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On one hand, I get it, especially in the covid era when social interaction is curtailed. On the other, I am really damn tired of hearing about it. It seems like Clubhouse's membership is comprised of people who either want to be followers or influencers, neither of whom I am all that interested in meeting or hearing talk for several hours. And the intention is apparently to replace or supplement a podcast diet, but I have yet to find a podcast that is more valuable to me than audiobooks. The only live speakers I've seen and learned anything from were academics. Maybe they are on Clubhouse or will be eventually? I haven't used it so maybe I'm missing something.
Extremely relevant for Canadian talent pools. Bleed to SF/Bay area is real.
Is this really necessary? Retard is not used to refer to people with mental disabilities. It is not a slur. Its a new social justice campaign to get mad about something when they ran out of things to complain about.

Guess what, stupid, moron, idiot, etc used to refer to people with mental disabilities. Why aren't they campaigning to ban those words too?
I think it's quixotic to compete with Google/Bing on the index size. A good bet would be to try to compete on search flexibility i.e. allowing for various ways of slicing/dicing results, recombinance etc. IMHO Search needs a paradigm shift from the 10 blue links to a knowledge engine (a la Wolfram alpha).

The vast majority of searches can be satisfied by some of the open source indexes. For the "long tail", there is always Google.
The Nomad Day N experience is pretty good. I help maintain 4 Nomad clusters running approx 40k Allocations (like Pods) for work. We have basically no problems with Nomad itself, and requires pretty much no day to day intervention. Upgrades are pretty painless too. We've gone from 0.7.x to 0.12.x with these same clusters, and will be going to 1.x soon.

Happy to try to answer specific questions.
Ah yes of course, they need to release a Windows and Android app. How very apple-centric of me. Sorry about that.
They said on Twitter that this was not intentional. Most likely a hack.

https://twitter.com/antdesignui/status/1361150625505927168?s...
There is a browser extension called "Bypass Paywalls" for Firefox. That being said, I agree.
The idea is unique and not published anywhere,hence the patent
Hit up @abraham. Good friend of mine. He's moving to the bay area and actively looking for a place now. Good luck!
Ignore, will be reposted when I can fix the issues with the poll. Sorry for the time waste :(
you're right but how would you define violent and hateful content? it's not easy. ok, somebody could build a neural network and train it with typical violent content, but violence has too many types
Which assuming we could honestly cut the beurocracy -- might not be all that much.
Actually, duplicate submissions for the exact same URL are counted as up votes for the first submission. So using the bookmarklet poses no problem. Using different URLs (thoughtcatalog vs youtube) for the same story causes difficulty, though.
You might be interested in this UK charity that was covered on BBC Radio 4 last week:

http://www.teachfirst.org.uk/TFHome/index.aspx

They take high flying graduates from top Universities and "fast tracks" them into teaching jobs in "challenging" schools. The idea being that the graduates teach for at least two years and then go on to other things with the support of the charity.

I guess just exposing young kids to people who have the drive to succeed at a top university gives them a completely different perspective on what is possible.
That sounds kinda similar to the problem Matrix solved with cross-signing, how when you login to a new device and verify it with one of your already logged-in devices, it can request your old message keys E2EE so you get all your history.

Maybe a similar thing could be built on top of it?
It's design by agreement vs design by decision. In the former you need people to agree. In a committee setting it means that not only do you have to make MSFT, Google, & Apple happy, it's also the various other people that happen to be part of that standard body (the group is large). You definitely pull from a larger group of experts, but it's mired in indecision hell & compromise. Often times a decision that solves 90% of problems is better than a decision that is perfect, but the way ISO is set up, decisions kind of have to be perfect.

That being said, the C++ standards body (at least under Herb?) has done a decent job modernizing their process to fight some of the gravitational issues they were having. They've formalized deprecation rules & tried to get over disagreements. The design by committee issues haven't gone away though - the mess with coroutines, modules, & concepts is a great example of that. The ISO process of language papers precludes even simple additions to the STL where you not only have to navigate standardese, but also manage the review process (that's why you have to find a champion on the standards body to help guide your review through the rigamarole).

My experience contributing to the Rust standard library by comparison was much easier - put up a drive-by diff adding a new (admittedly minor) API, some minor review comments, done & shipped. The whole process took 1-2 weeks, no standardese, no arguing with a large committee on the exact wording, etc.
> I was phrasing that unclear, I meant that you have to trust Intel if you use Mobilecoin.

Ah, fair. I think you could also argue that you have to trust Intel if you use Signal anyway.

> Why wouldn't you be able to exercise that choice?

I'm not saying you can't (unlike some), but I think it's worth underlining the point that "trusting nobody" is rarely, if ever an option. So in a world where you end up having to trust someone, being able to continuously exercise that is important.
Coil positioning and geometry is critical for field homogeneity. And the coil materials must be very consistent.

