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Sure. That works too. Like many things in life. Generalizations don't work. The happy scenario you describe above, also happens a lot in India.. With a billion people a lot of things happen. Some good. Some bad.
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Come to Toronto. The tech salaries are higher and the real estate market is not amazing but definitely lower, and we have better options for living outside the core without feeling like you're in the burbs.

You lose the ocean and the mountains though, and that can be a really hard sell (source: I moved here 5 years ago from Vancouver).
Yet NYT does not bother with subtitling their videos. Feels like I'm back to the early 80's when less than 20% of tv shows including news were captioned.

Two steps forward, then three steps backwards. Great.
Pretty interesting article. The guy's clearly quite intelligent. He could have been a successful (albeit likely sociopathic) entrepreneur or scientist if his life circumstances were a little different.
The existance of a movement still doesn't mean it's popular at large.
One of the cooler things about old trees is that the oldest ones tend to be puny, pathetic looking, twisted little individuals, because they grow very slowly and are often weather-beaten. The slow growth is because they tend to be located in exposed areas that have little soil and therefore not much storage for water, which limits growth but also reduces risk from fires, fungus, and other pests that jump from tree to tree. They may also be at the treeline, where temperature is a limiting growth factor as well.

One of the first papers to document this is a paper by E. Schulman of Caltech in 1957, called Longevity under Adversity in Conifers [0]. Since then, this has been confirmed extensively in many more environments and tree families than Schulman analyzed. The basics are that slower growth minimizes resource use as well as the attack surface to pests, so the organisms can subsist for thousands of years until they are killed by climate change, or more frequently, the ground eroding out beneath them. It's somewhat reminiscent of the stereotypical monk/lama/mystic living an ascetic life in a cave in the mountains high above the gluttonous cities. However, the basic ideas of finding a niche on the fringe, limiting risk exposure and resource use, and staying small for a long time are completely inappropriate to the tech community, of course.

[0]: http://wmrc.edu/history/docs/science-1954.pdf

(edited for clarity)
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My wife performed this one woman opera a few years ago at Opera San Jose. It's an interesting piece. A bit neurotic and very emotional. I'm surprised to see this on HN.
I know everybody here hates flash (for excellent reasons!) and is happy to see it die. But, as a user who doesn't work in tech, I really miss the ability to enforce click-to-play loading of videos. From my pseudo-outsider perspective, the switch to HTML5 has been really frustrating.

I happen to hang out around these parts so I understand the reasons for it, but if I didn't it would probably make me mad. It would feel like websites were just trying to get around my flash blocker and shove their autoplaying media in my face. Just goes to show how different things can look from the developer side of things.
Now if they could make Firefox play those videos on Android all would be good.

Are NYT videos DRM enabled or use a codec that FF doesn't support on Android? FF should be just using the platform provided codecs and if it works in Chrome it should work in FF - but I just get a Video/Mime Type unsupported error on FF when browsing NYT.
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A bunch of my friends have actually gotten married that way. They met and dated their future spouse in college, and got engaged in their senior year, and married the summer after graduation.

They were all serious Christians though. They also went to lengths to ensure there was absolutely no sexual contact whatsoever before marriage -- e.g. by avoiding being alone in a room with their fianceé; always meeting/dating in public places, etc.

I will admit, American Christians do fall outside the majority cultural norm in this country, and I was writing from that perspective.
No, you can just connect two dumb meters. One counts the energy consumption and the other the production.
Maybe someone could explain - how can mobile web be faster than (semi?) native app?
The author is on point in describing how to create a business not just an app but he glosses over that many people develop apps with monetization as an afterthought and that monetizing an app is as complex as rocket science. Pleco had a lot already going for it before it even before it launched on iOS. Its founders had years of business experience and a strong market differentiator. So even though they had to retread their business models, they knew that Pleco had enough value that people would pay for it. A lot of other developers however, like Sinclair, develop apps for themselves, find a small user base and decide its enough to establish there own business, but usually these apps are cool but not unique. Pleco was built on licensed and unique tech, which gave its value. The author should mention that not every app can be turned into a business and that you need to create enough unique IP for yourself, so that you can grow and create value others can't. Sinclair has the entrepreneurial drive, he just didn't have the right idea to be a business.
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> Or perhaps you think that deregulating business will lead to massive monopolies

A reasonable belief, given what happened before regulatory controls were imposed to prevent massive monopolies.
No indication is given about the next to fire (at least that was never implied, or explicitly mentioned), it's about the probability. The shaded red disks simply show which chambers might have rounds in, and which might be blank. Rather that enumerate all possible combination of the "6 choose n", I showed the canonical form of "two together" (of which there are 6 cases), "one chamber inbetween" (ditto) ... etc

I tried to make that clear with the phrase "without loss of generality"
Mark "tried to solve a non existent problem" and fell over.

