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>I don't believe ads work now. Users get used to ignoring them by being over-exposed or using ad blockers.

This is supported by data - each new tech shows rapidly declining effectiveness shortly after it's development:

http://peakads.org/images/Peak_Ads.pdf

"when the first banner advertisement emerged online in 1994, it reported a (now) staggering clickthrough rate of 78%. By 2011, the average Facebook advertisement clickthrough rate sat dramatically lower at 0.05%..."
I don't understand why this comment is downvoted. There are many many inexpensive state/community colleges that have pretty affordable programs which would probably provide the same level of education. If one is hell-bent on getting a degree from a better Uni, you can always apply and transfer later.

This option should most certainly be made clearer to students. I don't want to play a blame game, but I think its somewhat related to the culture of parents wanting "the best" for their kids and considering all money spent on education as an "investment". Its not. Its a huge financial commitment and should be thought through carefully.

Now, its not like college is completely useless. The connections you form there last for life. Many founders initially met in college and so on. But someone considering taking on ginormous student loan debt probably should consider whether that is worth paying off loans for decades.
In general, this sort of thing happens when building standards require that it be used in new homes. For instance, many European countries now require that new homes achieve an ‘A’ rating on the relevant energy efficiency scale. Retrofitting old homes to achieve that tends to be impractically expensive, though.

This just sounds like the next step after the mechanical heat recovery systems that many new homes now have.
Again with the pay taxes thing. The duty to pay taxes cannot be the value of the usd. Lowering taxes would depreciate the coin!
whyy couldn't they pick a different name for this project?

rustutils? coreutils-rust?

name collision like this is how we have millions of people running around thinking that vim is vi while they bash emacs for having bloat as compared to the 'minimalism' of 'vi'..
I don't see what the big deal is. That behavior allowed a ton of flexibility at the cost of DLL planting problems iff someone can already drop arbitrary files in the application's directory.
Assuming the chance of each hit is independent, why do you think they wouldn't be additive?
With every passing year, more and more financial products and services are being created around Bitcoin: futures, ETFs, swaps, and so on.

These products built on each other: the ability to hedge with futures will enable the creation of additional Bitcoin products and services, entangled with each other in complicated financial networks.

Regardless of what you think about it, Bitcoin is slowly but surely becoming a PERMANENT component of the world's financial infrastructure.

It's not difficult to imagine a future in which having some kind of Bitcoin exposure in a portfolio becomes conventional wisdom.
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This looks like an environmentalist group. What does it have to do with "Fashion Freedom"?
It crashed $1200 yesterday ($11868 -> $10600) when it approached $11868 which seems arbitrary until you realize that 10000€ = $11868, which triggered a round of sell orders.
Now who is being unrealistic? I accept that demand for medical services is not as elastic as in other industries, but to suggest that exposing a group of poorly-performing doctors would have no effect on their patient numbers seems rather far fetched. Even if that were the case, the sudden loss of rich patients might make a few of these doctors consider early retirement.
> Twitter has tweetdeck.

Tweetdeck is, sorry, crap. At least compared to the web site or the apps. Both in UX and functionality terms.

To make it worse the official Twitter Android/iphone app does not allow delegation at all, and third-party clients can't access lots of the API (media in DMs, polls, all the analytics stuff which is really relevant for e.g. agencies).
Even though parent was referencing number of cars, having "enough" cars has never been the issue - the problem is traffic congestion and other externalized costs inherent to having a car per person.
> Those who cling to principles get sidelined by pragmatic hustlers

I'm not judging said investors. As Matt Levine said, "'the need for a bitcoin ETF,' I once wrote, and it is just as true of a bitcoin future, 'is an argument against buying it'" [1]. Though, at this point, Wall Street is simply thrilled they've been given a magic number around which to design securities and for which any faults can be safely blamed on Silicon Valley.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-22/uber-hack...
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Most people delete their email messages as soon as they read it. This has been changing in the last few years as storage becomes cheap enough that it is possible to save everything, but most people are still subject some sort of maximum bytes in saved messages. (gmail was an early pioneer in the never delete space so some of you might be used to this)
Maybe something like this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2909367/can-you-determin...
There's probably some nice historical analogies to be drawn between permitting hack-backs and older forms of self-help, especially in frontier setting where there was little or no criminal justice infrastructure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help_(law)

(In this case, the lack of infrastructure seems to be due to lack of technical expertise on the part of the government, which may change in the future.) Bounty hunters, repossession, and citizen prosecution come to mind, and I'd love to see a serious effort to compare things like these with hack-backs.
This is true for anyone who has substantial wealth in a single asset class, and also relatively meaningless. You can't get liquidity without impacting the price, especially if your reputation is closely tied to the asset.

