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I would expect a great cultural and scientific renaissance because you could devote a lot more time to creative pursuits. Even if many people are too lazy, the few geniuses with much longer lifespans would turn the world over.

An interesting side effect could be that public figures would become more careful, because if you're sunk, you'd be done forever.

Plus the shift from old people retirement driven politics. Much bigger focus on handling employment.
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Well first transpile C to rust and then... :)
Depending on where you live. Germany is anything but a shining example when it comes to broadband and internet access. In fact it's rather mediocre compared to the rest of europe.
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Dealing with overpopulation is best done the Elon Musk way - go to space, it is empty.

A trip to Mars of three months in a lifetime of few hundred could be considered an interesting interlude.
Thank you for taking the time to share your work!
They make vast more quantities off of actual businesses. The $7 repo fee is literally a soft wind on the face of Everest.
Thanks for the response. Even if it's not my thing, it's good to hear your perspective.
My personal experience is that depression is not so much an illness as it is your brain telling you that something is not right with your present circumstances. When I took the pills, they were only treating the symptoms.

You will have to discover your own solution, but for what it's worth, here are three things that actually fixed MY depression:

1. Exercise. Not only will this improve your health--it will change the way people treat you. If you have any kind of physique at all in most places -- instant respect.

2. Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." I think someone said that anger comes from results not meeting expectations. This book brought a lot of things into focus for me and made my expectations more harmonious with reality.

3. Pushing myself to do uncomfortable things for growth. I studied computer engineering because everyone said I was smart, and I liked computers. I had zero people skills. As self-therapy, I went into real estate. I figured sales would be a trial-by-fire for dealing with people. One of the better decisions I've made in my life! Getting a break from semi-autistic engineering types vastly improved my social skills, and having to deal with the general public further refined my expectations of reality.

Hope this helps!
IIRC Gogs/Gitea and GitLab have plans to enable pull request federation, so you could use your own instance to make pull requests on a completely different one.

I also recommend to check out Gitea (community fork of Gogs) if you haven't yet, it's a nice alternative to Gitlab for selfhosting.
The converse is that a size of the group required for taking over the world will get ever smaller.
If you need something simple and similar to Github, checkout Gogs/Gitea (Gitea is the community fork which I recommend to use)
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They perceive the field as moving too slow to reap the benefits.
If that was easy and cheap to do, our problem wouldn't be climate change due to greenhouse gases - it would be climate change due to the earth rotating slower since we'd been using it as an energy source for 200 years!
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Wow, that link is a truly amazing advertiser buzzword salad; it even has an on-brand "up and to the right" graph. It makes me long for the days when disabling Flash and pop-ups got rid of most web annoyances.
And who pays for the backup on demand energy generation when it isn't in use?
That has been the case with all free markets, ever.
> If all roads were owned by companies, should it be OK for UPS to charge FedEx or ambulances more to drive on its roads?

This seems like a good argument against NN. It makes me think that some traffic is much higher priority and should get special privileges.
I was kind of hoping it meant "internet" in the sense of "I can connect to and control the device from my phone", not "the device will be sending data to its manufacturer". Hopelessly naive, I know.
You did not just say that. Alright -- here we go.

What you said is not true at all, and frankly, it sounds arrogant (which I don't mind, except in this case, you're wrong).

Let's go ahead and apply your logic to Pokemon Go:
"It's an iPhone game named Pokemon Go".

That statement tells me nothing about Pokemon Go. I speak to you as someone who has played over 1200 hours of Pokemon Red, Yellow, Fire Red, Sapphire, Emerald, and Diamond. Gamers are experienced and humble enough to know that "Super Mario Run" could mean almost anything. Do not make the mistake of underestimating game developers, least of all Nintendo.

I posted a comment here about my first impression of the game's title:

"First thing that popped into my mind was Pokemon Go, but for Mario. Is this a Mario branded game which gamifies running in real-life encouraging kids to run to various locations to find coins or something?".

Other people on HackerNews seemed to share this viewpoint! It turns out this is not at all what the game is about.
> Once you hire a perm employee in U.K. and they pass the probation period, it is very very difficult to fire anybody with current laws.

Which laws? The probation period seems to be quite diversionary for the employee - I know quite a few people who think that when they pass probation they're "safe".

If you were employed after April 2012, the law prohibits you taking your employer to a tribunal for unfair dismissal unless you've been employed for 2 years (except for discrimination).

More importantly, and far less discussed in all the HR/labour blogs on the web: in my experience and circles companies now make you quit by, for example, forcing a change in working requirements you can't meet, tearing up your old contract (and presenting a new one with worse terms), making changes to your job and so on.

