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Ok, we edited the title to use language from the article. If someone can suggest a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
I sense that you are not currently their target market the way that Heroku was not originally intended for the enterprise but have since expanded to it. There's nothing wrong with that, of course.

My first time deploying to Heroku in the summer of 2011 was a magical moment after spending a rather frustrating day futzing with a bunch of more barebones providers like Linode, AWS, Engine Yard, and few others I can't even remember at this point. I cannot stress how magical it was -- I like to think I'm a competent enough developer but I wasted a long time gluing things together and never quite getting it right for some reason. Before calling it quits for the day I decided to try that Heroku thing I had been reading and within 20 minutes I was up and running. That was impressive.

To note, I've been a happy paying customer of theirs since then, so they've made a decent chunk of change off my business over the last 6 years. If you can capture companies and projects in the infant stages, you can grow with them for quite a long time before it, if ever, becomes economical to roll your own infrastructure.
The Privacy Enthusiast's Guide to Using Android
We edited the title (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13665941).
I've seen ads on these screens while in taxi for departure on Air Canada Rouge (domestic) flights. Really annoying, I couldn't find a way to turn off the display.
It's now pretty confusing. Because there is/was an extensions sidebar. Which is still in there. Which is pretty much the same thing. You can turn both on and they seem to accept different kinds of extensions. Pretty confusing.
Which is almost vacuously true -- the question is whether people will be better off overall and whether the value the subsidy is worth more than the cost. Surely someone must have thought so at some point since it currently exists.
The fact is not everyone can live on a half acre. The tax revenue isn't dense enough to support the infrastructure people expect (ignoring the awful environmental and land use effects that would have).

The US is seeing fiscal and infrastructure problems across the country from municipalities who spread themselves too thin the past 60 years. They don't have the funds to maintain, much less improve, their infrastructure. We need to make it easier to build denser and start thinking about how to develop more sustainably going forward.
>The friends that I’ve maintained all along (and many of them are former employees) understand me.

The equation of "employees" with "friends" here is a red flag for narcissism. It's possible to have friendly relationships with employees but that relationship is still primarily about exchanging services for compensation. As a result, the employees will put up with a lot more nonsense than any person whose livelihood is not directly dependent on keeping their boss happy.
Geeze...as I finished reading this essay I thought to myself "wow that was great, I'm glad he could share that...I wonder what the comments have to add" and the answer is...absolutely nothing. You're all a bitter bunch.
- To plot a pixel in VGA Mode 13 it was quicker to do memaddress = (y<<6) + (y<<8) + x rather than (y * 320) + x to index into the frame buffer. Bitshifts are nicer than muls.

- Precompute your sin table into an array of 255 entries and then access it using index&255 to wrap around to avoid those pesky floating point calculations.
This stuff is fascinating, especially the challenges in fabrication as the theoretical limits are approached. I do have a question, if an expert could help explain. The article says,

"With FMC’s proprietary hafnium oxide, the standard gate dielectric can be made ferroelectric—even for film thicknesses that compare to the one used in standard logic transistors. This proprietary hafnium oxide integrates extremely well with all current and future processes utilizing HKMG. Therefore, a scalable ferroelectric FET finally becomes possible."

What is proprietary about the hafnium oxide? Is it the process of creating it, or the molecule itself?
There are two reasons I posted this:

1. One of the companies we started working with is named after megalightning (ELVES-Emission of Light and Very Low Frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources). I had never heard of megalightning before and wondered why.

2. There seems to be very little information about ELVES and wanted to know if anyone had some insight on it.
Keep in mind that when bikers, pedestrians and public transportation riders are inconvenienced enough, they don't stay home. They get in cars, and get their cars in front of us, all while we have places to go.

Incentivising alternatives to driving reduces traffic, and is in the drivers' best interests.

Ideally, you and I would be the only ones left on the roads :)
Peter Norvig has an iPython (jupyter) notebook that explores this same puzzle: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probabili...
A link to the paper mentioned in the article (paywall/institution access): http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7838397/

TL;DR - Much lower erase time than NOR Flash (3 orders of magnitude), 1/3 voltage required for write/erase, all other parameters typically the same

The results from the paper are summarized as follows:

- Cell size is comparable to current NOR Flash (0.045 um^2)

- Endurance is also comparable (~10^5 cycles)

- Estimated 10 year retention @105C, compared to 150C for NOR

- Read time <25 ns, versus <10 ns

- Write time around 500 ns (1/2 of NOR)

- Erase time around 500 ns, compared with 10^6 ns for NOR (!)

