to adding features so that they can be at least implemented well and understood?

Well, sure. But while IRC slowly proposes and implements relatively basic features of modern clients, the world will go on without it. That's already happening.

Not that this is a problem for existing IRC users, evidently. But if this is the case, and it's accepted, then it would be great if some HN users would stop trying to pretend that IRC has everything that people want — if that were the case, we'd not have all these alternatives.

> * inline media (clients, not protocol, should implement this)

Which is why part of what I said, and I know you didn't specifically reply to it but I must restate it, is some sort of minimal specification for graphical clients to present the user-facing features that people expect of a modern chat client, voluntarily entered into but with the potential as a great feature to advertise the modernity of a client.

My thinking is that otherwise someone will just make their own Slack knock-off IRC client, bundle it with their own IRCd, and we'll re-enter the IRC wars again. Proprietary IRC with a proprietary client — not that much different from any other proprietary solution other than IRC users reaping none of the benefits.

Going on to the main benefits of Slack, I can't really speak to Slack. However, I'm a Discord user, and I know Discord is inspired of Slack. What I'd like from Discord is:

- persistent session without needing a bouncer, or a simulation of such (e.g. when I connect, show me the last few messages on the server; when I scroll up, keep showing me more)

- an easily customisable role-based permission system rather than the relatively simplistic op/hop/voice, with customisable symbols (as opposed to colours)

- channel categories

- consistent and predictable text formatting, including a subset of Markdown — if I show a code block, I want everybody to see it as a code block (even if all that means is forcing a fixed-width font for a given block of text)

- separating a user's identity from their username, allowing multiple users to use the same nick differentiated by a discriminator

- avatars!

- push notifications!

It's all the little things that add up to a pleasant experience with things like Slack and Discord. I'm sure many will see many of those things as quite separate from an IRC, but these are the things to which people are now accustomed.
40% faster at what? Games that you aren't going to play? The vast majority of users aren't going to notice a speed increase in their daily tasks. It's like claiming the latest Intel desktop processor is X% faster than last year's when the bottleneck outside of a few applications is not the processor.
“Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete” (1990)
There's an ongoing youtube series about recreating the Antikythera Mechanism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE&list=PLZioPDnFPN...
Knowledgeable skeptics have been voicing concerns about neurons not being the right level of abstraction to look at for decades. See, most prominently, Chomsky, and by extension Gallistel.
Hmpf, didn't know that, thanks! Very strange, however.
When it's difficult to identify a cogent strategy, other than milking the cash cow, I think it is definitely a concern when the cash cow shows weakness.

Remember Microsoft's position pre Ballmer? That's Apple.

Tim may be one monkey dance away from being the next Steve Ballmer.
It was not "browser only" internet.

There were plenty of apps for different things.

At least for music/file sharing, there were: Napster, Soulseek, eMule and many others. Then, chat clients: AIM, ICQ, IRC.

I was also using chess clients, and it was perfectly normal to have 5-6 different apps running, all of them being clients to different web services.

fun times
So upgrade when/if you drop your old phone in water? That's actually the only time I've upgraded to a newer phone, the two times I ruined my old phone with water. If my next phone is waterproof, it might be 10 years before I upgrade. (Right now I'm on a Galaxy Note 4, which I got after accidentally running my Note 2 through the laundry a few years ago; it's more than adequate for what I use it for.)
4, there were two shutdowns in 2018.
I recall chatrooms that were bulletin boards that you had to manuall refresh to see new messages. I remember webrings, webcrawler and how all chat services had a 'random' option.. so you could chat to people you'd never met. Typically you'd open with "hi a/s/l?" Hi, Emma.

I met many long term long distance friends on early bulletin boards. My favourite of which was the unmod board at ocremix. Thanks djpretzel!
> an intentional comment

You don't just say 'Get out while you can. They're rounding up the jews'
I started using the Internet in 1996 when It got introduced in my university. Like many, I also got introduced with Netscape and IRC(mIRC). It was really fun. IRC used to make new friends. Especially from my part of the world(Pakistan), talking with people in West was a fun experiment. IE3 was new but Netscape(3.x?) was way faster and helped to load images much better on 14.4 Zoltrix modems.