> 3. Probably also a perception problem. Software engineering is not seen as a good job comparable to lawyer, doctor or banker. So engineering profession is not respected and companies don't think engineering jobs are worth more than 30-40k.

That I agree with, especially if the company's main product/service isn't software.
I like "Google and Grandma" and will use that in the future, thanks :)
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P.S.> On a professional note, chasing buzzwords and credentials is a servile pursuit, and will probably put you at a bargaining disadvantage. The key thing is to provide value.

I know people without degrees who have provided value. People come to them, and pay them what they ask.

I also know people from MIT and Princeton who have not provided value, and they still have to toady-up and suck it like everyone else.
Keep in mind wind CF's are still increasing as the world moves more to offshore wind farms with taller turbine heights.

See for example the new Burbo Bank extension off Liverpool. Dong Energy tweeted me this when asked about their Vestas CF's there: https://twitter.com/DONGEnergy/status/775692082497351680

"In general it is fair to assume a capacity factor of app. 50% for new wind farms at good sites."
Yeah, it is ad-centric but can be reconfigured.

One advantage over other HTML IDE's is that GWD's output is generally readable code, which can be extended, rather than obfuscated proprietary (adobe) bullcrap.
I personally moved away from Github, mostly due to political issues, secondarily because of this funding issue. Can't keep burning money forever.

I put my private stuff on my own Gogs instance or on Bitbucket, tho I like Gogs UI much better, it's closer to github. The community fork of it, Gitea, is also making progress to enable pull request federation.

Would be awesome if I could work together with people using Gitlab, Github or Gitea without them having to sign up
to my site. They just fork to their own site, make their patches and submit the pull request to my upstream.

GitHub has little value to me, the social network they built can move elsewhere like it is for many programmers and coders.
I have no love for what you call "guilds" either. That said, there's a huge difference between learning to run machines casually and through some combination of schooling and supervised hands-on.

Example: TIG and MIG welding. I have both. I can make decent welds. They look pretty. Learned on my own just futzing around here and there. Yet, I would never, in a million years, trust my welding to, say, build even a light aircraft. I, objectively speaking, don't know what I am doing when compared to the aerospace certified welders I walk by every day.

> The mythology of it being so hard is a fantasy

I disagree. Perhaps scale and application is the difference here.

A gadget for a Kickstarter campaign? Sure, anyone can screw around at a maker space and get one or a few done.

Something like a Dyson vacuum cleaner that needs to be designed and manufactured at scale and be safe and durable in the field? No way. This requires experienced engineering specializations from EE, ME design to manufacturing engineers, materials engineers, test engineers, machinists, mold makers, process engineers, etc. Way different reality.

Move up another level to Medical or Aerospace and things get even more interesting.

And some industries are just awe-inspiring in terms of their manufacturing process. One such product are LCD displays. A typical factory for the LCD displays on your computer costs somewhere in the range of two billion dollars to build. Two billion. It's a massive undertaking. Automation, clean rooms, robotics and all kinds of specialized processes designed to optimize quality, cost and yields. To compare that to the software "manufacturing" process is as silly as one can get.

Will AI help streamline some of these processes over time? Sure. Of course. You are still going to need a two billion dollar plant to make LCD's and similarly scaled facilities and equipment to make cars, radios, batteries, ovens, etc.

Look at making cars as another example. Even if the CAD-to-CNC process was completely automated and perfectly executed it would still be less than a rounding error in the context of the cost, processes and complexity of manufacturing a car.
I don't think the whole point of the game could have been to "clear" the levels. I mean, Mario auto runs and auto hops enemies. Save from having to manually jump pits its not really that hard to get to the end of a level.

I think the whole point is to get a coin highscore and/or collect the purple coins in every level.
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Currently probably the most impressive treatment, yes. But it is not patented, so no company can go out and make a killing off it ;-)

Much better than the second best, statins.
>but we're talking 10^7 kg, not 10^25 kg

which, let's not forget, is still 10,000,000 kg!

But it gets worse. The thing I quoted, which generates 150 lbs of magnetism -- only weighs 0.3 ounces!! (0.01875 lbs or 0.0085 kg).

were your figures for 150 lbs or for 0.018 lbs of gravitational force from a point source? :)
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I replied to your other comment, and my stance is unchanged.

You got lucky in assuming what the game would be about. If you had done the same thing with other games (e.g. Pokemon Go) you would have completely missed the opportunity to discover a new kind of game.

I advise not judging things by their cover, unless you want to risk not discovering something new.
Ask HN: Securing My Phone Number
Phone numbers are becoming ubiquitous two factor authentication channels (or one factor, because some services allow a reset via SMS) for critical services like email addresses, domain names, and financial accounts.

