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What about nature, ecology, biodiversity? What about third world societies? Natural disasters, immigration, gentrification, violence, crime? I imagine the author as living in a big city, working in tech, living the connected life, but seriously, this kind of "future" is to me rather narrow-minded.
Got tinnitus about 3 years ago, eventually was able to link it to bad posture. I've been staring at laptop screens for 15 years, and now at cell phones in addition. My head was looking down most of the time, and then I realized it wasn't balanced even when normal walking through the streets. Add a challenging life period (young family) and voilà.

i read a book about pain at some point that contained a good analogy: imagine holding a melon with one hand, arm upright. Now bend the hand forward, and try to hold this for several hours.

Of course we wouldn't be able for more than a few minutes. The analogy of course being the melon as the head and the arm being the spine. It makes you realize how much muscle work is necessary to keep the head bent forward.
In my case the tension went from my neck to the jaw, and the jawbone pressing on the region close to the ear.
I first needed to relearn walking like a child, with the head being balanced on top of its center of gravity - one can feel a pretty remarkable effect of tension relief on the neck. Then relearn to keep the jaw relaxed. Then adjust work habits, spend more time walking, less staring down at phone screens. Takes a while.

This morning I woke up with no tinnitus at all. It sometimes comes back, but then I know what to do.

Some evidence here: http://de.slideshare.net/mobile/TinnitusResearch/somatosenso...
Yes, I think from a technical perspective and marketing view it blends with their strategic business model.
i have zen mind beginners mind on my phone, read through it time to time, its a good book.

http://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/ZMBM-Lectures.html
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Fuck your web fonts. Seriously, just fuck them to hell.

I've been online since long before the World Wide Web was a thing, and I've watched the evolution of Web design from TBL's first proposals, through background wallpapers, animated flames, multicoloured layouts, spacing pixels and table-based layouts through to the saviours that were supposed to be CSS and AJAX.

It's all been a terrible mistake.

I'm leaning to a model in which a standard set of templates exist: article page, index, gallary, catalog, search -- and the client has a set of standard (or custom) templates to view them with. Client overrides server and author.

Yes, this means putting all but three Web designers in the world out of work. Couldn't happen soon enough.

A recent discovery of mine was that the combination of uMatrix and Stylish is fantastic. As the first blocks by default all CSS, fonts, and JS, I'm given a blank canvas from which I can apply my own preferred stylings (look up Edward Morbius's motherfucking Web page for a general taste).
https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/GwGDOuSqWn91CRkQBUQeYQ

Before this it was a stable of over 1800 local stylesheets, most quite brief and/or standard, to fix common gripes.

And it's not just me. A visually disabled friend, totally blind in one eye, 20/60 vision at best with correction in the other, and generally not particularly computer literate, has endless frustrations with gimmicky websites with all the usual crap: low contrast, tiny font sizes, hard-to-read fonts, poor colour choices, content which re-renders multiple times,etc.

I just spent an hour at the local Apple store exploring various accessibility options. While there are some for Mac and iOS products, they're terribly insufficient. No way to globally set user font sizes. No way to make "reader mode" the default for either Safari or Firefox. No alternative to mouse and icon interactions in far too many cases.

And that's just the OS. The Web as a whole is many times worse.

Readability Mode for the entire Web, with a small header space for branding, would be a huge improvement over the status quo.
At company I work at we've got an application or two that have Erlang backend and a RoR frontend. It works pretty well IMO.
This. Personally, I like DB ` .md`. Edit/view from Editorial on iOS (or Byword) and BBEdit or Byword on the Mac. Or better, VIM from the CLI since that spins circles around any GUI. Markdown exports nicely to HTML 5 for web projects too.
I've come to see ego as just another evolutionary mechanism that can on occasion misfire due to the complexities of modern civilization. It's a mechanism (IMO) in gregarious species meant to maintain or enhance a member's status in the pack/tribe/group, since that status affords survival advantages.

But a lot of the times when ego is triggered today have nothing to do with survival advantages or success. Identifying this fact in itself is a first step to quieting down the ego. Identifying a feeling as not valid (just because a feeling is 'natural' doesn't automatically make it valid) can take away a lot of the justification to perpetuate it.
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Your list omits the valid reason why it stopped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640
Who says they lived a happy life? Who says they wouldn't have lived a happy life otherwise?

We don't know that. All we know is that the drug made them become obsessed with something irrational.

Would you take something like that? Would you want something like that to become widespread? Do you want a society that is far more religious and devoted to their religion?
I'd love that as an animated android background.
Alexei Kitaev's original paper in 1997 which started the field, and the overview by Freedman, Kitaev, et at. 2008 are a good start.
Couldn't a Soviet international passport contain the names of parents as well? I am sure the domestic passport had that information.

