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I like this far better than the first post, at least the author is proposing some concrete ideas that can be debated, which I think is worthwhile.

However actually going and attempting to implement this idea from whole cloth is a fool's errand. I'm not really cynical by nature, so it pains to be that guy, but in this case I just think it belies a complete naivete about how software ecosystems evolve and thrive, and why the web in particular was successful.

The web you see today bears almost no resemblance to the original proposal. What got the ball rolling was a very simple document format and protocol that made it much easier to share documents. That was a unique value-add over Email/FTP/IRC/Usenet/Gopher that drove early adoption. The reason the web is so crufty is because all the application stuff was bolted on after the fact, but here's the rub—if they had designed it for applications from the beginning it would not have been too complicated and wouldn't have taken off. There were tons of proper app development platforms that could have formed the basis for "proper" cross-platform GUI app development, but none of them could cross the chasm to true ubiquity the way the web has.

By the late 90s, the amount of effort being invested in the web was far greater than any single company or organization could ever bring to bear on a problem. 20 years later it is a deep sedimentary stack of more technologies than anyone can really keep track of, and yes it's been quite tortured and abused, and often feels extremely janky.

But tempting as it might be to think you can design something better, you really can't. You can't solve all the problems the web has solved. It will seem good when you start, but as you go you run up against the edge cases, and the scope grows, and then you have to bring in more people to solve the new problems, and you start to lose control of the design again, and you end up with an entirely new mess that people write hang-wringing blog posts about. Either that or you play benevolent dictator and try to control everything, but then adoption slows and it becomes more of a proprietary platform that never gains ubiquity.

The only tractable way to improve the web is to pick an area and work on improving it, it's not as satisfying because you have to much cruft, but it is possible to slowly improve things. It takes a long time this way, but you are leveraging the millions (billions?) of man-hours that have gone into web technologies to date.

That's not to say the web is invincible, yes the web might be replaced, but it won't be replaced by someone building a better app platform (that will never gain traction, mark my words). Instead, it will be something unexpected, it will be a simple use case that, in unforeseeable ways, over time, creates an entirely new ecosystem that simply makes the web irrelevant.
Lord does this irritate me. Google’s got amazing technology, but it’s not a capabilities gap that’s causing them to lag behind AWS.

It’s that the entire decision tree seems run by robots. You don’t hear about AWS customers:

* Having to plunk down credit card deposits to extend service limits.

* Having their accounts shut off randomly and not being able to turn them back on for hours or days without explanation.

* Incurring horrifying bills by mistake and being forced to pay them.

Computers are awesome, I get that— but people don’t want to trust their production infrastructures to a capricious algorithm. I want to see Google do better than it is, but I consistently fail to see signs that they understand their market.
One way around that issue is to prefix commands you intend to share with backslash:

$ \gstatus
gstatus: command not found

vs

$ gstatus
git status stuff

The backslash just disables alias expansion. This works on all shells I'm aware of. It won't help with other portability concerns like actual missing commands though, of course.
Not necessarily, depending on their OS
Star Trek is the richest and most positively impactful franchise of all time
Star Trek is a franchise that has continually provided me a richer and more impactful experience as I’ve matured and ripened as a person.

As I learn more about the science, I realize the writers cared enough to incorporate it from the start. As I learn more about history, I realize Star Trek has always told humanity's stories, and built a rich tapestry of our future to use as its past. As I learn more about geopolitics, race relations, sexualtiy, morality, economics, religion, etc. etc. etc., I realize Star Trek was already there, exploring the depths of the underlying philosophies, and presenting perspectives for its fans to apply to their own mental models of the world.

I can’t think of another series, show, or movie, that has so often presented the failure of main characters in complex and difficult situations, as opportunities for improvement and growth. The Kobayashi Maru could be held as the ultimate manifestation.

Star Trek never stops trying to make the world a better place through example. I hear a lot of complaints about Gene Roddenberry’s insistence on the franchise maintaining his optimistic imagining of humanity's future (especially around Star Trek, Discovery), but I can’t help but think that his persistence is instrumental in the lessons Star Trek has bestowed upon us for decades.

I'd love to hear what each of you think about my bold claim, and how Star Trek has impacted your life. I'd love to do some episodes on my podcast about specific aspects of Star Trek's impact on the world. Comment or PM me with any thoughts.

Live Long & Prosper,

T. Brian Jones

PS... I shared some of my love in a recent episode of a podcast I co-host, Zengineering Podcast. The episode is an exploration of what we love about Star Trek contrasted with what we love about Star Wars -- https://goo.gl/bjiHPW
More Praise for STAR TREK!!

