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I once pitched around my own startup... and VCs all refused it, just in case it was "another scam".

Then I found out... they DID got scammed, in a rather elaborate way:

some guy (that I won't name here, but you can find out who it is) seemly created a mobile games company, made some simple but wildly successful games (in donwload numbers), and then started to put ad fraud after ad fraud on the games, Apple started to ban him, but he would find other ways to get back, meanwhile he would accumulate cash, then he rented an office, built a seemly legitimate company, and asked the VCs for money, and as proof of his business working as intended, gave to the VCs the data about his income...

Eventually Apple and Google figured out how to kind-of get rid of his frauds permanently, seemly he found one last loophole, moved all apps to a new account that was on his name only (not his company), fired all employees, and took off with Apple's and VC's money.

I was told Apple ended taking the hit, they gave all the defrauded money back to advertisers, but couldn't get the money back from the scammer.

So to reply to your question: if you have data, for example (fraudulent) income, it is easy to convince VCs... for the first time.

Since on the second attempt they believe even real business (like mine) is a fraud.
Bitwarden_RS: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server with Organization support
The moving parts of a pre-2000 product were definitely more robust then these days. That applies to piezzo based refreshable braille displays as well.
However, when using hardware that actually needs to move parts around, nothing keeps working forever.
After 20+ years of use (you have to remember that these devices are the primary means of reading for a blind person, so they get quite a workout) almost everything will start to fail.
YC has a podcast. I am not saying it is the best. It just seems somewhat relevant. https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/podcast/
“Last good Windows” – just like XP, 2000, 98, and NT? Nothing makes people forget about all of the problems like not wanting to learn something new.
Even if this hurdle would be somehow magically removed (which is unrealistic), M$ would never do that. Its still a perfectly fine OS, I would claim most Windows users don't need more, ever. Why would anybody go for Win 10? I can imagine patching would be picked up by new companies offering 'enterprise' services on top of it.

Heck, if DX 12 with RTX would be implemented for it, I would never ever switched to Win 10. It is a more modern OS, but still feels unfinished, some basic settings navigation feels schizophrenic and just badly designed. It thinks it knows better than me what I want. It is overall a step back. Plus effin' ads & tracking.

Any good karma M$ accrued while to paint themselves as 'we're better now' company was burned with Win 10. Same shitty greedy company.
> it's the best tool (period) for reading datasheets (or any large PDF documents)

Sounds intriguing. How would I go about copying the PDFs that are currently on my Linux PC onto it, though?
The pilots’ devices are selected to airplane mode as well. Many carriers do allow WiFi to be turned on and have a separate WiFi network onboard that allows for operational access. Mainly weather.
Is this dedicated receipt OCR significantly better then the out-of-the box OCR you get from Google Cloud Vision, Abbyy or OCR.space?

As standard OCR gets better and better, the room for specialized OCR solutions is becoming smaller.
Never heard this before, reminds me of Idiocracy's 'Particular Individuals'
I use waveapps too and I'm pretty sure they're Mechanical Turking their receipt transcription. Sometimes it takes too long for it to be an automated process.
Maybe it’s like the apocryphal rumour that spelling mistakes in scam emails are really a filter to get rid of a large chunk of people who wouldn’t fall for the scam anyway.
Chicago startup ActiveCampaign raises $100M in new Series B round
One recent thing that i hate about latest iPadOS is the automatic readable mode for websites.. you cant just put readable mode on all sites :|
1 more like every 30 days https://www.anandtech.com/show/8617/samsung-releases-firmwar...

2 No such thing as read only SSD. Just like in ram, SSDs experience read disturbance (rowhammer) https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/flash-read-disturb-err...

"A key contributor to this reduced reliability is read disturb, where a read to one row of cells impacts the threshold voltages of unread flash cells in different rows of the same block. Such disturbances may shift the threshold voltages of these unread cells to different logical states than originally programmed, leading to read errors that hurt endurance"

The very best SSDs today promise to go into read only mode in case of a failure, and in tests almost none are. Intel server family of drives famously brick itself despite stating "read only" in documentation.
This is confusing. Which one is correct? The parent or the article.
I have a very different take. I am much faster with a keyboard and keyboard shortcuts, and I hate glossy screens. Every time I use an Ipad this brings my productivity down compared to having an actual laptop. Honestly I cannot say I have seen people do real work on an Ipad. Just browsing and very short messages.
Given the amount of VC-funded companies with blockchain-powered products where the blockchain is either useless and can be replaced with a database, or where the product itself is completely flawed I realised a lot of VCs do absolutely zero due-diligence on a technical level.
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Use three fingers on keyboard for same effect on devices without force touch.
> The worst thing is that the forced over-simplification of the UI features did not make it easier to use for beginners. I can see many people (including myself) struggling. So we have been forced into a "compromise" with all the downside, but none of the upside.

