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I have switched to The Great Discarder, by the same developer.

Advantages over The Great Suspender:
- More memory savings
- Compatible with chrome tab syncing
- Super lightweight extension that uses no content scripts or persistent background scripts

Disadvantages over The Great Suspender:
- No visibility on which tabs have been suspended
- Unable to prevent a tab from reloading when it gains focus

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-discarde...
Some(T) is not a pointer to a T in Rust. It's just a T.

If it were a pointer type, then yeah, it would be a pointer.
What exactly is the "threat" to those players here, wasm?

It baffles me when people are asking for "a mechanism (aka hidden behind-the-scenes magic) for objects and GC" in an assembly language =)
To be fair I'm not sure I've ever actually seen a movie/series state the literal "this is a true story", it's usually more along the lines of "based on a true story" to excuse their creative liberties.
You might, but then again you might choose not to. I reject the idea that it's just predetermination, that undermines the concept of agency. I come from a similar or possibly worse background, I find Brievik's problems extremely relatable and thus find him extremely interesting on a personal level. On the other hand I've never initiated violence against anyone else, even though I'm a long way from being a pacifist. I have a code of conduct and while it hasn't profited it me much in material terms at least I derive moral satisfaction from it.
Here, watch someone read Kindle's terms of use: It took him, NINE HOURS
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Ask HN: Best strategy for preventing lunar issues from office chairs?
I'm curious if anyone recommends kneeling chairs vs stools vs yoga balls.
You're confusing domicile with state of incorporation. E.g. A Delaware corp resident in Nevada pays no state income either. As others have said, if you plan to raise outside capital and have an exit, then you should be a Delaware C Corp. If you are planning a lifestyle business, then an LLC in your state of residence is fine.
Go uses multiple returns for this, IIRC, not an Either type.
>I have seen cashiers react as if they want to strip search him because he is trying to pay for a pizza.

I'm having trouble picturing what this kind of reaction would look like. Can you explain what the cashiers did that make you think this way?
Lately? Have you read what I linked? From day 1, Uber has been of utmost evil. This is not new. Even if you somehow manage to convince yourself that weakening the rule of law by deliberately ignoring taxi legislation which has been their business model since they started with UberX is somehow not a big deal, the first time that subprime shit was reported was more than two years ago.

Most of the time when I post that Uber is evil, people are quick to downvote. But Uber will fail despite all the stupid fawning. Now it's just a matter of time. You can run from law, you can bribe people to ride with you but eventually the law catches up with you and buries you. In this case, it's going to be Waymo but honestly, something eventually was due to happen.

Edit: hello downvoters! Any comments as to where I am wrong? Last time we did this I was told my claims are "baseless". OK, so I reposted my pile of links. What's your excuse this time?
A fair criticism of a lot of web tech, but not of WebAssembly, which is doing many things JVM/CLR/Flash/etc. never did.
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It's intellectually dishonest to call out Kevin Phillips as "Reagan's conservative economist." He never worked for Reagan, never worked in the Whitehouse, opposed Reagan's tax cuts, and wrote a book criticizing Reagan's trade policies in 1984. He has written several additional attacks since.

By all means bring up Phillip's ideas, I agree with some of Phillips' critiques, but it is wrong to portray him as some sort of conservative insider. This is how Jacob Weisberg described him:

Phillips long ago left behind both obscurity and conservatism, becoming one of our most ubiquitous political commentators and one of the most left-wing. His biennial books have become illogical, dizzying screeds. And his diagnoses, predictions, and advice to Democrats have been consistently, embarrassingly wrong.
It makes people feel awkward. Plus some economic mumbo jumbo.

Don't pay much mind, it's the HN hive mind trying to rationalize sympathy for underpaid drivers against the libertarian-ish notion that everyone is in a job like a full stack software engineer who can just walk off the job at will.
Heh. :)

One technicality: DynamoDB's pricing is based on throughput, as you know, but it's provisioned throughput. (You manage your capacity unit allocations yourself, at least that was the case a little while ago.) You're charged money for how much you provision regardless of whether or not you actually consume the capacity units. Our pricing model (like Fauna's) only takes ops and storage into consideration.
Sadly, tip amount is not correlated very strongly with good service. No matter how good of service a person provides, they aren't going to change how much they are tipped very much. Since this is the case, it is unlikely quality of service is going to go way down because of no tips.

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/10/psychological-case-agai...
That's definitely cheating. Then again, all kinds of people fry their chicken. A success story there is still meaningful if you're just eating it occasionally and always fried. You could mix it up with the seasonings if not the cooking method.
Some places in America are doing that. It's not always easy - and here's a NYT article that covers some of the benefits and issues: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/dining/restaurants-no-tip...