India is not a country where everyone rides on bullocarts or tuk tuks. Its a fast developing nation. Its not what you see in Hollywood movies or western medias. India do not need help on the internet side of things.
That looks a lot like the element builder function that Fastmail put together back in 2012.

https://blog.fastmail.com/2012/02/20/building-the-new-ajax-m...

I too am fond of that approach.
Absolutely not for 1960. For example, the plot of this 1954 movie is based on Jerry Lewis' character being expected to die for only driving over the old nuclear test site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_It_Up
If you want organic growth, don't charge money for your app. Period. No one wants to pay money for something they can't even try, unless they are positive they know it will work for them. For example, I paid money for the Pure ad blocker because it had tons of positive reviews and coverage in the NYT. But this will not be you.

Make money on ads, paid upgrades (remove ads, get premium features), and subscriptions. Show that you have value first, then it becomes very clear how much more value someone can get by paying a little extra.

Especially for mobile apps, ad revenue is very high right now as freemium games and VC money has flooded the market. I get as high as $5 per click, usually around $1-2, which is much higher than it used to be.
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"All this has enraged independent, free-market, and environmentally conscious Nevadans."

...

"Nevada forces utilities to buy the excess energy at rates set by regulators"

How was the government forcing utilities to buy excess energy at mandated rates "free market"?
The picture shows that it's surrounded by comrades. Those comrades are the shrubs around it. Until recently, this tree was the same way. Quoting the Wikipedia entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko :

> For thousands of years, the tree appeared in a stunted shrub formation (also known as a krummholz formation) due to the harsh extremes of the environment in which it lives. During the warming of the last century, the tree has sprouted into a normal tree formation
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In Australia the grid in already encouraging some outlying towns to leave the grid as just maintaining existing grid connections over long distances is more expensive that creating a micro-grid for them.
Pretty much every music streaming service I know of. There were a few that used HTML5, but all of them shut down (most recently rdio).

For Spotify, there's a years old request on the forums [0] their support keeps linking people to, but it doesn't seem like they're doing anything about it.

Deezer uses Flash for "security reasons" [1] and they don't plan to use HTML5.

Someone mentioned Google Play might work, but I haven't tried that yet.

0: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Integrate-HTML5-...

1: https://twitter.com/Deezer/status/539344616580194304
That's really interesting. The way I understand tracking cookies is that websites the user visits needs to have some snippet from Facebook on them for that snippet to be able to read the cookie and update it right? And since most sites have the Share on facebook button that's potentially how the tracking cookie is picked up by Facebook.
I suppose it depends on location. Now is still a fine time for engineers seeking jobs in Seattle.
The key takeaway is the ever common mantra 'what is your sustainable competitive advantage?'. As many App Store developers have found out, design is not one.

Rather, paying for exclusive license to a dictionary, and ensuring his apps are on the school syllabus was the path to success for this app. (Remind you of those TI calculators?)
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That would certainly be interesting but after working in real estate for a bit now, I've yet to see an appraisal company that was able to figure out the current market value with any precision. In general appraisals are looking at the intrinsic long term value (i.e. will the bank be able to sell this if the buyer defaults on the loan?), not the current market value which is more about market dynamics. That isn't to say it's impossible... I know that Redfin has done pretty well with their Estimates tool, but I'd guess that their model (like other models I've seen) relies heavily on list price as an input -- which in this case seems to be completely rigged by the participating brokers.

Even if someone came up with an automated valuation model that predicted potential sale price with a high degree of accuracy, you really shouldn't trust it unless it was completely interpretable or open source. As seen here, there's a great deal of money to be had in misquoting that price. Even messier, these sellers would want a model that could predict sale price today as well as in 3 months (when the home is foreseeably being re-assigned).

If anyone has a model like this, I'd like to talk.
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It helped those in coastal Asiatic cities walk to North America, so there was some upside as well...
Does the idea of getting people to grow their own cells in an uncontrolled environment without any knowledge of exactly what can happen kinda sound weird to me?

What happens if they accidentally grow a dangerous bacteria?
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://themindcircle.com/worlds-oldest-tree-old-tjikko-swede.... If someone suggests a better URL we can change it again.

