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I've used a lot of to-do apps over the years to try to remember everything from daily routine (I can get very distracted/demotivated over dailies) to a full calendar. Checklist format has been the best way for me to see a bunch of next items so I don't feel that things are hidden "further down".

That said, I've made a custom spreadsheet to handle my real-time prioritizing the way I think about it, so I've gone beyond simple lists by quite a bit.

I do feel like I have a decent grasp on the whole range of activities I do, though, from daily pet care/home stuff to social calendar, bills, projects, etc.
> Wouldn't the right "fix" for the issue be encouraging more competition and figuring out why we only have 1 or 2 providers

This is a USA-based response.

The answer largely comes down to how much infrastructure is required to move a new provider in and how there's little incentive to do so. If you want to look at real world examples of how providers get choked out, look at the Google Fiber deployment in Nashville.

Google pays contractors to move lines on poles so they can install their lines. The contractors are usually the same contractors that move lines for other companies, but they all require every other company to make adjustments to their own poles before Google can. There are thousands of poles and the incumbent providers have been intentionally dragging their feet to complete their end of the deal. What happened? Nashville passed "One Touch Make Ready." This let Google just do all of the moving in one go, but it was recently shot down due to a lawsuit from the incumbent ISPs.

The current incumbent providers in many areas will fight tooth and nail to prevent anyone from moving in "the easy way," which means the only way to let a competitor move in is through building out expensive networks on their own dollar. Since the margins aren't that great, nobody is incentivized to actually go through with tearing up streets or building new systems for delivery.
Maybe net neutrality 'rule' that expires in X yrs ? Review why comcast is the only game in town.
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Only counting the steel wire in the winch example is unfair in the other direction. You have to count a small part of the winch (pulley?) for it to be directly comparable.

But this is all incredibly silly, and what we all agree on is that they fail to consider the vacuum pump, valves and reinforced vacuum hoses in order to make their invention seem fancier.
Thank you :-)! Writing it was by far the hardest part of the project.
> But Android can have preinstalled apps that can’t be installed unless you flash a new rom.

Did you mean uninstalled or updated? ROM Apps can be updated but not uninstalled and sometimes not disabled.
Well, yeah, of course neutral metered billing would be better than non-neutral "flat" billing, precisely because there is no free lunch. On average, the price should be the same anyway. And you can implement protection of customers against surprising bills without actual flat rates (allow them to go over the limit, but the next month they have to chose to either get a hard cap, or buy a larger package, for example).
We have only one or two providers because it is very costly to hang wire on poles all over town (or trench it under the street). Typically the only provider able to foot that bill is whatever company has been in the business of hanging wire around town for decades : either the phone company or the cable company. So in fact there are actually no new providers typically, just the old providers we had 30 years ago using their old wires for IP packets.

If you have 10 providers most likely they are not actually providing the physical service, just the routing of your traffic from whoever does own the wire onto the backbone. The UK has this model for example : the phone company owns all the wires (to a first approximation) but other providers market service and deploy routers in switching services. The phone company changes a row in a database to hook your house's DSL traffic up to whoever's backbone router.

The US does not have this model for Internet service : whoever owns the wire also owns the routing.

Under the 1996 telco act there was such a model (ILECs and so on) but it isn't common today I assume because the law changed or the telcos were allowed to complete with the ILECs once Internet service demand became sufficiently high to justify their entering the market.
It's a bit more than just optics: there even is an economic advantage to guaranteed short term loans. If you know the government hands you a check April 16 every year, even if that money goes back into your taxes the next April 15, you still have a year to make that money work for you, however you see fit. It forces that money to circulate, and that can be useful to economic activity.
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These algorithms are written in NESL, which is perhaps the cleanest example of the oft-mentioned theory that parallel programming becomes simple in a functional setting. It really is remarkable how flexible it is. Unfortunately, I'm not sure NESL ever managed to run particularly fast in practice.
We can do both, you know? Net neutrality rules now, since we have practicality zero competition. We figure out what's happening with competition; typically it's awful legislation (that these ISPs lobbied for) that's at the local level, and high costs. The local legislation is being, slowly, pushed back. Google helped a bit in trying to get competition going.

We can drop the net neutrality legislature when it's clear that there is competition across the country. But not now. We need it. These companies are too entrenched to be trusted in any way shape or form.
Show HN: Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler can now include JSX
Erlang is simpler, there are less syntactic constructs to learn, has more information and learning resources available probably due to its age (30+ years),maybe more tools and libraries, that also means more example to look at. It is also the default language the VM is written for. So you can track and follow the latest changes as they are released.