I still miss that Internet which was not manipulated by Algorithms and where even Ads were not irritating.
Used those in the 80's - 90's, great machines! The most reliable and well secured systems I've been on.
Indeed, it wasn't a good idea to release footage with unfiltered audio.
If you’re interested in black holes, Shep Doeleman’s efforts might be of interest.

Taking a Photograph of a Black Hole

https://youtu.be/RTKIZvDQ6Jk

Einstein’s Shadow:

https://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Shadow-Black-Astronomers-Un...
Oklahoma Sooners vs Alabama Crimson Tide Live Stream
https://www.boredpanda.com/game-live-chargers-vs-patriots-live-free-6/

https://nationsphotolab.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024526414--Game-Live-chargers-Vs-Patriots-Live-Free

https://nationsphotolab.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024529154--Los-Angeles-Chargers-vs-New-England-Patriots-Live
https://nationsphotolab.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024721613-New-England-Patriots-Vs-Los-Angeles-Chargers-Live-Free
https://nationsphotolab.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024529294-New-England-Patriots-Vs-Los-Angeles-Chargers-Live-Nfl
I miss a lot of it. You could build a vibrant community without bizops, marketing, partnerships, and a whole host of other people because you could generate meaningful traffic from search engines.
What If Programming Language Adoption Is a Lemon Market?
I was get YouTube video ads for them everyday not long ago.
I don’t care. The value is just not there for me.

There’s a million things I’d rather spend $1000+ on that will get me real joy, rather than incremental improvements to a yet another generic product in an increasingly stale (and increasingly locked down) product-line.

Smartphones is just not a “it thing” anymore. Get over it. The market certainly says. (As in it’s not just my opinion.)
Terry Pratchett used to hang around on alt.fan.pratchett. When he came to South Africa, me and a few other folk from the news group had dinner with him.
You're equating "food insecure households" and "lack of retirement savings" with poverty. In America, the supposedly impoverished, the "food insecure", are more often obese than not and their retirement, though boring and doesn't involve golf courses and biannual vacations, doesn't involve starvation, lack of electricity, television, heating and air conditioning, and other essentials.

Open up any book from 100 years ago on household maintenance, written usually for upper and upper middle class women. There you will learn that the laundry in the apartment building is an incredible luxury, as is the store down the street, and the fact that you can buy a loaf of bread there for about $1.50.
There was no CSS, no React, VU or Angular. You could just publish whatever you wanted to without worrying about styles and analytics.
I have read this a couple of times, and I still have no idea what it is telling me or doing. What am I missing?
My cousin met her future husband in a Los Angeles Lakers chat room and are happily married to this day.
It is hard to tell if _used_ car A is better than _used_ car B. For example: did the owner change the oil regularly?

Other examples:

- How do you know if that used sofa online has bed bugs?

- This is also why people that was fired (even for reasonable reasons) has more trouble finding a job -- you don't want to end up with a lemon. "Peaches" are less likely to be fired.

- This is also why people like explanation such as "selling because I am leaving the country" -- it gives them a reason to believe your car/mattress/pressure cooker it is not a lemon.
It sounds like your issue was with poor documentation and not some fault inherent to REST itself. I don't think that just switching to GraphQL is going to fix that problem (though Playground is a pretty nice way of getting to know the API).

I guess my main qualm was that, because GraphQL does a relatively poor job of explaining why you should use it, people like me get the wrong idea about what kind of problems it solves and why you should use it instead of REST.
It was the best of times. Internet was very technical and you had to know your ways around.

People created websites without any specific goals.

Today, I became very cynical about the state of Internet. The big $$ companies took it over. people use it as a way to market themselves.

