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Gestalt, context-aware UI.

We have a lot of different ways to interact with systems but they are all separate and relatively dumb (not context-aware). I think there is a confluence of forces that will lead to a more seamless user interaction with and between systems that will reduce the friction between app and user, app and app, and user to user. Eventually, for better or worse, a lot of the underlying differences between apps and data and modes of interactions will largely disappear to the end user.

Voice commands, AR, gesture recognition, traditional mouse and keyboard, wearables, powerful phones, laptops, bluetooth, environmental devices, smart-speakers, cloud-based microservices, data transfer and description standards, ad hoc contexts, ubiquitous fast internet, etc, coming together to have user and app interaction happen in a smooth, natural , and intelligent way. Machine learning will be at the heart of it all.

Imagine all of the progress made over the years in app-to-app interoperability jumping into meatspace.
Safari means no ublock, the web without is annoying.
>He created a very valuable company, worth billions of dollars

he created something that may very well lose its investors billions of dollars without ever turning a dime of profit. What the company is evaluated as on paper by people increasingly disconnected from reality isn't really meaningful.

I'm not really sure what the market function or social function is of rewarding people with billions of dollars who create money-losing machines. If anything it's an indication that some part of the system is increasingly broken.
I've been thinking a lot recently at trying to do this kind of work as well. I'm just not sure where to start. I have a pretty weak network form living abroad for so long and moving around a lot.

Any advice about how to even get started doing this kind of work? What tools to study or learn? How to find work?
exotic acronym is exotic.
You do realize the legal perspective on this idea is hundreds of years old and influenced by Biblical views of right & wrong, yes?

Someone all warmed up by contemporary political headlines raging about how reality works in a vacuum ignoring society has never really felt beholden to such views.

Pretty good argument for not pretending it ever can be, despite your obvious emotional addiction to thinking it must.
Windows has POSIX compatibility, does that make it a POSIX OS? I would argue Haiku is in a similar position.
"I'll have one Escher stake, and one stake-Escher."
Reuter is giving better picture of how this is being worked upon.

SoftBank has agreed to give him (Neumann) $500 million to refinance his personal loans, as well as pay him a $185 million consulting fee. SoftBank will additionally launch a tender offer for up to $3 billion to acquire WeWork shares from existing investors and employees.. Neumann’s ability to tender his shares will be capped at $970 million.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-softbank-group/wew...
I'd like to see a similar effort, but to replace Grammarly (i.e. make it private, secure, and offline)
Haha, T ^ T = F, so that isn't quite a syllogism you have there.
They want to monitor your behavior (mouse movements, clicks, etc) site-wide so they can determine whether you're a bot before you get to the "protected" page. So the carrot for the website owner is that people that don't want to solve "click all the stop signs in these 9 pictures" challenges don't abandon your forms because they're never challenged, at the expense of adding behavioral tracking site-wide.
Yep, that was exactly my take as well. The statement from Google sounds good at a glance, but absolutely leaves open the possibility that they use the data for 100 other things that aren't _directly_ related to advertisement targeting, but that users might be concerned about.
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Yes! There are many options!

Log parsing is an option. There are self hosted options. There are also services like https://simpleanalytics.com/ (I have not used them or know much about them tbh).

Personally, on my recent projects I start without analytics. If I want to measure health or growth, I define my own "metrics" and use sql or logs to generate. I don't need to know what country you are in. I don't need to know what browser you are using. If I do need to know something, I can look at useragents. If it truly is for user benefit and not just my curiosity, I can actually ask my users with a survey.
Docker isn't just a packager--it adds a whole nother layer of runtime to your app.

Access to network/disk/other IO, logging, init systems, configuration, etc are all different under Docker. There's more pieces of software which can crash (docker engine, etc). Not to mention potential performance issues and/or other subtle differences which may occasionally occur.

This isn't to say Docker has no value--it does, and we use it in production on a number of applications. But it is certainly more than just a package.
You mean, you have to give the intermediate results a useful name.

In my experience, this gets ugly rather quick.

But yeah, I hope the pipeline operator comes soon, chaining is nice, but nesting can get quite messy.
Send cache headers in the preflight response so the browser doesn't keep requesting it.

> Since it's so easy for developers to circumvent
But not for hackers trying to inject JS into insecure webpages.

But I do get your point, there should have been a better implementation, I have the same complaint against HTTPS (makes development unnecessarily complicated).
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One of my clients which I'm proud of, Phytech, is deploying huge number of plant sensors to measure their status and help save water by planning how much to irrigate.

