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Eleven arguments, Microsoft. Please find somebody sane to write your APIs.
I go to Linkedin to find a job, not a gig. I don't know if it's possible to do a good job with both, it seems like opposing goals.
That would be communism, and we can't have that.

The reason why the USA uses the military as a jobs program is that it's the only thing that gets bipartisan support.
It's speculated on by everyone, yourself included. How can you not define people who hold or spend or trade bitcoin as users?
Canada (34.7) has more guns per capita than CH:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

Lower firearm deaths as well (2.64 vs 1.94):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
Maybe stopping to live with the browsers that we have for a while wouldn't be the end of the world?

You're right that free software development isn't free, but these browsers already exist, and are already free, and for the most part, they work. CVEs can be found and fixed without corporate backing.

Instead, we're rushing to pour more and more stuff into the cesspool. WebUSB and WebBluetooth are not things that I particularly need or want. Part of this is Google's fault. They're currently on top, and if they unilaterally decide to add something, everyone else needs to either implement it or die. I mean, I still think they should fucking stop, but obviously they won't, and I don't have a good answer to this.
>The guns stored in homes as part of military service, are stored without ammunition

This is only partially true. The military allows them to keep the rifle but does not issue them ammo to take home. However, ammo is readily available most anywhere and perfectly legal to have.
Rukab’s is in Ramallah, in the West Bank. It looks tasty, and stretches like taffy.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/08/438473615/go...
Or the B-29. That was arguably one of the most sophisticated (and expensive) aircraft of the war.
Why trust the employer can judge talent?
As a layman, I don't. But there are certain forensics you can do to be more certain. (Or at least be certain that it's a good `shop.) See eg https://superuser.com/questions/442352/detect-if-a-photo-has...
That explains why I was so confused at "GNU Emacs is based on a principle called “What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG)".
> Safety used to mean gold, US treasuries, and blue chip stocks. Now it means Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.

Hahaha, OK folks Wilson just called the top of the bubble right here.
If you want to get started with something like ElasticSearch it helps having large dataset to play with. Using your gmail/mail archive gives you plenty of weirdly shaped data to have fun with.

I don't think this has much to do with the search in gmail not being sufficient or broken.
More than 1bn for a single photo? I say bubble.
It still seems a good first guess for Fortran code, at least, e.g. worth ~10% compiling reference BLAS and the double precision linpack benchmark with gfortran on Sandybridge.
How is the fact that Chinese businesses want the chinese people to think that they're american businesses a proof that china is on the rise?

All it shows, is that China thinks the west is better. A point in time of china's opinion, not even a view of a changing opinion.
I wonder if it's the dissonance & unpredictability of this noise that contributes to the sleep impairment. Or if it's the duration of the sounds throughout the sleep period.

I make this assumption because music is known to aid sleep:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4228707.stm
In 2002 a good friend of mine moved to Shanghai after graduating from college to do an internship for a chinese carpet company.

In his first month there he'd given a speech - in English - to 500 of China's most influential carpet executives, all of whom clearly knew more about the carpet business than he did. His boss played translator.

I thought it was ridiculous, but clearly there's a worthwhile return on investment or the practice wouldn't still be happening.
Interesting article, though I think the rationale (find an algorithmic engine to identify quality content) a bit forced. Solving that problem seems similar to building an AI capable of interpreting what a human being would think. Far simpler is to use ratings people already have (book reviews, links to sources they like, forum discussions, up/down votes, etc.) and highlight those.

For example, you could look at the top 100 hacker news links each month and get a large amount of insight/interesting stories/. I think people enjoy browsing, discovering and voting -- I'm not sure I'd really want a machine that just gave me the most interesting links (hn services as that, with the added gem of perhaps discovering something off the beaten path).

I did like the part about focusing on insight, and calling that out as a specific trait. I find that is one of the few transferrable skills -- facts, while interesting, are fragile; ways of thinking about the world can be more permanent.
Actually anecdotes are evidence. They don't prove correlation or causation in themselves but they are evidence. Also none of your "extensively researched" evidence proves causation. At best you can point to correlation. What I'm saying is that hard work and intelligent choices have far more of an effect on your life than "a degree". Unfortunately those types of things aren't easily compilable. Universities are selling a solution to a self created and self perpetuating problem. When everyone has a masters the answer will be to get a phd and when everyone has a phd a new degree with be made. In 100 years you can expect baskin robins university with 31 degrees. I don't doubt that education is valuable but you can get it much cheaper than by going to university.

