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> What the fuck would make you write something like that?

Your own comment some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10623102

Why do you think that short-term middle-to-upper-class renters are preferable neighbours to medium-to-long-term lower-class renters? I saw your comment elsethread about ease of punishment, which makes some sense, but in my experience small landlords simply don't care.

Living above a pair of end-stage alcoholics who importuned people on the sidewalk and called the ambulance for health care every few weeks was far, far more annoying than the flophouse a few doors down. Then there was the poor family with 9 people in a two-bedroom unit, with a couple of teenagers who vandalised and may have been thieves as well (not that upper-class teenagers aren't hoodlums, of course: many of them are too). Then there was the prostitute with the shady clientele.

You appear to be opposed to short-term renters, but appear to applaud Section 8. Why the difference?
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Fallacy of relative privation. It's one of the stupidest arguments I've ever heard. The one advantage of this particular fallacy, is you always just give it right back:

> Who cares about underprivileged groups in the United States, when there are people in Africa that don't even have food.

The fact that things happen to other people does not diminish the things relevant to my life.
The Speed of Mobile Is Too Fast for the Internet of Things
Well, a lot of people on HN certainly comment on technology without immodesty and an air of authority. It does feel boorish to have someone say that out-loud though.
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> I have family that lives in Section 8 housing. They are a danger or annoyance to no one.

Neither are short-term hotel guests, but tptacek wants to reduce those while welcoming Section 8, which is logically inconsistent.
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You only need access to two symbols to be able to write an excellent password. But that doesn't mean it would be reasonable to, for example, restrict a password to only allow 1 and 0.
Don't know whether list comprehensions were tried. Refactoring suggestions could be considered, if they still capture the main point of the benchmark.

Most of the Julia standard library is implemented in Julia.
> The children's area is really nice, but poorly leveraged. No classes, no reading groups, no reason to come in. Stay at home parents WANT a reason to get out of the house, you offer a free reading group for small kids, the parents will buy the books after the group.

I think this is really important. Stay-at-home parents want to get out, and free things are always welcome. Have daily reads + arts and crafts (simple coloring sheets is probably enough) with a small discount on the book-of-the-day is probably enough. I don't think it would even cost the store that much to run.

Michael's and Home Depot do weekly parent-child activities, and those you have to pay for, and I love taking my kids to them. Much easier than trying to figure out something to do at home.

A local theater had a "cheap kids movies" thing during the summer, where they showed older kids' movies for a dollar or two. My wife took our kids to those, and it's a lot of fun, even if those movies we could have seen on Netflix at home. The theater is just different, and it's refreshing to leave the house.

Parents like these things, and (IMO) it probably brings your utilization of the store up, since during the middle of the weekday you're not going to get a lot of traffic.

Plus, as far as children's books go, physical books are way, way better than ebooks. I might even go as far to say that ebooks will never replace children's books.
> The more upscale malls in Houston

Yes, but for every Galleria or Woodlands Mall there's a number of malls like Greenspoint or Northwest, losing anchor stores and becoming very low quality. Even malls like Deerbrook, which while still containing mainstream stores and staying pretty busy, are very obviously becoming run down.
Wow, the current B&N CEO's resume reads like a hit list of terrible projects: Sears, Brookstone, Best Buy, Toys R Us. I'd be really curious to know the decision making that goes into hiring someone like that to run B&N. It's sad, because I really like B&N, and feel like there is a strategy to make it relevant in the changed reality - but a generic leader from "retail" with experience mostly in companies that have specifically failed to adapt is not going to get there.
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As the linked article says, it does vary with higher-end malls tending to be in better shape. This matches my personal experience. One local mall that counts a Penney's and a Sears among its primary anchors doesn't seem to be in great shape. But if I go into Boston, something like Copley Place seems to do just fine. The shopping malls across the border in NH also seem to be regularly packed but that's something of a special situation because of sales tax.
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Well, coming up with a cool new name creates new opportunities for quasi-viral articles. But officially, it's about the size of the fund, and the increasing number of funds in that size range.
In the past, I have found good lessons to be learned from James Altucher.
Rendering an Animation in Rust
Speak with tech support for other vendors enough, and the same picture emerges. As computers and software take on a greater utility role with more users, this is likely to be expected.

Steve Jobs' early instinct to deliver a walled garden experience to consumers was correct. My guess is we'll see a widening bifurcation of the market, where consumers go ever-deeper into a walled garden, while professionals/commercial purchasers pay much higher price points for more accessible, manipulable gear. Once the complexity of some commercial gear reaches a certain threshold of support costs however, I expect that gear will head towards black box, closed designs. Maturing the software we write so it tames the complexity and makes managing it fun/ego-engaging in some manner could go a long ways towards pushing back that trend (if it emerges in the way I think it will).
i wonder where he believes laws came from ...
Thanks, it is ambitious and introduces new features, but at the same time getting element queries working in IE8 requires a lot of polyfilling - keep in mind IE8 doesn't even natively support @media queries.

