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No, and that's not what I'm asking of HN. I like communities that:

- Have well defined rules

- Enforce them equally

- Moderate transaprently

That's it. I'm not asking for an unfettered platform for free speech. If one of your rules is "no hateful posts targetting specific people or people groups", then it's a well justified decision to remove that post.
I'm not in the US but according to what I read, 6-digit for a game developer is kind of unicorn salary. I think /r/gamedev should also know better because I haven't seen many game developers here.
Yeah, but basic news or discussion sites didn't use Flash. In fact, the vast majority of sites didn't; or only used it for games or video - i.e. use cases that called for it.

And "Flash sucked" is no excuse for the web being bloated and delivering text content in ridiculously stupid ways today.
If someone told me 20 years ago that people would become "fans" of massive advertising companies that engage in mass surveillance at levels that would make the Stasi blush, and delude themselves into believing those ad companies "care about them and just want to help", I'd have called them crazy.

Now, watching it all actually unfold, I'm starting to wonder if I'm crazy.
It is nearly impossible to maintain an effective military if it isn't being used, and thus..
That's not true. We had tons of terrorist threats (e.g. airplane hijackings) in the 1970s and 1980s.
9.8% of the USA lives on $6,000 a year or less, according to the IRS. So, about 10% of the population lives on $500 a month. This isn't targeted to young people, though it will benefit them. This is also targeted at displaced workers, low-skill workers, and the upcoming tens of thousands marginalized out of the workforce by increasing automation.

There's not really a PATH for people to move from shitty job to non-shitty job anymore. There simply aren't enough good jobs for every adult.
To top it off, the author doesn't seem to be an economist, but rather a professor of Geology. He appears to have studied and written about wealth, but the fact is as you say the article lacks any references to studies that back up his point.
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Learning a language (or any skill) will always take a lot of personal work and commitment. But this is a problem where we need better tools and solutions, even as our tools and solutions have been improving rapidly. More people trying to innovate in this space will only improve them further.

Look, 100 years ago we only had dry books with conjugation tables for mostly classical and European languages. Most of the world's languages were barely described, we barely had adequate tools to describe them, and most policy was bent on eradicating them. Move forward to the mid-20th century, and we learning tools like the FSI courses and Pimsleur courses, which are at least getting decent audio out there. Then the Internet occurred, which has completely transformed our ability to access authentic spoken and written material in major target languages. Online dictionaries and apps are better than ever. You can look up a page in Wikipedia and see the target language version, which reveals so much more than a dictionary can. Machine translation helps you see how words are strung together. Now we have Duolingo and things like Anki and Tofugu.com, which of course do not take you all the way, but are still a huge improvement over the tools we had before. Even better is coming.
I think at that point advertisement ROI would be essentially 0 - though maybe not for things like market research. People would essentially find ways to block out the background noise either physically or mentally.
DNS software has absolute domain names in config files. In BIND zone files you have entries like "IN NS ns1.example.com." specifying the nameserver for the domain.

I bet some software implicitly uses absolute domains. URLs are just specified not to work like that.
This is mostly about increasing transparency. It's not (yet) about implementing regulations because we don't even know what kind of problem we're facing yet. This is basic stuff, it's like step zero before we can start to address the problem.
Agrees with all of the above, and would just add one point:

* Ability to tab-select [1] a language to limit your search to.

The lack of this feature in Zeal [2] is one of the reasons I stay with devdocs although i tend to like old-school real desktop apps.

[1] (Write the lang and press tab)

[2] https://zealdocs.org/
> I'm not sure about that. An address makes no promises (technically speaking) about what you will find at that address.

I don't see how that's relevant. An address, in principle, merely designates a particular location, perhaps physical like a street address, or logical like a memory address. In the context of a search or lookup, you can obtain what's contained at that address.

Similarly, a URL designates a particular resource location, as exemplified by its full name, Uniform Resource Locator. In the context of a client/server request, you can similarly obtain a representation of what's at a URL.
Yeah, based on the title I was expecting a single exe file (with themes and supporting directories) which would be more of a turn key solution.
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It's on the repo https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg/tree/master/docs/template...
Post 1992, we are paying for a military monopoly. Monopolies are expensive, inefficient, and make dumb decisions. But IMHO a monopoly is preferable to military competition, also known as total war. Obviously it's a scale, but that's what you are paying for.
Do you mind opening an issue or just emailing me (scott at yc) the error you see?

Edit: fixed, thanks!
Isn't there a System 76 guy building the Rust based OS (redox, if I recall correctly)?

