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Blatantly false? The problem is not stuff which is blatantly false. The problem is that if you make a large number of false statements, some of them will not be so obviously false. Also, a large part of the danger of misinformation is not that people will believe false things, but that people will lose faith in journalism as a medium.
> Don't mistake the fact that you don't want cloud gaming for nobody wanting cloud gaming

Also don't mistake half a dozen people on a tech forum as being indicative of a mass audience that's commercially sustainable for something.

Especially given HN is rather prone to imagine a product as turning out in a utopian perfect way rather than the more realistic "compromised by the requirement to be economically plausible" one.
Thanks. I've thought about San Diego a lot, but I heard from a friend that it's incredibly car-centric there. Good to hear another perspective.
Things is like publisher, illustrator, etc. can replace word. Open office is respectable. But all the google docs champions need to wake up.

Google docs is absolutely inferior in its power, formatting options, display performance, ability to write mathematical equations and diagrams directly into the document, etc.

Every time I had to produce a non-trivial report in google docs I grind my teeth and end up rendering these things elsewhere and insert them as png.

Additionally, google docs gives you no ownership over the software or the files I find it's commercial model unsettling.
This is why I stopped selling on Amazon. It's compelling because there's a built-in customer base. But in the long-run, they will use your selling data against you and eventually attempt to put you out of business by finding a cheaper supplier.
So you’re saying it’s now... stable?
Reminds me of: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/623646528/the-legacy-of-an-is...
I've been really impressed by Plaid's service, but also the level of customer support they provide. I have been experiencing issues connecting CapitalOne accounts in the Plaid test environment. I let them know, and got a long, thought out response, and I'm not even a paying customer yet.

Congrats Plaid!
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On the original rumors about Stadia I did think Google was going to revolutionize the industry, particularly in social/massively-multiple games. Starting with the development stack that would leverage a coherent, synchronized world that is massively malleable -- huge banks of systems connected in the microsecond latency range with virtually unlimited throughput, massive neural engines, etc. Destructables, enormous player counts, a completely dynamic environment, virtually eliminating cheating, etc -- it would change everything.

But then they come out with some hosted older games. Eh. Maybe the big reveal will come out eventually, but this far it's pretty disappointing.
Really? Out of all the totalitarian despots, cartel gangsters, and evil people this is who you think are the worst. This is the main problem in America right now, a hyper-polarization of political views. Not having empathy with people who have different political views is pretty worrysome.
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> Is there anyone arguing that, just because many people write "there" when they mean "their", that we should consider it correct?

Not yet. But if that becomes common enough, then that just becomes how the language is, like it or not. I personally would hate it and would be that annoying pedant who always calls it out, but if people mostly accept it, then I wouldn't really be in the right. When usage is in transition like that, it's these sorts of debates that determine what the end result will be.

My current pet peeve is the use of "literally" for emphasis rather than actually meaning literally. Although I will always object, this usage has become very accepted by people (below a certain age), and so I can't really say they're wrong in some sort of objective sense. But I'll complain anyway.
> In reality even protocols like TLS that are nominally agile advance primarily by versioning, not agility

In the last ten years we've been able to disable CBC-based ciphers to protect against POODLE and BEAST, and disable RC4 to protect against Bar-mitzvah and NOMORE, all the while a legacy device could stick with TLS 1.0 without any code changes. All that was necessary was to tweak the cipher preferences.

Being able to support both AES and ChaCha20 is a good thing, and when AESng/Mambo40 come along it will be easier to add them to the protocol in a rolling fashion IMHO.
The EU did not mandate that you use halogen bulbs.
...in fact you should probably just hurry up and die!
Streamers could liven up their streams with this tech.
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This is amazing! I always get questions from new developers or students similar to "I want to do/be X, how do I start?" and now I can point them to this. Thank you for this.
Oh, it can happen very quickly.

Do you remember Skype? Everyone used to be on Skype.
Who uses Skype anymore today?
If the local teachers are not getting paid enough, then perhaps the problem lays elsewhere. Why is it that a couple of generations ago, a family on a single income where the father was working at a gas station was enough to buy a car and a house, when this is practically impossible today.
Throw away crap so you can make room to buy NEW crap? Genius. That sounds like an idea straight from SV
What would you have expected them to do? Would you point to the user if Stack Overflow stopped hosting content? Or GitHub? Before places like imgur, I'd see forum postings linking to broken images hosted on personal sites--so self hosting is unfeasible. Geocities data is still around as well as Usenet postings going back to the 80s.
Ya, reminds me of "bike shedding". People give disproportionate attention to trivial issues that it's easy to have an opinion about.
It sure sucks to invest in a product and then see it shut down. However, I like the idea of a company that constantly tries new things, iterates and is not afraid to pull the plug if it doesn't work rather then have hundreds of zombie products that suck the profits.
That's what the word "innovation" means.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation
That's what the Pro subscription may end up being. I believe you get 2 free games with it for now, and they'll be adding more
Thanks for the link. I’ll be watching it.

