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If you're walking to the store because you live in a walkable neighborhood, it's zero. If you're going to the mall and buying a dozen things from a dozen stores, the carbon footprint per purchase is probably lower than if you're buying a dozen things in a half dozen separate transactions online. Not to mention all the boxes and the energy and/or trees needed to produce/recycle them.
Regarding Windows, Vulkan is only available on the desktop.

UWP only allows for DirectX.

And it is an optional 3D API on Android, starting with version 7.0. Which makes it pretty useless when targeting the majority of Android market, given the whole upgrade story.
That's bullshit. When I was hiring I needed a Skype/Phone call, and 1 hour of on-site or just another more technical call/interview (1-2 hours max if it goes really well). Hired 3 great folks and 1 that decided it's not a job for him, because he found it boring after all.

I never take the "a couple hours long assignments" because the scope is never "a couple hours", once company wanted me to build a chat service that would take at least 20 hours of work to get properly done with testing, etc.
Ignoring your needlessly hostile tone, it is Tom who proposes nonlinear pricing schemes.
If there were no interest in controlling the surplus left for consumers, neither him nor anyone else would have need to employ such schemes.

Entrepreneurs probably employ such pricing methods more often than BigCo as well, simply because they sell less uniform products to less anonymous customers.

Your point?
I think this is overlooking how unpopular IA64 was.

"Leaves branch prediction and speculative execution up to the software" means that in practice you need to either use the Intel compilers or hand-optimise your software to get the benefits, while simply recompiling your legacy software with GCC or LLVM ends up being disappointingly slow.
In the U.S., a public education is considered a right. Driving is a privilege, not a right, and so the same considerations don't apply.

For example, we already charge drivers for the privilege of driving: annual license fees, mandated insurance, gasoline taxes, etc. Congestion fees/taxes are simply an extension of the costs associated with the driving privilege.

With respect to schools, we already have a de facto congestion charge, in the form of housing prices near desirable schools. In many states, property taxes near desirable schools are also higher to reflect the greater desirability of the neighborhood.
I was at an exhibit of natural light wet plate work recently and got to chat with the artist. Really interesting stuff.

So many parts of the process are inexact and difficult to measure that you never really know what is going to happen on the other end. For him it was a challenge to try to reach perfection while appreciating the imperfections that arise along the way. Uneven light, slipped emulsion, bubbles, all added to the final piece.

It seemed you really had to dedicate yourself to this one art form if you were going to produce anything worthwhile. Not for the recreational photographer.
I wish I had three hands so I could triple face-palm.
I'm lucky enough to reliably see 76 down 17 up, the best you can get for a residential location in the UK generally unless FTTP is available to you, which is more than sufficient for most of what I do (mail and other mainly-text-with-some-images comms, HN, StackExchange, shopping, SSH & remote desktop or equivalent for various admin). On shared wireless or 3G/4G getting 17+ as a sustained rate is pretty rare in my experience anyway. And I've got a couple of static IPv4s play with, and a /48 IPv6 should I ever get around to using that properly, which I can do pretty much anything I like with and the ISP doesn't shape traffic beyond basic QoS measures either. It isn't a cheap connection, but nice...

Another advantage of the VPN endpoint being at home is that location sensitive applications think I'm there. This seems to reduce "are you a human?" checks in some places, and extra "characters 3, 9, and 11 from your password" requests during credit card payments.

One extra disadvantage, that doesn't affect me but would be a concern to someone gaming or taking part in other timing sensitive tasks, is extra latency, but you'll experience that on any VPN.

I've not found lack of tap support an issue, as I've only needed TCP & UDP via IPv4 anyway so normal routing options over tun do the trick. The lack of local broadcast support can break name resolution in some cases but that is nothing I can't fix with a hosts file entry or static hack in the LAN's DNS resolver.
It's really incredible to see something like this. I was disheartened to see that Kongō Gumi was acquired in 2006 after 1,400+ years in business. It's just hard to wrap your mind around. But to see hotels and wineries that have existed for over a millennia is really quite amazing.
Submitted this again as I did not get any responses last time :( Would love some feedback.

You can view alternative calendar designs here:

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No, but I'm both flattered and bothered by the comparison. :D

Jim Sterling provides a viewpoint not commonly shared even among some of the more critical video game reviewers (such as that even cosmetic lootboxes are bad for the consumer), and it's provided a few insights I hadn't thought of previously. And yes, the EA quote is also one of his favorites - it is very telling.

He has created hell of a persona - one hell of an offensive persona - but it hides a lot of really useful insight and sly humor.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianyifang in 1416 is the first Chinese Restaurant
This would happen less if the people writing the stories were paid more (so it removes some temptation on the writers part).

