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> Chomsky explains his decision to focus on criticizing the U.S. over other countries as being because, during his lifetime, the country has militarily and economically dominated the world, and because its liberal democratic electoral system allows for the citizenry to exert an influence on government policy.

chomsky is incredibly smart and i love listening to what he has to say and agree with most of it, but this focus on criticizing US is definitely not one of them. i get the argument, but he's either blind to or doesn't care that his well intended criticism is more effective as a political tool in hands of enemies of the liberal democratic system which he supposedly wants to succeed.

not saying that US must not be criticized, it just feels very disproportionate compared to the amount of injustice and atrocities in other parts of the world. hell, on a majority of this planet's surface chomsky would have been disappeared long time ago for the kind of criticizm he directs at US - is that not a reason to begin your every speech with "keep in mind, matters are very much worse pretty much everywhere else but...".
I'd love to know how this project manages to get such high quality stories out for every update. I assume their project has a community member who is passionate about writing. It's such a rare, but useful thing to have someone volunteer their time to do great technical writing. I wish someone would do it for the open source projects I work on!
> ... they test the living shit out of it. Then, once it's working, they don't change it except under extreme pressure.

I wonder if self-driving car manufacturers will apply this same philosophy.
OT, but syntax highlighting is hardly the weakest part of displaying code on a webpage. Nobody's disrupting horizontal scrollbars or margin-busting, but the first person who does is going to be a hero.
Start a new "label" the way Netflix and Amazon have their own productions.
It's just a comparison. Relax.
What is the objective measure of "value for humanity"? If you're thinking in dollars, then absolutely not. Most startups are in debt. Their company is worth nothing. They lose the investor's money.

The common denominator is that they create jobs, starting with the entrepreneur. And jobs are an objective measure of economic value.

The first job they create is for themselves. And that is one less job the government and everyone else has to worry about.

And you are assuming there will be no entrepreneurs who create work for themselves, or that there wouldn't be people who would rather do the work than let robots do it, or that people wouldn't hire people just to work with people. You're ignoring the fact that many genuinely enjoy working, and that businesses grow with headcount because they can totally afford it.

And lets say your final assertion is true. Robots will replace all workers.

But the business is still owned by a person. This person will be incredibly wealthy if all these robots are working for the price of electricity and parts.

So this is a wealth problem, more so if you truly believe your own assertions. It may be a jobs problem for certain people sooner, but no one is talking about the wealth problem. Neither are you.
> Moreover, I wouldn't see basic HTML or CSS as specific knowledge. This is something every coder knows (like English), of course not advanced layout stuff like Flexbox but the basic of HTML and CSS are common knowledge

i work in a building full of embedded developers who wouldn't know a css selector if it bit them on the ass.

what use is it to any of them?
A lot of politicians are close friends. Some are even married to eachother. How is it practical to stop them discussing politics privately?
Agree that for a western English audience NY is the best location reaching both the US and EU with a ok latency.
Thankyou very much for your advice :) I'll keep on making things.
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demand is almost infinite

Almost infinite but still very much finite. If you could get anywhere in the world in seconds, Star Trek transporter style, then demand would level off. The number of people in the world is finite. Once everyone can get where they need to be as easy as sending a text message, we will have different problems to solve.
Haven't we started using remote-controlled surgery machines?
Why should I discover content on Medium?

This job is done by HN and Reddit and unfortunately Facebook if I am on FB. I don't have time to get sucked in another feed.
I went through a 2 year period where I put every one of my experiments and side projects on github and tried to update at least one every other day or so.

Knowing that other people could see when I stopped motivated me a lot. The whole thing made me a better programmer too.
I never understood how writers of any kind would let Medium (or Tumblr, or ...) rip all control off their hands.
Technological limitations: it's not the kind of thing that can be done automatically.
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Err..
"The argument, the subject, really is just that simple."

I almost lack words at this point. I hope you never come in a decision where you need to judge a scientific inquiry in a way that has consequences for others. At least not about anything more complex than, indeed, whether it is dangerous to jump off a tall building.

At the point where you have to declare that the others are just idiots you KNOW that you have taken a wrong turn somewhere. At the very least, you need to spend some time looking into the counter-arguments.

No, I certainly should not just find the ice core data on the internet. To do anything useful with that data I would need to understand how it was gathered, the physical processes that lead to the gases being absorbed, whether gases move within the ice after freezing, what the uncertainty in mapping centimeters to years, and a thousand questions like that which I can't even know that I should ask. At the very minimum, I should look through the data through a statistical model including uncertainties.

