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The EU has no chance, as does any country in the world. Google will simply buy one nation at a time just by offering services to people through governments, which will turn into more exposure (votes) for the politician in power who makes the deal. That politician will of course never bite the hand who feeds him/her.

"Thanks to our last deal with Google, now we have fresh water and comfy chairs in every public transportation bus, and the ticket price was cut half!".

"Thanks to Google Books, now all kids whose family income is under X will receive a free ebook reader and free school books".

...etc.
Would you please not post generic ideological rants to HN, or unsubstantive comments in general? Those are not what this site is for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The supporting evidence of their argument was two separate items, that Eric Schmidt set up a data company for the sole purpose of getting Hillary elected, which is entirely unsupported by the reference they provided, and that Google visited the white house a lot, which while supported has nothing to do with bribery when taken by itself.

I took "depending on your definition of bribery" to be implying that these visits indicate some behavior akin to or equal to bribery, and quoting the definition as a succinct way to note that they aren't equivalent at all as currently explained. I thought that was sufficient because unlike you I did not interpret that comment as clearly trying to make a more sophisticated point, but as trying to allude to misconduct from facts which have entirely benign explanations. It's possible there was misconduct, but assuming so from the information presented is not a way to have a rational discussion on the topic.
I really like the calm.com app.

I find mindfulness to be at the core of developing emotional intelligence, and self awareness. These are equally beneficial both privately, and professionally.
> I don't like apps/hacks when it comes to mindfulness and meditation. Humans have been successfully meditating for thousands of years without them. Gamification of mindfulness totally misses the point.

I take a bit of issue with this idea in general that because something has worked for thousands of years, we shouldn't try to apply modern ideas to it. In this case, I think for the actual practice of mindfulness, it's mostly true that helpful technology aids are ironically unhelpful, but building a habit can be hard. Apps like Headspace and so on help a lot of people build the habit.

Seconding the book recommendation -- it's by far the best book I've read on the topic too.
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Living, breathing, People deserve respect. Ideas don't.

I have seen many cases of criticism of religion equated with criticism of every person who happen to be tagged as person of that religion, and used as a reason to stifle speech.

In Canada and USA, the situation is reversed on free speech. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/derek-james-from/canadas-hypocr...
A browser can easily optimise HTTP or localStorage calls internally, without introducing Threads to the "userland" code.
Confused, isn't this example using Windows?
> new products

Research & innovation create new product categories. No amount of consumer spending invents new products.

I disagree with you that consumer spending boosts the economy. Look at the actions of central banks easing monetary conditions to try and boost spending. All they do is succeed in inflating bubbles that later produce busts.

Economic growth is a subject not completely understood by economists. Is is savings or investment? How does regulatory burden come into play? What about property rights and government corruption?
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Chrome already has a flag to allow self signed cert when accessing localhost.
I live in Manhattan and it's an absolute joke that there isn't good mass transit to any of the three major airports in the area (Newark, JFK, and La Guardia). There are various air trams and buses and such, but none that are directly part of the mass transit system. Considering that NYC has the best mass transit in the country, you'd think it could take you to the airports, but nope! The best ways to get to the three are subway to regional rail for Newark, subway to air tram for JFK, and subway to bus for La Guardia (which has guaranteed terrible traffic pretty much always).

Contrast with Washington National Airport, which has a Metro station right at the airport.
> Research into self driving cars, on a closed platform, is a PR move.

Google has the largest contribution in advancing the state of the art in AI. That benefits humanity in many ways, SD cars being just one of them. They are also working on healthcare, robotics and reasoning agents. All these things will be a boon for humanity. Discoveries are discussed in the open.
If you want an immutable object with a fixed set of fields - not an unreasonable request, mind you - the Python standard library doesn't give you much to work with. NamedTuples are the closest thing we have, but it's so clunky to use that it's not widely used.

It's incredibly frustrating, because this leads to external libraries abusing mutable objects everywhere, Django being one of the worse offenders.
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Hi Peter, I'm supposed to move to US on L1B visa. I have scheduled already appointment in the US embassy. However, in the meantime my situation changed and I will resign my current job (I decided not to move to us) - although I haven't done it yet. Will there be any legal implication if I cancel my visa appointment or it's better to first obtain L1B and then quit the job (losing L1B).

Thank you.
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What portion of the blame does the poor woman bear? What is the just punishment?

