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20+ years ago I had this conversation with a senior mentor, who was bemoaning that I was the only young person he had met in the last few years who seemed to "get it". That every college student was taking underwater basketweaving or "management information science", which meant COBOL and flowcharts.

Survivorship bias is real. Things sneak up on you when you aren't looking. Linux had only just made it into the 1.2 kernel series.
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Any of us in HN though?
Half expected he answer to be 'owns 20 other houses'
Is an interesting question. The people in the former modern civilization would be probably better fitted for glaciation events and living in a changing environment. On the other hand the battlefield of a nuclear war would be most probably the north, making more difficult to survive the first months and to find safe (non poisoned) places at long term.
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I have a number of scientist/mechanical engineer friends who have retrained into software because of how much better the job opportunities are. So it's not just a zero sum game.
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Actually, salt was added to butter originally in the days when there wasn't so much refrigeration. What sold in the stores now as salted and unsalted butter is identical except for the salt content. It is true that if you keep your butter in the fridge and use it mainly for baking, it is better to get unsalted. If you're going to keep it in a butter bell, you need salted.
Wow, I forgot how bad it was. I have unlimited data, unlimited calling/sms, and (as of recently) free roaming in all EU countries for €30/month ($36), with T-Mobile in NL. So that's $432/year.

A $1k iPhone on it's own would cost ~ $40/mo if you spread it out over 24 months.
> "And in terms of iPhones / Population / Apple Store, the US has it most. While in Japan 60% of the Smartphone are iPhone ( i.e Higher the US usage ) they have less then 10 Apple Stores."

pet peeve of mine is then vs than.
I think the DOM, and really the web as a whole, is a really incredible experiment in blurring the lines between documents and interfaces, which really are just two arbitrary delineations of "what a computer can do".

So for example, the DOM is what enabled newspapers to come online, and now it's what's turning newspapers into interactive online narrative machines. I'm typing into a hybrid document-application right now.
Yet some RSS feeds do contain ads/spam.
A simple Google search shows the redeemed camp isn't located in Lagos but Ogun State.

Unlike the impression you get from the article, necessity is the master planner behind the redeemed camp.

Imagine schools needed a routine get together in a single location. Small charter schools will be served by small headquarters.

Virtually every church has yearly get togethers - conventions.

However, the redeemed church has the largest number of branches in the country. Hence...

Their current location was bought decades ago for dirt cheap because of its remote location and a den of robbers and kidnappers (I'm self-censoring here).

It looks like the buildings sprang up effortlessly but the author of the article has no idea the place was once filled with thousands of canopies.

The article's a fluff piece.

Replace the article with a story about the size of Amazon, Facebook or Google without the historical context and you'll get a similar article.
Evolution is not single speed. For a relatively static population with no need to change their lifestyle it will run more slowly. For a dynamic population with bottlenecks it can run very quickly.
Coordination and collaboration are our main problem. recently we can't manage our tasks and we can't collaborate with each other so we have latency in delivering our projects.
Good to see California really tackling the big issues.
Strange how the US healthcare setup is largely unchanged over many years, yet the general perception is that it's suddenly total chaos. I'm not saying the status quo is best, but we didn't suddenly plunge into a crisis.
Do you live in the US? There's a deeply ingrained distrust of the government basically everywhere. You're right that it's beyond rational. I've had conversations here where people would rather the government do literally nothing about a problem than attempt solutions that could not possibly be worse than the status quo because of how deep government distrust runs.
Which, in the absolute best of cases, get security updates for one or two years, while the equivalent iPhone does for 4 or more. That's what he means by paying twice.
Comparing with the MIT license apples-to-apples, I agree it's guaranteeing less. But most people just use the MIT license because it's simple, permissive, and very popular in certain communities. With both that and the ASL 2.0 being very popular and certainly known to Facebook's lawyers, they then developed this license. So the intentions mentioned in the parent speak volumes, IMO. I'd prefer not to use the MIT myself for these reasons, but I don't think most people are thinking about this particular aspect this deeply when they just slap a permissive license on their projects.

I feel it's a little like this: https://www.xkcd.com/463/. Yes, the new license is providing explicit guarantees that do not exist in the MIT license. But... I'm not sure I like the thinking behind it when other licenses already address this in a fair way.
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In Europe, ID Cards are free.
Does classifying them as utilities simply lock them in? There's no special recognition given to them currently, they are just big business that can get beat by other businesses. If you make them a utility, you're giving them recognition and connecting the to government in ways specific to them. Maybe they would have been beaten given a couple decades, but with the above scenario you've simply ensured they'll be around for 80 years and we have to deal with their boring and uninnovative products.

