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Agreed, running so much better than a few months ago when I last tried... Lastpass can now at least see the website I'm on, if they can get form filling worked out, I'd be very happy. uBlock origin seems to be working well now too...
Ah, okay; I suppose that's a fair characterization of it. (I do now override their DNS settings, and I don't think I've seen one since I've done so.)

I still find the ISP one questionable, though I suppose there is a difference between running your own (as the default that most people will not know how to opt out of) and outright intercepting.
Every time I see a Patent Troll vs Big Tech Corp case, I root for Patent Troll.

Don't get me wrong, patent trolls are menace of tech world deserving to be tarred and feathered. But truth is, PTs are not main beneficiaries of broken system. Main beneficiaries are Big Tech Corps (APLN, MSFT, GOOG, ETC). Coincidentally, those companies have enough leverage to fix this system if they wanted to. Problem is - they don't.

That's why I root for Patent Troll every time.
I just went by the use case he mentioned in the video. I don't really know about these technical details for databases etc.
RAID6 is unusable for many types of "always on" data, in particular databases backing high volume sites; the performance drops so much during a rebuild that for many uses it might as well be offline.
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Psychologically, a motorbike feels less like an alien battleship hovering over your head => I do not rule out human reaction to this overtaking them will be quite different.
When you add a device, you do get notified a new device was added, and if you have an existing telegram device, all future devices won't use SMS as the authorisation channel. I think the problem here is that the attackers added a device before the "original" person did.

However, allowing for a reverse-lookup of a phone numbers through its API is a privacy—and security—problem Telegram is directly responsible for, IMHO.
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WPF is a complex beast. It works pretty differently from every other GUI framework out there¹ and has a steep learning curve. While you can program WPF and pretend it's Windows Forms, all that gets you is not very idiomatic code and confusion why you would even put up with that when WinForms is so much easier (except maybe XAML for building the GUI). Now, there's the other extreme as well: people who pretend XAML to be a programming language and try to bash at everything with templates and styles, trying to never have to write a single line of C#. In my experience people scoffing at or hating WPF come from one of those two camps.
> There's not that many appealing residential places next to loud, busy roads.

Yes, yes there are. There are countless elevated highways through the middle Shanghai, I believe the highest is an intersection where the roads stacks five levels high - in the middle of the city.
(a) Cars do obey traffic lights most of the time, at least in Shenzhen as of November/December 2015, when I was living there.

And the GP's point (c) is spot on:

> c.) scooters are everywhere. and they ignore lights/lane

To elaborate - scooters and electric rickshaws basically ignore traffic laws altogether. Driving against traffic is basically their value proposition; that's what you use them for if you're brave enough to drive one / be driven in it. I've both been driven in one against traffic on the main road, and seen them passing us by, going in the wrong direction, when I was going to work by a cab.

Basically, traffic in (Shenzhen,) China looks scary and chaotic at first, but one can get used to it.
Yes. It's in the settings screen. You can remove any or all devices (bar the current one), too.
Don't they have a storage API now at $0.005/GB/mo?
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If asked, say "My previous contract prohibits sharing compensation details [as it probably does], and I take my commitments very seriously."
I think you are creating false equivalencies. There is a huge difference between the risk and commitment that an entrepreneur brings to a venture when compared to any other employee.

Now, if an employee (engineer or not) participates with similar exposure they definitely deserve more than a salary.

Maybe you haven't had a solid failure yet. I have. I lost everything once. And by that I mean everything: home, cars, furniture, even the last penny in my bank account. Everything.

My employees got laid off and found new jobs. Their lives continued (something I was happy to see, BTW). For me it was a nightmare that lasted a few years until I was able to get back on my feet (through entrepreneurship, again).

Everything in business in business isn't rosy. Businesses like Facebook that go from dorm to rocketship with hardly any struggle are pink unicorns. Most ventures have to slog it out and struggle, sometimes for years, before they succeed (and most fail). In this context, paying market rates --which means "only as much as you have to"-- is the fiduciary responsibility of the entrepreneur/CEO. Over-paying because of some unconventional criteria of fairness (that happens to be false) is simply irresponsible.

Because of this and other experiences I am very sensitive to this idea that everyone is equal (in terms of salaries, responsibility, exposure, risk, etc.). That's not the case at all.
> You could say the same thing about subways, but subways can't get into car accidents in the first place.