What about people who visit emergency rooms, for non-medical emergencies?
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This will evolve and changed over time I believe. But, we are certainly in a far better place than we were 2 decades ago regarding freedom of speech and information availability, aren't we?
I feel the same about it, but to be fair, this is one of those (many) rules that was essentially invented in the 18th century by prescriptive grammarians who took a guideline of style and turned it into a rule of grammar. “Less” has a long history of use with count nouns—originally as a counter, with the genitive, like “less of men” (cf. “shelves of books”).
those Brands like Nike will increase their bottom lines, but we all invest in these brands in our retirement accounts. Ultimately what matters is not the shuffling of money, but the increase in goods we all use. This is the creation of wealth that really matters.
Really? Go ahead and avoid anything hosted on or using AWS.

Might be a bit difficult, and you may reconsider Amazon's scale relative to Google.
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You make it sound so sexy
Don't worry, I cannot judge anything anyway. I just read you were into aging research. I went at a few senescence panels a few months ago and am very curious about the subject. Is your thesis a step into finding applications for this domain ? or more general ?

ps: sexy title
They need to change their objective fn from "increasing minutes played" to "increasing overall service satisfaction".
> It's not to say it cannot be done, because obviously it can. It's a question of "why?", when there's clearly better, more simple and efficient ways to get around.

I observe that in spite of the 'simple and efficent' ways to get around there is a tremendous amount of capital being invested to find new transportation modalities. Perhaps one or more of those investments will surprise you.
> What you are looking for, I would rather call "chromeless". The browser is there, but it has no visible UI-components outside of the webpage.

Why "chromless" and not just "Full screen"? The latter is what that mode has been known by for decades? Or is it a subtle distinction that "Full screen" mode can show the location bar by moving the mouse to that edge of the screen (at least in Firefox 55), while "chromless" never lets you see the location bar?
I wish more penalties were like this. This sounds great. Now these companies will finally have real incentive to comply. Hell, the percentages should be higher. That's the only way to enforce regulations. Otherwise, they'll just pay a puny fine, American style, and not do shit.
Seems HN users are familiar and even enthusiastic with Candy Japan. I'm not sure I understand, though. It's just a dude offering intermediary shipping, right? Am I missing some interesting tech stuff here?
File a complaint? With whom do you suggest?

For me, Free Speech is the forest, NN is a group of trees in a corner.
Notice how all the files use \r\n for newlines. Satoshi was a Windows programmer! They used Windows.

Anyone who has tried to do cross-platform development knows it's extremely difficult in C++. You can do it, but it's not a trivial thing. I guess it's no surprise that Satoshi used Visual Studio. If you start out writing code in not-Visual-Studio, it's far harder to go back and make it run on VS.

I vividly remember how maligned Windows programmers were in 2008. I felt like a black sheep getting my start in the gamedev industry, because if you wanted to do Big League Programming in gamedev, that meant one thing: Windows. Microsoft has finally made some inroads in hacker culture. It's far less common now to be dismissed as less talented just because you used Windows. But in 2008 this feeling was very much alive.
> Google was fantastic and contributed greatly to breaking the iron grip Microsoft had on the industry.

Now Google has the iron grip instead, and over the entire internet.

Tell me again how this was an improvement.
This is about ethics primarily.

If you don't care about ethics then expect an unethical economy.
Absolutely not. Python always had a suboptimal performance story relative to other languages, but people use it anyway.

Businesses use Python because it is easy to pick up, not because it's fast
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I’ve found the same thing at my job as a software developer, as well as on my hobby projects—including a programming language, which is very like Ph.D. territory. Sometimes the time and code flow easily, sometimes not; forcing myself to work when I’m not in a good state of mind to be productive is actively harmful to my holistic productivity.
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Quoting from the website
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Maybe this was due to a sympathetic engineers actions in Intel?
I don't want Comcast looking inside my packets. I don't want Google looking inside my videos.

Deal?
Nope, no interesting tech AFAIK. Just someone applying the hacker mentality to their business.
One of the problems with the Patriot missiles used in Iraq was that they often followed the target scud missile all the way down to the ground before making contact, thereby causing more civilian destruction than the scud alone, especially when the scud was also a dud.

Damaging residential communities in the japanese countryside in order to intercept unarmed missiles from NK would not be smart politics.
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No interesting tech stuff, but it's not just shipping, it's also curation. I subscribed to a similar service for over a year (Japan Crate) and the fact that I didn't have to go find these items myself is most of the point.
We'll try to turn this into a blog post. It definitely is a skill that takes practice.
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If that counts as "not a new idea, but just a new combination of existing ideas" then it's hard for me to think of anything that does count as a "new idea."
First of, I agree that 24/192 is not very useful for most circumstances (also for the dynamics thing, you still need a 24/192 master done without all the compressions).