However if you come from Rails or want to do mostly web development, then Phoenix is a nice framework, so maybe a good place to start. Also Elixir has a very friendlier community for newcomers perhaps, kudos to Jose and team there, they went above and beyond to make that happen.

All in all, there is a huge overlap. Some of the harder or more interesting concepts - functional programming aspect, using light-weight processes with isolated heaps for concurrency, performance evaluation and debugging will be the same. It is not like if you pick Erlang or Elixir you'll be wasting time and going in a separate direction, they share a lot of common concepts, and could transition easier if you need to between them in the future.
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Play Services updates.
Texting or emailing is to make sure they can contact you in the future. Be it for support or up-selling.

It also helps a bit with fraud (users who create multiple accounts) because it's usually harder to come up with several working mobile phone number. I say usually because professional fraudsters will find a way around that hurdle.
> Wouldn't the right "fix" for the issue be encouraging more competition and figuring out why we only have 1 or 2 providers.

Because when ISPs got moved from Title II to Title I in 2005, it ended line-sharing requirements, which means entry into the market is extremely difficult (since you need to build your own physical network from scratch) and incumbents are free to grow as they please and "lobby"[0] against essentially their only threat: local public efforts (municipal broadband).

[0] nice wholesome word for plain corruption
> Again, zero-rating is not explicitly a net-neutrality issue: T-Mobile treats all data the same, some data just doesn’t cost money.

False. Some data is not capped, while other is. So data is not treated the same. Q.E.D. Net neutrality means - either don't cap it, or cap it all. No preferential treatment. India for instance explicitly bans zero rating as part of Net neutrality laws.

> There is evidence that pre-existing regulation and antitrust law, along with media pressure, are effective at policing bad behavior

There is also tons of evidence of existing anti-trust laws doing nothing to stop monopolistic abuse. Data caps you brought above is an example in itself (mostly in case of Comcast and the like). Despite complaints and bad PR, Comcast pushes data caps on users, because they are monopolists and users have little choice but to comply. Where was anti-trust law to stop that?
I think the intention of this is to get closer to "on the metal" as a teaching tool of the math and low-level graphics rendering. Using SDL or others would abstract all that away.
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No house where I would want to live is going to drop 50% in the next recession.
Most universities are run like a business. They are "non-profit" but essentially they are trying to generate "profits" that raise their endowment. Larger endowments mean more $ per year to spend on faculty, admin/staff, and student services/housing. Having more faculty and better student services/housing helps recruit more and stronger students...
Absolutely. The cause of the war was succession. There was no legally defined process for succession and the withdrawal of United States soldiers from the territory of succeeded parties. If there had been, would the North have fought a noble war sacrificing life and treasure to free black people? Absolutely not. For god sake, they barely passed the 13th amendment. Abraham Lincoln himself said that if he could restore the Union without freeing a single black he would.

What is fiction however is that any other issue besides slavery led the South to succeed. Here are the "Declaration of Causes of Succession" made by four of the states.

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/secession.html

These documents were intended as equivalents to the Declaration of Independence made by the U.S. in which Thomas Jefferson outlined a list of grievances the colonists had with the king. The grievances you'll find in these documents almost exclusively revolve around slavery. The one from Texas contains this little gem.

"We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable."

Yes, the war was about white people and their problems with each other but that does not mean the Confederacy was not a horrifyingly evil society. They desired to raise a nation founded on the principal of racist slavery. And people rightly object to being subjected to the symbols of that nation.
Would you consider buying something for less than 10 cents that is now worth 8k? Maybe. Not really sure tho.
Just kidding of course, but a new paradigm shift ;-) is still possible.

We could lock each kid in a (shockproof and fireproof) "capsule" with a seat (to which the kid is tied with belts) by the parents at home and released by the teacher at school and viceversa on the way back.

The capsule would have a QR code, a smart tag and possibly also a two way communication cellular system (besides of course GPS).

The kid inside would have a tablet with Wi-Fi [1] so that he/she is entertained during the transport.

At this point there is no difference between the (poor) kid and a "package" and he/she/it can be loaded and unloaded by a robotic arm.

There would still be issues with the kids suffering from claustrophobia, though, and probably - from time to time - some slight incident involving the lack of prompt access to a bathroom/WC ...