For everyone in Soviet Union near the major population centers, a domestic passport was necessary. And for instance any "enemy of the people" (as defined by section §58 of Soviet penal code) status was recorded in not only the passport of the said enemy, but also his/her children's passports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_...
An 'Anti-social network', so to speak. I too, have thought of this before. The main feature, I suppose, would be that interactions revolve around smaller groups.
Call me narrow minded if you like. The implications of such a drug are terrifying. Do you want a society that is far more religious? Where people are completely devoted to their religions and actually believe in them?

And on a personal level, would you want to take such a drug? Knowing it can convince you of something irrational and change your entire life path for the worse?
It's definitely not competitive with free yet but we'll get there :P

Google Apps is $60/yr ($70/yr including a domain) but is pretty much just Google Docs and Gmail.

Right now with Portal, for $96 a year you have your own secure and private place in the cloud to run stuff. A domain name, IP address, SSL certificate, SSD storage, and 4-8 VMs running apps from any developer (not just the few apps Google offers).

Medium is free but doesn't let you use your own domain name. Most blog services that do have custom domains with SSL charge more than $100 a year for this alone (and they don't run your blog in a private VM). On Portal, a blog is just another app and may require ~20% of your $8 / mo server plan.
Is it built on d3.js or cusotm charting tool?
Seems like a very minor problem.
It sounds like the risks of not using the medication properly weren't clearly communicated to her. "You'd better take it every day because it's important" doesn't count - people need to be able to make their own decisions about these things. The fact that she tried skipping doses as long as it didn't cause short term problems suggests nobody told her it was quietly doing irreversible damage.

I can imagine doing the same thing myself - and have often skipped prescription medicines. But if I'd been told the risks (not exaggerated unquantified risks) then I surely never would.
Why do you think there's a debate? Because they're in the interests of some people, and they're against the interests of others.

Once something is in someone's interest, they will always, always manage to dream up a moral justification for it.
Given the smugness of many meditation enthusiasts I would worry that meditation would only work to make my ego louder.
The ability to disable ME on GM45 was known for years. It's just that these guys didn't believe it and fought extra hard to rediscover it.

All options to disable ME (there are a few) on newer devices are totally impractical, if for nothing else, because it disables certain power management capabilities.

If you like to fry eggs on your laptop, that may be the way to go though.
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Well This is more an ethical problem. Yes, I agree I much rather sit in my car and go wherever I want. But the amoubt of energy required to do this (producing, operating and disposing of the car, and maintaining streets, managing accidents etc.) seems out of proportion, and can't possibly the right of every living person on a planet with 8-10 billion people. And you just have to look at European cities to see that transit can be the more convenient option when space for streets is limited. E.g. i'm living close to a soccer stadium that has no parking lot. Hard to imagine in the US. But the city is criss-crossed wirh subway lines, and it ishence often the fastest way to get to a destination. Then the argument for cars breaks down.
You aren't downloading jquery for every site that needs it, so long as they are using the same CDN and the same version of jquery. I wonder what the hit rate really is...
Probably MS will re-sign it with their certificate, like what Apple did in their app store.
The closest is Rockchip's RK3288 which is found on some Chromebooks.
Its GPU still relies on blobs, which is their main argument against it, but since that code isn't signed (unlike the ME firmware) at least it _can_ be replaced.

Somebody is working on "liberating" the firmware side of Asus Chromebook Flip (mostly work to make it useful for non-Chrome OS situations), and I guess volunteers are welcome for the GPU side. (some ARM Mali)
Looks like he's an employee at Pearson now, according to Linkedin.
Yeah, they stopped doing them regularly because the HN admins didn't think they added enough value. I tend to disagree and would love the resumption of this as a regular thread, but unless somebody changes their mind, it will probably continue to be shut down.
In a similar vein, I find it surreal to realize that Stalin's granddaughter is alive and well and living in Portland, Oregon [1].

[1]: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/portlan...
I agree. Also very US centric, what about the future outside the US in other Western countries?
I mostly agree with you. The web itself is wholly incorrectly designed, or should I say evolved incorrectly. Instead of generic content that gets modified to individual users preference, we have the inverse, every site has some special functionality/code and therefore needs a web designer. This is not only increasing complexity, but also cost. With generic web, anyone could make a web page, no coding required, and anyone could read it. You can see that there is actual demand for this, as there are emerging solutions out there that try to solve it. Unfortunately they are solving it the only way possible, by using the current web standards of building stuff on top of more stuff.
Another project with an awesome README by the same author: https://github.com/masak/ufo
You should check and try http://www.feedsapi.com !
Well, I wasn't aware of this. I will remove my post?
Sure, I give Google the benefit of the doubt in regard to user data collection on GF.