- Energy consumption not yet measured, but claimed less than Flash

- Max voltage of 4.5V, versus 12V for Flash
And of course there's never been dodgy Chinese ripoff copies of "expensive" items that look the same but are likely to fucking kill you.
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But there's no reason why higher bandwidth equipment is going to be more (edit: I meant hugely more....) expensive: same pointing problem to solve.

BTW there's going to be higher bandwidth (edit: adding Ka band to the previous L) from Iridium once Iridium NEXT is fully up.
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In principle, if you can make a 1:1 atomic swap between driving subsidies and a Manhattan-level subway system, you should do it.

In practice, I think you're likely to eliminate people's current perfectly good option just to lift public transit from abysmal to mediocre. It would depend on the proposal.
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Agree, _their_ shit may not be important to you but it's important to them that's where within reason you step in to help out where you can. Vanishing at the first sign of problem tells it wasn't really friendship but more college or associate.
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> no person with style buys $300 jeans, they're basically a product targeted at insecure nouveau riche... just shop at H&M)

Hi, I understand what you are trying to say here, but please consider investigating the world of apparel a little more deeply before making comments like this. H&M and similar fast-fashion companies are deeply involved in practices like blatant, continued design piracy from both famous and small, independent designers; as well as unsafe and exploitative labour practices, including in third-world countries. In addition, the clothes these stores produce are not very high quality and tend to degrade quickly, making them only useful for staying up-to-date with trends pioneered by the designers fast fashion brands mimic.

Ethically designed and manufactured clothing that is of good value (ie lasts long) costs money to produce. $300 for a pair of jeans is very high, yes, but H&M is not the alternative I would recommend. I would also say that many people "with style" can easily and in fact viscerally tell the difference between a pair of H&M jeans and a higher-quality pair, and would not balk at paying that price for a piece of clothing, especially for a wardrobe staple like jeans. It is not a "nouveau riche" affectation as much as an appreciation for artistic vision, design, and craftsmanship. Of course personal income is a factor here and I'm not suggesting everyone should be paying that much for all the clothing they own.

If you're interested in learning more about these topics, I recommend reading publications like WWD, The Business of Fashion, or The Fashion Law (though I am not vouching for their reporting and editorial stances in all cases). Consumer awareness of the nature of fast fashion is the only way I see for the fashion industry to move forward from these issues.
> I can attempt to infer his values from these vague statements,

Well, there's a whole book that goes in to specific details about those vague statements, so you don't have to infer much at all about what he means by them.

Much of the crazy, and supposedly unpredictable things Trump does, follows the playbook laid out by Art of the Deal. He's been following the same script for decades, and people are somehow surprised when he keeps doing the same thing.

> but I think that it is improper

I'm not commenting on the propriety or value of Trump doing this, just pointing out that he does do it (whether others think it improper or not).

Love him or hate him, if you want to understand him, the Art of Deal provides insight on that.
It's called "covert narcissism". Whereas overt narcissists openly admit it and are proud of it -- to the point where the most effective method of determining if someone is an overt narcissist is to ask them directly, "are you a narcissist?" [1] -- a covert narcissist is in outward denial -- it's the humble brag, deflecting, blaming, playing the victim. Both are a form of mental blindness that prevent you seeing things as they truly are -- as are fear and __envy__ [2]. The first paragraph is telling (it's all there):

The low-confidence cynic in me wants to tell you that a seven figure exit isn’t really that much. I have friends who have had eight figure exits, and I’m met multiple people who have had 10 figure exits. This is my experience as a guy who started a business with $10k in personal credit card debt and $200 in the bank, and accidentally ended up a millionaire.

Envy is a sneaky devil, buried deep inside -- hard to see in yourself, hard to identify (maybe even moreso when you have money) -- but it's often at the root of anxiety and low self-esteem. And when envy and pride play tug-of-war, they wreak havoc. Snapping out of it requires humility -- true self-reflection, deep introspection -- and the courage to acknowledge and take responsibility for your actions. Perspective is key, but it's the thing they lack.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140805150645.h...

[2] https://outre-monde.com/2014/08/21/the-psychology-and-philos...
"Maybe he isn't this business savant and maverick. Maybe he just got lucky and the momentum of that took him over the line into success."

He spent 10 years (LinkedIn) for a 7 figure exit. So, he is neither a maverick nor just lucky, he was just a hard worker business owner. But, you are right. There is no magic here.
this reminds me of high school when "the matrix" was all the rage. The pseudo philosophical nonsense even bled into university.
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> First and foremost, security is our priority

In response to https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/09/mongodb/ ?

