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>possibilities with AR/VR,

The possibilities for multimedia and gaming are quite interesting, but there is no reason to suggest that this technology will have any impact on an any possible alternatives to the web.

>quantum computing

Quantum computing is in the "unforeseeable" category, we're not even entirely sure that quantum computing will ever be practical (as far as general purpose computing goes), certainly it has no implications with regard to an alternative to the web.

>machine learning

Same situation here. The machine learning discipline is expanding quickly and yielding very interesting developments, however, there's just no reason to suggest that machine learning will provide the impetus for a transition into a web alternative.

> smart fabrics and environments

Same here too.

All of these developments are orthogonal to the state of the web and none of them really provide any mechanism or incentive to create or move to an alternative.
I’m not disagreeing with you outright, but your argument is on the ad infinitum scale. For instance, GOV.UK PaaS uses AWS as a host[1]. Is that worrying? Should we not be using Cisco gear because of US govt backdoors? Should we not be using Chinese manufactured chips? These considerations are ones the military has daily, but they hinder the ability to deliver. Analytics is arguable both ways (and I lean towards your argument at this point in time) but there are good reasons past and present for GA.

[1] https://www.cloud.service.gov.uk
And it is based on the simple assumption that we can accumulate debt at any pace forever. Unfortunately I am not convinced it is the case. There is a debt to GDP ratio where the system will break.
>The medical examiner’s office says it switched from FST to a new program, STRmix, because of changing FBI standards and not because of any deficiencies with FST.

Is there any effort towards independent examination of this new tool? I would intuitively assume that any process used to exonerate or incarcerate someone based on evidence would be available for inspection by the defense, and should certainly be available for public inspection by experts.

It seems dangerously opaque to have criminal trials decided by the results of a blackbox system... or is this really so commonplace that my ideas of criminal justice are romanticized?

Edit: STRmix has a document [0] that states that defense teams in an ongoing case can request access to source code as well as intermediary analysis results. They also list some papers that purport to go over the math, biology, and performance. However, the source code access terms are pretty restrictive. I think software this important to society should be made open-source by mandate.

[0] https://strmix.esr.cri.nz/assets/Uploads/Defence-Access-to-S...
The newest and most common out of the existing phones are getting the fall creators update, but a "feature2" branch without CShell. I believe CShell can run all the existing UWP apps.

.NET and UWP sound like they'll be unaffected by CShell, except that developers targetting CShell will want to ensure their apps work on a larger range of display resolutions.
OK, thanks for the correction.

I still think it's important to note that a) they are NOT "the same" (as some people in the thread are saying), and b) "open source" as defined by OSI does NOT "say nothing about the rights it gives users" (as other people in the thread are saying). Neither are true.
> It sounds to me though that the solution is modifying your tail lights to be more apparent

My tail lights on my bike are rather bright and flashy. It's still happened before. There isn't really "a" solution. It's better awareness, better visibility, everyone being more proactive, etc.
99% of Bitcoins are being held by people expecting to sell it to someone else for more than they bought it for. That doesn't seem to be changing.

You just have to do a calculation involving the number of people on the planet to figure out when the supply of new suckers runs dry and the price crashes.
Would love to have you try and give us some feedback via Intercom!

https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-amplify/

It looks like you have some really good experience in tooling around metric collection surrounding NGINX.

Edit: For reference, here are all the metrics we can collect...and I believe it to be a fairly complete list of notable metrics pertaining to NGINX performance:

https://amplify.nginx.com/docs/guide-metrics-and-metadata.ht...
AI for IoT sensors? Why?
Show HN: Marketplace for home services
Umm anyone who has studied distributed systems understands a fully distributed system cannot scale past a certain limited point. That's not controversial. That's just reality.

LN, for example, is adding degrees of centralization to achieve better scaling. Human systems have a tendency towards centralization and consolidation of power/authority as well, as we see in various ways already with Bitcoin (China, Ver, Core).

There's overwhelming evidence to believe that the future of Bitcoin is much more centralized, at which point it starts to resemble the systems we already have but with horrifying disadvantages: your entire transaction history is public to everyone, your identity can be linked to your wallet through exchanges, etc.
Ask HN: Social Auth in 2017. Is it still a requirement?
What are you guys supporting as far as social auth these days? Is it still pulling larger conversions than local auth? Is local auth even needed anymore?