When you are talking wealth, you use dollars as a unit of account so you don't have to compare bitcoin addresses to tech equity to Manhattan skyscrapers to oil tankers. Obviously all those things are hard to liquidate quickly especially when you own a lot of the supply.

For the actual human expenses, there are plenty of private bankers who will figure out how to lend you USD against those assets for whatever you want to buy.
Also when you're the boss you can reply however you want and people will make/take the time to figure out the missing details, because they have to.

Try those short replies to your boss for a while and see how it goes. ;-)
This is not surprising at all. Another interesting problem that you can solve is using your social media friends' cars to predict an individual 's political leanings.
FPGAs are usually a better situational substitute for an ASIC than a CPU. Relative strengths of FPGAs:

* Complete control over pin assignments.

* Complete control over PLLs and clocks.

* Complete control over transitioning clock domains, and other timing characteristics, skew, etc.

* Convenient SoC features: DSP multipliers, SRAM, on chip flash memory, ADCs, etc. and the ability to run a soft core CPU on chip as a convenience and/or to give it direct access to various clock domains.

* All hardware features including all listed above are in-system programmable.

FPGAs are excellent glue, and the smaller sizes of MAX-10 (or equivalent) are cheap and have a small footprint. If you're doing hardware design that uses CPUs, adding an FPGA can vastly improve the flexibility of your design. They are great for interfacing to other dedicated chips. They also make good DSP chips, but if they strictly only did that they wouldn't be nearly as useful.
...and I have abandoned eBay entirely, due to my perception that's its a hive of villainy. Folks listing computer equipment for sale above the regular price. Auctions that routinely go for more than you can easily buy elsewhere. Insincere bidders that try to con sellers into cancelling a bid (thus ensuring their confederate will now win, with a bid well below the value of the item). And so on.
As long as we are discussing systemic issues I think we need to go deeper. The article lists someone being killed, yet the death is not part of the murder statistic. If you had said Blacks committed statistically more murders based on the current legal definition that's more defensible than crimes because total crime is a very different beast. We don't really keep track of the total number of crimes in any real way. But, that number is competently separate issue from various sub types of criminal acts.

If you look annually their are ~17,000 reported murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases in the U.S. However, that excludes for example a significant subset of the ~32,000 traffic facilitates in the US that could be classified as Murder with slightly different laws. (Call it 1/4 from thin air and those murder statistics look different.) Importantly, they are generally both crimes, but while someone still ends up dead legally they are very different.

Another issue is if a factory kills thousands from pollution is that one crime, thousands of murders, or millions of assaults based on different interpretations of the law.

PS: Why are most serial killers in the US white? Is it because they actually kill more people, or because gang violence is not counted.

PPS: I am not sure why so many people are down voting you, it's reasoned argument even if I don't exactly agree.
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"Diversity" in your example seems to include black people and hispanic people, but disregards the diversity in "white" culture (there's a huge split between English and French), and the entire Asian continent.

Denying people of low skill and educational backgrounds isn't inherently racist - an African-American software developer gets the same NAFTA rubber-stamp as a Polish-American developer. French-speaking workers have it even easier, as French-speakers get preferential treatment. (Areas of Africa natively speak French, if you're insistent that Africa is the source of all "diversity".)

I don't see how letting low-skill, uneducated people immigrate to a country helps it. Immigration isn't a charity.
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Rustc is more than just a Rust program; we compile LLVM from scratch, for example. Is the OOM in the Rust code, or in the LLVM code, or in the final linking, or what? It's not clear.

The compiler is one of the largest Rust programs that exist. Last I checked, it was three quarters of a million lines of Rust, but a quick loc shows 1.5 million lines of Rust, 2.3 million lines of C++, and 900,000 lines of C (again, mostly LLVM and jemalloc).

Servo is also very large, and they don't report having OOMs, though I'm not sure if they build on 32-bit or just cross-compile.
You can absolutely sideload on iOS, it is just a pain.
Greater fool theory in action. Let's not take a moment to step back and think about this, because hey it's going up!

If I'm positive it's a pyramid scam, why should I put my money into it?
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> The author has decided to provide poor communication

On the contrary! The author has decided to provide efficient, immediate, communication, instead of vaguely planning to send a more detailed reply later if she maybe gets around to it.

If everybody treated email this way it would be 100x more efficient. If her reply doesn't contain the info you need, just reply back asking for the info you need, and she'll reply within minutes.
I agree with the fact that error messages in some applications can be improved. This article shows a good example.

