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> The car comment is people see 0% interest loans for a car and think they are not paying interest. However, if you have cash for the car out of pocket you can pay a lower purchase price.

This is all hypothetical and a really bad plan for increasing your overall wealth. Car manufacturers are the ones who subsidize the loans. If you see a 0% loan, it's not the dealer who's giving you that, so it's entirely likely that paying in cash will save you nothing. Those 0% loans are also for new cars (I've never seen them for used cars) and if you need to save a few dollars, buying used will do far more for you anyway.

> Thus ~35k savings in your first year + 4% net interest (inducing things like that car loan)

You can't just assert 4% interest and hand-wave it away with "things like that car loan". That's double the interest you'd get on the best 5-year CDs. So somewhere you need to account for that extra 2% interest and how it's going to compound for 10 years. You aren't buying a car every year even if that somehow would double your effective interest. Also, if you buy a car outright, it's presumably coming out of that 35k anyway. So no, your numbers still do not work.

> As to housing prices, they might go up or stall. But, because your not in the market you can time things to buy when the market dips.

Good luck with that. Timing the market is a really bad bet. There's no guarantee that the market will dip during the next 10 years. It could maintain growth for 15 years, or plateau after 5, or crash in 1 year (while you're still saving) but rebound and keep growing for another two decades after that. There's also no guarantee that it won't dip 20% as soon as you decide you're buying at the bottom.

> Further, rent control means renting is divorced from increasing housing price changes so you gain a lot of the upside with fixed payments even if prices increase without the downside. Further, if prices fall you can rent somewhere else.

Lots of places don't have rent control. Also, rent control might help your rent stay "low" (it's definitely not actually low in the bay) but it won't make buying more attainable. Again, if you want to rent because you think it's a better strategy than buying, go ahead. But renting while you try to save a half million in cash to buy a house seems like a really bad strategy. Saving aggressively is generally a good idea. If your goal is homeownership, though, saving to buy in cash has not looked like a good strategy since the government started incentivizing mortgage loans.
But I mean, they know how to read letters,numbers and find them on the keyboard to retype them right ? Because if not, there's maybe a time to admit they aren't fit to the job anyway.
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And how many others have done exactly the same and are writing stock picks or selling industry consulting?

Again, unless you are confident that you're a better expert then everyone else, you shouldn't think you will beat the market with just public info.

Now if you're saying that you keep getting updates insider information from the entire industry WHILE you're trading, well, then you're back to the "insider info" part.
How does one implement malloc in C? (Edit: ignore this. As pointed out in the responses, this actually different since GC calls are inserted by the compiler)

Unsafe code, direct syscalls, using only a subset of language features, and coupling to the compiler (both for generating data used by the GC as well as inserting calls into the runtime in appropriate places).

None of this would really be any different if implemented in C. C is clearly an unsafe language, the syscalls would still be there, as would the coupling to the compiler. The difference is that you have to have a fast way to call from Go into C. With Go this is unnecessary.

Of course if you're really curious, you can always check out the source :)
I'm sure NASA, like the U.S. armed forces, creates enough demand through contractors to stimulate jobs growth in certain industries.
I don't really see why this is GitHub Pages specific.
"Wait for the first e-ink cheap as paper. That and solar cells cheap as paper. Then things will get interesting."

Why? Display cost isn't a big deal any more. Display size is getting insane. I was in Costco yesterday. 70-inch TVs for $1500. TV sets are now outgrowing standard houses.

Solar cells already cost less than their installation cost as a retrofit on houses.
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I use OVH. Kimsufi is basically the same company. I think it is their low end alias or white label.

I think Kimsufi limits you to 100Mbps which might not be enough bandwidth speed if you plan on server video or other large files to a bunch of people at once. OVH gives you a 1 Gbps unlimited pipe included.

https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/storage/
The problem is not enough money reaching the people we're trying to help. It's money spent stupidly.
I agree. Also swatch tried this. The respective watch still resides in my collection. Swatch beat (or was it beep) decided the day into 1000 pieces and had no timezones.

Clearly it worked and no one uses the old system anymore. <irony off>

For me timezones are OK. They are a cultural construct developed to accommodate the custom of counting the hours from sunrise (later midnight) and higher numbers meaning later in the day.

Not every sociocultural construct is bad just because it causes us code monkeys some trouble.

