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Honestly, I don't even like reddit for some reason. I can only handle HN. I tried Imzy and others before too. I always come back to HN.

I feel like more of these websites may be able to succeed (not sure Reddit has a network effect that could prevent another site from coming up), but I'm not sure how necessary it is.
All of 4chan is one community. All of Twitch is one community. All of reddit is one community.

Youtube sucks because it has videos that pander to kids. Twitter sucks because it because it's because talking about their mundane life. Facebook sucks because it's people sharing fake news.

In social media, whenever you're having a bad time, it's most like your fault. When you say X sucks, You're really saying that your friends / the people you're following / the communities you visit suck.
Not everyone dislikes "car focused suburban office parks". Many people, myself included, prefer them. I love being able to get in my car and arrive at work in 10 minutes. I love living in an area where I can drive to and park at restaurants, grocery stores, etc.
Disagree with the author on the technical merits that AAC only sounds marginally better than MP3 at 128kbps and higher. For certain audio shapes, MP3 is a rather bad™ compression (as is, to some extent JPEG for some image shapes), whereas AAC produces much better results due to different compression mechanics. Much like MPEG4 ASP and MPEG4 AVC and HEVC produce different compression artifacts, with ASP having much worse artifacts.
The vast majority of visually impaired and legally blind have some degree of sight or at least light perception. The tiny percentage that does not still needs/like sunlight for vitamin D etc, but you don't get much sunlight form a window.
I see you've already mentioned ridesharing, but my coworker Uber's on his way to and from work and makes about $40 a day. He says it adds about 30 minutes to a 30 minute commute.
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Cars take a lot of space though in the form of roads and parking lots.
Definitely! Link please?
I wish the California Bay Area was like that! Here it takes me 30 minutes to drive with traffic, 15 without, 40 to ride bike, 1.5 to 2 hours by public transit.
Assuming that he/she is driving, that could be a dangerous distraction (even hands-free cell phone usage has been shown to be dangerous).

Besides, if it was me trying to do a podcast: "And that's why you should watch out for that code smell... Oh, that f*cking idiot, use your turn signal jacka$$!!!"
> The new prototype has 160 TB of shared memory spread across 40 physical nodes, interconnected using a high-performance fabric protocol.

So basically something similar to RDMA scaled to 40 nodes, 4 TB RAM per node.
> But there’s an alternate universe where the series’ propulsive momentum only increased — a reality in which the third Alien film featured advanced xenomorphs [...]; where cold-warring rival space stations of communists and capitalists race to outdo one another with their genetic experiments on the aliens’ tissue; where a flock of the phallic horrors flies through the void of space, only to be beaten back by a gun-toting robot.

There were already a few similarities between the Alien and Starcraft worlds, but this definitely pushes it closer.
Reddit has been through a lot. (I went through three CEOs during my 3-year tenure there.) At this point, I can't imagine a scandal worse than spezgiving- the only way Reddit will die is a slow fade into irrelevance, rather than a Digg-style calamity- and I certainly hope not, as a Reddit addict.

Also, I have a theory that the "no more css" and "okay some css" was a carefully crafted maneuver, rather than a real backtrack.
Lin Clark: A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly – JSConf EU 2017
We usually hate when companies do this. Let's change the wording just a bit and see:

... the idea that Comcast couldn't possibly have any influence over municipal policies is laughable.
>Cycling will save you more money because you [...] don't have to pay [...] accidents...

You certainly still can get hit while riding your bike. The cost to repair your body (hospital bills) is often much high than to repair a car (body shop). Regardless, I still enjoy cycling to work.
What do you think about non-human actors interacting through micropayments? Either your computer acting in your interests with a small sum of money, or autonomous agents that live through a couple hours of compute at the cheapest price & keep their own wallet.
> Why not offer buses from where their employees live or other means of transportation?

Apple, like many other big Bay Area tech companies, has dozens of buses and shuttles that ship people around daily (even all the way up to places like Berkeley).
Until you deal with important data, like records indicating money in a bank account. Then it's more like "tough shit you can't just slap an ORM on the direct table data".

Most people don't deal with important records though, and generally not people here (though a shout out to people from Stripe and other payments companies!). So I would t recommend stored procedures for this cloud either.

I do recommend prepared statements, but they do have a cost since it is two network calls for one query instead of one. Totally worth it too.
For basic gestures, an apple magic mouse is pretty good (also works in windows).

Almost the identical use case - I sometimes sit back and use gestures to scroll, swipe browser back, swipe between desktops.

