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The site is trying way too hard. So is the guy posting in comments here on HN. It just screams insecurity.

If you really have a great solution, and maybe you do, you want other people saying the over the top things about you. You should not be the one doing that.

I like the name, but you need to ditch the addiction language, the Neuroscience references etc. Come way down to something along the lines of "Feeling jerked around by social media apps? Get some Space. Our app gives you a moment of Zen to take a deep breath and decide whether or not you really want to check FB again."

Don't mention Dopamine Labs up front and what it does. That information should be available, but not emphasized.

If you wrote the copy "yourself" (in house), hire someone to rewrite it. Also, get someone to coach you a bit about basic PR. Your HN comments are less than stellar.
> A disproportionate number of the apples in the grocery store have MacIntosh in their ancestry

Interesting! I love Macintosh apples having grown up on them from my mother who is from Vermont (She makes a mean Apple Pie with only those). Sadly, I can never seem to find them here in the Bay Area. My mother makes a large order shipped from Vermont every Fall.

All that to say, I'm surprised the apples that taste pretty poor to me are closely related to Macintosh.
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> Mostly did it to ensure limited liability

Did you consult with a lawyer? I've heard that "limited liability" doesn't really apply to one-person operations, it's intended to protect liability between multiple participants - though that may depend on the state.
And, my own metric, of how many 56k modems do you need to get the same amount of data (@~14GB/month download rate).

AKA, most cell phone plans this year, can't even download as much in a month as my 56k modem could in the late 1990's.

In the end, the big scam here is that if anything netflix/etc traffic is probably less expensive per packet than most other services because netflix is more than happy to scatter their little caching boxes everywhere, so the ISP's backhaul/peering arrangement has less traffic...
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Unless your customers need you to incorporate, the idea is to incorporate when you start seeing potential liability. One of the earliest sources of potential liability, is when you hire a W2 employee (in the US). So that is a great time to incorporate i.e. before hiring your first W2 employee. And if you don't intend to raise money, issue stock, or setup international offices any soon, then LLC is a far simpler, cheaper (taxation at exit) structure to setup.
He's 86. Fifty years ago in 1958, when he was a young 26, prudent retirement planning was getting a good stable job with a pension. Forth years ago in 1968, when he was 36, prudent retirement planning was holding a stable job with a pension. 1978, he was 46 and prudence was still a pension. Even thirty years ago in 1988, it was the same for someone at 56. Now twenty years ago, when he was 66, new employees were typically being put in 401k plans rather than pensions, but in 1998 he was 66 and retirement age.

The world changed in ways that were not consistent with conventional retirement wisdom. Or to put it another way, people looked at the piles of money sitting in pensions and figured out a way to get their hands on it because that was their full time job. For what it's worth, there are people who spend all day everyday thinking about your retirement savings becoming their money because skating to where the conventional retirement wisdom for retirement is going is still a job people have.

For what it's worth, a lot of people who had retirement savings saw that money shrink by 40-60% in 2008-2009. There's no coming back from that even with ten years of 7% net growth, you're still behind inflation without drawing any of the capital and profits...and you're not going to get ten years of 7% net growth without extraordinary good luck.
Good question. I guess it's because it's more feasible and because I can't really hurt others here. The worst I can do is manipulate combinations of 1s and 0s to hack their accounts if their services' security isn't up to snuff or something.

If someone hacked my bank, I'd blame the bank more than the hackers; if someone broke into my home and robbed or hurt me, I'd be harsher on them than on my door manufacturer! (Perhaps not even because it's easier to secure my door than it is an electronic banking system but because I'd be more hurt...)
That is so cool! Love that idea...help parents to parent by teaching kids how to use things in moderation
yes, I was talking about hardware tagging, else you can’t protect capabilities solely in user space. Intel had tagged memory in the 90’s era i960 as well and, as I edited my comment to mention (thanks to your comment!) several others including most recently RISC-V).

IMHO the 432 had other structural problems and it wasn’t the tagging that killed it but it had enough problems that this is definitely not worth disagreeing about — perhaps that was indeed the straw that broke that camel’s back.
Twenty years ago, Sun had special RAM in their Elite3D cards to do write-only alpha blending and z-buffering (saturated updates), instead of the much slower read-modify-write: one PCI write instead of one read + CPU computation + one write. That might have been UPA or even Sbus instead of PCI, but you get the idea. ATI and E&S later used it, too.

http://www.michaelfrankdeering.com/Projects/HardWare/p3DRAM/...

