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The answer to your question is "of course not". When stories are critical of YC or YC-funded companies, we moderate them less than we otherwise would. I've posted about this many times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date....

This isn't because YC doesn't care about HN's business value. It's because YC knows what HN's value consists of: the community's curiosity and trust. That's the global optimum, so that's what's in YC's interests. It would be foolish to optimize for anything else.
One of the problems with such a lawn in an urban or suburban environment is it is the perfect environment for vermin such as mice and rats.

My neighbour has a small area behind their garage that has long weeds and grass. It's about 5 meters square but it's got loads of mice in it.

Even all the neighbourhood cats combined can't catch all the mice since the mice breed so fast. The mice have started to invade other barns and homes of neighbours but at this point the amount is controllable.

It's an older couple who own the property so people are not going to say anything. And it's out of sight but it's amazing how a little thing, grass area I mean, can blow up into a problem with so many mice.

The previous owners were junk collectors and lived in the driveway in an RV and only worked outside at night ever see The Burbs movie? Some people really want or need or should be in a home in the country but they can't afford to move.
>Operating Systems are tools, not entertainment or informational media.

For your specific use case, sure. My Windows machine is essentially a game console to me though. Do I get upset when I see an ad on Xbox live? It's essentially the same thing to me.

Of course Windows isn't meant to be a tool for professionals. But it's great for what it is; an easy to use general OS that plays games.
What makes you so sure Apple is even doing a bad job and maybe instead the expectations were overly hyped? If the bar is an Apple Watch for every iPhone user (let alone every smart phone user), the expectation was Steve Jobs distortion field-esque.

When I lived in NYC (or traveled back to Silicon Valley), I kinda expected to see them everywhere (and did). But unintuitively, I also see them all the time in places I'd never expect (like say seeing a half dozen people wearing them in a Wal-mart in rural Arkansas). Yes, I'm looking for people wearing them so obviously I'll see them more, but that doesn't negate my point that I see more Apple Watches than any other brand of watch (smart or otherwise).
> People can stock away $50/month, $30/month, you name it.

Tell me more about disposable income... whats it like?
Supports content creators instead of making them work w/o compensation
Military service is almost never the only option, but it's often the best one for those who come back OK. Economic opportunity, travel, access to education, and social status in one package? That's a combination that's otherwise difficult to come by in rural Appalachia.
"Fake news" is a serious and honest criticism of today's media.
You could also take part in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback/. Just a thought. :)
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I have an app with 45% first month retention that is doing subscription monetization. A huge percentage of the subscribers subscribe in the first week so I don't know about doing a long free trial.

That said, I need to do some machine learning to figure out the optimal free trial length.
I did not say what you are arguing over.
Strange, I couldn't reproduce now or at the time of original submission.

With that said, they do load a bunch of third-party ads, so there might be some malicious payload that you received but others didn't.
Great quote. I think if people think of level of abstraction it makes more sense. All code is an abstract representation, but to solve a problem, it's easier to work within an abstraction level that fits the problem.
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I've been thinking a lot lately about why Go, a quite minimalist language by modern standards, has been so incredibly successful in such a short time. It's about a decade old, and is already among the top 5 languages for people starting new OSS projects (at least in my area, which is systems management). Green field development is being done in Go at a rate unprecedented for such a new language, I think. Node/JS might be precedent if we say that Node is a whole new thing, even though it uses JS as its syntax, using it as a server language is pretty new (ignoring Netscape's failed attempts at it in the 90s).

I'm tempted to compare it to PHP, which exploded in popularity despite (unarguably, IMHO) better languages existing all around it at the time. Go doesn't seem like a bad language in the way that PHP was a bad language for its first 4~5 major versions, but it does find itself surrounded by many more powerful/expressive languages, and is seemingly getting much faster adoption.

I've been learning Go myself, and while I miss some of the features of my normal primary languages (Perl, lately, but also Ruby and Python), I like that I can read other people's Go code without having to look anything up, even though Go is very new to me and I have years experience reading/writing Perl/Ruby/Python. Of course, Perl/Python/Ruby aren't a major paradigm shift away from Go as Haskell is...but, it's still a question of whether it's better to write ten simplistic LOC or two maybe opaque LOC. I tend to prefer concision over verbosity (and thus hate reading Java; I get lost in the trees before I can find the forest).