An external trackpad would also do the trick, but the mouse is ergonomically nice for when you're stretching or leaning back.
After lots of talk, Microsoft bots show signs of life
The women missing from the silver screen and the technology used to find them
We used graphcool for our latest launch and it probably saved hundreds of back end dev hours. The team is really responsive on slack and intercom, the interface is great and really robust with query permissions and flexible mutation callbacks. The pricing is more than fair.

They've been a bit slow to implement new features for production, but I understand development timelines are hard to predict.

I think the product is in a pretty good place for a limited release right now. We are really looking forward to synchronous mutation callbacks and multi-region replication (currently only eu in production, us-west-2 and asia-pac are in beta). We're using lambda functions as in-betweens while we wait on synchronous callbacks and it's been totally fine, it just breaks the "GraphQL fits all your server api needs" paradigm.

Edit: it looks like today they just released "request pipeline" which is actually a pretty robust synchronous callback. Impressed at the thought that went into this. -- https://www.graph.cool/blog/2017-05-16-introducing-a-cli-fun...
If document databases like MongoDB have taught us anything, it's that developers hate any sort of data organization, which is ridiculous and ironic since most of their day-to-day is about manipulating data. Mongo is popular because it allows the developer to stuff a value without thinking about its structure and role, generally leading to utter disaster further down the road.

I do think the biggest problem is that it brought everything into the DBA's turf, and made it too difficult for devs to do their jobs without meddling. As long as there is a dev/DBA organizational dichotomy, there will have to be a structural dichotomy in the software (cf. Conway's Law).
From the linked article re Cupertino:

> For a fast-food restaurant, the city demands one space for every three seats; for a bowling alley, seven spaces per lane plus one for every worker.

I've read a bunch of articles about the negative externalities of minimum parking requirements, but haven't really seen one explore the why behind these rules. What does it matter to the city if a bowling alley doesn't have enough parking spaces? Wouldn't that just be bad for the bowling alley's business? If it's about ensuring the supply of street parking why not just install meters to make the city money when the bowling alley fails to build sufficient parking?

I'm usually the first to mock this kind of trite 'invisible hand' supply-and-demand explanation, but this really seems like something that would be very well left to the business to figure out.
> Ho..., Home...

What astonishes me is how much GMaps doesn't learn. Every time I use the map to go to a place by car, my way back is back home. But it doesn't suggest it by default, and doesn't even get the hint when I type "home"...

To me, this is how IA will look. It knows you perfectly from a Bayesian perspective, but some product manager decided that the bayesian suggestion is the only place that won't be suggested to you...

Same for distance. There may be a restaurant called "The Place To Be" next to you, but it will ask for anything named "Place" within 1000km...
I get 2.5 stories on my laptop screen... This has to be a cruel joke. On reddit I can see up to 10. Although I've been hearing things about reddit wanting to revamp their UI. I really hope they don't, their minimal simple UI is the main thing I like about reddit and hackernews.

And not being able to browse news without account means it'll never pick up.
Seems like a 10x better corporate training. I'd expect only 5-30% of people to recommend most of the trainings I've taken.
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Maybe the mail was pass-through?
> I wouldn't expect cargo to be the normal way to distribute software

To be clear, neither does the Rust team. You're exactly on point here.
I believe they are referring to this paper titled "MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision
Applications"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.04861.pdf
> But really the worst offenders are gray text on lighter gray background websites. Whyyyy designers why?

Color calibration.

On a good monitor, 10 or 12bit depth, 1000 to 10000nits of contrast, which designers tend to have, black text on white background has such a high contrast that it creates actual pain, and migraine.

So they use dark grey on light grey instead, and then, for them, it looks exactly like newspaper text.

A customer on a cheap, garbage monitor – maybe just 6bit of colors, 50nits of contrast – on the other hand, can’t even reach the contrast of a newspaper if they’d go full black on white contrast.

The contrast between the darkest black and the brightest white on a cheap monitor is equivalent to the contrast ratio between 40% (approx #666666) and 60% grey (approx #aaaaaa) on a designer’s monitor.
Unchecked, unqualified democracy with poor structure is basically tyranny of the majority. There's a ton of ways the majority can completely abuse the minority, whether that's genocide or slavery or whatever.

The only way to make democracy work is to include checks and balances against tyranny of the majority.

The premise that there can be a situation where a small number of people are productive and the rest just get hand-outs is, in principle, a real issue and concern. I don't have any magic solutions that necessarily avoid abuse in that case. However, we can at least be comforted for now by the fact that there's an enormous amount of work remaining for most people to do (and thus an incentive for all of us to support policies in which that work gets done), and it currently remains the case that most value in society is generated by poorer folks being exploited and most wealthy people are capturing far more value than they create. So, your concern, while totally valid in principle, is completely backwards from the current situation (but YES, we don't want to just flip the situation so it's unjust the opposite way!)
> Since it doesn't seem that Graves or Thuan did anything wrong

Wait, what? Did you read the article? If Fowler reported her problems to Thuan himself, then he most certainly bears responsibility, and needs to answer for that. Same with Graves: he was head of HR for periods over that time, and needs to answer too.

