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Surprisingly org-mode is nowhere near as old as emacs. It was "born" in 2003
You can program in much more complex scaling behavior. Bet you just tested on a single 21" monitor at 96dpi.
This is a WEB APP https://3d.delavega.us using 3js. It can run on most iOS and Android smartphones, most Windows and macOS machines and Linux computers.

It is likely to run on over a billion devices, and no installation required. Can a non webapp or native app be better than this?
Do we have an anger problem? Or are we right to be angry at our shitty, do-nothing "leaders" who fail to actually make things better or pay attention to actual problems? If the idea is that anger often doesn't actually resolve things in a helpful manner, then sure, it doesn't. But let's be careful to separate proximate cause from ultimate.

Also, the underlying assumption that anyone who is angry is always the one with the problem is troubling to me. I see it often, it's not good.
The Sherman Antitrust Act has a great deal more in it than only defining monopoly powers. No business is permitted to engage in price-fixing, regardless of size, and that is due to that act. Many other anticompetitive practices are defined in it as well, and also apply to all businesses deemed to be engaging in 'commerce'. I'm not talking about claiming Uber is a monopoly at all, just that their actions (as described by the article) sounds to me like anticompetitive practices that are illegal under the act.
Wouldn’t that be illegal as they are aiding criminals?
If you're trying to prove that a platform is unfixable and present as evidence the assertion that it's reinventing things from a previous era, you're doing it wrong. Even assuming it's true, reinventing in no way makes the platform unfixable. Quite the opposite; you're asserting it's being fixed.

If you're trying to prove that a platform can't be made secure and present as evidence security issues that have been made into non-issues (SQL injection, XSSI) you're doing it wrong.

If you're arguing that it's time to start over from scratch don't criticize things that could be fixed without starting over from scratch, e.g. lack of a binary RPC format.
Bill Gates is eager to change the world.
The solution suggested is not-html, a specific thing for web apps, where data is separate.
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The argument for diversity is that by not actively working for diversity, we will reflexively hire people like ourselves, which for the most part are white males. In addition, we are talking about groups which have been historically discriminated against. Affirmative action is about fairness (of opportunity), more so than goodness (for the company).
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books- https://takcek.com

laptops- http://www.laptophits.com
"the power of rules"
Fines would work if they were a substantial amount instead of what they are now. Look at the EU fining Google $2.7 billion. If the fine is more than the amount made doing something illegal, companies would think twice.
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"Buffers that don't specify their length"

Instead of thinking of it as buffers, you just have to encode/decode for the proper environment. Such repetitive stuff is easily implemented in stack layers.
I struggled with it, until I learned about "reference style" links in the original Markdown spec:

this is a link [1]

[1]: <link>

would display 1 and direct you to <link>. Then inline links are just reference links but you have the location in parenthesis after the link body, as an aside.
We're just a step away from primates flinging feces at each other.
School is a different kind of challenge from work. One provides clearly delineated tasks, coworkers and employers who are apt to help you complete said tasks in a timely manner, and pay for doing said work.

School, comparatively is $2k to $6k a quarter (depending on which public univeristy you go to in Seattle), and while some classes have vague goals, most lump everything into a handful of tests or a two dozen page paper, with 80 % of your grade riding on that. Study groups at community colleges, 2nd tier universities (say UW's satellite campuses), and even at major colleges are few and far between, with many professors discouraging them from forming.

I've proactively contacted every professor prior to taking their course since I re-entered college, and while it has definitely helped me screen some truly awful professors, what my parents describe as their college experience is nothing like what I or my friends has gone through.

If I didn't need a damn receipt to get a decent job in Seattle, I wouldn't have gone back to school. Even with a half decent Github, it seems a CompSci degree is mandatory unless your okay with throwing $40k+ in potential yearly earnings out the window for the next decade.
CSS is incredibly simple if all you care about is absolute positioning.

It's just that nobody wants to make a Win32 style app with absolute positioning on the Web. That's because responsive apps are superior to nonresizable, manually positioned UIs.
Yeah, no kidding. We live in this era where people with all kinds of handicaps can engage more and more with society in so many ways.

Wheelchairs and the building standards that open places up to access.

Phones that can speak to you and parse your words and act on voice commands. A few weeks ago I saw a blind dude carry on a text message conversation on the bus, with someone he was going to meet, via his iphone. How cool is that??

Video game controllers that you can work with your neck movements and puffing breaths into an actuator tube.

HOW COOL IS ALL THIS STUFF??

And when it's gadgets and gear, people geek out over it all day long. How cool that that one GNOME developer submitted his last patch--when he was nearly totally paralyzed--a few days before he passed on, right?

