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I don't think any software update, hardware improvement or size variations are going to solve the e-reader problem.

Jumping into almost SF realm I'd say what we need is a 400 pages A5/A4/A3 standard book. With blank pages. Those pages are made from a material that feels like paper so the book folds, is lightweight and can be flipped through. There's a switch (or a knob or whatever) on the back cover and when pressed the back cover screen allows you to select which books you want to load. Then e-superink © displays the content on all the page at once. And now you have the exact same experience you have with real books (flipping through, knowing more or less « where » you are in the story). Except the back cover can launch a search bar. Oh, and you can write on pages and it's recorded in the software which displays it again when rendering pages.

Back to reality and to some of the geek things of the early 2000's: IBM had some kind of foldable screens in the demo department. I remember some video or concepts and you could see a guy reading his newspaper on his folded screen. Attach 8 of them together in a binder and you got some kind of physical computer interface that you can easily skim, read and pass around.

edit: Dug out a 2000 wired article about that very subject https://www.wired.com/2000/08/epapers/

edit flexible screen picture: http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/i...
and http://www.computerworld.com/article/2507175/emerging-techno...
I'd say that it's a pre-optimization if you're debating between python and c++. Namely, expressiveness vs performance. In the case of go, a lot of people feel like it gives you about the same amount of expressiveness, while also giving a shit ton of performance. So, in this case, I wouldn't say it's a pre-optimization. It's just being smart about the tool you select to solve the problem at hand.
How I Learned to Take the SAT Like a Rich Kid
here are my thoughts:
Charge:0$ for hosting

costs ?
allow people to post a href text link ad at the bottom for a premium charge. It won't affect the flow. Won't slow it down.
or get blocked in ad blocker.

If traffic amount increases will allow more people to post links but only one link per page.

edit: grammar
You know what happens in nature when you don't adapt quick enough to change...
Woah damn that is some ugly product design

who are they targetting, toddlers?
> and then with exactly zero logic you shift the burden of consequence entirely to the victim.

When did mattsfrey say anything of the sort? Seems to me that he said that, essentially, the passenger made a bad situation worse. And I think that his claim is objectively true. The passenger would not leave the plane, even when told to do so by the police. Does that lead to physical force? In the real world, yes, it does. Does the passenger bear some (not all!) responsibility for that? Yes, he does.
Lots of US people end up hearing about this in a roundabout way, having lived in the UK for a period of time is a disqualifier for donating blood in the US. So each time you donate blood you read a question asking about cumulative time spent:

https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/BloodBloodProduct...
Ironically, the current administration is in power in no small part due to a constituency that doesn't trust the government.

Self-fulfilling prophecies...
There's very few people that would not be deep in poverty if they only received 2/5 of their wages.

I spend 1.25 days a week working just to afford rent (roommates, very crappy construction, no AC, no central heat, semi-decent area... ie can't find anything cheaper unless I were to add at least 2 hours to my commute every day).

These are the types of comments I just can't relate to on HN. I do not have many luxuries in my life (due to lack of funds) and I know I'm hardly doing poorly in modern America.
How good are the ORMs options in Go? One of the reasons Rails is my go-to for web development is how easy Active Record it makes configuration and changing databases.
1. Who said it was? But it's clear it benefits the environment and individuals.

I'll give you good for the environment. I know animal protein costs more resource than plants do. Good for individuals? Nope. You're going to have to defend that claim.

2. Hmm, I keep reading things saying that vegetarian diets can be healthy for people with diabetes. Even on the official American Diabetes association website [1]. But if it truly isn't then it is a special case.

You undoubtedly triggered my disdain and hatred for the American Diabetes Association. It is my opinion, backed by my own personal data as fact, that they are peddling false medical science.

ADA claims that a diabetic can have 60g carbs per meal. Sure. And I'm sure they say testing 1x a day is fine as well. Instead, if you test regularly around the day, you'll find that certain foods cause significant blood-sugar issues. For me, harder squashes, potatoes, carrots all cause problems. I know the foods that cause spikes for me. I avoid them, or eat them very sparingly to level out any spikes.

Beer. Same. You're told by doctors that Guinness is fine. 7.5g carbs. And the docs never say to graph your blood sugar from before first sip to end. You can see your own results.

In the end, a diet high in fiber (types of carbohydrates that cannot be easily digested, and are good for many things), fats, and proteins are the healthiest for us diabetics. I only have my blood sugar reports to point to.

Yet, ADA recommends way too many carbs, and more drugs. Metformin is great... until it doesn't work 8-10 years later. Is it resistance, or bad eating that makes metformin not usable? Who knows. So I'm doing both. Taking Metformin when I know I cannot easily control my food, and eat very low carbs/day. I've already lost 80 lbs, and feel better than I have in years (well, not not, caught a cold at work, sigh).