Add to that you have to withstand heating/cooling cycles down to a few Kelvin -- the whole thing needs to withstand a lot of stress so it's heavy.
Actually people don't care much more for either. But the media will blow up the terror attacks way out of proportion and in return people will be caring more about them. Terrorism takes 3 parties to play, terrorists, governments and media. If the two that should be wiser refuse to play ball the whole thing falls apart.

But the media loves its ratings, the more terror the better for them and governments love to push through their pet laws and terrorists (and child pornographers, software pirates and other undesirables) are convenient hooks to hang those on.
Creator here. Conditionals are introduced in some of the premium versions. You can see how they work in the video at the top of lightbot.com- once the paintbrush is introduced to color the robot conditionals allow for running commands based on lightbot's color.
Would Apple's desire not to use the GPLv3, and subsequent funding of LLVM be related to RMS' actions?
I can't be entirely sure that it's to do with the tools used (I'm familiar with most of the ones mentioned in the comments) but my most successful API designing, at a high level, has been in a spreadsheet.
It is really true.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/milk-cartel-econ...

Not sure why I'm getting a shit-ton of downvotes. A lot of negativity on HN lately.
Just wanted to chip in that $150 is not exorbitant, because of your latter reason: people can and do pay it all the time.

$150 an hour can be quite reasonable, given the right situation. For starters, if a regular employee makes $50 an hour, they are really costing the company more like $100 an hour when you add in benefits, taxes, insurance, and other perk costs. So $150 for a subject matter expert on short notice is not a stretch at all.

But more importantly, do a cost/benefits analysis. Let's say there's an important project coming up, and you lack the internal expertise. Let's say it could be done in 3 months by an expert you know. Now, 3 months of $150/hr is $72k, which seems like a lot, but if your alternatives are 1) spending 6 weeks trying to hire an expert and hoping they agree to a low salary, 2) spending a month training internal people to do it, and then having them do a novice job at it, or 3) missing a crucial business opportunity that could easily run in the millions... you get the idea.

Anyway, the moral of the story is, learn enough tech to get the job done, learn the business realities of your industry, and then charge what you are worth to the company.
Can someone point me to an explanation of "Nim is the only language that leverages automated proof technology to perform a disjoint check for your parallel code"? This is mentioned prominently on the main page...but scanning the docs, the FAQ, Dr. Dobbs, and Googling 'nim disjoint' didnt lead me to a detailed explanation.
The Commanche were also particularly effective at it. The combination of their horse riding and archery skills made them more lethal than the US Army, until the revolver was invented. Before the revolver, firing on horseback was a non-starter because reloading was almost impossible; a Commanche could fire dozens of arrows in the time it took one reload. I read about this in the book "Empire of the Summer Moon" by S. C. Gwynne.
It is the only target demography that actually pays for tools.
Interesting that even in Apple's pictured fantasies (first picture), iphone doesn't have a camera bump.
There's a link to the documentation [0] right on the page. The documentation is very clear.

People should read their package manager's documentation for help using their package manager.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html
It’s more because of cost/energy savings due to air conditioning.

The issue is people switch to permamently closed windows, but „forget” to track co2, which causes a ton of issues with office work.
I'm genuinely curious about this and would like to use Google search less than I do now...

Would you mind sharing a few tips (or pointing me in the direction of some tips) for better DDG searches?

I love the concept and philosophy of DDG but the search results I get could definitely be better!
Thanks for the definitions =)...

I've not used emacs for python, but could give it a spin for this!

Bit unfortunate that you need to restart the process for re-evaluating classes though.
> has anyone had success with an Article 21 "right to object" request

Facebook breaches the GDPR when it comes to data subject access requests and appears to get away with it: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/ so Article 21 is likely to have the same outcome. Facebook (and other companies) also breach the GDPR with their non-compliant consent prompts (where you can't actually decline) when visiting their websites and also get away with it.
Ask yourself just what it is you think "meaning" might mean, and why you're so interested in it. What is the actual problem that you're hoping "meaning" will solve?

The answer is going to be a lengthy dialogue that's personal to you, but I'll give you a bit of a shortcut pointer: you're unhappy, and you want to be told a route that will make you happy in some long term. Acknowledge the unhappiness, and start to work on yourself.

Ideally you'd do that with a professional therapist, if possible, though finding the right therapist is a challenging task in itself. They're not there to give you answers, but to help you frame the question and encourage you to think seriously about it. It's easy to think you have, but instead just wear ruts in your existing thinking patterns.