Maybe Go is a sweet spot for a lot of developers. Rob Pike did a talk called Simplicity is Complicated, about this very subject...I found it a pretty convincing argument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
We can't ignore them, but, at the same time, we can't just look past their belligerence or, more to the point, assume that we can assuage them from their counterproductive behaviour. They aren't going to 'turn around' and see the light of common decency over localized conformity.

Nor can we expect to have any effect on it in anything less than a generational timeframe.
It really depends. In some cases I can understand the local government requiring homeowners to mow their lawn.

I saw a similar story in the UK [1] (Photo-only link [2]). There's no way I'd want to be living next door to that.

[1] http://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/hillmorton-garden-horr...

[2] http://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.7327726.14605647...
Yup! There was already a great, ready to use C parser in Haskell, and we don't have one in Rust yet.
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From the article:

> And roughly 65 percent of all veteran suicides in 2014 were for individuals 50 years or older, many of whom spent little or no time fighting in the most recent wars.

The recent wars may have had a measurable impact, but I don't think it's the primary reason.

It should also be noted that you absolutely should expect the veteran suicide rate to be larger than the suicide rate of the country as a whole for the very simple reason that suicide rates are higher in the U.S. for men and veterans are disproportionately male.

This article from FiveThirtyEight is well worth a read in my opinion:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/suicide-in-the-military...

The tag line from that article:

> When service members die by suicide, their deaths look a lot like civilian suicides — the same people, the same risk predictors, and the same means.
I think a lot of it has to do with the way politicians make decisions. They are not professional project managers, they primarily manage their own career and advance their ideologies and political ambitions. If a public project is expensive, there is debate over whether it should be done or not. So the budget is tightened and there is haggling here and there, some things are left outside the project scope, etc. Then, in the course of the work, it will be noticed that of course those mandatory parts that were left out of scope are still mandatory. So the scope increases, budget increases, and the schedule slips.

But there is huge pressure to keep the schedule. Managers of various sub-projects see the situation of their peers and often they can safely deduct that even though they are late, someone else will be even more late, so that other sub-project can be the fall guy. Thus, each sub-project reports "everything in control, on schedule" regardless of actual problems.

All the sub-projects are optimistic about their own situation and think someone else will draw the "Schwarzer Peter" card (the game is known as Old Maid in English) and be blamed for the final delay. Thus, the overall project manager gets all green sub-project reports and scorecards that yes, we're opening in schedule in June 2012. Since the project manager is not a professional in construction projects, he's unable to assess the actual situation. He also thinks that his political power is enough to override things like fire safety regulations, should these become a nuisance.

Then, a few days before the planned opening, the actual situation is revealed, and the recurring delays begin.

Here in Helsinki region there's indeed a similar situation with the western metro line extension. The fire protection systems were not ready, but the top project management simply did not believe it. Then came the actual tests, with actual fire experts insisting that the systems must work and it must be tested. Poof, the opening is delayed by some months. Then by some more months. Now it looks like it's at least a year.

This seems to be common with public transit projects. In Finnish city of Tampere, there's a counter-example of a tunnel project that got ready in time, in budget. This was a tunnel for car traffic, and the project was intensely challenged by left-wing and green politicians. Thus the accepted plan got a lot of scrutiny. But once approved, the contract model worked. It's now been in use for a few months.

Public transit projects are "good", so if you question the plans, you're a bad person. I think this is one reason we the projects keep failing: if you've ideologically decided it must be built, the plans and budget will not be reviewed critically enough.
The numbers on the App Store disagree with your first thesis of up front payment. Simply look through the top grossing apps and most of them are free to play games.
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I agree on most of your observations.

However, please note that other tools are better suited than aeneas if one wants to align at phoneme level: gentle, Kaldi, SPPAS, etc.

aeneas' goals are covering as many languages as possible, fast computing, targeting (sub)sentence granularity (e.g., ebook-audiobook or closed captions). Phoneme-level annotation really requires more sophisticated techniques, like HMM/GMM/NN as implemented by the tools mentioned above. Yet, aeneas can be used to quickly bootstrap e.g. a manually-reviewed alignment.
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This being the most upvoted argument against Windows 10 only shows how good of an OS it actually is. I personally think they are complete non-issues I haven't even noticed. Windows 7 is a nightmare in comparison.
>This type of regulation should be the province of HOAs, which have covenants that home owners agree to when buying their homes.

While we both agree with the problem this person is having, I'm the opposite of you with regards to your statement. HOAs can have a lot more power with a lot less oversight. If one is going to have these kinds of rules, they should be in the city/state rules or not at all.

