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If the business doesn't have a need for high growth (which it perhaps doesn't if 250k moves the needle), why not consider more sweat-equity?

We decided not to take angel investment, took longer to build a small business, and gave equity to more founders.

We're very proud of our profitable centicorn (one hundredth the size of a unicorn).
when people say "Safari is the new IE" they mean that Safari has numerous bugs and missing features that take years to fix or implement. there's probably a ton of CSS stuff that doesn't need -webkit prefixes anymore in any browser (because it has been standardized). except of course in the outdated and widely-used Safari/iOS. For instance, they only now got Intersection Observer (super important to efficiently lazy load on mobile devices) in the latest iOS tech preview. many browsers have had it since 2017: https://caniuse.com/#search=intersectionobserver
Nowhere is this more evident than in the editor wars. I have been trying to convert vi users to emacs for years. They just go running right back into the arms of their abuser.
They trust Microsoft more than Google?
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How about "Do you think Google does X?"
Isn't that changing the goalpost a little bit? I don't think anyone ever called Safari the new IE because of market dominance.

Personally, I compare it to IE because of how weird it can be. Does anyone else remember the time they broke file upload[1], even though those issues were found in beta[2]? Or about the time they changed meta viewport[3]?

Edit: Oh, the last link also remind me of the window.location change that utterly broke Angular/Ionic[4].

[1] https://blog.fineuploader.com/ios8-presents-serious-issues-t...

[2] https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1269 (I can't remember the Apple radar bug number(s))

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/3la04p/psa_safa...

[4] https://blog.ionicframework.com/ios-9-potential-breaking-cha...
Not data but a strong anecdote to support your assertion: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/04/08/linux...
halving the wear on the batteries?
Yeah, but why would Russia care about me?
That's an interesting point. 10 years ago I would, today with Windows data mining gone mad I wouldn't. They are on par.
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I wish they've would have gone with Firefox's Quantum, in order to try and at least balance out web market shares.

MSFT no longer has any leverage in the web, so trying to keep it fair and accessible (no browser monopolies) should be a priority for them (especially since they have quite a few web platforms like office 365)
Chain a text-to-speech component to tranx and you're done

Paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.02720v1.pdf

Code:
https://github.com/pcyin/tranX

Live demo (try Django out):
http://moto.clab.cs.cmu.edu:8081/
Cool post! I don't have a ton of experience using Stripe, but shouldn't you at least be handling some sort of payment_failed webhook?

It looks like you call _createSubscription and set the initial value for currentPeriodEnds before you know the payment actually succeeded, and since you don't ever check or listen for failed payments, anyone could get a free month (or year) of Checkly by using a bad card, or if the payment just randomly fails.

Maybe this isn't a huge deal in the early days, but you and your customer might not even notice the failed payment for quite a while unless you happen to check your Stripe dashboard!
This reminds me of the 5 year period from 2007 to 2012 when Apple made Safari for Windows. I got curious and used it for a few weeks, but moved back to Firefox for the extensions.
You can get cheaper car insurance if you plug in a monitoring device in your car. I thought nobody would ever resort to doing that but then I saw one of my friends had one.
At least on IOS you're stuck with safari/the system webview, so even if you make a web browser app (this includes chrome/firefox) they're using the safari engine.

The issue stems from the slow adoption of certain technologies. That was the issue everyone had with IE 6 - everyone used it but it lacked modern features so it sucked to use, but you had to because of it's market share.
Well, ecars ARE simpler, mechanically. IC cars drive the A/C from a pulley on the motor. This means there is a path for high pressure refrigerant gases to the atmosphere. In variably in 2-3 years you lose gas == $$ for the dealers. ecars use a sealed system, like a home refrigeration unit = no gas leakage path. There is another cooling path for the batteries to get rid of the charge/discharge heat, this is another fully sealed fluid circulating system that only leaks in some accident
It really depends.

If you're doing a "lift and shift" then running stuff in the cloud is almost certainly going to be more expensive.

However if you migrate to using managed services then there can be a lot of cost savings.

To be honest it's a lot like the old days of PHP hosts - comparing VPS to shared hosting - except it's now the shared hosting is scaled up and "enterprisey".

What I do find most people overlook when saying "the cloud is cheap" is just how much time is required to deploy to the cloud. I don't mean POCing a few things in the AWS console but rather deploying stuff properly using Terraform, Puppet, etc and architecting it correctly so you have resilience without paying through the nose for it.
> George Clooney is probably at least 1000 times richer than Joe Average. So he could provide better for 50 women than Joe Average for one.