Locally even here in rural Idaho, one of our best local restaurants recently switched to no-tipping pricing. I'd say that as a diner, I _feel_ like I'm paying more for my meal, even though I always tipped at least 20% before the switch.

As someone who grew up in a "tipping culture" I'd say that the act of tipping doesn't bother me, so much as the pain point of having cash in the correct denominations for things like tipping Uber drivers or valets.
If I consider my industry going to bars to drink then the problem is lines.

In 2017, I shouldn't walk/uber 20min in 20 degree weather to a bar only to find a 30min line which also has a surprise cover charge at the door.

I've thought about this a lot and have some ideas...
If you want to do something meaningful with colors, don't use RGB, and don't use HSL (which is based on RGB). These spaces are problematic. For instance, pure blue and pure green in RGB space have very different lightness. Here's a picture of the region of colors covered by RGB:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV#/media/File:Srgb-i...

If RGB space corresponded to what our eyes saw, that would be a perfect hexagon. It isn't. It's warped, and the warping isn't subtle.

Use CIELAB. CIELAB is designed to match what our eyes see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space

In a little more detail, distances in the CIELAB colorspace approximate perceptual distance (how different two colors look). Distances in the RGB colorspace do not.
Does it address this issue? https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/1739
Why would you be upset? It's just a participant in the free market playing the game. After all you just can hang around for a few hours for the surge to end.
> This is a great way to think about holding investments.

Unless you believe in the efficient market hypothesis...
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My brother has a book that I think could be adapted to Netflix, etc. He's self publishing. What do you recommend I can do to help him. Here's his book: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Will-Seize-Doctor-Too-ebook/dp/...
> My experience travelling abroad...

Try doing that with a disability, being a visible minority, being a woman, etc.

America is far from perfect, but it's at least accommodating. In other countries they don't hesitate to throw people to the curb.

It's the little things: The wheelchair accessible stores and streets, the effort made to deal with vision impairments, institutions that are fighting for women's rights and so on. There are some places in the world where people with disabilities do not seem to exist, they're always hidden away.
What job do you do?

Would you be OK to have a shitty salary but the possibility to get a tip, for which you don't know the criteria and cannot participate in the negotiation?
It makes complete sense to ask for GC support. Even if it's never used to implement GC-d languages targeting WebAssembly, it's still important for integration with the Javascript GC.

(I imagine the threat here is that the more things can be deployed as web apps, the less they depend on any particular desktop OS.)
Out of curiosity, what was your first one?
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This is fantastic advice for 95% of people. If you one of the few that can manage debt responsibly, however, you'd be missing out on the opportunity for leverage. In many cases a person can effectively trade their good credit for additional returns.

Of course, you need to fully understand the risk/return profile of any leveraged investment you make AND be careful not to be overleveraged at any point. It's a fine line to walk, but it can be a valuable part of your investment portfolio.
Same here. That's the main advantage of the service--that you don't have to horse around with cash and tipping or fumbling around with a credit card in the back seat while the driver waits. If they ever added the expectation of tipping, I would drop them like a bad habit. The fares are super reasonable and I would be more than happy to pay even a little more if it meant not getting guilt tripped over a tip. Tipping in America is total bonkers and I support any effort to replace every instance of it with 1. me paying the actual advertised price for something and 2. companies paying service workers a fair wage.
I certainly empathize with your urgency, to the point of making deliberate decisions to not be a parent myself because I don't want to perpetuate my dysfunctional behavior patterns, but forcibly separating people on technical grounds is inherently problematic. Babies, bathwater etc.
I'm only a little surprised that nobody has suggested this, but: If the driver does something shady, just get out of the car. Immediately. Don't even give them the opportunity to apologize for it.

I've had drivers call ahead to ask where I'm going. I just hang up on them, cancel the ride, then order another ride. While I'm in the car with a new driver, I report the incident using the in-app system and, on many occasions, they even grant me a credit!

Similarly, I've had on at least two occasions where the drivers did obviously stupid, unsafe things within the first 30 seconds of a ride. I ask them to pull over, and I just quietly get out of the car, report the incident, walk away, and order another driver.
I think it would be genuinely difficult for Tesla to succeed as a company and not go belly up if the Model 3 ultimately is a failure. Even with the overwhelming success and potential for a trillion dollar market of Tesla Energy, I think a failure to execute well on the 3 will overleverage Tesla to the point of no return. I'm a true believer and think they need to stick this launch (and that means service centers, supply chain, super charger networks, etc) or they're simply done. My hope is that they succeed due to me buying the tale they're telling. More renewables + electric vehicles is better for everything and everyone. Also, all torque all the time is mind bendingly fun to drive.

