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Please stop posting uncivil, unsubstantive comments. We ban accounts that do that.

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One would hope that discussions about whether repeating old news is interesting or not is encouraged.
I agree about equity exposure, low fees, and simple approaches like a three fund portfolio. Here is a slightly more sophisticated way to think about the percentage that should be in equities. One year from now, equities could be up 25% or down 50%. Twenty years from now, equities are likely to be up, likely to have outpaced inflation, and likely to have outperformed "safer" alternatives (money market funds, bond funds, etc.). If you have a $10,000 bill coming due in one year, and $10,000 in the bank, it would be risky to invest any of it in equities. If you have money to invest that you won't be forced to liquidate for 20 years (e.g. your 401k at age 40), then it is probably fine to start with 100% of in equities. The percentage should be based on when you might be forced to liquidate each available investment dollar. In many cases this will agree with the rule of thumb.

By equities I mean low cost equity ETFs (or index funds) that invest in broad indexes. I do not mean a portfolio of 10 to 30 stocks hand-picked by you or any fund manager. The hand-picked portfolio could be down 100% in 20 years, or in 1 year.
The last big Windows 10 update I did the other day completely reset me installation to stock. Wiped all my drivers including GPU, all my settings, reinstalled everything I'd tweaked over the months/years, the works.

I've been meaning to ditch Windows (again) for a while and this is the final straw.
Just 34 years at 7%!
Quite. Moreover and with apologies to Marx, where is this 10x coming from? The simple fact is that it's the fruit of other people's labour that is being appropriated.
> Mozilla's gotta make money somehow

Actually they do not. their revenue is at an all time high despite the market share reaching an all time low.

https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-revenue-jump-fuels-its-fir...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3240008/web-browsers/m...
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/02/mozillas-revenue-increased...
Bit late to the party but what could be done with the information that they got their hands on?
That only accounts for ionization which is the most common way of damaging cell tissue and most importantly DNA through the breaking down of molecular bonds.

However other effects can also cause biological processes to differ or fail for example heat e.g. boiling an egg.

Now I’m not saying that the radiation form a cellphone can cook you but we don’t have a clear understanding of how non-ionizing radiation affects all biological processes such as protein folding but we know that it does:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4007673/#!po=2....

https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/119421

The fact that nonionizing radiation can affect biological processes has been well documented and is being studied.

Again this doesn’t mean that cellphones cause cancer or any other harm but you really don’t need new physics for them do so.
sfo: Instant build process
These days I just go to Wirecutter with any such questions: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-password-managers/
> Demanding that people adapt to newer technology with more restrictions than previous iterations of the technology is a tall order that many will not entertain.

After thinking it through while writing a sibling post, I now think that it's very probable to depend on a country. I think people from (to give an example I'm familiar with) most Warsaw Pact countries may be able to tolerate doing this much better than people in countries accustomed to high-quality products and services.

Or it may be just a kind of bubble I live in or something, I'm not entirely sure :)
It's only "problematic" to those who suscribe to the idea that male sexuality is evil.
I also like how if you remove most of the passes you end up with virtua fighter
Doesn't solve usability, but it solves the slow transaction speeds.
This is mostly an online phenomenon, because you only read content from people who are up in arms about it. The milder views manifest themselves as silence, which is hard to measure.

The social justice warriors aren't "running around". They're flagellating each other in mostly self-selecting circles. People who complain about social justice warriors as though they were commonplace are doing the same.

Most of the less extreme views on this lead to good places - the are deficits in hiring certain classes of people that are worth fixing for the sake of both economics and decency. There are some pretty rampantly abusive environments born when you give a 20something millions of dollars and a building.

I met probably a dozen people (coworkers, acquaintances, etc) in my years there that took this to an unhealthy, draconian extreme. But they're the overwhelming minority. And some of them got rightfully fired for their antics.

If you can avoid being lazily bigoted and sexually offensive, you'll do just fine. The standards of conduct are very reasonable.
MoviePass is changing the value of the movie theater experience
> No they can't, despite mozilla removing the option to prevent this, I have an extension preventing website to run code in my browser without my permission. it happens to be one of the most popular firefox extension: noscript. (also umatrix and request policy).

You've conflated third party javascript with javascript in general. You can turn off javascript entirely, but unless you do so, that website is generally able to ship javascript to you as included scripts from the same domain or in a script section or inline with attribute handlers.

> No the browsers do not download changed version of themselves, they do not have the administrative permissions required to install programs on my box. I get my update from the official distro repository on my terms.