I wholly disagree, at least at the beginning. When the original iPad was released, I remember seeing multiple viral videos of two-year-olds being given iPads and instantly figuring out how to use them. At the time, this was surprising.

I think we've forgotten just how simple iOS was in the Steve Jobs era. You had a grid of objects, and when you tapped an opbject, your device became that object until you transformed it back with the home button. There was no control center, no notification center, and no app switcher—even when Apple added "multitasking" in iOS 4, it took the form of a little bar, not a new view.

I'm not ready to say Apple should get rid of Notification Center, because it's pretty darn useful. But I would like a single kill switch in Settings which turns all these features off. Then I could enable it for my grandmother.

The iPad, for its part, should be simpler than the iPhone, because simplicity is the iPad's reason for existence. Laptops exist because they are (and continue to be) the most efficient way to get things done. The iPhone exists because it's a relatively capable device that fits in your pocket.

And the iPad exists so you can browse the web and watch Netflix in a focused and leisurely way. iPads also make these tasks accessible for people who are not familiar with computing and will be more comfortable a simpler environment.

By attempting to make the iPad as capable as a laptop, Apple is taking away the iPad's very real original use-case in service of a use-cases for which the iPad is inherently ill-suited. And for what? To compete with a class of product which Apple already makes?

2010 iPads were great at what they did, and 2010 Macs were great at what they did. I legitimately don't understand why 2020 Apple is now on a mission to conflate these two product lines. Even if Apple succeeds at making the iPad as capable as a Mac, what will all their work have accomplished?
The more realistic option is a production-ready ReactOS release before Microsoft open-sources their past OSes.
I bought my first and only tablet, an iPad, two years back. I havent't much used it since then. I bet it would be great for reading and watching videos, but the moment I want to type something, I just become needlessly irritated and switch back to my MacBook Pro.

It's not just typing on a touch screen; that's awful, but then I bought a keyboard. But using the Dvorak layout, Scandinavian letters and Japanese input in my daily life makes iPad just not cut it. It's not a flexible device like a PC is. I still haven't been able to type the way I'd want to.
A shared lineage is a very different thing, however.
Yes, that's the common excuse/reason. But, why MS can't negotiate the move with those 3rd parties? That would be a good PR for them as well.
I felt this rather acutely at work where I was strongarmed into giving up my Linux desktop for a MacBook. When I ask how a Mac-loving coworker solved a OS problem, I'm met with blank stares as if they've never recognized it as a drawback, let alone wished for a solution. Multi-monitor support is a particular pain point for me; there just seems to be so much missing and I can't understand why.
> It's 3-4 orders of magnitude more deadly than the normal seasonal flu

Citation?
Why not teach data scientists how to write software effectively? Those are smart people, it’s not like using version control, writing unit tests and extracting common code into libraries is rocket science.
This is exactly why I hate the trend in reducing structural characters in new languages, or having it be almost all words (e.g. python). There is much to understand about code by its shape, but blocks of words tend to have much less obvious at-a-glance shape than similar code with structural characters thrown in.
> The iPad at 10 is, to me, a grave disappointment.

The biggest disappointment to me is that I can't buy a Macbook that converts into a tablet. I've never owned a tablet, and my wife never replaced her 1st generation iPad, because there's just too much overlap between tablet and phone; and between tablet and laptop.

And, as far as multitasking goes: When I do serious work that requires that kind of multitasking, I need a keyboard and mouse. Furthermore, I'll probably be sitting in a chair, at a desk, with a giant monitor... Multitasking is just an absurd use case for a "tablet." Instead, it shows that "tablet" and "laptop" just need to converge to be the same ^%#$ device.

Windows tablets might suck, but at least you don't have to own two devices!
Of course it's a PR trick, anyone with even the slightest experience in software development can figure out that it's a lot of work to open-source a larger project. Also considering what's mentioned in the article, plenty of this code is probably still in use in later Windows versions which are still sold.
One idea for a pain point not mentioned: better variable persistence. If I declare a variable, then delete the cell I declared it in, the variable persists. I've had this cause issues because if I use the deleted variable by accident, it will work fine right up until a kernel restart.
Fraudulent balance sheets / P&L statements aren't impossible.
const database_year_offset = 7;

fix_start_year(year):
return year + database_year_offset;

process_record(record):
record['start year'] = fix_start_year(record['record']);

In this version with one less magic constant (and renamed function), the comment would look very redundant.

DougBTX had the same idea, at the same time. I don't think their version needs the comment either. EDIT: Dang you removed a perfectly fine post :)
Decimal floating point math support for a calculator kernel
I've never quite understood this pattern.

What is the benefit of keeping data in a container when the main point of containers is that you can destroy them and rebuild them at any time? It seems like the Docker ecosystem isn't built to support keeping state in a container.