They are doing very well and have huge customers in the US and Australia.

https://youtu.be/MuWRDZEJ934
You probably mean 9.0.0, 4 is several years old. Or is Rust really still using something pre-4?
>Mr. Neumann also will receive a $185 million consulting fee

LOL, that's they type of "consulting fee" I need
I can't understand how Adam Neumann continues to make such insane income from all this. It's demoralizing.
>My experience has been that the vast majority of McKinsey and BCG consultants have absolutely no real world experience

And one of these drones currently runs Google :(
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Funny, just yesterday I was commenting on an HN story about Bernie Sanders proposing to give half ownership of companies to their workers.

Yes, people are proposing "bestowing collective ownership of private capital to the proletariat", or something very close to it.
"Development started in 1969
First manual published internally in November 1971[1]
Announced outside Bell Labs in October 1973"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

I am confused: what would be the birthday of unix? Would that be an initial release or the start of development?
I could use help automating a simple task for one of my businesses involving submitting refund requests to USPS. Please get in touch if you're looking for new clients!
It is extra reward for those who help leveraging the synergies while paradigms go shifting.
Good one!

It's also possible to run a search on google and show results from specific day/month/year so you can also do it there

But Wiby seems much cooler
NI too. I would love to see STV used for Parliament so that possibly someone other then DUP or Sinn Fein could make it in.
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Democratising manufacturing.

CAD / CAM is still hard. CAM especially. You have to know a great deal about materials and tools, even order of operations to help the computer build efficient tool paths. There is a lot of scope for process improvement and there are commercial opportunities to sell to job shops who would like have their engineers working more on CAD and less on CAM.

There is also potential here to make it so easy and affordable that having a 5 axis machine on your property is as common place as having a laser printer. 3D printing offers the ability to create more plastic crap you don't want, or prototype things you want made on a CNC in the future. 5 Axis CNC in the home means that you could download a mocha pot, wait a day (instead of shipping) then screw it together. Drones, motors (winding is still hard), car parts could either be downloaded or you take a video on your phone and let AI figure out the CAD / CAM.
The purpose of that trading plan is precisely to allow you to have arrangements to sell shares as an insider. So if he was pre-arranging legally, this is how he'd do it.

You don't have to be an expert. Practically everyone who isn't rank-and-file gets the dossiers on this nonsense in a public company.
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I think I partly misread the original post and thought they were looking for a lucrative new field of work; if they just want something worthwhile to put effort into, then I can see how my comment might've come off as cynical. That wasn't my intent.

I'm not saying nothing can be done about our environmental problems, just that it'd be tough to turn it into a career. Unfortunately.
“[The court] found that consumers were not harmed by Facebook, which had informed them about data use practices in a lengthy terms of service agreement when they registered as users. “There is no evidence that Facebook obtains the consent of users through coercion, pressure, exploitation of lack of willpower or otherwise unfair means.” “

The court seems to have ignored the cases in which consent is never obtained. Shadow profiling is still happening isn’t it?
And Yahoo! for a time.
I'm gonna go in a different direction: broadly, solutions that deal with the problems of an aging population:

1. Technology that helps doctors/practices service more elderly patients

2. Wellbeing technology for seniors (Headspace/Calm should totally push towards this area)

3. Personnel management for homecare nursing

List could go on and on. None of this is especially "trendy" but there's clear demographic reasons to build startups in this area and there's going to be a natural onramp of capital & solutions for how to care for a radically older population are going be sorely needed.
He didn’t create a very valuable company. It’s deeply in the red (the opposite of what you are claiming).

Those people could’ve had better career paths without having to bail from WeWork. Other jobs did exist due to record unemployment numbers.

That is why it is terrible. It’s a waste of an opportunity given to a guy who is a human shaped locust.
/offtopic, strange to see `word-break:break-all;` in a long-form blog post. Trading readability for clean looking lines isn't worth it IMO.
I believe the consecrated term is "creative destruction"
What I don't understand is why Softbank didn't just buy the bonds and take control of the company during a restructuring. Would've been much cheaper, no need to pay Neumann anything.
I don't really see that happening. Most of the things you've suggested would require large amounts on energy to produce. I don't see energy getting cheaper over the next 50-100 years. It seems to me that climate change and reduced dependency on fossil fuels we lead to reduced globalization and population reduction.
It would be pretty bad if volunteers did most of the work and they spent the literally hundreds of millions in annual revenue on cigars and caviar.

Most of Linux and Firefox development is paid for professional work.
Germany has a system where part is determined by the votes percentage but then there are also some seats that can be won by winning a district. I think this works pretty well.

In general the US needs a system where if you a certain number of votes you get some level of representation. For example it’s real bad that Perot won 20% in the 90s but these votes got zero representation. .
If it’s holding real assets, the value is in the assets. Overpaying someone that cobbled them together is pretty ridiculous. I expect investor lawsuits.
I am not sure pointing to random cons for sale on the marketplace really changes the fact that if high voltage power lines are next to your house, it is worth less.