And believe me. Trouble it causes day in day out to me.
Got any sources for that? I would be very interested in these tuning parameters and some explanation of what they do! :)
"Believe it or not, Lazarus is probably the single most-cross-platform-compatible GUI builder for native apps that exists, anywhere."

Except they build on GTK 2, Qt 4, and Carbon on OSX. I haven't used it, but the whole LCL architecture seems absurd to me as there's no way that a project like theirs can keep things up to date.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/LCLArchi...
Even punch cards, but more teletype-style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape

The punchcards were considered uncool then, the tape was much better.
Ask HN: Can I still develop web sites with a text editor?
I love the web because I believe it is a great leveler. I do part time development but have come to realise I don't have the time or know how to maintain my own VPS. Reason, I have a full-time job that does not involve developing web sites. I have started exploring static site generators, namely [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/). Why Hugo, because I don't have to install anything, just an exe. My type of application.

I have started looking a CSS libraries like Bootstrap and Foundation. The moment I want to customise something I need to install Sass, Gulp or Node. More applications I know nothing about that I need to learn and maintain. What is your pain-free web development stack?
I've had people do worse shit than this to me.
This is part of how the Ripple network was supposed to work, IIRC. You can issue an IOU in any currency, and it is up to the receiver to determine who they trust and what currencies they'll accept.

It hasn't been much in the news lately due to the lack of going-ons / spectacular implosions compared to the larger networks.
I think the issue people are having is that you assume it should be clear to anyone that searching for "collision search strategies" would not also be searching for a bra, or like this female singer. This implies difficult physics and programming problems are not for women. There is no reason the same person could not be making all of those queries.
> I think entertainment has real value for the human species. But not all entertainment is equally valuable.

> It has nothing to do with me personally disliking it.
Tesla's flirt with the hand off valley
Ha .. almost forgot that one. Do you remember Encarta? Wikipedia of the old days :)
Now I want to do this. I have a friend who's a surgeon and I could probably convince them to supervise or do it for me. I've always liked the idea of my front door unlocking when I am near it.

How hard do you think it would be to remove if it ever became obsolete?
Great suggestion. I'll put this on the road map.
Yup I'm a fan of Mike Acton as well, always fun to show someone who hasn't seen Data Oriented Design a path to a 10-50x perf improvement that they didn't think was possible.

Back when I first saw it was in one of Bruce Dawson's courses where we did simple image manipulation. I think the task was to implement bitblit(move one rect of a bitmap into another rect on another bitmap).

I remember him grabbing one random student's assignment, throwing in some rudimentary timing and then saying, "lets see if we can do any better". By the end of ~15 minutes he'd sped the thing up 800x with a combination of reading by row rather than column, aligned reads and some other tricks that looked like black magic at the time. Looking back now it all seems fairly obvious once you know how the hardware works.

Good times.
Except that mappings between real languages and writing systems don't work that way (being in general far from truly phonetic).
I feel like those fields with highest facility needs / costs would come last if at all. There are many fields that require pretty small amounts of resources for example: Computer Science (I did most of my research on a personal laptop, with other equipment costs <$5,000), Mathematics, Philosophy, Economics, Psychology.

All of these seem very possible to crowdfund with the ultimate goal of unhooking them from perverse incentive systems of typical universities.
If you want to hire 300 people to write reliable software in a language they don't know yet, Go is a good choice. You might also have like half a dozen people who are so deep into Go that they do the stuff in this post.
That's hilarious. The hack value makes it worth the hassle for the $2.50. Plus it will take up less room in my closet!
My partner and I have open communication about finances and just recently set up some budgets for various spending categories. The main point is getting a realistic picture of where we stand on it each week & month. Mint is great but is not accurate enough so it becomes just as much work to categorize expenses.
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Calorie deficits are more important for weight loss than specific macronutrient ratios.
It seems that there is another mass infection on its way. What is really strange for me is the fact that the website from "PCI Policy Portal" is also infected and blacklisted. That is really strange.
Pictographs are difficult, and I'm not sure how pronunciation is sussed out since even modern, living languages have diverging pronunciations in pictographic written languages.

For morpheme based languages (i.e., where the letters make sounds, and then the collective sounds hold meaning), pronunciation can be backtrace by looking at the shifts of child languages. For instance, a lot of english T words had shifted from D words (e.g., 'dens' from french/latin for tooth, to english 'tooth'; many words experienced a d->t shift). When you compare this to other child languages who experienced other shifts, you can sort of triangulate back to the original pronunciation based on how the child languages ended up.