Only when you start holding the top-level people accountable will the culture change. Throwing some flunky under the bus will never bring about serious change.
Supply pressure propels UK prompt power prices to three-month high
The top comment did not say what you claim they said.

Being "no different" is not the same as "still the same in certain respects"

I don't think this building is "ridiculously cool."

"Out of their way" ? Are you suggesting altruism or generosity?
One of the trends with vlogging is to record yourself in the car talking about whatever subject you feel like your audience may want to hear about.

If you recorded your thoughts about politics, social issues, current events, etc. on the way to work and published those videos on YouTube, over time (give yourself likely 3-6 months to start making any significant income) you'll develop a subscriber base, your view counts for each video will continue to climb, and you'll be in a position to monetize your YouTube traffic.

You obviously should be very careful about doing any kind of video recording or anything else that might distract you from driving. This may be a better idea if you're taking public transit.
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lol so Hacker News is out of compliance with those terms now?
Interesting to see ARM starting to become datacenter worthy now. It's cheap and there is a version geared towards any application you can think of. Now let's see HPE use some FPGAs with embedded ARM CPUs. That would really be the killer for all the smaller shops that are building similar exabyte systems.
Well. Assuming you'd otherwise have to spend 60 minutes in the gym, you can take 30 minutes longer on your one way trip and still come out even.

Winter temperatures are no biggie. You just do what you'd do anyway: put on more layers of clothes. Now, snow and ice on the other hand...
I should say a lot of people made the app possible, including the show's awesome producers, writers, designers, and a lot of kind folks at HBO. To answer your question, I was the only dev on the project, and I've been working on it since last Summer, on a very part-time basis (some nights and weekends). A lot of time was spent learning Deep Learning to be honest. The last revision of the neural net was designed & trained in less than a month of nights/weekend work but obviously couldn't have been achieved without the preceding months of work — but if I was starting today knowing what I know now yeah it'd probably be about a month of work. The React Native shell around the neural net was just a few weekends worth of work — mostly it was about finding the right extensions, tuning a few things for rendering/performance, and like a whole weekend dealing with the UX around iOS permissions to access the camera & photos (lol it's seriously so complicated).
Additionally, the number of users that have flagged a story isn't user-visible (flagging a story doesn't count as a down-vote on the story's score).
Strange for a "reddit alternative" to have a landing page instead of, you know, content upfront like.. reddit.
A few cities started making up parking requirements, and then others copied them. The way they decided how many parking spaces were needed was by looking at peak demand and then forcing all businesses to have enough parking to never run out. Since the ones making these decisions are local officials, copying another city’s regulation is easier than doing a serious study of real parking needs. Nobody ever thought very systemically about this until the whole thing had been in place throughout suburban America for years.
Do you mean /r/all? Because you can just filter out bad subreddits and filter out bad subreddits...
“Maru is a new kind of computing experience.”

Is it? This type of “All Your PC Are Belong To Phone” type of fads have been attempted (and so far, miserably failed) for many, many years now. Looking at the website, I see little reason why this should succeed where others have failed.
Well that house/lifestyle is unreasonable to me, in my opinion. What area has $12,000 a year in property taxes? Does it come with government lap dances?

That's also not how taxes work on capital gains.

I live in a wonderful house I bought for $220,000 with 20% down. I could downgrade if I need in the future but I like the space right now. The P+I of my mortgage is $750/month, taxes $400, utilities $250, insurance $145. I live in an average neighborhood, I don't live in an upper income neighborhood because I don't like upper income neighborhoods, they are too far away from everything. I also don't live in a 'hood. I live on the coast 2 miles from the beach and waking distance to plenty of places. I doubt my town is somehow unique in that respect.

If your spending is less than your capital gains and dividends you never have to worry about money again.

I was replying to "$5-10M is probably the low bar for living a kick-ass non-tied-to-employment lifestyle in the US." I have a kick-ass lifestyle (to me) for much less than $5-10M so I disagree. I don't think living where you have to drive 20 minutes minimum to go anywhere is "kick-ass." I don't find joy in buying new gadgets to impress my neighbors. I ran the numbers and Kick-Ass is at a million and a quarter to me.
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It's a broadly held belief by many. It's good to look at craigslist to see how simple solutions are all that's necessary. Any yet, too frequently, we see companies spending soooo much money on useless features and so called innovations that don't help them solve their problem. This happens for both failing companies and very successful ones too. It can be difficult to isolate, exactly why something works, when you have so many confounding factors.
Yep. I'm generally only interested in good recordings and don't particularly care about disk space, so MP3 is perfectly fine. I'm not an "audiophile", but I do keep lossless when possible to stay future-proof.