"MongoDB databases are being decimated in soaring ransomware attacks that have seen the number of compromised systems more than double to 27,000 in a day."
I'm not sure what you mean by parallel class hierarchies. I use a factory if I have a class that needs to be able to make an instance of some other class, but shouldn't know about how to construct it (i.e. it doesn't need to know about the dependencies that other class might need to function).
I am not missing the point. I have worked with many amazing people, the more the better. Some are immigrants. Clearly, the total number of amazing people in the US is going to decline if we are unfriendly to immigrants. I want the best country, so I want immigrants.

Sorry that this argument doesn't work for you. But yes, you are engaging in a variant of the "lump of labor" fallacy: the more great people we have, the more innovation we will have.
You can't be uncivil like this on Hacker News regardless of how much you disagree with someone. Please don't do it again.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13665623 and marked it off-topic.
Finally some competition for Terraform.
It would be nice to see an article comparing public transportation and automobile transportation in another geographically large country (Russia?) and the US.
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Maybe look again? The comments in this thread are mixed. Some are dismissive or defensive in their own right but others (quite a few actually) have thoughtful responses and several people have posted their own similar/contrasting experiences.
The problem is that homeowners see their house as an investment, and therefore expect it to accrue value at a predictable rate, and so they'll fight tooth and nail against housing availability in the city.

We basically need to bring the hammer down at the state and federal level on urban NIMBYs, because it'll never happen if left up to city councils.
How complicated have your terraform templates been? Because it gets pretty hairy pretty fast because not everything fits the declarative terraform model.
Didn't pay for hosting. It was not good anyways. Neither am I planning on building it again in near future.
> As a contrarian defender of driving in these threads

I don't think anyone sane is suggesting that we should all stop driving from one day to the next, so there's no need to 'defend' driving. It's more about making driving one option among many, and eliminating some of the subsidies.
This is symptomatic of the world we live in now. Some people don't even think twice about spying on their users.
Simply put - people like living in houses and having a yard. Until this changes, much of the public will continue to drive.
That's a very good idea. We will reach out to them.
I disagree. Read a nice sci-fi story about this: http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
Its very hard to see facebook raising in my expectations.

I'm really against facebooks spying, hiding and deleting people's account culture.

Also forcing people in these small ghettos gives to me strong claustrophobia feelings.

Also calling users "Dumb f.." is really low..

Nope Mark, cannot see this happening.
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You want more abstract examples? Or more abstract patterns?
Great, fine, you can have that if you want it. But no one's trying to make that illegal. On the flip side, dense housing and tight residential-commercial zoning is illegal in most places.
I believe an artificial intellect could be created one day, but I don't see how it is possible to create intelligence.
I got one from Aldi around Christmas, maybe they were just clearing stock?
Hafnium oxide itself doesn't seem to be proprietary, and neither does the process of producing thin films that have ferroelectric properties[1]. My guess is that they've made some additional modifications to the compound and/or process.

I'm venturing way outside of my field here, so I could be completely wrong.

[1]: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3634052 (search for the title in Google Scholar to get a PDF)
To the defense of the boots, you don't need to be rich to value a good pair boots. Get yourself some Red Wings and they will last you a lifetime. I would go as far as to say those who go cheap on the boots will spend more money on replacements through the years than those who buy quality the first time.
It seems extremely plausible that American society fell in love with the automobile and went on a nation-wide car-friendly infrastructure building binge after WW2 before many of the downsides were well understood. Were the people selling suburban homes to people with G.I. Bill loans doing environmental impact assessments, calculating emergency services response times, and giving their customers projections for what the commute times would be in 10 years after all the houses were built and occupied? We didn't even know the right questions to be asking back then, let alone have quality data to answer them.
Much of Manhattan is not that dense either. I mean, it's denser than most places, but a decent chunk of it is the exact type of thing you're describing -- five to six story buildings.
This makes good sense to me, Uber drivers contribute to degredation of expensive infrastructure (roads) and will also contribute to pollution (noise, air, run off into waterways), affecting the the host country in which Uber is conducting business. Therefore, it makes sense that anyone making a profit from such services should be giving back to the hosting community, just like anyone else running a business would have too.
Higher bandwidth means more noise, which means you need either higher gain or more sensitive detection (until you hit thermal limits). They're very interrelated issues.
Data sources in TF are sort of that. But I get what you mean.
I was being a bit ironic but you're right. I wonder what life circumstances make two different people read the same essay and come away with completely different feelings about it.
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Windows is pretty focused on backwards compatibility. A large portion of their market comes from the fact that the latest version of Windows can still run 10-20 year old programs written for Windows 98, XP, etc.
You could sign it yourself and install that certificate into your system. A certificate that will work for everyone would cost about $200/year, which I don't think is too unreasonable.
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Chinese students in US use “inclusion” / “diversity” to oppose Dalai Lama speech
Link to study failed for me; this works:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w23153
Can someone explain to me how something like Snapchat would be worth even 500 million, let alone remotely close to this 18+ billion? These kinds of valuations from the past few years scream "bubble" to me. This sort of thing is so far beyond the realm of reality that it's way past the point of being funny. It's a... farce? It seems like the industry pretends to not understand the word "million", and instead only consider the term "billion", whether or not the individual company/situation deserves it.
The article consists of sarcastic remarks every |(random() % 3) + 2| sentences of the original letter.
"So sad"