Would you be skeptical of "research" from the cigarette manufacturers that said tobacco is good for you and that tailor mades are the best way to get it? Color me unconvinced that more schooling is the answer.

It could well be that a degree is the best way to spend a half million dollars but I don't think it is.
I don't think the UI issue of knowing whether a web application can be locally installed is a small oner no. It is in fact a huge one, especially in the light of most users not being aware this concept is even possible. It's also not very technical at all.

And the issue of update is also an important one, users have been taught that new versions just happen without having to do anything, it's vital that local web applications behave correctly for that as well.

> It doesn't really matter if you know its "online" or "offline"

I don't think I said anything about on/off line, did I?

> It would be my intuition to say its more important to get a prototype working

What prototypes? Local web applications work right now on all three modern, webkit-based mobile platforms. The problem is very much the first one I pointed out, namely how does the user know that he can install a web application.
Every company do early adopter pricing, sometimes they announce it as such, sometimes they don't. I don't know if telling it is better, but at the beginning you really need to have some feedback about your product, and your first customers may have to put up with initial troubles, so this is fair.

My opinion is that if the paiement is a one time fee, it doesn't matter, but if this is recurrent you should tell people before, otherwise you'll get a revolution when you increase the price like zendesk ...
Who would have thought that...

Earplugs ftw or pay double the rent.
I am not sure I understand what you mean by these "models" of corporations. You believe that some corporations organize their actions to try to help... everyone? And others organize their actions to try to hurt... everyone? And you decide what category to put what corporation in?
As a European I've always found it strange just how deeply uncomfortable Americans seem to be with nudity. How is public breastfeeding a problem? Like just let it happen? Or try to imagine running a public naked sauna ... Or how some movies require a special cut for the US market (to remove some "inappropriate" scenes).
> Then in the 2016 election the NYT had a front page spread implying major scandal regarding Clinton’s emails. This probably cost Clinton the election.

I didn't realize James Comey worked at the Times.
Yep that looks like the one. I suppose it's good that it was eventually released even in a very limited capacity.
Note that the WHO has very similar problems to the International Red Cross: if they don't play by the rules of the governments in question, they get kicked out and can't do anything. Something is better than nothing, right?

On the other hand, the WHO after the pandemic had clearly emerged continued to appear biased, seriously damaging its reputation.
But now you have 1 trillion dollars so my money is deflated at your whim to use it
I can't figure this out either. Is the internet now dead?
Even better is to scan and pitch what you can during the scan, then file what's left. Scanning for computer search is awesome.
That is excellent advise and we are really doing that (to the best of our abilities :); on HN I just want to be honest that then people talk for a while they push through that onto the tech and then they get slightly lost. So the part between 'this is for the millions of app developers' (tech without saying it) and 'compiling against a library' (tech and saying it) is where it gets a bit hairy.
Someone made a comment a while ago "The only way to capture your economic value is to put it on the market as a business" and I think they are spot on. The mindset of dealing with people/employees and dealing with businesses seems completely different.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8357471
Indeed, but that route requires forking GNU Emacs and earning RMS's eternal hostility, along with his fanbois and girls. Which I can attest is no fun (I worked for UniPress on the EMACS that he illicitly forked GNU Emacs from, I went from a LMI Lisp Machine ally, and later roommate when he started GNU, to a "Software Hoarder" (note UniPress shipped their Emacs with undistributeble source)). It's a very big thing to split one or more communities like that, a potentially fatal thing, and this discussion has brought out that GNU Emacs is already losing a lot of mind share in the otherwise sort of natural for it C and C++ communities.

One problem here is that RMS is not a C++ programmer (not an entirely unwise decision!), the languages he programs in, to the extent he does anymore, don't require this sort of thing, and apparently doesn't appreciate how this is a deal breaker for modern C++ programming. Or doesn't care, and how that's decreasing GCC mindshare as well.

Because of this policy with GCC, 99.999% plus of the the academic mind share is with LLVM, and the only thing keeping it from taking over is it's relative paucity of backends.
I'm pretty sure no one is working hard to fix that right now because GCC does, and for many many more backends, especially solidly.

We'll really know things are at a tipping point when LLVM starts to acquire a bunch of solid back ends. I will personally count it as all over if/when Atmel AVR 8 bit is supported.
Upvoted because it's in interesting idea. But man, you're crazy :)
In vim, when you have the same file open in different windows any changes immediately appear in the other window. They are the same buffer, there are just two windows to it.

