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Hey! Thanks for the compliment, it really means a lot when the site resonates.

I'm not super experienced with lectures (mostly writing), but I think it works in office settings. Check out this talk from Simon Sinek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA

People are usually motivated by the why, the mission, the story. Then you get into the what and how it's accomplished. With math, it can be similar: the "why" sets the stage. Humans in general prefer a narrative to a list of facts (Hacker News readers excepted :-).)
My 3 year old, who is otherwise enthusiastic about reading (or being _read to_) dislikes Dr Seuess books more than anything we've read to her thus far, which was surprising to me since kids are supposed to universally adore them. It may just be finding the right stage in her development where she'll enjoy stories that sound like they were written by a complete fucking lunatic.
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> why should I want to go to a news aggregator

Why are you here? Admittedly, HN is about 40% news and 60% links to interesting tech stuff. But who said a "news aggregator" has to be 100% news?
wow, image maps for clickable sections. Neat thing for something 7 years old
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I still haven't figured out why this is so controversial. You have a service that seems to be in inevitable decline. Instead of pretending that future revenue will always be enough to cover pension requirements, why not take steps now to prevent problems in the future? Maybe the disconnect is that some people are predicting a resurgence in letter writing?
I wrote this article because of a written conversation I had with my mom regarding the efficacy of vaccines and their (disproven) potential to cause autism. I figured it'd be well received here because of the tendency of techies to be systematic thinkers and writers reflexively.

In addition to this reflexive/learned practice which most detail oriented people have, I think that formal training in systematic communication is worthwhile for most people to have, even if they've already implicitly taken up the ropes.
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> 'Declining in market share': I assume you count 'Google throws crappy internal ads at every internet user and encourages mum and pop to "upgrade your browser"', right?

Of course, Firefox numbers are going down, no? The reason is irrelevant.
I would assume sophistication, intensity, and the fact that as long as it's not the NSA doing it they'll get tipped off that China, Russia, Insert-Evil-Country-Here is running a campaign against them.
One thing I imagine them being useful for would be a repairs shop. When you break something, go to the shop, the guy can take measurements and print you a new part. (A hinged flap on an ex-girlfriends DVD player that I broke comes to mind - it cost almost as much for me to get he part replaced as buying a new one, as the shop had to get the part through official dealers.)
For someone who doesn't know a lot about this why use vagrant over docker?
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Sure. But as per the article, this is used as a strategy to discourage pricing upfront. Which will stop it from ever getting as far as procurement.
The root cause is focusing on economical development over everything else, including staggering inequality, pollution, and others.

The central governments' inability to enforce local municipalities to do whatever they want, is actually result of the shifting political structure from a single autocratic ruler during Mao's era to a more technocratic/autonomous style of ruling. This is a good thing, although it does create inefficiencies when central government interests conflict with local ones.
Previous discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10777310
The biggest source of this confusion is the header of Otto's site - https://ottoproject.io/ - where it says "Meet the successor to Vagrant"
Or in other words, it's because of economic migration. Not the often quoted and disproven 'take advantage of welfare and services' stuff that certain papers seem to go on about, but the somewhat accurate concern that some of the people coming are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous employers who pay less than anyone born here would accept (but which is seen as a somewhat 'reasonable' wage in less well off countries).

So you get situations where 'low skilled' jobs pay peanuts, but end up being taken by people who send the money back abroad where the amount is more valuable than in the UK. It can sometimes lead to people from poorer backgrounds not getting these basic jobs because the employers know they'll want a wage they can actually live on.

That said, that's not really an issue with immigration specifically; anyone who immigrates to the area and knows about the minimum wage and decent working conditions will also find it more difficult to get a job.
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> - Servo: How many years do they need to build a new browser with the experience they already have?

Browsers are big. There's not really been a from-scratch browser written since the 90s, so there's not really any comparison point as to how long it takes.

It's also worthwhile remembering that Gecko has over ten times the number of developers that Servo does—yet Servo has to catch up with much of what Gecko has done to it!

Servo is certainly getting there (and honestly, the progress that's been made is incredibly impressive, both in terms of the man-hours involved per-feature and in absolute progress: many features are being implemented far quicker than they were in other browsers), and it seems plausible that this time next year there could be something relatively usable.
> That is flat out untrue. I actually was surprised how easy it was to get prepaid SIM cards

The service providers offering anonymous SIM cards operate mostly on o2/BASE network which have very scarce coverage, only some of them use Vodafone network (better coverage), and I'm not aware of any operating on TMobile network. If you want to buy a SIM card directly from network operator (o2, Vodafone, TMobile) prepare your passport/id and document confirming your address.

