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Exactly. Going back to hunter-gatherer and living off the land like that is hardly sustainable with the current population: Earth has 5.7e7 sq mi surface, but 7e9 people, i.e. 8.1e-3 sq mi/person. Hunter/gathers seem to need (after a short google session) need around 1e-2 (Tropical) to 1e2 sq mi (Savannah) per person.
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Base load is not necessarily an advantage in a future energy system. Lots of solar and wind means there will be times when all the electricity can be provided by them. So what's really needed is flexible electricity to complement that.
I imagine we would have a giant fin along our spine and would be required to sleep in the sun for 10 hours per day and 8 hours per night to be able to function in the rest 6 hours. But on the other hand we would be much smarter with bigger brain in those 6 hours.
> Pinterest understands this well, creating a dynamic dialogue between its website and app worlds to improve the ‘stickiness’ of both.

Stopped reading. Seriously, fuck Pinterest.

Hit a random link here: https://www.pinterest.com/explore/wall-colors/

Try and interact with the web version. Then tell me that's a UX we're lauding?
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Because the Street View rig is expensive to manufacture; ordinary "driving the roads" can be done with normal vehicles. (Heck, you could even source data from usual drivers, if you owned e.g. Waze)
Then once you're rolling, the amount of red tape involved in testing, releasing, updating etc really is shocking.

I've been doing iOS dev for seven years, and have launched dozens of apps for organizations large and small, many of which had Android versions too.

I have no idea what you're talking about here.

Yes, you have to submit updates for approval, but it's quick and easy, and I can count on one hand the number of rejections I've ever gotten, all of which were easily fixed. 95% of my updates are approved in 1-2 days.

On the testing side, TestFlight and other tools make testing pretty quick and easy.

So what is the "bureaucracy" you're talking about?

The biggest issues with iOS are the 30% cut Apple takes, and discoverability on the store. The dev experience is actually pretty good, and the user experience is much better than Android.

Apple's balance here is FAR superior to Android's.
Totally correct. For some reason I was thinking of the 68008 used in the Sinclair QL and thought "hah! that is the 8 bit version, then the 68K is 16 bit!". Yeah, but that was about addressing, not data registers width. ...Big oooops! (and I learned Amiga programming with 68K asm... (ducks and covers) :-)

About the coprocessors, surely Amiga offered a lot in this context, but I can't believe that today video cards cannot do the same with specialized hardware a hundred times faster (if we only take pure clock speed into account). There is something wrong with today software: machines get faster and faster, yet basic stuff like manipulating graphical elements didn't gain much in usability although more speed must have at least brought better granularity in dealing with events.
OS complexity surely plays a role, AmigaOS occupied hundreds of Kilobytes -that's about 1/1000 of a modern OS core- but come on.... having to stuff a multicore 1GHz+ CPU plus fast GPU just to have a browser surf the net without dying is plain ridiculous.
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It might be possible, but I'm guessing it's not trivial to make a hard coating which also has the ability to dissolve arbitrarily.
The timestamp shows that this was written some years ago (2012). I know Guile Emacs has made some progress in the meantime, but is still not done. I wonder if there have been any other changes that would allow for this to happen.
I think so too. In our recent conflicts when you were caught you might get shot, the ancients used torture-killing so cruel I can't even read about it without feeling sick. Not even the Nazis used something like the Brazen Bull (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull), and that's just a simple device and procedure, they were much more inventive than that in the past. 1000 years ago those involved in the assassination attempt on "Der Führer" would have faced far more horrible deaths than they actually got. It seems to me even the most evil Nazis didn't have 1% of the imagination of the ancients (possibly excluding Dr. Josef Mengele, but he didn't think a about how to create pain, he just didn't care if his subjects did).
I don't recall paper instructions in the iphone 6 package. Maybe they put up an ill timed tutorial on screen with the first boot. I needed to skip that to finish setting up the phone in store. Sometimes I think getting a user to read instructions is the worlds hardest problem.
> Of course, with a compiler that targets Emacs Lisp, you can work around this by implementing your own immutable types

Clojurescript uses this approach and probably it's ok.
And for those who, like me, still didn't get it - it was a slogan for a soap and reads "(99 + 44/100)%", in other words: 99.44% pure. Thanks TeMPOraL!
My experience is the opposite - paid workout without many responsibilities is nice job. It's monotone as hell and you have to forget any real ambition. Also bosses often suck ... But when you find position under good managment it IS stressfree job imo. It's more about tradeoffs - what you want from life vs. how hard are you willing to work for it.
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Are there any suggestion engines which, rather than showing you things you may like based on things you like (which results in pigeonholing / homogenised experience), instead try to avoid things you don't like.

i.e. the algorithm's very similar, except that it aids you to discover things you wouldn't have found before, whilst avoiding stuff you probably won't like; rather than going for the stuff you'll definitely like but would have likely discovered anyway.
An individual policy isn't that crazy expensive. A single 20 year old guy can get a good plan for $200 a month. A family of 4 with parents in the 40s can get a good plan for $1500-$2000 per month.