Personally, that seems more interesting to me. With this, why not just stick with existing distros?
Majority of the cities that they expand to will likely have a competing player (Uber, Didi etc). Therefore to attract customers away from the incumbent they will have to offer free rides or discounted rides. That money needs to come from somewhere.
It's so common, it's called industry consolidation.
I think it's mostly unclear to non-Apple developers.
Some great visuals of Gnome there guys.
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Its free software, and I can definitely relate to Keats that there are a lot of software projects I'd look at and think about participating in and just concede I don't want to work in my free time in whatever language its written in.

Go is definitely one of those languages. My most definitions I have not given it the proper chance, but the lack of generics just turns me off as an avid user of C++ and Rust, in the same way Java has always turned me off for lacking functional features other languages have had for decades.

For example, I've often thought about contributing webrtc peer support to various torrent libraries, but when I dig into them (libtorrent, libtransmission, libktorrent, etc) they are all 15+ years old codebases of either C99 or pre-C++03 C++. Considering I'm coming from Rust in my free time I know I would just drop the project within a week because of frustrations with the tooling and language.

If I ever really wanted to go the extra mile, I'd use it as a learning experience for some of the Rust GUI bindings and write my own torrent library. Reinventing the wheel yes, but I'd rather spend right now a thousand hours in Rust than a hundred in a really old C code base. I imagine many of these developers like Keats feel the same way.
> Is forcing children to eat their vegetables, take regular baths, and go to bed on time an example of "one size fits all" parenting?

Each parent has a different style, sometimes very different from one to the neighbor. For good or bad, there's no official manual on being a parent. On the other side every child has to learn every item of a bunch of subjects at each specific age.

> I find it very difficult to believe that learning to read later in life won't adversely affect your maximum reading proficiency later in life.

All Sudbury Valley School students have excellent SAT scores. Also, children of Finland which have the highest PISA score in the world don't learn to read until a few years later than in other places of the world.

> it is the most basic possible skill required to function in society after learning to speak

Maybe recognizing e.g. subtle differences in dense shapes is more important. Or basic things like remembering left and right. Things one shouldn't rush. Things children learn by playing. Reading depends heavily on those.

> I don't think either that it makes sense to give children a choice in the specific matter of whether or not they should be instructed in this skill that is so critical to their development and usefulness to society

Why not? You forget that children _are_ social, even more so in an environment like SVS where they have voice and vote to decide on school matters. Children are very curious and _want_ to learn stuff. As I said, all students have very good SAT scores. Also they're regarded as having very good social skills and tend to be very successful. Is there any better measure of the outcome?

> they are by definition the least experienced and informed about the consequences of their decisions

And the best course of action is not giving them the exposure to gain experience?

SVS is not just "children do whatever they want all day". There are rules. Made and voted by all children. Most people don't have that kind of social interaction until much later in life. Instead they get bullies. Or they become bullies.

> That's not to say I don't think kids should have a choice in anything, just that part of raising children involves not letting them make choices that significantly and adversely affect their future.

Read more about SVS, or read the work of John Taylor Gatto. You may rethink what kind of choices are adversely affecting their future.
What's surprising is that we're spending 60% of WWII levels but have a far smaller military.
I worked in a wework Office for about a year. At first I thought the environment was great, I loved the free beer and the community. However, once we moved out, I realized how much more productive we were in our own office. We had

- more space

- less noise, in terms of sound and visually (you see everybody passing by through the glass and have to force yourself not to look at them. For a while we had some posters up, but we had to remove them since wework’s company policy doesn’t like that)

- less distractions: in the end, the community was nice, but it didn’t help us that much, since it was quite random, there were a lot events, almost every day, the place was always busy

- climate service: we had so many issues with heating/cooling, either it was too hot or too cold, it never got really fixed

- cost: their meeting room system is a total rip-off, even though basic rents are okish, the meeting rooms were a real cost sucker, in many months we’d pay almost as much for meeting rooms as the basic rent

We liked the culture and the spirit, but we’re much happier in our own space now, we don’t pay for meeting rooms and we can meet our relevant community whenever we want, distractions went down, productivity up.
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I was about to type this depressing sequence of roadblocks myself so I thank you for already having done this.

The drug development ecosystem in America makes me sad.
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You're ignoring how hard it is to do a lot of those things.

First off, getting a new drug approved is not "preventing generics". Generics need a new drug approve before they can get their generic approved (since they based their application off the original drug's data). This is a feature, not a flaw of the system. Without some guarantee of market exclusivity, nobody will spend on R&D to get approval.

Second, yes, a doctor can write "DAW - dispense as written", however most insurance companies won't cover the originator drug if a generic is available. The patient is then on the hook for the entire cost. That's a strong incentive to go generic.

