planetjones

I have the same issue. And it's even worse. I need two accounts - one for the UK and one for Switzerland. And I have to log out and log in of the app store depending on whether I want a UK app or a Swiss app. For a multi-national company, Apple's support for those living across borders is terrible.

Exactly - you can't show nervousness like Switzerland did. May is taking the only starting position possible, when performing hostile negociations.

When Switzerland was faced with a similar issue (after citizens voted to restrict EU immigration) it was clear their Government knew straightaway they needed the deals with the EU, so it was impossible to negotiate anything of value.

Britain is politically and economically very important to continental Europe, so May does have some bargaining chips.

I think Britain will eventually come out of this stronger. However, it's clear in the interim period (which could be 5-10 years I think) there could be huge transitional issues. Whether that pain is worth suffering, only time will tell.

Personally, I am not a huge fan of these currency, trading or political blocs. The WTO exists for trade and I would much prefer it to be the vehicle for trade, rather than groups of geographically close-knit countries.

I recently installed Plex on my Synology NAS.

+ awesome web GUI

+ awesome iOS app

+ excellent app for PS4

+ streaming support for TVS e.g. Samsung via DLNA

- synology does not seem to hibernate much now Plex is on (may not be Plex's fault)

- needs premium pass to sync stuff to your mobile app (I paid for a lifetime subscription though, as it's a very good product)

- Plex cannot use the hardware transcoder of my NAS, only the native Synology Apps can

- Does not remember playback position of audio on mobile app (this is a big negative, as I listen to a lot of mixes which are a single audio file)

Given a very good product already exists in the marketplace, which can stream to multiple channels, I am not sure what this project aims to achieve? I am all for people building new stuff, but I would like to see some gap analysis of existing products first so I know what the USP is.

My Roomba sits abandoned in our cellar. The side brush broke just after one year and didn't spin anymore. But the whole concept of the Roomba is flawed IMO. Our apartment isn't particularly complex, but it was impossible to leave the Roomba to do its job without first making the apartment inert. And inert means removing cables, trailing plant leaves and anything else from the floor. It also means setting up the lighthouses to prevent Roomba 'romping' with lamp bases. Unfortunately one of our lamp bases is badly scratched from where Roomba climbed on top and wouldn't get off.

Eventually we admitted defeat.

We bought a Dyson fluffy. It may need me to control but the balance between convenience and cleaning is much better.

I won't waste any more cash on these automatic hoovers until they have proper reasoning and decision making.

owncloud I guess - I think there are OCR plug-ins (though I don't know how well they work)

Shambolic website IMO. Large cookie banner at the top. Header comes and goes. Read more button. An attempt to render a PDF I think. Everything that is wrong with the mobile web would be an apt title for this link too.

A dodgy advert, an image embedded in an online forum, a malicious link on reddit. I agree this sounds worrying.

I fully agree with the quote above, but I don't find this as clear a cut issue as perhaps many on HN do. It's undoubtable that surveillance is becoming harder now and that groups who would bring great harm to innocent people are using the internet for research and communication. I don't know what the answer is, but encrypting everyone's communications end-to-end with no-one able to ever intercept does sound like it will make protecting us very hard indeed. And yes, I know these tools for strong encryption are out there and they can't be un-invented - but I can see why Governments want to do "something". I am just saying what that "something" is becomes difficult to define.

dreamhost.

I manage all my sites there. Never had any issues with them, there is SSH access too so I recently set up a Hugo bitbucket pipeline which builds my personal website and rysncs it to dreamhost.

They were very fast to add lets encrypt support, so all that stuff is taken care automagically. Reliability is very good.

Why can't someone take Apple to court and argue that developers should be able to build native web browser apps without relying on the Web View component? We have st3fan saying "Firefox Focus" is not ideal because he's had to use the older and slower WKWebView to implement it.

Isn't this similar to Microsoft when they were forced to allow a choice of browser, or do Apple get away with it because they allow alternative web browsers provided they use the iOS rendering system to actually display pages?

So for German:

Our baby is due in January.

goes to

Unser Baby ist im Januar fällig

My German colleagues assure me Google's neural network needs a bit more training on that one. I often use Google Translate to go back from the German I have (badly) created to English, as a further check that it's somewhat understandable. In terms of it replacing asking real humans for help... I think it's still a long way away, but good to see Google investing in it.