As for caching, mobile phones have very small caches and will reload fonts frequently, specially with the large variety of fonts available. And if the browser can cache font files it can also cache stylesheets with base64 encoded fonts, saving requests at the same time.
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Ha ha, Twitter just can't help but shoot themselves in the foot. Someone is getting paid a lot of money over there to make bad decisions! It's as if they never used their own product.
LOL! Quit bothering people.
The way the article lays out the history of sleep learning make it sound like there was a huge scientific misstep.

First, psychologists shows through experimentation that it works, then a neuro scientist show that our current understanding of the brain says that this should be impossible.

Instead of revising our brain-model, we throw out the experimental evidence. But why?
Thanks. You can also put base64 encoded fonts directly inside your stylesheets; works very well, just be careful choosing not too large fonts.
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From a marketing perspective, we kept getting really excited seeing screen resolutions rise and font rendering improve for our audience. Now designers can just design, not "for-web", which used to be a very restrictive medium compared to what could be achieved with a pixel editor.

We realize some strange folks somewhere are still running IE6, but they aren't the ones responding to our campaigns anyway.
Millions of people suffer from diabetes type 2 who didn't eat too much. Over-eating and weight gain are major factor, but so are genetics and other conditions.

By your logic we should stop funding HIV/AIDS research as well, spending hundreds of billions of dollars each year taking care of people who didn't use protection, at the expense of people who try to be responsible.
My 2cents: Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people" will always hold true. Additionally, many books on business relationships. One that comes to mind is, "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School." Fake it til you make it is a viable self help strategy. But truthfully, I think the best thing to do is to surround yourself with people who represent the values you want to imitate.
What? the first time you capture something it asks you explicitly if you want to upload it or disable the feature. You might have missed that.
"Despite reaching 150 million registered users this year, Evernote has been slow to develop the revenue side of its business and is grappling with departures and cost-cutting, according to interviews that Business Insider conducted with more than a half dozen current and former employees of the company."

How did that happen?

"But another former employee notes that the seemingly scattershot approach was not as random as it appeared. “Everything was done with intent,”"

The layoffs and appearance of releasing lots of products could also be explained by an upcoming IPO. VCs want the founders to diversify from a one shot pony and get lots of different revenue streams. I've seen this happen before.

Doesn't mean Evernote is a failure, won't IPO and succeed. Does hint at bad business decisions being made in converting users from free to money paying.
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Interesting. I want to make a point that questions the premise of the article. What is wrong if people dont have a quiet ego? What is wrong with the fact that humility is mentioned 43% less. Why is that automatically bad( I am not saying it is good either)? Values of a society change over period of time, many things that were acceptable behavior in the 1900s are not acceptable anymore. In the early 1900s black people were disenfranchised, there were no laws to protect same sex partners. I am sure many of you will agree that you dont miss those laws.

Again why do we want to demonize or characterize not having a quiet ego as less superior to having a quiet ego. I do think that if the non-quiet ego is bombastic and misleads people by stating not true statements, that can be a problem.
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Ads like magazine ads are fine.

Targeted ads and video and audio are not fine.

So, best to block 'em. The debate is which/who to block.
I was there. It was awful. The 2005 Grand Challenge was more like NASCAR; all 24 teams who got there (including ours) had something that basically worked. But 2004 was just pathetic. It was covered by the Comedy Channel.

Here's my post-mortem on the 2004 event.[1]

The CMU debacle was amusing. To prevent pre-planning, each team got the route, as a set of GPS waypoints, a few hours before the start. The CMU team's approach was that they'd obtained aerial photographs of the entire region, and had a semitrailer full of people and workstations to manually plan the route just before the event.

DARPA, however, had other plans. The event staff (mostly active-duty US Marines) had moved some obstacles around just before the event, to prevent exactly what CMU was trying. You can see the result in the link below, as the CMU vehicle plowed right into a solid sheet of corrugated steel. CMU was running that thing mostly blind.

[1] http://www.overbot.com/grandchallenge/note45.html
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I just tried out uMatrix and disabled all CSS.

Am I now expected to either write, or hunt down a stylesheet for every single host?