The problem isn't new though. After I had written a few articles for the old BYTE magazine I had the weird experience of being called up, at home (this is before Cell phones), by a company with an expensive schematic design package call me up and ask if I'd like a copy of their software. It was pretty clear they were angling to get a positive mention/review into BYTE and I turned them down, the then called Editor-in-chief Fred Langa. He laughed and said that now I was a "true" BYTE author since it indicated I had enough visibility to attract the attention of the advertisers.
Ask HN: Isn't the trust model in blockchain broken at the periphery?
I have been pondering about end-to-end trust in a blockchain based system.

A crypto-currency blockchain has end-to-end trust as the value (crypto-currency in this case) is generated and consumed within the chain. There is no outside element.

But a non-crypto-currency blockchain will rely on an external party pushing value/information/knowledge into the chain as a fact. Let's take real estate as an example. You would generate some kind of hash from the details of a property and puts that hash into blockchain in order to track it. But what stops a party from putting hash for a non-existent property in the first place?

I may be missing something basic here but my head is going crazy as this is a very fundamental thing.
> Time for me to get on the train and go to NYC one way is 2 hours plus, so over 4 hours round trip. It is 50 miles away from my old home. Cost is $27 round trip (off peak) or $38.50 (peak) for the ticket. So taking the train is convenient and I love it but it ruins the rest of my day.

Put another way, with congestion pricing, you have two options:

* Pay $27-$38.50 (total) for a four hour round-trip on public transit

* Pay $26 (not including gas) for a faster trip in a private car, probably about two hours round-trip[0]

I'm having a hard time sympathizing with this as a problem, especially since you're coming from 50 miles away. I know people who commute every day from Kingston to Brooklyn using public transit, and that's a full 100 miles.

[0] With no traffic, Kingston to Manhattan (100 miles) is about two hours by car each way, so I'll assume that your travel would take two hours for a round trip.
The worse process i ever did was for company that gave me an online test with no feedback. it was the lack of feedback that was the worst.
There is a very simple reason for this, you always get more information in person.

If you're interacting with a text-based chat interface you get one thing, pieces of text, not only that's all you have to make decisions, but you have no idea how much effort and time went into designing those messages for you, this translates into the simples human interactions.

If you are talking on the phone, you get words and maybe a tone of voice, you get more timely information, but that is all.

If you are doing video chat, you get to see the persons expressions, which is a plus, but not much more(and how many times have I seen audio/video data issues).

But, if you are meeting in person, you get all of that and then some, plus it signals commitment and effort to allocate time to physically attend a meeting considering how much other options you have. These do not have precise metrics, but it drives people gut decisions.
Alternatives to trusted traveler -- no-longer trusted travelers (no Global Entry) can now use Automated Passport Control, an App for your smart phone, which at Dulles last week, was faster than Global Entry.
Demolished in 1965, which is consistent for the reminiscence from the 1950s.
Look at these unlucky people who can't afford to do an interview because they require 6-10 hour homework assignments.

For all of the talk about getting people into coding, especially non-traditional students, stuff like this really hurts the rhetoric. If you're already working 2 jobs, or have kids, etc, asking someone to do 6+ hours of unpaid work is frankly offensive.
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It's interesting how prone the major social networks seem to be to outright scams. You can find plenty of cult leaders and fake cancer treatments on YouTube, Holocaust denial material on Reddit, etc.

Of course those companies have every right to keep that material up, but it's strange how those scams are tolerated when other stuff is taken down. The pure scale of it all probably makes those scams more effective than they used to be as well. You don't gotta sell your miracle water from town to town anymore, you just make a YouTube video and send it out to a million people. Cryptocurrency scams really take advantage of this.

Not sure why those companies don't care about users getting taken advantage of, but they don't. Sometimes it feels like our economy is based on scams all the way down.
This is the most ridiculous explanation I have read about why Chinese work hard.

It’s extremely simple: everybody wants to be successful, and right now because of many reasons, Chinese think they can be successful by working hard. This is the Chinese equivalent of American dream, that one can pursue happiness by working hard.
it's incredible to realize that there still exists (technically) a company that was a thousand years old in 1500s.
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All major graphics middleware and image manipulation applications, are already Metal aware.
Wow, this web page looks like it hasn't been updated since 1439: http://www.luebeckaltstadthotel.de/
If I were on my way to Mars I wouldn't go without nuclear power. It is too far away to have an Amazon drone drop off a fresh batch of batteries or solar panels.
I see a moderator has deleted/marked this submission as a duplicate. Can somebody point me at the previous submission it duplicates?

Edit: Maybe this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182423 from 18 hours ago?
>New York City massively subsidises drivers.

