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> but also because people aren’t dying of other things as much.

Historical life expectancies were usually not that bad. The shortness of pre-modern life is generally grossly exaggerated, with the raw numbers being dragged down by things like infant mortality.

See, for example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/

> Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today, and the incidence of degenerative disease was 10% of ours.

In times of great calamities like massive, prolonged wars and plagues - which some societies are more susceptible to than others [1] - things certainly turned grim, but by-and-large things weren't so bad. One way you can get a picture of this yourself is by looking at your genealogical history, which effectively lets you calculate "life expectancy from teens/early 20s", since all your ancestors were old enough to have kids. It's a somewhat selective picture, but if you fill out enough branches to the early 1700s, you can get a probably reasonable sample.

[1] And actually, Victorian England was particularly unsanitary and subject to disease - it really says something that even a plague-ridden society of people who ate arsenic and mercury still lived just as long or longer than us.
Someone correct me, but aren't apps that are predominantly webview based rejected as well?

eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43177596/ios-app-rejecte...
Really depends on your contract + country. There is no "default contract" in the EU as another commentator says[1].

You need to read your contract. They're generally fairly readable. You're looking for clauses about working for other companies and intellectual property. As the pdf I linked shows, in some countries some of these clauses end up being unenforceable, they're simply there to scare/intimidate/restrict you.

In a few of the places I worked there were prohibitions in my contract against owning or working for another company without an ok from the board/CEO/something like that. It sounds scary and unobtainable, it's definitely not.

At the first company, my friend was running a side business and asked and it was ok. At another business I already had a company when I was offered the job, I asked to keep the company as it generated a little cash each month, I was given the ok.

Generally speaking though, you're not going to have any problems. Just don't do anything using their equipment and watch out for poaching clauses in contracts if you hire people from work, they're much more likely to enforce them. The contracts I've had that actually had them were generally a year or 18 months though.

[1] Here is an example of non-compete enforcability which lists every EU company's different laws, as you can see, they're all different:

https://www.fcblegal.com/xms/files/Meritas_Guide_to_Employee...
On the other hand one might argue that they also create the illusion of how fantastic and exciting everyone else's life is - an artificial and often unrealistic image that's broadcasted and probably not helping lonely people at all.
as a way to raise money and support for the development of our digital nation from more people around the world

But ultimately denominated in Euros, right? Otherwise this is just "yet another crypto currency".

I'm pretty sure the country wouldn't be allowed otherwise, to set up a parallel economy with its own exchequer besides the ECB?
I aim for a hard maximum of 12 pomodoros, or however many fewer than that it takes me to complete what I have planned for the day. If I hit 12, I move the remaining tasks to a different day.

Six hours of good focused work is about all I can manage in a day.

I do most of the pomodoros in the morning between 8 and 12:30, when I take an hour break. The afternoon is usually just finishing things off or preparing for the next day.
And also ethics is subjective, a matter of one's taste. It wouldn't make sense to equate law and ethics just like that.
Image of form for sending a UK telegram: http://www.images.stamp-collectors-network.net/large_images/... -- no boxes. Running words together will only work in a foreign language, the clerk would notice if you tried it in English and charge you for the number of words actually used.
OP isn't saying that estcoins won't have any valid use cases and therefore are a bad idea - they even say that estcoin could be used in a UBI experiment.

OP argues that Estonia is a member of the EU, and is therefore bound to use the Euro and only the Euro as its national currency. It seems a bit sneaky and underhanded then to launch this cryptoCURRENCY as a "token" rather than a currency.

As someone mentioned further down, estonia probably won't make estcoin a legal tender (can't be forced to accept estcoin to settle all debts in court or pay taxes), avoiding the issue of competing directly with the euro while still allowing the government to play with this new tech.
So what you're saying is someone needs to invent a cryptocurrency where the proof of work is measured by the number of spherical grains of sand you coarsen?
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Updates are under public view, and users can trust that this process is hard to infiltrate. Silent addon-installations in the background, which appearently can be even pinpointed to specific usergroups, are not. Mozilla can anytime do anything on your system, without anyone watching them, and people just learned the hard way about it.
We use multiple things.

* We do code reviews and inline/trello todos. If we're on a tight schedule, this helps us remember why and what needs to be reworked.

* When adding new features we use regular development cycle (spec, design, review, develop, test, finish), but we also add one more process before finishing that is focused on improving todos from previous cycle. The reasoning is that after todos have been sitting there for a while, you might look at them a bit differently and while something wasn't as obvious back then it might become now. Refactoring matters a lot to us. We don't overdo it however and dedicate 1-3 days to it from the cycle.