Yet when it's building codes to open up physical spaces, suddenly the gubmint is burdening you? Fuck. that.

All this stuff is up to us to decide--what do we care about? Building a society that serves everyone, including the most vulnerable? Or propping up a status quo that leaves the most vulnerable locked out?

Sorry for the rant. Accessibility is important. Gets me riled up.
> If any of these classifiers work well on intelligence, orientation, character, capabilities, it might give scientific backing to some horrible practices like eugenics, abortions/extermination of undesirables etc.

I completely disagree -- I think the consequences of this technology could potentially alleviate much suffering, but it's important that we get ahead of it in terms of policy, so that the eugenicists can't capitalize on it.

As taboo as it is to say, I believe there are statistically significant differences in capacity and motivation between people.

If we continue to deny this (the current politically correct response), our wider social policy will assume an equality of capability that's just not true. This leads to policy solutions like re-education as a solution to homelessness or jobs lost to technological improvements, rather than accepting that some people can't hold down jobs that are valued in the 21st century and just giving them some damn housing and money to feed themselves.

Income inequality is a gigantic issue facing us in the next 20-50 years, and a sober understanding of the population distribution of talent is important as we face that. Most taxi and uber drivers displaced by self driving cars are not going be smart enough to take dev bootcamps and become software developers. It's critical that we accept this as a society so that we can get safety nets like universal income or government make-work programs in place, so that these folks can live decent lives.

> This is a truly horrifying scenario, an ultimate black pill and humanity will need to confront it soon it seems.

This was the most frustrating thing about James Damore's firing from Google, is that rather than debating the accuracy and policy consequences of Damore's point (equal intellectual capacity but differing levels of motivation for software engineering work between men and women) they stuck their head, called him a bigot, and fired him.

Technologies like this could be amazing for progressive politics, but these cherished notions of equality of capability need to die. I don't think the current zeitgeist of the left will let that happen.
Who are all these people who "didn't learn anything" from university? What were they spending their time doing? I learned a ton about a wide variety of fields from experts in those fields; it was extremely valuable. Did this guy just goof off the whole time?
A good counter! However it also helps the argument that the web is diverse enough that having a hyper flexible UI system is beneficial.
I don’t know why you are being downvoted but your note resonates with me. This I say not based on intuition but experience. Not to say experiences do not matter, but they provide more joy for someone who has found satisfaction from creativity. Enjoyable experiences are the icing on the cake of a meaningful life.
Another for books: http://hackernewsbooks.com/

(Not affiliated, just where I took some pointers from)
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Regulations are subsidies for incumbents with procedures and specialists for handling all the regulation.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
I've always wanted to write a "how to get rich" book in which I simply describe how to write a "how to get rich" book. If done right it might actually work, and if it did you really couldn't argue with the method.
If you want to start a startup so you can have clean code constantly refactored, you will join many others shocked that customers don’t care (not directly, and pretty much never at startup stage). In the mean time, someone else with the idea moves quicker and has all your customers.

The end (literally).

At a (much) later stage, there will be times to refactor. Carefully, and with limited scope that shows real value.
Github flavored markdown does do tables (in a manner that's almost equivalent to org): https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheats...
You've never heard of using a pen?
What bothers me is that I can't make rules with the same expressive power as a regex.

Also css lacks properties for controlling wrapping limits and non-linear image scaling. And for some reason I always have to optimize on either width or height, I can't control both perfectly.
Both. It was more affordable, but it was also a lot simpler. Because it was less likely a doctor could actually help you, many people didn't bother at least for minor ailments.

When I was a kid, if I had a sore throat or fever I just endured it, maybe with the help of some aspirin. Parents didn't rush panic-stricken to the doctor for every bump and sneeze.
I was once a Jr Dev for the BBC too (back in the days). It was exactly as you described. Extremely beneficial in terms of personal development due to the culture it offered.
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I understand the urge to respond when we see something we think is unfairly down-voted. However, the down votes actually only says something about the few (lone?) individuals who down-voted, and very little at that. One can speculate as to their reasons, but we really can't know for sure unless they choose to comment and explain. That's one of the reasons the guidelines ask us not to comment on down votes: It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think the best, most constructive thing to do is upvote and expand on the comment you support. That adds to the conversation and reinforces the point the first comment made.
Return policy for Zinus is significantly less clear, guaranteed, and flexible than Leesa/Casper/T&N. Big deal breaker for many.