It went as a fun technology for geeks that the masses made fun of. The arrival of the masses changed everything.
One may also conclude that not all the people around the world care about the things that Westerners care about.
People are generally happy if they have growing wages and access to good infrastructure.
I think I started using the Internet in 1990, and I was at the center of "GopherSpace". Email was the killer app, but otherwise it was only slightly useful for "information sharing". I recall pulling some US Census data, using a gateway to the university library catalog mainframe, and downloading Macintosh System 6 disk images. The entire AP wire was on Usenet too. But email was the real cool thing, you could communicate with your professors or friends at other colleges, or even meet people in bars who would give you their email address. This is when long-distance phone calls were like $1/minute so it was revolutionary.

Usenet was a slow-moving discussion board consisting mostly of college students where you could argue about computers or Star Trek or whatever. The most popular group by far was "alt.sex". Most people posted with their real names, but when my friend posted with a female name, she quickly acquired a stalker. (Who was dealt with by being banned from the Internet by his college's sysadmins.)

By the time Wired magazine was a thing and I wanted to start using the World Wide Web, Netscape 0.9 had come out and I guess corporations had already gotten their hands on it.

I still have a printout of "Zen and the Art of the Internet" [0]. Check it out if you want to get an idea of what using the pre-commercial internet was like.

[0] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_toc.html
Well, your comment feels negative and not balanced. I think readers on HN like balanced views. I guess you knew ;-)

PS: I do
It's not all about you. You can't get any major benefit from a new phone. That's fine. Don't pretend that nobody can so you can lord your better decision making over the world.

The market says that somewhat fewer people are seeing the need to buy new phones. It hasn't dropped to nearly zero.
E.g. the first articles on capacitive touch screens dates to the 50's, and the "flat-panel" Aiken tube display dates to the early 50's as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiken_tube

Article on the Aiken tube from 1958 with pictures that predicts future models may be flat enough to "hang like picture frames":

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r98DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104&re...

Seing the potential of going from normal TVs to that, it's certainly not a big leap to assume they'll get even thinner and smaller.
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He's not kidding about the joy of traveling by rail. The train from London to Edinburgh was by far the most pleasant travel experience I've had. The low stress boarding, the spacious, comfortable seats, and lack of turbulence made for a relaxing and peaceful trip. It's a shame the options for traveling by rain in the US are so limited.
For the military, intel collection seems to be one obvious use case:

1. 5 days airtime manned.

2. 92 mph cruise speed.

3. 20,000 ft service ceiling.

4. 23 mph loiter speed.

I would want to know how loud it is and how resistant it is to (limited?) ground fire.

Regardless, I can see it having potential uses.
Amazing resource. And such a depth of info... we wanted to go from London to Vienna by train, and there is a page on that specifically, and three different options for the journey depending on whether you want a sleeper or want to go through Switzerland or want to go the fastest route. And then specific instructions for booking each trip on the various country's railway websites, and connection info for the train stations. Ridiculous.
I like that New Zeland trains feature in the same category as ones in Myanmar. Over here in New Zealand we have gone to quite a lot of effort to make a system this bad.
why hasn't there been anything like this for iMessage? or any 3rd party applications at all, really.
I recently saw a studio ghibli spin-off movie on Netflix called Mary and the witch’s flower(based on 70s, my little broomstick by Mary Stewart)...it’s about a girls accidental discovery of a magic school. Anyways..one of the founders is Dr.Dee(Elizabethan mathematician/alchemist/magician)...and I thought it would be pretty cool to have a school where holographic representations of various historical characters or scientists or animals can teach classes and concepts.

Gamification of education won’t be a bad idea. I mean..we could do that, right? And it’s scalable.
For some reason I thought they had found a way to do DC current over a single wire. This is a way to get AC transmission using latent capacitance in the line if I'm understanding correctly. Still very interesting, but not what I was expecting.
Corruption Perceptions Index – Ranking 180 countries (2017)
Uh... pretty close knit. There were no search engines. There were only directories with dedication toward search hobby/interesting.