Yes, they very often do. Currently, they generally ask if you want to restart using the new version and give you that choice, but they are often downloading newer versions of themselves ahead of time to speed up this process.

Whether they have permissions depends entirely how you installed the application. If it wasn't installed globally, user permissions are all that is needed.

> I do not download and run programs, they come from the distro repository. This is a matter of trusting the package maintainers but up until now this has served many people well.

Good! I hope you've also never ever piped wget output to a shell for some application's quick installer. I also hope you've never installed any programming language module through that language's package manager and not your distro's package system, because those are notoriously bad at making sure there's not holes through which bad stuff can happen either.

Regardless, it's possible that the package you downloaded, no matter the source, can do something other than stated.

> It seems you guessed wrong and it does not work the same for everybody, some of us have chosen to take the extra step required for this kind of misadventure to be unlikely.

Actually, I don't think I guessed wrong because I wasn't guessing anything, and I never said it works the same for everybody. I believe, since I was careful to qualify my statements, that each is easily proven correct, and I've done so.
Come on! their business model has been exactly that since they created the corporation to stop illegally collect money from google.

The whole partnership with google to put its search engine as default is about enabling google to profile firefox users and shows them ads.
Why you need the flu shot every year
I cant help but feel mozilla bought pocket because they wanted to justify the included adware nature of it as a first and foremost priority, after all the supposed logic of including it was all about reducing costs for mozilla..
Would someone close to this project be able to explain why the node operator wouldn't have direct access to user's keys in the event of an SGX exploit? The whitepaper only briefly delves into transaction privacy protections, but not key management.
Manchester City’s plan for global domination
Back when I was in games we still called them billboards or more commonly just LODs.
Mozilla Slipped a ‘Mr. Robot’-Promo Plugin into Firefox and Users Are Pissed
Here’s the letter alleging Uber spied on individuals for competitive intel
> applying to a job 100% 'cold' as an outsider.

I really wish that weren't such a problem.

It's difficult for many of us to get a foot in the door, and that is exasperated by the one-size-fits-all solutions that everyone seems to point to, that really aren't the best fit for many of us.
Check out Knuth's book "Surreal Numbers: How two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness". It's a book about discovering new mathematics, in this case Conway's Surreal Numbers.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/sn.html
Mozilla foundation (the non profit) set up Mozilla Corporation (the for profit raking in hundreds of millions of dollars) when the IRS investigated the foundation about tax fraud.
You are complaining about receiving free money, but not caring about it until the price went up recently. How is this even remotely Stellar's issue?
I wonder if the studies that do find weak correlations (but are rarely replicated) also ask the participants about air travel, where one is exposed to ionizing radiation (both from the higher altitudes and backstar x-ray, etc..) I.e., frequent air-travelers could be more frequent cell phone users.
Yikes, please don't do personal attacks here regardless of how wrong, or provocative, someone else was. That's the downward spiral we all need the strength to pull out of.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
20 minutes sound like a dream, I don't know why it's so slow for me. Maybe because I'm using Nix to build it and the source is on an SSD. I can't use tmpfs because it doesn't fit in memory without adding swap.
I'm not surprised he's raised millions. (1) One of the best/easiest/most guaranteed places to make money is by investing in money/stocks/etc. ("You have to have money to make money") And (2) Actually, startup funders have a surprising amount of cash and they'll throw it on any horse that looks to win the race. From a civilian and from a startuper's perspective, gaining startup funding is like winning the lottery but from the other side of the table, really, it's just another investment, and they are looking to secure a healthy profit.

IMO I feel that the crypotcurrency market reached its saturation point a long time ago and that while technological advances are nice and new competitors are always healthy, the winners of this game have been determined a long time ago and will remain so as there continue to be new cryptocurrencies to the point of super-saturation.
I think this is just a game advertisment.
The difference between investing now and staying in now is a single transaction fee.
Why can't you get rich building it?

I doubt one would get rich as Bitcoin creators, but one could still make a killing ....

Edit: And this stands to reason. We're relatively later in the game, and so new contributions are less fundamental by definition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14594172
Before Facebook existed, if I didn't see someone for a year, I could pretty much guarantee I wouldn't see them again (barring odd coincidences).

These days I can arrange to hook up with an old colleague through Facebook because of Facebook and via Facebook and know exactly where s/he is in terms of work/relationships/kids, without the social pressure to spout the traditional cliches.
You're confusing mozilla foundation and mozilla corporation here. The default search with google and yahoo is not donations for the foundation but a commercial contract with the corporation.

