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It supports uploading of any file, but not editing. It's not really an office suite, I think
There is only so much content one can watch so it makes the point a bit moot. This is about greed. This is about wanting to squeeze every last penny. There is no reason for regional or even non-standard inter-company licensing apart from trying to squeeze the market dry.
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The price to performance is crazy. If this had an extra ethernet port it would be the go-to router.

What is really lacks is a easy power supply option. No barrel jack and it needs up to 20w so more than regular usb can supply. The breakout board, which I assume as a barrel jack, is not for sale on amazon yet.

I don't think antennas are included, and I don't know if they are absolutely required.

Edit: I don't see any sata or pci interfaces which is disappointing. Also the power breakout board has screw terminals not a barrel jack.
Are we sure the emphasis on multitrack recording is due to the Beatles no longer touring and not just due to improvements in studio technology? The first Beatles albums were recorded in mono, so there was a lot of technological innovation happening with recorded sound at the time...
I don't need to know anything about the founder or his ethics. Once popularity brings in money only having one set of rules will always create a highly censored environment. Self-hosting bypasses this by allowing many sets of rules.

Everyone saying that 100KB/s upload isn't enough to host a static site that is under <1MB in size is either ignorant or intentionally disingenuous. I was hosting my static site from home on far less than that for a decade.
Three suggestions:

1. please dont have "forever" pricing. i would rather pay a higher fee monthly.

2. please have tiers according to size and bandwidth requirements

3. Instead of creating your own cli, etc. Could you integrate with Gatsbyjs ? In fact, your killer feature could be a wysiwyg editor for Gatsby

I would strongly prefer an open standard like Graphql over a custom nosql you have. You can implement it at your end using something like https://hasura.io/ or something.

this is killer if it happens. You are basically netlify+gatsbyjs+contentful rolled into one. I could never figure out why netlify and contentful dont support the features of the other.
Not surprising given their past outlook towards security.
First aid is a bit like a medical bootcamp.
I did it on dynamic IP connections with far less upstream for more than a decade. Luckily I've had 5-10 megabit up for another decade on top of that and it's even easier now. But it's certainly possible and even easy on limited connections. We're not talking 56k here. Also, limiting bandwidth to some appropriate value is also not hard.

And so what if your websites goes offline for a few hours a handful of times a year? Or even a week. It doesn't matter. This isn't some profit driven job.
> door handles are pretty gross.

Indeed they are. I am probably weird, but when I walk into our building I have a paper towel in my hand to grab the door handle. In fact there are two door handles, one from the parking lot and one into the building, so I use one side of the paper towel first, then fold it in half with a clean side on the outside and use that for the building door handle.

Similarly at the cafeteria. I use a "clean hand, dirty hand" system there. My right hand gets dirty handling shared serving utensils, while my left hand stays clean handling fresh plates and such. And then before I eat I find a way to inconspicuously wash my dirty hand. Especially when I've gone to the salad bar and gotten icky sticky salad dressing on my dirty hand. Now that is gross.

Weird? For sure. But at the age of 67 my immune system is probably not as good as it was when I was 20-something.

It's been working so far. I seem to be one of the few people in the office who hasn't been out with a bad cold this year.

Yes, those paper towels are pure waste. I toss them in the compost bin, and I'm grateful to have used them.

Edit: if any of the multiple downvoters could mention what they objected to here, I would be genuinely grateful for the feedback so I can do a better job with my comments. Or if it's something I should have figured out on my own, I will do my best to sort it out. :-) Thanks!
I think anyone who begins a statement with "I've met enough..." is kind of sending that signal, don't you?
The company behind this is Transloadit. We provide tus & uppy for free, hoping that a fraction of our open source communities will use our hosted versions (of companion and tus) and optionally our commercial encoding service because they work well together.

That could make our public coding efforts worthwhile financially. It’s a bit of a gamble. We’re believers/biased in part because we just enjoy working on oss, and in part because we’re quite a lean company and don’t need to make boatloads of money to make investors happy or anything (we’re bootstrapped since 2009, so no investors, and ramen profitable since 2012. Me and my cofounder are both devs and not in it to get yachts, but rather to have nice and rewarding work, basically)

Whether it really also becomes a financial success remains to be seen. 3y of devtime isn’t cheap so it'll be a bit sad if there is no ROI at all, but we'll comfort ourselves with the thought that we'll be able to provide a better and more reliable uploader to Transloadit's existing encoding customers (because going open has made these projects better thanks to exposure to more minds and environments), and making them very happy, even if there’s 100x more people that don’t make us money.
Is it ethical? Sounds like a similar question to the person on HN who signed up for a credit card just to transfer money 100 times a year and collect the cashback.
This is just terrible.
Interesting. You're saying that one mustn't take the writings in a blog seriously, because . . its a blog? Here are a few choice quotes from the blog:

> Which gives me, as your nerd friend who gets asked about this stuff all the time, an opportunity to pre-emptively pass along to you a little bit of purchasing advice.

