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We'll be working on moving on from jQuery. When we finally decided to commit to it, it was too late in the v4 alpha process to really spend significant time doing it. We'll be piece-meal updating our plugins to drop it.

Lots of folks like to shit on jQuery these days, but it changed JS forever. We're still using it while focusing on other things, and you can easily swap it out for something else or use a ported version of our JS for React, Angular, etc.

In short, yes, and we'll get there in time <3.
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I think a lot of people think it's good to be super excited about everything. You have to be outraged, really angry, deeply offended and whatever. Everything has to be amplified to the extreme.
I like the way you think. That would be my dream. Time to start investing in property out in the middle of nowhere.
Can someone please explain how exactly someone would transfer their files onto Filecoin? How does the system ensure reliability? I just don't understand why I would put my files in some random person's hard drive.
That is just a bias that I recommend you try to get over. It will help you better assess people and situations.

We can debate the long list of HBS graduates that have been amazing operators in tech companies. Every CS grad isn't a great CEO & every HBS grad isn't a terrible CEO. I wish the world was that simple.
Yea.. I got down voted for saying the same thing. Thanks for confirming, I thought I was going crazy.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986630 and marked it off-topic.
They still do, but you need to be a subscriber.
High Performance Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Computer System on the ISS
More information about how you can avoid making apps that do this, or how you can control your own app usage, can be found here:

http://www.timewellspent.io

There's an interesting page where they show the results of 200,000 users of an app called Moment[1] where you can see which apps make people the least happy. Additionally, you can see the time limits at which users start to feel happy about their usage.

http://www.timewellspent.io/app-ratings/

I came upon the movement after incorporating suggestions from Tristan Harris' "How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist[2]" into my every day life.

[1] - https://inthemoment.io

[2] - https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-technology-hijacks-peop...
You can please leave out the name-calling while making your point, like the guidelines ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It has the dates right there...2 years each is looks like.
Something like a Patreon for music, with a model more customized to the SoundCloud community and use case.

Direct crowdfunding for music, but also as a platform for discovery and consumption.
First, the negatives:

Another AI winter
Another VR winter
Another hype-cycle of home automation
Another hype-cycle of growing teeth

There will be tech progress, but behind the scenes, doing the same things as before, just better. As prosaic as more modular manufactured goods, in the sense of prefab home construction, automobile components, FPGA's for electronic goods. Some may revolutionize the value-chain in an industry - but you won't see it unless you're in it.

Fundamentally new tech takes 20-30 years to come to market - especially if it really does change things (government regulatory regimes, infrastructure, how we live).

Now Moore's Law isn't giving us shallow victories any more, there is opportunity for deeper changes, that properly absorb and apply its past advances.

Right now, we are undergoing a re-orientation of our political systems, in the sense of how democracy operates without a traditional press; the continuing march of multi-nationals being more powerful than sovereign states; the hyper-concentration of wealth (due to the means of production no longer being land, nor labour, but technology). Social systems are a kind of "technology".

The central question of this technological change will be: why do the hyper-wealthy need people?

The most surprising technology will be new mathematics - not TB machine proofs, but quite simple and basic ones, akin to the positional number system, algebra, calculus. They will analyse complex systems, like Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics; the operation of deep learning networks; internet and traffic congestion; and cortical organization. They won't give magical results, but they will offer a new point of view, that some will experience as magical.
it's a lot. most restaurants will deliver for free (if you're in their radius, and order above a minimum $ threshold) and you can optionally tip the driver a buck or two if you feel like it. $5 is a lot considering the competitors costs (basically $0).
I too doubted this, but I suppose it is possible, though the pickings are slim at best:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/map.html?locatio...

Also note a lot of these would be likely £600+ since this doesn't show additional fees (estate agent, taxes etc.)

Now, this may seem like an abundance of results – but a number of these listings are actually house shares, parking lots, garages etc. Maybe you'd be ok with sharing a house (I wouldn't) but I'm sure we can all agree living in parking space is out of the question.

So maybe it's doable, but I think it'd be really hard work trying to find a place that's not kept together with shoe string and duct tape, while being in a decent area with a decent commute.
One of my predictions is that the AI pendulum will swing again at the other direction and people will wake up again to the reality that AI is far from achieving the romanticised stuff that the so called experts and book authors want the public to believe.

