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It's random... if you have three friends who happen to all have iPhones, that thread will be iMessage only forever. If one of the participants has an Android, it will use MMS. I've been in friend circles where people were using mostly iPhones.
One of the simplest things to do in software land is cloning an existing application, all the design work has pretty much been done for you and there is legal precedent even supporting direct rips of the look and feel of a UI (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Development_Corp._v._Bor.... ).

While it would be quite straightforward to clone an almost pixel-perfect version of Gmail, there is something in hacker culture that makes this kind of project unattractive. I don't really understand why.

Instead what we end up with when someone starts a new mail app is some half-cocked design that makes sense for that particular user, who is always an engineer, and the result is suboptimal for pretty much anyone else.

So the project fizzles and dies before it even gets started. This happens over and over again even for larger and more visible projects like Mailpile
The one click installs, api access, dns, monitoring. Price is only one of many things.
Yeah. I take issue with those people that have given up demanding that their government do better. They are defeatists.
I switch my family email from google apps to fastmail because I got sick of the support calls every time google changed the UI, which seemed to be monthly. Fastmail has been rock solid and lives up to its name.

The spam filtering isn't as good, but Google's false positive rate is atrocious
So "I" and "a" are okay, but "n" isn't? :)
A few people might say that it worked for Borland back in the '80s when they released Turbo Pascal. Most compilers back then were in the vicinity of $1000+, and were complex beasts.

The comes along Borland with a compiler that fitted on a single floppy disk for $69, and it could compile code in the order of 100x faster than the nearest competitor. The rest is history.

But I think that the point people miss was that as well as being less than 1/10th of the price of incumbents, Turbo Pascal ALSO promised a hundred fold increase in performance. If they had brought out a bloated C compiler on a 19 disk installation pack that ran in the same time as the Microsoft C compiler that came on 20 disks, I don't think it would have been game on.

Plus, Borland also swamped all the popular magazines with brash, full page ads that were the antithesis of the staid developer tool ads of the day. As others have pointed out - there are many more things than price which are important.
I'm not sure how you can leap to conclusions about my tone of voice from textual comments? One user @rattray is even citing quotes from the rule book to me here, and somehow I'm the one being condescending? But hey, regardless of the situation, nobody deserves to be insulted like this! You can do better, man. I can give you the benefit of the doubt; I suspect you wouldn't ever act this way in person to anybody.

I also don't see how any sort of purported victimhood would be unsubstantiated (I just don't happen to take website comments from strangers all that seriously): I'm just trying to talk about WebAssembly, and this troll spends their Friday night posting these kinds of inflammatory comments on nearly-dead threads from the beginning of the week. :(

As a reminder, you're breaking the very first rule -- "be civil" -- since we're sticklers about the rules here. You are acting very rude!
I do understand science. What I do not understand is using it to make claims far beyond its abilities and then retreating into its self-certainty when challenged.
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Sure, but this is not the question here. Does making it harder to pass via cheating encourage students to learn the material being tested or not?
You're hilarious.

"a tool that is explicitly designed to maximize your desire for coming back to it"

WTF! They want to serve me well? Those bastards!

You know what keeps me coming back? My sister calling me to tell me that there's photos and a video on her Facebook page.
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Overall it's about SOTF. TPTB have a healthy respect for diversity. Conflict promotes innovation, ingenuity, and growth. The West has become domesticated, just like various breeds of animals and plants, the bloodlines become polluted. War, conflict, strife and struggle preserve the human race. But for how long??...
> It's almost like when presidents are elected they learn something nobody else knows.

I should hope so! Otherwise what do we spend billions on intelligence organizations for?
Selling a magical pill without providing pharmacology is no different than selling snakeoil. Share your solution please, unless that part in your question is just a digression; (addendum) does not seem to be the case from the last paragraph.

To answer your question, it depends. Anecdotally, we created custom solution for analytics for our Robot, and then moved it in as a solution. You can think of it like 'internal-pivot'.

Additionally, in-house tools, if designed correctly, are usually small pieces of software that do just what a company needs. Tailored solutions, if effectively created, are sometimes better than something out of the box. It also lets the developers stay stimulated when there is not 'actual work' to be done and adds potential for features to be implemented for their product; if not providing with something they can pivot and sell separately.
I am sure they will be welcomed alongside third wave feminism and radical islamic groups to the great coallition of the outraged.
Critical thinking and the free expression of ideas? Far more important than insuring you're not offended.

There's a reason it's called "free speech", not "speech that mostly won't offend".