The "agree to when buying their homes" is a faulty way of looking at it. You also agree to laws of the city/state you live in. No one is preventing you from leaving if you don't like it.
>...he represents a future where we can do things we thought were just dreams

He does more than just represent. He makes smart people believe that hard things are possible and that it's going to be worth it to try.

A little bit of reality distortion can be a good thing, especially when reality is tending to suck.
The smart thing that Intel is doing is making stuff that they know big cloud providers like AWS etc. will pay crazy amounts for and buy in huge volumes. The "use it as RAM" is incredibly valuable -- especially to bring down costs for databases. For example, running a database with an allocated 32GB of RAM is pretty expensive per month.. And if somebody like AWS sold a cheaper DB instance version that ran from this drive as its memory (or was smart paged), then that could bring down the cost of allocating huge databases to memory with a performance hit that many people would be willing to take to save the money.
> Corporations can outlive human beings hence keeping our content online for the foreseeable future.

This is also a bug. Especially with third-party corporations that have their own motives, and are prone to treat estates differently than they did the person.

If one wants content to be kept online after their passing, then this needs to be setup ahead of time through an explicit arrangement with the host, not just terms in a will that an executor will be powerless to carry out.
Many/most Arduino boards are open source. So if you small and are trying to get a simple product line established you can start with designing a daughter/motherboard that the Arduino board plugs into for first series.
Then, once you scale up, embed the Arduino parts into the same board.
You can use a clone also, which can be much cheaper.

But I wouldn't go recommend Atmega328 for new designs unless its extremely simple, so when I say "Arduino" I mean something similar, like a Teensy 3+ or Olimex STM32 or Adafruit Feather M0
Warren's key competency is recognizing and valuing good businesses, he's not farming that out to any research team, even his own employees.

Buffet has 24 total people at corporate, mostly finance people working on tax returns and a CFO obviously. Warren evaluates the business, values it, makes the offer, and relies on his CFO I believe to do basic due diligence and close the deal.

But the key value Warren relies on is "moat" and that's a hard one to quantify for many tech businesses. Warren can buy a chain of furniture store because he thinks they are run well, efficiently but most importantly have a strong moat because of a great brand and locations in their market. So he can be confident the business will be around in decades.

Will a web development company be? Will the web be? Those are harder questions and make applying Buffett's techniques far harder in this market, even if author had similar skills to Buffett, which is also very unlikely.
The response from the Public Editor does not say that the review was faked - it says the opposite, starting with the headline "Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test". Later it says "I am convinced that he took on the test drive in good faith, and told the story as he experienced it."

I have no interest in this dispute, but it's clear that the conclusion you drew about what the Times piece said is incorrect.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/publiceditor/2013/02/18/pro...
What options? The idea of just 'selling great software' is old as hat. The new in-app purchases and subscription models, in terms of how software is sold and maintained, is certainly much newer.

So called 'donation' or 'tip jar' type is pretty old too.

Shareware was the original free trial. Then we just started calling it a free trial!

Advertising is old as hat, been funding not just software, but many things, for a long time.

I'm having a hard time thinking of the different ways you can actually sell your software to someone, and in an app store dominated economy, where its idea of how software is paid for really has a cascading (and I would argue detrimental) affect on how all software is sold/distributed/licensed/modeled.

Am I missing something? I'm all for high ideas. I just don't see anything short of revolting against platforms that even come close to difference.

I'm all about options. In fact, i'd love to hear some.
This concept has a long history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904881
You can apparently get a web-based UI too by simply using ng-admin: https://github.com/marmelab/ng-admin-postgrest
Isn't part of the definition of shilling that it's undisclosed? In that case, no: HN's business concessions to YC (job ads, and more recently Launch HNs) are public. Beyond those, we don't moderate HN specifically to promote YC's interests, and in fact err on the side of not doing so. You should see how sharply I scold YC startups who haven't yet had this drilled sufficiently into them.

The best way to make HN valuable for YC is to optimize its value for the community, which is gratifying intellectual curiosity—so that's what we spend our time thinking about. I wrote more about this here if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13861971.
If there are indeed buildings being constructed for the sole purpose to "stash cash" as you say, then the law against misuse of real estate property ("Gesetz gegen Zweckentfremdung") can and should be applied. However, it doubt that this is the case in significant quantities.