Since I don't have a year to study the science of ice core data fulltime, I need to rely on papers written up and conclusions made by those who know the data better. Ideally both papers written by climate change supporters and sceptics. Ideally peer-reviewed, but if there's a conspiracy going on I can always read rejected papers...

But just downloading and looking and drawing consequences from that myself -- or worse, look at some simplified plot made by some conspiracy theorist and draw conclusions from that -- if I do that I might as well make myself a nice tin-foil-hat and become a member of flat earth society.

I've almost completed a PhD in astrophysics right now, and I know that if someone were to just download the images taken of the cosmic microwave background and conclude anything at all from them, without knowing the full details of the assumed physical models, instrumental effects, and the data analysis pipeline, the results would be ludicrous. That doesn't mean our results are ludicrous though, because we've spent years understanding the data.

All data needs to be deeply understood before drawing any conclusions. I certainly don't understand ice core data, and since you're not giving me any papers I bet you don't understand ice core data either. You are simply repeating arguments made by others who, hopefully do -- hence I asked for references. Your assurances and explanations here are worthless; that doesn't mean one shouldn't discuss science in social media, but when one does, it can only be as summaries of what people who do know the data well are saying (but if you got it from the documentary I guess I can pick up the trail from there).

Scientists screw it up all the time. That I can support. But the issue just being "too simple" for scientists to understand, and everyone just being stupid, and the matter really being very simple -- then I know you have taken a wrong turn somewhere. If you end up being right in the end, and global warming is wrong, then it is not because you are brilliant, it is because you lucked out in seeing the right documentary first.
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I think the fundamental confusion is that risk-taking resembles competence.

I believe that's what drives comments like "kids these days are so good at technology". When archetypal Aunt Tilly looks at somebody younger using a computer, she sees that they do not hesitate when navigating around, quickly clicking on everything that appears.

However, that doesn't always mean they know what they are doing. They're simply much more comfortable trying and hoping that it won't end badly. (Or at least not badly in a way that they can recognize, until someone tells them that their computer is full of malware.)
Call me pedantic, but first thing I noticed that the video has 350°C/175°C and I suppose that should be F/C :P
Out of curiosity, if this were to solve problems with endpoint pricing and cold-starts, then what other problems do you see that would still force you to move over to EC2? Just wondering, I've used Lambda a bit but never at scale and these are the only two problems that I can foresee.
You didn't use the "GPLv2 or later" clause?
I assume Dolphin doesn't have a mode that uses Metal? Because that would presumably make it work well on macOS, as Metal is where Apple's been focusing their efforts for a while now.
I had a similar experience when I released an open source real estate search plugin for Wordpress years ago. It gained traction and was covered by a few very prominent real estate blogs/news sites which resulted in over 10,000 downloads in 2 weeks.

There were some people who were not able to get it to work with their theme, shared hosting environment, other plugin conflicts, etc. and expected me to install/troubleshoot. I was spending almost my entire day trying to help people and I couldn't handle the demand especially with that many downloads in such a short period of time.

So I decided to put up paid support versions ranging from $50 to $150. People flipped out when I did that and literally attacked me in comment threads. I tried explaining the time commitment this entailed and that it was taking me away from my core business but the mob didn't care. They were mad that I wasn't willing to install or troubleshoot their environment for free.

I ended up taking the plugin down and since then (it's been 7 years) I haven't open sourced anything major and will probably never release a Wordpress plugin to the public again.

In hindsight, I probably could have made decent money from that plugin if I charged for it initially. It probably would not have gained as much traction or popularity but I think the outcome would have been very different.
Without that the songs would fall into the public domain while they artists was likely still alive.

That was the case for centuries. Why is that such a bad thing?

And US copyright is definitely longer than 35 or 50 years -- try uploading an Elvis track to YouTube; I bet someone would notice.
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This is a really good point. It seems likely that proper nouns were not taken into account.
In a traditional game this is exactly how it's done. Dolphin is a bit different though, because it's an emulator. It is aware that a game is using the GPU, but isn't aware of the inner workings of each game's logic. Dolphin doesn't know the difference between a cutscene, gameplay, a pre-rendered movie, or a credits sequence. Because of this, it has to be written in a more general manner, so that a game running inside of it can ask it to do anything a Gamecube or Wii would be able to do, and still come up with the right result.
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It's over 7000' in elevation, they grow a bit more slowly at that elevation. Depending on the mountains near by it may be a "9 months of winter" kind of situation
It was never really "featured" on HN. I just posted it every now and then, when I thought it fits the conversation.
This was also hard to understand for me. But think about all the benefits people in higher positions have if people in lower positions take initiative. The higher ups can reap most of the rewards of successes while blaming all failures on the initiating people. Of course they like it if you offer such gifts for them.
Great. They leave, push their listeners over on the younger version of them.