Conventions are really important to speed up the basic usage understanding of a tool, both cli and gui applications. In my memory ESR did a good job at explaining cli applications Unix conventions (defaults arguments, configuration file locations etc.) in is book "The Art of Unix Programming".

But the complexity of a tool depends on the domain it covers and targeted users.
In fact i disagree with the conclusions of the coffee machine analogy. One machine is for professional user the other not.

I disagree with the "no documentation" argument too. "Understand by intuition" paradigm works for basic scenarios from domains understund by anyone (music player, email) but it has its own limits when the software involves complex concepts sometimes inherent to the domain covered. In theses cases, a well written documentation is far more useful to understand theses concepts than clicking everywhere like a monkey ihmo.
Unless the volatility were to go down in the extreme, nobody has any business borrowing or lending in bitcoin. I'm sorry but it's absurd, unless done as speculation.

Basically, borrow bitcoin and you are in a short BTC speculative trade, lend it and you are long the same. If you'd borrowed $100 worth of bitcoin last year, you'd owe what, $1,000 this year? It's not a loan, it's a bet. And how do futures fix this?

Rates? Even mentioning rates on a BTC "loan" sounds entirely out of place.

OK but money isn't just about credit. It has two other functions: store of value and means of exchange.

As a store of value BTC is highly uncertain. It will multiply or decimate whatever value you try to store in it.

I thought it might be interesting as a means of exchange, and maybe it is in certain situations, but commissions seem too high for use as a major global digital payment system. You pay out of your currency to BTC, then from BTC to the target currency, plus the transaction fees which can be prohibitive unless you're moving some serious loot. I make a lot of small international payments and would love a great solution, but I can't see bitcoin as it. Who actually uses BTC? I mean, other than speculators? ("Investor" is a euphemism here, buyers of bitcoin are commodity or currency speculators.)
Ask HN: What's the best way to get a remote position
As someone who is planning to make the move to working from home in the future, I find myself wondering what's the optimal game plan to be able to get to a position where I can get a job like that.

Now, this is quite a broad question (what skill to acquire, how to "sell" it and yourself, which companies to aim for, tips to retain sanity as a semi-hermit etc.), so feel free to answer whichever facet of it you find more interesting.
> There are a few notable exceptions that only require a C compiler, no internet access during their build, and build in an acceptably short time:

most any scheme/lisp compiler as well

requiring internet access and binary bootstrap toolkits thing for the core piece of an ecosystem (e.g. the language compiler) is decidedly new-school, rooted in overly commercial projects, and for the worst, imho.

ps: lawn.
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Does FB typically not include Android on betas?
And if everyone started out with the same amount of money in life you'd still be bemoaning the unequal distribution of advantageous genetic traits.
The connection would stay open but after a few minutes the ping would fail. I had even setup a wifi reset script to get back to working 20 times a day. It did it only on some routers, even if I connected to them through my old AirPort Express.
Windows 7 support doesn't end until 2020 and as someone pointed out on HN this a few days ago, Windows 10 IoT and LTSB don't come with Edge, they do come with IE11. Those aren't meant for desktop use but some people do use LTSB there and they could be used for browser-based digital signage, kiosks, etc.

I agree that older browsers can get basically functional while others can get a progressively enhanced experience but a lot developers hate the idea of making something twice. Also, for what WASM is best suited for, I don't know that there's a point to making a basic, HTML-only version.

Edit: I wasn't thinking about WASM support through polyfill, I don't know what the performance difference is typically like.
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A great book for stuff like this.

"The Embedded Linux Primer" by Christopher Hallinan.

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004AE3IA6&preview=new...
...and the systemic bias that when poor people (often Black) are the demographic involved, its a crime. But rich people (often not Black) running factories, not a crime. Agreed.
I bought an internet domain in order for people to be able to contact me via some stable handle on the internet, that only I control. That's all. I don't want my phone, my home address, my all other domains, etc. to be easilly accessible for no reason whatsoever by nosy types.

Also your question may apply to the other end too. Shouldn't it be easy for an owner of the server to find out who is behind an IP address that is connecting to his server - and I mean easy access to his/her phone number, home address and a complete history of those, too?

It's easy to concot legal, technical and content reasons why this should be.
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It's not hypocrisy, just evidence that the bitcoin community isn't homogeneous. There's always been a set of people who viewed it as a radical political project to unseat central banks and democratize money, but I'm not sure those people were ever predominant, and they certainly aren't predominant now.