Finally, unless the new administration method (patch, etc) has some benefit over the generic, doctors won't prescribe it and insurance company's won't cover it.
There is a device that connects a camera to some electrodes that are put in the mouth. This supposedly lets blind people see with their tongues.

There is not a lot of bandwidth in the human mouth, so it's fairly low-definition, but it shows your idea is not far-fetched.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind...
Housekeepers earned a median salary of $20,740

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/maid-and-housekee...

Median salary for a janitor: $28,064

http://www1.salary.com/Janitor-Salaries.html

Janitors tend to be male. Housekeepers tend to be female. It is similar work with a different name. This is really common. It has been documented that when a job becomes a predominantly female job, society tends to pay less than when it was a male job.

The crux of the issue here is that no matter how you slice it and dice it, on average, women make less money than men. Arguing that it isn't really due to sexism and that women just have interests in fields that happen to pay less is a pretty crappy justification for a well documented, unarguable fact.
It doesn't impact drivers by mere seconds. It creates traffic backups all the way across the city. When a driver waits 3 blocks in a row for pedestrians to cross, it creates a backup of probably 30 cars. This is my daily experience in my city.

I don't think pedestrians should go way out of their way to cross, I think they should just wait for gaps in traffic.

Likewise drivers should use good judgment and stop for an old lady, but keep going if it's an in-shape jogger.
The Space Shuttle lands as an unpowered glider.
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> Even solider pay has far exceeded inflation: Bottom-rung pay for an enlisted solider was about $50/month back then, or $700/month in today's dollars. The bottom-rung pay today is about $1,700/month.

Would that not be explained by the fact that 50 years ago we had a mostly conscripted military, and today it is entirely volunteer-based? Gotta pay more when people aren't being forced into it. I'm not even sure if I'm disagreeing with anything you've said, but I just wanted to put that fact out there as well.
It helps anybody who's underpaid. One being underpaid doesn't imply or even suggest that one was discriminated against. I was underpaid my first job, and it wasn't due to discrimination. I would imagine that the majority of people who are underpaid are underpaid not due to discrimination, but due to poor negotiating ability, lack of awareness of the market rate, etc.

My analogy of "we're raising the minimum wage to help women/<insert minority>" still stands.

Also there's evidence to suggest that the gender gap is a myth http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender...
An alternative to bouldering is sport climbing. I find it offers a much better balance between the physical and mental parts.

Bouldering routes are only a couple of moves so the focus tends to be on raw power; climbing routes are longer and require more time planning and developing an optimal/working strategy, which can be more engaging and interesting.
Agree - I think there is a perception that if you build an awesome product it sells itself.

There is so much work to running a successful business, especially at that scale. Marketing, Sales, Implementation, Support, on top of G&A, and that's not even touching on HR and retaining employees in a competitive market.

There is a reason some people are known as the "business" guys, I think expertise in that area is underrated, especially among people who've only worked at smaller companies or startups.

Edit: Genuinely curious to know why I'm being downvoted. Care to elaborate on why you're downvoting?
UBI is giving a segment an increase in income (unless you are just printing money for it, which no one has proposed), since money comes from increased taxes or decreased existing spending somewhere else; there are, compared to the status quo ante, a segment of net gainers and one of net losers (with, most likely, a smooth continuum between.)

So it's not actually different from the limited implementations in the way you paint it (it's different in other important ways, but not that one.)
Wow, good to know. Thanks for input and I posted there too. Much different job world in tech/web startups.
I'm doubtful that even the most invasive advertising would be capable of generating enough revenue. $1500/mo is still $50 a day. Say you're typically only home for a few waking hours in the evening— how do you consume enough advertising to pay for $50?
Suspect the Citation needed was referring to "They're good at their jobs."
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I do quite a few of those things. I still get quite bored with them. :) Biking to work only works for me because it becomes an obligation. And, if I had my bus pass with me, I would easily take the bus on more days than not.

Also again, my point was that getting good at exercising is getting good at a relatively quiet mindset that many people deprive themselves of. So, I believe there to be a feedback loop between the two ideas.
Does anyone have a similar study done for other types of cardiovascular exercise? I never run but have a hybrid MTB I got a few months ago and ride a few miles 3-5 days a week, but if its not as effective as jogging i'll start to switch it up a little.
I'll have to read the paper to see what makes it "deep"...