I think of it can be considered a polyfill and plugin at the same time, though it's quickly turning into a language extension for CSS with things unrelated to element queries that take advantage of the CSS scoping that the element queries plugin makes possible.

Check out some of the features possibly coming soon: https://github.com/eqcss/eqcss/issues/3
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In the UK we have "garden centres" that feel like an iteration on malls. They tend to target a particular demographic very well (older people) and sell various side lines that are very profitable (like gifts, clothing, toys, and books). The quality of the plants act as very good word of mouth marketing device that brings people in. They don't have to bother trying to appeal to everyone.
Providing basic necessities (food, transportation, non crowded offices, sick days, etc.) to make sure your employees are happy and productive seems to me like step 0 of any successful business venture.

Wut?

Providing employees with pay commensurate with the market and their abilities is step 0.

They can buy their own damn food.

Is this really the level of entitlement people have now? Because it's pretty impressive... I mean, why stop at just food and transportation? If employers need to provide "basic necessities" to be a "successful business venture", why not include dormitories? Free clothing? Healthcare services?
It's only your responsibility to later not gripe about the fact that showrooms no longer exist.
Left out the most crucial land reform. Shifting away from taxing improvements, and shifting towards taxing land by value.

We must stop encouraging people to enclose valuable land for idle speculative purposes. That land should be available at an affordable rate for those who actually want to make productive use of it.
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it is. humans are really bad at that.
The issue is that the Python code uses arbitrary precision while Julia code uses 64 bits. Python may be slower because of that. One way to get rid of this discrepancy is to compile with typed Cython, or with Numba, which is what I did. The other way would be to benchmark Julia with BigInt. Either way would be fair IMHO.
Your points are valid, no need for them to be blindly discredited. You obviously have real world experience.

The key here is your approaching the problem from a "here's what I think" standpoint and not a "based on the past 5 years of me doing this" standpoint.

Again, it boils down to no having learned, what you don't yet know.

More thoughts...

I do have to say, though, that integrating email features into software (not an email client) these days can be trivial. For example, Rails makes a lot of it trivial.

But that is a very poor litmus test.

The difference between that and a full blown, production level, narrowly focused, tailored towards a specific audience, solving problems that no-one else does email client... are worlds apart.

You have 2 choices today, third parties (Gmail API, JMAP, Nylas, etc...) or diving into a raw IMAP connections (as an example).

The former provides general purpose layers, abstracting the complexity (to some degree). The disadvantage being they are general purpose, features everyone has.

The latter provides the flexibility to create what has not yet been created. And/Or backfill what the general purpose solution lacks (typically a lot).

In general, your approach to software, products and an MVP is spot on. Obviously you have experience doing this.

The point that I, and others make, is that email does not fall cleanly into that same approach. Why? For all the reason already listed plus a TON more not listed.

This is where you are unwilling to be open minded, and as mentioned previously, it's a classic mistake seen many times before.
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I really liked Hotz until he went to work for the dark side (google's android security) and decided to make smartphones harder to root instead of easier.
native speaker here, you actually don't need the "是"(shi) in any of the statements. it sounds pretty awkward if you do and no one talks like that

good luck learning!
Another thing is that Firefox actually has a $ operator built in now, which is useful when the page does not even load jquery. (Chrome might have that as well?)
An astonishing amount of Julia is written in Julia.
That's a good point. But since you are going to implement X or Y, it is a good idea to take that opportunity for yourself to learn about X and Y.

So maybe investigate a bit about X and Y, and if you have some questions, or some blocking point, you go back to your tech lead and ask him.

'You know I have been looking at X, and I think we will have some issue to test it. (or deploy it/ maintain it/etc) How do you think we will handle that ? From what I understand using Y will solve that ? What do you think ?'

Knowing what to do is important, but often knowing what to NOT do (and why) is more crucial. If you are working with more senior people, try to learn as much as possible from them. By asking 'deeper' question, you'll learn something anyway.