But your arguments aren't quite right, IMO. If you have a 16/44 sample, and you don't play it at full volume, you get some use out of those extra bits. Especially if you have a volume envelope.

Also many modern samples are actually saved as 24 (or 32 bit even). Especially if they're my own creation from noodling around with softsynths, but they're shared like that as well, obviously.

Then, if you apply a plugin or effect that supports 192/24 output, on a 16/44 sample, you still get useful information in those additional bits, even if the sample did not. Think of the very quiet end of a reverb tail, for instance.

But that's for producers. It's always good to have your working stuff in high quality, you never know how far you'll end up amplifying those low order bits.

So I can see the use for 24 bit audio (in certain contexts), but I'm really not so sure at all what the 192kHz is good for. Since it's waaaayyy above the human hearing range, all I can think of is dithering. You can hide a lot of your dithering noise in the ultrasonic range (which almost seems like free lunch IMHO) and then ... you obtained even more (virtual) bits of fidelity! Which you didn't really need cause you were using 24 bit audio in the first place.

I agree it's mostly a marketing gimmick, otherwise.
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This is the one I have: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XJLLKG

It's not a dedicated power conditioner, I guess, but it does handle voltage irregularities, and it switches to battery and back fast enough to not be an issue in brownouts.
I don't think it is about ethics, it is about control. We as European businessmen were and still are unable to generate the same kind of innovation as the US, and now they try to solve the problem by pulling down the US on our level (at least the parts concerning the EU market).

I think this is the wrong approach, EU should try to make it easier for European businesses to compete with US-based ones.

But in the end we have another layer of bureaucracy on top of all the things a US startup has to worry about, and those mostly non-technical/non-innovative people want to be a part of the picture.
He has been consistently posting in-depth articles about his code base and business for years. People like him and his wacky business the same way we like Levels.
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> should be split up

It may be weird that no one is arguing that (maybe it's just no one you're listening to, or being allowed to listen to, though?), but it's not weird that it's not libertarians. The notion that some people shouldn't be allowed to form voluntary associations with others because they got "too large" is anti-libertarian.

That said, "libertarianism" and "anarcho-capitalism" are becoming too synonymous. As a libertarian (but not an ancap) I have no love lost for big corporations; I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments that monopolistic corporations are bad for society in general. However, because we must stand on principles instead of feels, the relevant principle here is that we have no right to interfere with others' affairs simply because they've chosen to pool their resources into free association, massive or otherwise (assuming they are not interfering with others' liberties, and I don't think there's a genuine argument now that they are).

All hope is not lost, however: there is reason to believe that these monopolies derive much of their monopolistic power through the state (e.g., via regulatory capture) and thus by reducing the power of the state we will actually achieve the desired benefit (breaking up monopolies) without infringing on anyone's liberties.
It would be more accurate to say that I led the design effort. There were dozens of people who contributed to it. Its early history and list of contributors is here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/500261-named-tuples/

The main "personal feeling" involved is just a sense of responsibility for this code. All of us involved in the optimization business have to make judgments that strike a balance between speed, code clarity, maintainability, and risk of having bugs.

For the most part, we want to focus our optimization efforts on things that have a high payoff. For example, we're always having to decide how much of the library to write in pure Python and how much to write in C. If all we cared about was speed, the entire standard library would be written in C (in fact, there is a suggestion for Stefan Bethel to Cythonize the whole library).

In the case of the proposed patch, my judgement was that we would be net worse-off with the patch than without (in part because namedtuple costs are typically a tiny fraction of start-up time). Guido disagreed, so I will go forward with the patch. That is the way open source works.

This is less of "pride" issue and more of a difference of opinion about whether a particular patch was a net win.
Me too. I updated my original comment to state exactly that.

I love HN :-)
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Just to add a little to the discussion, after reading the article I was curious to know and understand what the ancient land-dwelling ancestors to modern day whales looked like, and found this:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03

It's very fascinating and clearly shows the evolution of whales in great detail; apparently whales and hippos are related, but are two branches from a common ancestor (which I took from this that we don't yet know what ancestor?).

Regardless, after looking at that page, I clicked around the site - and found the whole thing really intriguing and detailed.
Why do you need to raise money if you are profitable?
I see this fallacy repeated often. "Hello World is 12 MB - just imagine how big a real app will be!!!"

