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More links:

http://vrworld.com/2016/01/21/nvidia-vulkan-developers-day/
Amen. (Once upon a time asked for the purchase of the AT&T cfront tape, and got it ;-)

To be fair, the author does mention this is not for civilians ...
Same here but I've purchased pg'a book and most books of writers I like follow on the web.
can I get a push notification every time a thug kills another thug?
I bet you'd like it if we made a page of comments by new accounts who turned out to be experts on the story.
more like rectangle - cut in half
I can see why you might not have made it to the end - I get tunnel-vision when writing sometimes. That's the edited down version!

I think there's a lot of mileage left in the emacs + org-mode for productivity discussion, so I can completely see where you're coming from. I won't repeat what I said in the post here, but I'll just reiterate this HN comment[0] from 2 month's back where a frequent user of org-mode complained about backwards-compatibility. And this isn't an isolated case, the devs are apparently forging ahead with the simplification of org-mode at the expense of a few compatibility issues. I don't suppose users of the basic functionality would notice, but then do those users need all the potential complexity of org-mode?

I'll also reiterate that, as per the citations in the post, even RMS can't bring himself to broach the org-mode subject. At least as of 2013.

It probably boils down to there being two camps, those who make full use of org-mode's features and who enjoy delving into the minutae of configuring their productivity suites (most likely already emacs users?). And then there are those who can run their affairs from a paper diary (or who have help), 80s style, but prefer going digital for all the advantages that brings.

I might be wrong, but I get the strong impression from seeing others use it that org-mode lets you, even encourages you to operate a system that holds hundreds of to-do's at any one time. To just get your thoughts into it, however relevant. I've used systems like that before and I didn't like the growing stress resulting from the pile-up.

The final thing I'd say is that as one of the world's vim users (is it a 50/50 split vim:emacs?) I just can't bring myself to embrace the chorded keymappings of emacs. I'd rather learn piano. It'd sure sound nicer.

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10636589
I view it just like many other educational certificates. It is a positive that you have earned it. What's most important is what have you done with it and what can you do with it.

Bootcamps don't change people, they just provide tools for their students to continue learning.
In my country coupon (or whatever else) in 1-15% range probably means that original price was raised and afterwards discount applied to simulate "sale". This is also heavily influenced by the fact that most of products are imported and bought by dollars/euro and currency is fluctuating every day by several percents.
Discount higher than 15% probably means that the product itself is not what I think - it is either refurbished or damaged or without warranty or expired or the market is lying to me somewhere or it is another product altogether.

Any rare cases of honest discounts are statistically below threshold and can be safely dismissed - just threat all sales as a lie and you'll be almost safe, that's what marketers taught me.
That's why you don't see any cars in long exposures of highways.
I don't see how that makes a difference at all, considering Paym is owned by Vocalink - which is 18 banks according to the article.

"Paym is a new service launched by VocaLink in 2014"

"This money goes to Vocalink, a company owned by a consortium of 18 banks, which operates FPS, along with Bacs (for Direct Debit), and the LINK network (ATMs)."

I would say it's likelier that the fact that Swish transactions are instant from the customers perspective have played a large part in why the uptake for Swish has been so good in Sweden. As regular bank transfers still take hours to days to settle.
I don't know why they cost what they do, but black cab taxi fares are set by TfL and they can't charge any more or less. Here is the breakdown https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/taxi-fares/tarif...
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> PayPal is in this market as well:

This reminds me of Peter Thiel's thoughts on monopolies.

Square are in competition with every payment method of every kind. They are not in some tiny "niche" category of payment that will somehow remain invulnerable to competition from banks, Apple Pay, Android Pay, Stripe, etc. etc.

I don't see how they can possibly survive in the long-term.
Love to see what others have in their "starter kit"!
The UK system is now private, but the Payments Council, which set it up, was sort of a quango. The UK has a history of organizations which are semi-private but have close ties to the government.
It's harder to get into YC if you’ve been through another accelerator
I agree that side projects are the future of marketing, and many companies are already doing this. A while ago I made a list of companies that have created inspiring side projects for marketing purposes: https://www.stayintech.com/info/sideprojects
probably not relevant to real world C++ unless you work on libc++, libstdc++, or your name is either Louis Dionne or Eric Niebler.
$MSFT is still down ~12% from late December:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=msft

It's not doing too poorly today, but it's not been immune to the larger macro trends of the last month.
||I like to think our destiny is to colonize other planets.

|Why? I'd rather live in a mostly automated robotic leisure society where I "work" 10-20 hours a week and enjoy my life here than break my back mining space rocks"