- NASA on the Science of Star Trek (https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/star_trek.ht...) (NASA Solar System, NASA Glenn Research)

- The Final Frontier: The Science of Star Trek (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/star-trek-movie-s...) (Scientific American)

- The Cultural Influence of Star Trek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Star_Tre...) (Wikipedia)

- The Impact and Influence of Star Trek (https://www.wired.com/2012/09/impact-influence-star-trek/) (WIRED)

- Pragmatism and Meaning: Assessing the Message of Star Trek: The Original Series (http://www.participations.org/Volume%208/Issue%202/1d%20Smit...) (PDF)

- Star Trek and The Kiss That Changed TV (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160707-star-trek-turns-50...) (BBC)

- The Physics of Star Trek (http://amzn.to/2k4hU8i), by Lawrence M. Krauss
Doing this distillation seemed to be too much trouble for many users. You see people splitting things to multiple tweets, using images or simply posting links.

Trying to for example summarise interesting stuff you seen online to 140 chars is hard. Every increment in the character count makes it a bit easier. 140 to 280 has much larger effect that say 280 to 420, so I don't see slippery sloap here.
Wow really? Why does the stack take that long to establish end to end?

(Feel free to answer me internally :) )
Usual shorthand is to separate verses with /

Of course, the effect is best when the poem is laid out properly (which sometimes includes using indentation). But using slashes is better than alternatives like using commas (which is ambiguous, since a comma can mean a pause or clause boundary within a line)
I've gotten so much from my experiences with Star Trek, and I've adamantly tried to consume every piece of media produced (a lifelong pursuit). I shared some of my love in a recent episode of a podcast I co-host, Zengineering Podcast. The episode is an exploration of what we love about Star Trek contrasted with what we love about Star Wars. This is perhaps my favorite episode of our podcast for many reasons, and I hope you enjoy it!!

https://zengineeringpodcast.com/episode-040-on-star-wars-vs-...
i like the little vacuums for apartments. a lot of suction, light, good attachment design.

but the visual design is pretty damn awful, and the way the whole thing fits together has plenty of flex. the gaskets don't really sit right, etc. its a good machine if you don't have a lot to cover, if you ignore the price, but its not a great product.
naive me's first thought would be: Why not use git? Can someone with more experience in this area explain?
Concur. “Arm full of baby” or “I’m elbows deep into a recipe and need to set a timer” are great use cases.

I wish these assistants were smarter. “Turn on the light” detected by an Echo shouldn’t struggle to understand I probably mean the one in the same room as the Echo hearing the command, and not the one three rooms away.
It means

load [rp1] -> r1
inc r1
load [rp2] -> r2
inc r2

may execute in a different order for every execution.
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I built one (semi major) project in meteor because it looked cool and easy to spin up - which it was.

The problem as stated here was that when there was a chrome update, iron-router broke and spent quite a bit of time trying to figure it out.

Not to mention that shortly after I got it fixed one of the only hosting solutions that I had it hosted on (modulus.io) went under and so did my app.

It was brutally frustrating. Saying that, I would probably use it again in some sort of hackathon or startup weekend, but not anything of scale.
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All the interest encouraged me to dig in and find it, and it turned out to be in one of zsh's many startup scripts.
So something similar to Okta it seems.
I think we're close to 1984 world and thought control... but coming from tech giants like Facebook and Google.
Cheap plastic if fine. It does need to look like "quality" though, especially at $300. Dyson's just look cheap (IMHO).

The $35 eureka commercial I bought 12 years ago is still going strong. It is mostly metal. I can afford to change a lot of bags a bit early for that $265 difference.
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"Close to perfect" according to...you? Arguments from Syntax are closer to emacs vs vim or K&R vs Allman bracket/indentation flame wars than they are to meaningfully discussing differences between languages. It's so superficial compared to so many other things.
Well, it's correct in that 160 characters was chosen from a German (I presume, possibly English/"European") viewpoint, for sms...:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-...
I've had many, many interviews where I actually had to ask the interviewer "Did you take a look at my GitHub repositories and contributions?" only to be answered with "No, I didn't have enough time, etc. etc." It's shocking to me. Can we please cut through the songs-and-dances and talk about actual, real-world code?
typing that means you probably needs some rest to let your brain refuel imo.
https://twitter.com/DocPop/status/912799932829929472
I believe facebook banned users from Crimea. So is Google and other US corporations.
Off-topic, but this site is pretty.
> Great question. I just so happen to have written a tech report on this very topic! https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318 .

> Basically, performance should be identical between ARMv8 and RISC-V, given the RISC-V core implements macro-op fusion to combine things like pair loads together.

Yeah, I drew my conclusions from your papers. :- )

I really should diversify my sources, I bring nothing to this exchange.
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The git toolset is, out of the box, weak on tabular data. Also out of the box large file support requires one central repository.