A cursory skim suggests that it is much faster than Stan, but I suppose the more significant question is if it provides the correct results. Stan might take longer, but I'm usually pretty confident that with some simple diagnostics I can see whether the results are what I really need.
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Soccer is available just about everywhere at just about ever age range and is great exercise and is stimulating mentally as well.
I mostly agree with you but you're being too harsh on HN. It barely influences anything at all.

The problem you outlined does exist -- but it's forced by marketing teams and vested interests, not by a bunch of tech enthusiasts. HN's influece amounts to a drop in the sea.
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The company would be more valuable (having more cash) or less diluted (having sold fewer shares) if it had IPO'd at a higher price.
I think the problem with this view is that academic linguistics has a limited amount of useful information to tell people who are trying to learn a language. Absolutely people learning a language need informed linguistic advice. And our understanding of language learning is much less rudimentary than it used to be. But linguistics is a multidisciplinary, multiparadigmatic field in which there is serious disagreement over some very basic questions. Dost of the good language apps definitely include that.

But a lot of language learning is about keeping up motivation and finding ways to access and practice the target language more often, to bring down the barriers to using and communicating in the language. Good software tools can help there, because we can't all afford personal tutors at $30/hour.
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Boring doesn't mean nothing to do. It means no interest in what is there.

Not shockingly, people good at setting somewhat mundane objectives and iterating on them are good at both intelligence and exercise. They probably feed each other. :)
Or you have a button that says "Click here to verify that you're not buying a political ad". Ass covered.
This is the biggest problem for me when biking/jogging and i've found that I can mix my meditation time with it but that only goes so far. I've thought of putting a treadmill in front of my TV so I can jog and watch a few episodes of a show to fix the boredom problem.
I was really surprised how well a modest VM (Virtual box etc) with Ubuntu + X11 + i3 runs. I use that fullscreen in a virtual desktop to switch between host OS and Linux/i3 and am increasingly surprised by how much time I am finding myself in the "simple" VM which flies and the host OS. I've found it a great way to make a simple first step to switching over on the desktop.
I know that you can build twitter and tinder and getting the users is hard. But my point was very different -- People will probably need this for some internal tooling (devops) and it is simple enough to just build it on your own without paying someone or relying on 3rd party.

IMO there should be a line of what to outsource and what to build yourself. In my mind simple things like this go into second category.
The trouble is that developers have great tools for building actual web applications. You know, things like Trello or Google Docs or whatever that are actual software hosted in the browser.

They love their tools, and they aren't making the distinction between software and content.

So they're trying to use the hammer of application development frameworks to attach the zip-tie of content, which is better accomplished with a different tool.

And it sucks for the user. It sucks hard.
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Without neighborhood consultation, what will happen is that only the wealthy neighborhoods will have a voice, since the standard way to displace poor people is to say that it is "cheaper" and "better" for the city.
Note for anyone wanting to try this out on trial account of GCP:
Your instance will be halted with a scary sounding warning email (even if you are just running a benchmark).
Ask HN: Where should I work: Facebook or Google?
I'm trying to decide where to work between these two companies as I have offers from both of them. I'm aware that they are similar in a lot of aspects since they're both huge companies. What is HN's opinion on this decision? Which would you pick?
Its funny I have just started biking semi-seriously in the last year and I haven't even gotten to the point where I am even listening to music while I am getting my skills up. Do you listen to books riding singletrack? I find the challenge of singletrack at a reasonable speed (for myself, dog slow for most serious riders) is more than enough to keep me entertained.
So? It doesn't say "powered flight speed record."
> Most web apps violate basic user interface design and don't even have working keyboard shortcuts.

I am extremely saddened this comes up less and less.

An ancient accounting office where you can do EVERYTHING with F1-F12 and a bunch of other shortcuts, written in 1993, is more advanced in terms of UX compared to most web apps.
> We had tons of terrorist threats (e.g. airplane hijackings) in the 1970s and 1980s.

And lots of overseas interventions (including in the Middle East) which contributed to people seeing the US as the enemy that contributed to the US being targeted by them, so that doesn't really in any way rebut a link between current terrorist threats and current/recent overseas interventions.
S the latest way companies are luring top female talent: Breast milk shipping
MITM is a lot more work for a lot less payoff. Say you found a small ISP that allows DNS cache poisoning. Once you succeed you get X users over a day or two. It's still a fraction of users of a small ISP. With a botnet, they can collect hundreds of thousands to millions of users, and all they have to do is own one site. Or they can send spam all day and not have to own anything.

Of course MITM is a concern, it's just not the biggest concern, IMO.
I like the syntax
http://cheat.sh is a similar tool which I use a lot
Most of those were of the "fly me to Havana" variety where nobody actually got hurt, right?