For every new project I start, I generally only support Facebook/Google and sometimes Twitter. Rarely do I ever add local authentication in the beginning, because it's one less aspect I have to deal with.

What's your experience? Does it hurt? Does it help? Do you personally use it, or do you prefer local auth?
The smug grandstanding of some people is even harder.
Good, bad or ugly? your thoughts and creative criticism are most welcome. From design to concept and beyond.

Understand that Yelp, Amazon and Thumbtack are now into the space in a similar way, which makes it more exciting. But really looking for thoughts on this specific product and how to improve vs competition and what they do. Thank you!
I was even thinking things like links to Twitlonger and Pastebin could be used for embedded text, the same way twitter knows how to handle imgur & youtube links and embed their content with tweets.
It depends on how you define retired. Most people define being retired as living a life without obligations required to bring home the bacon and by that definition MMM is now retired (at his expense levels), but when he made the claim at first I felt he was overselling it. But the blog ads bring in much more than he is spending + passive investments ditto so if he would stop working / bringing in other money besides those streams he would be able to do this forever.
Oh no poor Boeing. God forbid the free market provide a little competition for their ancient commuter jet.
I have, and I use it.

Thats not DNS, that is global load balancing.

Try using something other than HTTP over that FQDN.
React is nice because it encourages encapsulation and componentization. Redux feels like it discards all that. Your OO encapsulation gets disassembled into pure functions and dumb state. Pure functions are great to reason about, but redux applications feel like they have their insides extruded and thrown everywhere.
Well on the whole people who sell sensible advice for free in the personal fincance sphere, though living off their blog income, are probably not the bad guys. Although you might have to exercise some independent thought to figure out what sensible advice means for you.
Really? In the U.S.? Case study? Without kids and if you don't really spend any money on recreation or vacations (before or after retirement), maybe. Or if you somehow have a job that will give you a pension (with health insurance?) at 50, sure!
How can I manually switch an environment over from green to blue? I'm reading https://envoyproxy.github.io/envoy/operations/admin.html but I can't see it.
Assuming you decide to not to have kids ;)
Don't learn this lesson the hard way. Social life and work life inevitably will clash and disastrously. To put your entire life into the hands a company where profit is the objective is a very bad idea both for the business as well as you socially.

When it comes down to it, the business will have domain over the people you call friends at work.
Given the loud backlash against Microsoft's telemetry practices and MS's doubling down, I couldn't agree less.

The ad hominem was uncalled for.
Not sure about DTS (I think passthrough works, at least, if you have a receiver, and I'm pretty sure it'll at least give you stereo from it if you don't) but an RPi2 will do h.264 1080p video no problem. Any Pi, however, will fail to play the newer h.265/hevc codec at anything above maybe SD resolutions, as they lack hardware support for that codec and don't have anywhere near the horsepower to give you anything but an audio-desynced slideshow in software.
That depends greatly on where you are living and on whether or not you have kids or student debt. In plenty of places a 40 or 50K salary would be burned up every month even if you never did anything crazy.
That's what almost every one of these success stories, blogs, etc. are. They're very heavily weighted toward survivor bias and elide much context around being born into relatively privileged circumstances.
Hey, there is no yinst/buildyblocks stuff here. That's kind of a must-have.
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Here's to hope you don't shoot wildlife.
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Those are all maybes.

Google Analytics is a certainty, and reasonable alternatives are available.

I think it shows a terrible attitude from the department responsible to use GA. Not everything should be done by the lowest bidder, regardless of the costs. Maybe I'll write to my MP...
I see how you could come to that conclusion. At first glance, yes similar. However, Confluence really is a Wiki on steroids. Great to link with Jira, collaborate on Specs or the like. You can use it for document storage but not what it's built for. We use Confluence internally in the Dev Team ourselves and for that it's great.

Shelf is for curated content, not direct collaboration or Wiki. For that, we integrate with what was built for it, such as Google Docs.

Here is a comparison with Confluence, hope that helps: https://shelf.io/shelf-vs-confluence-comparison
(1). He was functionally retired before his brand started bringing in $400k/year.
These suggestions are very sound, and I'd suggest the same, but they are overly pedantic for a contract value at a maximum of $2.4k/year. I've seen a number of healthcare providers bound by HIPAA who don't have any of these features (and way less) and are still very competitive in the market. It's not to say you shouldn't do these things, but they are not what will win you contracts for your suggested pricing tiers. More importantly they will probably burden your business from a cost perspective (assuming you're still relatively new to the market).