No one has the right to not be offended by ideas in a public forum. If you're unable to handle that, show yourself out if the forum has been granted.
I actually hadn't heard the term mindfulness. I think meditation is something I'll need to give a serious try with that in mind. I can see the possible benefits.

You're right on the latter part. But as of late I've gone to the extreme and deactivated all but Snapchat for social media. As well as using Cold Turkey and editing my hosts file's to keep me away from certain sites.
I wonder how of those fit in a zedboard. (not going to ask how many hours of tool fighting that would require though).
Digital Ocean started as a lower-priced clone of Linode (Vultr did the same later). They started with just a subset of the services (finally catching up now), but had good developer marketing and a lower starter rate.

It'll be interesting to see if they can continue to grow now that Linode have reduced prices to be lower than them. That's one big catch with coming in at a lower price, the incumbent probably has the scale to lower their prices below you, if they consider you a threat.
The Holocaust happened fewer than 100 years ago. You don't want to publish such identifying data with humanity still so immature.

It could turn out that you have the "dissident" gene and the government needs to get rid of you to preemptively stop the problems you might cause.
I don't think the answer is any deeper than that wars involve spending an enormous amount of money on contractors, and those contractors in turn fund politicians who will drive more business in their directions, then supply then with output from thinktanks that they fund to justify those decisions to their peers and the public, and ex-employees to hire into the bureaucracy. This, they do in a completely bipartisan manner, so their papers and bureaucrats are installed permanently, not turned over between administrations.

It's not a single-minded conspiracy with some deep reason. It's just basic economic incentives. There's nobody in the US who will make money from not attacking the middle east, and plenty that would. Policy in the US is determined by financial interest.
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Fastmail isn't free anymore though, it's $30 or more per year.
it seems to me like the article is more about elucidating beauty as a mechanism of decadence than an attempt to upend natural selection as a core component of the theory of evolution. the article basically says that beauty (however defined for a given species) can be both a selective and maladaptive pressure, where conventionally it's thought of only as a selective pressure.

species die out because of maladaptive pressures. that doesn't contradict the theory of evolution and natural selection's role in it.
I think the Chinese government is making a huge mistake in the way it is oppressing freedom of speech at home and broad.

China is now on its fourth political and economic system in the last century and a half. The present system is an accidental conglomeration of three quite contradictory philosophies: Confucianism, Marxism, and liberalism. It seems quite likely at some point it is going to prove unworkable.

At that point China is going to need to really think things out from basic principles and decide what sort of country it wants to be over the long term. That will take a great deal of intelligent, independent thinking. Alas, that is just what Xi Jinping is doing his best to stamp out.
Its kind of hard to do the measurements necessary to answer that question without being able to accurately and objectively measure actual human beliefs (which may not be the same as self-reported beliefs.)
>"Does it really matter why an infant is not vaccinated in this discussion?"

Yes, for two reasons:

1) It is not the vaccinated/unvaccinated state that determines whether someone is susceptible to measles. Instead, it is whether they have antibodies towards the virus. One reason to have antibodies towards the virus is vaccination, another would be having had a measles infection in the past, and the most important to us here is being recently (~1 yr) born from a mother that has antibodies. The newborns are already protected from measles, there is no reason to be concerned about exposing them to measles until the maternal antibodies wear off.

2) This myth is an obstacle to preventing the spread of measles because it is not possible to lower the vaccination age to account for the more quickly waning maternal antibodies generated by vaccinated (as opposed to previously infected) mothers. By repeating this myth you are helping to spread measles.

> "Unless we immeduatly vaccinate everyone as soon as they leave the womb (unlikely / impossible) there will always be unvaccinated people."

So what if the newborns are unvaccinated? They are already protected by the maternal antibodies. Further, even if you did vaccinate them, it would fail to elicit immunity because the maternal antibodies would just neutralize the vaccine. I feel like I am repeating myself here though...
TIL I'm an autodidact and that I have a very similar tastes to nihonde :P
Ask HN: Should I release my Computational Human library?
Hey folks! I've been working on a lot of computational biology lately, and through the process have developed a very rudimentary library to string together different simulations and interactions between organs, cells, and systems. Though this is of course incredibly basic, I do think a toolset like this would be useful to drug companies seeking to do simulations, labs, and independent makers! What do you folks think? Should I polish it up and release it?
Good point; though approaching the problem in an indignant and righteous fashion doesn't achieve anything; offering to help with a solution is more in line with the (ideal) OSS ethos.
I'm not sure what you're implying when you say it's "interesting".