It's sort of like genetics, in a way: if you have two children, one with blonde hair and the other with brown hair, you can infer that one parent had to be blonde.

E: One more analogy since it came to me: Imagine you see a few people walking in different directions, and you want to know where they all started from. You can look at where they are, try to group them in to similar types ('cognates', which words do we think came from the same word), and then look at the path they seem to have been walking down. Then, you draw a line back from where they are, through the path they came from, and hope that the lines you draw for all of them intersect at some point, and that point is your source.

E2: Explaining pronunciation through text is hard.
Instead of customizing, override. It will also make updating your CSS framework as simple as changing a url.
I have a PHD in small children vision, I concur.
Akkadian specifically was pretty easy to handle because it is a Semitic language, like Arabic and Hebrew.
Ah the Swatch Internet Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time ... I remember implementing this for a local BBS, nobody could figure out how it worked.
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You know what's really funny/sad? This bullshit usually comes from the very people who are in a position to make an actual difference. They are the ones who could say, "Come in at 9 and leave at 5:30. Do not work from home. Disconnect, and spend time with family." Yet, they don't, because they really do not care about this problem.
I have heard that in general this is not as interesting as it appears. It works but after a while you stop sensing it and scar tissue will grow around it. Though I did at one point consider this.

This person didn't even seem to get that far.
What he said is that the goal should be that developers need not handle memory manually. GC is one technique to achieve that goal, and the one that has been the most successful so far, however we should not equate automatic memory management and garbage collection: other techniques could offer an as good or even better experience if we took the time to explore, develop, and refine them.
More importantly: "is this interesting". (Yes, it is.)
Thanks! I'm sure you're right - in the past developers will have simply consumed each source's API within their app, which is exactly what I did to begin with.

The algorithms will need maintaining, especially in the case of the scraped sites. I'll be relying on this service for my main project so it's something I'd need to keep track of anyway.
> Why do you want to push all of the responsibility away from someone who willingly undertakes an optional activity with known risks?

Where did I say or even imply that? I just said it's less than 100% – but more 0%. You're obviously quite passionate and/or angry about something, some injustice you've seen or something. I feel like we're talking past each other and you want to have an argument just for the sake of arguing on the Internet. I'm not super interested in that.

I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day. Maybe we'll meet in person one day and debate the issue in a higher bandwidth medium. Cheers.
Linux Mint (OS)
APT-GET (ubuntu package manager)
NPM (comes with node.js, package manager)
Bower (built on top of NPM)
Git / your preferred Git UI (obviously xD)

Personally, I like brackets.io or the Atom text editors. Although those are to your personal taste. I do almost all dev inside text editors except for stuff like file management etc.

Linux is amazing for keeping everything up to date and generally having tons of support and great open source apps.
> Is the issue that people nowadays are too stubborn to ignore the senses they already have, or grow so tired and bored of them that they need to add a completely new one?

That's kind of a negative outlook on the whole thing, isn't it? I imagine people said similar things about, for example, headphones, or GPS. And while both of those things have potential downsides, people don't use them because they're too lazy to read a paper map or too selfish to want to share a music experience with friends.
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A new study finds that mice with genes from three parents live longer
> Hiring really senior early can totally work, especially if you get the product right the first time.

Spot on. I do find in practice that "senior people" get the product right the first time, but are less risky to try to steer the company in directions that may appear "disruptive".
> I'd not recommend anyone performing surgery on themselves, however I'm pretty familiar with some basic surgery on myself in various places of my body (that sounds odd, but I've been in very odd situations)

Can you share some of these situations?

edit: I see you posted a response, but it's flagged as [dead] for some reason :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njj6HZvixK8&t=16m31s
I'm curious. Have you actually tried the HTC Vive? Because my experience with it is entirely the inverse: I get bored playing flat games now. I just want to go back into that VR world.
I don't mind paying for my tools. I have a ST2 license, and will be buying an ST3 upgrade license when it's time.

It's just that $1.5k is hard to justify for a single language environment/compiler. VS2015 Pro is $499, while a yearly Pro/MSDN subscriptions is $1,199/year.
Augmented Reality or AR is a better word.
How long till Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Resistance Infiltrator Model-101, Version 2.4 ???
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My father was a gambler. I deal left-handed because you couldn't have a relationship to him if you didn't play cards, so I learned to deal at age 4 when I was too young to understand that mirroring what he did caused it to be the opposite hand.