I'd like to know how the software vendor came to know about this? Maybe the software was accidentally pushed to all machines as part of the standard image or maybe it was deliberately pushed to everyones desktop, and some whistle blower told the vendor?

FaceTime seems to be the only service which delivers consistently good quality. Skype's video quality was abysmal the last time I used it and the Google app (Duo I think) was the worst ever - infact that one showed the recipient the video flipped vertically. I didn't bother to see if it would be resolved, but instead just uninstalled it. I don't use Whatsapp's audio calls, so I doubt I will use video.

I don't think it would be so hard for FB to partner up with snipes.com and provide some kind of check which flags news stories as potentially fake and offer the user the chance to click through to snopes in order to read more about it. With simple text matching and maybe extracting text from some of the images this shouldn't be too difficult. I know FB already have a tool, but I am not sure how it's implemented.

On the rare occasions I stray to see what nonsense is on my FB feed all I have seen is left wing fake left wing new stories. For instance the fake Trump quote from people magazine about republicans being the dumbest voters just would not die, despite it clearly being completely made-up.

I don't like to see comments labelling someone as disingenuous here. What I said was factual hence the downvote.

For EU citizens you could just go on Jobserve.com and find an IT job in the UK or Switzerland (or maybe else where) that interests you and apply. Many jobs will only take people with the right to work, but there may be others who would sponsor a permit from outside the EU.

I think you misread my first point. It's not about a clean flat. It's that normal obstacles like lamp bases, chair legs and wires for bedside lamps, etc. cause the irobot huge difficulty. It got stuck on my lamp base and scratched it badly. Nobody wants to have the light house things guarding every article as they're unsightly, costly and require battery changes.

And whether the insect like rules are on purpose or not, the fact remains that after 7 days there's still a huge dust ball on my kitchen floor that the irobot continually fails to find.

It always amazes me that humankind can find enough ideas to produce original content. Sure most of the plots have similar themes but this year I have watched Gotham, west world, daredevil, Jessica jones, the fall and currently designated survivor. Yet I am not bored and each series has something captivating about it. Something will have to give on the financial side I am sure, but perhaps on the creative side there is an infinite supply.

Buying an irobot was one of the worst consumer decisions I ever made. It can only work with extreme supervision otherwise it mounts and scratches lamp bases, gets tangled in cords or assaults plants. What's the point of having it if you have to make the whole apartment inert before letting it loose. Worse still it never seemed to learn and would often finish its job leaving huge parts of the floor untouched.

And even worse, just past the warranty period the side brush which rotates to flick dirt into the path of the irobot broke.

I guess I am part of the 20% even though the irobot sits in my cellar doing nothing.

We bought a dyson fluffy (battery powered) recently and that's a much better choice.

... but it's still more than fast enough for any process which executes on the phone.

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I know that it's not Netflix's fault per se and they're under pressure from the dinosaurs running the media companies. However really well done - you're now leaving people with no choice but to torrent again.

I would like to carry minutes over. That would be far better for a solo developer like me, as I may need only 200 minutes a month, but I am stuck paying $120 a year in your model.

Much as I like Bitbucket I think either hosting my own CI and CD infrastructure on a cheap VPS or using gitlab is the way to go.

If I pay $10 for 1000 additional build minutes will those additional minutes roll over month to month, until they have been used?

I have to take issue with the opening paragraph. It says that research shows we spend 3 out of 5 days working on stuff we weren't hired to do. But then it says attending meetings falls under that definition as does gathering information. A lot of people need to meet to gather information. Of course that's part of their jobs. While machine learning can, I am sure, help a lot the fallacy the opening paragraph starts with makes me lose faith in the whole article. They also don't cross reference this 'research'.

I completely agree that Bitcoin is an impressive achievement.

But I still fail to understand the attraction to corporates. By putting your blockchain in the Azure cloud, then you have a central point of failure? I agree it's an immutable record of everything that has happened (provided there's not a "hard fork" or over 50% of the resources owned by one participant, which is hugely possible with a small network) but immutable records are possible even today.

It's these armchair "experts" which make hacker news interesting. It's certainly preferable to Youtube +1s or emoticons to say how wonderful someone's comment is. The root comment is fine and makes a good point about how most billionaires outsource jobs and don't think big like Musk does, but this reply I am not so sure about.

Yes there are three approvals needed before the enhanced surveillance can be used. Also they only expect it to be used about ten times a year. I wonder if you read the article before commenting, or just have an absolute position that anytime surveillance is mentioned you say it's bad.