Out of curiosity, what do you think of the Stylish userscript that enables a compact mode in Teams and offers dark and light themes?

https://userstyles.org/users/727497
>There's probably a strong correlation between wealth and living near trees

Could also have to do with the city's wealth itself. A city that has money to spend on trees, probably has better infrastructure, more jobs available and and just more ways for lower income people to live and thrive than a city that can't afford to plant and maintain trees. Trees are expensive. It means they probably invest more in stuff like accessible transit, maintaining roads and just other general quality of life improvements in the city.

I figure trees are probably lower down on the list of things to spend money on, so if they've got the money for that, the city itself is like just a better place to live for a ton of other reasons.
These people? You can justify anything that way.

Here's the thing: maybe we don't owe "a lead at a company as high profile at Slack" any better, but we owe ourselves better in order to have a decent community. That's what https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is about.
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I honestly wonder what it will take at this point to change Google's culture of how they launch products.

They haven't had a success in a while, bluntly. Perhaps the "Google way" of launching a half finished product over vague windows and iterating after that doesn't actually work? Or if it ever worked, doesn't work now when Google isn't a plucky underdog and the products aren't competing with other unfinished platforms but often mature, feature complete alternatives?
On Reddit, several weeks ago, I strongly objected to an author singling out a presidential candidate with a nickname, while not doing the same for the others.

It's fair to say I was outraged since I threw an "F" word in there. Although I didn't do it to seek status, it got something like 2000 upvotes.

Anecdotally, I can see that grandstanding works, if "karma" is what you care about.
"Playstation now" was just a rebranded acquisition and is not fully released to be played on phones/ipads etc in all areas. Nor did it had half the markting of Stadia.

It's seemed more of a test bed, for something they plan to do together with the PS5
Embrace descriptivism or be forever an annoyed curmudgeon.
Quite a few really good things came after XP. The new display[0] and sound[1] driver models, the new network[2] stack.

[0] Compositing, no longer need to reboot to install new video drivers
[1] Centralized per-application volume control
[2] VLAN tagging and bridging without third party products

Sadly, the thing with the new settings panels and mobile-ified look & feel is true. But that was all post-7.

> It would be interesting if there were any developers working on anything but cloud at MS the past 10 years.

There are, unfortunately, and they're terrible and keep pushing broken Windows updates and new features nobody asked for.
This is a typical cherry picked business leader article where you can find examples to make any point that you want (or don't want). This is the reason that I stopped years ago even reading business magazines (you know the ones with the airport candy shop headlines).

They all follow the same 'hero' or 'zero' angle and typically have no access to the nuance (or underplay it) and complexity that goes into any success or failure. Nice reading though.

Note: Then I see this of all things: 'Disclosure: The author's self-managed super fund owns shares in Microsoft."
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Disney uses something similar in a lot of their stage shows at their parks. They use a water fountain to create a screen and project onto the water sheet. It works surprisingly well, but I would assume that it is pre-rendered.
Thanks for the comment, you are correct. It is one of the two viable replacements at the time of the incandescent ban : halogen or fluorescent.

Now we have LED.
> I could get the same results with a high quality VPN set-up to connect to a Xbox at home.
Has anyone actually done that, or are you speculating?
OS X was fine for a long time before Mojave. I can't remember the last release that added a feature I cared about.
On the bright side. He has to watch his back for MBS henchmen.
Just because it's common doesn't mean it's not also dodgy.
Even though I don't use any of the Pro features, I still pay for Pro to help support in anyway I think I can. Love Feedly.
One of the most senior engineers here (someone with his name on many research and whitepapers from his tenures at Amazon, Microsoft et al), left Google for precisely this reason. He was bored of working on stuff that would never reach the light of day. It happened multiple times to him in his time there.
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They went after him big time in the recent "hearings" which reminded me of the star chamber hearings from communist Russia. I think many business leaders at this point who may have been moderate or centrist/libertarian might be forced to allign with Trump just to keep away from the radical socialist left.
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> They are already committed to privacy

They're also already committed to censorship, so I don't fathom how they'd run a VPN service.
Seriously, they're not that expensive. I haven't changed a lightbulb in like 2 years, except for moving. Haven't even needed to buy any new ones since my city utility got some state subsidies (or something along those lines) and gives out bulbs multiple times a year.

