skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent question. It takes decades for new features to fan out to the majority of new cars. After that it then takes decades more for those features to reach saturation of all cars on the road, because only 7% of the car population turns over each year.

The bottom line is it's generally 40 years from the point when features like seat belts, air bags, traction control, and backup cameras are first introduced and when they reach 95% saturation.

Throughout this adoption process, demand for these features among those whose cars don't have them increases significantly!
But baking cakes scales horizontally, just buy 10 million bakeries and hire 20 million bakers. You don't need a baking engineer to reinvent the oven, especially if that'll potentially end up costing you more in the long run.

Throwing away the metaphor, IMO horizontal scaling is sometimes cheaper then vertical scaling.
> selling products to people in the top 10% of global incomes

No, the majority of customers are big corporation with a very large customer base (aka lower and middle class).
The customers are the ones ultimately paying for that - e.g. when they buy food at McDonalds.
I saw about 5-6 products which use Scala.js and I haven't heard of any of them before. Who else uses that? Seems rather obscure.

Is Scala Native used widely? They just finished implementing java.lang.String 20 days ago or so. At least Erlang on Xen has been serving web pages for a few years now: http://erlangonxen.org

But most usage of Scala is on JVM still, wouldn't you agree? We are not talking CPython/Jython/PyPy/Numba... I don't know, the claim that Scala is widely implemented on other platforms while Elixir is tied to BEAM doesn't quite go far for me.
Salesforce steps up its push to make everyone an app developer
It definitely casts the lie to "culture fit." You don't have to be lunch buddies to do good work together.
I don't know if I buy the reasoning in this article, but I agree that locking cell phones in a pouch is crazy. I would never go to a concert that made me do that.

This solution is tantamount to movie studios and cable companies trying to sue everyone that pirates media. It won't scale and it's a backwards solution rooted in denial about the reality of a changed world. Now we see these same companies finally turning around and embracing streaming as a medium, adapting.

Artists don't need to find a way to lock people's phones in a bag, they need to find a way to adapt to a changed environment.
Close.io is hiring remote senior UI/JavaScript front-end engineers
I mean, what's the alternative? It's almost certainly true that only a small fraction of the class cared about the "Other OS" functionality. Those that didn't suffered no damages when Sony removed the feature. Targeting the settlement proceeds to those people makes sense. One of the reasons you have those $2 coupon settlements is because you have overbroad classes where only a subset of members actually suffered harm, and the damages to the class are divvied up amongst class members who suffered no harm.

And $55 seems like a pretty good settlement for someone who used the Other OS functionality. Remember, that's a settlement value--the average loss of value of the PS3 to class members discounted by the probability of success at trial.

I understand the practical problems with providing the required proof, but this seems like a much more reasonable way of structuring a settlement than the potential alternatives.
holy cow, every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling. It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about. For non-technical people, it's more intuitive having the screen-focused on the main content.
They used a DRBD replicated MySQL. Wonder why they used MySQL over PostgresSQL then..
Would be great to know if they looked that up aswell.
I resent that IP block based filtering is done anymore. Legit people are using VPS to send email, and email is a fundamental decentralized protocol of the internet. It's really crappy that in this age of DKIM/SPF/DMARC, we can't do away with IP filtering.
It's disturbing how much they focus on blood and sizzling. I'm not a vampire. I just want something that tastes really good.

Honestly, if plant-eaters took a fraction of the time they take replicating meats and just spent it making tastier vegetables I think we'd all have different diets by now.
For those who are wondering if there are alternative to animal gelatin, Japanese have been using agar [1] (they call it kanten) for centuries to prepare sweets. It's similar to gelatin, but made from algae, so it is absolutely vegetarian. As far as I know all Japanese traditional sweets that require something gelatinous are made with it, so they are safe to it if you are vegetarian/vegan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar
>> does this move us toward a more efficient use of the resources