I'm really tired of this smug German "privacy is very important for us" bullshit - because no, it isn't.
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Sadly, they won’t add nearly enough APIs, they already announced that most of the UI won’t be customizable.

I’d have preferred a full UI customization like in Vivaldi.
I think that depends on if it's CIO-domain (email, calendering, desktop control) or CTO-domain (dev tools etc). The latter I've rarely (but not never) seen foist upon uninterested developers.
Title totally got my hopes up as well
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If iOS did the Continum thing, I doubt they would allow a Terminal. OS X still has a Terminal app.
I'm 38 but only noticed a few years ago that calendars say "Winter begins". I feel like as a kid it was "Winter solstice." I always assumed the solstice was the midpoint of winter, not the beginning. Doesn't that make more sense? Anyway, my sense of the seasons is more like children's books: autumn is when the leaves change, winter is when it snows, spring is when the flowers bud, summer is hot. Sounds like meteorological winter still doesn't put the solstice at the middle of winter, but it would be closer.
I don't know if this is a joke, but China is more like unregulated capitalism than communism, it's probably more capitalistic than most European countries.
Why would the NSA need to attack? They can just ask Yahoo for the data.
Great points. I've also seen another pattern with per user or consumption-based systems...

When something is low enough to experiment with and still fall into the "petty cash" area, an employee can buy a little (or for a month) and test it out. If they're somewhat successful, they can expand it out to their immediate team, still with a tiny budget. As they prove out usefulness/value and expand their users/usage, obviously the cost goes up.

But by the time they have to "Get Approval" from someone really high up - like a VP or procurement group - they have X users or Y months of success. Selling it to the higher ups then becomes easier and a more likely sale.
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No, but today it is working.
Not so much extortion, though it's certainly a gold mine for unscrupulous advertisers trying to sell Hello Kitty merchandise...
>Secondly, if he is not involved in criminal activity, why does Mr Claus use unbreakable encryption?

How do they know he encrypts everything?
Yes, it is, but that doesn't excuse doing it here.
You are right. I assume these SaaS vendors try to attract end-user (B2C) and small companies (B2B).
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Hmm, that does work nicely. The major problem with it though is that I don't see an easy way to configure the steepness. I suppose you can force it to 0 and 1 before and after the first rise. Not a terrible solution, a bit less elegant though, but as you said it does have a nice zero velocity at the starts and ends.
By far the most common vector of state sponsored attacks is simple malicious email. Why waste your time and money when something simple works so well?
They are, but I think it's interesting what's happening outside Google's reach. It's become increasingly cheap for companies to store information about each customer, which drives customization throughout that company's product offering.

There's a library built on ES that I have been watching on Github which promotes results based on ecommerce conversion data: https://github.com/ankane/searchkick
That's perceptive, but with that understanding what purpose does "Santa Claus" serve? ISTM for many people the truth about Santa presages an eventual revelation about the nature of Christianity in general. The prior experience gives us psychological permission to experience further disillusionment. The Church Lady was right about this one.
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If so, not a very good stand-in imo.

"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.". John 3:17

Christ didn't come to reward the people already doing good, and punish those doing evil.

Rather, "[...]for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [...]"

People are not justified by being "good enough" by themselves, but rather, are "[...]justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, [...]".

Your description of "You're punished for evil and rewarded for nice and he's watching you all the time?" is, I think, a very misleading and simplistic idea of Christ.
It is an interesting comparison for sure, but things are different for two reasons:

1) Software and related services will grow immensely over the next decade because of the "cloud". Some of the growth will be same old, same old application logic software, but most of it will be data analysis software.

2) The language of choice for data analysis software is and will be R due to the biggest software companies (both #1 and #2, among many others) standing firmly behind it along with universities incorporating it in its curriculum, ditching SPSS and SAS.
As a thought experiment, imagine three masks. The first is matte black, with 0% specular and 0% diffuse reflection. The second has a mirror finish, with 100% specular reflection. The third glows, as an omnidirectional light source.

Would it be acceptable for a person in public to wear one of these, but not one of the others?

My sense is that if you want privacy in public, you should wear the matte black mask.
The power of a given currency is inextricably tied to the government that issues it; once the government goes, so does the currency.