So I've hopefully given you a new way to think about the question. Start there. Forget about "meaning"; it's a red herring. Ask yourself why you think that red herring is important, and maybe by looking sideways at the question you'll find some answers that are useful. Good luck.
Sure, it is a trade off and you misunderstand me if you think I'm attacking Apple because of some "be free or die" mentality. I'm not attacking anyone. I'm typing this on a Mac and actually own an iPhone, even if I use a HTC Desire instead. But that doesn't make caring about freedom "thoughtless spin". Using words like that doesn't do justice to a legitimate concern. Getting locked into a platform is a serious pain. I also don't agree with the idea that you can do pretty much whatever you want on Android as it comes pre-installed on your phone, which is how most regular people use their phones (just like the fact that they don't jailbreak their iPhones). That argument seems like the same black and white "free" vs. "draconian lock down" comparison that you disagree with.

Apple knows that mainstream consumers don't care about freedom, just like most citizens don't really care about limitations to their civil rights until it gets to the point where they are groped by the TSA on the airport (i.e. the "if you've got nothing to hide..." mentality). Living in a country like Singapore definitely has its benefits, just as closed computer platforms do. If you're not a power user your data usually doesn't matter that much, anyway, so losing it if you switch to another system doesn't seem like such a big deal when you're deciding about what product to buy. This is exactly the reason why people buy a new version of Microsoft Office every two years. To me, however, my data matters and I get frustrated when I can't synch my iPhone from my GNU/Linux box without jumping through all sorts of hoops. I might not be the typical user, but I still want free platforms to disrupt closed ones (note that disrupt doesn't mean that I don't want them to coexist; choice is good). Just like I want (old versions of) Internet Explorer to die in favor of more open alternatives.

Just to clarify: this is not a black and white position and I don't have anything against Apple, or even Microsoft (in fact, I think Microsoft is more open than Apple these days). My main point was that having more features doesn't make or break a product, but that being said the side-note about freedom was a serious concern that I deeply care about when it comes to investing time and data into a platform.
You need to put in 1000-hours of hard work on a new project to begin seeing meaningful returns.

Gladwell based his quotable theory on some research, and it wasn't a new idea.

In terms of a thousand hours to viable product, there are just far too many examples of products that have become successful in less time for it to be a theory. eg.

* first version of Facebook was ~2 weeks of code

* chatroulette

* Inviteshare - built in 24 hours and sold to Techcrunch the next day

* First version of Crunchbase we built in 48 hours

* all the 24 hour hackathons that have released products

* you can pull together various bits of open source software with some glue and a stock template and have a product in 24 hours

There are heaps of other examples of products launched with 10-200 hours of work that became hits, I am sure others can suggest more.

While you may have come to this conclusion by looking at your own two examples, it definitely does not apply across a broader spectrum.
That's interesting. Does this mean that Android actually costs as much as WP7 for a manufacturer?
Microsoft: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html
Only thing that could have made this better would have been: "I'm as mad as hell..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q
I'm torn. Sharing this with coworkers would help them boost productivity, but I'd have to hear them talk to themselves all the time.
Hah, just like in that Black Mirror episode, where the main character avoids interacting with the waiter with a 3.x rating for fear of being judged by others as someone of lower status (score).

Alain de Botton has an illuminating documentary about status (2h30m version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MqJPHxy6g, 5m version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iipn6yM43sM)
I was in London recently. I took Uber 15 times in 2 weeks. I never had a single issue. The only problem I had is that the culture in London appears to be to give 4s as default instead of 5s. Other than that I felt it was better than SF Bay Area.
Unreadable on mobile due to all the tracking.
People claiming that their ideas about those areas are "truths" can lead to a lot of downvotes, yes. Those people then claim that others are "suppressing the truth". They never seem to even consider the idea that their "truths" may in fact be mistaken.
In our coworking space in Orange County, CA we had a guy come in for an app pitch fest with an app for dating for Mercedes Benz owners.

The idea was that the app would be for men -- only men -- who own Benzes, and for female users it would show men in Benzes within a certain number of miles.

Between drags off a bottle of beer (and while thoroughly drunk) he fielded a question from one of the attendees: "what sort of profile does the user create?"

"Profile? He's driving a Mercedes!" (big drag off beer)

I'm on the fence about whether the whole thing was a joke but he apparently did prototype the app, and given the nature of the current timeline I have completely lost the ability to tell the difference between jokes, trolls, satire, and reality. Other attendees were similarly on the fence about seriousness.
Yes, everything is going to happen in 2012.
Couldn't agree more. Number one thing is show them how its valuable to them. Make sure your pitch answers the question: Is it worth their time?
Depends: when you "tinker with lots of things" you may end up connecting them in nontrivial ways, which is a win. But deep diving is the more usual path, I think.
Indeed! This company seems to be gettin' a bit too big for its britches! Somebody oughta knock 'er down a peg or two!
Nah, you can use EC2 for uptime-critical apps, you just have to a) not be a dipshit and b) stick your stuff in as many AZs as you can, and ELB it.
that's full of "citation needed" and "which economists?"
Is GitHub turning into an operating system?
I'm not sure whether you're arguing the state was "oppressive" because it had the temerity to put in place a policy of investigating people that set off explosive detectors, or because they weren't competent enough to establish his innocence within minutes, but I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree on both counts

Minimal security theatre isn't oppression, and neither is bungling for five hours.