For me, the big thing is that once the data is in a container, it seems difficult to move around. How do you copy that container to a different system? In order to get to your data from the outside of a Docker container, do you need to use import/export? And even then, you just get a tar file?

Why not use a volume mount to a local directory to begin with?
Then you can still use the programs from within a container and still have easy access to your data when you are done.

What am I missing? What is the advantage of using a data container?
Definitely possible.
I like what the FSF sometimes does, but this is going to stick out in my mind like sore thumb as an example of how they make it hard to keep doing that...

Edit: fixed typo
Upper middle class jobs are almost universally desk jobs, even in industries that have a lot of physical activity, e.g. building engineers vs. construction workers.

When you sit 9 hours a day you need to hit the gym or diet. When I was waiting tables and bartending in college (and a lil after) I didn't need to workout -- a doubleshift on my feet kept me very lean.

When you have money and a real need for activity then yeah the gym lifestyle becomes a thing.
Why would Microsoft keep developing a product for 7 years if there were no interest?
With Tony Fadell's help, Advano is building battery components to power an elec
I agree, KDE Plasma 5 is really awesome. It is fast, flexible, looks great and is by far the most stable desktop enviroment I have ever used, including all Windows versions and OSX.
I'm kinda jealous of your experience.

My dad (early 80s) struggles with tech in general, including the iPad and iPhone. Many in his peer group use touchscreen devices with fewer issues.

This is what I noticed from trying to teach him how to use the interfaces:

1 - He refuses to mentally process what the icons represent and ignores the text label below them. I thought switching them to Chinese would help, but he'd struggle with some of the terms, as they were unfamiliar to him. For a person his age and background, "address book" is more meaningful than "contacts".

2 - He wants to memorize locations and steps as opposed to using intuition via #1. This sometimes helped, but there would be occasional pitfalls, i.e., an unintentional gesture pulls him out of what he's doing and then he just doesn't doesn't know how to get back.

I tried switching him to an old school feature phone (one of the newer Nokia remakes), but even that's a struggle, as there's simply too much UI, and I notice rocker buttons confuse the hell out of him. Many of these devices are marketed to seniors (and pretty much have the same interface and functions) but I don't think they were really tested with seniors.

My dad doesn't have or use the Internet, and he's starting to get left behind as large companies are trying to move away from snail mail for things like bills, etc.
I wish I could help, but I cannot afford at least 70TB even for myself..
>has to mess around more with Hackintosh than with a Linux installation

As someone who lived with an Ubuntu installation for 5 years up until 10.10 and then with Arch for arount 4 years - you statement about linux being an easy thing to handle is correct as long as you are fine with a distro like ubuntu and don't want to change much.

As soon as you embrace something more hacky or at least more bleeding edge - you are in the world full of unexpected surprises. Any major update can cause you hours of problems because distro devs decided to switch from somethingX to somethingY and you had to prepare your installation before updating but alas, you rarely read the fron page of https://www.archlinux.org and now you have to rollback and do everything right.

Not a too common scenario but not an uncommon one too.

Not to metion that for the most part linux remains a second-class citizen to software devs, so you won't see much of a general purpose software of the same quality macOS has to offer. Which is a problem if you are going to use the machine for something other then software development.
I bought an Air 3 with Pencil 1 and yeah it was okay. Went back the very next day to upgrade to a Pro with Pencil 2.

It really is that much better of an experience. Just the ergonomics of magnetic storage and charging make a world of difference. And the pencil feels natural in your hand instead of like a stylus.

Sure they’re still not on the level of a circa 2010 Wacom Intuos – damn I loved that thing – but there’s no comparison. Pay the extra $300 to get a Pro with Pencil 2 if you can.

Now I’n thinking of getting a keyboard as well because the unimaginable is happening - my 2017 MBP feels cumbersome compared to the iPad. Only for Very Serious Work.
I don't think that would be a good solution, you'd have yet another oddball charging widget and if you didn't bring it with you everywhere the battery would die and you couldn't recharge it.

If anything, I'd rather they put the charging hardware in the front bezel somewhere, since that's already flat. Not a good place for storage or for charging the pencil while the iPad is in use, but at least you wouldn't get stranded with a dead stylus and no charging gizmo.
A couple years ago I had the privileged of getting to overhear an adjacent table where a scam cryptocurrency founder was pitching their ICO to an investor in a restaurant in mountain view. At the time I hadn't even heard of it but it went on to raise a lot of money then end up mired in legal trouble.

The central premise of the pitch was to repeadily go over how Bitcoin market price had changed from 2009 to whenever it was (probably around $3000 at the time), and then suggest that their new asset would experience even greater increases even faster because <jargon>. Paraphrasing: "So if I invest $1m today, in seven years...?" "Your investment be worth 100 billion! maybe more, but I can't promise that. 100,000x growth is the _minimum_ but the maximum is anyone's guess". They looped over and over again, I think with the prospective investor making extra sure he understood before writing the guy he was talking to off as a scammer.