It's like sailing... Every bit of air that hits your sail will end up behind you, dispersed. That doesn't mean your boat will stop. You travel by charting a course where you stay ahead of a pressure differential.

Same in music. You need to find a source of new artists that will continually replenish you as you lose artists to platforms that focus on the stage after you in maturity. The beauty of culture is it always replenishes.
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Something is old so now you can’t own it? Does a 40 year old house suddenly become public domain just because people like to visit? If you made something, you and your heirs have a right to that, it doesn’t just get confiscated because it’s popular. Some of Bob Dylan’s songs are over 50 years old; does that mean he shouldn’t own the stuff he created? That is just theft. Nobody has a “right” to anything I create unless I say so.
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> i work in a building full of embedded developers who wouldn't know a css selector if it bit them on the ass.

Maybe, maybe not. Even embedded coders face HTML/CSS at some point when their embedded devices incorporates a webserver for some admin interface which sends HTML/CSS to the world (e.g. a router). Or they have create an API doc for their newly created embedded system, on the web. There are many examples.

What I am saying is that HTMl/CSS is ubiquitous in tech and besides, not that hard to grok compared to code in Assembly or C for an embedded system. And again they don't need HTML or CSS anyway. They just need to know a bit of bash, git, Markdown and a SSG of their choice.
That's definitely one way of looking at it, so now what we really have are digital colonists.
Line: Android/iOS game.

Has a big userbase on Android, but nearly as much on iOS. Made around 3k$/month for a couple of months a year ago, now it's close to nothing as I stopped developing it, don't really now why. The whole thing is made with LibGDX for Android, using the (now defunct) RoboVM for iOS.

Link: http://2121.io/

Email me at nuno @ domain in link above if interested
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I'm more or less in the same age bracket as you (graduated high school in 2015) and your spot on about the utility of computers for research and the importance of learning how to effectively use a search engine (this is a skill most of my peers lack).

That said, there's a huge difference between getting your first computer at 12 and getting your first computer at 3 (or at least largely unmonitored access to one). It remains to be seen how interaction with technology at such a young age affects social development and maturity, whereas technology's impact on our lives occurred after that development had mostly finished.
I read this when it was first published. The descriptions of what happened when children died of heat exhaustion gave me nightmares for weeks.
They could do what Bandcamp did instead. Bandcamp is growing.
Consider the difference between "indigenous natives" versus "second-generation immigrants."

Technical professionals are arguably the indigenous natives, present "before it was cool" and working to coerce a inimical environment into something suitable and appealing to people.
I work for a bunch of cool adults. The porn industry is interesting and makes for fun lunch conversations with the team. My nose is not held to the grindstone all the time and it's accepted that I spend a certain amount of my time reading articles and such.

But having pornographic videos or images up on your screen where others can see is just unprofessional.
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I don't follow. If they are coding the right things, then a real increase in productivity means better business impact. If they are coding the wrong things, then language doesn't matter.

How can a programming language choice hurt the business through some mechanism other than productivity? You could say that such a behavior is "indicative of poor choices" but that's begging the question.
> > if a household wants a download speed of 12 Mbps with an upload speed of 2 Mbps, they can expect to pay a whopping $90.

Wow. I was just in South Africa. We paid ~$115 for 10Mbps down (of which we usually got 4-6) and 1 Mbps up. With frequent outages. Oh and capped of course (not that the cap ended up mattering with those speeds)
Gotta love your attitude: live coding, guerilla marketing, how you dealt with 4chan spammers, shipping quickly... Excellent write-up.

Ads seems the most natural business model if you get it big enough. hotels, flights, car rental, all have pretty ok revenue potential through affiliate deals.