This looks like a variant of the Sun/Mitsubishi work, after a quick skim.
Probably because there's still plenty of virgin rainforest to clear for new banana fields.
How much time have you spent reading what Chinese people have to say?

The American version of freedom of thought and expression doesn't seem to have any problem producing never ending wars, a surveillance state of their own, a dysfunctional culture that produces mindless consumption and celeb worship, a Wall Street and Silicon Valley that openly tells govt - yes what we do has negative uncorrectable effects at population scales, but we are too big to fail so fuck off. This form of freedom isn't scary to you?
Are you worried about parents, or governments?
Given that monkeys randomly throwing darts seem to do better than professionals, I'd say the odds are very good they'll do better than the lottery.

The ROI (Return On Investment) for lottery tickets is negative 53%.

https://www.theawl.com/2012/02/how-much-can-you-expect-as-a-...
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"a new app icon that will replace the app you'd like you use less (e.g. facebook). When you click on the new icon, it will load facebook..."

I had previously thought that iOS prevented an App from launching another App. IFTTT and Tasker both seem to have limitations because of this. Did Space have to create a novel work-around ?

[edit]Come to think of it, the URL Scheme of the "app to launch" would have to be published as part of the Space App in advance. Meaning that I can't use Space to block arbitrary Apps. Is my understanding correct ?

BTW, I think it is great the founder is replying to questions. Thank you.
See npm rebuild
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/rebuild
"The workers own the means of production." ;-)
You should incorporate when you make $1500 and/or when you need to start signing contracts. Why $1500? Stripe Atlas is $500 (comes with enough AWS credits to host your app for at least a year) and your increased accounting cost will be ~$1000 which is a high estimate.

Your company will start at break even, and you will be able to start a clean paper/bank/accounting trail for your profits and expenses.
There's a limit to the number of apps whose URL schemes you're allowed to register. I believe the current number for this is 50.
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I don't think it's available out of the box. They say it would require just 1% additional circuitry and describe doing experiments on a circuit simulator (quoting from memory, PDF isn't loading at the moment), which doesn't sound like something available already on commodity RAM, quite.
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This is great, I am already addicted.
It's almost like they banned the book 1984 over there and never lived in East Germany :P
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Claiming network operators must route unlawful traffic is a solid strategy for ensuring the death of net neutrality.
Similar question but for those who live in a place where legal liability is not a concern and are working solo. Is there any significant advantage to incorporate until you are "big" ? It's just a lot of paperwork & compliance headache IMO.
> the law ought to follow the same strict if-then-else logic of code

The law does do this.

There was a period during which this was so rigidly applied that the law forked into Common Law and Equity. The latter reintroduced fuzziness partly because of the increasingly absurd injustices of the Common Law at the time.

The law is filled with linguistic variables: "similar person similarly circumstance", "person having ordinary skill in the art", "buyer at arm's length without prior notice" and so on and so forth. These terms are all defined and understood, but they are not crisp, discrete concepts that can be safely reduced to a real number.

The law is a workable and incredibly reliable system, given the scale, scope, timeframes and consequences involved. Introducing something that flatters our own profession would not add net value.
Still someone breaking into your home will use a mask, and you will not be allowed to when buying things in a store.
Glad it helped. I think it's easy to lose switches of change time magnitude when we're mostly looking at silicon / software.

Biology, ecology, geology, and cosmology all work on their own timescales. :)
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There are almost guaranteed others that are just hard to find, though as others have pointed out some are harder to ship. Go find grocery stores that caters to (West) African or Asian cuisine, and you'll at the very least almost certainly find plaintain varieties and possibly others.

But other than that, I expect it has a lot to do with what people expect a good banana to look like. E.g. Cavendish bananas tends to get removed from the shelves when they start to go brown/black, while plaintains are often still popular and sold until they've gotten much darker and look overripe and too soft for those of us used to Cavendish, for example. And we expect a certain consistency, and to not have to worry about e.g. deseed a banana - both expectations that'd be violated by a huge portion of the available varieties.

Carrots are in a similar position - there are huge amounts of varieties of all kinds of shapes and colors, yet the "right" look of a carrot is so ingrained that the few other varieties usually on offer tends to be sold almost as novelties.
I think that's a far harder question! And as it has (in the West alone) at least a 2500 year intellectual history behind it that I'm only very shallowly familiar with I don't give my own thoughts much credence.