But between the line, I understand that maybe your tech lead/architect do not really believe in teaching/increasing the knowledge of its team member. And obviously it is harder context to learn or challenge decision.
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In fact, a free market is dehumanizing because whether or not some entities participate in free market exchange has nothing to do with whether or not they are human. The concept of a free market only takes into account motivations to trade and subsequent evaluations, which has nothing to to with being human. Robots can engage in a free market with aliens. In a free market, your human attributes are set aside as irrelevant, except to the extent that being human gives you human-specific needs and desires that are relevant to the trade.
Any specifics on which congress-people are responsible for this?
Evernote had a developer conference. They wanted an ecosystem, and kind of had a platform. They bought sucessful apps.

Past tense! Much better/realistic parallel, than Facebook F8.
I've noticed in previous years that I have such a gait, and I have never had any sort of combat training. I always just assumed it was a result of wearing my wallet in my back, right pocket while I sat at work, which generally causes other imbalances in the spinal column.
It doesn't seem like you read her article. Or you don't understand the distinction between fine art and design.

Lisa is stating that art and design serve different functions. "Design needs to be functional" she sates. Art has different constraints and responsibilities.

The artist or designer should know their intention, and audience. They are producing a piece for either PS1 or the NYT.

Its not for the critic to work out the intentions of the artist / designer.
If the United States passed a "data protection" law like this at the federal level, how would state governments react? What rights do states have to enact their own regulations on data protection?

I expect we will see pushback from state governments against federal regulators over the next few years in regards to "cyberspace" legislation. States will enact different laws to attract businesses to their own jurisdictions.

Perhaps we will see the emergence of some "preferred states" for datacenter development and incorporation, just like we already see with, e.g. Delaware C-Corp regulations.
Creating 1 job is better than hundreds?
I talking about growing up poor and then working in tech - similar to parent comment.

Technology is reducing the cost of entry for increasing number of industries. YC and other communities are providing network. Working for a few years you can save up a lot.
That is just a semantics argument.
Most likely PS4 uses TrustZone implementation to operate with master key. AMD CPU's used in PS4 have smaller ARM CPU inside to support TrustZone. So you won't be able to simply dump keys from library or regular memory.
How to disrupt finance services
> the stupidly high price of Slack.

really? $7 per active user per month? How little do you pay your staff? At the median wage, save an average of 90 seconds a day per person through better communication and it pays for itself. And it's pretty likely any team members using slack are at a 2-10x salary multiplier on that, a $100K engineer only needs to save 24 seconds a day...
It's interesting to me that I've now seen two projects for Pebble built around this concept.[1] I think this is in part due to the approachability of developing on Pebble's platform. They've got a really great cloud IDE [2]

[1] now on iPhone too http://neutun.com/
[2] https://cloudpebble.net/
Benchmark showing that the composition is exactly the same in a for loop as unrolled functions would be nice.
This source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_exchange_rate_h... seems to suggest that the exchange rate was 1 USD < 20 INR throughout 1990. In fact, the exchange rate doesn't seem to have hit 50 until over twenty years later.
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What sort of resolution does it offer?

How well does it handle multi-touch, especially when some touches are obstructed by others?

Does it offer any pseudo-pressure sensitivity options?
Well, Hotz did state that, “The truth is that work as we know it in its modern form has not been around that long, and I kind of want to use AI to abolish it. I want to take everyone’s jobs. Most people would be happy with that, especially the ones who don’t like their jobs. Let’s free them of mental tedium and push that to machines. In the next 10 years, you’ll see a big segment of the human labor force fall away. In 25 years, AI will be able to do almost everything a human can do. The last people with jobs will be AI programmers.”
I feel like I've read this same damned article a half dozen times over the span of as many years. Facebook has conflicting goals: Knowing literally everything about their users so they can sell access to that data (indirectly, generally, in the form of targeted ads, etc.), and having people not completely hate them.

They fiddle with their terms of service (particularly this one policy, which is most egregiously anti-consumer) every few months, when the noise gets loud enough that they can't ignore it, it lets a little steam out of the pressure to change, and they go back to the highly profitable business of being mildly evil.

As with every change facebook has made to their real names policy, they've made it clear they are in control of your identity online. If you use a name that is not your legal name, they make you jump through hoops to satisfy Facebook's desire to know who you are. I'm not saying they can't do this; of course they can. But, it's time for people to stop letting them get away with the claim that the policy benefits anyone other than facebook.

I know people who have had to jump through those hoops, even after the last round of "we're changing the real names policy, it's totally fine!" articles. People with abusive exes, trans folks, sex workers and entertainers for whom the line between "personal" and "professional" life is thin and could be dangerous for them to have it get too thin (like having their real name on social media), and folks who just prefer to use another name and are known as that name among all of their friends.