* If any major/breaking version of react/django/drf comes out, we pause and update the tech stack. Run tests and fix any issues.

* If any major bug that hinders the users experience occurs we allocate resources in parallel with the current dev cycle.

* Update the documentation early and often.

* Write tests. Tests force you to kill the debt before it happens. We have much better unit test coverage than integration test coverage for our front-end.
> There are panels with much greater efficiency/density

Not by a huge amount. You could get 3x that with just about the best solar panel, but they didn't appear to factor in the losses from having the panels facing up-ish and not toward the sun, so you also lose another big chunk of power.

> If it doesn’t make sense today it will in the future.

Doubt it. Solar panels can only be so efficient.

> If a company could move their trucks for “free” for 5 hours/day they would.

Sure, but we're looking at more like fifteen minutes.

Put the solar panels on the ground. They'll give you more "free" range, with less effort.
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A bit like Anthem in Dirk Gently.
I don't know, it doesn't seem like in the quote.
You're still talking today. By the time electric takes over, there is a good chance self driving will be here also.

That's when this becomes possible: Your car will drop you off, go get charged, and come back if you want it to, or just park off-site and pick you up in the morning.

But now think about zip cars and Uber/Lyft. The price of point to point transit will fall from human wage level to robot wage level.

Imagine those services at a fraction of the cost. And more rides would be available also without the need for paid drivers. They'd also deliver mail and food.

Of course... all this was also omitted by the article. But this does appear to be the consensus regarding where this is all headed.
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Junk food isn't bad once in a while.

But if you eat junk food all the time, it's pretty obvious that one of the immediate consequences of eating junk food every day is the general decline of your health.

So it goes for social media. Social networks are the junk food of socializing. And don't get me started on what that does to someone's sense of self, well-being, norms, ethics, morality etc.

Maybe this picture will be illuminating to you[1]. It succinctly summarizes what I'm trying to say.

I should probably mention the image might be NSFW.

[1] http://artfucksme.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/controversi...
> once people realize how dangerous is a car you can't hear coming

Modern cars are already very quiet at low speeds, what you're actually hearing at higher speeds is tire noise and (to a lesser degree) wind noise.

Several solutions present themselves. Firstly, people should learn to use their eyes, dammit. Secondly, a lot of electric cars have subtle noisemakers when driving at low speeds.
In Germany (and elsewhere) the electric utility companies are working on converting street lanterns into car charging stations. This will enable people to charge their cars when parking near their homes.

Another solution (for some) would be to have a charging port in your parking lot at work.
It is pretty frustrating that moz://a is better at entrenching Chrome than Google.
1kw to maintain 5kmph perhaps. To maintain 100-120kmph a car needs around 20kw. The first gen EVs like Renault Zoe have a ~24kwH battery and a real world range of ~100km.
I do not think anyone is practicing sexless-ness at all. While the law says that they should treat both women and men equally, people still perceive women as women and men as men. That in turn carries with a huge number of cultural expectations and values.

Race has a similar problem, through here it seems to be a proxy for social economical status (class), which then leads to the cultural expectations and values.

In both cases it seems very conscious behavior, and when it comes to diversity work its explicitly so. Few are still preaching that you should not see gender or race, and those that do are generally attacked for doing so. Gender roles are emphasized and highlighted in practically all form of news and cultural media, occasionally reversed for the shock or comedy effect. Its very explicit and conscious.
This sounds like a distinction that you personally have made, that the wider community probably won't agree on.
I managed to loose ~53 BTC too. I'm pretty sure a large percentage of bitcoin is gone forever.

https://www.google.no/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/11/25...
New countries joining the EU are obliged to adopt the euro once they meet the economic requirements. Only some of the pre-euro members have negotiated an opt-out.

Also note that the article doesn’t claim the euro as essential feature for every country’s EU membership, it just says it’s essential for Estonia.
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"By making our numbers 'more complicated', the methods we use to work with those numbers may become more simple."
Why would they shot themselves in the foot? It doesn't make them more dominant and thinking that technology makes developers more competent is a legend. IMHO fake.
That's why many/most EVs have loudspeakers which make "electric car noises" below 20-30kmph. Above that the tire noise becomes dominant and there is no noise level difference between EV and ICE.
Another option could be they'll blanket ban only xamarin.forms apps and allow older xamarin.ios in a case by case basis.

