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We needed to move our company off Google Docs and rather than pay Dropbox we used OwnCloud which has worked really well for us.

The only thing we miss is shared doc editing but we only really used that intensively a couple of times so we didn't miss it much.

The desktop integration is pretty good. The one advantage Dropbox would have had is LAN syncing, but as we mostly work remotely this isn't a big issue.
Chelsea Manning jailed after refusing to testify about WikiLeaks
If we assume that most stars are in a sort of orbit around the core, wouldn't the stars stay in relatively the same place? And regardless, wouldn't they still require the ability and timing to take advantage of those moments the solar system's get close to each-other? That still requires a monstrous amount of technology and energy, doesn't it?
Bing is as good as Google in many cases and is better than Google in some cases. IMO, thats no small feat. Bing is profitable too, unlike many other silicon valley companies so I don't think they feel disheartened.
Getting platinum on Emirates is not terribly difficult.
We don't as a policy fly business or first class but we do frequently enough that we get the status and access to the lounge which is great. You can even bring along a fellow passenger with you.
Facebook workers want to unite employees and low-wage contractors
Yep - we're living in the golden age of business class travel. Business class on every major international airline has some variation of a reverse herringbone lie-flat seat, which is the killer feature for paying for a premium seat in the first place (e.g. some privacy + lie flat seat).
From what I understand, the greatest difference between mainframes and minicomputers (and later, microcomputers), is that mainframes were batch-oriented machines, while minicomputers were interactive-oriented.

Mainframes (pretty much "IBM only" today - I don't know of any other actual mainframe computer manufacturer; to be honest, I am not even sure if IBM is still making mainframes? Ok - just looked, I guess they do) are still batch oriented; what "interactive piece" they have, is just a batch process with a "run forever" run time.
Not just you. The article just summarized some of the more popular theories.
They're also not helping if they're pushing well meaning but ultimately misguided STEM programs when these STEM classes displace classes where children were rounded such as the arts, music, foreign language, social studies, and civics.
I worked in a startup in Turkey (Istanbul) years ago (currently working in a startup in Boston). The culture was pretty "Western". The office had a beer fountain and my manager was really chill, it was an enjoyable experience. Not sure if you would be able to find that in any other part of the country though.
If you ever get to fly first class (I have only twice), the entire flight experience is starkly different. I am 6'4", even with an economy plus upgrade the experience is horrible. I don't want to be catered to, I just want leg room. I shouldn't be in constant leg pain you know?
Vitamin D deficiency has a lot to do with your climate. It's not realistic to get all of your vitamin D from food no matter what. I'm guessing you live in Seattle or some other place where you forget what the sun looks like sometimes?
> A lot of companies - Apple, Oracle, etc - are more using it as a customer service and sales team base than for engineering, R&D, etc.

Cloudflare have an office in Austin, and it is majority engineering and mostly the R&D new experiment teams and some core security at that (first class engineering teams)
Sweden is almost entirely cashless; cash is about to go extinct. :/

Just the last few months, however, the the powers to be (the elected government) have chosen to tell the population that this could be problematic if there was an extended power outage because of some vague reason. (We all know it would be Russians, though.)

Incidentally, the Swedish Riksbank repo rate is -0.25%.
So funny to see you mention Joshua Baer's Capital Factory. I've done some work for them in the past.
I, too, want to live in such a society. That said, I also don't want to live in a society where I have to stay home and do housework. I'd rather live in a society where a couple shares the household burdens, including housework, childcare, and outside work to pay bills - or have the choice to be independent of the other sex or have the choice to work outside the home and the man stays home to do that work.

In that world, both sexes have to work. In our current times, folks have to work full time (whatever full time is). 40 hours a week it is until we can get that norm reduced, but that is a different issue entirely.

... even though it boggles the mind. You'd think if everyone works we could all work less. But reality seems to say otherwise right now.
The university I attended (University of Athens, Greece, department of Informatics) live streamed pretty much every major class, starting from 2005 or so, and for as long as I was there. I'm pretty sure it's not that rare, especially nowadays. But it's much less useful now relatively, since there are so many courses and video resources on most STEM related subjects.
I know people with global services who have never got a first class upgrade. Any secret on how to get first class? Any airline to pick?
> I thought bit rot was bits in files changing over time due to the storage medium failing; is this a different use of the term?