We also changed "9,500-Year-Old Tree Found in Sweden Is the World’s Oldest Tree" to "Old Tjikko, the oldest living clonal Norway Spruce". That has to be the largest energy drop by an HN title in a while.
What do you mean? There are extensions for blocking autoplay HTML5 media same as flash...
Whatever you call it it works really well and India is stupid to play by the colonialist's rules. Look at China, they banned or restricted all the western web companies now they're home to thriving new web giants. With all of India's world class programmers where is India's Baidu or Wechat or Weibo or Alibaba?
3 days seemed like an accident waiting to happen.

This updated policy seems a lot better; it would probably be great to ask people for secondary contact information such as SMS for emergencies.
good point, hopefully it stays that way
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My impression from the article was that the sellers didn't have independent agents. They were approached by the buyer's agent when not even listing their house.
As long as they're single commands. Running multiple commands using `&&`, etc. is unfortunately not portable.
>it's just that Hindi Wikipedia and Google suck

And you think enabling tens of millions of people to access these resources will make them....worse?

Wikipedia is a community encyclopedia, by its very nature it gets better the more people access and use it, the more editors there are translating articles from other languages, etc.

You have not listed a single thing that would make it a net positive for a corporation to decide which sites millions of people should and should not be able to visit.

This is to say nothing of the next whatsapp or facebook - this plan is obviously about preventing competition.

You say they use the internet for communication first, is it any wonder Facebook/WhatsApp wants to ensure they control what mediums of communication are accessible throughout India?

What do you say to the Indian coder who today is working on his WhatsApp competitor? tough shit, facebook already bought the internet in this country?
> the form of my argument is that a policy can be implicitly racist without being explicitly racist.

An explicit policy like officially-segregated schools is objectively racist. "Implicitly racist" is completely subjective.

The Atwater quote kind of makes the point. Is lowering taxes a racist policy? Nothing about the policy is different just because you can find some racist who supports it specifically because they know it will have a disparate impact. So you are implying that any policy with a disparate impact is "implicitly" racist, because a racist might support it for only that reason.

But that makes the definition of "racist" so broad that it loses all meaning. It makes the law against marijuana racist but also the law against speeding and the law against felons possessing a handgun.
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"Just add native support for jQuery and call it a day"
"Just add native support for React and call it a day"

We can do lots of amazing things in the ecosystem, but often we're working around missing primitives in the platform. Just "adding native support" for today's hottest library doesn't fix things properly. It's better to figure out what problem they were solving, and then fix that problem more directly.

(jQuery is largely solving "DOM APIs suck". We've fixed that a little bit, with things like query() (née querySelector(), which was an awkward first attempt at it) and fetch(), but are still struggling to work through browser dev apathy at things like event registration or creating elements.)

(Figuring out what problem, precisely, React is solving is exciting and interesting. It's non-obvious - it's not just "some DOM things are slow", as there's lots of DOM things both fast and slow, and you don't need a fancy (read:slow) tree-diffing algo to fix those. There's something fundamental going on that we might be able to do better - maybe it's more fully separating the "display thread" that contains DOM from the rest of your JS, and letting you do a lot of DOM-ish manipulation in threads other than the display thread. Maybe that means actually using an even more lightweight display abstraction, so you can cheaply spam out updates without having to do expensive diffing first. There's a lot of possibilities here.)
> All this has enraged independent, free-market, and environmentally conscious Nevadans.

I'm all for green energy, but how is leasing solar panels that are government subsidized and then having companies forced to buy back electricity at a set price considered part of a "free market"?
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This whole article is weird to me as a New Zealander, since most of the problems comes from weirdly, not letting the market set the buy-back rate of electricity.

I worked for one of New Zealand's largest electricity generators and retailers, and we investigated a solar market. Here's how it works.

Electricity is broken up into generation costs, distribution costs, retail costs, regulatory costs, and profit.

Generation capacity goes up and down throughout the day, as does demand. In New Zealand an automated auction happens 30 minutes where generators bid in electricity at a price. The system operator then buys capacity required at any particular area at the cheapest price that is available. This sets the wholesale price of electricity.

This then gets distributed by the system operator throughout the country to a local lines company. They maintain the power lines to your house, but also to that person in the middle of nowhere.

The energy company figures out how much you've consumed, and bills you. Of course, when you have a problem, you call them, so there's a call centre always available as well.

Finally, there are taxes and levies that the government applies.

After all that, if there's anything left over between the retail price, and the sum of those costs, well, that's the profit.