Disclaimer: I'm long on both TSLA and Solar Bonds. Even if I lose it all, I'm willing to take that risk if it gives them a better chance of successfully executing their mission statement.
$.40 per mile is not too far off from the federal rate of $.535 per mile, which does include depreciation. This is the number any driver should be using, short of crunching the actual numbers for your vehicle.

https://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/100715
Have a non-paywall source or copypasta?
By the time wasm supports GC languages like python or ruby, javascript may get a lot better. Will people still want to write client side apps in python?, even if it means that it will run slower and also you have to download the language runtime on a webpage load.
Uber charges the amount that they need to get enough drivers to drive the number of customers they have. When there aren't enough drivers willing to drive at the given rate, they go into 'surge' pricing to intice more drivers to drive.

You know what would happen if they raised the rates and paid more to the drivers? Two things - fewer riders would ride, and more drivers would drive. You would end up with a lot of drivers sitting around not getting any rides. They would most likely end up making LESS money per hour because they would not have enough riders to drive around.
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I think you said it better than I did and with far fewer words.
You don't get to set the minimum wage, and perhaps have difficulty determining the precise wage without tips, but tips allow you to choose the maximum wage. If you knew $5 of what you paid Uber would go towards the driver for a 20 minute ride, that they had to spend a dollar of that on gasoline, and perhaps that they would need an extra 10 minutes to get home, you could estimate they earned $8 an hour. If you deemed this too small, you could tip them $2 to bring it up to $12 an hour.

Naturally, without everyone doing the same, they would not notice the effect. However this does not constitute justification for not doing your part.
Which requirements must be met by this std::unordered_map key
It's different because in restaurants and bars it is so well established and priced in, it's really just part of the price.
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I too am not a fan of tipping culture. But I don't see it as welfare for Uber, if Uber charged 18% more, and passed it on to drivers, the net effect would be the same.

One thing I think it would do is harm the perceived cost of uber rides. Partitioned pricing works. Anchoring users on a lower base fare + 20% service, is, unfortunately, "cheaper" than 1.2 * fare for most people. At minimum Lyft would have to agree to do the same.
Thanks for the thorough reply. I've looked at how unlicensed links are set up in dense urban settings over about 1 km each, and encountered none of the problems you describe. But I can imagine they become issues over longer distances.
>If he were growing up today, they would likely give him some diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum or some related diagnosis and try to give him meds and force him to somehow fit in.

The way you've written this makes is sound like you're saying that current medicine and techniques to help autistic people are bad(give him meds and force him to somehow fit in) and that his solution of running off into the forest to avoid all human contact and surviving off theft is a better solution. If that isn't what you mean then you've worded your point badly.

>For as long as humans have existed, there have been those that don't connect well socially. We may label them and pontificate and categorize, but this has always been true and is not likely to change

Ok but for as long as humans have existed they've needed societies to help them survive. The article even makes that point with regards to historical hermits needing to sell stuff to buy food. There is a reason exile was one of the harshest punishments available in a lot of historic cultures.

>Perhaps we should get over our arrogant idea of normal.

But participating in society IS normal. No arrogance needed. That doesn't mean that people who have difficulty with it are bad but it does mean they aren't normal.
Can you explain why you seem to be reading everything I say in the worst possible light? It comes across like you are intentionally trying to bust my chops, not understand my point.
In particular "this book is not free" while giving the whole thing away really emphasizes the dissonance you have to deal with when exposing yourself like this but it does so transparently and unpretentiously, I think.
I've noticed that the more skilled I've gotten at cooking, the less useful the 90% of the store that isn't raw vegetables, meat, and grain is.
What worries me about this is the detailed nature of this account. Surely every one of us has had quite a few painful years: imagine if it had all been recorded in dry, bureaucratic detail.

I'm reminded of the story about æroplanes and the mythical average pilot: just as no pilot is actually average (and, in the original story, that's why cockpits designed for the average were bad for everyone), might it not be that none of us is statistically normal, and thus every one of us is thus abnormal, and hence dangerous to the bureaucratic state?

None of this is meant to minimise Brevik's horrific crime, of course. But I'm worried about this level of detail being available for anyone on the planet. I don't know what the solution is: obviously, it's now possible to record lots of details about anyone, and just as obviously, it's possible for those details to be made available. That implies that those details will be made available, and so we as a society must come to terms with that.

Still, it's a bit chilling that a State can track a man down to that level of detail.
A lot of people have downvoted you; I'm not sure if it's the way you delivered your point, that they don't understand because they haven't been through it, or don't understand these things can constitute more subtle cultural differences than they typically envision.
> Without a GC WASM is very hard to use for regular web development tasks

Well yeah.. it's an assembly language, the sort you inline in your C (or some other) programs to squeeze critical code paths.