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Great Filter.
Sorry, but that's cheap. $1400/mo (assuming 10% down) for a mortgage on an entire house? That's cheap. That's marginally above apartment pricing in even non-high-end areas.
And those who DID end up paying that order of magnitude more for their education will always enforce that others had to also. Those with more formal education nearly always prefer more educated colleagues regardless of whether its necessary or even helpful for the job at hand.
I.e. you need to lie to people harder.
We've always generated value for advertisers and therefore implicitly paid content producers. Trying to get a share of that value takes money from one of those two entities if there are no intermediaries. I think it does not make sense to take money from either one.
Ghana does have a stock exchange so if you really believe and not just hope that Ghana is on the rise buy some stock - put your advice to the test.
Their site doesn't even mention that it's a fork of Firefox. I thought it was based on WebKit.
Woah, I used Teevox years ago when I watched a lot of Starcraft. I thought it was discontinued, or am I thinking of a different similar service?
Those numbers seem far too high. ISIS pays soldiers more than China and Russia do?
Biggest # of shares short is not all that useful IMHO. As % of float is probably a better sort for a short list:

http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3062-nasdaqshort-hig...
I should have added "as a country" in there somewhere. Obviously slaves or chattel workers can raise the average standard of living of a group as a whole, if you include their masters. Assuming that that system of labor is actually "highly productive" which I don't think I agree with.
> Or it could also be the year where people realized that the use-case for NodeJS is fairly very very specific/niche (unless if they love JS so much that they're willing to absorb the pain using NodeJS + its ecosystem).

I disagree with this point... I think Node is very versatile and solid. I dont see anything niche about it. It does very few basic jobs well, 1) providing a good package system (NPM) and 2) giving us javascript on the backend. I feel like people think that just because Node is associated with Javascript that its inherently bad.
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Hi, mryan! I'm the core Frontera developer. The precise answer heavily depends on your use case (what "task" is? scalability requirements, data flow), so please ask your question in Frontera google groups, and we will try to address it directly.

First you could try making use of Frontera, here are the different distribution models it provides out of the box http://frontera.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/run-modes.h.... Frontera is web crawling framework made in Scrapinghub, providing crawl frontier and scaling/distribution capabilities. Along with flexible queue and partitioning design, you will get also document metadata storage (HBase or RDBMS of your choice) with simple revisiting mechanism.

Second, we have a simple redis-based solution for scaling spiders https://github.com/rolando/scrapy-redis. It's only dependency is Redis, so it's easy to quick start, but it has only one queue shared between spiders, hard-coded partitioning, and Redis limiting scalability.

You mentioned a scrapy-cluster (not scrapyd-cluster probably). It provides a more sophisticated distribution model, allowing you to separate crawls with jobs concept within the same service, maintains separate per-spider queues (allowing to crawl politely, I hope you plan to do so? :), and forcing you to use it's prioritization model. Also it allows to use spiders of different types sharing the same Redis instance, and prioritize requests on cluster level. BTW, I haven't found any dependencies on Zookeeper.

None of the solutions provides provisioning out of the box. If spider was killed by OOM, or consume too much resources (open file descriptors, memory) you have to take care of it by yourself. You could use supervisord, or upstart or some custom process management solution. It all depends on you monitoring requirements.

Good luck choosing the right solution!

A.
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As an Army OIF Veteran and startup founder, I'm enthused to hear about the YCombinator +Vettechtrek alliance!
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And that $310k house will cost $1200k in LA or $2100k in SF, but with less land.
and Twitter spiked 8% from the lows, currently up 5.5% on large volume.
It did take some moderately heavy leaning on the UK banks by government before the Faster Payments System finally got introduced, though.
50ms == milliseconds. In HFT, 50 milliseconds might as well be 5 years. Now 50 microseconds is quite fast, and 50 nanoseconds is where you want to be.
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> There's some crazy statistic that 80% of Americans live within 50 or 100 miles where they were born.

Family/social ties are a hell of a thing.
60 hour work weeks? Citation needed. Every time we talk about work, people overinflate their workweeks by including commuting time or that one time they checked their work email from their phone.

5x12 is hardly the norm.
Yeah this might be one of the biggest complaints about Meteor, and is definitely valid. It's being worked on actively!
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Competition. If you don't do it, you'll get outcompeted by those who do. It's not true in many areas (where the market isn't oversaturated), but that's the perception - so people go and blatantly lie even if they don't have to.