My argument is a principled one: the city/state/fed should strive to let the market sort it out. That sounds neo-lib, but should be easy to achieve in times of lack of alternate investment possibilities. And while they're at it, they should make it so that investment in housing becomes a good investment opportunity for the middle class, helping with the demographic problems before us.

Proposing the state should invest in housing is really just the civil society declaring bankruptcy, and leads to corrupt and unsustainable structures, as happened in the 1970s in Germany (or worse, go ask women of the former east block what they had to do to get housing).

The problems (if they are real) are entirely the consequence of decades of misguided policies in construction and housing/renting laws. And also a consequence of lack of sustainable investment opportunities (ECB "QE" and negative interest rates) so people are turning to real estate.
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>My goal is to bring a sense of empathy to people that don't understand these issues due to lack of contact with people going through them.

IMHO, you're doing a terrible job in this thread. You seem convinced that urbanites hate rural folk for who they are, and not what they have done and said.

And you are cherry picking facts and giving tenuous explanations for rural support for issues. It's laughably disingenuous to suggest that rural america supported Trump's wall because of heroin. TBH, you sound like part of the rural problem - too willing to fish around for a more palatable explanation when a fact doesn't reflect favourably on your in-group.
Right, there might be two groups ("people who need meds" and "people who don't need meds"), but the overlap of those with "people in real pain" and "people faking it" is poor. It's that simplistic, and incorrect, mapping that I'm objecting to.
Except if you drop SHA-1 support from a repository (goal #2 in the RFC on the top comment). Then your downgrades would only apply to new repos, and that's not really a vulnerability as there's no pre-existing trust; all the vectors available to you when you can create collisions are based on people not noticing changes.

It'd be like disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on your server; a repo owner could just choose to do that. I guess the point stands if, like TLS downgrades, on the whole people don't specifically choose to do it and there are lots of vulnerable repos out there for a long time. Then it falls on GitHub/etc. to force repos to migrate fully.
In app subscriptions are pretty simple on iOS now, though Apple is forcing you to clutter up the UI with a bunch of extra terms and conditions info.
The AVR-based Arduinos (Really, I think most AVR-based boards, unless it has some really strange proprietary way of flashing).

The MSP430-based TI Launchpads.

The various ESP-something WLAN boards have open toolchains and programming over serial as well as far as I know.
The r/all algorithm was tweaked last year during the election to prevent subreddits from flooding the front page. What you observe may simply be the result of that, rather than vote manipulation.
Really doing a disservice to those of us who do this for no pay, day in and day out, simply for the love of shitposting.
Thank you.

Indeed, while aeneas was created for ebook-audiobook synchronization, several of its current users are producing closed captions --- because, in most cases, they already have a clean transcript (e.g., speakers provide transcripts to the captioner) or they clean up an automated transcript, derived from an automatic speech recognition system.
Leaf removal is similar and related. Instead of allowing the leaves to decompose and nourish the land, we remove them in a process that is often environmentally taxing and an actual nuisance. Big, diesel-burning trucks to haul away the leaves, leaf blowers running for hours. People are normally obsessed with living in a quiet neighbourhood, but I guess they hate leaves enough to set that aside.

Don’t Bag Your Leaves: An Analysis of Nutrient Loss and Soil Depletion for Leaf Removal https://druidgarden.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/dont-bag-your-l...
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>ou don't have to spend too much time wondering, since its prima facia self-evident.

You should know: When you say something is self-evident, you will be called out on it.

>HOA's exist because they work out financially better than the alternatives.

Definitely not self-evident. I've talked to real estate agents who do not agree that it affects house values. My neighborhood has no HOA. Lots of non-ideal lawns her. One block south of us they do have an HOA. Very neat lawns, and houses all properly painted. Those houses do not sell for more.

Perhaps it does impact the price of the house, but I'd wager it is a miniscule effect compared to all other factors (size, neighborhood amenities, schools, etc).

I find that most people who make the claim about property values use it as a post-hoc justification to wanting to enforce a certain aesthetic on others.
"Ditch" as in give away? (if so, how?) or "ditch" as in dig a ditch around it?
Did you make any measurements or back of the envelope calculations what the real world performance impact of this change is.

I don't expect anything horrible, but still curious.

EDIT: After skimming OP I found a few answers.

The message from the The Keccak Team [1] is especially interesting. Summary is that we don't have to worry about performance degradation because of the hash calculation itself. There is a palette of functions which are considered to have a "security level [...] appropriate for your application" and are considerably faster than SHA1.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/91a34c5b-7844-3db2-cf29-411df5b...