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I went to youtube and looked up a clip of him reading, and indeed it was who I expected. My dad listened to a lot of books on tape when I was growing up, and this guy's voice was ubiquitous. It provided a nice moment of nostalgia.

As an adult now though, I much prefer Rob Inglis, whose recording of The Lord Of The Rings is more or less the authoritative way that work should sound, so far as I'm concerned. His volume of work, though, doesn't compare to Guidall so far as I can tell.
but if energy were free and unlimited, and its use uninhibited, wouldn't we just heat the planet up even more?
Even "group therapy OF demoralization" would add clarity imho, for non-native speakers.
I hope this is a tongue-in-cheek criticism.
Are you comparing solar installation accidents to the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters?
Not at all, it is very topical to discuss cryptocurrency in step with a market downturn. Reason being is that cryptocurrencies are less vulnerable to the market fluctuations we see with government backed currency (read: I'm not saying their impervious to corrections, just those related to the U.S. stock market).

Directly related to the article? No. But it has merit because cryptocurrency didn't truly exist during the last major downturn and it will be interesting to see how people value it during such a scenario.
The mess of duplicated code is much harder to untangle than de-consolidating code. Especially because subtle differences WILL leak into duplicated code and you won't know if it's on purpose or not.

If a dev can't be bothered to figure out where different pieces of code use a variable and whether the change is appropriate for them, do you think they will have the foresight to search for the duplicated code when they need to change it everywhere? Any decent dev should do both, and the former is a MUCH easier process than the latter.

Edit: despite the above, I don't completely disagree with your statement.
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The article is too extreme. And gives bad examples (the electric toothbrush is proven to improve dental health of many people, me included).

In general however, it's correct.

But I don't go 100% this side or the other side. I find that to be irrational... hm, let me just be fully honest: I find that to be stupid.

I crippled most of my smartphone apps' permissions and notification access and I am a happier person for it. Most apps want to "drive up engagement" so they spam you with whatever. I simply don't allow it.

I use my smartphone to read books and articles I am really interested in, to collect digital art I enjoy, and do an occasional social network consumption -- but never above a certain time threshold (which is different for everyone). Also watch videos and lectures. It's a very positive experience after I fine-tuned it for myself, which everyone is supposed to do anyway, IMO.

We shouldn't be extremists. Smartphones and most modern tech have very valid uses. But we have to resist the addictions. It's actually pretty easy.
It's been my understanding that Lisp and its relatives aren't designed to compete against C for speed either. Is this wrong?
Can you give a reference or paper of the exact lifestyle changes you need to perform to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's?
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this is almost certainly related to GAE recent work on support web sockets from their various platforms. the networking layer was obviously going to need some overhaul to undo all the optimizations they did for their custom implementations for PHP/Python/Java based web apps. so, suddenly all of the optimizations that made the product a break even expense to drive adoption, it is now a product with much higher costs and potential for a single bad actor to spoil things for everyone.

so, they fixed it.

you're all idiots.
In Chrome's dev tools, there's a handy Offline/Online checkbox in the Network tab.
On page 7 is an add for Shugart! Later renamed to Seagate!
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I quit my job in May 2016 (15 months ago) to work on an idea (a painting web app). Unfortunately I was also trying to earn money with any sort of side-kick jobs (teaching) and the idea never got the attention it deserved. It got a few turns and twists after an initial demo to some designer friends in December 2016.

I have since then managed to get some funding and have been working on it more seriously for the past 4 months (since may 2017). In two weeks I will have another closed alpha-demo that is then going to be used to produce a video for the landing page, and opened to the public if there is no big bashing from my zen target audience friends.

It does seem like a huge desert to cross. Motivation comes and goes. In the meantime I managed to kill my desire to feature creep it to death and learned a lot about the fine art of listening/ignoring the target audience requests. I know for sure that my approach for my next project is going to be completely different than my current one. But in the meantime the rent is due :)

The landing page:
https://www.pixnit.com

My blog with some thoughts on the bootstrapping experience:
http://www.hugodaniel.pt
No, as the other poster pointed out, the US is 240 volts not 120 for this discussion. 120 volts is what you get to your general use outlets, but when we say a house in the US has 200 amps of mains service, we mean 200 amps at 240 volts, or 400 amps at 120 volts. The split to 120 volt happens in your mains panel after the main breaker.
The bigger difference is between single people and families. If you have an infant or disabled family member, transportation through biking isn't practical. If you have two kids at different schools who both need to arrive between 8am and 8:15 while you need to be at work before 9, then biking isn't going to cut it. If you coach your son's baseball team and need to carry a ton of gear, you need a car. However, if you're only responsibility to is to get yourself to work before 10am, then biking is great!