We will see gradual incremental improvement in specialised AIs for things like voice, face and character recognition. We will see an increased usage of AI and AI based technologies to improve efficiency and assist the humans in decision making. But it will not put nearly as many people out of jobs as some people suggest.
Load YouTube in Firefox for Android. Turn off screen. Enjoy music.
I am not sure he even understands complexity of DL itself. DL can be formulated as a non-linear optimization problem; that means it's one of the most difficult computational problems and the few types of topology we know are working with current "simple" non-linear optimizers are quite miraculous; I don't think anybody understands why these simple methods work so well when we restrict/structure the number of connections between layers and why fully-connected networks have such a terrible performance even if theoretically they should be able to handle everything better. So there is IMO a plenty of space for everyone to figure out their own niche with best performing algorithm in production and enable magical things in their apps.
location based services
>> "The Brutalists always said that, but I never bought it."

The Brutalists were disingenuous in many ways.

You'll hear the trope "Oh 'Brutalism' doesn't mean the English word brutal, it's derived from the French 'Béton brut!'" absolutely everywhere in print and on the internet.

This is lazy journalism parroting a faux-profound claim, frequently repeated by people trying to look sophisticated. It's e.g. all over the Wiki article on Brutalism and is probably in 10 different comments downthread.

The British people who coined and popularized the term (Ventris and the Smithsons, mostly) were native English speakers and were perfectly aware of the connotations/double meaning of the word "brutal" when designing buildings that ordinary people think look like supervillain lairs. The "French etymology" claim is just a twee shibboleth for architectural-world pretension.

That said, this site is hilarious.
Only if the budget was reasonable in the first place. All too often they "budget" far more money than is possible and then celebrate the cuts.
VR. Next two years are going to be pretty stagnant. The resolutions, etc. just are still enthusiast tier.

But 10 years time? We could be seeing the beginning of the end of TVs, smartphones, cinema, social media, etc. as we know it today. VR arcade warehouses popping up in many places. Perhaps even starting to impact the layouts of newly architected houses to have less walls, focus more on wide one-story dwellings (but stacked on top of each other) and more open space to roam wide in virtual reality.
I find it unlikely that Hanlon's Razor should apply to a case of reading comprehension by a CEO of Google. But if it does, that's a different reason to want him to resign.
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"He's saying that the inability to get to a 50/50% split on gender lines may be unrealistic"

Sure that's fair. I say that as a woman - I have no expectation to reach 50/50. However it's debatable if these policies are not useful yet. My mothers generation had some crazy stories to tell and that wasn't that long ago.

"And the thesis is that it would not be created in that fashion because women self-select to enter different professions for biologically based reasons."

This may be partly true but I disagree that it forms a substantial influence given my personal experience. I would give it a 1% weight anecdotally but much more if you count that many women want to be full time mothers.

The much bigger picture in my personal experience is a slew of other things including poor information, societal and parental expectations and visions for their daughters, engrained belief systems, intimidation due to biases, sticking to comfort zones or what is more familiar and so on.

I totally agree this is a discussion worth having and at some point this policies will need to be phased out. I think here the channel in which it was broadcast to the entire company was pretty uncomfortable given its such a touchy and controversial topic.

Thanks for the discussion
It's not a matter of figuring out. It's an issue with patents.

Fedora is actually pretty strict about free software.

Also you can check out Fedy which makes those steps much easier.
Hey, that's awesome! Reminds me that Bootstrap started over six years ago from a Less variable and mixin library (http://getpreboot.com).
Hi i'd love feedback on this if you're an active serverless user. What other stats would be helpful?
It's easier for me to read, as far as I can tell. http://russrizzo.net/ is an example, but maybe it's just size.
It was phrased that way above, read carefully. If all they meant was "if you aren't paid fairly, leave and find a better place", that's OK, but that's not how it was phrased (which was quite improper).
The verbiage isn't exactly assaulting anyone, and it sounds like you're being the dick if you can't see why publishers would like to make money.
This is not a comment on the article - but I really hate the words "ladysplain" and "mansplain".

What a way to instantly inject emotion into what I would wish people would de-escalate.

The original memo author committed the same offenses, and the author of this article does the same here. Is everyone completely oblivious to emotionally charged language that makes the opposing side instantly angry and ups their tendency to ignore the content of your arguments?
Yeah I just bought the domain name a while ago impulsively, still working on it. :D
I know that this is an unpopular opinion on this thread, but Pinchar also made the right move from a legal perspective.

James' memo created a hostile work environment. And legally, that's all it takes to support terminating his employment for cause.

1) He claimed that biological differences were responsible for the behavior of his female co-workers. Yes, he actually says that in the section "non-bias causes of gender gap in tech." If you can't see why that's offensive, try replacing that sentence with "Biological differences are responsible for the behavior of blacks. Or latinos." Legally, this single section, by itself, disseminated on an internal company board, was enough to create a hostile work environment for his female co-workers.