Actually, the bridge and tunnel tolls are major revenue generators for the MTA. The subway is near revenue neutral. The buses lose tons of money.
Google has now found Cloudbleed, Heartbleed, Broadpwn, Spectre and Meltdown among others.

Off the top of my head can not think of any big vulnerabilities found in the last couple years not discovered by Google.

They pay engineers to find these and also pay bounties. This helps everyone including Google in the industry so would definitely still call them a nice guy. Maybe even a really nice guy?

It is very difficult with vulnerabilities what you share and when. Once Spectre and Meltdown was shared we have many PoC also out. So script kiddies all set up to exploit. So it is not simple but have zero idea how you could suggest some how Google is a bad guy here?

Also Google has also shared mitigations for Spectre that looks like a better approach to the broader community versus keeping as a competitive advantage.

They even shared with Amazon a company that has banned ALL companies on their marketplace from being allowed to sell some of Googles products. Personally I am not nearly that nice.
i remember when the panama papers first came out there was a story of a guy who bribed the leadership of some third world country to basically rob the country of its mineral rights. so with that $165 you'd also get relief from the damage they actively do with their money.

i'm not saying we should do it, but your analysis doesn't account for any knock on effects, and so is itself far too simple.
Also super grateful, homebrew has made my personal and professional life much easier. Thanks so much!
I had a fun run-in with this q couple of years ago. We had a field in company profile fkr the year of founding whose validator was '4 digits'.
Yeah, if they had royalty free content. Though most of what's in their catalog doesn't really qualify as "play in the background" sort of stuff which was what was being discussed upthread.

The general concept would probably be interesting for a lot of people if the numbers worked.
>My biggest issue with blockchain is scalablity

Plasma MVP (built upon Ethereum blockchain) was just released.
Plasma is supposed to be able to handle more then 1 million transactions per second, which is way more then what Visa handle right now

https://github.com/omisego/plasma-mvp

https://blog.omisego.network/construction-of-a-plasma-chain-...
Haha I meant #5. Edited.
Picking cities using criteria for Amazon's HQ2
It's a vicious cycle where opposing sides become more polarized with every interaction. For some, the only way out is apathy.
Roman political families regularly adopted heirs as well. Rome’s first emperor Augustus was the adopted heir of Julius Casaer.
Do you really think 300M USD have been deposited with Tether since Tuesday? I guess it's possible, but that's an awful lot of money.
I think it's hard to argue it's the same company in some cases. The breweries in particular used to be a brewery in said city (the city had right to have a brewery). Different owners, different locations, later different legal companies, periods of inactivity, etc.. The continuity is lost beyond "there was a brewery in this town 600 year ago".
I think criticism is warranted if you make a website literally called “the laws of UX” and then break half of them with the site presenting them.
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And on Switch, Nintendo also has their own API, in a similar vein to Sony when they toyed with OpenGL ES 1.0 support.
Those clamshells are now recyclable. Do you not recycle your cardboard?

BTW, landfills aren't great environments for decomposition even for paper and cardboard - the weight and compression make for a hostile environment for aerobic microbes and for the larger animals (rodents, insects, worms) that usually help with the first round of decomposition and increasing the surface area available to the microbes. If you dig into a landfill, you can often find 75-year-old newspapers (made of some of the least durable materials around) completely intact.

Mid-to-late 20thC landfills are the worst of all because there's so much plastic and styrofoam, the ratio of decomposable materials is very low.
NO FREE CODE. After getting through the recruitment hell I settled for one important rule for my sanity - symmetric time and effort involvement, i.e. pair programming with the engineer, onsite session with the team. Otherwise the project will likely be rejected for the most trivial reason but in fact most probably because of finding someone more desperate and cheaper. And yes, I've been on the other side as well interviewing people once.
I think it's a matter of framing. You can parse congestion charges as either a tax on pollution and congestion, or a marketized way of redistributing a scarce resource more efficiently. It logically and intuitively fits within a broad range of ideological schema; it's both a collectivist means of pricing externalities and an individualist means of allocating resources.

The same can't be said of charging for in-demand school places - from a collectivist perspective, such a policy would be read as punishing poorer families for aspiration and disincentivizing social mobility. It's plausible that essentially the same policy could be reframed by redistributing funding from higher-performing to lower-performing schools and allowing or requiring affluent parents to make up the deficit.
Bought it probably for its history. He always seemed a genuine good person behind the flashy persona.
> We no longer have drawn out sprint planning meetings where we discuss requirements of features that we never end up working on in that sprint. We don’t waste time debating complexity of features. Everything is now just ad hoc.

I'm curious about a few things, if you don't mind answering.

When do tickets get broken down into manageable chunks? Who does the breakdown?