None of that is true for Dat
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They let David freaking Duke onto their platform, I think you can't accuse them of being censors beyond blocking active threats and harrassment.
They found out that Japanese Twitter users don’t run up against the character limit, and are less frustrated as a result. The point is to make everybody else less frustrated, not to make the Japanese as frustrated as everybody else.
I remember reading the story of an ex-twitter employee who was not very happy about innovating with "140 characters". People learned the art of crafting content with 140 character. Many of the reply-to-self and 1/2 tweets are going to be history. So does people write on the notes, screenshot and share. I believe it's more about building a better graph with more content intake, than giving voice to express. Twitter is always a tool polished by its users and several inventions made due to constraints. Let's see how people are going to take the 2x tweets.
Not sure what you mean by "like memes". They are just funny images with thousands of variations that you can send. If you're going to sleep - send something cute that shows it.

Some examples http://www.line-stickers.com/
> I understand who Quilt is targeting but I'm having trouble understanding who Dat is targeting

Academics, open data enthusiasts, hackers
I thought he was going for something along those lines, then somebody got through to him and so he ended it up with something nonsensical, hence the delay.
Wasn't this a big point of the TPP? To even the playing field. Instead we went the other direction.
eternum.io looks really interesting and like something that can help move ipfs into mainstream.
LINE even autocompletes with stickers! Writing "happy" will show a list of suggested stickers to send.
A blockchain is a rather weak database in itself. However to store pointers into a dht like Dat would be fine
I read the headline and in my mind said "probably somewhere outside North America". Looks like I was right.

It's interesting how there seems to be no demand, or at least no supply, for vehicles like this in US/Canada. This would be the perfect commuter vehicle for our family.
Ask HN: Can you help me build a 0 profit venture?
TlDr: I want to use a crowdfunding platform + an online campaign to get cheap and effective air filters into low/no income homes in polluted areas in an effort to engender a wider awareness of cleaner air. I want to neither make nor lose money doing it.

1) A few years ago, a gentleman working abroad in China posted his air purifying workaround here on HN (original article: https://scienceblog.com/73679/grad-student-rigs-cheap-alternative-rival-1000-air-purifiers-smog-choked-china/ ). It motivated me to "build" my own version. After many experiments with brackets, hardware, and duct tape i cobbled together a design that cost about $60. Then my Dad came along and cut the price down to $30 by just putting the filter on the back, letting the suction do the work of attaching the filter (the original design i ripped off used a barrel fan + HEPA filter; mine is a box fan + furnace filter).

The thing is amazing. Placed next to kitty litter box it eliminates the smell almost completely. It pulls hair and particulate matter out of the air effectively, helping keep work and leaving spaces fresh. The original Ideageneer tested his to compare it to the very expensive consumer models available and his was on par with their's at a fraction of the cost. I have not tested mine, but using his methods it would be simple to do so. While there is the cost of electricity for running them, as well as the occasional fan replacement and the more often filter replacement, the cost comparison with an expensive Phillips Unit is astounding.
2) In my travels for work i have come into contact with many low/no income communities. Regardless of country, color, or creed i have found that the children of these folks are numerous and often suffer from easily treatable maladies. Due to various factors (i am going to side step politics here) these kids grow up living with these maladies instead of them being treated. One of the most common i have personally encountered is Asthma. Often, but not always, parents/guardians smoke inside. They also live near factories, highways, and landfills. They almost always have at least one pet. These contributing factors lead to bad air. Factor in regional pollution and we are talking about big, bad particulates in poor, little lungs. These filter fans will not solve poverty or cure long term illnesses, but they would be a positive step towards opening minds to creating healthier environments at low cost.

I am not independently wealthy. I do pretty well for a current student thanks to patrons and family. If i had the money, i would do it myself, but i do not. In crafting this campaign, i looked at the objectives, then the methodology, then the desired outcome. This is no Silicon Valley disruption level event. The requisite pieces are fairly easy to obtain as well as easy to maintenance and replace. I do not want to create a product that makes money on the back of a health initiative (don't think i didn't consider it, but this kind of idea is inherently unprofitable given the constituent parts). What the campaign is about is, to put it rather coarsely, leading horses to water.
Well, cutting is called killing in Emacs...
Trading costs are more than just commission. Slippage for QM is higher than CL because of thinner volume and can easily be $10-25+ per order ($20-50 round trip). You might say that you don’t worry about slippage because you use limit orders, but limit orders have their own problems, like not getting filled which can easily screw up your returns vs predicted returns. Be careful, there are far more ways to lose money trading than you seem to realize still.
3) So, from my perspective, i need to buy fans and filters then distribute them to worthy candidates. The cost of a box fan is a range of $15-30 depending on season and manufacturer. The cost of a filter is a range of $7-15 based on density of fibers. Shipping cost (to the recipient) is ever changing but easily calculated. Assuming an optimistic $10 shipping cost, we roughly land at: 10 + 10 + 20 = 40+shipping. That is pretty expensive.

