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I used to use one of those speed reader apps. I found that if I set it at ridiculous speed - 10,000 wpm! - you can still read the words but not really "read" anything i.e. be able to say anything intelligent about what you just "read."

But then I would shift back to 4,000 wpm and suddenly it seemed so easy to keep pace. And the longer you stayed at 10,000 wpm the easier 4,000 became.

I feel our brains are totally up the challenge.
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Didn't Ubuntu give up on making their OS support mobile? What's missing is the demand for a desktop OS on a phone.
I think it's better to structure it as an equity investment, and to really make it clear to friends & family that they are buying a lottery ticket that will probably lose.

Also, make sure the investors are people where you wouldn't be uncomfortable if they saw your company's annual shareholder reports every year for the next 20 years - both in the failure and mad success scenarios. An ex-spouse or potential ex-spouse perhaps not a good choice.
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That would be one way of using it. Though practically speaking a very limited way of doing it and not very useful for a lot of dynamic sites.
No. It's the willingness of manufacturers to make it possible.

We could have had this many years ago already. The technology was there, the performance was there, it's just that the willingness of phone manufacturers to enable users to do it was lacking and still is for the most part.

Probably because there's not that much demand for it either, outside of techie circles.
I listen to podcasts and audiobooks at 1.5x. When I hear them now at regular speed, the hosts voices sound strange to me. Even more strange is when I listen to my friends' podcasts at 1.5x when I know their voice in normal speed. I would like to try 1.75x, but none of the common podcast or audiobook apps have that fine grained adjustment. 2x is too fast for me.
People have tried the "Well, so stop doing it then" approach to fixing addiction. It doesn't work so well. Self-control is not infinite, and is context-dependent. I can ignore cravings when it comes to dessert, but I do feel a compulsive need to read up on everything about my latest hobby. Our brain is hard wired to be addicted to new/novel/stimulating. Naturally, different things are stimulating to different people. Programmers fall prey to this all the time. We waste countless hours tinkering with the latest shiny tech toy while our hobby projects collect dust. We click on articles detailing what we already know about the latest apple gadget, because we already read the 20 articles detailing the "leaks".

Click-bait is a real thing. It triggers a deep psychological need, varying from "let me read this article and comment on how wrong everyone is" to "this is psychological porn that completely agrees with how I feel". Companies whose business model is based on keeping your attention have gotten really good at keeping your attention. Its a form of break-down of free will. Like getting a whiff of the good stuff, when you really should know better to avoid it. Its not really that hard to understand, and I'm sure you understand it already. Whats unexplained is why you chose to blame the victim when there is an entire industry dedicated to setting up the trap.
It's definitely not the processing power, modern phones are beasts, they can compete with 10-year old PCs.
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It's part of the impetus from YC, if I read the tea leaves right, but if there is a UBI, I could easily see 'hacker communes' emerge where the combined monthly stipend of the developers funds living expenses of a communal space. They could work on their startups indefinitely, and try new ideas for years without having to worry about food and shelter.

Depending on the stipend amount, such communes may only be affordable in lower cost areas, including the Midwest. In large enough numbers, I could see this become a kind of movement that brings a different kind of resurgence to the deflated economies of the Midwestern States.
> If all first time users see the same thing

That's a big, important, if.
Why? It can still be connected to SIPRnet or JWICS.

Or customers can get a Direct Connect from their existing facilities into the region. I presume the USG has plenty of fiber straight into these new datacenters and I'm not sure why Amazon wouldn't allow Direct Connect.

As someone else mentioned, perhaps this will get contractors to stop using public S3 buckets to share data.
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I'd go further and say that it is redundant to even say 'source-to-source'. Just 'compiler' is enough, IMHO. See the first few pages of any compiler book.

https://books.google.com/books?id=_tgh4bgQ6PAC&printsec=fron...

Compilers are computer programs that translate a program written in one language into a program written in another language.
I don't know if you're actually looking for advise here, but my recommendation is that you start off slow. 1.05x is virtually indistinguishable. Every month or two a rampup of .1x is equally indistinguishable, although there's a plateau somewhere.

I should probably try bumping it up another .1x myself, now that I think about this.
Having watched his account for a while I had come to the conclusion somebody is methodically downvoting all of his posts.
I've already replaced my desktop with a laptop, looking forward to the day I can consolidate everything onto one device. This looks like a step in the right direction.
I might get a lot of flack for this, but the one option no one ever seems to mention in discussions like these is to “simply” cancel both your wifi and data plan. I did this almost nine months ago and neither my tech. career nor my social life has been impacted by any meaningful margin. Granted, I make more trips to Starbucks/other free wifi locations now, but my evenings are my own - they’re also significantly more peaceful.
Teachers learn their students eventually, by constant regular exposure (which you could consider to be de facto exploiting the spacing effect), so it doesn't require a herculean memory. Spaced repetition software is just a neat trick to speed the process up.
DeX is quite good but unfortunately only available on the top Samsung phones. I think the target market would be people that don't necessarily need a PC for most of the time. Someone that needs a bigger screen to easily do banking or word processing.