It's a complicated question, but there's one analogy: The company behind "beyond mayo" can make egg substitutes for ~50% the cost of an egg.
I think on reflection however we need to remember, with all our sprints and agile iterations, that just in Instagram billions of web requests are being served by just dozens of developers based on code written over 25 years now, following good practises and hard work - kudos to the Python Dev team on 25 years.
Especially when reddit is spending so much time trying to court Hollywood celebrities.
Is LiveNation Playing IP Games with Ticketmaster Settlement Voucher Shows?
This should go without saying, but be careful downloading those documents. Guccifer 2.0 could have added a malware payload.
I upvoted you because I like your spirit. I'm very wary of cryptocurrencies in general because I think they're trying to solve a problem based on a flawed understanding of money.
The setting I'm talking about is in Update Settings -> Change Active Hours. From your previous post, it sounds like you haven't disabled automatic updates, so changing when they update so it doesn't happen while you're working might be a good option, and it has nothing to do with the registry.
OK, true. :) But given the course is Python 3 it's moot in that scenario.
Here's what dang said, over a year ago, agreeing with you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739

It's a good point.
I'm in Greece right now, didn't have any trouble setting up a bank account with them.
I understand how it works, I just don't see how it is useful in this instance. How is a smart contract helpful in the case of an online subscription service like netflix? A credit card is less work because I don't have to "refill" the contract every month and it's safer because of the added protection from fraud and erroneous charges that a credit card company guarantees.
I agree. it is pretty sobering.

Just yesterday before this thread even started (I work as part-time cleaner) I was polishing a window. Through it I saw some children in a sitting room, one of who was literally standing centimeters away from a giant flat screen television. Glued to it.

I thought: "Fuck, they don't have a chance". Their attention spans will be torn to pieces like balls of wool by tiny kittens. Now multiply that effect with the Net + VR and you have an extraordinary psychological effect best compared to a drug.

I didn't have a television in my childhood. I read countless books, and without them, I wouldn't be sitting here, I wouldn't have done any of the things I could reasonably consider inventive or innovative. They might not be world changing things, but they were mine and my life was better for doing so.

I was speaking to a friend who has children a few months ago. He was in the process of uploading photos of his family to Facebook. I asked him whether he considered what he was doing to be a moral act, since he is for practical purposes feeding his children's biometrics into a system that they personally have not, and could not, opt in to. He was poleaxed by the thought. He was about to say something along the lines of 'well everybody's doing this' but I could visibly see the thought struck him that "wow, that's actually a really bad line of reasoning I was about to make". Instead he agreed with me, uncomfortably, but he got it.

I don't know how you get millions of people to have that kind of realization. I do think parental responsibility has a huge role though. My parents got rid of the television in the 80s. It was the right thing to do.
Google Chrome drains the life out of your battery: Microsoft
> every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling.

Only when the Show HN is of a website that hijacks scrolling.

When it doesn't, surprisingly, there are neither complaints about hijacking scrolling nor complaints that would be resolved by hijacking scrolling.

There may be a message in that.

> It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about.

IME, non-technical people are thrown even harder by violations of basic platform UI conventions like hijacking scrolling or having no indication that scrolling is necessary.
A surprisingly large part of the world is about CRUD apps. And among the non-CRUD apps a surprisingly large part of them is still CRUD.
Whoops! I updated the graphic. But "programming" in PowerPoint is super tough with the indentation. It always removes the extra spaces to be helpful. Thanks for pointing it out.
If I had to give up meat, south Indian would be a lifesaver. It's so flavorful, you come out feeling filled and sated, and yet your stomach doesn't have the heaviness you get from a steak dinner.
> It probably shouldn't even be legal,

Why should it be illegal to sell a product on whatever terms you want? Sony got sued because they advertised one set of terms but changed them after the fact. That's reasonable. But it's not like Apple purports to do anything other than sell a locked down device. What's wrong with that?
This can become an issue for religious vegetarians, too. In India when you say that something is vegetarian it contains no gelatin or animal fat or anything like that. Vegetarian food is prepared separately.

Orthodox Hindus who move to the West often struggle with this. Even ice cream (marked as vegetarian) sometimes has gelatin. You can ask for vegan food, which is an approximation, but "no milk" is the antithesis of many Indian diets :)

I know such families who basically never eat out ever, and prepare things from scratch at home. Though they usually are more lax on allowing the kids to eat pseudo-vegetarian food.
1) To become as mainstream in a general-purpose way as OOP and functional programming paradigms are. One of the problems I know is lack of composability.

2) To become your favourite approach.
Your response is logical, but ultimately not true for me.

As a vegetarian, I'm weird. As a picky vegetarian, I'm even weirder. That's fine, I'm used to weird, and I don't expect people to cater to my weirdness.