However, before you get to that scale, try out selling it as a widget (or something like that, or a spin off product based on the crowd sourced data) to tourist offices of cities themselves. It wouldn't be huge business but I think with right pricing, some customization and support work for integration etc, you could make it 10-50k per deal and scale the workload pretty easily.
Presumably you'd use a 2nd monitor that isn't broadcasting for anything sensitive.
I can understand why a profit seeking venture wants to get a patent if they can (even though I viscerally disagree with high level, low-effort software patents), but to advertise it on the footer, while sharing to the tech community that cares about these issues, is just plain bad judgment.

I mean also, given it's the glorious chicken-egg problem, with only 1 developer within 50 miles of my SF zipcode for the major web categories I searched, idk if they think an investor will hook at "They have a patent!" while ignoring this lack of engagement?
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It looks like this thing bundles ca.ipxe.org and ca.netboot.xyz certs. It also makes a SHA256 checksum of each boot disk, and creates signed signatures for all source files.

But it is not verifying signed checksums of the bootloaders themselves, which you would expect to be probably the most important part of running an OS downloaded over HTTP from random mirrors you don't know.

Also, thanks for giving us your encrypted secrets database, as well as your S3 secret access keys, author?
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the two.

You might find Vertabelo [1] useful and possible replacement of LucidChart & Visio for db modeling.

[1] http://www.vertabelo.com/
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> Maybe, maybe not.

uh it isn't some sort of weird toss-up? i'm referring to specific people who i know.

> Even embedded coders face HTML/CSS at some point when their embedded devices incorporates a webserver for some admin interface which sends HTML/CSS to the world (e.g. a router). Or they have create an API doc for their newly created embedded system, on the web. There are many examples.

there's a whole world of embedded stuff that doesn't have admin interfaces, doesn't have APIs, etc. you can concoct increasingly strained examples all day long, and there are still folks doing work you didn't realize was even a thing, who'll have long and profitable careers without touching a line of CSS.
My company uses https://nerdydata.com to find websites that use our javascript tag without a license. So far it's been working nicely for us
GHP means you're subject to github's downtime, which tends towards more frequent than s3 (outside us-east-1). Worse, you can't run HTTPS with GHP and a custom domain.

You could use CloudFlare's flexible TLS, but it's unsecured from their system to your site, which has resulted in carrier level content being injected[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091900
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Good points. I also swap Ctrl and Alt on both sides, using my thumbs for Ctrl. Using the opposite hand to press the modifier is analogous to how a touch typist uses the shift keys. For desktop use, I now use a Kinesis keyboard, again with symmetrical modifiers but all as thumb keys.
The correction might not have come directly from him. It was other employees who alleged that he got mad about that typeface not being used, and maybe the reporter got the detail wrong when publishing the story.
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What does it mean to have a lower OD rate if legalization caused the entire population to become addicts? There needs to be a more comprehensive and less biased examination on what happened to this country. Anyone know the addiction rate vs other countries?
Hi Nick,

I get the impulse to defend the company you work for. It's commendable. But if you're embarrassed to see your employer be accused of plagiarism, it would be a lot more effective for you to pressure people internally to start providing proper attribution than to write comments like this. Internal pressure can often accomplish things that external pressure can't.
While the language itself predates PHP, the hype doesn't.
That's why they now have their new Tasty mobile app. The app gives you a full recipe in addition to the video (and even hyperlinks each step in the recipe to the point in the video that shows it).
"Over the past few years, we've had users ask many questions about shader stuttering, demand action, declare the emulator useless, and some even cuss developers out over the lack of attention to shader compilation stuttering."

Ugh, it pains me to imagine users that would be anything but appreciative towards these developers, but kudos to the devs for using that abuse as inspiration.
> People talk about treating the internet "like a utility." But much of the county I live in doesn't have public water/sewer [...]

The Internet is more like electricity or telephony than water/sewer. Are these places connected to the public power grid, or do they depend on generators? Could the power poles be used for Internet wiring?
> Optics is a term largely reserved for the stage of political theatre, that is not my assertion

It's in both Merriam-Webster [1] and UrbanDictionary [2] as simply relating to public perception, whether it's politics or business.

Weird that you think it's necessary to tell someone what words to use. Do you have a citation for this word suddenly vanishing from English in the past 6 months?

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/optics
[2] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=optic
At those insane risk rates (at least for early rounds), it better be as exciting as going to a casino. Nobody in their right mind would provide seed funding with anything but gambling in mind. [Except for those who want to change the world by supporting an idea, of course.]
Their iOS app was just released 4 days ago. That's probably why you're seeing it everywhere now.
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