Also would advocate for more strip lighting in homes. Looks better and saves a lot of space. My home office is all strip lighting.
I actually used OnLive a bit back in the day. I mostly played Unreal Tournament. I miss it sometimes. It felt novel.
The idea is that breaking up a company will reduce both their resources available to behave badly (cash, infrastructure, people etc.) as well as getting the people in the newly independent organizations to start thinking competitively with each other as well as other companies in the market. If done right, the newly formed entities wouldn't be viewed as the 'same old people under a new name' but rather an entity no longer working toward the same goals if not an outright competitor. (that's in a perfect world... it rarely is perfect) What would keep them from colluding would typically be government/regulatory oversight for some period of time after the breakup with civil and/or criminal penalties being the stick for doing what you describe.
Which is in fact one of the case studies in the classic business strategy book, "Blue Ocean Strategy".
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> was phenomenally successful at building a large, real business

What? How? He built an 8b business with 16b in investment. Anyone can do that. Take 16b, put it in index funds, call yourself an investment bank. You'd get better returns than -50%, for sure.
I always read 10-20 authentic-look-like reviews and form an average. The more you read the better. Plus read outside reviews.
Wow, it's really amazing me how much people hate Stadia. It's a perfect storm of Google + subscription gaming, so I guess it's not surprising, but I do wonder if there's a whole bunch of people behind the ones with the pitch forks who like the idea, even a bit.
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Even if you think this is bad, just consider that its a race now between the US and China on a global crytocurrency. I sure do not want China winning that race.
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Yes, Rust is by far the most unreadable language that I've tried. I really wanted to like it but everything is just so ugly, unclear, and (seemingly) unnecessarily complicated.
Yes. For instance, Apple's spent the last couple of years emulating his visionary design decisions, focused specifically on "get thinner and thinner until you can't actually do your job anymore".
If that MS approach works, why hasn't Netflix or Gog or someone already done it for any games?
For better and worse Valve is essentially the Steam company now, and they know that's where their bread is buttered. Google isn't going to become "the Stadia company", in the current revenue model they are never going to see a point where they make more revenue from Stadia than any other service they offer.
You can have that!

I mean, I don't know you personally, but if those are your priorities, then there are plenty of big stable boring companies to work for. Maybe apply at one of those instead of wildly unprofitable startups with idiosyncratic founders?

You have agency.
Fair point. I guess there were only 2 months left in 2019 :D
Resaturating HN text would be a useful feature to support (the worst part of this innovative practice is that when you highlight it to try to make it more readable it becomes even less readable)
None if the examples given are particularly sensible.

Turn Word into a webapp? This has been happening for years, but no web editor can offer even 50% of the functionality offered by Word. Office365 is competitive with GSuite.

Drop Win32? That's basically asking Microsoft to commit suicide and destroy all companies who rely on windows to run their software. They were trying to get people to move to UWP, and look how hard that has been.

Port DirectX? Maybe, don't know. Given that Unity and Unreal both support OpenGL, Metal, Vulkan, and they are available on Windows, would this make any difference?
It's hard to ignore it when the introduction of the features destabilizes the rest of the operating system.

I get how multiple windows is great for productivity, but I'd rather seem Apple push macOS for those use cases and keep the iPad as simple as possible.
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In this case, the truth is that Adobe CC has been cracked on both Mac and Windows, so whatever they are doing is pretty useless. I'm sure they can bake in something that will work on Linus and also eventually get cracked as well.
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If you’re an office 365 admin, you would know it’s not a joke :-(
What are examples of political topics you see people arguing about in a dehumanizing way? What kind of comments do you mean by “dehumanizing”?

I keep hearing this argument that the tone and style of political arguments are getting more vicious and causing harm to society, but nobody can give me concrete examples of what they mean.
Who their employee's vote for isn't bias.

Speaking of bias, all of your sources are skewed to the extremes of the political spectrum and I've got to imagine that they are giving a very one sided view of the problem your talking about.
Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?
Where are you currently living, what were the reasons for moving there and what are the pros / cons?

Also say you work remotely, are self-employed / working on a new idea or are (financially) retired and could live anywhere on this beautiful planet, where would you go?
I can (can't?) say from some sources... it's a great day to work from home.
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Obligatory mention of Nomadlist (https://nomadlist.com/).
I don't think complete de-carbonization of the electric grid is possible in this timeframe, we will need to achieve the results but with smaller savings across all industries.
Well I bought stadia. With 3 young kids and a busy job i don't have a lot of time to game so I want something where I can just sit down and game. No wasting time downloading/installing games. No patches. Just games ready to play.