My perhaps naive belief is the only thing stopping these companies is outside ambition and will. Is this overthinking the utility thing? It seems so defeatist and reactionary. Oh no, nobody has beaten Facebook after 13 years, it's never gonna happen.
Nah, it's not going anywhere.
That doesn't protect you against accidental breakage. Outside of that, I rely on actual consumer protection laws, which aren't so hefty in the US - hence folks using credit cards to get some extra protection. It isn't like you are taking a big risk with Apple or your phone company ripping you off anyway.

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guar...
> An iPhone can do neither of those things.

That's simply not true, an "iPhone" most certainly can, just not with "stock iOS". Google "roqyUSB7" if you don't believe me.
> US has the cheapest iPhone

It is interesting to note among Developed countries, the US has the cheapest everything.

Cars, computers, building materials, clothes, TVs. You name it, it is cheapest in the USA.

It is interesting to note this is because people in the US have much less disposable income than people in other developed countries. Companies can charge higher prices in other developed countries because people have enough money to pay it, but they can't in the US.
I don't get that either.
Also look at https://github.com/yue/help. The author is basically saying "I'm a really cool developer, was there, did that, anything else?". Every single sentence consists of narcissism (or how should I call that?). This is only how I see that, I'm sorry if I offended somebody.
Basically like Politicians, have to be seen doing something, even if it's completely useless or gets reversed soon after.

Otherwise why have so many Administrators, or need to hire more Administrators if there is not enough to do?
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Can this platform be used for projects that aren't open source?
> if you want to communicate with the author at all, even to report a bug, it'll be five thousand bucks a month...

That's not quite true - the other option is to provide a pull request with a test case showing the bug.
Fully agreed. I can't imagine Sweden having less choices than Norway, considering full EU membership and Norway being known for its lack of choice.
You should write it "principle," as neither of the civilizations applied it uniformly or consistently enough to merit the term.
I think WebAssembly has a huge expectations problem:

What many people think it is: I can compile my JS frameworks as assembly and ship binaries to the browser, that'll run near-native and be more compact.

What WebAssembly actually is: a way to compile libraries from other languages in a manner that you can run them in a JS runtime, but with no access to the DOM, etc. (Think of things like shipping a JS based OCR library or a JS based audio-engine that runs at near-native speeds)
> I think you're looking at it wrong...

You're completely missing GPs point, which is specifically about politics. Talking about an "interesting SaSS" is a red herring.
The 5S was indeed a champ. You might want to hold off on iOS 11, though; I’ve been running a beta on an iPad with the same A7 cpu, and it just can’t keep up.

(Perhaps the 5S wont have it so bad given that it won’t have to deal with the new springboard and multitasking...)
There's a point below which you can't afford any kind of even subsidized insurance. Not if you want to keep paying rent, buy food, car insurance to keep going to work, phone bill, electric bill and so on. Whereas in the part of Europe where I live, the less you have the less healthcare costs you.

EDIT: The less it costs for the same quality.
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Let me put it to you this way. I send my resume and portfolio, I usually don't get a response.

If I get a response, it is usually from a recruiter who is trying to "increase their metrics". Then I am denied by them or...

I get in front of a hiring manager or even a VP. They string me out for a week or two. We talk for an hour or two, I do a presentation of my portfolio, I do a coding challenge.

And then I'm denied ultimately, usually because I'm only able to do 9/10 things right, not 10/10.

Question: the position goes unfilled for months. Is there really a position open then???

Hire me for 60,000 then. Make it a junior hire, at will hire, 1099 hire. What do I care? I'll work, and if you don't like it, you can fire me at any time.

I don't understand why they only want to look for 150k rockstar-tier devs for 90k jobs.
5k per month for license O.o

https://github.com/yue/yue/tree/master/docs/paid_plans
Well, yes.

Ultimately it comes down to forcing teenage girls to carry pregnancies to term (resulting in a range of potential complications including death) versus the availability of abortion.

Also the incredible cynicism of having a ""pro life"" organization that only cares about unborn lives.
This reminds me of the recent YC post on the Token Effect [1], where they were arguing that tokens provide a way for decentralised protocols to capture the value of the network.

It's dead right that open source provides tremendous value for companies and that open source projects tend to capture only a fraction of the value they create.

This project looks like a much simpler response to the problem: if a handful of companies signup to support the platform then the platform will make it easy for other companies to support the development of the software their businesses rely on.