You're probably going to need those things in a real app.

I'm not saying that. From the page itself: "The linker removes code in your application and dependent libraries that are[sic] not reached by any code paths. It is effectively an application-specific dead code analysis"

Going by that description, Hello World should be the most trivial of test cases for removing unneeded cruft, and yet it still leaves plenty behind.

Also, don't assume that everyone has 16GB of RAM (I have a tiny fraction of that), or that even if they do, your app should be using all of it.
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Yeah, JS definitely has concurrency. He's just twisting the term a bit into his world of shared-memory multithreading to make his model sound superior to other concurrency models.
I have mixed feelings overall with the technological aides available for meditation now. I think they are causing more people than ever to take up the practice which is great.

I bought one of those $300 headbands that "monitored your brain wave" while meditating and had all the apps. A chapter or two into the book I realized how ridiculous it all was. They might have helped establish a habit, but I was never going to progress very far while using them.
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> This article correctly shows that virtually none of the ideas underpinning Bitcoin are new. They can all be traced to the academic literature going back decades.

Yes, the debts Satoshi owed to others were obvious right from the start. I made pretty much exactly the same argument as OP over 6 years ago in my then-widely-read essay "Bitcoin is Worse is Better" https://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better - Bitcoin built on many established tools and concepts and its true contribution was putting them together in a way that was conceptually alien and disgusted people immediately on arrival. (Proof of Work still viscerally disgusts many people! _plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose_ eh? Anyone can invent something that everyone wants - everyone wants a cheaper or faster computer, for example - but it takes genius to invent something that everyone hates, thinks is useless, wasteful, evil, or all three simultaneously, and eventually wins grudging acknowledgement that it may actually be a good idea.)

It's nice that Arvind & Clark have gone into more detail about the predecessors, though, I suspect that most Bitcoiners these days have little idea about it (although I think they overstate a few of them - Satoshi didn't know about B-money until he was told by Back and so most accounts of Bitcoin's genesis overstate its influence).
Thank you Raymond for all your great work.

Regarding this post and related comments, I would like to say that, as an external observer who does not know the details of CPython development decision-making process, phrases such as "Okay, then Nick and I are overruled" and "At Guido's behest" sound not so good to my ears.

Maybe you and Guido are best friends, and you are half-joking with that tone, or maybe you are responsible for that part of code, so it is your duty to change it according to BDFL last words even if you do not agree with them... I do not know. Anyway I think it would be better, in the open source world, if a code change is developed by someone who thinks it is the right thing to do, or I could not see so much difference from commercial companies and proprietary software.

Hey, just my two cents. Keep rocking! :)
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To me this was the biggest sticker shock, which I didn't mention at all in my old post as I wasn't paying it yet, as I was still tax resident in Finland. Now I'm currently paying 508 EUR or 569 USD for my health insurance here [for a family of 3]. That's not a typo or a yearly cost, that's what it costs every single month."

Sounds like a bargain
Posted before, and my thoughts on it are the same. Is it plausible the NSA has really identified Satoshi Nakamoto? Of course, they have the resources needed.

But this article is very short on evidence beyond 'trust me, I know a guy'. It's the equivalent of saying your uncle works at Nintendo or what not. It might be true, but you've given people no way to truly be sure.

It's all pure blind faith.

Again, I'll stay optimistic, but without evidence, I won't bet on anything.
The service is simple, no fancy tech (it's just a bunch of Python). Possibly the initial appeal was that random-boxes-of-surprises services were rare, and my openness with the numbers.
See salesforce and amazon.
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I'm not sure how this is easier than a wildcard certificate and a wildcard CNAME...
One side benefit to removing the use of "eval" is that namedtuples will then be pickle-able. I'm surprised this hasn't come up: every now and then I hit some weird data I want to quick-and-dirty serialize but can't because there's a namedtuple buried deep inside it.
There are far more terrifying things in flood waters than fire ants, starting with sewage and bacteria, moving on up to animals driven mad from drinking the water, and then on to stepping into a bloated dead corpse.

I remember the cows that went mad from drinking salt water post-Rita and thinking that I'd take a zombie attack over insane dying cows screaming while wading through the bloated corpses of the herd's dead.

At least the ants are quiet, don't stink, and are frankly more motivated to stay alive by retaining their ball than to pursue you. They're way more of a threat to floating bodies (and the people recovering or disposing of those bodies) than to living evacuees.
You do realize you need internet / computers for Bitcoin to exist, right?
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