You can see this by opening a file, and hitting "<Ctrl-W> <Ctrl-S>" to split the window. Do some editing and you'll see it in both places. ":ls" will show only one buffer. And if you have display of the buffer state visible, when you ":w" all the windows will update to say they were saved.
Disagree for me. Recognized it as the Declaration of Independence pretty easily. I will say, however, the second and subsequent lines were harder to read without the white space above.
I did want to have some luck with women. Instead, women now have luck with me.
Note that the S-1 for Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust linked by the parent describes the forthcoming ETF and not the Gemini exchange.
Can we please stop abusing the term "bubble" in the context of higher education? Not every economic adjustment is the result of a bubble. When Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy, it wasn't because there was a bubble in the DVD market. If higher education is overpriced, people will stop buying. When they do, none of the people who did buy in will be any worse off than they were before. It's a completely different situation than the mortgage crisis, where the bursting of the bubble put everyone in a worse economic position.
My biggest pain is when you select an account on the side and it marks the first email as read.

I only want the email marked read once I click on it.
Since they've just released a new client, and people always eagerly scan the plist's looking for nuggets of information, I think it's safe to assume that it won't be anything client related (sorry, no WiFi syncing or cloud storage). So it's almost certainly Store related.

It's interesting that Japan get a clock (no Australia, which is a bigger market). Just last week Japan got the ability to purchase & rent movies, and that this announcement comes so soon after is probably not a coincidence. So something with the store, and something to do with movies.

Making this big a deal of an announcement, so close to the holiday season, makes me think that it's also something that is intended to give people a reason to buy Apple hardware.

Side note: Back when AppleTV2 was unveiled, Jobs said that you would be able to rent movies "day and date" with DVD releases. That hasn't been true to this point - embarrassingly Iron Man 2 which he demonstrated on stage wasn't available for rental until the DVD had been out for some time.

So I'm going to go with better movie rentals - earlier availability (perhaps much earlier, for a premium), possibly bundled movies, possibly the removal of the stupid contractual stuff where some movies become unrentable due to TV deals and hampers the library.

I'm sure Apple would love to give lots of families a reason to buy themselves an Apple TV's for Christmas this year, particularly with Boxee/Google now pushing into that market.
I think most education is not wasted - your example is not unheard of, but relatively uncommon. I think most people would complain about tax dollars paying for useless "arts majors". I think it is in general always better for society to have more highly educated populace, and it is no good to look down our noses at anything that isn't math, engineering, and science.
From the author's tone, it seemed clear to me that this was a case of him having an axe to grind rather than being actually stymied by a serious deficiency. Not particularly constructive.
If it's curiosity, and this stuff makes you curious, then you're wasting your time doing anything else.

Have fun!
We pay people all the time for sharing the benefit of their learning experiences, why is failure any different?

If I'm entering a particular industry, it may be worth real money to me to hear the details of someone's failed startup in that industry.
I would like to bet on proposition 3 but damn I don't have that kind of money!
Yup, literature, literature, literature will pay off hugely later in his life, endless math books will lead to frustration!
Making vague but supportive comments on HN.
This is great! I wonder if Google will prohibit access to Google Maps tiles in the future for working around Google Play requirement?
I certainly already agreed that Rails' architecture is bad (though the reason that it has this problem is its memory usage, and not any of the other reasons you mention). Herokus architecture is bad as well. It's the combination of these that causes the problem. But that does not mean that it's impossible, or even hard, to solve the problem at Herokus end.

> I'm not sure there are such providers, and if there aren't, I think it's safe to point the finger towards Rails.

This is not sound logic. I described above two methods for solving the problem: (1) increase the memory per Dyno (see below: they're doing this, going from 512MB to 1GB per Dyno IIRC, which although still low will be a great improvement if that means that your app can now run 2 concurrent processes per Dyno instead of 1), or (2) do intelligent routing for small groups of Dynos. Do you understand the problem with random routing, and why either of these two would solve it? If not you might find the paper I linked to previously very interesting:

"To motivate this survey, we begin with a simple problem that demonstrates a powerful fundamental idea. Suppose that n balls are thrown into n bins, with each ball choosing a bin independently and uniformly at random. Then the maximum load, or the largest number of balls in any bin, is approximately log n / log log n with high probability. Now suppose instead that the balls are placed sequentially, and each ball is placed in the least loaded of d >= 2 bins chosen independently and uniformly at random. Azar, Broder, Karlin, and Upfal showed that in this case, the maximum load is log log n / log d + Θ(1) with high probability [ABKU99].

The important implication of this result is that even a small amount of choice can lead to drastically different results in load balancing. Indeed, having just two random choices (i.e., d = 2) yields a large reduction in the maximum load over having one choice, while each additional choice beyond two decreases the maximum load by just a constant factor."