I caught him cheating when I was 12 because I was skinning him alive and his ego couldn't take it. We were betting with Christmas cookies and I was winning about 2/3s of the hands and he balked at that.

I have zero problem with gambling and I no way dislike it.

I still believe that, generally speaking, music (your example of entertainment) as well as art, fiction and many other forms of entertainment generally provide greater value to the human race than gambling does.

So, please, kindly, stop with the ad hominems -- "YOU just don't like it" -- which are against the rules here, and give me your argument as to why gambling has as much or more value as other forms of entertainment or kindly leave me alone.

Thanks.
Make a small incision near the implant and pop it out. It'll be a slightly larger cut than the implant, but you can squeeze the implant out through the hole. They're made for easy removal.

Personally I'd get a professional to remove it, it'd be an awkward place to cut with a non-dominant hand, and I think it'll be slightly trickier since you'll need to cut rather deep to get to it. I don't think I'd be able to do that, nor would I want to risk trying.
Except you get dirtier, you get wetter lying in the rainy puddles, there is a greater risk of rats in a subway station, and you are suddenly visibly demoted from being someone who wants a lie-down on a bench to someone who looks homeless, which decreases passers-by's sense of empathy towards you.
Holy crap! 850MB for a chat client!? Just made the argument for truly, native apps right there.
This is actually in the developer commentary for the game, I seem to remember.
Is there a reason you couldn't do the same thing with a magnet or two in the finger tip of a glove?
I don't know that anyone disputes this. The discussions I participate in don't deny this; they mostly talk about whether or not the tradeoffs result in a net gain (if you sacrifice a little from the minority of cases to gain the same amount in the majority of cases, you do indeed have a net gain).

> Value types can result in more copying, reducing performance over pointer indirections through nursery allocations

Having value types means you can pass by copy, but it also means you can allocate on the stack and pass by reference--in other words, you get performant passing without involving the GC.
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Whose frequency spectrum does OpenCellular use? I took a quick peak at Telecom Infra Project (TIP) members page, looks like T-Mobile is participating. So can we assume OpenCellular access points RF uses T-Mobile's spectrum?
It's so much more pleasant to deal with datetimes and timezones when you have a good API that doesn't muddle and mix concepts for you. The Java 8 time API [1] stands out, which was co-authored by Stephen Colebourne of Joda-Time fame [2].

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-...

[2] http://www.joda.org/joda-time/
In Daniel Suarez's "Daemon" novel (or maybe its sequel), one character wears a haptic feedback vest that covers their entire back and torso, with "pixels" that vibrate. It was described as having a second sight, since it's effectively like having low-res monochromatic vision in a 360 degree arc.

I'd be very curious to try something like that, but I have no idea what I'd "project" on such a thing. I suppose if I were a farmer or rancher, it would be interesting being constantly cognizant of where members of the herd were.

Maybe once my kid is older and starts crawling/running around, it might be a fun thing to wear to a museum so I'm instantly made aware if she stars making a bee-line away from me.
Maybe they learnt their lesson from the whole Free Basics debacle and are trying to bring low cost internet to developing areas. But that's just me being optimistic. Realistic me feels like they might just use this as another trojan horse to bring Facebook rather than the internet to more people.
I'd like to see something to drive the adoption of 'local relative' offsets.

It has to be better than 9am is breakfast, noon is lunch, and 6pm is dinner; in that it has to be short and memorable.

The time of an event that happened needs to just be UTC; period.

The time that something is planned might not be an event, but could be a relative reference.
> Makes me wonder if the next tech giant is being founded right now in some garage.

There probably is. And now what? Don't go scouting all the garages in Da Valley just-yet, as basements/coffee shops/coworking spaces/campus dorms are The New Garage 2.0.
The US has always had a diverse variety of ethnic, linguistic, religious and cultural heritage. I'd guess that's part of the reason he's expressly telling them to ignore the differences.
Ask HN: Next cycle
What do you think the next tech cycle be based on? In the first line put the technology in capital letters (AI
...)

Read this discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12044872
I really hate all of the effort taken to prevent people from sleeping (or generally relaxing) on the street in San Francisco. I have on many occasions picked up a sandwich and then walked a mile without finding a good place to sit and eat it. All because we're worried some homeless person might be too comfortable.

The problem is not that homeless people want to sleep on benches, the problem is that we've failed so badly at taking care of each other that people have nowhere else to sleep.
That's brilliant. I love that there are people in the world working on "EEG for birds". It might even be my favourite "X for Y" startup idea.