Trams can. But it still happens only rarely (at least in my home town. You can still fall back to normal buses in that case as a replacement until the crash is sorted and cleaned up.
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Wuppertal.
What was the thought process behind making Nommy look like he is pretending to give someone a blowjob?
Sorry, don't have it. We experienced three separate instances of it, and have to open a report yet.
Ok, I'll agree with your clarified point. Personally I'm alergic to webviews, I can immediately tell which application is native and which is a thin layer on top of the browser, by the very virtue of the latter sucking hard.
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...and increased the wages of otherwise poor Guatemalans, Mexicans, and their families by thousands of percent. Why exactly should I be opposed to this?
While there is merit to what you say, there's also plenty of places where a divide and conquer can happen with appropriate management of the browser as a whole.

You have the core rendering engine, ancillary features to the application, and the shell of the application itself. From the core rendering engine, you have several areas that are subsets, from svg parsing/rendering, parsing/processing of text/xml/html/css, audio/video, almost all the APIs that the browser offers outside rendering can be implemented by different teams (web-audio, websocket, webrtc, etc).

The communication libraries themselves can be broken off too. There is really a lot that can be handled by many developers.

Now if there were say 15+ developers on any one feature, that is probably too many to be very productive. On the flip side, given the push towards rust, there's room for some duplication of effort there even.
guess I should also write the other side of the story -- things I don't like about China.

Overall, I feel that China is like the U.S. in its early days (1920s). Or the 1999 Silicon Valley

There are a lot of opportunities, but less rules. It's a jungle basically. For people with tech depth and want to build something steadily, China is not the best place.

a high percentage of young entrepreneurs there are just opportunists. They are not interested in sitting down and building something useful. Instead, they just want to quickly raise/burn money and go public.

There are way more theranos' there in China.

And you need to have connections to success in China. This is a historical and cultural thing.

I don't know how many of you noticed the recent news of didi acquiring uber China. The leaders of the two companies are actually from the same family. One is the daughter of the Lenovo CEO. The other is the niece of him. Probably coincidence，but you see coincidences more often in China.

My attitude towards China is that I take it seriously. I admit what it does better. But I don't think I'm strong enough to fight in the jungle.
That's very mean spirited of you.

Judges are a vital part of three branches of government. Their power relies on respect, not guns or ability to write laws. The reason for contempt of court laws, whole circus with black robes, "your honor" is to create appearance of "wow, those people are important". Because they REALLY are a very important part of good governance. They just don't have muscle to prove it to you. And you don't really want them to have to rely on muscle of executive branch. Because in case of you vs executive, judges need to be impartial, independent, having their own weight in society.

Unless you know something we don't, you should not imply that this judge is corrupt.
Why couldn't that be achieved with threads? You can have asynchronous threading, I believe. (I get the arguments in favor of e10s, like sandboxing, and I have no beef with e10s, I'm just curious.)
I have no skin at all in this game, but at this point I have to wonder why anybody is still investing in this, it's been one scam after another every six months for as long as BitCoin had been around. Is it all just the greater fool theory?
Does anybody remember the fabulous disaster which was the excite@home merger?

Same thing, different decade.
Can an employee ask employer's debt details?
It's happening in Australia too, but the few people willing to talk about it are crucified by the PC brigade.
Just a note, even Cloudformation is not covering all AWS features. It's more complete but not 100%.
> Surrey, a neighborhood about an hour’s drive

Or a city of 500,000. It is part of the GVRD.
"China is now low-cost, high-quality" --Jack Ma
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Or perhaps, handful of highly trendy and desirable cities are running out of places to live.
Well, Google, Microsoft and Apple make a few billions a year. Undoubtedly, those three invest a much lower percentage of that into their respective browsers than Mozilla does, but it could still easily be more than Mozilla has.

Also just in general, Google can display an advertisement 24/7 on the world's most popular webpage, and bundle their browser on Chrome OS and Android. Microsoft can bundle their browser with the most popular desktop OS. And Apple can bundle their browser with iOS and OSX, which are both still pretty popular in their space.

Mozilla has none of that, and would have to invest a lot of money to get it. They can afford the occasional billboard and organize the occasional PR event, but that's about it. The entire rest of their user gain depends on them being decisively better than the competition, so that people themselves recommend Firefox over other browsers.
Brilliant idea.
I had thought of building elevated train/road track sections, in a factory then, installing them above existing roads or railways, slotted together delivered by airships.
This must be much cheaper though, I don't agree will cause accidents, drivers are amazingly adept at driving close together and missing each-other and other obstacles.
Will be no more difficult to avoid, than obstacles found driving in Paris or Rome today.
> it's on you to come up with evidence supporting this supposed (much) higher marginal value.