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-token-effect/
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120hz refresh rate, brightest screen, best stylus

I hate iOS but the hardware is far beyond any android tablet.
Nifty! I look forward to (hopefully/eventually) someone making Go bindings for this :)

With that said, it would be nice if the sample apps included more components of the native UI. Eg, a bunch of buttons, text editors, etc - a sort of kitchen sink screenshot. Just to understand what it looks like on each OS. All the samples I saw so far seemed very limited, visually.
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It'll diffuse the negative effect throughout so it won't be visible to MIT detractors. The happiness is likely inconsequential.

I speak strongly and pessimistically about this because of some very fresh in my mind experiences from my university, where I watched drug abuse (and some far more heinous acts) be covered up and untreated as long as they could be by staff, and then pushed under the rug after kicking out the students who likely could have been helped earlier with tactful interventions (of which dissolving the house/support structure in OP certainly is not). The incentives at many universities are heavily misaligned to what I believe we'd like them to be.

[Edit] As a postscript; I'd add in a ramble, as there's another thought weighing on me: (as there seem to be two stories here, "are we properly helping students" and "what's happening to the heterogeneity of universities")

My own undergrad would have been remarkably less positive if I didn't have my own groups of "outsiders" to associate with, whom I'll openly admit likely correlated with increased drug use, dropout rates, and lower GPAs, as a side effect of being composed of students who might have different priority systems, not as some corrupting effect. Without these groups I likely wouldn't have landed a majority of my professional-life jobs, I wouldn't have shared in a vast amount of their knowledge and experience, and I would have lost both many good friends, and likely my wife. In the decade since then, I've seen a "real world" in which I've been told to my face, "we avoid hiring nonconformists". And while I can understand the "business justification" for that, and the university changes, I have some fear for what will be lost resulting from a push to dissolve these pockets.
I'm not in the operations side of it, I'm on the development side: whether admins apply patches or not is not our problem :)

Like I said, doing weekly or monthly updates and reboots would be an extra concern that I'd rather not have. As it stands the only "management" burden my phone (I use an HTC 10 for reference) imposes on me is having to connect it to the charger every night; It's already more than I would like but unfortunately it doesn't have wireless charging.

As far as I'm concerned, for non-hobby stuff, the least management a device asks of me, the better it is because it's a few more things I don't have to bother taking care of.
Competition is a wonderful thing. I'm not sure new regulations are needed, I'd rather see existing ones applied where they are applicable.
Also, sometimes charges are reversed via chargeback requests, and I have beaten chargeback requests because the customer claimed the CC was stolen, but I had the correct billing info.
> Transportation may not be done by aircraft, watercraft, rail,	drones, human powered vehicles, or unmanned vehicles.

What? Why no marijuana watercraft? In all seriousness though this seems very arbitrary.
I read the help page but I'm still not sure how this is different from Electron then? Could you care to comment?
Subsidized insurance which still gives you costs for healthcare and sometimes doesn't cover certain tests or treatments that are considered not essential, such as birth control to treat polycystic ovaries or a blood test to diagnose functional sexual hormone levels(such a test would also detect polycystic ovaries, which untreated results in further health complications), More effective antibiotics for infection, multiple kinds of mental health medication, and dermatological medication. Not to mention confusing limitAtions of location of treatment due to network effects.
When the creation and representation of crappy products entails fraud or other crimes the result would actually include criminal prosecutions by the DOJ (in a world where the DOJ weren't captured by party A's industry). Tying the two scandals together is the influence of the finance industry on regulation and enforcement through the revolving door, in both cases to the same law firm representing financial institutions.
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Im very confused what is going on here. He works for electron full time but is releasing something else thats basically the same with more confusing terms?
From outside the US, the glaring problem with "prosperity gospel" thinking seems to be that the unfortunate (the "losers") are blamed for their misfortune. It seems like a case of selfish individualism being supported by religious doctrine.

The fix for this is supposedly a certain dose of collectivist thinking, even just recognition of notions like "ubuntu".
Well, you can buy partly subsidized or receive fully subsidized healthcare (ACA/Medicaid). That's on top of programs like COBRA and in worst case scenarios welfare from the state, county, or federal levels. We also have CHIP on the federal level which is a separate program just for children, where the parents may have insurance but for some reason cannot insure their kids. That's on top of what the states themselves offer, but that's sort of rolled into the ACA nowadays, which makes more sense.

We're at 8% uninsured, which is nothing to brag about, but its far from a free for all post-apocalypse where people keel over in their desks or in the unemployment line. Its also important to note that those numbers include illegals who can't or won't get insurance due to citizen status and 1/3rd to 2/3rd of that number actually qualify for various insurance programs, but for some reason aren't seeking it (aside from citizen status).