My understanding is that it's more to do with things moving on around a project that's not actively maintained - That piece of software you wrote 15 years ago might not run any more because the linux kernel has changed, or the libc api. It may not compile straight off because a dependency is gone, or a header file has moved, or all sorts of little niggly things.

It's not literal rot, but a sort of metaphor for what happens when you leave stuff for ages.
Yea and I had no idea what it was or that anything could be done. Some could be a coincidence, but it seems pretty likely to be the cause to me. Over the last few months there has been a constant pressure in my lower back that has since gone away. A foggyness in my head has since gone away. Maybe it is some confirmation bias since taking supplements for awhile now, but the change seemed drastic.

Getting less than 5 minutes of sun per month and never eating any foods that contains Vitimin D such as fish for several years might be to blame.
Just say "no" to more government manipulation of the market. In fact, we need to rollback a lot of the ways government distorts markets today. See, for example: regulatory capture[1] and patent evergreening[2].

Too often it's government intervention which creates the very "problems" that they then turn around and claim to be trying to solve.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening
Maybe it's just me, but I'd vastly prefer to be alone, in privacy when I get the news, thanks so much. Text, mail, even a skybanner pulled by a small plane would suit me more than someone seeming to stare me down while telling me I'm dead.

Not to mention that I have no wish to put another human being through the tough experience of breaking the news. Why would I want to cause them distress? It's gonna be a bad enough day as it is.

It might be a favor to both doctors and patients to have patients register their preferences in this event in advance; as we register our preferences re organ donation in many jurisdictions; or perhaps
better allow people to register a preference.
The only trades who are millionaires are those who started a business that became successful and employ others, probably at least a dozen staff. That makes such folks no more likely than 1 in 12 (assuming their business lasts and they don't regress to the mean). That's not the average tradesman today, and likely to be even less frequent in the future.

The average Joe Tradesman never makes no more than $50K per year and has to retire in his 50s because the hard physical work (and inadequate health care) has worn down his body and he can no longer keep pace with 25 year olds. That's not a winning career strategy, especially in a future in which the rise of product disposability and building with modular components will simplify and reduce demand for much of today's trade work.
Because of the 8~ years of extra training they have to go through?
In Windows, the name of the publisher in the cert shows up on the UAC prompt whenever the program asks for elevated privileges. That's the point of this whole thread -- the author isn't paying for a cert because he can't make the UAC prompt say Notepad++ instead of his real name (which, he could, and I have no idea why he thinks it's so complicated, but there it is).
Exactly my thinking. Seems like a whole lot of fluff sans new insight.
Sure, and if you pay cash anywhere that accepts cards but has no cash discount, then you are subsidizing the bank fees (gotta get those points!) for all card-paying customers.
I really like Stratechery's analysis of Whole Foods as an amazon customer. https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/ specifcally https://stratechery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/strateche...

In this model, Amazon WANTS grocery stores to stick around, and buy groceries from Amazon wholesale grocery. The same way that amazon wants AWS to be everyones platform, and for their business to flourish.
I hope you get some fiber with that...
Most people are on the same page about ISPs so I will skip that.
Social networks should be public utility companies or else heavily regulated and treansparent to avoid censorship or what is referred to as surveillance capitalism.
Networks should be open for third parties in a regulated manner after a certain size threshold. This would for example prevent Amazon from creating a massive delivery network in a competition free environment and then use it to squash any new competition for decades and decades.
People might have a choice now to use Amazon or not but as delivery prices decline the options shrink to the point that you might not have any realistic alternative depivery channel.
However with current US political system that has money interest and regulations tied in a biased way towards concentrated capital these will likely not happen.
That few would opt for. I don't see how this would actually solve anything.
'Tibetans and Uyghurs not accepted': Apple supplier probes hiring discrimination
I was thinking about this recently when news broke that Atlanta's Mercedez-Benz Stadium (home to MLS's Atlanta United, NFL Atlanta Falcons, recent superbowl host) was going cashless too. While technologically 'neat' or whatever, it always also feels just like a flashy move and definitely a slight against the poor. Sports entertainment doesn't have to be only for the rich, a trend that always creeps
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No, I'm not going to be demonized for producing something the entire world needs. How many on HN and Silicon Valley can say the same?
Run distributed deep learning jobs easily
Fog Creek?

"When developers go to a conference, do they fly first class? (I don’t care if that seems like a waste of money. Stars go first class. Get used to it.) "

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/07/a-field-guide-to-d...
Thank you for posting this! I've been trying to figure out what it was called for years!