It's not the the libertarian segment of the community has done a 180 to cheer Wall St's cooption of bitcoin. Instead, you're witnessing a lot of people who hold bitcoin who are excited that more and more people appear to regard it as a serious store of value. These people are probably not libertarian types--they're interested in bitcoin as an investment, and don't really care if the additional money entering the ecosystem comes from Wall St.
Because you can get out soon, before the crash?
Pretty detailed explanation, I was particularly interested in the ERC-721 tokens. Unique items on the blockchain is going to be a big new area
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She's not saying "don't tell people what they need to know", she's saying "don't agonise over sending the perfect email, just give them the information they need".
That's sort of the point of the suggestion, I think. If you always rewrite from scratch rather than edit, this sort of tacit knowledge won't get embedded undocumented and untested into the middle of a function.

This is sort of the great contradiction of software development. Untested legacy software is hard to work with. So should our focus be on how to work with legacy software or how not to create it in the first place? There's really no answer to that.
So the solution to loopholes in laws is to pass more laws?

Re: illegal tax evasion, yes that should be prosecuted. However, when Amazon didn't charge state income tax, I sure didn't go out of my way to pay the government.
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I wonder, what happened with Luna[1] language project? Seems dead, no updates, no emails on the mailing list I subscribed.

[1] https://luna-lang.org
That's a terrific idea, if that kind of CMS-ish system is available to you or within your organization. Unfortunately I've never been exposed to or have much experience with something like that : (
I think a lot of people believe they are getting a unique item that can never be copied.
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This is getting addressed with side chains
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I pay for content. I pay to receive content without ads. Any company who wants me to "pay" via advertising will not get "payment" from me. Full stop.
There are certain industries where these numbers are highly skewed toward Windows 7. Healthcare, hospitals in particular, are especially bad.
We also had a global Great Recession. That’s about a decade of backward progression. The real factor here is whether we’ll see another recession of similar magnitude. If we do, then we’ll be lucky to see equally similar changes.

As for probability, it feels like the market needs a correction as does society. Trump/Brexit are a reaction to many things.
My impression is that the Rust developers and community are firmly in the practical camp. They will keep plowing at Rust and its ecosystem. They will improve and optimize every nook and cranny they can find.

I wouldn't be too worried about Rust, it will have a niche at least as big as Ruby's is and IMO it will be way more entrenched since its target domain moves way slower and the barriers to entry are way higher than for scripting languages and web frameworks, IMO.
That seems dangerous akin to ‘08. Crypto in general isn’t being used for much relative to its current hypothetical value.

It’s being propped up by a few huge investors. Once those investors have tripled their investment and grown bored speculating, they’ll move on, and there’ll be a run on crypto driving its value through the floor.

So any exposure through retirement accounts or other investment products seems really dangerous.

But idk
> Theo is completely ignorant here.

perhaps, in one sense - or, alternatively is busy not spending all his time chasing the latest 5000 fads and 100000 not-yet-implemented projects which may or may not ever end up being completed...
Alternately, your definition of "fluff" was everyone else's definition of "required communication." A short reply can still be ambiguous, which requires clarification, which then wastes time.

Given your many bad reviews, do you think it might be worthwhile to revisit your data?
Wow check above Tampa Bay; there's an immense level of activity there versus other areas of Florida - What gives
Yeah, but dogecoin still isn't worth anything and most of the altcoins from christmas past aren't either. You know what is, Mr. Skeptic? Two things: the jealousy you're feeling because they made a calculated risk and it paid off, and the fiat value of BTC as an asset. So run back to your stocks, keep making the same trades everybody else does in the name of "sense" and tell me how you feel when all that "sense" your talking about collapses in two years when the economy cycles.
Based on what you wrote, you're almost certainly a great parent, but I have a question:

If your daughter learned by observing the boy using a tantrum to get his way, couldn't there be other children who observed both the boy and your daughter, see that a tantrum at the very worst amounts to a 50% chance of ice cream and a 50% chance of continuing the zoo trip?

If you had told her: "When you're done, let me know. And if this goes on much longer we're going home once you're done." The other children may have observed possible negative consequences for their actions.
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A weekend side project. Constructive feedback is welcome. It's not optimally implemented but would like to optimize it if the functionality seems to be useful to public. Thanks.
I did a rough outline of what I guessed to be the "valuable target area" of the airport, and it came to 0.15m^2: https://imgur.com/a/t7vhd. Such a target would only need 5 Scuds for even odds.

But, yes: The Scud is terribly (wonderfully) inaccurate.
Jeff Bezos is famous for forwarding emails with just a question mark to employees when he receives complaints from customers.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-receive-a-question-ma...
And potentially add to >100%?
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Thanks for elaborating, was genuinely curious.