Are there any best practices to secure my phone number against malevolent actors who want to hijack it or intercept its incoming SMS/calls/voicemails? Are there any carriers that are better or worse than average at preventing these attacks?

I live in the US but feel free to share about other international carriers as well.
No, it's different at Amazon. I worked for Amazon for five years and not a day went by without me overhearing "how does this help our customers?" I've never seen anything like Amazon's company culture since, it's truly dogmatically geared towards customer experience.
Hah, fair!

Admittedly, there is also some different psychology at play: this guy knew it was a temporary windfall, and wouldn't last.

Even if he was dumb enough to blow his basic income, and end up on the streets for the rest of the year, he probably wouldn't make the same mistake twice ;)
>That's one reason seeing tooling like this, and Adobe Edge is something to look forward to.

Adobe Edge is dead.

https://www.adobe.com/products/edge-animate.html

Note: As of November 2015, Edge Animate is no longer being actively developed.

Prior to cessation of development it stagnated for a few years before finally being put down. Shame, really.
My family is is on AT&T Uverse, and pays $52/month for 24Mbps down/5Mbps up and $134/month for 2 HDTVs, 1 non HDTV, a DVR and their lower-mid tier 300 channel package (mainly because mom likes to watch HGTV, DIY and the Food network channels). Those numbers are from our last bill and include AT&T fees (including their HDTV receiver fees in 2016), government taxes, etc. We got an HDTV quite early (circa 2004) and at the time went from Dish Network to DirecTV. And for internet, we separately paid for AT&T DSL, which might have been at 3Mbps for a mid-tier package at the time. Around 2009/2010 an AT&T salesman came to our door to talk about this new Uverse offering in our neighborhood. They talked about it being fiber, just like Fios from Verizon (though I suspected it wasn't really the same since our streets never were dug up- which is in line with it being fiber to the main node outside of our housing tract.) They enticed my parents to get out of their expensive contract with DirecTV and pay less for the same TV package with an included DVR accessible to the entire home, and a faster internet speed without any contract, or equipment rental fees. The offer was hard to pass up and was a better deal than signing up for a contract with TWC, paying a lower price for year 1 and then getting ripped off for your second year of the contract. I vaguely remember it was something like $100 or $120 when we signed up for the TV and internet service. The internet speeds were always lower than advertised and occasionally the TV would drop out but it became more reliable over time. At some point were offered a lower rate to sign up for a 2 year contract, and though we did, I think it has since expired and may be back on a month-to-month device. The problem with their service has always been some box dying after a year or so, and calling their support number (which redirects to a call center in the Philippines typically) to have them dispatch a technician but other than that, the technicians are usually very well trained and get the problem fixed right the first time, and allow us to call them back for 30 days after the service call for help without contacting their main support line.

My parents have heard horror stories from TWC customers who have been overcharged, service that has been poor, and squabbles with home internet data caps (of which ATT has none- at least as shown on our bill). We could go with something like a DSLExtreme or Sonic.net, but then our TV bill would go up. I definitely wish for any bit more competition in our area, but it's doubtful to happen anytime soon.
> Now, take an AK-47 - due to it's massive parts and loose fitting it can be filled with dirt and sand and happily continue operation.

Not quite. It is statistically more reliable in such conditions in a sense that it will have a higher mean rounds to failure number compared to most everything else. But MRTF won't be infinite. In fact, it'll still be low enough that you will definitely notice.

Then there's the reason why. Loose fitting and massive parts, yes - but that also requires overgassing to move those massive parts (and then it also moves them faster than they actually need to be moving to cycle). So you're basically sacrificing energy efficiency for the sake of some extra oomph to clear problem. On any cycle that doesn't actually have a problem to clear, the sacrificed energy is wasted.

Then there's the normal metal stress and fatigue when running something 24/7 non-stop. Here's what happens when you do it to an AK - the guy is running a full auto rental range in Vegas for tourists, and shared his experiences about how soon guns fail, their failure modes etc:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_4_64/159106_AK_abuse__update_on...
You'd speed it back up in times of energy surplus. It's a giant flywheel.
Seems to need -mavx2 to really go to town with 64 bit: https://godbolt.org/g/6EFYeY
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> (one of the few publications that still uses it)

You forgot to add "in the United States" after "publications".
Why am I the only one being asked to "stop"? I didn't open this can of worms, and I'm seeing a literal few pages and multiple threads of back and forth from others on this very topic.
Having your programming skills first was a surprise to me. Usually it goes either: about, work, education skills or about, education, work, skills. I do not want to be mean here but why would you bring up your depression in a job interview? Imagine you are the interviewer and are looking for a qualified candidate. The guy seems like a good prospect and then suddenly drops the "I'm depressed" bomb. Huge red flag! It costs a lot of time and effort for a company to hire someone and a ticking time bomb is not a good investment.