It's a kind of problem that should be solved by social norms and regulations. They are way too lenient right now, and the continued acceptance of advertising as a respectable occupation perplexes me.
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The real douches are the millionaire homeowners who pushed for restrictive zoning laws for so many years. They've made their fortunes, at the cost of SF mostly only being affordable for the rich.
You can't put anything in orbit with a railgun. You can replace a huge fraction of a rocket with one, but you can't reach orbit by it alone.

Also a railgun that fits an airplane would crunch the satelite.
Stock rout demotes Jack Dorsey from billionaire to millionaire
You're missing the point that people are paying for Netflix/HBO as a premium/luxury service while many in this thread claim they won't even pay for content they like and will instead just ad block.

You can bitch all you want about the poor state of journalism, but the institutions that are trying to maintain it in a market where no one wants to pay for it are struggling. People won't pay subscriptions (the majority), don't want ads, but still want all that content.

The startup/software development equivalent is open source but that only works for largely one group of people: well off white males.
I suspect this has some truth to it. I think we are seeing huge backlash against "ads" as in dumb content constantly pushed out.

In this searchable world, ads don't need to be pushed continuously because if the ad suits me, I will find it.

As such less effort needs to go into the "ad delivery network" and more into the quality and specificity of the ad itself

Which used to be a blog post, but now seems to be a useful online tool or project.

The ads get more expensive and more targeted, the distribution channel slims down to search.

This comment seems at home on the Brendan Eich thread next door too.
Had a quick look but you have too many stuff...
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>I don't like ads at all (99.9% of the time not their target)

That seems dubious unless you spend all your time browsing sites you have no interest in. If I spent all day browsing ad-supported sites about antique Czechoslovakian sewing thimbles, then yeah, I'll buy your argument (no pun intended), but the sites I view show ads that fit expected areas of interest for my demographic.

Just because you don't ever act on ads doesn't mean you aren't still a target.
I use to love the Mac and OSX, but the whole freezing up while spinning a colored ball thing has got me too pissed off to use a Mac any more. I switched to Linux a year ago and only use Windows for playing games. As for the increasing market share, I think that's more of the perceived coolness factor of a Mac. But man, I love the MBP keyboard! I can't wait to try a Happy Hacker 2.
Life expectancy has 'only' increased by 10% in 50 years? That sounds pretty damn good to me.
It was a good article, thanks for writing it. But when you know you're addressing an ultra technical crowd, please leave out stuff like that, it distracts from very interesting content.
When you get older you will realize a few things:

So many people are not morally honest. No, they don't wake up , and break laws, but they will bend laws, take advantage of those they can. So many people believe, "Hay, it's legal?". I'll take a honest sociopath over these scumbags. I have run across sociopaths with strong moral compasses.

Very few people really produce someting of value, or add to society. America has become a selfish mess. Most of us just work for for the slightly corrupt Man.

As you age; you will be dissalusioned by so many people, and professions. The truth is ugly. It leaves a distaste on my mouth even thinking about the frauds I run across daily. Most wear suits, and have perfect credit.
Nice suggestion. That's the kind of software I really appreciate atm - I'd never seen this. Looks a little like taskwarrior with some interesting features?

I won't test-drive it at this point though because I don't see it doing anything the text files haven't got covered (that I need) and there's nothing to install to use those on each additional device.
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People here on Hacker News set submission titles to provide framing to discussion threads all the time. It's definitely a contribution to the discussion here to read the entire fine article, whether it is published in the New York Times or in some other publication. Thorough examination of an argument based on more than just the source or the title of the submission is helpful to other participants here.

As for the argument in the article, which I see online with a title "America’s Best Days May Be Behind It" and a still image from the The Dick Van Dyke Show, I think the best part of the article's argument is the yeah-but part, where optimism is expressed.

"What Professor Gordon fails to account for, Professor Mokyr argues, is that the information technology revolution and other recent developments produced mind-blowing tools and techniques, from gene-sequencing machines to computers that analyze mountains of data at blistering speed. This is creating vast new opportunities for innovation, from health care to materials technology and beyond.

'The tools available to science have been improving at a dazzling rate,' he told me. 'I’m not sure how, but the world of technology in 30 to 40 years’ time will be vastly different than it is today.'"

I am older than most participants on Hacker News. My family is plainly better off than my parents' family, even though we have fewer total hours of labor force participation per year than my parents jointly had, with the same number of children (four). I can remember a LOT of predictions from my youth that the world would go to hell by the time I was a young adult. It hasn't happened. Prosperity and healthy lifespan and levels of education are rising all over the world. Yeah, the world is still full of problems, but our supply of problem-solving tools and our scope of choice about what problems to solve when is better than ever.
Yep. Loved it when we moved from ISDN to an E1, Quake became a lot more intense for my opponents :)
I would say it's likelier that the fact that Swish transactions are instant from the customers perspective have played a large part in why the uptake for Swish has been so good in Sweden. As regular bank transfers still take hours to days to settle.