I was pretty big into anime fanfic so anipike was the web directory I went to. The fan sites via xoom, geocities, tripod, angelfire are linked via web ring. Web ring is like a circle of website with similar interest and individual anime website would have a web ring to help find other similar website within the web ring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

The ads weren't bad it was banners and it blinks or slide across like marquee html tag. The majority of the web ads felt like print paper ads less scientific like today. Today ads they got metric, funnel, and trying to get more eyeballs on it, very gamey to get your attention which I believe leads to addiction and click bait stuff.

The user involvement was less, social aspect seems to be around hobbies. Now a day you can try to catch up with your friends via facebook, snapchat, etc.. it seems like everybody is trying to get approval by online friends by having that awesome picture while traveling and doing stuff.

There was a famous newsletter I follow for my fanfiction too (rec.arts.anime.creative).
Yep. Very first line of the README
Not even the majority, UNIX refugees, yes.
Seems like essentially a free hosting service for websites generated from Markdown
Blocking known source of brute force attempts and attacks is not security by obscurity and it should be a mandatory practice.

Run a website of any importance and you will quickly be shocked at the amount of malicious traffic that keep coming from Tor/DigitalOcean/VPN/openproxy and a few other sources.
Just released a system that does the same - Postgres FTS can get you a long way. I've used Elasticsearch before, and it's a lot of complexity to add, and isn't always necessary.
Funny I thought they would go the way of NIMH and invest in rats[0].

[0]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6573-brain-cells-in-a...
I was trying get to come up with pretty much your exact comment ..sparse with a sense of excitement pretty much spot on!
Sad to see your comment downvoted.

You'd think iOS device and Mac fans would understand well the sentiment of 'not wanting to be a second-class citizen'.

Frame the discussion around Material design in iOS apps, Electron apps vs native apps, and I'm sure all your downvoters would emphatically agree: no one wants to be a second-class citizen.
Good idea, I will check it out.
Which part of "this corporation is favored over all other corporations" leads you to the "favor[s] the freedom of corporations" idea?
Probably on the same levels as traditional blue collars.
What I find shocking is the dystopia with that morale high ground of "making the world a better place". It all feels very fake and hypocritical.
> If manufacturers want people to upgrade more often they need to work on curbing the price of top end models. The more expensive they are, the longer people are going to want them to last.

While I agree that lowering the price of a phone will increase the rate of upgrades, I don't think increasing the rate of upgrades is an end in itself for anyone including the manufacturers. If I can sell you one phone for $1000, that's almost certainly going to be better than selling you two phones for $500 each. It front-loads my revenue and most likely costs me less. For the two phones to be better for the manufacturer, they'd need to be taking the lowest margins on their highest-end phones, which is weird.

Selling you a phone every several years means less upgrading compared to selling you one every year, but it also means a lot less work for me. I feel like the actual equilibrium is "manufacture fewer phones".

> Also, a bit more innovation would be nice - must every smartphone follow the exact same black rectangle design template?

I'd settle for the rectangle being available in the same form factors people used to sell. We didn't just converge on "rectangle", we converged on "rectangle so oversized it only makes sense as a laptop substitute".
Actually Inferno, Plan 9 was the middle iteration.
Is iMessage even a thing outside the US? Everybody in Europe uses WA or Messenger, at least
GetMyPastebin: terminal client
Bell had a video telephone demo at the 1964 Worlds Fair in NY[0] some five years prior to this NYTimes story

I think a lot of public ideas of the future sprung out from that

I don't think the quote refers to a portable telephone but rather of the style that was demonstrated at the World Fair

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/long-before-facet...
Agreed. Apple went the wrong way with this by killing AirPort - which could easily have been expanded to become a semi-standard smart home hub.

That space is probably going to be owned by a descendant of Alexa.