Fix your depression, it's all in your head. It's not reality what matters, but our thoughts about it. Imagine you have no emotions or feelings whatsoever and you are just The Observer. See man kill another man? OK. Now if we put a moral/ethical framework on top of that we suddenly start to feel icky. Use this to your advantage and read up some Stoicism, my friend.

You can not change the past, so why spend so much mental energy agonizing over it?

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, go get it! ;)
Which political issues? I'm honestly curious.
Rally is really fun! Changed my outlook on the game entirely.
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I live on a farm with expensive/limited satellite net. I'm also a huuuuge Mario fan and retro game collector. I /was/ really excited for Mario Run but the always-on requirement makes it a no-buy for me and really disappointed me.

Worst part is all my friends are saying it's a great game!
Hi there,

Another Greek guy here! First thing, congrats for rolling this out. This is one of the 300 things I wanted to do but never got around it. A few things I would do differently:

1) I would have chosen a more self explanatory name (e.g. technews.gr, hackerbits.gr, 1024bits.gr, etc.)

2) You seem to have rolled out your own implementation which is interesting. I would have used lobsters[1] which is based on RoR. Lobsters is a responsive, battle tested, community driven effort.

Broadly speaking, this looks more like an effort to learn about programming while working on something interesting, than an effort to create a community (i.e. You're focussing on programming and not in recruiting users and content-creation). HN is primarily a community. Good luck with everything! :-)

[1]: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
In principle, yes. But...

...that assumes elections work, which is becoming more and more dubious. Remember that he actually lost this election by popular vote, just like Congress would be in Democratic hands if it weren't for gerrymandering. And I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to assume that this president will be even more brazen about undermining the election process than anything that's come before.
Ask HN: Two weeks to prepare for technical interviews, where to focus?
Long story short: I'm a software engineer and sick of my work environment, so I quit. Life's too short.

Where can I get the most bang for my time preparing for technical interviews?
Good point — I should have specified english-language publications, since the diaeresis is still common in other languages. (Unfortunately, I can’t edit my original comment.)
Thank you, that's almost crystal clear.

Suppose 1 in 100 patients (for X) die at the best hospital and 3 in 100 die at the worst.

Keeping percents the numbers are much less scare mongering.

Best: 1% die, 99% live
Worst: 3% die, 97% live

Comparing the percents makes it sound much more significant "three times" (sounds like 300%, in an emotional sense).
It's true, I drive exclusively in and around the city. That said... even on winding roads like that, I can't see it pushing the limits of 'handling' of any car that I've owned, unless I was really pushing it in a way that would be irresponsible on a public road.

But I admit I might feel differently if I had to navigate roads like that on a daily basis.
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Curious if this is a real problem for people and how much you would pay for a service that does the following:

- Turn your idea into a landingpage
- Create custom branding for credibility, including a logo, color palette etc. (instead of using unbounce or a generic landing page builder)
- Improve/write the copy for a better conversion rate
- Promises to get you at least 100 people to sign up to your pre-launch list within 4 weeks or else all the work done is yours for free. These are targeted people that opted in, showing interest in your idea which you can then later work with to launch your product to, or talk to in order to improve what you're working on.

Was thinking in the $2k range, but love to get ideas
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Look into "Pratt Parsers". It's reasonably easy to implement one based on some blog posts etc.
I'm guessing parent is referring to stuff like the "meritocracy rug" and "code of conduct".
Agree with the opinion that it's gambling addiction.
I also quite often play poker at casinoz.club. After hard day at work such games help me to relax. But I've never played on money. I know a lot of people who spends hundreds dollars each week on gambling.
I thought the same. But running while looking at your phone seems like a recipe for disaster.

Maybe an audio game could work? Imagine a simple app that plays the coin sound when you jump.
Yeah, also being able to inspect live code in the browser drank dreamweaver's milkshake.
The standard doesn't say anything at all about dynamic linking AFAIK, so it's basically OS-dependent. I think it works (as in the algorithm is well defined) in Linux, but it's best avoided due to complexity and non-portability.
>For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option.

It's not about being the fastest, though, it's about being more convenient.

And even fastest depends on the area. Where I live (near a city centre) I can chose among 300 restaurants from a centralized meta-ordering service, and have their food delivered in 20-40 minutes.

It will take me 20 minutes to even decide to get up, find my keys, drive around, order and wait for the food.
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