I can understand the frustration from people who need to drive when new infrastructure geared towards biking seemingly comes at the expense of drivers. Ex. Market St, the main street in downtown SF, is scheduled to be closed to private vehicles and only used by bikes, taxis and buses.
> It’s a sign that something is seriously wrong in the world economy. Too much money chasing too few ideas. I have a heterodox view – many economists think that interest rates are too low, but I think they’re too high. The market is trying to burn off excess value that’s not being used well and world governments are trying to insolate rich people from those effects.

Could this be related to past 30 years of consolidations in the banking industry?

Smaller/specialized institutions invest differently than large ones. Anecdotally, they can be more willing to take on small high-risk investments in local businesses (R&D, small-scale disruption) or cyclical low-risk low-yield investments (small farms)...
Concept was May 2011, I wrote up the spec in Aug 2011 and we launched in May 2015. So about 4 years.
Digitjacking is insidious and trending
Scuzzy has more character to it.

I'll never pronounce GIF as JIF though.
How does someone writing an RPG game not have any friends who would do exactly that?
There's no such thing as a single "breakthrough" in fusion, and it bugs me whenever news outlets claim it's "just around the corner" or "it just requires a genius to figure it out". Fusion is achieved by many incremental improvements on the design of the facility, the macroscopic structure of the fuel, and its material makeup.

There are two ways humans can have self-sustaining fusion. See my crappy log-log plot: http://i.imgur.com/ZfCueCe.png

Inertial confinement fusion starts at the red point and goes straight up without heating up the plasma much. After it stagnates for ~2-5ns, the high-pressure plasma equilibrates so its temperature rises, putting it in the fusion range. The higher the pressure, the higher the final temperature, and ideally you want to get as deep into the fusion range as possible to more efficiently burn the fuel. The state of art neutron energy yield per laser capacitor yield is around 100%, but we need at least 5000% to make up the inefficiency of charging capacitors, amplifying lasers, converting neutron kinetic energy into steam, generating electricity via turbines, and still have some left over to supply a power grid.

Magnetic confinement fusion starts at the red point and goes to the right over a few milliseconds. The pressure is always about 1 atmosphere, so you have to get really hot. Tokamaks can hold this position for a few seconds, which is needed for efficient fusion to account for the slow burning because of low pressures. I'm not sure exactly what the engineering challenges of magnetic confinement are, but I can say that storing anything that hot for a while is very damaging to the tokamak, while at the same time you must have strong and precise magnets placed around it.

There's really no other way of getting into that "fusion" area of the plot. If you try to draw a diagonal line, you wouldn't be able to keep pressurizing because high temperature makes plasma difficult to compress. You have to choose one of the above two general methods, and the design space is pretty well explored, so there's not going to be a large breakthrough that researchers have completely missed at this point. Fusion will be achieved by a sequence of 1% improvements month by month, so law makers and tax payers must understand this when they allocate X dollars and are disappointed that their grant only gave a 10% improvement on previous methods.
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The worst (haven't seen it everywhere) in the first two years are where the owner thinks he/she a developer and tries to be buddy/buddy with the dev team while breaking the codebase with late night commits and no testing.
Hi, really nice project. I had stumbled across it few days back. Good job !
Sure. What harm is it causing?
OK, we've updated the link from https://github.com/jamesroutley/write-a-hash-table.
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Yes, I have experienced bad internet connection before too. If I'm filling a form, when I click "Save" button I would expect it to save, if my connection is bad, it would either say "failed" or the loading wheel of death would go forever which would make me move my computer or phone to somewhere else to get better reception.

Saving to offline storage and sending via service worker when the devices comes back online sounds horrible because there is no way to explain a user that the form they sent will be processed automagically when they are back online.
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Maybe all advice in general is not very useful?
(Disclaimer: one of the Nim core devs here)

Happy to see you paint Nim in a (sort of) positive light, I hope I can help with this one negative.

> I liked Nim better in almost every way but one: the compiler was fickle and would just fail silently sometimes.

Can you give some examples and elaborate on what you mean by "fail silently"? Did you at least get a segfault?
My phone is almost always on DND and the apps that can send notifications are somewhere between 6 to 11 -- and I'll probably reduce them only to Slack and email these days.

The weak points in the article you pointed out, plus the self-shaming the author does -- "I feel bad about it" -- don't help. Extremism doesn't help.