I'm not sure mozilla even gets a significant amount of donations compared to their commercial contracts.
Great to see more cryptocurrency adopting Stellar's Consensus Protocol. Decentralisation and scalability without the environmental impact of proof of work.
I use KeePass and KeePass Touch because I'm not paying some service to store my password for me.
Unless I'm missing something that's not true at all. Who are you talking about?

We ban accounts when they break the site rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We don't ban people for ideological reasons. That has the ironic effect of leading most partisans to see us as secretly aligned with the opposite ideology, but what can you do.
Note: transaction speed is a component of usability
I use pass(1) personally. It's just a shell wrapper for vim and gpg.

But I'd recommend keepass if you want something graphical.
Norway switching of FM is one of the most stupid political decisions made in the country in decades. And for God's sake, let's not let politicians make technology decisions ever again.
This is called the Cliff effect btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_effect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935873
Don't write one. I quit using them after in interview where the HR didn't bother to provide it to the interviewer who complained about how sparse my resume was. It was on purpose because the letter had much more background content. I've also never received a cover letter for candidates I've interviewed.

You have zero control over the distribution of two separate documents. ATS systems are geared toward something they can run keyword matches on and the extra fluff of a cover letter gets cast aside if they are even supported at all. Just work the meat of the cover letter into your resume and let that stand on its own.

Of course, outside of tech, where soft skills may need to be displayed a cover letter has more merit.
Show HN: Main-memory key-value store with MVTO protocol
I would have preferred AOL not have the ability to even read it, let alone store it.
>>You are complaining about receiving free money

Aside from the fact that this is a terrible line of argumentation ("Person A gave you $100 and then Person B later stole it out of your house, what's your problem with that?"), that is not the point of my comment at all. I suggest you read a bit more specifically in regards to service, transactional security, and the fact that the coin is federated and not decentralized.
It's the general direction of the software industry to neglect non-functional requirements.

I make functional requirement emphasizers starting by product managers directly responsible for this.

Their fantasy is to be the next Steve Jobs' era Apple but usually they first become the next Equifax.
Big companies could be hurt by unwise AI implementation
I feel like I just read an article by a scientist working for Philip Morris.

> They found that stressed students were twice as likely to choose Facebook to make themselves feel better as compared with students who hadn’t been put under stress.

I need a dopamine hit. Where can I get a dopamine hit? Facebooooooook!

> we recently pledged $1 million toward research to better understand the relationship between media technologies, youth development and well-being.

$1M? Seriously? They'll spend that much on the bandwidth to Milwaukee. Today. Just salary + benefits for these two people is probably close to $1M.

> We recently released suicide prevention support on Facebook Live and introduced artificial intelligence to detect suicidal posts

Dead users don't click.

> Facebook has always been about bringing people together

Um, no. The foundations of Facebook are "Wow, we can get rich shaming and and objectifying people? For the cost of bandwidth? I'm in!"

> We employ social psychologists, social scientists and sociologists, and we collaborate with top scholars to better understand well-being and work to make Facebook a place that contributes in a positive way.

And tobacco employs microbiologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, I'll bet they even employ some physicians (pulmonologists?). Oil employs organic chemists, geologists, physicists, and scads of engineers. Who you employ tells us what kind of work you do, not why you do it.

Also, that video of a white guy with a beard? That's not David Ginsberg. I can't imagine why they would pick a splash image of an old white guy with a beard in front of a wall of books though... Oh, no, I can: they're psychologists. They know how to borrow symbols to manipulate your impression of the situation.
Feds Rush to Cash in on Seized Bitcoin Cache Before the Bubble Bursts
Why do you say that ?
Poor darlings.
> The meaning of a program is its behavior, period. If reality doesn't agree with your views, it's your fault, not reality's.

That's not the usual meaning of, well, meaning.

> Standard ML doesn't give you any way to get the memory address of a particular value, so values that are semantically identical are actually indistinguishable in practice.

Just tried it to be sure:

fun address i = Unsafe.cast(ref i) : Int32.int ;;
val a = 4 :: nil ;;
val b = 4 :: nil ;;
address (a) ;;
address (b) ;;
address (a) ;;

And yep, a and b are semantically identical values but distinguishable in practice:

val address = fn : 'a -> Int32.int
val a = [4] : int list
val b = [4] : int list
val it = ~175003712 : Int32.int
val it = ~174998232 : Int32.int
val it = ~175003712 : Int32.int
Sketch, Figma, and Adobe XD are modern tools for web user interaction design. And Smashing's website is a good place to start:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/

I also love Google's Design site. Thinking about a single design language. That can be transmuted across Chrome, Android, VR and AR. Is a really powerful way to think about interfaces that can be used by billions of users. Good Luck :)

Designing SPAN 2017: An inside look at how we design and evolve the branding of our annual design and technology conference.By Google Design

https://design.google/library/designing-span-2017/
I worked at BBN Technologies in the early 2000's. I was always amazed at how a company that essentially co-founded the internet and had the second domain name ever registered[1] could basically go out of business.