If you have a problem with the equation of anti-Tibet political intervention by China and anti-Palestine intervention by Israel then state your case.
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Nodes that are exits can also be used as relays I think?
This article is absolutely true on everything, except for the title. The title gives the impression that one should continue on as is on the Facebook. That's misleading to the intent of the whole article.
In 2016, China landed a robotic rover on the moon. The NY Times had fairly extensive coverage. For a solid month, the main article was in the top ten of forwarded articles, assuring that all nytimes.com readers would repeatedly see it in a prominent sidebar. This is unusual behavior. NY Times readers are interested, but easily jaded by space travel. And nothing lasts forever a month.

Finally, I complained to the nytimes.com ombudsman. Gone in a day! Someone there must have agreed with me. Click farm behavior.
IMHO, crafting something useful, useable and making sense isn't waste of time, especially when you are paid to do that and your product is considered as your KPI.

You are paid to do that, at least it means that worth your compensation, right?
23andme currently offer an Ancestry Service, and a Health + Ancestry Service.
Are you using just the Ancestry service here? Anyone know how their Health reports stack up against these 3rd party services?
Anecdotal Story: Back in the 90's a colleague of mine had a small company here in Australia that developed a financial forecasting model for larger organisations. They were doing OK, but needed a huge client to really get them on the map.

Then, one day, they received a phone call from one of the 'Big 4' banks in Oz to pitch their software solution to them with a view to the bank taking it on nationwide. This was the 'big one' they were after.

They made their pitch which went well, and my colleague was asked for their licence price, which they up front said was calculated at $50,000 for each state.

The bank thanked them, and they left the pitch meeting, but they never heard back. Months later, my colleague approached the procurement manager who was at the meeting and asked why they didn't get the contract, as they had discounted their licence costs significantly in order to try and get the business - was it still too expensive?

The manager told him: "Actually, we LOVED your solution, which was perfect, BUT we had budgeted $1Million dollars per state for the final software solution. When you said $50K per state, most of our committee members thought that was too cheap, and they had reservations that you would be around for the long haul to support the software, so we voted against you..."
That's great news. We've been considering migrating to Cyrus instead of Dovecot in Virtualmin default installs, as Cyrus seems much closer to JMAP support and we're planning a rebuild of our webmail to use JMAP.

I often worry about infrastructure projects like IMAP, SMTP, DNS, SSH, OpenSSL, etc. They often have very small teams, mostly volunteers, and the implications of a bug, particularly a security bug, can be catastrophic. And, if something we rely on were to be abandoned, we'd probably be screwed; even in cases where we have the technical ability in-house to maintain another major project, we don't have the time (or the budget to add more people to our small team).
Yeah but his whole thesis in thus article is based on the assumption that efficient flight is important for the survival of this species.

If we said 40 millions years ago - protowhales cannot run as fast because their mates really like the membranes between their legs this would still be technically true.
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I actually did not expect that outcome. Some variation yes, but not an actual power law distribution (each actor has the same chance of being a buyer as a seller). But as I stated, every one started out with the same amount of money, and there were runs where the amount paid was identical in every case. Still got a power law outcome.
I'd be interested in taking a look; email is in profile.
>> At the lower end of the market[...] you may attract less favourable customers

This is worth emphasizing. When you offer your service at rock bottom prices compared to your competition, you will wind up with all of the "bad" customers who will expect to be treated as if they're paying for premium level support. They want the same level of service they would get with your expensive competition, but without paying for it.

Regardless of your price points, you must handle support emails, phone calls, social media accounts, etc. - all of which take significant resources. If you neglect supporting these customers by saying "sorry, we cannot offer extensive support for the amount you are paying", some of your customers will drag your brand name through the mud and you may wind up with a negative reputation.
It doesn't work that way, a person can volunteer to leave their body for medical or scientific studies, you don't get to choose "the experiment" for your cadaver or body remains.
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You can (should) check the SHA hash of the .dmg file you download against the ones here: https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/wiki/Checksums
The UCSD Dalai Lama incident is literally the subject of at least the first four paragraphs of this article.
I see this as an outgrowth of left-liberal student bodies clamping down on conservative speech on college campuses. If leftist students can block Ann Coulter from speaking then why can't Chinese students block the Dalai Lama? Every speech is guaranteed to offend someone and that's verboten in today's campuses. As a libertarian, I was always worried about this and it was a main reason why I opposed social justice warriors. Sadly, our fear has come to pass and censorship now reigns in universities. In the future, children's fairytales will be the only safe topic to discuss.
No. Automation and a large supply of workers keeps wages low.