My scheme is FLAC when I can, otherwise MP3. I can render the FLAC to MP3 (a batch script keeps things up to date) for compatibility/size with some things, but my main system plays FLAC just fine.

It isn't practical to take my full collection with me in MP3. Just checked, and the music share is currently 5.38T, but that's with a full set of MP3 dupes. And there is some garbage in there I haven't has the patience to weed out yet. I just point the phone at the MP3 directory and pick 'n choose with ITunes. If I really want some random song while not at home, I can pull it off my server easily enough, but at my age, I don't really develop strong needs for a particular song.
Nice! I'd never known that C++ could be used in an iOS app; learned something new today thanks.
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Consider the World Trade Center had about 50,000 people working in it before 9/11.

But 12,000 is about on scale with the entire Sears Tower (Willis Tower) in Chicago.
I would listen to an audiobook - Your Money or Your Life
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relation...

And follow it up by reading something like:
https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Path-Wealth-financial-independ...
I really wish this was a viable option, but the lack of active cooling (and mediocre passive cooling) for phones really makes the phone-as-desktop a non-starter for anything but light web browsing or text editing.
The problem is the contrast ratios. The contrast between 0% black and 100% white on a good screen is so high, it physically causes pain, even migraines. Which is why on HDR screens, the colors of CSS are actually limited to avoid ever going darker than grey or brighter than grey, and the contrast is still very large.

#000000 on a cheap screen is equivalent to #666666 on an HDR screen, #ffffff on a cheap screen is equivalent to #aaaaaa on an HDR screen.

So if a designer uses something that looks exactly like newspaper contrast to them, it’ll look unreadable on a cheap screen.
Overuse of color was done because designers could do things like photographic icons, gloss, gradients etc rather than because it makes things more distinguishable for the user.

OS X in particular had multiple levels of shininess which made it hard to distinguish the actual shape of the objects - they learnt their mistake and are attempting to roll it back years after Microsoft popularised digital first design. The Linux DE's haven't even learnt that yet.

Windows mail uses an envelope symbol. It's far more obviously mail than a picture of an eagle flying in the sky with a white scalloped, stamp-like border. Do people even use stamps anymore?

Compare with the OS X-style "Cars: fast as lightning" which I guess is a car but is so detailed I can't really tell.
Just go up several posts and read the end of the one I initially replied to.
> The other thing they can do is what Google does: buy their own buses and bus in some of the employees from key locations.

They do that already. I work down the street from the current Apple headquarters and the sheer amount of Apple buses during commute hours is insane. They must come every few minutes from 8-10a and 4-7p or so, because its rare for me to see less than 2 or 3 within a couple blocks of HQ during those hours.
You are not wrong. Forbes only expanded TPU to "Tensorflow processing unit" in the context of the Google chip.
A lot of it is the big customers can go to a chip company and say "I want this SOC, with X, Y, and Z" - and if they want enough of them, will actually be able to get them at a reasonable price.

I read this is why Qualcomm did their data center chip - some of the big Chinese companies wanted it.
I prohibit you from _not_ linking to it.
It's roughly the same legal argument.
One founder talks diversity, women in tech and the startup ecosystem
Wasn't the Machine supposed to be a memristor computer? Did they ditch the project?
The glass doors are only 4 stories tall? Meh, the doors to the throne room in Dune Messiah were over 200 foot tall.
Gizmodo has a history, in recent years, of this kind of ignorance. Something has changed in their hiring practices, it seems.
The BBC produced a radio drama a number of years ago. I don't have a good source for it now, though.
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Fastmail uses a +, I use a -. So, either I'd have to go in and alias all of them, or give up on the useful ones.

Besides, there are 30 or so that I have black holes, from back when comment systems leaked email addresses.
So? Car owners will pay that bill from car taxes, parking tickets, etc... Why does that bother you?
Thanks a lot for your comment! The term serverless is certainly being overused to attract attention.

I do think though, that there is value in talking about new kinds of software architecture is enabled by serverless infrastructure. I wrote up a post on how we at Graphcool use serverless functions internally and what we are planning to integrate in the platform in the future: https://www.graph.cool/docs/blog/introducing-the-serverless-...
I think it might succeed because it's built on Android with Android apps.