> because literally the only thing that inkjets had going for them was the fact that they were massively cheaper than lasers. They lose on every other front.

> And then there is the big problem with inkjets, which is that ink for them is just ludicrously expensive.

1. There's no premise of "hey, i might be wrong here, this is what i think", in fact the first quote begins with the premise that, as a "nerd friend who gets asked about this stuff all the time", somehow this writer is an expert. Personally ,this seems as presumptive as the manufacturers "gouging" on peoples novice understanding of printing economics and technical ability, thus charging a premium for the abstraction of the details and upfront subsidy in the form of hardware discounts to later charge for supplies, that the author rallies against in the entire blog.

2. The 2nd and 3rd comments are just plain wrong. Writing them in a blog or anywhere with the conviction that they're right will do nothing to further ones reputation as someone who knows what they're talking about or has done a reasonable job searching the internet or any other source for details that may disgree with ones view before putting it out there.

3. The blogpost is from 2016, but tank printers and the economics that the blog covers have been around for much longer than that (>5 years now)

The issue i take with this whole opinion isn't the fact that it is wrong. Again, debate on ideas is a very healthy exercise and must be encouraged. It's the presentation of an opinion as unquestionable and absolute fact that reduces the whole piece to one that's not in good taste. This writing style is more and more prevalent in tech where authors tend to cling to their POV with absolutes rather than approach an engineering problem/statement with an open mind and present ideas/opinion as what they are . . Ideas and opinions. Not absolute fact that cannot be questioned under any circumstance.
The people working on tokamak are engaged in fascinating technical problems, and generally leave politics and practical engineering problems to others.

They spent many years getting their particle physics degrees, and have no real job prospects besides this, research accelerators, or direct weapons work. You kind of have to feel sorry for them.

There are beginnings of private investment in what might turn out to be practical (i.e. aneutronic) fusion power systems, but they do not seem to need very many physicists.
I think at my former work place people were somewhat confused about me.

I am Deaf and they sometimes didn't know what to do with me. I lipread but have difficulties in meetings. I also avoided joining social gatherings, for example coffee breaks, because lipreading is, well, exhausting. Still, I delivered code and the company was satisfied with my work, and sometimes they were surprised about that.

So people perhaps tried to like me and enjoy my presence, but probably felt unconfortable instead pitying me and asking themselves how they would manage if they were Deaf.
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I wasn't aware that Lorem Ipsum was conceived with uniform distribution of word lengths in mind. I couldn't find any information about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

> The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin.

Could you please provide source? I am curious now.

Alternate argument is that my version represents real actual text from real books :-), but to be honest, it is a tongue-in-cheek attempt.
> I seem to be one of the few people in the office who hasn't been out with a bad cold this year.

Probably because your immune system is good?
This is great and incredibly useful.

Quick note:

Google sites requires 2 nameservers and because of that I am not able to point the site to my domain.
Is there a way for non-CMU students to take complete these assignments and get scored? I worked through this book a few years back but would love the chance to do actual projects.
> I'm building an "intentional system". The idea's that you just tell the computer what to do, and it does it the best way possible. This includes figuring out what you told it to do, how to do that, how to optimize it, etc., in a provably optimal way.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to achieve, but to me, this sounds prohibitively difficult for even the largest most sophisticated organizations at this point in history. It's just way too general. Like general AI kind of general.
To answer that, you have to first answer what the dual means in the first place. And the notion that you get to is dual with respect to the octave.

A usual chord is with respect to a fifth. Then a major third is a minor third down. Starting position should be at the tonic. Otherwise, you get at the fifth that when you go a major third down it is a minor third from the tonic.
A similar thing is happening in PC gaming. Tons of new stores making exclusivity deals to try to take from Steam which I don't think has ever had an exclusive title.

It's quickly ruining PC gaming for me. Thanks DRM.
> and 2019 performance.

This is kind of amusing given that most new modern things in the hacker news ecosystem use either electron or some other variation of nodejs. Which is usually the exact opposite of 'performant'.
Can you link to the existing implementation? Is it keybase ?