Both are well within the realm of profits for a one man startup.
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There's f.lux for Linux as well, but you'll probably want to add a GUI [1]. f.lux runs on most desktops and phones.

Redshift seems to be the top choice for Linux users though, because f.lux lacks some basic features (like being able to turn it on during daylight hours). The trade-off is that f.lux is easier to install and has a smaller footprint.

Also worth noting is that Redshift is FOSS, and f.lux is not (though there are forks on githib, so I must be missing something).

[1] https://github.com/xflux-gui/xflux-gui
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if it wants to reach x86 level of performance then the answer is yes. in fact, it could be less efficient simply because x86 has two decades of optimizations going for it. you notice they keep comparing against previous gen and not the state of the art x86 performance numbers??
Flux looks interesting, but it doesn't seem to support brightness adjustment. I think it's important to sync the brightness of your monitor with the brightness of its surrounding.
Wow. It's quite pretty, but it shows the wretched excess of nineteenth century typography.
A significant chunk of the world's population lives near river estuaries, so there's a further possible benefit of this by having the power source near the population and reducing transmission losses in the system.
$2m at a conservative return of 6% would get you $120k but before taking capital gains tax. Let's say you're taxes at 15%... Now you're down to $102K. Not bad, but I'm sure you could make more as a senior developer.

Assuming you've come up with a different strategy that's netting better returns, would you care to share? And what is your strategy for hedging?
Are design tasks ethical in a job interview?
This is very false. Run some simulations. 4% is safe to withdrawl.
The biggest thing Android's Play Store is terrible at (and I've heard the same charges leveled at the Apple's app store) is discovery.

In Android, here's my use case: (1) Identify a need I want fulfilled by an app, (2) Search in the Play Store for some terms, (3) Receive a results page that gives me no information to discriminate (dodgy reviews, some basic screenshots, people saying it's unstable under the newest Android, etc), (4) Go do a web search +"Android app", (5) Browse through hundreds of shill sites that doubtfully even downloaded any of the "5 Best Android Paint Apps!", (6) Give up and do it on my laptop.

Imho, the key is leveraging the social graph. Which is something parts of Google seem to be clueless about (and parts seem to understand).

How about you review weight based on how closely connected I am to the reviewer?
I think you're right about both the two problems and the irony of the two of them being almost opposites extremes.

With a web site, you can mostly avoid both though, as web apps have evolved a variety of models where someone can try it out before they make any kind of commitment. Don't like it? Close browser, done. Like it enough to look again later or ask friends? Bookmark and/or share. Like it enough to commit right now? Hit the sign up button and create your account, or follow some other process that the site offers for saving what you were doing more permanently. There are no red tape or royalties to worry about in publishing your site, and because of the lower commitment there's less of a worry about quality for users visiting for the first time.

One fundamental difficulty with the app store model is that while its uniformity may make it easy to use, it also offers little influence or control to app developers before someone hits that button to install. And as anyone who's worked on the web equivalent can testify, that's probably where the majority of the customer acquisition process takes place. You're pretty far into the funnel by the time someone is actually downloading your app to their device.
That's how it's done in QHull, the basis for SciPy's voronoi features.
Glad to see The Players Tribune on here. If you haven't read it before, it has some amazing content - not just from pro athletes, but college athletes you've never heard of.

The perspectives are often fascinating. Here's another great one from Bronson Koenig, a Native American and one hell of a basketball player, on his experience at Standing Rock: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/bronson-koenig-wisconsin-b....
I can give an unsolicited recommendation for Red Bird Coffee's Red Bird or Blue Jaguar espresso blends. They are reasonably priced (~$14 / lb) and have been extraordinarily consistent for me (I usually make Americanos). When I order beans it's clear they were roasted one or two days before they were shipped.
The down years are why you only withdraw 3 to 4% max.
Not to mention the many people who have written some influential papers or are doing research in Silicon Valley have come through U of T or U of M, often having done research under Hinton and Bengio.
1) Locality requirements should be fulfilled by attaching or limiting workloads to regions. Not by having the entire infrastructure and everything only ever exist in a single place (which breaks numerous legal requirements by the way).