There's no more onus on me to prove a higher marginal value than there is on you to prove a lower one. You've attempted to shift the burden of proof by arbitrarily deciding that your assumption is the correct one.

I will say that most of the people I've read trying to determine the marginal value of software engineers, think that it's a good deal higher than what you seem to think it is. When you consider that there are outliers who will make or save companies tens of millions and not very many who are going to have very large negative impacts, the average is going to trend pretty high.

>Everything I've seen points to a real shortage and desperation on the part of the employers: interns making six figures with free Manhattan penthouses, nonstop recruiter spam, 22-year-olds negotiating stock packages on their 8 fulltime offers before they finish school, fresh grads buying Teslas with signing bonuses before their first day of work, countless job listings that never ever go away, $10k+ referral bonuses, websites where employers apply to you...

None of that is at all even remotely normal. The vast majority of software engineers don't experience anything like that.
None of the people you're talking about are close to average. Average programmers don't pass Google style interviews. I went to a fairly average state school, and I've done a lot of tutoring and interview prep. I'd be shocked if 1% of the students I graduated with could pass a Google interview.

It's hardly shocking that the top 1% of engineers are making large salaries. Top law firms start associates out at $200k a year, do you think there's a shortage of lawyers?

If there really was a shortage, Google and other companies would relax their interview processes, and invest more in training.
If anything, the real problem is that everyone thinks they need to hire the top 1%, but they don't want to pay for it.

$150k in silicon valley is equivalent to about $90k a year where I live, so I'm not interested in moving. If someone there offered me $300k, I'd go in a heartbeat.
I ran into this situation with a driverless car at an intersection in Mountain View. It got me all confused. The car too .. it slowed because it was unsure I was getting into the crosswalk or not. Quite a corner case.
> The affordability measure is based on average household income of C$64,000 and a 25-year mortgage with a 25 percent downpayment.

So if most houses are a million you only need 4 years salary for the downpayment.

Ouch.
Disadvantages: what do you do with traffic signaling? You would either have to move traffic signals up and sideways five meters or so or make this bus a few meters higher, so that you can keep existing infrastructure.

Also: this thing being wider gives it about three times the floor area relative to a train, so it would require about thrice the number of doors to get passengers in and out efficiently. How do you do that while keeping it structurally safe? I guess the answer is that that spacious room inside would see a few walls added.
It's still a big effort, learning a language properly is not something you do for 2 hours on the weekend and get proficient at it.

Even more so if you don't plan to use that language for anything else afterwards.

It isn't that hard but isn't that easy either.
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As mentioned in this article, in most cases, father and the business do not move, only part of the family. Apart for spending in property and luxury items, looks like wealthy migration are passive participants in the economy - not starting businesses employing people, or paying much tax.
Holy crap, they fixed the abstraction for long file paths!!! I never understood why they didn't transparently use the long path support for longer paths in .Net from the beginning. I'm still hoping to see libuv do the same (which would be great for node.js).
Pulling straight from my quotes file:

"What one wants is to be able to talk with a diverse club of smart
people, arrange to do short one-​​off research projects and
simulations, publish papers or capture intellectual property
quickly and easily, and move on to another
conversation. Quickly. Easily. For a living. Can’t do that in
industry. Can’t do that in the Academy. Yet in my experience,
scientists and engineers all want it. Maybe even a few
mathematicians and social scientists do, too."

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Well, I think Servo is their leapfrog but in a very different way.

Both IE/Edge and Chrome (and the current Firefox) are based on really old tech stacks with years of legacy code and design decisions.
Servo, if it pans out, will be the only "real" modern browser, which should provide a boost in performance and experience that it will take Chrome and IE/Edge years to match.

It would also make iterating on the browser much faster, which could slowly erode Chrome and IE/Edge's lead.

If Firefox can capitalize and successfully market their new browser it could mean becoming the lead browser for years.
In Finland, the big operators use CGN by default. So if it works, it only works as a one-way street and p2p or hosting your game at home is no-go.

At least one operator allows you to lift the restriction though. With money.
Learning to order lunch or talk about the weather in a second language is not that hard. Communicating at a professional level takes years of practice. For most people - especially mid-career adults with limited time - that's not going to happen.
And Shenzhen is considered good compared to Beijing, which is basically a 3rd tier city dressed up as a first as far as these things go.
Copy/Compete; Otherwise you can't survive :)
No, not even on Android[1]. What was different before was that there wasn't a separate GPU process but OpenGL was executed in the browser process (in process command buffer). In any case the renderer hasn't been working with GL directly on all platforms (outside of tests) for at least a few years now.