So in essence, the government is supporting rule by private actors. Glib, but relevant: http://brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/pix/14/NHS_who_gets_all_t...
the DOBs of parents and children have to be real.
the study is trying to find/prove a relationship between the DOBs of parents and children.
Late reply here, but no. The reason there's no non-beta PyPy3 on a later version than 3.2 is that there's not enough demand for it (or no one willing to donate large enough sums of money for it to make it the primary focus).

Industry players who want to remove the Python CPU bottleneck and willing to stick with Python rather than moving on to Go or JS on Node, are donating to the 2.7 based PyPy4.
No but he is clear violation of the European Data Protection Directive for sure since data of EU nationals is stored in the NON database presumably at the north pole.
Santa Claus also does not appear to respect the "right to be forgotten" ruling as the gifts just keep coming despite constant unsubscribe and that removal requests.
It's a real shame the croud is a bit... unsophisticated. The machine is an utter work of genius. People have made video games that revolved around less sophisticated and featureful puzzle boxes. And it's made entirely of wood. It's got logic gates. It plays music. It has tons of puzzle locks. It's gorgeous.

I think it's entirely fair that he claims on the site that it's the coolest desk in the world. I would love just to see all the things it can do - heck I'd pay for that short video.
For US people in most industries, by volume, the Russians or Chinese are the most likely to compromise them. I suspect the NSA has a higher success rate, but with their pervasive surveillance and ability to legally compelling action, they're not the ones trying to bust into your email account all the time.
Put this in the column of "Stuff I can't own because my small children would destroy it."
Why does there have to be a difference? Clearly not having smog in the first place would prevent this, but how does that help Beijing right now? If you have an open wound the doctor does not prescribe staying away from sharp things, they treat the wound.
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In transit, they were not packaged in tamper proof packaging (see article).
I love this approach to learning. It's something I've been really working to take on in my studies (and my own projects).
All the things you have described are "phone" type applications rather than desktop applications (consumption versus creation in my mind). Ok, that's very much a generalisation, but I think that what the original comment was getting at.
My examples were short term benefits. Once the transit fares are not cheap anymore, or the maid service stops, then the benefit goes away. But people still had a short term benefit.

Digging holes and filling them has zero economic benefit. That is the difference.
Part of this redesign is making it easier for the mail carrier as well:

I decided to place all these sections at the top since you want to know this information first. I made it more readable by putting them within a single Mad-Libs style human-readable sentence. This is the main section the mail carrier will need to fill out, too, so it should also make her job quicker to have all the writing in one place.
That's one very clever bug. Pity there is no schematic or a more high resolution photograph. You'd think that since the existence is now public there would be no harm in that.
I was partly referring to this https://twitter.com/bartt/status/653946266938818561
Hi pcwalton, I just wish Servo had clearer goals. In some ways the recent faster-browser initiates have all come out empty in my opinion, as they have nothing to truly show the for the work.

Flexbox is a great example. We were told the problems with DOM updates was caused by the old layouts and things like floats. So Flexbox was supposed to fix those problems. Where's the proof?

I find myself frustrated that now 8 years after the iPhone the web is still incapable of so many things. I wish the browser community would make some very specific goals and say "we'll do whatever it takes to reach these".

Here's a very simple goal: A swipeable sidebar. Here's the requirements:

* It must retain 60fps no matter how fast you swipe.

* It must be easy to create; a virtual-dom shouldn't be a requirement to make up for slow dom updates. A elaborate library that correctly times everything shouldn't be necessary.

That's it. Make that happen. Do whatever it takes. Create another new layout if necessary. Create a new touch spec that's faster, if necessary. Whatever. it. takes. And then when the work is done you can point to this new widget and say that the initiative paid off.
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They didn't really hire him, they just bought his company because it had a product they wanted.
So if you already have signups, then you should absolutely work with them to add referrals. Send them a free month offer if they give you the email of 5-10 of their friends likely to need your service. Or some variation of that idea. You should absolutely be sending them emails and talking to them regularly as well. Let's say you have 100 active users right now, I'd be calling the top 25 and talking to the people directly and getting their feedback. It doesn't mean you will implement exactly what they ask for, but the fact you picked up the phone and called them to talk and get their input will go a long way towards building loyalty.

If the people signed up are the right audience, e.g. they are engaged and using the product, then get some demographics on those people. If you didn't collect it up front, do a survey, or utilize a marketing company to get you data on those contacts (like Acxiom or other many other providers). This will give you a profile of the type of people, or companies if it is a B2B app. Then take that data and do some Facebook or Display ads that are targeted at a similar audience.