TL;DR - Put them on the list, but don't let them burden you from making money.
At the moment we do not have an on-prem or self-hosted solution.

Currently, we are working on the NGINX Controller which will have an embedded Amplify within it to drive it's telemetry needs (and will be available in addition):

https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-controller/

If you are interested in an on-prem version I would love if you could give it a try. If it's something you think you would find useful in an on-prem scenario then please leave us feedback in Intercom!

The more people that ask for it the more likely our product owners will prioritize it :)
I’m not sure if you noticed, but you’re already replying to the CEO of Cloudflare.
Exactly. Seems totally stupid. Like why is it better to have 3 jobs ( blog, handyman, landlord ) than one normal job ? to me retired is a person who specifically lives strictly off the money they have. I mean sure, if you prefer to work as a handyman or run a successful blog, by all means do that, but calling yourself retired seems inaccurate. I am retired but I have 3 jobs. ooook.
How much money do you have to have in index funds to live comfortably off dividends? Isn't it an astronomical amount? I have ~$100K in index funds and i'm making about $100 (if even that)/month right now which just gets reinvested. You'd have to have at least half a mil to get any kind of serious money out of this.
Where do HN and YC encourage conspicuous consumption? Does ramen profitable somehow equate conspicuous consumption?
Ask HN: Layman's Guide to Rust?
I've been hearing a lot of good things about Rust, and it has peaked my interest. So I was wondering:

1 - What sort of project is Rust good for?
2 - What does Rust do well?
3 - What should Rust not be used for?
4 - What does Rust not do well?
Also, startups are kind of the antithesis of early retirement.
Especially the post-hoc rationalizing they did in that blog post - that was just insulting. I just couldn't help but get the impression that whoever wrote it thinks that the readers are either ignorant or stupid. It's probably just that whoever had written it wasn't experienced in cleaning up a mess and never intended it to be that way though.

I would have hoped that their answer to impulsive decisions would be 'checks and balances' to prevent it from happening again.
What Is Functional Programming and Why It Makes You a Better Programmer?
My guess is they mean "visually lossless" i.e. "lossy" compression but with high quality settings so the user won't notice any difference.

That's a slightly odd way to phrase it, and I'm amazed that it's not a basic part of any streaming service these days, but makes more sense to me than the other suggestions.
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Yeah - that's a pretty standard way of doing things, and thats how DNS servers themselves will operate (mostly) when you make an update to a recordset.

Its not your cache that is the issue.

People have miss behaving caches, that do not always respect TTLs, some apps can cache the DNS response (I remember a Java issue where the initial value found was cached for the lifetime of the process!).
I see things this way as well.

Options and derivatives are risky. A merely volatile asset that never expires is pretty conservative in comparison.
I find his schtick over the top. On the other hand, some people really do need to learn that they'd have an easier time saving money if they didn't lease a BMW, go out eating and drinking every other night, and vacation at expensive resorts.
It’s going to take a lot more than that to convince skeptics and free speech advocates. Especially to anyone with a conservative or controversial position, those who probably have the largest incentive to move videos off of YouTube. Do you think Breitbart would trust you? What about the RNC? An eroge developer? What if 8chan wanted to add video uploads?

Trust is easy to lose and hard to gain.
Ataribox will be a failure or not launch at all.
Looks like Google has not forgiven Amazon for pulling the chromecast's off of their store!
Panasonic's GH series has a WiFi connection (not ad-hoc, but an infra point) that you can connect to and use their app.

It's not a DSLR, but that's part of why the GH cameras are awesome. Panasonic, full-stop, makes really good gear that feels pretty modern; it has a couple of things I'll beef with, like what feels like really flimsy mini (GH3) and micro (GH4) HDMI connectors, but for the most part, I love 'em.
The entire profit motive from Bitcoin "investing" comes from selling it to another human for more than you bought it for. They're digital Beanie Babies.

Real investments have a return derived from capital. A house, for example, can be rented out for money. Or a business can earn profit and distribute it to its shareholders. You can try to buy and sell houses like people did during the RE bubble for profit, or try to buy and sell stocks like a day trader, but these are still fundamentally different from an "asset" which has no means by which to generate a return on its own.
Amazon doesn't seem to stock these in the US. But Batteries Plus does,

https://www.batteriesplus.com/replacement/battery/nikon/enel...