2) ELB/ALB are not. S3 is not. AMI only exist in a single region. EBS cannot be moved, ever. Billing is not really.

AWS is heavily region centric. For instance, it is impossible to list all instances attached to your account.

In command line tools and the web UI, it asks you a region at startup, and you will only see instances in that region.
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App developers: what percentage of apps provide no more functionality than just going to your website, but exist only to make it easier for you to collect data about me?
does this help you move around Zenhub issues on your kanban from commit -m "?"
Or - if you switch off the clickbait title - anarchists as the pawns in the irredentist movement spread out over four sovereign states.
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Well, like you say, you've been doing iOS dev for seven years, which kind of puts you into what I'd describe as the "Specialist" category. I wouldn't go trying to develop an iOS application without somebody of your calibre on board - but then you're either an expensive developer with cross-disciplinary skills or somebody we have "on retainer" to deal with this kind of stuff. Specifically what I recommended my colleague hire once she has her prototyping done, purely to deal with the machinations of the Apple ecosystem. Then just take it inhouse for support and maintenance.

It's interesting you mention test-flight specifically as this is something we've had a huge amount of trouble transitioning to. For an Apple specialist this is probably a no-brainer but for a product development org this is yet another headache where we used to just be able to issue our own development testing certificates.
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Skip the naps; take the tiredness as punishment, go to bed at a fixed time. The trick is consistency, and a nap will interrupt said consistency. Usually you can function fine with a few hours less sleep, as long as it's not a regular event.
> it is ok to push instant booking on everyone but please stop astroturfing about how you're doing it to prevent racism.

I had no idea the instant book feature was so controversial.

That said, as a traveller, it works well for me: I'm currently staying in an Airbnb property that I booked late last night, less than 15 hours before checkin. I only booked this place because I was able to get instant confirmation. It worked well for the host too; she got a 3-night booking she otherwise wouldn't have. So, both of us have benefited from this change.

At the same time, it really was the case that Airbnb started getting a heap of criticism 6-12 months ago for the propensity for hosts to reject bookings from people of different races. So there is absolutely substance to that justification.

> There's always the real reason why you do something and there's the marketing reason why you do something.

You seem to be committing the rhetorical fallacy of looking through all the possible motives somebody can have for an act, identifying the lowest one and asserting that that must be the real one.

> Just look at the CEO's face and tell me you think he is sincere about anything.

You should provide an example of him being or seeming to be insincere.

My own experience, having known him personally, is that he is as sincere and strong in his convictions as anyone I've met. In fact, in the YC batch we participated in together, Airbnb was voted (on two separate occasions, by a big margin) as the company most likely to succeed, because the founders were so energetic, hard-working, sincere in their mission, and good natured in the way they thought about/behaved towards their customers, their YC batch-mates, and everyone they interacted with.

Looking back, I'm comfortable conceding that it was these positive qualities in them that weren't present in me, that caused them to be so successful and for me to not be.

> Honesty and openness - that's all I ask.

You've provided no evidence that they are anything other than this.

> I don't know if it is even possible though. Those who are honest and open will get their lunch money stolen by the "elites".

I know it's easy to look at a company achieving huge success, seeing all the reports of them operating with questionable ethics, and thinking that the only way to be successful to is be unethical.

But there's a difference between operating consistently unethically/immorally, and pushing the boundaries to their limit (with occasional, inevitable, overstepping the mark).

In the past I've often made the same mistake, but over time I've learned this was due to my own resentment and unwillingness to concede that maybe others were succeeding because they were just doing a better job than I was.
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> "Successful" has different meanings for different people.

Indeed:

It's said that most at home traders fail, but this is incorrect: they fail at making money, but they are successful at feeling like a trader. That is the goal; the money is secondary, which is why they fail at making it.

— The Last Psychiatrist, http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/03/who_can_know_how_much...
Wretched excess?

I'm not an expert on 19th C typography, but I imagine that typography like this wowed people back then, and imparted a kind of authority and grandeur for the businesses that used them.
Implication 1: Rule of the extra 9

A service cannot be more available than the intersection of all its critical dependencies. If your service aims to offer 99.99 percent availability, then all of your critical dependencies must be significantly more than 99.99 percent available.

Internally at Google, we use the following rule of thumb: critical dependencies must offer one additional 9 relative to your service—in the example case, 99.999 percent availability—because any service will have several critical dependencies, as well as its own idiosyncratic problems. This is called the "rule of the extra 9."