DeX has one HDMI port (1080p), two USB 2.0 and one Ethernet.

I can't wait for the Linux on Galaxy project to see how working with Ubuntu through DeX would feel like.
I would disagree. All of the alternative school movements are about greasing the palms of private entities with state dollars.

Most charter schools are real estate developments that happen to house school kids.
initial app load time for un-cookied users with cold browser caches is a critical metric, since it largely determines whether they'll keep using your app

This is "bounce before document.ready()?" How does it compare to "bounce before ad networks/API calls finish" and "bounce before end of autoplay video?"

I'm thinking that with all the other API goo in many mainstream/mass-media sites, "initial app load time" is something users are probably pretty tolerant of, unless "load time" includes stuff beyond the page becoming interactive.
It's being worked on:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/19/samsung-introduces-linux...

You can sign up for updates here:

https://seap.samsung.com/linux-on-galaxy
That's one use case.

The other is for performance/seo where the initial markup for the app is generated and served to the client as HTML, then the React app bootstraps on the client and takes over managing the DOM.
Pretty impressive. Considering that it also allows you to login to a remote windows machine. Lots of enterprise companies use Windows and citrix receiver as a way to login remotely, this makes very useful when you are travelling just with your phone.
Personally what I like about it is that it has impact resistance; they're not quite safety glasses (unless you get really big glasses), but they're pretty close.
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The problem with tearing down the mission to build huge apt buildings is that it's racist.

SoMa was built by razing the houses of black people in the 80s; see Janet Delaney's work at the SFMOMA (https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2010.70) to see what it used to look like.

If you want to talk about replacing detached houses with condos, then you should include Noe Valley, Hayes Valley, Sunset, and the Richmond. And you need to have a plan for where the displaced families and people of color will go (it's not like you can move them to the burbs like in NYC or LA).
Afaik they drop usb sticks with south korea tv shows / american tv shows / chinese tv shows over NK because a lot of people (especially in the border region to china) have dvd/usb player even if illegal and risk of concentration camp for their family + 2 generations of their family.

https://nypost.com/2017/03/17/importing-hope-into-north-kore...

https://flashdrivesforfreedom.com/

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/datenschmuggel-geheimwaff...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/22/flashdrives-fo...

Thought that was common knowledge nowaydays.
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Evolution hasnt been treating well the genes of those carriers who prefer losers, so the genes which made it to today are the ones which encode preference for winners.
I've used https://www.rekonect.com/ (magnetic notebook & paper) for solving precisely this problem. New page for each project/meeting and then just pull it out and slot it in to the correct spot. Can be done cheaper with a 3 ring binder but cheaper isn't always the goal.
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Samsung is currently working on Linux for Galaxy which is exactly this.

Also, the processors in your phone are closer to desktop performance that you might think. If you put any weight in GeekBench scores, single core scores for the new A11 are about the same as the single core scores for the Ryzen 1800x.
It was once known that longbowmen could shoot arrows curving around an obstacle. Scantly recorded, then the actual skill was forgotten until an archer geek who knew about the obscure written references worked out how to do it again from scratch.

I'm not sure if it's a good example of technical knowledge being lost, but I think this video from Lars Andersen a couple weeks ago is the one being referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_z4a00cCQ

Or maybe this one from a couple years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lNUXoOoCU0
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I liked what 80000hours.org presents but I am yet to find a worthy cause to support that sparks my interest. What are worthy missions, bold ideas, big problems that really could benefit humans on a large scale?
Google Terry A. Davis, TempleOS / LosethOS. Terry has clear mental health issues (he hears God speaking to him through RNGs; and beware the occasional racist/bigot tirade) but this drove him to write an OS from scratch, which is quite remarkable in its own way.
The idea that companies are trying to outpace technology firms by acquiring vertical or horizontally related non-technology firms seems silly to me.

If the problem is that you can't compete with a technology company, no aggregation of non-technological companies will fix that problem.

A bit like building stronger castle walls to fight damage from strategic bombing, to construct a bad metaphor.
nice. I agree, git-flow is terrible for modern architectures
Is this new? I am pretty sure I was in a MediaMrkt in Rotterdam a couple weeks ago and I saw this, I didn't even realize it was a big thing.
5 seconds per request??