Without the CSS, the navigation sidebar just goes at the top, which makes most sites unusable.
Let's be honest. The things the article is talking about are largely a reflection of people's demands. The type of people who are looking for self help are clearly not looking for lessons in humility. There is a type of person who would experience problems in their life from not having enough humility. Maybe the number of these people who experience enough personal problems to seek self help has gone down. Perhaps this means that our society has actually become more humble, since there isn't a demand for the value anymore. Or maybe it means that people without humility simply don't experience as many problems anymore? Or maybe a lack of humility would prevent you from seeking self help in the first place. You see these statistics could go many ways depending on how you want to interpret them.
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The reason you see a lot of opinion pieces against ad blocking in mainstream press and blogs is because their main income stream comes digital advertising and either changing business model to paid content or negating ad blocking will take a lot of effort and expense.

There's literally hundreds of thousands of people in the journalism and ad industry who's ability to put bread on the table is put at risk and Apple's support for ad blocking threatens to tips the scale of blocking use. Naturally there is every incentive to expend journalistic and PR efforts to protect their income stream. Much like the music industry did in Napster days before iTunes.

It has very little to do with rights and morals and the like. I'd be surprised if most of the tech savvy writers writing these pieces don't use ad blocking themselves personally.

1. http://www.statista.com/statistics/237974/online-advertising...
Would probably turn into another Ashley Madison scam lol.
I recently purchased Dropshare[0] when it was on 'special' for $0.99 on the App store. This is more targeted at being able to send the screenshots to your own server (via scp) but has screenshot and video recording support.

Though, I imagine you could easily achieve the basic functionality by writing a quick script to run the cmd line 'screencapture' and tying it to a hot key combo.
Some nice material for a sci-fi novel you've got there :)

To answer your question: I want to live in a world where humans continue to evolve, yes. I don't want to live in a world where armchair philosophers and do-gooders decide what's best and "proper" for everybody. Their predictions always fall flat in the face of reality's complexity.

Not that there's much risk of them succeeding... nature has built-in ways of bypassing (outcompeting) such regulatory efforts, sooner or later. Still, in my region (eastern Europe, communism) it took a few decades... and their aftermaths are still palpable.
Yeah don't get me wrong, this wasn't some blog spam about "why I don't use Rails".

In fact I recommend it for a lot of cases. Problems that were solved years ago in Rails, like sane and default CSRF protection, are showing up in newly written PHP7 and Node applications that I'm seeing, because the things that Rails does are generally there for your own good.

I'm also aware it's not a direct comparison because Rails actually had an edge as far as its codebase.

The point I believe we can still take away from the original comment is - Cowboy is fast.

I'm very much looking forward to v2, the way it handles parameters is a much more natural fit imo.
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Self driving vehicles will not show up overnight. The road to 100% penetration will be a long one, with many intermediate steps. I'd say as low as ~20 but as high as 75 year time frame.
HN has a Xerox machine effect and I'd guess a copy machine or two will be silenced by this post. Not so much the revenue numbers as the comments about copycats.
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I just wrote this about how we're handling ad blocking with our news recommendation engine startup and the iOS version of our news app:
https://medium.com/@declanm/the-right-way-to-block-ads-on-ne...

TLDR: We're enabling reader view, but not by default.

In terms of the linked article's prediction--"disable/enforce the removal of ad blockers is...futile"--I don't think that's the case. There already are ad-blocker-blockers and probably ad-blocker-blockers soon too, if they don't already exist. This arms race is only now starting in earnest.

One possibility is you'll see news organizations rely more on sponsored content for revenue, with disclaimers about sponsorship only in the fine print. Offhand I believe Wired, Buzzfeed, VentureBeat, TechRadar, ReadWriteWeb, and Android Authority run sponsored content already; even The Atlantic did, though there was a fuss about it.

More broadly, think of it as a piracy problem: You probably don't care if <=5% of your potential customers pirate your product--they're probably the folks with the least disposable income anyway. Some people are probably still using lynx to read news articles (not that there's anything wrong with that). But you do care very, very much if ad blocking becomes sufficiently mainstream that 50% of your users are "pirates."
Hold on, was the framebuffer for the tuner used for input or output? I'm also very interested in being able to push pixels to the screen "manually".
This. What mattered from the standpoint of US decision making wasn't what the Germans were actually doing, but rather what the US leadership thought the Germans were doing.
The reduction of 'humility'/'humbleness' was across a broad sample of books, not only the self-help section, and was part of a broader study [1] describing the down-trend in many words associated with virtue.

You can indeed interpret these statistics in many ways, but you first need to know the statistics.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254336923_The_cultu...
The article doesn't demonize anyone, or say anyone is "automatically bad". Nor did the author suggest that people should avoid change. In fact, he's proposing an alternative view, not a traditional view.

He's also not making statements about the superiority of anyone. I think he's trying to encourage less focus on superiority in the first place.

What's really bothering you about this article? You seem really frustrated.