-- http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook20...
Can I get an invite? chandrew@utexas.edu
I'm strongly influenced by stoicism and enlightenment-era deism. I think that God exists, wants us to be decent to each other, and never interacts with the universe. The primary purpose of life is to develop internal strength and character. Or as Paul Graham once wrote, "What matters is what you make of yourself." The other things in life are great too, but they're outside of your control, and so they should never be the main goal of existence.
> Most intellectual property takes the form of time invested rather than a monetary investment ...

Certainly that's true in the case of some Web-based businesses. It is assuredly not the case in medicine, energy, pharmaceuticals, etc.

And even if it were true in general, the people who are investing their time -- sometimes for months and even years -- have to put food on the table, pay the light bills, buy shoes for the kids, etc. Forcing everyone with an idea into the starving-artist mode is a good way to discourage people from pursuing their ideas.

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> Copyright infringement in any particular case could only be shown to have an economic effect if you can actually prove that a sale would have been made and as far as I know that is not possible without visiting alternative universes. You can make a statement to that effect by observing aggregates but you'll never be sure of it.

Society makes a lot of decisions by observing aggregates. We require kids to go to school through age 16, even though we'll never be sure that any given kid wouldn't do better by dropping out and going to work at age 14.
> All of these are obvious limitations upon others.

Meaningless if not enforced.

> Yes, they require people to enforce them

Exactly the point.

> but the net result is less action, not more.

Irrelevant distinction.

> Providing internet access or clean water is adding something not previously inherent to the system

Who cares, I said nothing about any of that.

> I'm surprised that this difference need be pointed out.

If you paid attention to what I said, you'd be surprised you're bothering to point it out since I didn't say anything about it.

> As a side note, anybody that avoids jury duty or regrets the necessity of safeguarding a fellow citizen's rights should be ashamed and spend some serious time in reflection on why we conduct jury trials.

Agreed.
You can't have a basic human right if someone else has to be involved for that something to happen.
that sums about the "trick" i used in 97-98 over "tin cans and string" Russian links of the time to make sure that my large data would make it. It was really hard on my "neighbors" at the time.
How much Wifi setup could you do with even $150K , which is the cost of just getting started (1st stage) with this satellite setup?

Figure a very tall tower for $50K, then smaller 75 foot guyed towers at $5k each. Decent Wifi-band outdoor equipment is less than $1k per end including all wiring. Add a small generator and battery backup (even solar panels) at each location - you are talking far less than 300W (0.3kW) needed to run each tower.

So if you found a number of towns/cities you could serve, you could place the tall tower in the center with the small towers at each town. Now all you need is some form of Internet at the big tower to feed everyone else.
Thanks mikrl, just applied on the website1
No nannies = less children born.

Which is easy to figure out once you realize how outdated marriage has become in the West. Everything is done for the money, kids are an afterthought.
FWIW, it didn’t come off as a personal attack to me.

On the other hand, it did seem to oversimplify and intentionally misinterpret the comment for the purpose of a shallow gag or unimportant edge case.

It would be great if HN was a place for deeper commentary. There are other places on the Internet for the caliber of commentary that fits in the duration of a session of potty training. It would probably be better if we worked to maintain some of what made HN different: substantial comments based around ideas without sarcasm or insults.

Just one poster’s opinion…
How much has the egg changed?

And how were the chicken and egg 1000 years ago?
Wow, I am so surprised to see this - I came upon an earlier version of this deck 10+ years ago, and it's one of a very small number of things I've held onto and made a point to re-read every couple of years. Very cool to see there's an updated version of it!
OK, I was thinking more of summaries of summaries of university news portal announcements on tech sites (which this one is not). I am not against academic publications, scientists should definitely be acquainted with what is happening in their field.
The answer is deeper still. Remove charge backs so the credit card companies become "dumb" utilities rather than some sort of service that can provide "value add". I actually don't know why it's even a genuine thing other than it's digital so "you can". In every other realm we deal with this concept using courts, police and as plain old fraud.
Hiring contractors who are really employees is standard practice in the US also.
would the creative people be a part of the rigid hierarchies?
Every cyclist has their own preferences, but for me, a rear view mirror really helps. I still turn and look if I have to change lanes or something like that, but keeping an "inventory" of what's behind me really helps avoid unnecessary surprises.
Right then, does Netflix stream it's own content, which doesn't have the evil studio's restrictions, in other browsers?

Or does Netflix tout the need for "content protection"?

DRM is fantastic business for Netflix as it creates a nice barrier to entry for competitors.