When is a rough cut of effort put on a ticket? S/M/L often matters when making priority decisions.
Not a fan of the website UI. Eg. For me, having to have a big down arrow telling the user further content is down, is a UI fail.
Running around yelling from the mountaintops about how many minorities you have, treating them like trophies, is not the same as sensitivity. Further, I don't know how you could suggest Google/Twitter/etc. have a sensitivity towards differing political orientations given the ongoing scandals of demonetization, censoring, etc. and the now famous DaMore memo. "Minority political orientation" doesn't mean the same thing in rural Mississippi as it means in San Francisco.
>As I understand, these latest CPU vulnerabilities were in the spec themselves.

And yes, 20 years ago Intel was called out for that. In a narrow circle of electronic engineers specialising in CPU designs, this quirk was a know source of worries.
> $100 to commute a week isn't to high?

So move to the city and enjoy a shorter (and cheaper) commute. Of course, since you're currently living 50 miles outside the city, the increase in rent would be much more than $100, so you're still enjoying the cheaper end of the bargain.

> Now Chicago, Atlanta and LA have bad traffic it doesn't cost you a hundred bucks to commute for a week.

With parking, you could easily pay that much in other U.S. cities. In addition, they all have pretty terrible options for public transit compared to New York, so I'm not really keen on using them as a reference point.
Driving 10 miles from Northern Virginia to DC on I-66 could cost you $40:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/12/0...

Is it wrong? I don't know, usually it is not as bad. But when it got that high and people were still jumping into the lane one has to wonder what's going on.

Granted the nearby counties are the wealthiest in the country, so maybe it shouldn't be that shocking.
> He couldn't have just envisioned that thing in his head and put it straight to code?

That's a pretty snobby thing to say. So what they needed to design something in Sketch. So what they used Sass and Gulp.

If you're deriding someone for using a tool to help them with something, can you be derided for using a napkin to sketch an algorithm or something?
Microcode is loaded into some on-die volatile RAM every boot by the CPU... there is a CPU instruction to do it. AFAIK:

First the CPU loads an on die ROM of the microcode it was released with on it's own. Second the BIOS/UEFI may load an update into the CPU before boot if it has a newer one. Third linux and some other OS will load any newer microcode into the CPU at the bootloader stage before the kernel loads.

This is also commonly the case for other modern hardware, not just CPUs... although I expect it doesn't need to happen before the kernel loads and is probably bundled into their respective drivers.
But that's not really a CPU problem but a software problem. And faster CPUs won't fix it, due to Wirth's Law.
What we'll have 5-10 years from now will be far, far more advanced than what we have now, unless it all collapses. If the market for them holds steady I expect we'll start seeing package deals within a couple of years.
I was actually just trying to file off the flamebait without changing the meaning - since "the most" was meant as a figure of speech in the first place I missed that someone could have seen it as a key point.

The sibling essentially sees what was going on here, I was thinking of a closely-weighted linear classfier where a small change to the weights could alter their ordering but do little to change the results.

Although it's definitely my responsibility to write clearly, in the future I'll think more carefully about what my replies are actually disagreeing with before I make edits that I think are just phrasing!

(And yes, I also had a few edits here before I found a way to write it clearly.)
I think it looks fabulous - great work!
In a startup sales/bizdev context, the point you make about signaling commitment and effort is particularly important. "The founder (or CEO) showed up in person" can make a lot of things happen more quickly than they otherwise would.
> I'm always so confused by the nomenclature in homebrew. Even beyond all the beer terminology

It is even worse if you aren't a native english speaker. English beer brewing terminology is not part of most language curricula! I enjoy a bit of whimsy as much as the next person, but some precision terminology would suit the toolset better.

It also incenses my French colleague who insists that wine technology is superior to beer technology.
A decade is a long, long time for such things.
Screen space is more limited than space in the physical world. If I want to open an PDF next to my editor, I need to make them both share the screen, as opposed to making the editor full screen or having it share space with a web browser or other application.
Practically every pain point listed here is a startup waiting to happen.
New chip developed under EDA project gets award
This is really nice. Much nicer than the plotter apps I've tried to use recently. Lots of attention given to UX details. I needed something like this with square cels recently. The best web app I could find was kind of terrible. You couldn't save, and it slowed to a crawl after a hundred pixels or so.
Add to that the additional questions about accepting crypto currency payments.
I appreciate their animated gifs.
I understand the surprise given that many companies these days hire full time "employees" as "contractors" in other countries. These employees are sometimes not really "contractors" (they have a fixed salary, they get benefits like paternity leave or paid time off, they have performance reviews, they can be promoted, etc.) but on paper they are "contractors".

Personally I know various companies that have employees all over the world but DON'T have accountants and lawyers anywhere. These "employees" are both "contractors" and "employees", depending on which angle you look from.