One has to discover what works best for them, not being an extremist. And no, being an extremist doesn't work (well, maybe for 0.0001% of the world population).
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Can I use the new standard tier with all services like cloud storage or only with compute instances?
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Hi, when you say 90% accurate, that basically means you're able to detect 9/10 potential cases, and could save a lot of money for insurers/health providers. This is an incredible number!

What was the state of the alzheimer-detection-world prior to this?
People have been making this prediction consistently for a year. Meanwhile the market just keeps going up.

Bubbles never happen where or for what reason people think they will, and for good reason- bubbles are formed by market participants, so in order for one to exist, people by definition can't believe a bubble exists or that the market is due for a selloff.
Hmm how about a dumb rom?
My advice would be to take this to another website, one specifically for introductory CS topics. I expect a higher level of discussion on HN.
Odd place for a Godwin.
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Many older people bike and the point of the bike lanes is to keep people out of traffic.
What are you talking about exactly, the roadway in Poland?
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Nit: that title could use some work
Does it work? I'd like to use it!
I read this book and it is very interesting. Another book with a similar title and a common co-author is the famous SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs). This book on classical mechanics is unique from several points of view. For one, it writes the Euler equations of a variational problem in a rigorous way (the notation in classical mechanics books can be quite confusing at first). Second, the treatment of chaos is very thorough, complete with computer programs (in Scheme) to produce plots. Highly recommended!
I expect a higher level of content from HN, not basic material. I think other sites are more appropriate for this.
I couldn't agree with this more. And from many other services that have since simplified their ratings, Medium should already know that people are going to give articles either one "clap" or all the "claps" they can, making the additional feedback precision mostly pointless.

I actually find myself using Medium less recently, I think because of this (perceived, at least) additional complexity.
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This is true, but not always in a useful sense. There exist language features whose semantics are expressly dynamic, and if your language includes those features it will frustrate static compilation. For example, if your language includes `eval` (as Python does), then any precompiled binary would also need to include a complete Python interpreter. This is why efforts to compile Python (and other languages that are traditionally interpreted) often omit such features, and why languages that intend to be compiled tend to forgo them in the first place.
> The MIT mainframe operating system (called ITS) let Zork’s creators remotely watch users type in real time, which revealed common mistakes. “If we found a lot of people using a word the game didn’t support, we would add it as a synonym,” says Daniels.

So aggressive user surveillance was used as far back as 1977. Some things never change!
Because:
1) subway trains have no wifi
2) concrete and refrigerators block signals
3) data is expensive
4) once I have all the data from the site, I want to read and play on it without necessarily updating every micromove with a ping and response
5) some services don't need real-time call-and-response. Would you want wikipedia live updating every paragraph when all you want to do is read an article?
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My part of the Mission didn't get a bike station because of NIMBYs who complained it would gentrify the neighborhood and remove parking. In other words, they specifically blocked it from being an option for the poor people while the rich neighborhoods were like sure put some bikes in.
> There's no such thing as a single "breakthrough" in fusion, and it bugs me whenever news outlets claim it's "just around the corner" or "it just requires a genius to figure it out". Fusion is achieved by many incremental improvements on the design of the facility, the macroscopic structure of the fuel, and its material makeup.

This would be true for an overly complicated fusion reactor design. There might be approaches that rethink basic assumptions.

The remainder of your post focuses on the two main research avenues being explored with big money behind them. It's possible that smaller efforts, like Focus Fusion, or Polywell fusion might actually work though.
Not a SaaS, but I'm working on a blogging platform for developers : https://www.ploghub.com/ . To use an analogy : Medium for developers without the dickbar. It took me around one month to build the initial version. The front page uses a dumbed down version of the HN algorithm. Code here (need to add test cases) : https://github.com/ploggingdev/ploghub

For my next project, I plan to build an alternative to Disqus which respects users' privacy. I removed Disqus from my blog a while due to the 2 MB junk it loads and sends tracking data to 10+ sites. I used to receive a few comments, so I thought I would build myself an alternative to Disqus and maybe turn it into a SaaS if there's demand for such a product. Any interest for a $10/month privacy respecting Disqus alternative + an open source code base?

I expect it to take me 2 to 3 weeks to build it. As you build more projects, you end up with a lot of reusable components, so it gets easier to build out the MVP. The real challenge for developers is to get users. This is something I don't have much experience with, so let's see how it goes.
To do that, you must know what the standard required is.
Next generation code generator for go
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>Go (despite its perceived and real faults) has succeeded in this space by delivering better GC, good libraries, static typing and faster programs.