We absolutely have a big problem with the rural poor and insurance, which is a hefty 14-20% of that demographic. I'm not sure what the fix here is especially considering rural states are heavily conservative and fight off ACA and Medicare/Medicaid expansion regularly.
Topical, I watched a movie last night that covers a lot of the things you mentioned - Lost City Of Z http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428 it didn't get great ratings but was good, cinematic and thoughtful imho
What are you talking about?

The author literally says: "for help please go to the yue/help repo where users help themselves.

To report a bug, you have to create a pull request with a test case of your problem, or you can choose to subscribe to paid plans."

What's exactly hostile there?

The author gave you, the potential user, a gift, totally free of charge, and even explained politely where and how to find help. They even organized a premium support, if someone's problem is so important that it needs extra care.

I'm still puzzled...
not getting healthcare as a 20-something is popular, but incredibly shortsighted.
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That's actually really amazing - and I didn't know that, thank you!
That's between us and our kids. At Illinois orientation this year, they were super clear with us: your kids are 18, adults, and they're our clients, not you; if you call us with questions about them, we're unlikely to answer them, and in some cases legally can't.

That felt right.

My kid's college calling me about other people's behavior in a dorm? That feels very, very wrong.
Well, these are signals. Our minds are programmed to send signals and expect others to do the same. These signals helps us understand where we stand with people and where people stand in relation to us and each other.

You might think we don't need these signals anymore, but I think you would be gravely mistaken to assume that. Instead, it's better to (re-)learn these things and adopt them. Think of it as a form of power. By understanding the instincts that drive human behaviour, you can hack it, by controlling how you present yourself in different situations.

I don't think it's something to complain about.
It's not insane because of the high price, it's insane because of the emergence of Uber and Lyft as competitors (even if illegal).
What's the freezing point? Below the freezing point would be far from minimal?
We'll be limiting it to open source projects — but not just software ones, whether it's an open hardware project, or an open source book, it'll all be welcome.
> human powered vehicles

Does anyone have an idea why bicycles would be a problem?
They're definitely aiming to make use of the closure compiler (which is why they went with Typescript as a default)

https://github.com/angular/tsickle
Kudos for this. It does look awesome. Just tried out JS version.

Nevertheless I'm still afraid that features / maintenance will be unsustainable, since you are the only developer [1] ( considering your expertise ).

I hope there are companies that support the project.

1: https://github.com/yue/yue/graphs/contributors
As an european this really sounds odd to me - my university does not even know what my parents names are, let alone their emails.
The author is not a native speaker so might not be aware of how some sentences come across.
...if you choose to modify the yue source code and not redistribute it.
> In my opinion the solution is a free federal ID card, where all the information on the card (including the picture) is digitally signed, to make forgery nearly impossible.

But what advantage is there in having the federal government do this, instead of just having a bank issue one when you open your account? You could even use the same card with multiple creditors, which gives them access to shared credit history. Then filing for bankruptcy is the same as throwing away your bank card.
I once wrote an app that worked by sending diffs, not DOM diffs but JSON diffs which were then applied by the client and rendered by React.

The data store was a repository, and so a client could ask "please give me the diff between states X and Y", and the server would make a diff between those trees in the repository.

Most of the time the client would be long-polling for a new revision with the diff based on the previous one, which could be cached efficiently, but sometimes a client would come back from "hibernation" and ask for a diff based on an older revision.

It was a nice system, I never tried to make it "scale" though.
Why do the green straps appear to be going directly over the panel? Surely that is not the final mount position?
The kit consists of a 100W Pmax solar panel and a 420Wh [edited: this falsley said 420Ah before] deep cycle lead acid battery. The battery is pretty heavy and in the picture the setup is mounted on a car.

Let's keep in mind that a car alternator has 0.5-2kW and you need to burn <0.1l of gas to charge that battery once with the alternator. I'm not sure its worth all the extra equipment and cost to go full solar.

Edit: The solar panel probably gets you 360Wh to 900Wh per day, depending on how sunny the region you live in is. This is not enough to run a household refrigerator, but enough to charge your phones or laptops and some lights.
My take - someone willing to modify their hair to find a route to success is also likely to modify other aspects of their behaviour and strategy to find a route to success.

Sad it has to happen this way but unlikely to stop this individual
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What good would a failed attempt be when the congress which would conduct the convention is corrupted?
I think hybrid wins for all but the most widespread or highest budget apps.

Most apps have only few users. Most apps don't have a million dollar budget. Most users don't care or notice whether an app is native or not. They use it to get a job done and don't care if that button is slightly less responsive than another.