If nothing else, it looks ugly.
Only for primaries. The Democrat establish cannot be challenged.
Depends. How much do you need to make?

Do you need broadband, the new mobile, or a car and insurance? Will 3 days working as a garbageman make you reasonably happy?

If so, please go ahead and do that and spend the rest of your time doing art.

If you really feel as though you need amazon prime and new shoes every 3 months, you better to out and make that money.

You have no right demanding that other people work to make things you're entitled to. Instead, you have to get it yourself. Learn to be a RN and figure out how to get the money, or stop complaining.
Exactly. Elon Musk announced a few weeks ago that SpaceX Starship will be fueled from atmospheric carbon. They're building a process to pull carbon fuel out of the air on Earth -- and on Mars.

Relevant quote on YouTube from Starship Update, queued up here: https://youtu.be/sOpMrVnjYeY?t=3850
What real value did he create? he created a smoke and mirrors show that seemed to imply value, which quickly evaporated once an S-1 was produced, opening up the valuation to some external scrutiny.
Agreed. With 7nm fresh off the presses and 5nm on the way we're should start seeing some efficient SoC's to do the 3D mapping AR needs. Even if glasses aren't ready to be the primary interface - phones with the hardware to accurately map and overlay the world still has a lot of promise.
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> The law rightly sets a high bar for accusations of intent

It doesn't. The bar for making an accusation is merely having a good faith belief that you will be able to prove the existence of intent. You don't even need evidence in order to make the allegation. It is therefore critical to note that the government didn't accuse Hobby Lobby of knowingly or intentionally buying looted artifacts. While intent isn't an element of the civil forfeiture claim, if there was a good faith basis for asserting intent or knowledge, it would have been added for "color."
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A while back in Texas my wife and I got a lovely call from one of our children's school counselors because our child's search history the previous evening, on their school issued chrome laptop, had included a search for symptoms of cyanide poisoning which apparently triggered one of the systems used to detect those sorts of things. It turns out that the search was related to a homework assignment for a book they had been reading...
With a previous update 1-2 years ago, the password manager seemed to lose the ability to force-create and edit new items, which is necessary if you are using it as a general purpose password manager, or for sites that stubbornly refused to play nice. I switched to LastPass, which worked out fairly well, with the family option, so that my spouse and I can share subsets of passwords with each other. But this FF update does look like they've fixed that issue.
What is amazon a near-monopoly in?
Had no idea this landed on Netflix. I've been in search of somewhere to rewatch for years now. This might be enough to get me to resubscribe for a month.
Can you email your ticket number to josh@mailgun.com and I'll take a look? This definitely isn't typical and I'll get this resolved immediately for you.
It almost went to IPO too...what does that say about the kind of garbage that can get pushed off onto the unwitting public so the original investors can cash out?
The cost of energy will go near zero. The marginal cost of an electron captured with solar is free.

Solar is starting to beat fossil fuel installations already, below $0.05 USD per kWh.

This was not predicted even by the biggest cheerleaders even 10 years ago: "In 2017, the solar industry achieved SunShot’s original 2020 cost target of $0.06 per kilowatt-hour for utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar power three years ahead of schedule, dropping from about $0.28 to $0.06 per kilowatt-hour (kWh)." [1]

Sunshot goal for 2030 is $0.03 per kWh.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/sunshot-2030
Dogs, man's best friend.
No, we run very close to the latest release; we also have our own patches that we try to upstream.

We do support back a little bit, to help distros.
The latest version of Firefox shows the wild scale of web tracking UK
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Maybe it was that the French were bringing their platinum-iridium meter bar to the meetings and wouldn't hesitate to rap your knuckles if you got out of line.
If it needs to be a learnable skill like typing, that is just as revolutionary. The interface does not have to be that deep. Just enough to input words and movements. Hell it could be voice commands.
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Can someone comment on whether this really does what we want it to do?

I recall reading that a similar system in Australia (or New Zealand or somewhere) didn’t enable third party candidates at all, which was explain because of something something math.

I’d love to know is what the deal is.
I read about EDI in the early 80s.
I have no problem with the government paying to improve free software.
I strongly dislike WeWork, even may have issues with its fundamental business model, but it's difficult for me to understand how someone could label it as a failure. WeWork is not Theranos: they have a product offering that works well for a lot of businesses.
Why should we just give public schools a pass for providing kids with email addresses and other adult technologies that have no real educational value?