Assuming all of a woman’s needs are financial, sure. But unless he is hiring Joe Averages to provide personal attention and emotional support (and there are issues with the viability of that), not really in the universe of what appears to be real human needs.
When searching Google for simple words that should return a lot of content the results are limited to around 20 pages. If I click the link to not omit similar results it changes to around 45. The results don't cover every company in a specialist area or every good article on a topic, what's more after you go back a number of pages the results start turning into junk. That seems unnecessarily harsh on any relevant site that isn't a "top site". The x-billion results returned number is still at the top from the days when you could search through a seemingly infinite number of pages.
No, but perhaps your refutation should be something that is a bit more in-depth than "you don't need to have sexual intimacy in your life to be happy and feel fulfilled."
You ignored the rest of that post:

> If you want to hide that anyone searched for a term, no. If you want to hide that you searched for a term, yes.
This and the other front-page article about the prison video call system makes me wonder, just who are these engineers that are helping build this kind of evil systems? What's the difference between them and some war criminal "just following orders"?
Well, I'm glad I asked. I get this now. It really is a mapping. But this was a bit of shorthand that I didn't get in the post. You might want to add that.
Just remove the padding

The site as-is @375px: https://imgur.com/a/zUsywrQ
longest line has 43 characters

The site w/o padding @375px: https://imgur.com/a/IR8nFM4 longest line has 53 characters
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The alternative would be Microsoft ships windows with an outdated browser, or they include Chrome/Firefox, or they don't include any browser.

For me, I plan to use Edge to install Chrome, business as usual :P
I noticed that you didn’t mention an employer in that listing.
Alas, America doesn't believe in learning from its mistakes.
Safari increasingly doesn't follow standards, implements non-standard features, and updates are tied to OS updates so if users do not update their OS (which is free on macOS but not well advertised in the OS itself), they are stuck running an old browser.
Bleve is just a library that provides this functionality, you first have to build an application that uses Bleve, and deploy that.

Bleve does (optionally) support persistence, so reading/writing files is one place it does directly interact with the environment. The environment must support mmap.

There are several projects which support distributed index/search workloads with Bleve. The exact approaches vary, but they all use Bleve to perform node local operations, and coordinating this is done at a higher level by the application.

I suspect I don't understand the terminology you're using in the last question, as Bleve has no training, models or nodes.
>Milhizer said in an emailed statement, ... that the communications feature is used “to inform the juvenile if the battery is low or that he or she entered an exclusionary zone where there is somebody or a place they must avoid.”

Bullshit. If that was all it was, then a warning alarm would be enough. They could also have had a warning alarm to indicate when to call into the monitoring center. Such a device would be so easy to operate, a dog could be trained to do it (http://www.iaadp.org/rescue-phone.html).
Asking someone if they are aware of something introduces its own set of biases, eg observer bias. Do you expect is more neutral as the respondent is not "clued in" to the "right" answer through the question.

The cynicism you describe would only be felt if the respondent is aware that tracking is status quo, and thinks that it's problematic. In which case, you'd get the same answer.
"Children" including adolescents is a very new (and very pernicious) idea.

> Does society deem control of adolescents an important social function because it expects that adolescents lack adequate impulse control given their destructive potential or does it not see such a gap and expect that they have adequate impulse control for self-containment?

There is nothing contradictory. Society holds children harmless because they're not generally cognitively capable of distinguishing right from wrong. Adolescents are, and are expected to behave. Society acknowledges that adolescents often have problems actually doing the right thing, but doesn't treat that as an excuse that mitigates culpability, as for children. Instead, they tailor punishment on a case-by-case basis to accommodate that fact. (Also, historically, they put adolescents to work, to reduce the avenues for misbehavior. Idle hands and whatnot.)
If his idea of a harmless prank involves subjecting someone to that kind of danger then I’m not so sure. Another fun prank: kidnap someone and hang them on a cliff over a lethal fall, with a 80% chance they’ll survive.
Great article by Reuven, he always writes interesting stuff. Open source has won in the sense that it plays a central role in the modern cloud to edge device world we live in.

However, I think we can only declare victory if we agree on a shared victory: proprietary software like iOS, macOS, Windows, Word, etc., etc. is also central to most people’s lives.