There was an attack I read about for garage door openers or numeric entry doors where they didn't have an enter button. So entering they entered the De Bruijn sequence and had the answer in a small fraction of the time compared to trying each combo once and hitting "Enter".
>It’s kind of like standard oil buying up the railroads so they owned the supply chain and no other oil could be moved.

kind of, but not really at all. Google and Amazon aren't preventing anybody else from using their services - getting other people to use their services is kind of their whole business model. If you want to compare Google or Amazon to transporting oil on railroads, it'd be like if the company that owned nearly all the railroads owned a couple of oil wells (but not all of them) and still transported everybody else's oil for a fair price.
Windows Phone 8 (or even 10) with wordflow was the best prediction/autocorrect experience I've used. I sometimes want to fling my iPhone at a wall in frustration.

My only experience with android is a low-powered phone and Swype on that was quite bad, but maybe it's better on high-end Androids ? Or is there a better keyboard over stock and swype ?
One of the perceived risks of breaking up the tech giants is that they will be at a competitive disadvantage to their foreign peers. The degree of competitive risk at the time of Boeing's split was perceived as lower. As long as Americans are ok with losing some areas of advantages, they should move forward.
> The trend in broadband has been more competition.

I'm not in SV, but this is 100% not true in my area. Where I live, my choice for broadband providers consists of Comcast. There is no alternative, nor is there any sign that competition is coming.
I've considered moving to Austin (like so many others). I think my biggest concerns are 1) lack of good public transit 2) scorching humid heat ~5 months of the year 3) not a major airline hub.

I honestly wish Vegas became the tech dream that the Zappos founder had tried to build like 10 years ago. I would move there in a second.
You can't copy distinctive branding, but there's no way to copyright a color scheme or page layout.
On the other hand, you think the tens of thousands of lives lost to car crashes every year in the US alone are worth "sacrificing" for the noble goal of preventing blind people, children, and the elderly from leaving the house?

You seem to have no problem "gleefully volunteering" my life and health every time I want to cross a street, on the experiment of "will this driver remember to check for pedestrians before making a right turn".

Enemies of progress always seem to make arguments that criticize the status quo way harder than they criticize the attempt at progress.
I've literally noticed this myself last month when I went to temporarily lift my freeze to apply for a new credit card. I never got asked for the PIN, which I diligently save and securely store. I remember I was explicitly asked for it just a year ago (last time I had to do the same to open another card). I felt like an idiot.
It would make more sense but then what's the point in arguing about it?
It has that capacity, because, well, I feel empathetic towards certain people/groups of people after, say, watching some movies. Case closed.

I feel like the writer wants to explore how effective this could be as a tool for social change since there is a huge discourse going on about it in the context of pop culture (representation in popular media, glorification of certain subjects (war, violence), objectification, etc) but ventures into weird and a little bit difficult to comprehend (at least for me) philosophical space.
I live in Kansas. I just don't go outside ever. I was always told I was at high risk of melanoma due to my mother having it so I learned to stay indoors. I start burning within 15 minutes of peak sun.
As others have said, this is incorrect. Quickly planning a flight in ForeFlight from LAX direct JFK for a Citation X (a midsize, 12-passenger business jet) at Mach 0.8/FL510 gives a fuel burn of 6700 lbs. The same flight in a 737-900ER (~180 seats in three class configuration) at Mach 0.8/FL390 gives 22500 lbs. Even assuming the Citation has only 6 souls aboard, that's ~1000 lbs/pax for the private jet and ~125 lbs/pax for the 739—"only" 8x worse.

Edit: I neglected to convert for the average American's carbon footprint (about 16500 kg CO2/yr as stated elsewhere in the thread). Each of the 6 Citation pax emits (21 lbs CO2/gal * 1000 lbs / 6.7 lbs/gal) = ~3.1k lbs CO2, or ~1400 kg CO2 during the flight—about 1/10 of the average yearly footprint.
We were 'required' to take two semesters of English, but it was really easy to test out of, so that's practically what everyone did.
"if you want to be productive after you arrive" Many people who don't travel for work do not seem to understand this. Unlike leisure travelers, there is no time to rejuvenate. If you fly coach, which in my experience is not all that terrible on international flights, you do end up weary and jet lagged. The one time I flew business, the difference post landing was quite noticable. So yeah, while I don't really crave for the business class comforts during the flight, the reward post landing is worth the premium.
Rent in Dublin is ridiculous too.
I fly first-class only when upgraded or flying on miles. It's priced itself out of the market.