But Apple's problems go much deeper. Product design has been mediocre since Jobs died, which either suggests that Ive isn't quite the genius he was sold as, or that Cook + Ive is a zero sum game.

Software quality is also mediocre. There always nice features, but discovery has all but disappeared as a concept, and bugs are a real thing.

But the real problem is lack of imagination. While everyone is arguing about how much an iPhone should cost, iPhones are already last decade's product line.

There should have been a new market-leading product line by now. There isn't.

Car is going nowhere. AR might be a thing, but unless it's a bullseye it's going to be Watch 2.0 - nice tech that doesn't have a can't-argue-with-this sells-itself need to exist.

IoT and smart home could have been a huge thing, but instead Apple handed HomeKit over to the market with a shrug. (Were the margins too small for Mr Cook? Maybe...)

So now there's a big yawning void where the new ideas should be. Momentum will keep the machine running for a long while yet, but without some freshness Apple is in danger of becoming a rather dull company with negative wowness.
That is certainly true. But given the choice between Amazon or Apple when it comes to digital content I choose Amazon for the reasons given. Maybe they'll lock things down but I doubt it.
I would love to see Apple move towards a truly modular phone. Just broke my screen. If I could walk into a retail store and get the screen module I would have done so right away. Now I have to go on eBay order and wait hoping I can survive with a cracked screen until it arrives. If anyone could do a modular phone it would be apple.
And it supports mixed language debugging (Java/C/C++), where JetBrains will happily sell a license of CLion instead of supporting it on InteliJ.
Two ways you can tell someone is sick just by looking at them
> Operating costs are tricky, a helicopter with cargo lift capabilities can serve many more roles and is much more flexible which means that the total operating costs are spread across a multitude of mission profiles.

The vast majority of operation costs for an aircraft are maintenance and fuel, both of which are pretty direct functions of operation time. So being more flexible does not actually spread these, each role incurs its own operation costs which would not be incurred in a more limiting device.

And helicopters have high operation costs.
I started something similar. I keep a list of all the money that I saved by either not buying some fancy thing, use a cheaper service, DIY/repair, etc. Then, I spend it on some cheap thrills. Funnily, This process has made me happier. I kinda have a good reason to say no!
>What do you recommend, a person stays unemployed forever because they refuse to sign these unprincipled agreements?

You don't need to be that dramatic about the non-compete. What you do is you ask HR via e-mail whether the non-compete is negotiable or a mandatory requirement for employment. If it is mandatory, then you have written proof that the non-compete is a contract of adhesion, so you simply need to budget for a lawyer to sue to nullify it on termination. If it is negotiable, then you don't sign the non-compete, or sign a non-compete clause that actually compensates you at full or partial salary for the time spent not competing.
Sure! I was using evernote and later pocket for this but they ended up as a bin for past read content. With polar that can further go to anki and then to my memory :)
Here is an analysis of Chomsky's opposition to forms of statistical reasoning.
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

Im not familiar with Gallistel.
And doesn't even mention Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has some science cred.
https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-ise...
You never wait for your phone's processor? I certainly do. It doesn't benefit all the time, but it definitely benefits outside of games.

I regret not elaborating on how X% processor benefit would only be Y% real life benefit, but I thought my point was clear enough. I would have been making a much stronger claim about hours saved if I actually thought the total use of the phone would go 40% faster...
To be fair, based on my searches, "Get from x to y by train"-type searches tend to feature this site on the first page of results -- that's how I found it originally. So something in the Google algorithm clearly values this type of content-rich, no-frills site.
A million dollars doesn’t seem like the right payout for something like that. I’m not an expert in the field but my guess is this is a small team of people dedicated for a while and need technology to support it. Seems like $10M would be a better target.
Sail ISA model of ARM-v8.5-a can boot Linux
There were a ton of scavenger hunts. With questions like, what is the first rocket on the NASA home page. They were tricky with no search engines.
1.48kg platter on a sl-1210mk2