I am happy with a shared victory but my respect to people who are free of non-libre software.
> they aren’t selling directly to consumers

then they don't need to market directly to consumers.
I have run into this also using subscriptions + webhooks. For example, I am using the "charge.succeeded" webhook event to send a custom email receipt on my backend. But, for a few new customers there seems to be a race condition where the "charge.succeeded" webhook event will arrive, before the API call in my code returns a success, so there is now an event but I have no idea how to tie this back to a user. I am using the API to create a new customer and updating their user DB record with the customer token from stripe. So, I get into a situation where I do not know what customer to send the email too (because I don't have the customer token yet). I ended up just adding a HTTP 503 error (Service is Unavailable), for this specific webhook event when I cannot find the user, so the Stripe API will retry that event. This is a hack but it works. This just started happening a few weeks ago. There are a few of these things popping up here and there that I need to deal with but generally it works really well.
I think they trye to get the density and fast fill ability of a fluid system, but Hydrogen is an economic failure. Hydrogen is so light that it takes a huge strong tank if compressed and if liquid a huge cooled dewar tank. Hydrogen can be made to work in special cases, not for workaday driving
I agree. Ebooks permit and encourage an obscenity in publishing, a perversion of the first sale doctrine, with on-going price gouging. The experience is not better, and isn't worth it.
so cool :) !
What's more damaging to the future of these kids? An ankle bracelet or juvenile detention?

It seems easy to have a knee jerk reaction to this, but you have to understand that these ankle bracelets aren't being just randomly slapped on innocent kids. They're being placed on kids that have committed crimes or are awaiting trial. This is a lot better than the alternative to getting locked away where worse things can happen to them.
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There are multiple articles online from people claiming that Safari is the new Internet Explorer (IE) in terms of feature parity with other web browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, and specially due to the fact that Apple usually delays the release of certain HTML and JavaScript standards, making web development slightly more difficult for today’s web developers.

• https://www.safari-is-the-new-ie.com

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051267

• https://nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie/

• https://www.telerik.com/blogs/safari-is-not-the-new-ie-but

• https://dev.to/nektro/safari-is-the-new-internet-explorer-1d...

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Frontend/comments/6zb73s/safari_is_...

• https://apple.slashdot.org/story/15/06/30/2251253/is-safari-...

• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/op-ed...

• https://medium.com/@matthew.johnson/safari-is-the-new-ie-but...

I am a happy Safari user though :-)
I clicked on a couple of the example sites and they appeared to be down. Any idea what's up?

https://cio.gov

https://performance.gov/
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A majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities (niemanlab.org)

Ironic?
That's certainly an attractive aspect of the cloud but in my experience what tends to be the bigger driving factor is because you're effectively paying for your hardware on a subscription basis rather than paying tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds / dollars up front.
…but it’s Microsoft. Is that any better?
Their keyboard predictions have gone from "OK" to "Amazing, we live in the future", and over the past couple years to "of course I didn't mean 'aaAAaAAnd', wtf were you thinking".

I frequently suspect they're starting to optimize more for $ than they were before, and ML just gives them more ways to make that number go up another % or so... but it often comes with impossible-to-predict and wildly inhuman edge cases. It's a pretty common trend when companies start focusing on small number increases - each A/B test shows improvement, but the product as a whole worsens and it drives people away in time.
Those 1.7L don't event cover my commute and I'm using a 40mpg car, not some gas guzzling 20mpg pickup truck.
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I always enjoy reading the job posting in the monthly whoishiring thread. I also like that Matt is active in the comments answering questions. For example, April: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19545383
Because it is the windows default. From the Microsoft perspective they maintain the branding and can still pit features on top when they need to and direct people towards bing.
Let's be fair, the Wikimedia Foundation does many other worthwhile things besides keeping the English Wikipedia running. By way of example their latest full-project, Wikidata, was only started in 2012 and is already getting more edits than Wikipedia.
Related: are there still any WebKit browsers for Windows?
Huh?

No VPN service has my "payment info". Or at least, not any meaningful payment info. As you say, I use email accounts created through Tor, and pay with Bitcoin that's been mixed at least three times through Tor, using a different Whonix instance and a different mixer for each mix.
you're right, should have been "uF" (10e-6), thanks. My mistake - i transliterated Russian label "мкФ" ("mkF") which is abbreviation from the Russian word "mikrofarad".
This is such a great idea. Would love more practical targets (text, borders, grids, animations, etc.)
How does that compare with the US?
Interesting article. I like the re-framing of questioning gaming (and other uses of technology) from the basis of what it adds rather than what it subtracts.

I believe there is value in gaming. There's value in storytelling, in mastering small skills, and in the positive feedback of progression. There's value in shared experiences and in the communities that spring up within and around games.