[1] More seriously, I noticed in the last few years at the restaurant/pizzeria the trend of entire families where father and mother are immersed in their smartphones (each on their own), the bigger kid(s) are playing games in (each on thir own) tablets and the smaller kid(s) watching some cartoons on their tablet, sometimes fixed with a support/arm to the stroller ...
Not being government backed does add risk? Bitcoin cannot declare bankrupty, but governments can (ok, affecting bonds primarily). Also, governments can abandon currencies and use different ones.
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A human can hold several loaded shipping containers stacked upon each other against gravity.

The human will be very flat and leaking all over, but it will be holding the containers.
Once you've got my money, and have seen a few of my ads, never require approval again unless I've been bad.

That will never fly, for the sole reason that reddit is small enough and young enough that they could be run over by somebody willing to drop 10 grand. Googles spam filter is probably the best.
Yes, damned that FDA and NHTSA for not letting me drink my raw milk while driving in a car without airbags. Clearly a power grab.
A lot of the arbitrage opportunities I found in the past existed because it was challenging to get cash in and out of the exchange, so the arbitrage was always in one direction.
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That prosperity would detract from the wealth of the powerful, so they have incentive to avoid that.
The Transcrypt v3.6.56 Python to JavaScript compiler can now delegate translation of code fragments to any external tool. This enables embedding JSX in your Python sourcecode.
Animations link appears to be broken. After doing some way back machine snooping, looks like it hasn't been up since about 2000[0]. You can access the legacy java applet animations here[1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20000611153404/http://web.scanda...

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/applets/
I think you did not understand my point, I have a steam and gog account, I pay for Intellij so I am not advocating for piracy,
my point is that DRM does not make piracy super hard that only developers and linux users can pirate movies, I gave an example that you can watch a movie just by knowing how to use google, I am also sure that children in schools will teach each other how to get latest cartoons via torrent or website. If you go on gog.com you will see a large number of games, DRM free, music is now mostly DRM free, again my point is that Netflix offering a DRM free stream will not cause the number of subscribers to drop, because piracy is not that hard as the previous comment said it is.
I agree with you 100%, I would pay the subscription to Netflix to avoid those websites, but it would be cool that I would not have to buy special hardware for it.
P.S. I do not use or considered using Netflix because of my Internet speed.
It's funny how people who complain about facebook the most are the ones who treat it super seriously. Or why do you allow such stupid feature as "news feed" to be the primary source of your news and then complain about its uselessness?

Facebook is awesome for chatting with friends, organizing events and sometimes even for posting updates about yourself, for those who want to see them. You don't need the news feed for any of that.
I'm in an area with competition. Comcast doesn't offer a 55mb/s plan. They offer a 25mb/s plan starting at $75/mo which is their only plan that doesn't force you into buying television as well. That's right, the internet only plan forces you into buying television and all the fees that come with it.
I also don’t understand Stross’ blanket characterization of bitcoin as only being useful to libertatians. I would think the citizens of a proper socialist government would also want to use money that can’t be devalued. It would make very clear what is being spent by the government versus national bank systems which can achieve things by just devaluing currency.
Well perfect, do give LFE a try. I know of a few commercial users of it. You might be able to transfer some of the ideas and skills from lisp but also learn about processes and mailbox and such, without seeing a completely new syntax.
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Ask HN: How to find remote contracting work?
Hey HN folks!

I'm using a throwaway account for what will be obvious reasons.

I've worked professionally for 10 years and for 4 of those I've been working remotely for a company based in the US whilst I'm from Western Europe.

I currently have the enviable position of remote golden handcuffs, I used to really enjoy where I currently work but lately I've realised I get quite despondent and unhappy due to the changing culture favouring technical shortcuts and micromanagement.

My enviable position is that I earn a great salary compared to my local market and zero commute time however switching to a local company would mean losing those benefits and still potentially having the problem of technical shortcuts/micromanagement.

I'd love to strike out into remote consulting, I know consulting you have multiple bosses, tight deadlines but from my ten years in the industry I've seen that contractors usually have more sway over technical decisions and can approach problems/projects in a more detached manner due to changing work environment regularly.

Whilst I'm comfortable with quite a few languages I do specialise in Java where I've worked across many different domains.

Here are a few problems I've run into that perhaps the HN community has some members that have overcome them:

1. Finding remote Java/backend contracting gigs for US companies or companies based in say London/Paris, most remote contracting work seems to be JS or frontend.
2. How to transition slowly or land a big initial client? I have two young children and savings but I don't feel like gambling their future. How to resolve the catch 22 of having full time work and wanting to land full time clients?