A second point, sometimes i play coop games with my wife. Its nice not needing 2 consoles or gaming pc's. One can play on the TV and the other on a tablet or cheap laptop.
I've seen the question raised whether the "minimalism" (in terms of not owning much) often attributed to Marie Kondo is actually an accurate representation of what she says. The alternative interpretation being something more like "mindful ownership".

I'm in that second camp, slightly confused by people saying things like "Marie Kondo thinks I shouldn't own more than 20 books" or whatever, because that wasn't what I understood. The point is to think about whether that number of books is an effective use of your living space - and the answer can be yes.

So yeah, an online store seems a little odd, but by this point my default position on anything M-K related is "take a second and make sure this isn't misrepresenting her views".
Maybe a little shop full of neat things that Marie Kondo likes is... fine? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Microsoft Teams is pretty horrible

Doesn't matter, since it comes with Office so it basically costs $0.

It's crap, but that's not stopping my employer from replacing literally everything they can with it. Even our desk phones, purportedly.
2) is what almost every new service could do.

And 1) I don’t understand. Feedly was one of the first ones I tried, and none of the settings I tried got me close to a headline-only view that I used in GReader. I used Newsblur for a while and am on TT-RSS nowadays. But Feedly always seemed to cater more to those people who enjoy image-heavy subreddits and full-page hero images, or pinterest.

Nothing I tried with Feedly got me a simple, no distraction one-line, click to expand downwards view.

Note that all of this was around when GReader closed, no idea what changed.
Increases in gas taxes were also the reason for the currently ongoing unrest in Iran and Lebanon. Populations are very sensitive to this cost, and it quickly leads to unmanageable inflation.
While I can easily think of more detestable living people than them, I do think that they're reasonably detestable. But I think that based on their business actions -- it has nothing to do with their political views (Trump arguably excepted).
I refuse to believe anyone wouldn't take 1.7 billion to walk away from a company.
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You can learn in two ways, somebody can communicate( share, tell, write) the truth to you, or you can do an experiment. People in a Capitalistic society are rarely taught to do experiments, because what is learned by experiment cannot be controlled. Knowing how, when and why to do the experiment is what separates those who can create from the group that can only do what they are told.
Even if they only release for one distro to start I'm sure they can find one that is popular enough. Especially with some financial incentive from the distro maker... It would probably make the distro instantly more popular...
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I think people agreeing about politics is universally more toxic than people disagreeing. Discussions in which all the involved parties agree, but are obsessively defending themselves against an imagined foe tend to generate a hell of a lot more moral grandstanding than ones in which actual conflict exists.
> I would short Google on this in an instant if someone would take my money.

I'm sure there are many people who would be happy to take your money to bet against Google.
If only that were true. But I’ve never seen a single mind changed from these online “debates”, because no one ever enters them willing to admit they might be wrong.
Ask HN: What's the ultimate language/environment for developing GUI programs?
I'm planning on developing a new personal project which involves a nontrivial GUI interface. I also want to do this project in the most comfortable way possible-- I'm open to new/exotic languages or stacks which I've never used before. There doesn't seem to be a perfect environment out there as they all have their drawbacks.

Here's what I've considered:

- Pascal and Lazarus

The language isn't the most expressive but it gets the job done. The UI toolkit (Lazarus) is hyped up a lot here but the documentation is horrendous and it seems to have DPI issues and a lack of good controls that I'd need. Creating new controls seems to be a nightmare. This is what I'm leaning towards right now anyway.

- Common Lisp and QTools

I haven't given CL a proper spin yet and it looks super fun to work with. Unfortunately the QT bindings out there aren't declarative or visual so it's going to be a huge pain to do this. Not sure how creating new controls is going to be.

- Red and VID

(https://www.red-lang.org/?m=1)
I like this language and the declarative UI framework. However the language is in alpha and the docs are nonexistent. Not sure if this is viable.

- Smalltalk and Morphic

Cool language, but the resulting program is going to look super non-native and weird. A friend described it as looking like "a fake operating system you see in TV shows". Also, the documentation is nonexistent.

- JavaScript and HTML

I'd prefer to not write JavaScript, and the resulting app is going to look really non-native or hodgepodge. Deploying on the web is sort of a plus, but at the end of the day I'd really rather not do this.

Does anybody know of the perfect language and setup for creating a classic GUI app in this day and age?
Good tip on adding the ‘+’ to the end. Thanks!
To anyone wondering, adding the plus (when logged in to Bitly) displays an info page with the referrers (refererers) and locations by country.

And where the link goes to, obviously. No idea if this counts toward the Bitly link open rate.