[1] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/content/renderer/render...
I'm not denying that the patent system can work for some people. I just don't think empowering a handful of people such as Kearns warrants the enormous cost to our economy wrought by patents.

This cost goes way beyond trolls, by the way. The examples you gave about Apple are also part of my argument that patents have gotta go. Those big companies want to get rid of patent "trolls" but they want to keep patents for themselves to use. It's the moral equivalent of disarming the public and then setting up a military Junta now that there's no means to fight back.
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Investors who rent out their properties might change the price:rent ratio, but they don't contribute to the housing shortage.
And for once the cake is pretty decent.
60-100!! That's (personally) so many. How do you know which tab is which and where it is? My colleague has about 20 or 30 tabs open on Chrome and each time he wants me to look over his chrome for any debugging purpose, I get frusrated that I can't find where the right tab is! (I'm assuming there is a better tab management tool out there).
"in China, its three major internet companies — Alibaba, Baidu and the WeChat parent Tencent — compete to create a single app with as many functions as they can stuff into it"

It's not obvious to me that this is a good thing. Doesn't this just pass the buck down from the phone's operating system and app ecosystem to the do-everything-app's ecosystem? I'd sooner see mobile OS and app software improve their inter-app communication and APIs so that the do-everything app isn't necessary.
Holy sht - they actually did it. And in record time too. Didn't they show off the 30cm model like a month ago?
You can't parametrize type classes over one another in the same way. In practice, this often makes ML style modules much more expressive: for example, I can have a Hashable type class with one implementation per type that is used by a HashSet data type or module, but with MLs there could be a number of modules for the same type implementing the hash function, which can be used to construct the set. This also means things like Monoids or Semigroups greatly benefit, since now you can easily have more than just (+) for ints, for example. You can even use this to derive operations like folds from your base module where you'd never have to apply the arguments to a folder; instead you could do Sum.fold or Product.fold based on the different base modules.
How does UWP achieve architecture agnostic releases then? They claimed it's part of the UWP design.
Without patents, there are no incentives for publicly stating your methodology.

Not true at all. Huge amounts of mathematical research, scientific research, fashion design, and culinary innovation are shared with the public every day without absolutely no patent protection. When was the last time you read a story in a newspaper about a patent filing? How useful was the information in that patent to anybody?
Okay, story time. So a friend of mine is a tram driver. He fondly recalls the time when some idiot had parked across the tram line to go inside a store. Much use of the horn got said idiot out, but he didn't see the problem; "Why don't you just drive around me?" he shouted. My friend shouted back "Why don't you come up here and try that?" The idiot actually came up, sat down in the tram driver's seat, and then promptly deflated as he realised there is no steering wheel, a tram runs on tracks. He got up, with a very long face, and left to move his car to the tune of laughter from passengers and bystanders.
Ask HN: What am I doing wrong with this project?
Hello HN,

for the last two years I have been developing WellDressed, an app that can suggest outfits to wear based on how you look. http://www.welldressed-app.com

And I have never been able to earn a single dollar with it. I'm now getting to a point where I'm going to have to quit. Because I can't afford to keep the project live any longer. But before I do, I hope that I can receive some feedback that can explain why this project is so unsuccessful.

I started out with an affiliate system, I crawl a few stores and display their products in the app. Using twotap users can make an purchase at the affiliated shops, and I should be able to collect a commission. As styles are constantly changing, I also need to constantly update new styles. As a last ditch effort I tried to monetize new styles with an in-app purchase. But no success either.

I'll give you some metrics, to give you an idea what is going on behind the scenes:
Total users: 5600.
Total activated users: 3700.
Monthly churn rate: 19%.
DAU/MAU: 45/700 (5.7%).
Average userlifetime: 145 days.

These users generate a total of:
2800 monthly outfit requests.
15000 monthly impressions of the garments in the app.
600 monthly clicks for more information.
80 monthly clicks to visit a retailers website, or to go to a twotap checkout.

Total revenue: $0

The user numbers are quite low, as I haven't really done any marketing yet. But I do feel that with the current numbers there should have been at least some form of revenue over the last few months. Without knowing if the app can make money, I'm also quite hesitant about putting it out there.

I would really appreciate it if some of you could share some thoughts on why its not working. Maybe I'm interpreting the metrics wrong and is the app doing horrible, maybe the UX just sucks, or maybe there just isn't a market. At this point, I just don't know and I lack the experience of a successful product to reference this app with.
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Don't bring gender into this.

You can't say highly technical fields are comparable to customer support.

Do you think the receptionists in hospitals should earn the same as doctors?
Though the nightlies won't be using WR2 until tomorrow.