Work on it anyway, if you can’t beat them, maybe you can join them one day. Even if you are second best, you will get free marketing from the #1, when potential customers do their due diligence.
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They don’t.
Industrialized agriculture has been a miracle for feeding billions of people, but also incredibly damaging to the planet. It’s also resulted in torturous conditions for animals in feedlots. Animals may not possess our intellect, but they certainly feel emotions...

To me, it’s worth the extra dollar for the eggs if it supports a more sustainable model of farming. Food production is at the heart of our society, yet we’ve become distanced from it.

The cheap clothes, the cheap food — they’re not actually cheap. We’ve just ignored the cost of the externalities. The polluted waterways, full of nitrogen from industrial farms; the antibiotics; the rising co2 levels from damaged pasture that no longer sequesters carbon, and the trucks and airplanes that ship out-of-season produce across the world...
Ok, I think we either have some communication issues or philosophical differences (if I understand you correctly, you're saying that subjective experience is an illusion? Which to me just shows the absurd lengths one has to go to in order to rule out any question that cannot be answered by science. Your own subjective experience is literally the starting point for any investigative endeavor you might attempt in this world, so I'd be careful with claiming it is only your imagination) or a combination of both, so maybe we should recognize this and leave it here.

You have provided ample examples of emergent properties, which are interesting in their own right for sure, but if you really imagine that Conway's game of life and the unknowable future of that game is analogous to the phenomenon of subjective experience, we either are miscommunicating or there is a quite insurmountable barrier of understanding between us.

Either way, thanks for engaging!
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Interesting that you mention music. I just imagined how bad music would be if every label would have their own platform. Imagine you wanna listen to Artist X and have to subscribe to Warner Brothers, now you wanna listen to Artist Y and now you subscribe to Indie Label Z.

I'm interested to see what brings in the most money for studios, getting little money from their own platform (and "suffering" the piracy) or getting paid by netflix.
I always feel weird reading all the drama regarding waste management in US. Of all countries I would have thought they would understand market economics the most.

If cleaning up waste is an externality, can’t you add in the price of that cleaning into the thing itself, thus doing that would be an economic activity in and off itself.

For example a plastic cup costs 1c to produce, but 1 dollar to clean up. Well can’t you force the price to be 1.01 and be done with it. then if you clean up after yourself you can “get that deposit back” or if you don’t care for it - someone will, because it would earn them a dollar?

I think Germany has a system like that and I’ve heard that it works for them - both socially and in that it keeps things clean. Though I’ve not been there personally to verify.
Basically the point is that either distro or hardware providers can already offer easy to use backup functionality.

For example Linux mint comes with time shift. I honestly haven't paid much attention to what people do provide as I've mostly historically used rsync or more recently zfs send/syncoid.
Armed conflict doesn't necessarily mean all out war.
I tried these certain APIs, indeed they are fast but take a look at the spaghetti codebase. The guys who wrote this must be in a real hurry, I personally get stressed only by reading the code.
I voluntarily entered one of the most saturated markets that I'm aware of. It's literally a cliché to "do a photo startup."

That rumbling dark cloud of well-funded, well-established competitors on the horizon, and (perhaps my mistaken) belief that I see gaps of sunshine where I can succeed, is one reason I get out of bed every morning and persevere.

That, and my wife needs the product. https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/

(forgive the Always Be Selling, please!)

It was common sentiment when I went through YC that many excellent ideas would be dismissed by investors due to perceived existing competition or absence of market. Only rapid execution, iteration, and customer feedback can actually determine if the idea has legs and can find product market fit.
Replied to the GP directly about how we find this, you pretty much nailed it!

As for astroturfing: I am certainly guilty of self-promotion. When this post didn’t get traction, after a few days I thought maybe Show HN finds this interesting. In addition, my team of ~5 will have upvoted this post (although that probably works counter productive with HN's algorithms, I couldn’t/wouldn't stop them). Other than that we don’t deploy any schemes here, what you likely see is that, because we exploded on Reddit over the weekend, its users are posting it to HN too.
You're confusing performance with efficiency.
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The current situation in the music industry is not "ideal for consumers".

While Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal et. al. generally all do have the majority of music available, there is still a huge mess of license behind the scenes.

Albums are constantly made unavailable for weeks or even months due to licensing issues. Sometimes a badly done remaster is the only version available, sometimes important albums in an artist's discography are completely absent.