2) Then he goes on to say that "diversity" candidates get special treatment. They get a lowered bar. His words, not mine. So now he's implying that many of the "diversity" candidates only work at Google because they weren't held to the same standards. And unlike his earlier statements about biological differences not applying to any specific individual women, he doesn't qualify this statement--so he's lumping all of his female and non-white co-workers together. This section, on its own, would also be enough to create a hostile work environment for all of his female and non-white co-workers.

3) Then he goes and says the Left denies science on IQ and sex. And that their behavior has created a "psychologically unsafe environment." This, by itself, would also be enough to create a hostile work environment for all of his co-workers that would define themselves as liberals. (Note: there's a reason that most companies don't allow overtly political activities or expression like this in the workolace--it's to prevent political hostilities from dividing the workplace.)

That's 3 things he said that legally would have justified firing him. It doesn't matter whether science supports the broad statements or not. It doesn't matter whether his suggestions at the end or good or not. It doesn't matter whether Google leans left or oppresses conservative expression. What matters is that he created a hostile work environment for large swaths of his co-workers with these 3 statements.
Yes, as I said everyone is different so you need to test it out. For example I felt very bad after using Pyracetam. There was no improvement of my focus ability, in fact I was sleepy and head hurt.
With the way population is growing, owning land anywhere (that's not going to be swallowed by the sea) sounds like a good idea to me. If you have some disposable income and don't mind a possibly long wait (and the taxes too), I'd say go for it.
The tools for "ad blocking" are NOT just for ads and arguably ads are their least important function lately. These days I am far more likely to use element-level blocking tools such as uBlock Origin to maintain my sanity in the face of TERRIBLE web design.

Now that I can make any stupid popover or poorly-placed "div" go away forever, I'll never go back.
Note that the offender's privacy policy [1] appears to let users (e.g. you or me) contact support@getadmiral.com "to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and [to] consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons."

[1] https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/347981/full-legal
The question is: what problems does this advisory panel need to help solve? The prevailing view on HN seems to be that the system is broken top-down. That's just factually untrue. The U.S. just moved into the top 10 in Akamai's testing in terms of average broadband speeds: https://www.akamai.com/fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-t... (Figure 6). It ranks 8 in connections above 15 mbps (Figure 10). As much as it pains anti-deregulation folks to admit, the status quo under the 1996 Telecom Act has worked pretty well.

Instead, the problem in broadband right now is state and local governments. Why does Silicon Valley have such limited broadband options while Austin, Atlanta, even exurban Maryland have multiple fiber options? The answer is that the same NIMBY local governments that stand in the way of transit development and new housing development also stand in the way of broadband deployment. See, e.g. San Francisco's opposition to fiber deployment: https://sf.curbed.com/2011/4/25/10470790/at-t-you-want-to-pu....

Obviously, the FCC needs to prevent abuse. I think it could do a lot more in terms of preempting state/local laws against municipal broadband, or things like the West Virginia law that makes pole attachments harder. But for better or worse, U.S. policy at almost all levels is to have broadband infrastructure built with private rather than public capital. As long as that's true, pushing for increased antagonism from the regulator might feel good, but it's probably going to hurt, not help.
Will probably create a Show HN thread as it would definitely be a hit.
Yeah, I was sort of concerned about what 20xx Nvidia cards could end up doing to the difficulty. I'm really only considering it because I'd also use those cards for other things.
Unfortunately college campuses don't protect free discourse for certain stripes of political opinion very well these days either.

I agree with your broader point though. Different companies are more or less tolerant of free-wheeling discussion that may not reflect an official company position. But, at the end of the day, if you cause embarrassment (especially as a non-exec, non-critical employee) at most companies, you're expendable.
How about having EasyList clients fetch the whole history of the repo?

That way any domain that was ever added would be in the blocklist.
True negatives should be pretty low.
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Yep, PSK31 has a baud rate of 31.25 - that's literally 31 bits per second. There's no practical use for that in modern commercial or consumer applications.

In amateur bands, symbol rate below 28 MHz is limited to 300 baud.
"If you wish to make a fruitcake from scratch, you must first invent the universe?"
There should be a mediating body that looks at each request and determines the veracity of the request.
A little off topic, but the TCP BBR Congestion Control they mention looks promising. I've been annoyed by "Bufferbloat" for over a decade and find different solutions to the problem pretty fascinating.

The nice part about this solution is that it doesn't require making changes to the individual nodes on the network (e.g. cable modem) in the way that other solutions have required (small and fair queues).