What on earth? Our entire app is React+Redux based, gathers a bunch of unique user data per-request from various apis and we still get ~40-120ms response times (and that's on CDN cache misses).

Hell, our Node server's connection timeout is 3 seconds and we only ever hit that due an APIs tanking or something.
It's definitely neat, but I feel like this has been done before without success -- examples like the Motorola Atrix, Windows Continuum, and even the cancelled Ubuntu Phone come to mind. (And, going further back in time, let's not forget the Palm Foleo!)

It seems like a neat idea on the surface though, so I wonder why as a concept the phone-connected-to-desktop-peripherals thing hasn't gained more traction. My suspicion is that there isn't really a target user that this makes more sense for. Who happens to keep desktop peripherals on their desk but only does lightweight productivity tasks? CEOs who only answer email? Certainly not software developers or even accounting people.
He’s one of a small club of presidents who was impeached, and whose agenda was completely upended. History won’t treat him well.
But the problem is if you assign a rotating duty to your engineering staff, you as an engineer have no direct impact on how often you will be called due to the half-assed work of other developers. It's a rocky road. Do this too much and your staff will leave. I certainly will. Life is too short.

In short, we're all describing poor management issues. Signing up all the developers for Pagerduty is band aid. So is pushing it all onto operations. In both cases, management is making a choice to avoid dealing with something that requires ongoing effort and time.
Canonical and Microsoft were there first, not sure if I want to see Samsung winning it.
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> just with your phone

... and a DeX station.
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It's about time! I thought I will never say this. Ever. But. Go Samsung!
It's not a matter of simple price per user

It pretty much is when the question is about what the price would be for an ad-free subscription. The calculation may be more complicated, but it's all in service of a per-user number.
Easier to generate a fixed-frequency AC output. Diesel engines can run at a fixed RPM and adjust fueling to match load, where gasoline and natural gas need a narrow AFR and have to vary rotation speed for power output. Maybe less of an issue these days as inverter/generators are more common, though I dunno if that's the case for the big generators.
Things like this give hefty credence to simulation theory.
It’s useful insofar as it’s connected to itself, allowing individuals and companies to share data and compute with one-another, where data can ingress/egress manually but travel the network between VPCs automatically.

It might also mean that the cloud is connected to networks that are not, themselves, Internet-routed. For example, users of the Secret region might have leased lines connecting airgapped computers in their own facilities directly to the DC for ingress/egress.

It might also mean that the network is connected to a “different Internet”, like MILNET.
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This is very surprising, as I often end up constantly rewinding and re-listening. Most of the time my mind wanders off to contemplate the repercussions of what I am listening to and sometimes I just want to take time to process. Is this normal or am I too slow? Are people binge listening to really lightweight podcasts or is it something else!
Hey, I just wanted to thank you for articulating some of the thoughts I've had more eloquently than I can or have time to do. It's good to see HN not just sounding like an echo chamber and seeing someone speak up against socialism/communist sentiments commonly expressed here.
Highly recommend Moment for iOS for tracking phone usage. I feel like I've gamified how much time I spent on my phone and am shooting for <30 minutes / day.
I love this, I love this, I love this.

Right now, I am about a month along with no Facebook or Messenger. Previously I spent hours per day on both, running a pretty large community group and supporting its members. I disappeared; no explanation. Stress levels are down, I have so much more time to do things, and I have so much more attention for the things that really matter.

Anybody that needs me, has my phone number; and at least for now, SMS isn't a gamified platform (I'm looking at you, Snapchat).

Any social media apps (I compulsively install and uninstall Instagram a few times a week because on one hand, it's awesome; on the other hand, I end up putting too much time into it) have notifications disabled.

Getting an Apple Watch was the real game changer. Now, if my phone goes off, I don't even have to look at it or stop what I'm doing. I can decide whether or not to engage with the incoming notification without risking getting sucked into "being on my phone". With LTE, I can even leave the god damn phone in the car, at my desk, or in my locker at the gym without having to worry about missing an important call.

HN is my ground zero for everything and while it may be a little dangerous to only read news and articles that are posted on the same website, you all are pretty balanced and nuanced people from reasonably diverse backgrounds and worldviews, so I'm not that worried about it.
I'll check with my Polish neighbors. Seems horrendously hard.
For all of 5 minutes until it's thermally throttled. They never tell you that on the "GeekBench". But yes, for those 5 minutes, it has somewhat the same performance as one of the eight processors on the 1800x.

Frankly, 1/8th 1800x and a whole A11 is about the same power budget, so that's not entirely surprising.
> explain

It's a thing called humor. Many humans, even older ones with an actual profession seem to relish it. This even includes some great academic minds like Einstein and Feynman, whose accomplishments could dwarf those of most other humans who dislike this humor thing.