Businesses hate instability.
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>"freedom of speech" refers to specific legal principles related to what kinds of reprisals the US federal government can take against you for speech

Legally yes, but colloquially it includes non-governmental actions[1].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/freedom_of_speech
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Football fanaticism is disappointing. Without criticism from spectators or coaches, football teams would have a very hard time improving their game. It's counter-productive to silence football critics.

Yes, censorship happens at football games; it does not follow that censorship ought to happen at public speaking events.
This looks awesome, thanks for the suggestion! It'll help with WARC support as well, looks like it can output WARCs with just a cli flag.
Your entry sounds like a fairy tale... And I don't think it's worth discussion.
How is what you are arguing different from, say, a coal miner in Appalachia arguing against subsidies for solar power? At this point their argument for coal is more existential than greedy. Wouldn't their argument be biased in an understandable way? Why should we not take that into account?

I'm not trying to bust your chops but I think your arguments have a lot of jargon and unnecessarily complex twists for what is essentially a simple position: you shouldn't access internet content without paying the price of advertising. Many disagree with that position for reasons that evoke the academic and open nature of the web.

We can do whatever we want to our machines to access content how we'd like. If it's not profitable to your corporation any longer than stop producing the content. The people will adapt the internet and create content in other ways. Very probably better ways - think Wikipedia, for example.
Were the posted checksums also replaced?
I think this is a failing of a lot of businesses when they look at the 'undercut' pricing model.

What most businesses don't realise is that if you discount something by just 20%, you will actually have to effectively DOUBLE your sales in order to make the same Net Profit at the end of the day.

If you are looking to undercut the past place by 50%, then you will need to effectively sell 4x the volume that they are doing just to make the same sort of profit. That then brings further problems - in order to server 4x the customers during a lunch rush, you probably need to lease bigger premises with more staff on hand, thus increasing your Expenses - meaning a reduction in your Net Profit. More customers also means more customer problems (missed deliveries, reduced quality of service etc.)

You would eventually end up with a scenario where you have a bustling pasta dive with double the customers, but making LESS money than the original one next door - or worse still, making a loss. Even though you are charging half the price...
Apparently there are more projects than proper nouns. This just makes life more interesting.
what kinds of problems can we solve with an analytic solution to the 3 body problem instead of a numerical one?
Try inviting pro-Israel supporters and see what a stink BDS and the general leftist students make. [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/students-are-shoutin...
> If you have a problem with the equation of anti-Tibet political intervention by China and anti-Palestine intervention by Israel then state your case.

As much as Israel has colonized parts of Palestine by way of settlements, its nothing like the Chinese annexation and colonization of Tibet.
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Perl and Matlab? Seriously?
The human females find sense of humor attractive. That requires development of big brain. Think how shitty big brain is - it soaks up nutrition, takes insane amounts of protein to develop, makes the infant helpless for 12 years, diverts resources from muscle mass and bone, makes easier death during childbirth and permanently diminishes the ability of the mother to gather food.

This species is doomed by the chasing of this superficial attractiveness.
> Leading questions are not a good argument.

Good point. How about this: why are you in favor of Mac Donald saying everything she wanted to, but against protestors saying all they want to? You are selectively arguing in favor of some people's speech, and arguing that others (the protestors) shouldn't have expressed themselves, and then accusing me of selectively allowing the protestors and not Mac Donald. I'm cool with Mac Donald having said all she said, even though I (at least mostly) disagree with her. I'm also fine with protestors booing her. How am I being more selective than you?

> Your best argument is a ridiculous straw man?

That in and of itself is a strawman argument. My comment clearly pointed out that it's unfair to shut up everyone in the audience and only allow one person to speak, but you're looking at it in its weakest form. Meanwhile, I took what I felt like was the strongest part of your argument, and showed why I thought it was flawed. How "embarrassing"
It's literally at the top, plain as day, in a hyperlink labeled SOURCE, immediately to the right of a label denoting that it came from NYT.
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This doesn't make any sense unless you specify what you mean by "internal tools"
Personally I find ftp as an unacceptable protocol for this purpose. Doesn't matter that it's localhost. It just goes to show WordPress is truly aimed at the lowest common denominator.
Curious; who are the HN mods?
Standard cost benefit analysis: does the time spent coding and maintenaning the tool offset by time savings or value improvements? Your pitch is whether you can come in and present a build or buy choice...I think the internal problem space is pretty vast, but if you think you've got something to offer and you can present useful functionality in ten lines of code, you might have a chance. You'll need to get some people raving about how much time and headache saved, I don't think any amount of conventional marketing will convince your target audience.