At that point I stopped worrying about the particular pitchee was going to get scammed, it was too absurd. (I'm sure my numbers aren't exactly right, for one they had a bunch of excess precision in reality, presumably based on the day's Bitcoin price, but whatever it was was totally absurd).

> or even a VC that is not tech savvy

Honestly, I think being "tech savvy" is a liability. Someone who doesn't think they're tech savvy knows they don't know. It takes a certain level of expertise to talk yourself into something extremely dumb. They might not fall for this particular pitch deck (or the one I overheard), but there are scams for every skill level. And the more confident you are in your understanding, the larger the "investment" you will being willing to make.
Because it turns from "Microsoft has nothing to lose by doing this" to "Microsoft is going to lose a bunch of money spending time negotiating with and paying third parties to be allowed to release their libraries with windows' source code".

People's time isn't free.
I'm surprised we've had several front-page articles in the past few weeks about getting NextStep installed on a VM or on hardware, but nothing on GNUStep, which has standard installers.
Great article.

>> it’s inevitable that Qt 5.15 will be forked into a community edition that gets maintained, hopefully not just by KDE people, but by everyone who needs a stable, LGPL licenced release of Qt5 for years to come

Right, I'll be happy to support that, if it's in a separate repository not subject to the Qt contributor license agreement.
Sure, if you know what the output should look like and if it's possible to e.g. write tests to verify that it's correct, then jupyter notebooks would not be the proper tool to use.

The intended usecase of these notebooks is in scenarios where the main output is not the code and not a particular set transformed data, but knowledge gained during a 'computational exploration' of that data. With that knowledge in hand, you can then build 'productionized' code with different methodologies (possibly but not necessarily using or adapting large parts of the code in your notebook), if that's needed - and in such data analysis scenarios it often happens that it's not ever needed.

Sampling a subset of the data sometimes works. Sometimes it would alter the results substantionally and drive the exploration in a wrong direction; questioning and verifying assumptions is important, and it can be a big difference if all A's are also B or only 99% of them are.
How does the solution proposed by your parent prevent software companies from tracking what features their users are using? App developers don't need to be able to track what other apps are installed or most of the other PII that these ad platforms track to determine what features are being used. Grindr could easily tell what features a user is using via logging what the user requests from their servers; after all a social dating app like that doesn't really have many features that don't rely on a network connection. So blocking the additional tracking wouldn't prevent them from seeing what information the user pulls/sends to their server and thus what actions the user is taking in the app. The detail might not be as fine, but I'm less than convinced that knowing the millisecond timing a user takes to perform an action is really all that helpful anyway.
I wasn't against evolve at all. The problem is the absurdly claustrophobic feeling that overcomes me with the current new developments. They are too big.
> More charitably, paracord is a known quantity, and they idolize ex-soldiers, who are of course familiar with its uses.

Such as?

I'm not saying that there aren't uses: obviously in a general sense, "tying things" is a use. But how often do you need to do that, and does that justify prioritizing paracord over other things? Are there any places where you have to tie things that are absolutely vital?

Sure, there are other alternatives to paracord, but my question is, why carry any sort of cord at all?

Of course, there are always situations where there's something that would be nice to have: gas masks in a gas attack, a flare gun if rescue is possible, etc. But moving light and fast is also valuable, so it makes sense to cut off the list of things you're bringing at some point, and I don't think cordage of any kind is a high enough priority that it makes my list (fishing line, however, does).
Which is basically no one in the US these days
It's all about your trade-off between what you want, time, and money. Do you want the desktop equivalent of a fully-loaded 16" MBP or a low-mid-range Mac Pro? Is $3000 a significant amount of money to you? If the answer to both of these is yes, it's worth it.
>Sure, KX is somewhat 'better' in some ways than it was a while back

I really think you must not be familiar with Kings Cross at all to say this. I mean, can you name any specific business or building that you miss?

It astonishes me sometimes what a bunch of whiners us Londoners are when it comes to new developments. It's a city, not a museum.
There is nothing that stops nodes from hosting IPFS content from behind a VPN.
Now, instead of paying engineers to write code, you can pay lawyers to have arguments.
The environmental impact of the vinyl revival
Ask HN: What password manager to use for IT team?
We have a lot of credentials that we store in a shared semi secure location right now. We need to share credentials inside teams and with customers. We need a browser plugin and command line access would be awesome. What saas password manager should we use?
Green Wave
Because remember, Norway is not in the EU.

So? The grids of the Nordic countries are already interconnected. There's also a 700 MW cable connecting Norway to the Netherlands, and plans for connections to Germany and the UK.
Is the site down due to traffic? I'm getting intermittent errors.