And per note, I ALSO eat vegetables. I won't eat potatoes, certain squashes, and other high starch veggies. I also limit how much sugar containing veggies to my personal limits (which amounts to no higher than 140mg/dL glucose - the point of neurological damage).
Our current status-quo system requires perpetual growth to maintain debt obligations (money is created by debt, which comes with interest. if economy doesn't grow, there must be defaults)

Perpetual growth and protection of natural resources are inherently at odds with each other. Until the global economy fundamentally changes, things are only going to keep getting worse.
How BlaBlaCar faced growing pains and had to change its focus
> The fact that we can only write down only countably many expressions for numbers doesn't mean that there are numbers that we may never write expressions for

Yes it does: there are countably many numbers we can define, and the reals are uncountable, therefore there are uncountably many numbers that cannot be defined.
Most attacks do not involve 0-days. Being protected against many known kinds of attacks is valuable.
100%. This looks like the same idea as my old "favorite" example: the xbox live store, where players were forced to convert from their local currency into "Microsoft Points" before buying anything. Of course, the exchange rate was always something weird and difficult to mentally calculate, like $10 = 830 points or whatever, as a further hurdle to clear in order to find out what something in the xbox live store actually costs in real money. Total scumbaggery.
There are roughly a million different compiled languages throughout the history of computing. Every one of them has some sort of advantage over other languages. And of course, there are plenty of interpreted languages too.

So the question is, what problem are you trying to solve? Does the language you choose address those problems effectively?
genius. I think it really adds something that we make this case strongly. Like it would make normal sane people question whether maybe Godzilla did exist for realsioes!
Twice?

Wasn't the 2nd time proven to be FUD?
Unless I've missed something for a while, openresty is more a distribution for building apps / apis or complex middleware on top of nginx, not a full-blown CMS. It's a pre-built collection of useful extensions & lua modules, more of an "app platform"
Maybe per person
You have to be the world's biggest idiot to believe anything a huge corporation like that says. They have entire propaganda units to make them look as good as possible.
Seriously. Kids awake 12 hours/day when they're young, overlapping with work during the week which makes that calculation easy. 12x7 = 84. You can kind of do other productive stuff during that time, but not much. 8hrs/night sleep is 56 hours/week, assuming you don't need some time to wind down for sleep (most do).

84+56 = 140. 168 hours in a week. That's 28 hours left for everything that's not kids, work, and sleep. Fixing stuff around the house, keeping your relationship with your partner healthy-ish, prepping for the next day so you aren't constantly running late to everything, cleaning, entertainment, learning, everything. In practice you'll have an average of 2hrs/day that's actually free, maybe, without neglecting sleep, and they'll be your worst, lowest-energy, lowest-motivation hours (work gets all of the best hours 5 days/week, kids do the other 2 days)
Looking at Linux’s sendfile [1], it should be possible to use it like that in principle (but not with the standard http.FileServer, I guess).

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sendfile.2.html
> You should write your next web server in Go

Are people writing their own web servers these days? is that a thing? Seems like everyone uses nginx.
This article make me unwell. Just thinking of the cannibalism makes me wanna throw up.
Char.gy taps into lampposts to charge your electric car
I'm not a big fan of Active Record (https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/faster-correct-database-querie...) and tend to just write queries by hand. The benefit of this is you can Prepare them, which alerts you to syntax errors earlier and means the database doesn't have to parse the query each time you execute it.

You also don't need to return every column if you know you only need an email address.

I know people that have had success with gorm or sqlx.
That is the marginal tax rate not the effective rate, it was really about 30% - 40% depending on how you were set up. Now its about 20% - 25% effective rate.
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That would probably be a good solution. We will see if it is politically tenable.
> I know of absolutely no service which failed because it couldn't scale.

I know HN skews young when no one remembers Friendster.
There's a bit of good news in the fact that the biosphere has not only endured these last 3.8 billion years or so, but it has thrived. So there's probably no prion apocalypse in the future - at least not at the scale of the whole biosphere.

Individuals and species, on the other hand, seem to be fair game.
Property is theft already if you believe Proudhon.
Or you have the right pedigree, and are working like a horse for a NYC financial firm. Or you are a staff engineer at a SV megacorp.
To be fair people completely devoid of empathy often don't know why causing suffering is wrong. Until it happens to them at least.
> as people who would have been able to find white-collar work or stable and well-paying blue-collar work 15-20 years ago now have to enter the service economy and perform low-level jobs, many of which require little or no specialized skills.