Zinus is 30 days. Majority of the others are 100 days to 1 year.
Ya, and when they say they never ask candidates about their education... OK, so you've never needed to hire a statistician, or a mathematician, or a lawyer, or a materials scientist... There aren't a ton of people walking around who picked that stuff up on YouTube.

A lot of people pay programmers a lot of money to brute force problems someone with a masters degree could solve in a week, and give you a correct O(n) algorithm instead of the coder's buggy O(n^3) solution.
I do remember they used Perl for backend, and there was a resident Perl-guru. I'm not sure with all the new Zend engine refactoring whether Perl still lives inside the BBC ...
Android is entirely useless without Adguard (or equivalent)
I don't think there's much mileage is blanket statements of what "makes people happy". I've traveled and thoroughly enjoyed it and it made me happy, and I know people who I think honestly derive happiness from staying with the latest fashions, etc. To each their own.
Older student chiming in - it's very frequent that my friends who did graduate from university discount what they learned there. I think it's hard for people to understand that University taught them lots of things besides coursework, like how to deliver software on timelines, or how to socialize, they also discount the importance of patterns I.e. they don't remember their physics courses but they do have some ideas about how physics roughly works.
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Shallow one-sided drivel.

Here is a more balanced article by a third party which is not is not exactly known for its authoritarian views:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/23/observ...
I tried to like Org-mode, but one major complaint I have with Org-Mode syntax is its inability to effectively handle text in a language without spaces; some format syntax and link can't be segmented in languages like Japanese.

I guess this is also said to be true for other format like markdown, but at least format like HTML doesn't have that problem...
There's a big difference between seeing an Org file in raw vs in an editor. This is how I see it: https://ox-hugo.netlify.com/images/ox-hugo-doc-source-viewin...

Also, I prefer not leaving empty blank lines in between. Factors like that can change one's perception of readability.
Ffs the guy is praising a "values" of a "company" that lives by streaking money from his fellow citizens.

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> Dart was opposed by every browser vendor who wasn't Google, though the reasons may have differed. Same thing for NaCl.

Heck, Dart was opposed by the Chrome team: there's a reason why it never made it into Blink. NaCl is slightly different insofar as the Chrome team didn't actively fight it.
I like the idea of anti-goals, will have to try that. So far I've had a lot of luck with the following:

- Recognizing "anti-matter-blocks" on my calendar: Letting go of blocks of time in which I _should_ be productive and constructive, but am not. I kept a log and found that the 1-3:30 p.m. time block was ridiculously unproductive and typically filled with high self-pressure, so I decided to completely let it go. Now I use that block as a rest period and do whatever I want. Watch a movie? Great. Two-hour hike? Done, many times. This is still an experiment to which I make little tweaks (going on about 3 years now) but it taught me to accept my roadblocks for what they are and use them to some other advantage (in this case, mental health / recuperation). To top it off, as a stress response I was feeding a bad habit during that block of time for about 10 years, and as of two years ago, it's completely gone.

- Intuitive task priority. I fill my to-do list with fun things and not-so-fun things, and start with whatever "speaks to me." If nothing on the list speaks to me, chances are I have neglected to add fun things. And if my work items do not seem fun _ever_, I need to alter my work and seek out different forms of work or set firmer boundaries. This latter fact is difficult but worth facing up to.

- Verbalizing my problems with the day to other people. This is hard for me because I don't want to sound like I'm whining, but has worked surprisingly well. Sometimes I get feedback like, "well, why don't you just do X instead," where X is an idea I hadn't considered. Other times there's no one around so I consult with a person I deeply respect as if they're present & ready to help me (the cabinet of invisible counselors idea) or even say a prayer. I've had amazing results with these last methods, somehow even better if I'm typing them out as I experience them.

- Blocking in things I really look forward to. This is mentioned in the article. I enjoy achievement and find that it helps reverse feelings of exhaustion. For me, little achievements peppered in here and there throughout the year are where it's at. I blocked in the ARRL amateur radio licensing exams as a personal challenge and downloaded an app to help study. I blocked in a couple of conferences that are outside of my field but very interesting. I block in webinars in various fields and even ended up pursuing and earning certificates in those fields. I built a new website to help those who are interested in one of those fields and challenged myself to add 1,000 new items of content before the end of the year. I'm at 250 so far after 2 weeks (I count links! The currency of the web...but it's a niche field so it's still hard).