I think that's fair. Xamarin.Forms is mostly for internal corporate apps which I'm sure you can still deploy within your organization yourself.
Fake unless confirmed by Apple.
Do car makers get involved in that?
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> What I will say is that "bank bailouts with taxpayer money" are not fraud, even if the banks themselves were complicit in fraudulent activity, because the bailouts were a practical matter of economic preservation. The government itself did not defraud the American people in this example

I see where you come from but there are two things you should consider:

1. Intention is really hard to prove. Just as much as you say that there was no intention I can say there was because there can be no proof and the government can (and most probably will) do everything in its power to eliminate the slightest evidence of intention, regardless of intention or not.

2. But more importantly, intention doesn't matter. If a trillion goes missing, it doesn't matter whether it was fraud or lack of oversight, the end result is the same and if the government were your employee, you'd just fire them for incompetence (again, regardless of intention).

In that sense I used fraud and I honestly wasn't aware that it might sound (and even be) hyperbolic.

The above lines should explain better the examples:

- Inflation (induced by printing money): You cannot seriously just increase a number in a computer somewhere or print a few notes and expect the economy or living standard to suddenly improve. Otherwise we could just all stop working and live of printed money.

- Underfunded pension funds: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-14/fees-rise... The problem here is not being underfunded but that promises are made to future retirees while it's obvious that these promises cant be kept. There are more examples, just google for some combination of "pension fund shortfall underfunded". Note this problem is the same in Europe.
> This is one more anti-privacy move from Mozilla in a series of such moves.

It definitely sucks, but I don't see how it was anti-privacy at all. The extension didn't transmit data anywhere, it just modified web pages.
Is Facebook not working on Firefox 57.0?
It works on chrome, but on firefox the feed doesn't respond, it looks like is loading but it's not.
Same happens when pressing profile tab -> nothing changes.

Is it me? Does anyone experience the same thing?
I never bothered to use Guava in production code.

The type of customers I work with don't waste any second thinking about Oracle, WebSphere, Enterprise Architect or Visual Studio Ultimate licenses. They are a tiny water drop in the ocean of overall project budgets.

Outside the HN bubble, Windows servers are doing pretty well.

Containers are the new buzzword.

I could also say that Linux containers are junk, because they have quite a bit to learn from proprietary UNIXes experience and what IBM and Unisys mainframes are capable of.
So they took feedback, made logical changes to their plan based on that feedback... and we should fault them for this?
Long story short, you're using git because it makes you feel smart. Ironically, you even admit it - "therefore have no logical reason to go through the pain of really learning git". Correct, there is no logical reason to deal with a contorted DVCS when there are better alternatives. Your arguments are fully subjective.
All the "bad stuff" is also in the skin if it's not organic.
At the bottom it has a list of websites with the title: "Who ever made these websites with the lists of People, you made a pretty bad job!"

What is the story behind this comment?
I agree, it's more I hate x gem, or the community as a whole. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157886
The same technique is still used by stenotypists.

Some years ago, I read a newspaper story about a blind stenotypist who records the proceedings at the Saxonian parliament. He said that he uses a set of a few thousand abbreviations specifically designed for parliament speeches. Then someone takes his papertrail and expands the abbreviations into the actual proceedings.
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My first thought was the email was not written by someone with English as a first language, so I'd assume it was fake.
Hi Hacker News Community!

Here's our project's explanation:

PROBLEM
I have a lot of friends living in different locations. Once-in-a-while I want to meet up with them. I don't really care WHERE to meet but THAT we meet. I was missing a page which quickly analyses different flights and recommends places to meet with my friends.

WHAT WE DO
So we built this very first version of a platform which recommends places to meet based on your starting locations. We already gathered quite some interesting results where it is up to 60% cheaper for 2 people to fly to a 3rd location rather than 1 travelling to the other. Concretely, we had one traveler from Madrid and 1 from Barcelona which could save 56% of the total flight costs if both are meeting in Ibiza rather than one traveling to the other!

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
We believe that in our "online" world, the in-person meetings will become more and more important and we just tried to build a tool which facilitates the process.

SOURCE OF DATA
We are using live data through the API from www.skyscanner.com. Thus, the prices you see are real prices.

BUGS
It might be buggy (especially on Firefox) but we believe that it already gives a value to groups of friends based in different locations.

HELP NEEDED!
We would love to get your comments on functionalities which you would like to see in a platform like this.

Thanks for your support and feedback!
Dennis
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Just jumping on here to give my own feedback.

This is brilliantly implemented so hats off for that. It's something I always had on my backlog of personal projects but never got round to doing, but you've managed it far better than I could ever have hoped to.