But FWIW I'd try a distinction between Art (particular local social institutions, in our case hosting oil paintings, galleries, openings, etc) and art (a superset -- all human activities spawned by the apparently perennial drive that gave rise to Art, Burrup peninsula & Lascaux rock paintings, etc).

The former is obviously culturally-historically defined; it's not so much that Art is anything that any bozo calls 'Art', but rather it's whatever the culture comes to institutionally admit as Art. Along with this comes related culturally-specific legitimating myths (heroic artists, obedient servants of the proletariat, God-drunk poets, shamanic intermediaries, etc).

The latter however seems to be an H. sapiens species characteristic. In this much wider sense, 'art' would be anything created in response to the basic drive. Sometimes Art stagnates, or gets too academic, or complex, or appeals only to a shrinking elite, or otherwise loses relevance and needs re-invigorating from the vernacular (ie. the wider category of small-a art).

Yes and no, in other words ;)
I also wonder, if in addition to looking at genetically modifying the banana to be resistant, what about modifying the fungus so that a strain is symbiotic with the banana and instead of killing it's host, it was able to keep going because the host isn't killed?

That's all very hand wavy, but I was thinking, might not another alternative be modifying the enemy (bacteria or virus) so that there is a selective weight to a more beneficial alternate bacteria?
Of course, any part of humans trying to manage the food supply, or nature in general, will have unintended downstream consequences, but I wonder if there are some other ways to approach the problem.

Also, of commercial bananas don't replicate via seeds, why do they have seeds at all?
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Well if they were selling "burst" speeds, then why are the bandwidth limits so low? My cable modem is locked at >600Mbits of bandwidth of which I get a tiny fraction, against a small subset of the channels available (totaling a few Gb/sec), and the node is split about two blocks away. The upstream numbers are even uglier.

Worse, the cable companies have had actual burst traffic shaping abilities for at least a decade. They could sell you 100Mbit, and run it at 600Mbit when the line was idle for a few seconds. That would make people pretty happy at long as they were getting the advertised minimum...

In fact if someone were to actually put real regulation down, I would expect that the plans were sold with a minimum guaranteed/sustained bandwidth (up and down, because I can't tell you how many advertisements I've seen that never mention the connection is asymmetric) and an "up to" burst metric.

It would be pretty simple, buy a (50/20 plan, that is up to 500/200 during off peak). What it would do though is guarantee that the company isn't selling 1000000x oversubscribed plans because they haven't upgraded the infrastructure in 20 years.
Work on organic channels and improve the product. Probably it’s not very good right now, it’s hard to do things without customer feedback. Probably paying for customers now will be expensive. Assuming it’s saas even good projects can be expensive to advertise due to long payback period.

Also ad channels get saturated easily in saas in my experience. Start today building your organic channels and get the compound growth started.
I was replying to 0x0's claim, not making a broad statement about npm's policies.

0x0 claimed the code uploaded as duplexer3 was "undesirable code" and implied that it was a "malicious actor". It was completely utterly benign.
I think that the technical term for these should be "squirrels".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSUXXzN26zg
and you better fork the git repo, otherwise the incident happening to npm can happen on github / whatever remote repo.
I'd rather they didn't in either case, although it is unfortunately difficult to acquire goods legitimately yet anonymously, so I lament that too. At the end of the day, Amazon knows a lot about me.

Another distinction I just thought of is that while I have the option of having online accounts to be hacked (or silly-named personas to talk with), I have no option of having a physical place in meatspace to inhabit of my own where I keep my stuff. I need one, and, if I can't get one, I have bigger problems than privacy. :c
Sure, one example that I'm familiar with is frequency entangled photons produced by parametric scattering of exciton-polaritons (it's scattering of quasiparticles in a quantum well which are strongly coupled to a photon field). Although, I actually can't recall if I've seen a convincing experimental demonstration of this.

I have seen a bunch of experimental results which demonstrated entanglement using integrated silicon waveguides, where there are two waveguides that overlap in an effective "beam splitter" section then separate again (this is analogous to how you can get entanglement from an Hong-Ou-Mandel setup, which is two (EDIT: identical photons) incident on a 50/50 beam splitter which produces so-called "path entangled" photons).

Here's a recent short review paper which goes over some additional semiconductor devices which can produce entangled photon pairs[1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08823
Sorry. But no, just buying the phone is not enough for Apple!

If somebody would buy a iPhone and then rarely/never use it, then they would never or only in very long cycles buy a new iPhone...people also talk less about things they rarely use and it would therefore hurt brand awareness...and if you believe that Apples singular motivation to exist is to make more profit then that’s not a good thing!