And don't get me started on the sorry state of their curation and tagging. The release date shown for any album is basically useless. Is it the original release date? A re-release? Or just the date the record company supplied it to the streaming service? It completely messes up discographies.
At some point in history washing dishes WAS a lesser know process, what happened? Well, it stopped being a lesser know process once it became the cultural norm, the same could happen with cleaning straws -or any other sanitation-.
Ordered four of these last week and planning on running them as a K8s cluster. You are correct about the power interface not being ideal. My current plan is to hook my cluster up to an old computer power supply. For those who are curious these things can draw around 4A at 5V.
Manually triggered perhaps?
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Even worse would be that very few artists stay on the same label throughout their career. Take Motörhead for instance. I think they had like 10 or 12 labels over their 40 year career.
It never got to the ideal - DRM-free video stores. They never learn.
... and it's gone already from Amazon lol.
I am in the same boat as you are in.I Have so many ideas but not sure which one to follow. I found steve blank's "The startup owner's manual" very useful in evaluating ideas. I have created this excel(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cap3CIWHJq3WdAypU6l3...) using the website http://www.guidearama.com/guides/fwb.html
I don’t know Ruby much but Shrine seems great from what I've seen. I’ve been talking to Janko (its author) and it has been a true pleasure to cooperate with him.
> The same is true on every OS, if you open a java app on macos it's not going to look right, do you blame apple for that or the developers of the app?

I’d blame the app, because in the case of OS X there is a single consistent set of UI components that effectively everything uses, and being gratuitously incompatible is on the app.

In the case of Linux there is only a hodge-podge bazaar of gratuitously incompatible UI kits that every third app disagrees on which to use, so it’s hard to blame any single dev for the universally frustrating shitshow that results.

As an aside, the only java app I’ve interacted with in years (seriously, how often do these even come up any more?), IntelliJ, actually sunk the effort into looking and feeling right. Like I said, it’s night and day on this stuff versus what I experience in Linux on the regular.

> Will firefox respect it on macos?

Yes.

> It's not a good example anyway because firefox is not native, firefox is the electron of the 00's

Electron apps also get this 100% right on OS X.
The US still uses landfills?

Around here (Northern Europe) (non-recycled) garbage has been burned for heat & electricity for a long time. Garbage is sometimes shipped between cities for this purpose (i.e. purchased)

I always assumed garbage was valuable in this way and that use of landfills was due to unavailable tech at the time. But perhaps the burning of garbage must be subsidized/have a high cost for processors...
This article, its protagonists and the whole influencer-industrial complex is the height of vacuity.
One can get collapsible stainless cups. On key-chains. For hot liquids, you must hold just the rim. And be very careful not to collapse them.
This one: https://danluu.com/wat/

Great articles there.
Wash both hands before eating, problem solved.
If you read the longer conversation about the subject [1] on the scala contributors community board, there is no explanation. The people responsible for making the ban refuse to bring up any specific Code of Conduct related reasons why the removal took place. They point to non-answers and ad hominems, but don't answer users posting statistics on how frequently these projects are used across Scala codebases. They state that they won't bring up specific references to misconduct but ask that we believe that it was there with absolutely no proof. It is petty infighting with no rhyme or reason.

[1] https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/coc-compatible-communi...
The head of Hong Kong's government is elected via a council mostly consisting of business interests with huge incentives to keep the territory's main trading partner (China) happy. Any change to this would require amending the Basic Law, which only China is allowed to do. Nothing short of a coup would change the current situation.
When a story hasn't had significant attention yet, a small number of reposts is ok. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Not widely publicized is that 5G cellular is going to eliminate one of the primary data inputs that have made weather prediction successful.

The US FCC decided, on their own, that this was not an important problem, compared (most likely) to the amount of money to be made building out 5G.
Which specific exotic chemicals have those effects?
What you likely see here is that, because we exploded on Reddit over the weekend, its users have been posting it to HN too. Those posts aren’t mine/ours.
The headline's been changed since I submitted.

I was calling bullshit on the fact that it appeared to be drawing general conclusions about all software projects based on a survey of open source software projects, which often operate under different conditions to those in commercial organisations.

The abstract and title of the paper are somewhat baity, as others have pointed out, but the headline here now reflects the fact that the paper only represents OSS projects hosted in GitHub.
In SaaS you need some differentiating factor, but that's pretty easy:

We're faster, simpler, privacy friendly, cheaper, etc.

Most leading SaaS businesses have proven there's a market, but they're vulnerable on one of those key differentiators.

Sure, you might not conquer the market, but it's probably a safer way to build a lifestyle business than trying to come up with and market a novel idea.

Much easier to find forums of people complaining about product X not doing Y and fill that gap.
Would these things be grunty enough to play x265 10bit encoded video?
Hooray for free-market capitalism!

On another note, folks: buy your media. Physically own it. Streaming is for suckers.
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Renters do pay taxes - it's added to the rent, effectively?