The main thing I get from the letter is:
FB is going to try to address the issue of filter bubbles, because they make people dumb.

I thought FB would never do that, because breaking down the bubbles will have an impact on the retention and daily usage, and thus the revenue.
In other words, Zuckerberg is ready to be less rich so that people are less dumb. That's pretty cool.
MIT estimates pollution from road vehicles causes 53k premature deaths per year in the US.

http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-e...

I wouldn't hesitate to guess sedentary auto-oriented lifestyles also have an enormous health cost, along with stress from road noise, traffic etc.
I'd hope they'd have separate cable trays for critical and noncritical wires. And we have flame-retardant plastic that isn't deadly poisonous.
What a great story. You should write a blog post. ;)

Lee Chang Hee and Lee Meng Hee were the other two sons of the founder, but they had already been written off long before 1980s, and had no part in Samsung operations by then. So I'm not sure if either them of was your benefactor. Now I'm curious.
I've been out of touch with Mongo for a while, but when did it stop being common practice to just hide :27017 behind a firewall with only your app's DB access layer (or, at most, a few nodes in the local subnet) talking to it?
I've just gotten started working my way through "build your own general relativity." ;-)
I've been that friend, and I have to say, people that have those kinds of problems tend to have them over and over again. Not being that kind of friend cuts those kinds of people out of your life, and that's a net plus.
>but this comment has a definite bias.

The fact that a majority of poor people are not criminals does not exclude the possibility that that criminals are more prevalent among the poor than any other wealth group.
Maybe it's a function of how many people are using it so far but the WiFi entertainment option on United works great. With AmazonFire tablets available for $50 it seems pretty silly at this point for airlines to install extremely expensive screens that also take up leg space in many cases.

It may be a pain for the family that travels once a year but, hey, they didn't actually have movie options until recently anyway. I'm sure they can deal with it.
Is this likely to happen?
It seems he assumes you know some level of haskell.
No, screw that.

Toll roads everywhere just creates another revenue stream that can never be gotten rid of. Automating it makes price hiking easy and silent. By putting tolls everywhere You've succeeded in raising costs and increasing congestion everywhere tolls aren't
Please don't post stuff like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
...which is a very important point in this era of 'Brexit'. In a few years food in the UK is going to be as poor as it is in the U.S. since the EU regulations will no longer apply. British people might even end up like Americans where everything is essentially a by-product of corn - corn fed meat, corn based pasta, corn based sugary drinks, corn based batter and corn based thickeners adulterating everything.

I am old enough to remember when food wasn't labelled the proper EU way. Sell by dates were vague and didn't apply to lots of products, there was inflation back then and everything had a price sticker (remember them) and often the low price of a tin (e.g. 7 1/2 New Pence) would give you a clue that it was past it.

The worst bit of food label changes happens next year in the U.S. when the nutrition labels get confusing. You can imagine 'big food' ('big corn') would want. Maybe the US should apply for EU membership to get the benefits of decent regulation on food, this could shift the US diet away from obesity-corn products.
All that rhetoric is wasted on bored churchgoers.
Here, I live in a small midwestern city. More accurately I live on the outskirts of a small midwestern city and commute 40 minutes into downtown for work.

Owning a car here is mandatory. Public transportation sucks and the contents/attractions of my city are scattered. For example, from where I live my favorite trail, which I'd love to walk this Saturday, is 23 miles north. The Ikea, which I also need to go to, is 23 miles south. There is no public transportation to get me to those places. Even if I lived in the city there is no public transportation to get me to those places. How do I live a life where I don't throw my whole paycheck into rent AND have the freedom to go out and do stuff around the city? (Note: these seem like pretty reasonable expectations to me) I live where the rent is low and own a car. You need to make an alternate lifestyle for me cheaper, not my current one more expensive.

Likewise, I already have to pay for parking for my job. You're going to restrict supply and make me pay even more? Come on man... We need to talk about solutions which are viable and not waste time trying to punish the rural/suburban middle-class and poor into a lifestyle which isn't even feasible for them.
Shardigrade.
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