I fly business-class only for long hauls, especially if the airfare is covered and if I am supposed to be wide-awake a cogent the day following the trip. I usually specify contractually that flights longer than four hours are to be business-class or better.

I usually prefer the premium-economy seating because it is, for me, much more comfortable than the business-class seats.
A recent premium-economy transcontinental trip on an Air France A380 was, without question, the very best ever.

Recent business-class seats have, for me, much in common with the rack, a mid-evil torture instrument; the design is such that there is no way to get physically comfortable since lying on my back is not an option.
Taking the train is a much more pleasant experience. If only our train schedules (outside of the NE corridor) didn't suck.
Microsoft is pretty big in consumer space as well - Xbox, Skype, Bing ...I think its Silicon Valley vs not in Silicon Valley thing. Microsoft is counted out because of not being physically located in SV. Thats my theory.
Imagine how much of a larger monopoly they would be now if they were never broken up in the first place.
Relevant: James Scott's "Seeing Like a State".
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

The general gist is that there are many benefits from the ways that cities have come to be, which careful planning and control doesn't consider.
>We are living in the golden age of business class travel.

I've had the privilege of flying 300k+ miles in Emirates over the last 2 years, mostly in business, and including a few first class segments through upgrades and I can also say that there is not much difference between business and first other than individualized service and better wine/spirits.

As another poster has mentioned Premium Economy is where business was about 15-20 years ago - and the PE segment is growing significantly in the airline business as they try to capture revenue in the "comfort gap" segment between economy and business.

As this segment grows, and becomes more attractive to accountants, during the next economic contraction I expect that there will be a lot of corporate travel policies that will push travelers down into PE, so let's enjoy it while we can.
I lived in the Valley for 10 years, and have now lived in Austin for 7.

While certainly Austin has its problems (traffic, heat in the summer, and allergies would be my top 3) I find Austin is handling high growth far better than California did.

We do have older, homeowner NIMBYs here, including my local neighborhood association. The difference between here and California is that the NIMBYs don't have as much power here. They fought an apartment complex in my neighborhood and lost--now hundreds of new people are able to live closer in to downtown.

The current fight over zoning is allowing "granny flats", or back yard buildings. It does look like the NIMBYs are going to lose on that one as well.

There are also a lot of older houses being torn down, developers splitting the lot, and building 2 houses on the lot. These older houses aren't historic; they're 1950's-1960's suburban sprawl. I did not see California allowing these types of development as easily in the 10 years I lived there.

Overall, Austin has a compelling mix of factors that keep people moving here. The weather is great 9 months out of the year, and if you're in tech, it's not uncommon to work from somewhere else in the summer, or take some time off.

You're actually able to raise a family here without insane waits or crazy prices for daycare.

The community overall is more laid-back than SF because you don't feel the need to work 90 hours a week just to be able to afford a 1BR apartment.

Plus, we have breakfast tacos. :)

I've traveled through most of the US at this point, and lived in several different areas, and still think Austin has one of the best communities of people I've ever seen...which is why I continue to live here and advocate for smart tech folks to move here.
My favorite solution: The galaxy is teeming with life, but in the form of quasi-immortal software that lives at such vast timescales, they're as uninterested in talking to us as we would be in talking to a fruit fly. (Imagine Space Ents that say hello, and are perfectly content to wait 10,000 years for a reply.) It may well be that becoming such a life form is the only practical way to deal with the speed-of-light constraint, either in travel or communication.
I used those two examples because they were the ones presented in the article, luck vs merit. But you're right that there are many more options for distribution. Whether people would prefer opportunities for success with merit without rewards or without certain rewards like financial compensation if they would receive more recognition instead is an interesting line of inquiry. If we can establish that people overall prefer a merit-based rather than a luck-based success system, it opens up opportunities to figure out what kinds of things people value in return for their success.

I wonder if people would even prefer fewer rewards for success if that success could be made more merit-based as a result. Maybe companies should reduce salaries and redirect that money toward more robust systems to recognize skill and merit in employees. It would make an interesting experiment. Would you take, for example, a 10% pay cut if in exchange you and everyone else at your job were given weekly evaluations with opportunities for advancement, with at least one person being given more responsibilities with no pay raise and the bottom earners gaining a raise as a result of increased efficiency and reduced pay for the top earners? That might not sound like a great deal, but maybe it could be crafted in a way to be appealing to people.