Anecdotally, I've met a number of Uber/Lyft drivers that told me driving allowed them to quit their past shitty job and choose a flexible schedule that worked well with raising their kids.

Also, drivers that quit their jobs to pour energy into their family business with some extra cash from driving when needed.
> Assad is trying to hold on to legitimate power where the US is attempt to purge Syria of his government using terrorists relabeled freedom fighters who have destabilized the entire country.

I think you are widely overestimating both the US involvement and its degree of control over the actors it has links to. I'd be surprised if the main sponsors of the various anti-Assad factions (Saudi Arabia and Qatar) had anything like firm control of the factions they are funding.
Those were exactly my thoughts.
You're saying Twitter isn't obligated by the law about free speech.

I'm saying that free speech is more than a law.

Perhaps you're referring to the first amendment, but I'm making the point that you can't limit this discussion to the first amendment.

And businesses should be held to universal principles, above and beyond the law. We should demand businesses' decisions be ethical, not simply legal.
Fair point, but I'm with you on it—I'm not proposing Semantic UI is any better, just that ".col-md-12" has its own set of problems. I suppose in theory what would be the best is using application selectors (i.e. class names your application owns) with the sass version of bootstrap/semantic/etc to extend the selectors with appropriate styles. However, I've done this, and while I'm no CSS expert so I probably was doing something wrong, my stylesheets became ginormous.

Now, I just kind of live with the ".col-md-12" business...
4 Generalizations About Work That Are Keeping You Unhappy
I did a bunch of research (googling) back in the late 90's or 2000s when the mad cow disease outbreak first happened mainly in England. I thought it was pretty terrifying and I wanted to know what the hell was going on. I read about Kuru all the way back then and the take away was that people shouldn't eat the brain and nervous tissue of other people or Kuru could result. But also it seemed that mad cow disease was occurring because cows were being fed the ground up remains of other cows and that included cow brain and cow nervous tissue. So basically what was happening with cows was the same as what was happening with people getting Kuru.

I also recall learning that in order to get mad cow disease you would need to eat cow brain or cow nervous tissue. Of course, you would probably assume, as I did, that you are safe because you don't eat cow brains or nervous tissue. Well, you could be wrong about that. There is something called AMR (advanced meat recovery). As I understand it, when the meat processing plant removes the spine and skull from the cow there is still some meat stuck to the spine and skull. The AMR process entails blasting off that meat stuck to the spine and skull with some kind of high pressure for use in ground meat. But the result is that some nervous tissue from the cow can get mixed up in ground meat created with the AMR technique and that is one way that you could end up eating cow nervous tissue. After I did that research, I swore off ground meat.
Do even better than that: have the government do random checks with drones, and if someone's found to be violating, seize their entire farm. Do make sure to include a provision to make sure they weren't non-compliant by accident (equipment failure not caused by illegal modification, or perhaps due to illegal action by manufacturer a la VW).

If you make the penalties for non-compliance devastatingly high, then very few people will risk it.

Also, companies found to be intentionally non-complaint like VW should simply be seized, not just fined. The executives should be tried criminally and imprisoned, and the rest of the company seized and sold.
I primarily use Wunderlist, because it's truly cross platform. I can use it on my desktop, phone and the web just the same. I use it mostly for actionable notes...things I'm planning on doing something about at some point. It's more of an idea bank than a todo list, though, for me.

For more free form note taking I'm using Rocketbook's "smart" notebooks (https://getrocketbook.com/). I can scan the notes to Evernote, and when the notebook gets full, I can easily erase the notes and reuse the notebook.
Ikea doesn't sell much solid wood, most of their "solid wood" is particle board with a solid wood outer layer.
I think the idea is that if you count every single website on the web, a huge number of them are crappy little sites on shared hosting. Shared hosting usually relies on .htaccess rules, which are only valid under Apache.

Popular PHP CMS software also relies on .htaccess. Wordpress for example allegedly powers about a quarter of all websites, and auto-creates an .htaccess file when you enable pretty links, which basically everyone does. Drupal ships with multiple .htaccess files.

Sure it's possible to adapt this code into Nginx configuration, but there is really no reason to do that. It's far easier to set up Nginx in front of Apache and get most of the Nginx benefits that way.
Ask HN: Google Careers Portal: where do CVs go?
I'm not a user of any Google products (at least not of the ones that require Google account). But I applied a few times to different positions through their careers site: created a new account -> submitted my profile w/ CV -> removed my account after no response / unsuccessful interviews.