Excepting shipping, i believe these costs could be brought down by buying in bulk (or getting donations). This is not a frontal assault on bad air with the intention of winning the war. The idea here is to propagate the fact that, for a relatively low cost, parents of any bracket of the socio-economic stack can provide cleaner air for their kids without buying an over engineered consumer product. So what is need is a highly visible, popularly shared event that spreads the message far and wide. This requires 100% transparent accounting of costs and distribution, a simple 1 page document explaining the methodology and supporting data (to be printed and mailed initially but to be shared online in the future), and an online campaign to tie it all together. Most of the pieces are in place. What i need is the bulk materials (fans and filters), the hardware and software required to generate accurate, demonstrable, and repeatable testing, and the support of a well connected and well intentioned community.
Your career seems very similar to mine, I've somewhat recanted on visual designers too, having recently been maintaining some old desktop winforms/c# apps. I think you're being somewhat rose tinted though, those designers could and did shit all over your code from time to time, merging could be a huge headache too.

I still find the middle ground of hand typed code + a decent UI library (Qt, Gtk, maybe swing, etc) to be the best middle ground for productivity. I find it both productive enough in the short term and productive in the long term because it encourages componentization and doesn't encourage spaghetti code in click handlers.

Unfortunately we've mostly seen a transition form visual designers to xml/html and that is a step backwards.
Yes. Because the way I use Firefox, together with extensions, is actually much more performant that e.g. stock Chrome -- or Chrome with the extensions it supports, as far as I know and understand.
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> This is a false assumption. Existing GL drivers do a lot of hard work to compensate for platform-specific (or even chip-specific) quirks and limitations.

While it may be possible for GL stacks to do this, real mobile and embedded GL stacks tend to barely function at all. I highly doubt they do much more than try to extract maximum straight line performance for synthetic benchmarks within their budget.

The reason Vulkan can have an outsize effect on power consumption is that it can allow renderer work to be spread across several threads. Running two cores at 60% the clock rate will typically cost considerably less power than running one at a higher frequency.

This is an explicit (and accomplished) goal of mobile vendors in supporting Vulkan.
>Intel
So I should hack apart my install just to get to some basic level of compiler performance?

Last time I looked at boost pulling in any header would pull in all of them, that's why it takes so long to compile. In this day with any modern C++0x11 compiler I don't really see the need for boost.
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Great poem. And what I like about HN is that the first dozens of comments on the poem are about technicalities like how it is displayed in the browser, the mathmatics of it etc., not its interpretation :-)
It's still available in the Google Code archive: https://code.google.com/archive/p/cpp-btree/
Being a student at Berkeley during the protests
China kind of has the leverage here...

Everyone wants a piece of the presumed cash cow of the huge moderately untapped market of China.

China can dictate the access to this market.

US cannot do the opposite, where would the US consumer find many made in china electronics and other items for cheap.. china is already entrenched in western markets
It adds something, but the massage must be extracted from reams of throughly baffling postmodern critical theory.
I suspect OP was factoring in tax incentives - for example, in Colorado the EV tax credit can be taken the first time vehicles are registered in the state, so there's a cottage market in importing lightly used Leafs from other states which easily come in around the 10k mark to the buyer.
Has anyone taken a serious look at the possibility that the origin could be biologic?

There are numerous drugs that can cause repetitive auditory hallucinations, mild brain injury, and CNS damage. A sufficiently advanced actor could easily try to sophisticate a new substance that would enable this kind of attack without showing up on toxicology screens.
It is certainly and unambiguously possible to charge Britain with imperialist policies without claiming that they're worse than the Nazis were. Like, there is a difference of kind in there that I feel you're eliding.
I think my zsh does something to detect copy paste (and not execute the command till I press enter), or it could be iTerm, no idea.
My understanding is that YC doesn't want to break scrapers.
I think that the down-votes with no actual counterarguments kind of go to show that I might be right.
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My experience has been anything but positive in those systems. I spent ~3 hours trying to get build.gn to work for a "non-googler" config to build Chromium, gave up on it. Ditto Buck, hit some random dependency issue and would fail to run.

Honestly CMake gets a lot of hell but it's the only one I've seen work wide-scale. Short of a greenfield implementation (like say Rust's package manager) I don't think you'll do much better in C++.
While true in principle, in practice the majority (~88%) of the gains of OoO come not from reactions to dynamic events (e.g. caches misses) but rather from schedules.

This is relatively recent research, and definitely against the common grain. See Daniel McFarlin's work at CMU (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2499368.2451143)
I would be interested in a car like this for commuting. Unfortunately the rule in US is to restrict transportation options toward traditional automobiles.