Any advice or pointers will be greatly appreciated!
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Ask HN: What does it mean to settle into a career of coding?
I've been at my current job as a senior developer for almost 3 years. It's appropriately challenging, the benefits are great, I like my coworkers. This is after almost a decade of moving to a new startup every 2 years.

I feel like I don't have an incentive to even consider another employer unless they were going to pay more but still have equally great work/people/balance. In other words, I'm content, and it's freaking me out.

Is "settling" at your job in this way at all detrimental to my career as a developer?
I doubt that many people are reading ebooks in a context where they need to copy and paste regularly, I could be wrong though. I read exclusively ebooks and it hasn't ever come up that I remember. I'm not saying it isn't a valid use case, but I question whether it is a common use case for the average user.

I'd be curious to know how someone has narrowed down the black box that is Netflix to determine that buffering is caused by the DRM.
here's my problem if anyone is willing to lend a helping hand: i'm building an enterprise saas product that involves some cool buzzwords and potentially really adds value in the space i'm targeting but i'm getting no traction.

i have an mvp (phone app and webapp) to demo to customers. i have the decks and sales pitch. i'm a reasonably smart and articulate person and communicate well (able to "speak sales"). yet because i have no company history, no clients, no credibility - in a word no social proof - for the life of me i can't get any traction. at least i think this is the reason i'm not getting any bites? i had leads (through my FFF investors) - i've had probably 10-15 sales conversations in the last 4 months that have gone absolutely no where (the latest one fizzled out yesterday). pricing isn't the issue because i've floated several different pricing schemes to customers and while some are more attractive than others it's never been the deal breaker. maybe i have poor product/market fit but i've experimented with adjusted the product offering too and no significant change in reception there either.

now supposedly i should be learning something about my market segment but the problem is i constantly get contradictory signals - one customers says it's a great product but too early, another says it's not a useful product maybe i'd like to consider building such and such product, one customer says price is too high, another doesn't even mention it.

i'm really at a complete loss for how to turn this thing around and i'm burning through cash (although i'm not above taking cost cutting measures - fired one of us three 3 weeks ago and cut my own pay this month).
I think this is one of the major problems with the food and nutrition industries. Most don't have a factual understanding of what they're talking about and are willing to spout off whatever they were told by this or that person. There's no real consensus. The situation honestly feels worse than global warming. Everyone just takes their own stances on it or the one that aligns with them and then doesn't bother actually looking into why they are right or wrong. It's worrying.

There are also just so many variables it's hard to keep track of what is right or wrong anymore.
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Deleting cookies for the site worked for me.
better to rule in hell than serve in heaven.
I am pretty blown away to see people take a subject which is so hypothetical and reduce it to experiment. Bravo!
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> If Wal-Mart simply didn’t realize some trick in those days, what information would the Walton family need to take with them in their time machine to destroy Amazon from 1996-2015

That this internet thing will really take off.
We’ll just ignore the fact that every data communications expert refers to data services from the telco as “telecommunications”...When cable companies sell phone service over coax, there is no twisting of facts that can define that as anything but “Telecommuncations”, and they are therefore subject to Title II, and incumbents need to lease their last mile to competitors, just like the phone company. Period.
I don't agree with that. I think it aligns well with what the average user expects.

1) Give me all the stuff I need pre-loaded.

2) Don't make me do system management. Do it all for me.
Honestly I would have no issues with this if we actually had competition. My state forbids local municipalities from forming internet companies, so I am left with a single speed from cable company or a single speed, half of the cable companies, from ATT with data caps.

I can guarantee the cable company will all of a sudden charge more, for the same service, by tacking on tiered plans, while doing nothing to upgrade reliability, bandwidth, or really anything. Why would they? Where can one go, when ATT will do the exact same thing.

Ajit is wrong, based on the assumption that the free market will correct this issue.
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> Also Thinkpad suck, they feel super cheap for the price they ask and install even worst spyware preloaded.

I know, Lenovo has completely wrecked the Thinkpad brand. I wish IBM would start making laptops again.
There are commercial users? That's fantastic news!
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I'm a forensic psychiatrist, and I work in corrections. I have been finding myself recommending books on stoicism to some of my patients after reading a few myself.

It's a useful counterpoint to the modern idea that if your life is not Instagram/Pinboard material then you are a failure.