Armchair commenters like to focus on how making profit is a company’s singular purpose and motivation...the bigger the company (Apple, Google, etc) the more kitties they are willing to poison to do so...but that’s absurd!

Making a lot of money is the ‘outcome’ of providing something people want...and the companies who do this successfully are simply the ones that focus on metrics that measure how much use users get out of their products...it’s that simple...and I would imagine that anyone who ever worked at a successful company would be able to attest that.

I have never ever in my career sat in a team meeting in a successful company where somebody suggested doing something because it would make us more money...that kind of thinking is shortsighted...I can see how it could work temporarily but it’s not a way to build a mission driven company like the ones at hand!

I am all for being critical...but we need to stop being cynical about everything...that doesn’t lead to any place worth going!

Try this: At first assume good intent and then think about why a company build their product the way they did...and then do the same but assume bad intent. Always almost will you notice that if the company was truly ill intended they would have driven it way farther.
If the program's user-to-be is a customer instead of someone in the same company? Sure.

I would also gladly write a program used to calculate a way to kill the biggest number of terrorists in a missile strike, and that has much less potential to be illegal (thus monumentally costly, and thus wholly counterproductive ... but again that's the businesspeople's concern).

And your argument is dangerous, by ignoring the ultimate authority+responsibility of any company's leadership and investors.
Tax at some point is so burdensome as to be an effective ban. If a can of Coke is $250 then you're not really free to drink it.

It's been done with cigarettes.
Yes, but based on a market economy of capital.
One of the critical things about an addiction (maybe _the_ critical thing) is that you want to stop or cut-back, but you can't, and it's interfering with you life.
See this is the sort of comment that makes me feel like people get upset about economic inequality, rather than poverty, because poverty truly is not what they see as the problem.
I've studied law and computer science.

HTML, CSS and Javascript are not comparably complex.

In software engineering we can set scope and conceptual boundaries.

Law cannot. It is complex because the world is complex. Unless you have a mechanism for simplifying human nature, the law will continue to require specialists.
> I also don't think they control the temperatures of the mirrors but I am not sure about that.

I know they typically air-condition telescopes during the day to keep the mirror at the anticipated nighttime air temperature, to avoid convection currents caused by a warm mirror. That requirement would seem to preclude controlling the temperature to a specific value, I think.
There are many, many studies on changing life habits (working out) as a methodology to treat depression. It is actually _as effctive_ as SSRI's, and MORE effective for a longterm treatment for depression.*

However, _not all treatments work for everyone_. Certain SSRI's work for some and not others. This also holds for exercise.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26978184
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674785/
Whenever someone cites a "steep learning curve," it almost always seems to mean "you will probably give up."
>The letter does cite some studies, for starters.

Sure, but surely these suspicions would exist anyway. The fact that we're probably thinking about this because of some bias is important to note, because that bias is likely to continue affecting people's thinking moving forward.

>And you're mixing up "haven't always borne out exactly as predicted by the most worried people" and "have never borne out".

I don't think I am. Any randomly selected hypothesis has some possibility of being true, especially one like "is <thing that exists> harmful". The fact that some of them have been borne out doesn't necessarily mean that "new things kids like are especially likely to be bad" is a good heuristic.

It's not that it's impossible that "phone addiction" is hurting kids. It's that we've seen this pattern over and over, and when people's thinking is biased, they're likely to continue believing there's a problem long after the majority of evidence suggests that there isn't. Pointing that out to raise people's skepticism is productive.
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Thank you.

So the fact that you always see light at speed of light whatever is the frame, isnt because light is going at speed of light but because light is light. What's different between a photon and my spaceship is not so much that my spaceship cant reach a full 100% speed of light, but that youll always see a photon at speed of light because of some "magic" property which cause isnt speed. Is that correct?
Pretty odd time for a press conference, right?
Indeed ... looks like a toaster... I would say the AI is pretty dang good.
Different guy, I meant the Cornell professor:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3714297/

https://books.google.com/books?id=wk-OxcTKyi4C&pg=PA105&lpg=...
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There was an excellent talk by Larry Wall on the perl6 error message design. I think it was in Santa Clara and it was a Perl Conference, but haven't found a transcript yet. It was about 9 years ago.

Anyone have a link?
Lawyers already study the laws of other countries. It is common for precedents established in one country to be imported into another country by "persuasion". It is also common to more or less copy and paste legislation or other legal wording.

Draftsmanship is not the hard part of law. The hard part is everything else.
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