I wonder how the platform looks like on the HR side? Is job applicant profile removed with deletion of Google account? Or have I spammed the system with many repeated profiles and look like a cheater in someone's eyes?
I'd like to do the same with patents.
How Will Geopolitical Events and Restrained Demand Add to Global Uncertainties?
not sure if this is meant to be snarky, but taken at face value it's right on. you want an economy to be dynamically stable, and a working middle class does just that. it provides status and meaning for a larger share of economic participants than otherwise would happen, and that equates to economic stability (while greater wealth disparity leads to greater discontent).

the US economy is currently spiraling away from that stability, as evidenced by our worsening gini coefficient over the past several decades.
>It could operate either as [...] a federal agency perhaps as a subsidiary of the Library of Congress [...]

Because Twitter is a US-only thing, right? Don't forget about the enormous _global_ user base who would definitely not be served by making it directly controlled by the US government.
I don't see the connection between figuring out that the universe is discrete and learning that the universe is a simulation. Not even in our universe are all simulations done using digital computers, some are done using analog computers.
The point is that "oversold" is not the appropriate term.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14079837
In terms of server usage not based on websites, Shodan sees Apache with significantly more deployments than nginx:

- Apache httpd: 11,877,702
- nginx: 4,759,439
- Microsoft IIS httpd: 3,872,974
> The only thing that would change is the supply and demand curves. There would be more demand and less supply, making the only thing that would change would be the equilibrium price point where those two intersect.

You assume that Say's law applies to labor markets, but this idea has been overturned by empirical evidence

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

Involuntary unemployment cannot be represented with a basic supply and demand model at a competitive equilibrium
“Your own web server” here doesn’t mean “your own program that reads from sockets and parses HTTP” — that is taken care of by Go’s standard library.

“Your own web server” here means “your own program that serves HTTP requests”, and yes, people write programs like that all the time.
To save money, Kentucky Coal Museum turns to solar panels
I'm aware of that. However since the service in question only seems to handle the business to consumer case, I don't see a need for asking for seller's country.
Sales said different: http://fortune.com/2016/11/09/apple-macbook-pro-sales/

And performance: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3136714/data-storage/ap...

I have the 2016 15" MBP and it's a solid machine. The Touch Bar is also surprisingly pleasant once you get used to it and customize it a little.
I'm just wondering if there isn't already some large infrastructure in the Lisp world, which could have been reused. Something like CLASP was especially written to seamlessly interoperate with LLVM. Sometimes working with an existing system is difficult, but sometimes it can help both projects.

Anyway, Dale looks like a cool project.
That's awesome! I'm going to try it on my Touch.
For the past months I've been seriously considering starting a theme restaurant that served wild meats - deer, hogs, gators, large constrictors, etc. That idea just went out the window.
That makes them an unreliable partner to deal with. A ticket is not just a simple product, there are other deals depending on it. You may have a vacation booked, an important meeting, a funeral, or anything else. Missing your flight could mean missing a lot more than just the flight. The airline should take their agreements a lot more seriously than this.
Wow, what a frightening letter to receive! Thank you for sharing and best of health to you and your family.
One could also think of the opposite - human-targeting AI vehicles.

I'm sure this is 100% doable right now with existing technology.
The way brain computes is shaped by biological constraints. It's true that using spikes in a brain is very power efficient, however, we are discussing building computation systems in silicon, and I don't understand why people believe using spikes in silicon is more power efficient than using analog voltage levels (or currents).

I'm not sure what you tried to say about 32 bit floats: are you saying it's easier or more efficient to represent a 32 bit float using time difference between spikes than using a voltage level? it might be true, but I don't see how.
The new sound is even worse (and seemingly longer), and I imagine it's signal (which sounds more like fax machine squelches than an alert noise)

This is the SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) header, designed to deliver more detail to receiving devices about where the event is, the type, and how severe it will be.

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

This is how you can buy weather radios that only deliver emergency weather messages for your county or town as opposed to the entire listening area of the station.
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Kickstarter's reincorporation as a (New York) Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) is an interesting precedent in this space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-benefit_corporation
Is anyone ticked that for an article about Barclays and Banking, I get a video talking about Trump's "town hall"?
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Hurray New York! They really seem to have stepped up in response to Drumpf.

I hope other forward-thinking states get inspired by this example. Maybe after a while, red states will realize why all the opportunity, the capital, and the popular culture exists in blue states.

We need education badly, especially in the future when most jobs will be highly-skilled jobs. We need art! We need a lot of things that are not immediately profitable.
At Twitter's scale, they do have an obligation to be a neutral platform. They own the modern digital "town square". Things have changed since the old days.

Businesses have obligations beyond just barely staying within the law. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's ethical.
How many times have you changed databases in your production apps or are you building and selling software and wanting users to be able to pick their own database?