Also fast compilation, which D also has.
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I created gogoprotobuf, but I wanted to create a new code generator for go that does not only work for protocol buffers, but for all go types.

goderive parses your go code for functions which are not implemented and then generates these functions for you by deriving their implementations from the parameter types.

These functions includes:
- recursive functions like GoString and CopyTo
- functions for sets like Contains and Union and
- functions from functional programming like Filter, Fmap and Compose (monad)
- concurrent functions like applicative Do (from haxl)

Use cases:
- More maintainable code
- Experience or experiment with what it would be like to use generic functions in Go ... today.
- Create user stories for Go 2 in favour of or against generics.
- Don't argue about using labels and gotos, instead of just writing a contains function.
- Do functional programming in go. Well only partly because mutability is still a thing.
- Less typing of: `if err != nil return err`. The compose function implements monadic error handling.
- less error prone concurrency.

Ready for production and experimentation.
For sure it's painful. I experienced that with a project we have here. It's a submission portal for students at a remote area college. Students there typically don't have reliable access to the Internet. When they go to submit their answers to their assignment, if they do not have a connection then we have to save the information locally and submit when they come online.

It's also nice because now the students can view their list of courses and assignments without having Internet. I wouldn't say there is a use case for every app that markets it but there definitely is a market for offline availability in some cases.
good for you.
Yea I started reading it that way (as a spec I'd implement) but got hitched on the auto launch part.

if a single double click was allowed, it's feasible but requires choosing a launcher/file for the os
I'm glad Atom works fine for you. I was forced to use it for about 2 weeks (company machine with no installation privileges) and it broke about 5 times. For reference, I've only seen vim dying once in 10 years (seg fault).
I like Walter's writing. He is very articulate; terse but in a polished way. Relies on you knowing a thing or two first though.
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Sorry if this is going to sound seriously "Grumpy Old Man", but I just typed (well, copy/paste) exactly your question into Google and got the answer in an instant.

So this is a genuine question - why did you ask this here instead of doing a search? You typed your question and random speculation into the comment/reply box, while you could just as easily - even more easily - typed your question into the search box.

So there must be a reason - why not do the search?
That's assuming 90% failure when looking for sustainable businesses. There are some upcoming VC's which are doing well funding smaller companies. Momentum Ventures is one I know of.
Well you'd lose the bet. Ford had multiple community meetings near my house and faced strong opposition from the crazy Calle 24 people. The head of Calle 24 literally said they "would not negotiate" like Ford is some kind of terrorist or something.
It's great to see people working on this problem, and I wish you the greatest success.

I'm curious what you're comparing your results against to determine their accuracy. I thought there was no way to get a confirmed diagnosis of Alzheimer's short of an autopsy. (Obviously I'm no expert -- just going by what I've read.)
You might be interested in "Beyond Amyloid": https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/18/beyond-amyloid-alzheimer...
In that case we had self-driving five years ago, I guess OP meant mind-off self-driving. That's the hard part, it could even be an AI-hard problem. Because if you have to pay attention with hands on a wheel, it's not a huge convenience improvement. And there's also the problem that human-take-over situations will be increasingly dangerous as the self-driving software improves.

And by the way, the auto-pilot video is underwhelming. Several companies have more advanced self-driving tech than Tesla, e.g. Waymo is at least 3 years ahead.
Wonderful. I'd really like these same features in Waze and Google Maps - if it means I can avoid having to cross a busy intersection that's not a 4-way stop, and reduce stress and increase safety, I'd gladly accept a route that's a few minutes slower.

Anyone from Waze or Google Maps team here?
No idea why you're downvoted.

There will always be a corporation out there that feeds on our primal instincts and trying to addict us to their products. That ain't ever going away.

That's why teaching yourself restraint is hugely important these days. Guess many people haven't reached the mental state in which they recognize this truth.
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Depends on how often your CSRF tokens expire. For example, Django keeps the same token for the entire session by default IIRC.
Thank you for this, was looking for something like this!
Ok so lobby against net neutrality but don't give a * in your own network. "Don't be evil", right?
I'd expect a stationary submarine to be much more suceptible to rolling? A raised tower or other non-symmetrical features might also cause a bobbing motion in the roll.
I'd also expect the submarine to have to adjust its ballast tanks in order to maintain a level buoyancy.

When a submarine is moving at cruise speed these things can easily be compensated for by the fins and rudders, but the motors will neccesarily make noise. Heck, even moving through the water (instead of floating with the current) may create undesirable artifacts.