You just made me think that Bitcoin could definitely be the ARPANET of blockchains and Core devs could be BBN. Don't get me wrong, I worked with some extremely smart people, but in the end, Raytheon bought the whole company.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_r...
That's possible, but the commenter above you isn't talking about that. He is talking about the fact that it is yet to launch and solve all of the problems it purports to.
The original DAB codec had more error protection for the more important parts of the audio data (unequal error protection), so while not the same it would give a more gradual reduction in quality instead of a sharp drop-off. DAB+ doesn't do this though.
We have several “modern problems” that make completely-free speech potentially naïve.

One, the sheer magnitude of easily accessible information is far greater than it has ever been, and this quantity not only overwhelms us in terms of how many headlines we will read but also how deeply we are willing to read. At some point, we are mostly reduced to headline-skimmers that trust far too much about the first few sentences of whatever is posted, and we place great trust in “something” to help us filter it out (and so far there aren’t a lot of great ways to determine what makes an online source valuable).

It is also incredibly easy for people to set up their own online echo chambers now, which means that people can saturate their input with whatever they want to hear and leave it at that. People have shown that they’re clearly not responsible enough to intentionally diversify what they take in, which almost ensures a very skewed perception of reality, especially when combined with massive quantity and low quality.

And, perhaps controversially, I believe that people are not being educated very well at all to recognize and adapt to these problems. (It’s learning about critical thinking, statistical significance of sample sizes, etc.) Indeed, young people are able to easily access online material from almost anywhere with no friction but all of the echo chamber.
The fundamental question regarding the article is: Can these scientists afford to be honest? Can you do research that shows spending time on FB is bad for people and be allowed to publish this information?

On a superficial level, they seem to be honest. They start with the bad news, admitting that using FB the way many (most?) do makes them feel bad. But they counteract it immediately saying if you interact with others, you'll feel more happy.

You can overlook one critical difference. What FB makes you feel and whether FB is good for you are two different issues that may or may not be related. You may feel negative emotions when going to a doctor but it's still good for you. You can engage in endless chat online, but is it good for you? It's much harder to answer.
I apologize for the tone of my comment, but still think that ML is not supposed to be written like that.
+ Magnesium, Zinc, Calcium, Copper, etc all in bioavailable compounds? You got yourself a very expensive meal sir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioavailability
>This in no way represents the average in the UK in fact the UK is almost 90% white - so what message is the BBC trying to send?

"Hey brown people. You're not being completely ignored by our society. When we have to make decisions based on arbitrary characteristics like race, we prefer to occasional choose people you might be able to relate to on the bases of colour, rather than trying to appeal to some obviously incorrect notion that we should only relate to 'the average UK citizen' (which doesn't exist)."

Or maybe those actors just worked best? Or maybe they drew straws. Either way, there's no reason to believe that the skin colour of the actors on your screen is some kind of manipulation/propaganda against you. That's an irrational leap.

>Am I one of the bad guys to recognise the colour of the skin?

No. You're one of the bad guys for failing to recognize that the colour of the skin is an arbitrary choice and thus not relevant. The only thing about a person you should consider relevant is their ability to make good decisions.

The BBC will not occupy any moral high ground by using only white actors. (Which is what you're saying they should do, on account of some frankly stupid appeal to 'averages.' The 'average' UK citizen is riddled with disease and missing most of their limbs. So maybe don't try to tacitly substitute 'average' for 'ideal/typical/most common'. And why does the BBC has any obligation to represent any of these anyway?)

Maybe that's a harsh-seeming way of putting it, but that's the logical alternative you imply by using crappy metrics.
I wouldn't hold your breath.
Since we've asked you repeatedly not to take HN threads into ideological flamewar, and you're still doing it, I've banned this account. We also ban accounts that use HN primarily for political battle, which you have. Given that your profile references "things geospatial" and not "liberal fascism" I'm sorta sad about that, but a fireman must do his job.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's nothing new here. The same thing happened in the civil rights era; if you didn't like black people, you were expected to keep it to yourself at work.
What to expect in your first tech job