For me, it's not about specific taste. When I went vegetarian, I lost the taste for red meat. Last time I had it (10+ years now) it was NASTY - I remembered it tasting good, but it doesn't meet (ha!) that memory.

No, it's mostly about texture. I want something that tastes _good_ (for however "good" is defined) and has the right chewiness to my mouth.

It's also about convenience - My wife and I have "meat cookies", which are morningstar "burgers" fixed on a george foreman grill, and after a few minutes of cooling, are able to be picked up and eaten like a cookie. The taste is good, but it could be better. Nothing about this experience is like a normal meat-eater.

I will concede that it'd be really nice to go to a restaurant and have an easy time picking out food from the menu. That's less about being normal and more about being able to eat when hungry.

So no - I don't think my desire for meat alternatives is about a desperate need to feel like I belong. Its about having tasty options that didn't kill animals. For many vegetarians straight vegetables can fulfill that need. Not so for me.
Are Doctor Licenses still revoked if you violate the Hippocratic oath?
> Green peppers are nasty and food-destroying in my opinion, which immediately removes over half the vegetarian options out there

I'm a flexitarian, but I'm pretty veggie heavy and have been mostly vegetarian for significant periods of time. I very rarely come across foods with green peppers.
I'd expect them to only teach Swift, they're making Swift a great beginners language and are investing heavily in Swift Playgrounds and surrounding learning content resources.

Apple's other Obj-C/C/C++ languages are terrible for teaching kids how to program with.
The Iron Law of Institutions:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_institutions
I took part in a taste testing for a "revolutionary new vegetarian burger" in the past few months in the SF Bay Area. It was marketed for upscale locations.

That said, it was incredibly good to the point I asked one of the researchers who was making it so I could buy it. Unfortunately they couldn't disclose to me that information, maybe it was this product.
ReFounding LinkedIn
Thanks, but I badly worded my question. What I mean is, I realize there's speculation, but I don't know enough about Satoshi and bitcoin to know if there's been any indication/information any which way of what the possible reasoning is for such extreme desire of anonymity because the story seems so incomplete to me. From your response it looks like it is still anyone's guess at this point though.
...I'm going to have to go with the meat eaters that ARE fooled by the meat alternatives and found them quite (note I mentioned it is a decent imitation of "highly processed meat", not "quality" meat) vs your lone opinion of my burning desire to be normal.
The entire console market is built on arbitrary restrictions. Running only signed code is a part of the business model of every console. Even when the PS3 supported Linux, there were arbitrary restrictions on access to the GPU to ensure it could not be a good gaming platform.
Even minimalistic flat style popularised by Microsoft?
Thanks for posting this. Can wait to test it out
From PS4 to 1.44 MB Floppy: Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS
Law School a Solid Investment, Despite Pay Discrepancies
Foster's rule is actually the reverse of that.

Which can be seen intuitively because non-human predators pick off the weakest and smallest of the pack.
At least with an API, people seem to care more about consensus and seem to agree that it should be planned out. "Just make it work" seems to happen to the guts.

And no, not panacea, just a way of thinking that I think is useful.
Not all use of DNS is the same. If you're attempting service discovery over DNS and need a timely response on changes, any form of caching behavior that does not conform to the specs is going to cause you a headaches when you need it to work most in production.
Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
This is a great writeup. I especially like that you make the actual concrete case for micro-services instead of the hype driven garbage we usually see.

Do you have trouble hiring qualified perl devs?
URLs were never useful - too many odd characters that are hard to vocalize and memorize. Unless you need to point to a media item of some sort (picture, video, article, etc.), they do nothing for the user beyond the domain name.
This is such a huge gripe for me. I love fish but hate the industry. In fact I wish we could have a 5 year moratorium on any fishing. Fishing is the best example for the tragedy of the commons.
> I'm trying to build a 1-person business for quite some time, going back and forth between ideas. Sometimes I think I would like to implement a desktop app, sometimes I feel web apps would be better, sometimes I just want to quit, etc.

I empathize with what you are going through.

> The way I see things now is, if you really want to test the market for something and you can use a web app, do it. It is easier for you to control the updates, iterate faster to improve your idea, and have better discoverability. It is less painful for a prospective client to click on your URL than thinking on downloading and installing your application. The funnel for web applications is smaller than for desktop apps [1], and that is really important when you want to test your application.