Giving devices to kids is not saving on educational costs, and it's not making their backpacks any lighter. Books don't require tech support lines, chat bots, or surveillance tech to keep it all humming smoothly.

But worse of all, it's totally outside the proper purview of our education systems. Public schools don't implement, monitor, and protect a new mailbox on every student's property just for school-related mail delivery. Why should they be giving kids email addresses and expecting them to use those addresses?

School-issued Apple IDs? I cannot be the only one who reads that with extreme disgust and concern.
There are tons of applications! The thesis behind AR is that your phone (or some other device) can be a passport to accessing a digital world around you. Some ideas, in no particular order:

* Tourism of any kind (think AR museum or city tours)

* Location and event discovery -- as of late there have been quite a few startups trying to capitalize on giving people things to do, but none successful. This is definitely on Snap's radar with their acquisition of Vurb[1] and Placed[2]

* Interactive public art -- Paris has something like this[3] and I really want to see these types of ARGs spread to other cities

* E-commerce -- superimposing clothing or furniture[4] onto the real world

Also, why are fun and games not valid applications? Epic Games, for example, is worth 4.5bn. Interactive media is finally being recognized by the mainstream, and it's just getting started :)

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vurb
[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/placed
[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flashinvaders/id895180919
[4] https://www.amazon.com/adlp/arview
If you don't mind, what is economic decency?
fast.ai has some great intro courses on deep learning.
I work in Pharma, we're not worried yet. We've done a few trials of nano-fabs, essentially 3D printed labs where you inject the raw materials and drugs pop out the end.

They kind of work, but its still a lot of work and would mean consumers getting hands on a bunch of controlled substances.

Being able to produce meth in a 'lab' that fits in your hand is not crazy... except you can clearly see how crazy that is.
I mean it should be around 10,000 today that are learning about the xkcd for the first time:
https://xkcd.com/1053/
Autism spectrum disorders are also massively underdiagnosed in women, in part because the way many girls are socialised requires them to behave in ways that can mask the social symptoms.
You can call this a whataboutism, but if a million dead Iraqis hasn’t hurt the US reputation, then I doubt China is going to suffer too much of a hit to theirs.

Especially since they are mainly locked up in internment camps, which many countries have, so they can’t push too hard without looking hypocritical.
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Big agree. Smartphones have more or less flatlined in the last couple years and the only viable next step seems to be AR. Snap Inc and a lot of smaller players in the market know this, and their pivot to AR is arguably what has caused their resurgence in the past few months.
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Speaking of reading a comment and using assumptions to jump to a hard conclusion: The "ratio of users" comment wasn't directed at you personally it was directed at wondering how many are voting your comment up in the discussion assuming "The submitter who used the NYT title verbatim, according to HN guidelines?" is all the guidelines had to say since you made no allusion this was simply your interpretation and not all the guidelines say about titles.

I don't even agree with LegitShady I just find it disingenuous to disagree purely by stating your interpretation of the guidelines as if that's all the guidelines had to say about clickbait. It's tautological that if you disagree your interpretation is that the guidelines disagree and it just masks the minority opinion rather than discussion the opinion.

Personally I my interpretation is a bit stronger on changing linkbait titles (though really you should just try to find a less linkbaity source) but banning is a definitely overkill (even if likely to be simply exaggeration instead of a recommendation). I probably should have included this in my original comment to make my intent clearer.
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Perhaps I'm just not seeing any real victims here.

Softbank and the Saudis wanted to roll the dice on some overpriced unicorns. They went into the deal with eyes open. And it looks like they're taking a massive haircut. Play stupid games...

I do feel sorry for some WeWork employees that will lose their jobs. But, again, many of them joined hoping to get some upside when the company went public -- which was a gamble that didn't pan out. Thankfully it's a good time to be on the job market.
While probably not really Pizza Hut's first web site, I think this goes a long way to show how a lot of the internet has actually regressed. We've gone from this simple form that just asks "Who wants pizza and where can we call you?" and, instead of going to "Who wants pizza and where should we bring it?", we went to ads and pop-ups and to a place where, arguably, the process is way more complicated than it needs to be.

Advertising kinda ruined the internet.
For C++ we've had better luck, on our local cluster, with distcc than with bazel's remote execution, and we've found the the cache slowed things down. Has your experience all been in the google cloud?
I've always thought it would be interesting to figure out the smallest number of people needed to create a pop-up town or microtown. If you get a sufficient number of people together, plop them down anywhere, run water/electricity/sewer, and start a community. It might be that most of them would have to telecommute for revenue, but then you'd also have the local general store or whatever else you'd need. But the people there would be the community and social support network.
MECE

Mango-eating computer engineers?

No, that doesn't fit in based on the context clues...
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