Also, if you have a free trial of say 14 days, offer to extend it to 30 days if at the time of signup the user gives you 5 emails (names) of people as a referral. Then you can solicit them.

If you are starting from scratch with an already built site, then you need to reverse engineer the demographics of who will be your early adopters and go find where they hang out, where they do their research and what is important to them to make a decision etc. Then you setup offers where those people are researching (or playing etc), and you get active in those communities. Also, good time to write some posts on medium and publicize them and start writing some of your own blog posts that you can point people to as well (again promote them places). In the end, this is a numbers game and it is about getting out there and exposing yourself and your product to as specific of a group as you can to find the right fit. Then you keep expanding the types of groups you target.

Hopefully that helps a little more. One other comment, Marketing is about doing a series of experiments where failure is guaranteed on a pretty regular basis if you are trying enough. Marketing is never about getting it right once and never looking back, clients are always changing, and you have to chase and find where they are and find a way to get people to reach into their wallet and fork over money to you. Failure in marketing is different then failure in say engineering some life critical piece of equipment, in both cases you will learn from failure, but obviously no one dies if you jack up a few marketing campaigns so the relative cost of learning is low.
I think a factor of importance is how much selective pressure there is that could lead to their creation. The sporadic and fairly arbitrary use in humans doesn't create a selective pressure strong enough to create these superbugs in meaningful amounts and have them survive.

When used en masse in large, concentrated populations, you're statistically much more likely to bring these superbugs into existence, and have them survive. After all, an infected human is fairly isolated. But Stick an infected chicken in a hen and you've got some trouble on your hands.
I've seen varying sources and while they agree that Chrome leads (see above, unsurprisingly a wildly successful ad company is able to promote their own product), I don't believe that users are actively leaving Firefox.

Back to flourishing: Recently an article on this very site explained that Mozilla is in a very stable financial situation. So, they seem to be independent (money) and successful (reach - I guess this is where we might not agree?).

I just cannot understand the reasons behind a lot of 'Mozilla is basically dead and irrelevant' style posts on this very site.
Hey, thanks for the feedback! Glad to hear the trig article helped (one of my favorite aha moments -- all the trig functions, including stuff like the exotic cosecant, can be drawn together.)

I'm a fan of Tau as an interesting simplifying concept but don't think mentions of pi should necessary be removed. My intuition is that radians are "distance traveled" as you go along a circle. Pi is the "neutral to max to neutral" distance and Tau is the full cycle (neutral, max, neutral, min, neutral). Ideally we just think about "distance" and context determines whether we want the journey to be "there and back" or just "there".
Regardless of whether or not Y is over TOR, it cannot serve as a cut out. All the transactions are stored on the blockchain. So if Y tries to convert to dollars, then they have him. Or if Y's proxy Z tries to convert to dollars, they have Z (and by extension Y).

For these reasons, I cannot figure out why they don't know who stole the MtGox bitcoins. The only way to hide is to forever keep your booty in bitcoins. Whenever the thief tries to convert his/her bitcoins to money or goods, the veil of anonymity will be pierced. And given the amount money involved in MtGox, it would be blow wide open.

As an aside, this has to be one of the deeper HN threads that has not devolved into a flame war. kudos to us.
I totally agree. The ash injection approach seems like a temporary emergency solution.
And China gets a new colony.
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That would be a research subject in the mathematics of origami.

That field is fairly advanced (See for example http://www.langorigami.com/science/science.php), but I am not aware of people studying 'boxes'.
the trig function trick is pretty neat! but i wonder if i only think that because i know trig already, and would've gotten more confused with more analogies
Completely disagree regarding the network effect of Uber vs. Lyft. The system is highly network dependent. Most Uber drivers would prefer to drive for Lyft because Lyft pays more (partially why they're losing more money than Uber), but in most markets Lyft doesn't have as many riders that use the service. As a driver, you want to maximize time spent with a fare vs. fare-hunting. Similarly, as a rider, you are weighing price vs. time meaning most people will pay more $ to wait less for their ride.

Most drivers I talk to drive for both and keep both on, but get more pings on Uber than on Lyft. In SF Lyft has more mind-share and it's a more even split.

FWIW I've lived in both SF and NYC since the rise of these services.
> a% of b = b% of a?

wow this is mind-blowing stuff! nice explanation too!
It's worth noting that SHA1 is also suitable for use in HMAC on older hardware, security is not significantly compromised by SHA1's properties.

You can move to more modern algorithms, but there isn't a pressing need to remove SHA1 implementations for that application.
"US gets a new ally" , "China gets a new colony" ?