Well, this went longer than I thought. But with some serious achievements finally under my belt, with bad habits conquered and work going better than ever, I figured it might help someone to share.
I can see this being interesting in traffic applications. Instead of the red/yellow/green traffic lights we have at intersections today, instead imagine a "laser counter" system that would "tag" various vehicles as they approached and would send a special signal to the car whose turn it was to go. The car, being self driving, would be integrated into all of this and then proceed, assuming the other cars follow the same contract. All it takes is one car to not understand the contract for this to be pretty scary though. Maybe the road could be tolled: the spike-track or barrier won't go down unless your car has proven that it can cooperate in the intersection protocol.
Can you name anything that is useful in unlimited circumstances?
That sounds awesome except for that fact that my customers refuse to use modern browsers that support modern CSS features. GRRR.
I mean yeah, if you spend 5 years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars, you will learn more than in a one coding bootcamp. Like duh doi, no argument here(even though there's plenty self taught programmers who are better than the most college students).

People who say "don't go to the university" are mostly talking about the opportunity cost. Is university the best way you could spend 5 years of your young life and $30-120k? Fuck no.

If you are curious and driven - spend your money on books and video courses, and spend your time learning things that interest you. Create stuff, build portfolio, get a job or launch businesses.

You will get SO much more out of it than out of college.

More importantly - learn to think and to learn by yourself. 95% of learning will be done after the college anyways, so might as well figure out how to do this on your own, not by following teacher's instructions, preparing for quizzes, and following the inane and obviously horribly inefficient system.
> Way back then, the web was locked in a competition with other proprietary platforms like Flash, Shockwave and Java

Maybe this is just semantics, but it sounds like "web" is being used as synonymous with "JavaScript."
The Geeks vs Suit narrative feels totally bogus to me these days. Both are equally trapped in a consumer culture that they can't escape.

The senseless consumption machine assimilates everyone.

Until iPhone 86 and Star Wars 123 can't get made cause there are no resources left, Geeks and Suit will continue to serve the machine.
Wait how do you put a block on? I'd love to stop receiving cc offers every other week.
I never thought that evolutionary biology would become and experimental science like that. Yeah, I guess if you want to know what a gene does, get rid of it and see.
Yes it's inevitably a pretty hard row to hoe. It's innate to capitalism that people without money as their ideological &/or motivational foundation are rarely going to be in positions of influence. So it will be hard to convince the denatured creatures that are positioned as real influencers to expend their precioussss where they don't need to. And they don't need to in this case.

The bright side is that our world is not (yet) entirely comprised of the morally eviscerated, so, as you say, money for many widely useful things will have to come from 'the developers themselves'. It may not form a sustainable business model, but the temporary expedient is better than nothing.
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> Especially when the UI I'm trying to make is dynamic.

That's where I still run into problems with CSS too. However, at some point, and not because I started using flexbox / grid, CSS did click for me and now it's mostly second nature to get the layout that I'm going for.

My feeling on this whole topic is that while as a web developer I have often thought "there must be a simpler way", every time I actually start to imagine what that would look like I end up re-imagining something similar to the web stack as it is now. There is a lot of inherent complexity to GUI-based networked client-server applications that need to be responsive, continuously integrated, database-backed, real-time, etc.
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Yeah, there's no reason humans can't interact with the physical world through auxiliary VR worlds. We already do this with websites, VR will eventually be an interface to interact as a connected robotic device.

At the same time, the person in VR would be giving learnable information to the robot while they are controlling it (e.g. like a driver for a self-driving car). Eventually, you could wade the robot off of VR and it would be able to carry out the task. So, VR could also be a way to teach robots.
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I did.

"death due to lack of health insurance"

4 results.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but I think it is important to ground this broader discussion in actual specifics. I keep hearing all these insane stories of people dying on the streets, which simply doesn't reflect anybody's lived experience.

Of course that's not to say there aren't significant real problems, but the discussion is so hyperbolic and far from reality that it's almost not worth having. This problem underlies both the "universal health care" and the free market absolutists. They're both selling different versions of utopia, which don't exist.
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Ask HN: How do freelancers compete with ulta-low bids?
I have experience in web application development and am looking to get into freelancing and consultancy(I'm currently a full-time employee as a software developer). How do I compete with individuals who market themselves overseas at impossible rates for living in first world countries? (~$7/hr)
> Is this not already in the BTC situation, where you burn more in cost of electricity than you gain from mining? Granted, in this case it would be somebody else's electricity, but that feels a bit ethically grey, as well as perhaps environmentally irresponsible.

Probably. But the point is that it's not an alternative to mining for yourself, but an alternative to showing people ads or having people explicitly pay, which is likely to be even less efficient for very small transactions.

If you do it behind the users back, then sure, it might be ethically grey (though how many users care about how much/little electricity the game they play cause their computer to consume?), but the alternative is to clearly show a message saying you do this instead of showing them ads and/or offering them a button to switch to ads instead.