If you have a critical dependency that does not offer enough 9s (a relatively common challenge!), you must employ mitigation to increase the effective availability of your dependency (e.g., via a capacity cache, failing open, graceful degradation in the face of errors, and so on.)
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Well, it's display type, suitable for posters and the like. I'm not sure that use is fundamentally different now. Typography intended to be read instead of standing alone as an art piece was legible in the 19th century as well.

Look at it as a kind of low-tech WordArt. I especially like the sort-of gradient in the Clarendon example.
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Yes. I think this is the phenomena that's eating both appstores' lunches of late.
Pick a time and stick to it. Doesn't matter how little sleep you get.

It also helps to have a meal as soon as you get up. And meal is anything with calories in it. I.e. a cabbage leaf is fine.

This helps reset your circadian rhythm (great for jetlag too).
I find it interesting that at the end he doesn't blame american football in itself for the negative long term effects in his health as I thought he was heading to. He ends up (spoilers alert) coaching football.

I myself do not have a strong opinion on the matter of the ethics of creating a billionaire business around a game that is so dangerous to everyone that plays it seriously, from high school to pros. I am instinctively against, but as long as the issues are clear, transparent and everyone involved have all access to information needed to do their own informed choices, it seems correct.

That said, a very brave and insightful tale on how these personal struggles are. Very well written too. And glad to know that there are effective treatments out there that can help this kind of health problems.
I will take better AI for predictive text entry on touch screen keyboards any day of the week. I use Android's built-in​ keyboard with swipe typing and it does fix some things but it could go much further.
Take up less things at once, or, try and focus on one thing, preferably finishing it at the end of the work day. Divide your tasks up into smaller, achievable subtasks, check it off, save the rest. It's okay to not do everything, you can't.
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It's a similar phenomenon as the video game crash of the early 80s. Companies flooded the market with hastily made shoddy games just to get a quick buck but it resulted in nobody wanting to buy games anymore because most of them were garbage.
There was never really an app economy in the sense of a thriving economy for apps on the app store. It's always been a small fraction of apps that made it and the rest not making any money. They could however go on for ever because the cost of keeping them up is close to zero so it always looked like it was way more successful and lucrative than it really was.

There is a much more successful app economy that's been around since the inception of the personal computer which is doing ok. Some are SAAS apps others are little tool apps like my own, even others are open source apps and yet others are shareware.

In other words. As long as you don't define app economy only as what happens on the mac app store then the app economy is doing ok and we haven't seen the end of it.

However if you only think in terms of apple app store then I would say it's never been there to begin with.

There are some larger trends I believe that renders the idea of apps as products useless but that's for another topic.
Please do yourself a favor and invest in other things too. I'm also a bitcoin believer, but it's a relatively small part of my holdings, which are mostly in real estate.
Yes, you have to submit updates for approval, but it's quick and easy, and I can count on one hand the number of rejections I've ever gotten, all of which were easily fixed. 95% of my updates are approved in 1-2 days.

I think the point is that if I'm a web developer and I want to update my web app, I can deploy in 1-2 minutes with 100% acceptance rate. The only fees I have to pay are for hosting, and everything else is totally under my control. I'm not subject to the caprice of whoever runs any official app store for some platform, nor to paying them exorbitant rents.
Here is why the startup I write code for wants an app first and browser code second.

We actually would prefer the browser by leaps and bounds, cutting the need for central servers and decentralization is a core idea, you should remain in control of all your data.

The problem: The only viable way to store a significant amount of data in the browser is IndexedDB. Which allows you only some storage of the total available - and, much much worse, the browser can wipe the data at any time without warning.

It simply is not possible to provide our data-storage related system without either a central server backing up the browser "app" - or writing an app for iOS and Android.
I would suggest Antergos based on Arch, in that case. You can select xfce as the starting de, and then install wm on top of it, or individually. You will get a working distro quite easily, and after that you can customize as much as you want, without having to go through the base Arch distro installation, which requires you to follow the excellent Arch wiki guides.
I installed Antergos on a 4 years old laptop that I got recently, and it works fine seamlessly.
The Macbook and (I'm pretty sure) most modern laptops will also adjust backlight according to environment though.
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I sure hope so. We need to improve the web experience on mobile, not foist dozens of mediocre apps onto users.

Its telling that HN has one of the best mobile experiences of all the sites I regularly visit on my phone. I frequently find myself jabbing at the screen in frustration when operating more "complex" sites.
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Intel does the same. Didn't prevent them from producing P4 or Itanium.
Where do/did you find these teams?
Google for "Turbo Crazy".

Easy to build, roasts a LOT more uniform than the popper, can roast up to 0.5lb batches.