In the United Kingdom, sending bank to bank or Paym is all the same if I'm not mistaken. The only difference is that on Paym you'll use a phone number instead of an account number.
Tangentially, the cost of paying a mortgage is comparable to or cheaper than paying rent in the metro areas I've priced. The problem is getting enough of a % downpayment saved to "unlock" the house purchase option.

People I've known who bought houses look at it as locking a "rent rate" in for 30 years and assuming the burden of maintenance rather than riding the fluctuating markets. Right now, they're locked in at lower rates than other people I know are paying in rent to live in a similar area.

I willing to wager part of the problem is the lockdown on lending after 07/08 and more people got pushed into the rent market because they couldn't get the loans to purchase a house which has led to the inversion of the cost of owning vs renting. Historically, owning has been more expensive than renting in most places
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Good to have you back! It's the same guy :)
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Are you that impressionable that you run out to buy every little thing that is shown to you? How do you propose that journalism, creative works, and other medias that are heavily supported by ads exist?

Pretty much everyone in this thread says they won't do payment, will block ads, and seemingly has a problem with people earning a living who aren't software developers or startup owners.
The larger point was that incentives flip as soon as you become a homeowner. As a renter, you are hoping for housing prices to go down and would like to see this happen via increased housing supply, deregulation, or even a local economic downturn as someone suggested above. But as soon as you become a homeowner, you want housing prices to level or increase because a large portion of your net worth is tied to it. So you suddenly want new housing supply to shrink, increased developmental regulations, and a booming economy in your area.
Given how many times the phrase "foreseeable future" was discussed in this comment thread, maybe they should rename them the "Foreseeable Five".
https://cdnjs.com/

How is this lying to people?
Holy cow, talk about a flashback. I played the crap out of that game for about a decade.
problem is they already have all the food trucks, where else can they (realistically) expand to?
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Wow.

I used to love C++. It was my favorite language. I still think fondly of it.

But it's come time to face facts: C++ is like that super-smart friend you knew in school, the one who was supposed to become the rocket scientist? Instead he's selling tickets to human-animal sex shows in third-world ghettos. Every time you look over there you're like "What happened?"

I feel like Obi Wan looking at Anakin "You were the chosen one! You were to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness!"

I'm left wondering: what happens now? Do standards committees just keep meeting and sticking more and more trinkets on the old horse because that's what standards committees are supposed to do? There's a ton of C++ code out there, and C++ was its own super-deep-dive specialty 20 years ago. Now it's a monster. Is it possible that it ever dies? And if not, do C++ experts become some kind of uber wizard in the tech community (moreso than they are now)?

It seems like something's gotta give somewhere, and beats me how that's going to play out.
Great reply, and yes, of course I consider that a form of manipulation. It's not unethical because I MARRIED them. I chose to enter into a partnership with them and I want their input within me. Isn't it nice that such an imagined marketplace would allow us to both satisfy our needs together instead of being manipulated by companies as to what's the "right" choice?

I'd rather avoid the manipulation altogether by people I don't know and they can fuck right off with their attempts to sell me something I don't need or am not interested in (all the while contributing to hidden negative externalities). I want to support (manipulate) and be supported by (manipulated by) people I love and know to share my values.

@oldmanjay in another response says this is contrary to free speech, imagines I must be a unhappy unless I'm a hermit, and doesn't mind that he'd be offending me with his noise if we were in the same room. Well guess what, I wouldn't have entered the room in the first place. That's the problem. You can't walk down the street without getting blasted in the retinas by all this damn noise. The fact that it happens on highways while people need to be focusing on the road is just insane. I live in NA.
Just as a historical note, teevox actually predates multitwitch. It used to be called WarpPrism, and was intended for streaming SC2 events. It fell out of favor circa 2 years ago, after some big changes at twitch broke a bunch of its features.

https://www.reddit.com/r/warpprism
https://www.reddit.com/r/teevox
There have been many studies refuting that. If anything it's the opposite : the poorer/uneducated someone is the less likely they are to become a terrorist, as there are far more poor than rich.

e.g. http://www.economist.com/node/17730424
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This doesn't seem to create offline copies of the webapps, at least assuming by the examples given (maps.google.com and medium.com), which would be quite useless as static apps.