But it's the same price as B&H's Nikon?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/735929-REG/Nikon_2701...

...And the Duracell has less 84% of the maH.

I've had success with Wasabi.
I like the concept. I don't really want to login with Facebook [1] to understand the mechanics and see if it is something I might want to use. That outweighs my interest in providing more detailed feedback on the project.

From a user experience perspective, a question to consider is "Do users enjoy logging in?" If the answer is 'no' consider making logging in optional (opt-in) and making the product better until people are opting-in or making the product better by creating features that don't require logging in. Either strategy reduces friction when potential users want to learn more about the project.

Good luck.

[1]: Actually I don't want to login at all. And over the long term, I don't want to log in with anything more cumbersome than Hacker News.
Yeah - the global propagation time from you hitting save, to it being live in all their POPs is impressive.

As a reformed Akamai DNS customer it is like time travel :D
Yes, you can have non-free binaries, but from that same quote: the source code to build them is still considered free.
'Life is a balancing act.'

I do also use to read his blog but I don't follow 'frugalism' as a cult. I cherrypick what I consider that adds significant value to my life. The same with other "isms" like Agnosticism, Centrism, Minimalism and Intellectualism..
> I'm sure this is strictly on the up-and-up, but in the 70's this was a classic tax dodge that many folks tried.

And for this reason it's incredibly difficult to get tax-free status after the whole "new religion" movement in the 1970s. The bar the IRS sets is far higher now. Which is why this is very likely not the motivation here... any lawyer would tell you this and I'm sure this guy has plenty of lawyers.
He has a pretty healthy attitude to debt and in plenty of countries that are less consumption oriented he would be pretty normal. I know lots of mustachians here in Europe who most likely have never ever heard of him.
Great, now I'm scared. What can I do? Shall I learn mandarin and go to China too?
I'd be satisfied with dissolution.
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Google reader highlighted this issue. I wonder how many finance apps there could have been if Google had never developed Google Finance.
So you can visit China, buy the car, and drive it home saving a $9,000 thanks to CPC? Nice!
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Probably a naive question, but I wonder if money in and out of bitcoin could be regulated by the governments in the future as “gambling” income or loss?
Since I hardly hear anybody use bitcoin or *coin as cash rather than just speculating that the value will go up...
The difficulty with the bike thing, is that the closer you are to cities the more housing costs.

The housing expense often costs more than owning a cheap car.
That's not a fair summary at all. For example, they explain why C++ was off the table. They also use Go for TiDB (which is the high-level distributed query engine layered on top of TiKV), but for TiKV they needed fast and easy access to C, which Go, in its current state, can never provide.
Are you still gonna buy a Pixel after all this?
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/nexus/G_0s70PzK_s/z8mjpzNnAgAJ

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!topic/nexus/fNX8OnH0WCw
MMM is too smug and pushy for a good portion of the general public. His writing can awfully hostile, it could be toned down a bit and his message would get further - some of his advice is very sensible.

The problem with frugal blogs (in general) is they do one or more of the following; push penny pinching 24/7, "if you aren't eating lentils everyday and living in a cardboard box you're fucking up," they are too condescending, or they are only applicable to the already rich/privileged, like Mitt Romney's "just borrow 10s of thousands of dollars from your parents to start a business, easy!," and are out of touch with they "everyday man," or fail to recognize that people are different than them.

I think I could write a blog that is more accessible, I have experience being both very high income and very low income. It's such a saturated market though I doubt I'd get any readers. Maybe I'll do it just for myself some day to formulate some of the thoughts I have on the topic.
Trying to break in to the high end of the smartphone market as a newcomer is a mistake. That's Apple and Samsung's territory, and they have the muscle to fight you intensely for it. The Chinese manufacturers have the better idea: start with cheap phones, build a user base, and move up.

In particular, the camera is the ace in the hole that the established players have. People spending $700 on a phone expect a top-notch camera, and from the reviews it sounds like the Essential Phone isn't cutting it. Unfortunately the camera is the main reason why there won't be any Cinderella stories about new high-end phone makers: Apple, Google and Samsung probably have teams of hundreds working on camera software now that the low-hanging fruit has been plucked, and new companies can't hope to match that.
This may not always be the case, but, so far, blockchains have low throughput and fat datasets that you have to sync. Compared to other databases, they don't perform that well, so if you don't need decentralized strict consensus, a blockchain isn't a good choice.