Trans folks have been in front on protesting this because they have frequently experienced shame and fear at having their identity challenged, and facebook is doing it online on a massive scale. Probably every trans person has experienced having to show ID to prove they are male or female. They've experienced having to argue with family over what name they wish to use. They've experienced being incorrectly called "sir" or "ma'am" or "he" or "she", even after clarifying that they prefer something else.

Facebook is being the asshole that keeps using the wrong pronouns/names/etc. despite being asked not to, and when challenged on it, demands to see ID to "prove it".

Again, they can do whatever they want; they're a private entity with their own goals and desires. But, we don't have to buy any bullshit about why they're doing it.
Self-funding this experiment is probably harder than creating 100 jobs.
you can do quite a lot of customisation if you split out automation messages into channels - each channel has per-user-device notification preferences
If you read more of the answers, another poster says that this was fixed in El Cap by preventing the use of such characters in passwords.
Always warms my heart to see technology re-used in interesting ways that can help people with a medical condition.

Way back(~2004) I was working for UPS. One of our package loaders had a BlackBerry, back when only suits had them. He was mute and since he couldn't speak he used the BB for all of his communication. Here I was just geeking out over smartphone tech(Kyocera 7135, woo!) and he was able to have his whole life changed in a fundamental way with tech that was conceived for business productivity.
Another factor in the rise of the big box stores was sheer visibility to the cars passing by at 55+ mph.
I used to hang out at the B&N a couple of times a month and bought a number of books per year. They got rid of all the comfy chairs and tables throughout the store and now the only place to sit and read or peruse a book I am thinking about buying is in the noisy, uncomfortable in-store Starbucks. To avoid this customers are sprawled uncomfortably on the floor, sitting in windows sills, etc. amongst the books, its a bad joke. I stopped going and haven't bought a book from them in years.
Yes, indeed there are any more ways we can expand this. Thanks for taking a look.
> - The stores are too big. 1/2 of a B&N store is tat, reference books, niche stock, a Nook display area, and other nonsense.

That was the same with Waterstones. They just decided to kill all that stuff. None of the stores stocks any references or similar things.

I think Waterstones just generally benefits from having really good locations and tailoring them to the audience. But that requires good stores in the first place. Not every company has that luxury.
Not to dismiss your experience, but I can see in my friend's children how important is your background.

I would bet (and is only a personal impression, I can't back it with data) that the effect shows in more than one generation.

If you compare parents that are more or less of the same socio-economic status now (because good public education, luck, talent, whatever), the parents that come from affluent households, see as normal that a children should have a foreign nanny, music formation, travel a lot.. this kind of things.

The parents that never had that in their childhood simply don't know how to do that because they didn't experiment that themselves. Of course they try, but it's obvious that it's not the same. Maybe, with luck, their grandchildren will be there.

I am talking about professional workers, not spoiled children of millionaires. I suppose that is totally other situation.
Regardless of whether or not your main point is true in general, most scientists don't know and will never have time to learn data structures and algorithms. So, for this domain at least (scientific computing), the compiler is getting the job anyway.
That screen looks like the mother of all distractions.
It's pretty cool that it can be done on the cheap, though. I imagine a lot of people would be willing to pay a couple hundred dollars to retrofit their car to get autosteer alongside their cruise control feature.

Small personal example: my family lives out in the suburbs. My dad works in a neighboring city. His commute is about a half hour, 20 minutes of which is a straight shot on a major highway. I'm sure he'd be willing to pay a few hundred to reclaim that 20 minutes each way to read a book/the newspaper, check his email, browse the internet, etc.

It'd also be good for road trips.
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I think his/her point is that just because the usual suspects aren't backing this venture, there's lot of negativity about the project here on HN.

Like Palmer Luckey of Oculus VR, I hope G Hotz has a similar story to tell at the end of it all.
Is this less impressive to you because he didn't 'create jobs'?
I'm sure the coffee shop there was put in tourist guides as a good place to sit down all day... rarely did I see a coffee bought, just students with large piles of books in front of them
This is a textbook example of 'How to Kill an OSS project'

#1, #4, and #5 are completely unnecessary.

If it's desirable to 'kill with fire' the old codebase, you could always create a fork and merge the breaking changes on the next major release.

Creating a second library is a terrible idea for 2 reasons...

You lose the legacy source control history which is (arguably) more valuable than the current source because it can be used to research solutions to old problems.

You split the community which is devastating to the culture and survivability of an OSS project. Even something as a simple name change will have massive negative impacts on the level of contributions. Only the most popular and actively developed projects can get away with forking the community.

LibreSSL will likely survive because everything in the world that requires crypto uses OpenSSL. Even then, that was the absolutely wrong way to go about things.

The only solid justification for a rename and complete rewrite, is if there are license/copyright issues.