Perhaps you are right. I do wonder, though, if there is a place for a desktop offering. Balsamiq Mockups [1] started as a desktop app, if I remember correctly. The plus to an installed app (especially if it is a single executable along the lines of Go, Rust, Swift, etc.) is the customer data can stay with the customer, performance can be quite good without the need to scale the backend, operations can be simpler, among others. (Many of the downsides are already addressed in patio11's article you referenced.)

[1] https://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/
Huh, it's like the pro-life version of paying serial killers not to kill.
> Do you or do you not believe in the link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change?

?

It matters nothing for the chemical properties of CO2.

> If you do not, I am not going to get into a theological debate with a believer.

I am very much a believer, and for technical stuff I believe in experiments, measurements etc : )
At that price point I'd be worried it's an easily accessible target for theft. Is there some way to pair it with your phone or car adapter such that it's useless without those?
Or encountered the remains of, as seems to have been the case of dinosaurs becoming dragons.
> Not because it's good for their bottom line, but because they think it's the right thing to do.

I agree with the op but want to take this one step further.

When you're apple's size, perhaps what's good IS good for your bottom line, in the long term.

Can you really grow a company when most people are too poor to afford your products? No, you really can't.

Will apple do better if there are many more people with disposable income enough to buy more apple products? I think so.

Maybe spending money on education and fixing the environment are necessary for them if they want to keep growing. I'm not saying this to be cynical - i'm saying this because if it's true, it doesn't actually matter whether this is a dollars and cents calculation.
To be fair it's still infinitely better than that other place...
Fedora 24 fixes the font rendering issue. it was a legal thing rather than a technical thing.

Gnome 3.20 and fedora 24 is simply beautiful. Running it on a XPS 13 has been a brilliant experience.
Show HN: TIL Me More – my first Alexa skill :)
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Check it out!
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or maybe try it in your browser https://echosim.io
The Apple App Store Graveyard
Yeah, basically any time a smart contract involves anything that isn't a digital commodity (currency or otherwise) on the same platform, you run into that kind of problem, AFAICT.
Syria's War on Doctors
Eh, they're serving GIFs up as video and low-res, short compressed videos aren't actually all that big these days.
Well, personally, I think the cookie-cutter "I'm surprised by the negativity here" comments at the top of every marginally controversial HN post are a bit surprising.
I'm disappointed by the negativity here. The full article is nuanced and encourages thinking about many aspects of one of the most important decisions we'll each make. Then the replies here grab into one aspect and say "what about the others". They're right, we have to consider the others too, but may of us go through life without seriously considering any of these aspects. If you took this article merely as a prod to reflect on your decisions using your own values, it could be great even without ever moving you an inch towards charity.

Persinally I find self reflection like this challenging to even consider, my mind tends to flinch away from the thought. Thinking about what would be best make me focus on what might currently be wrong. At least reading this article makes me consider my options explicitly instead of my usual implicit choice.

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Programmers so far have been a textbook case of Jevons paradox where increasing the efficiency with which a resource can be used counter-intuitively causes the price to increase.

Automating programing tasks results in programmers being more efficient letting them accomplish the same tasks in less time. This makes it less expensive to accomplish any given programming task which increases the demand for programming tasks which increases the demand for programmers. This causes the price of a programmer to increase even though it causes the price of accomplishing a programming task to decrease.
How to make your open-source project thrive, with Andrey Petrov (shazow)
I tried to read and understand the Lightning Network paper recently. Glad I'm not the only one:

If I’ve gotten anything wrong here, it’s because the Lightning Network is ridiculously complex: the paper is some 57 pages written in blockchainiac gobbledygook terminology. I’m the sort of person who reads academic papers for fun, and can attest that this is not a paper I remotely purport to understand or enjoyed reading. I think there are very few people on Planet Earth who have read this paper and understand it.

If you're one of these Very Few People and you're reading this, a question: do Lightning's channels only reduce on-chain transaction volume in the case of recurring payments (eg subscriptions)? What is the anticipated savings if the Lightning Network is rolled out -- how much of current transaction volume could be handled in channels?
Hey this is great work! What resources would you recommend for someone else who wants to build their own toy language for fun and practice?
It probably is still larger than normal non-animated images
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> why do we stubbornly try to make one thing taste like another

because lots of people love meat but dislike the way it is obtained. compare fake cheese and icecream for the lactose intolerant - they love the taste of cheese and icecream, just not its effects on them.
Ahh, why not 12V?