Doing your virtualdom or form validation in assembly probably wasn't a core design goal, no matter all the scripters that get so easily hyped about wasm. But consider usecases such as real-time interactively adjustable filters on currently-playing page-embedded media objects, 3d editors that let the user run (non-shader) algos on the current model such as geometry simplification.. all kinds of use-cases come to mind where wasm can really drive richer, faster, more powerful browserbased apps than were possible without it.
Anyone that can make hiring better would make a fortune. Even if you can make something super specialized like hiring for ai programmers or biochemists would make a fortune.
I spent five years trying to learn all these bits I need to build full stack
Here's what I know in some depth following a tangible decision five years ago to invest my free time in learning all the technologies I need to build my own applications end to end:

back end programming: Python 3

database: Postgres

Python database: SQLAlchemy, psycopg2

Python web server: Falcon

JavaScript version: ES2015 / ES7 (async & await)

browser front end development: ReactJS (without Redux!)

browser framework: Bootstrap 3

desktop application development: Electron with ReactJS

operating system: Linux

cloud: AWS primarily, have developed with all the major cloud platforms.

cloud services: S3, EC2, SQS, Cognito, SES, Lambda

I am happy to say after 5 years I have now a level of competence sufficient in each of these to be able to assemble the parts into a whole application.

There's a real joy in knowing that for the most part, I have already solved most of the major problems and learning challenges required to get a substantial application built.

Five years in, my productivity is now dramatically higher than when I started on my mission.

Along the way, so many, many other technologies tried and discarded because they didn't appeal to me at a personal level.
I could very well agree that there's no evidence for, but I am not convinced that there's sufficient evidence against.

I'm finding it really, really hard to believe that everyone learns the same way... and I don't trust the current system to be capable of making such an assessment, learning styles or not. It may not be written vs visual, it may be something else, maybe it's a lot more complex.
I think your logic is a bit flawed. If an employer can not get enough employees at the rate they are paying, they can either encourage tips to their employees to supplement their wages, or charge the customer more and pay their worker a higher salary. In the tip model, 100% of the extra money charged goes to the employee. In the charge more and pay more, the money might be split in other ways.

I am failing to see how the tip model helps the employer more.
Thank you for your reply.

I'm not interested in getting into cryptography research since I find it too theoretical. I agree with you about how it is a small field and I think I'll have a very small chance to make a valuable contribution to anyone if I get into cryptographic research.

I think I'll follow your advice on contributing to OSS crypto projects. I've used openssl and crypto++ but I've never really contributed to a real project.

Thanks again.
I would love an indestructible GoPro branded smartphone with a long lasting battery and good camera. Am I the only one?
There's the story of Daniel Shellabarger[1], aka Daniel Suelo, who while not a complete hermit, has lived off the grid in the Gila wilderness among other places.

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/03/homeles...
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People just do not care for home automation as much as one might think. I have bought various smart gadgets for various family members over the years, thinking that due to health/age/whatever that this smart light/whatever would be well received as a gift. You would think that having some remote to turn all the lights on/off with dimming would be very useful but someone that has their house lit up by lots of very individual lights actually enjoys interacting with the 'design classic' lights, dodgy switches and all. So you think 'better' is 'better' but it is to totally misunderstand the way it works for my relatives and friends...

So how do you reach a more picky audience and get the 'cool' that they do take on board? Not so simple. Maybe partner with another brand to get that cachet of cool, piggy back an 'ok' brand to get to market and defeat snobbishness. Or be Amazon and willing to take a big punt. Even then, with lots of advertising, it is not easy.
The one reason not mentioned here that may tilt it in favor of a C-Corp is if you anticipate that your company will likely be bought at some point (i.e. strong market interest). When you incorporate as a C-Corp (or convert to one), the clock for a QSBS exemption starts ticking (see: https://blog.wealthfront.com/qualified-small-business-stock-...) The QSBS exemption can make your first $10M free of federal tax, and so is a very nice benefit. There is no QSBS exemption for an LLC - you will have to convert to a C-Corp, and the clock starts ticking on conversion.
A Greek friend of mine said of the Greek diaspora here in Melbourne that when they came out post-war, they became 'hyper-Greek' as a coping mechanism, embracing their culture more fully. They then travel back to Greece for whatever reason, and complain about how decadent it's become.

Of course, he says, Greece hasn't really changed, it's just that now the ex-pats are seeing it through the lens of being 'hyper-Greek' now.
> And by law, they cannot share the tip.

That's absolutely not true.