One thing that would noticeably improve the experience for me: Being able to sort a given series of works by opus/[equivalent catalogue number] or date. It seems at the moment the only sorting method is alphabetical, which is often not particularly helpful (for example, as someone else noted, when 10 appears before 1).
> All that said, I think issuing some sort of government-backed currency might be one way of experimenting with implementing a universal basic income, in order to combat poverty among your citizens. But I don't see that discussed in the article.

It's funny, because we already have a "government-backed currency" but we prefer to bail-out the banks instead of bailing-out individual in distress... I mean: it's not a problem of technology, it's the lack of political will. Crypto-currencies are not different from any other type of currency in this respect. I don't see why they are better fitted to implement a Universal Basic Income. I perhaps see reasons why they are worse than actual money (technological divide, lack of acceptance in shops, difficult to understand).
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By making our programming languages more complex, we make our programs easier.

By pushing the common complexity into a shared location, problems become easier to solve. Complex numbers really do factor out a lot of the complexity from many problems, at comparatively little cost.

When people say they don't "get" complex numbers, usually they mean they've seen them mentioned, but have never actually done anything with them.

It's like staying that you've read a book on lisp and don't get it. Using these things is an essential part of coming to understand them.
Personally I wouldn't be that pessimistic about data anonymization. It's entirely possible to robustly anonymize low-dimensional data sets and restrict the information gain of an attacker to a given value even when he/she has information about all non-sensitive attributes in the data set. When using e.g. k-anonymity (with additional l-diversity or better and t-closeness criteria) the resulting data is very robust against attacks, given you correctly specify your sensitive attributes. Of course there are more things to keep in mind, e.g. when repeatedly anonymizing different versions of the same data set (as this can cause data leakage).
What's wrong with the English?
My guess is that it's most likely just a kid somewhere who had some fun.

Considering the kill switch the person behind this clearly didn't have much experience, so I find it very very hard to belive that some other state than the US was involved in this.
Idea phase, not implementation.

There are three separate ideas for what estcoin could become.
Twitter and LinkedIn do this too. And the kicker is: they know it's not actually important, or they would include it in the body of the email!
Just because they were able to sell it this time doesn't mean it was a good decision.

If in Russian roulette you have a chance of 1 in 6 to win 1 million and 5 in 6 to die, winning the million doesn't mean you made a good decision.

What happens if they cannot sell it? They lose lots of money, equivalent to food and shelter for millions of the poor or maybe ten thousands of chemo-therapies. Government is not good with investment.
And as I've stated at those speeds tire noise is dominating the overal sound for most cars already.
> It seemed like a fair apology written by a non-tech person who may not understand the situation 100% and was given some bullets to write about.

In the context of the last big "good guys" entity in a sector where technical understanding is key, this might make it even worse. User trust is the single thing the browser ecosystem boils down to.

I don't think you're accurate in identifying hate as the catalyst for this issue -- I'd go with concern. And seeing one's concerns handled with such thoughtlessness does foster negativity.

We care because we know FF is the best mainstream pick when it comes to privacy and user rights, and seeing Mozilla go down that route reminds us that we're very easily screwed.
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Could there be an onsite version of this just for the use of setting up dev/test/staging databases?

I realize that its not the intend use, but this would solve a very real pain most technology companies have.
AWS EC2 P2 instance is the one used in the fast.ai course and it seems like quite a good choice for these things.
Not confusing. It is so much easier to make electric vehicles self-driving compared to the ICE vehicles. It may be economically feasible to do so in not so distant future. Real estate, including parking spaces is expensive. There was a good Freakonomics episode about that few years ago [1].

Main barriers to self-driving will soon be juridical, not technological. This is not just random internet rambling. I'm an engineer and have been working on commercial autonomous vehicle subsystems for a while. I can with full confidence say that the technology is already there.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/parking-is-hell-a-new-freako...
I would prefer to pursue Python further for data scraping/analysis or bot development related things, PHP for Web apps and Go just for heck of it :>
I wanted to add my two cents regarding the algorithms selling us things we don't need. In my opinion, it in large part contributes to the global poverty and income inequality with the help of social pressure that haves put on have-nots who in turn try to catch-up any way possible, further adding pressure on themselves to be "successful".
> Imagine people doing gas-punk cosplay in a couple of decades.

Like some of those "Mad Max" movies?
The clinical studies needed to support receiving approval to market the old drug for a new indication, as well as whatever lifecycle management and post-marketing surveillance activities (Phase IV) that are required. The alternate indications may be well-known but marketing for an off label indication is not permitted (as in, they actually jail CEOs and executives for that).