The weird bit is, where do you set the buyback rate for solar? The retail price? But there's so much expenses there, not all of which are the retailer's cost. The fair price of the market is the generating price, or wholesale price. But, there maybe political incentives to set a higher rate, as well as cap the number of people who can get that higher rate.

But if you want it sustainable for everybody, then using the wholesale rate makes more sense.
How does it compare with http://sparkjava.com/ ?
So, you're suggesting it was one of the many other atomic bomb tests carried out in 1945? The article (and other related information I've read in many sources on the Manhattan projects) is pretty clear about the connection.

Fallout got into the Corn being grown in Indiana, which was then used to make packing material for Kodak, that fogged the film...
A shrub is not a tree. (:
It's called a refrigerator. Or, more precisely, a kitchen. If you have yogurt, or beer, or bread, or cheese you have such a product. And if you've ever let any food in your kitchen go bad/moldy/rotten, you have, 'grown cells in an uncontrolled environment without any knowledge of exactly what can happen'. Very very few get anything more than a bit of a rumbley stomach from such 'experiments', and in the meantime they learn a significant amount about themselves and how life works in this universe.

The real world of biology has been out to kill you for your energy for 4 billion years and yet you survive. We're really pretty good at it. It is genuinely difficult to hurt people with biology if you try, and it is even more difficult if you're not trying.
I find the idea of a marriage without consent disgusting and reprehensible beyond words.
The buyer's agent can't just assign the property to another buyer, the first buyer has to actually agree to sell it along at the higher price. Of course, then the first buyer might have to go find another house to buy... The purchase price isn't paid until an actual closing, by the final buyer.
He is a jerk. That was consistent in much of what I read. Very elitist.
the $800 price tag seems reasonable if you compare the 1982 introductory price of the Commodore 64 at $595 (approx. $1,500 today)[0]. Most parents were buying the c64 or a similarly priced computer for their children's education and entertainment. From that POV the pricing for this biology kit, if you kids are scientifically enthusiastic, seems reasonable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
ip_address	port	protocol	attempts
94.245.121.253	3544	UDP	1619

The were 1619 connection attempts to 94.245.121.253. Does anyone suspect that if the IP address goes overseas, that this gives the NSA the "legal authority" to collect the data. This particular IP resolves to a US location but I'm just wondering if the telemetry network is designed to push traffic overseas so the NSA can collect it.
Maybe it's different over there in the US, but as someone who lived in a lot of surburban places in the UK and other parts of Europe... well, they're not all that different from the standard town or city here. Perfectly possible to get around without a car, with a decent high street, various transport connections and a bunch of nearby activities for kids and families. You could (theoretically) live and work in these areas while relying solely on public transport.

Yet despite this, I'd say that the decline in the number of kids and young people driving is a fair bit less than it seemingly is in the states.
They are not corner cases, it rely depend on what domain you work in. Currently working on "tooling" for HPC application, and use goto all the time. Any form of system programming in c will probably have lots of goto's. Error handling being the most usual. Also some algos express them self best using goto's. And of course asm, try writing anything in asm without jumps :-)
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We're only happy to see it die because it was never well cared for. Flash was much heavier and much, much more insecure than it needed to be with Adobe-level money behind it. They were terribly poor stewards of the technology. I mean no offense to anyone that was on the Flash team, I am making a (flawed?) presumption that it probably didn't feel great inside the company either.

Others may tell you I'm wrong - it's about standards and open technologies and whatnot. But personally (and for people I work with that I can speak for) Flash failed because Abode failed Flash.
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Couldn't one just macro an implementation of such things that use goto underneath?
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Martin Sústrik wrote about this:
"Let's stop kidding ourselves about APIs" (http://250bpm.com/blog:55)

There are more posts on his blog that seem to touch on subjects mentioned in the OP.
Some of the state-of-the-art allocators close the performance gap pretty significantly, I was comparing to the classic Doug Lea style allocator. I imagine with something like your link the difference will be much less noticeable for allocation speed. However, not having an explicit free can lead to performance benefits, though it seems counter-intuitive. Imagine you are allocating a large number of small, short-lived objects. In the manual case, you have to explicitly call free() for each object as it goes out of scope. The free() call is rather fast for slab allocators, and free-ing everything runs in time O(dead_objects). A well-designed generational GC uses a copy collector for the eden generation, which essentially allocates a new slab and copies over all the live objects, and then frees the old slab. Copying objects is relatively fast for small objects, and this algorithm runs in time O(live_objects), which is much much smaller than the number of dead objects. Plus The copying step moves all the live objects together on the slab which reduces memory fragmentation.