It also appears to be able to avoid the usual packet-drops of regular TCP congestion control.
You need to add a much strong suspension system as well, that implies more wheels.

I'm not saying it can't be done, just that it is harder than it looks.
I kinda recall running into a comment from a prominent game dev somewhere, manybe over at Filfre.net, talking about game development rebooting itself from the ground up every time new hardware capabilities came available.

Something about how each time new video hardware came available, the first few years of games would be more elaborate tech demos than actual deep games.

I wonder if something like that can be applied to computing in general. Just look at how we now throw the GPU at everything, because we can, rather than stop to ask if we should.

The Linux GUI for example is still riding the ripples of the wobbly windows and spinning cube that was Compiz. It may have looked good, but was as useful as wings on an elephant.
> they regressed in this regard, the dumpster fire that was song reposting was the final nail in the coffin for me

Absolutely, repost spam (particularly repeat reposts of the same song so it would stay at the top) making the feed unusable was what drove me away. Then all the random bugs that persisted for ages, and frequent weird/unnecessary UX semi-redesigns. One bug I recall is that going to a song page then back to the feed would never put me back at the same point in the feed.
>James Damore claims that Google does not discriminate against women.

False.

From the memo:
I hope it’s clear that I'm not saying that diversity is bad, that Google or society is 100% fair, that
we shouldn't try to correct for existing biases, or that minorities have the same experience of
those in the majority.

Perhaps you have a different memo you are reading?
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I also believe it can make money on independent musicians. But can independent musicians money scale to VC expectations?
I wouldn't really consider it an alternative. It's essentially inline styles.

Useful for marketers or authors without coding experience to build pages within a restricted CMS (they can't edit all the code, but they can add classes to components).

Most of it is not components, though; most classes are just a single CSS property and value. This easily bloats into a maintenance nightmare:

<footer class="bg-white black-70 ph3 ph5-ns pv5 pv6-ns bt b--black-10">

...it's the reason we moved to modular CSS instead of having a style attr on every element.

It has its place, but something like Foundation is more appropriately considered an alternative to Bootstrap.
The total USD value is much larger than bank notes. Money in bank accounts and equivalent services is in this context indistinguishable from notes.
See citation above. I'm saying its much too strong a claim to go from this paper to the conclusion that women are biologically less inclined to engineering.

EDIT: To be consistent with my original statement (see child)
And your point is ... that every op ed piece in a newspaper (in this case, 'Julie Bindel is a freelance journalist and political activist, and a founder of Justice for Women') reflects the position of the newspaper as a whole?

Edit: FWIW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian says it's "centre-left". By comparison, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit... describes Morning Star as "Left-wing, socialist".
Github should think about protecting its users, DMCA takedown request only target copyrighted works, not circumvention measures, I understand Github point of view to minimise its work and legal liability, but they have a lot too lose in the eyes of users here. Maybe Github DMCA take down request is wider than the USA one, but it feel like an abuse in this case.
Wasn't the takedown request for a circumvention technology versus any specific works?
That order is pretty much spot on and it's been that way for 20 years.

HP's competitor to the 9560 would likely be the just-released Zbook Studio G4 but it does not offer a 4k touch screen option. Lenovo doesn't really have a competitor right now, the closest would likely be the P51s but it's only dual core...I think the regular P51 (not the slim) is at least one pound heavier.
And then you still accidentally find one someone left lying around.
Pedantry is unbecoming.
> If our future economies will be driven by these tokens,

It won't. This is zero sum gambling, not investment. Economic growth does not come from this.
As far as I understand it, the argument against self-proclaimed "full stack" developers basically boils down to - there's too much to know.

I refute this. I like to put my job in perspective. Astronauts must be skilled pilots, engineers, and have at least some medical training. Doctors have to be able to diagnose hundreds of different ailments. Lawyers memorize books of laws.

There's no maximum storage capacity for your brain. And constantly learning has been shown to keep people feeling better about their life. So I strive to learn something new everyday, and never limit myself to being a developer who only works on X system or in Y area.
I have been working on BestFoodNearMe

https://bestfoodnearme.com

I enjoy eating out and trying new food, but I really do not enjoy having to spend a lot of time reading through reviews to figure out what the best dish is at a restaurant or even what the best food dishes are in a city.

So this is my attempt to solve the problem of deciding what to eat by allowing people to find and share food dishes.
So sys admins all around the world will start receiving 418 teapot warnings from legacy systems
Failure to self-educate, negotiate or maximize your leverage does not in any way make someone a victim.

What sick thought crept its way into our collective consciousness that has made us glorify being a victim above all else. We have been fooled into holding up literally the opposite of success as the highest virtue.