It has been observed by prominent humanologists however that in certain grey corporate circles (especially in protestant-derived cultures) it is frowned upon -- much alike in our own professional culture here on Vulcan.
it's funny, your comment makes me think.. the world has too many moving parts to follow them all, so a carefully curated summary of events would be interesting. annnnd that's the press (which got injured by the stream fad.. irony)
Assuming that your actual use case is rendering one small HTML table, yes. It probably isn’t, though.
I used to run my browsers with an addon that disabled user comments. I whitelisted a few sites where the Internet idiots didn't visit. It worked absolutely beautifully and forced me to avoid the worst of Internet very effectively, even during my weak moments. It cut down so much of the frustration I had about consuming content on the Internet.

I had to uninstall it, because the addon developer stopped maintaining it and the performance bugs made browsing bigger sites much too slow.
For me, mindfullness wasn't about "handling" stress. It made situations that were previously stressful into non-stressful situations.
The premise put forth in this article is only true for loosely coupled subrepos, like git's submodule hack.

BitKeeper has had atomic commits and the same lock step guarantees of a monorepo for years.

Opensource and everything. http://www.bitkeeper.org

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/nested.html
Interesting. Thanks. :)
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The problem is that a lot of people can't help themselves from falling prey to the attention seeking media. I don't know whether this is something that should be regulated, but there is some responsibility on the party that's exploiting people's time fully knowing what they are doing, not just on the addicted consumer.
Very cool. I wonder how much crossover or competition there's going to be between Dex and Chromebooks, considering that lots of Chrome OS laptops are running android apps now.

I guess it's a race to see whether Samsung phones can become desktops before Chromebooks can become phones
The point of the article is "accounting metrics drive company culture, which leads to damage." It's an important point that senior-ish managers need to understand.
> In fact, according to behavioral neuroscientist Stephen Porges, because recordings played at higher speeds are at a higher pitch, they are actually easier to hear.

Uh... that's not how modern speedup works. Here's a brief rundown:

1. break the audio up into very small windows
2. FFT audio in a window from time domain to frequency domain
3. FFT the audio back from frequency to time domain, with an even smaller window (or larger, if you want to slow playback down).

The frequencies resulting are the same, but shorter in duration. Obviously there's some sampling bias that can creep in, but these algorithms are generally pitch-stable.
I carry my smartphone with me but I keep it on DND most of the time unless I'm expecting a call or an email.

That way I get the best of both worlds: lack of constant interruptions and the ability to use important features such as maps, camera, etc. when I need.
IPMI is fantastic, so long that the understanding is in place that access to your IPMI vlan may as well be considered root access to the node. BMCs tend to be pretty miserable when it comes to security. It's generally a good idea to have ACLs in place to ensure BMCs can only communicate with a secured management node, and importantly that BMCs cannot communicate with each other.
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A bit (more) offtopic, but regarding your deck of cards, it's an old technique that magicians use (used?) to display "amazing memory".

The usual play is to get people from the audience say random words while you assign those words to something you do everyday (the most common tool is the way to work/school) in order.

With training (as you are doing), you can remember long lists of seemingly unrelated things (and the order they are in).

As I said, a bit offtopic, but I found it funny for that old trick to come up here :)
I don't think this is something that people actually want or have real painful need for today. If you already have a big monitor like that then you probably already have a desktop computer. If you don't, then you probably already have a laptop. If you have neither, then I doubt you're the type of user who's going to get this today and a monitor to go along with it because your needs are probably already filled by an iPad or similar.

It's a cool trick though.
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You can already do this today. I was doing it on my Samsung Galaxy S3 back in the day.

Essentially you install Ubuntu on top of Android.
You then VNC to the Ubuntu Desktop from Android.

Android (using USB on the go) out of the box supports keyboard and mouse.

Not all devices support MicroHDMI, but the S3 did.
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I think this is addressed in the article:

> Isn’t it our own fault that we’re too easily distracted? Maybe we just need more self-discipline.

> That kind of rhetoric implicitly grants the idea that it’s okay for technology to be adversarial against us. The whole point of technology is to help us do what we want to do better. Why else would we have it?

...

> Does personal responsibility matter at all?

> I don’t think personal responsibility is unimportant. I think it’s untenable as a solution to this problem. Even people who write about these issues day to day, even me—and I worked at Google for 10 years—need to remember the sheer volume and scale of resources that are going into getting us to look at one thing over another, click on one thing over another. This industry employs some of the smartest people, thousands of Ph.D. designers, statisticians, engineers. They go to work every day to get us to do this one thing, to undermine our willpower. It’s not realistic to say you need to have more willpower. That’s the very thing being undermined!