My own struggle is with the diminishing returns. The "danger" of games to me, such as they are, is not in the value-per-unit-of-time ratio, but rather in the total amount of time that they can suck up. It's not hard at all to spend hundreds of hours in games. For me, if I take any given hour of gaming and compare it to an hour of something else I could have been doing, I'm quite happy to have spent it gaming. But when I take the sum of that time over a year, or a lifetime, and compare it to other pursuits, that's when I start to question it in my own life.

tl;dr: the "danger" of gaming to me is not in the content of games, or in gaming not having anything to add to someone's life, but rather in the fact that, for many people, gaming seems uniquely able to suck up so much time -- much more so than what it ultimately adds.
When you are painting cinderblock it's a lot easier.
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I'm sure the relatives of people murdered by incompletely developed executive functions understand completely ...
I've heard others say similar things. That's simply not my experience. I wonder if it depends on the sorts of searches that we each tend to perform?
it says on the first launch page that dark mode is coming.
What about physics? A colder battery will have a slower chemical reaction and may not be able to supply enough current to avoid a crash without throttling.
A child is someone who is not cognitively capable of distinguishing right from wrong. A 15-22 year old is fully capable of doing that. They may have a hard time fighting various pressures and doing the right thing, but that's a qualitatively different issue. (And in fact, most adolescents are perfectly capable of doing that too.)
Because if you are going to carry out a propaganda campaign to destabilize or realign <non-Russian country>, then being able to identify them interests and vulnerabilities of each particular propaganda target is useful. Modern international propaganda includes what is exactly, or is equivalent to, targeted advertising, and everything useful to such advertising is useful to nation-state propagandists.

We've actually seen this in action throughout the West, including but not limited to the US, recently, so it's not merely a theoretical concern. We are no longer in a world where you need to be personally important to be a target of foreign nation-state information gathering and targeting, because the same factors that make that scale for private actors and your home government make it scale for foreign governments that may potentially be opposed to or wish to influence your home government.
Yeah, that's another argument. The NSA competes with its counterparts to own Tor infrastructure. And that competition prevents any one from owning enough to pwn users.

And it's no accident. Tor was designed that way.
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They need a browser they control but they only need to control look/feel, interaction with windows settings etc. They don’t want to spend a fortune maintaining a js runtime and renderer.

So assuming an OS does need to ship with a browser, skinning a chromium one seems very sensible.
Does anyone remember ViOS?
This is a great comment. And it's stupid I left this out of the post, as I made a conscious decision to not deal with that now. I should at some stage.

I actually had one failing credit card already, but my customer base in in the 30+ under 100 range, so I easily caught it. Also, it was totally benign from an early customer that just had bodged renewal for their card.
> Finally: tons of people run pathologically. I mean basically anyone who is serious about the sport does more damage to themselves than is necessary, and runs far more than the optimal amount. I don't think running is exactly the same as gaming, but it's worth examining why we as a culture have no problem discussing Larry's second hip replacement from running 10 miles a day but tremble when discussing Larry's son's 10th hour this week playing Fortnite.

Speaking as someone who runs quite a lot, I would be very interested in seeing you quantify this point and cite supporting research.

In particular, I am skeptical you can find a peer reviewed study which suggests there exists a causal link between running n miles per day and requiring hip replacements later in life. Likewise, what is the "optimal amount" of running you speak of? And for what purpose is that amount optimal?

To put it bluntly I think you're choosing the wrong activity for the "you can get addicted to anything" argument. I don't have an issue with that idea in the abstract, but I think you'll have a very difficult time mounting a persuasive argument using the idea that most serious runners are "pathological" - unless, of course, you presuppose the idea that doing things pathologically isn't unhealthy.

EDIT: Here is a study which directly contradicts your claim about excessive running and hip replacement[1]. The ~75,000 respondents under study demonstrated a reduced risk for osteoarthritis and hip replacement.

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1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23377837/
Much of it such as the Kuds Force as well as most of its shell companies were already under sanctions this is purely symbolic.
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When I was a teenager I used to play chess competitively and when I mention this to people, they look at me all impressed. When I mention that I now play Dota competitively, I get an "oh I hear that game is really addictive" or "I'm not a video game person". And since I've played both for quite some time now I can promise you that playing any interesting game is not a passive experience and is in fact pretty brain melting if you get into it.

"I don't like games" to me now sounds a lot like when people say "I don't like music" or "I don't like books". You may not like specific genres but not liking an entire medium is often just a sign of miseducation.

I would challenge the most dedicated of programmers to build an efficient factory in Factorio or an adventure buff to see what it feels like to beat a monster like in Sekiro or Dark Souls. The Witness, Baba is you, Crusader Kings 2 etc.

Please play any of those games and tell me that gaming is a passive activity.