Let's put things into perspective here. The Syrian government gasses its people largely indiscriminately. The Egyptian government shoots those guilty of the crime of public protest. This guy was, based on reasonable suspicion... asked more questions than competent interrogators would have bothered with and left rather thirsty and ticketless at the end.
Sooo... if perfect isn't possible, and shipped is better than perfect, does that mean you never ship?
Rail has the advantage that they can just shut down commerce across the country for a few days if the government does anything they don't like, and they have the balls to do it.
Thanks, now I feel I have done something useful posting here. (I have never bought any CS book or chip in any money to any project).
Nice piece, was talking to a friend about this yesterday, particularly regarding online community. Our conjecture ended up being that communities don’t scale, which is why Twitter fails, and Facebook too with the exception of groups, which often seem to work well. We were riffing around the communities we’d belonged to that really had a sense of “belonging” attached to them, and the common thread was that smaller sized groups seemed more likely to “work”, and certainly remained more sensible and civilised.

HN is one of the few large online communities I know that still remains really civil, however I don’t ever feel like I “know” anyone on here, which I think is about the specifics of the UI - you don’t follow people, you follow ideas.

All of this reminds of of Derek Powazec’s book which is easily the best one I’ve read on fostering and growing online communities: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Community-Derek-Powazek/dp/073...

What particularly resonated in the article was where he mentions how a group needs an individual or a few individuals to push it along, as a sort of binding, driving element. This is absolutely my experience, both in running tech meet-ups and barcamps but also in online groups too.
Sorry if i am being dense but you got me confused.
It makes sense to add 2 rgb vectors from a perceptional standpoint: you add a red color on a green color you get a yellow. It also makes sense from a physical standpoint: the resulting frequency spectrum will have peaks near both red and green, thus what we perceive as yellow. If instead you mean that "red" is not a physical quantity, i totally agree, it's just a name for a range of frequencies.

It seems to me in computer graphics you also have to deal with other color problems such as light dispersion, the blue shift due to light scattering in the atmosphere, maybe even doppler effects :), but it's still valid to combine colors linearly for short distances, for example a green and yellow lightbulb would look yellow from a reasonably far distance.

In the example you give below, RGB 128 can be considered halfway between black and white, just not in terms of frequency, but in terms of freq. distribution (also, RGB is a 3dimensional space). As for the earthquakes, you 're right, the amplitude of the resulting wave would be the product of the original waves. Sorry for the rambling, i think it's a fun subject.
Boy do I wish there was a place to discuss politics in a dispassionate way. I find these events fascinating from a historical and sociological point of view. It really is history in the making.

HN is pretty good at this when it comes to other topics, when when it turns political, everyone pulls out their partisan membership card.
I was curious too so I Googled it. Looks like it's true:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/A-modern-smartphone-or-a-vint...

You'd still need the right chess AI running on it but smartphones today are more powerful than Deep Blue, apparently.
Sounds... revolutionary.
And what does the signal look like if you tune a TV to that channel? Is it possible to fabricate a signal that shows up as a recognizable image?
<3 <3 <3 keepass. It has clients for Linux, Windows and OS X, not to mention many smartphones (stick to the 1.x version for this.) This, along with dropbox makes for an awesome way to keep track of passwords securely.
Alexis is truly awesome. I'm sure he will be a huge help for CondeNast
I wonder how that happened. Sounds very Jobsian... Very cool, glad to hear it.
All buying involve the counterpart selling. How can you buy something that isn't sold?
In response to question #1. I've conducted some similar benchmarking across all instance sizes and using both ephemeral and EBS with and without Raid. EBS is notably faster on larger instances. We observed roughly 2.5-3X better IO with EBS backed m2 instances compared to c1.medium. Using ephemeral Raid 0 on the cc1.4xlarge was about 6x faster.

http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/06/disk-io-benchmarking-in...
http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2011/04/unofficial-ec2-outage-p...
> Linus would probably be more productive in LISP

...

> he outcompetes everyone by superior design, by pragmatism and by being a good team-leader.

On their face, these statements seem contradictory, don't they? How is it pragmatic to turn down a tool that yields better productivity?
Fuel to that fire:
"Nielsen: Consumer Desire for Android Grows (unlike iOS and Blackberry"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/26/nielsen-consumer-desire-for...