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I think finding a business partner is a great idea, unless you are making some kind of low-level software, let's say db, web server etc.

I was at the same situation a year ago, and I was browsing through some startup oriented fanpages, where I found a guy who posted comment like "I'm a construction site manager, and have an app idea, looking for cofounder". I contacted him (this was over a year ago), we talked, but eventually it didn't work out, we were based in different cities, and I was still finishing my master degree.

He hired a software house to make the whole product for him. He was able to get couple customers, but the software house was just very slow, made a lot of bugs, and made him pay a lot of money for fixes.

Couple months ago, he wrote me back and basically said he needs me as CTO. We met, shook hands and started working. I've redesigned and made a new iOS app, fixed backend and released a solid update. He is talking to customers, gathering feedback, analyzing keywords, buying ads.

It is working splendidly, and I see that this relation is somehow a Nash equilibrium. I don't have construction site knowledge or contacts. He doesn't have any technical background. So we are both better off working together.

It's still early days, and a lot of work ahead of us, but this is my first side-project that already helps people in the real world.
IPFS has a so called IPNS system that use mutable hashes. So when you publish using this piece of software you got always a permanent link to share with your users.
> Less scandalously, they use a non-standard licence for no clear reason.

What are you talking about? Who defines "standard" for licenses?
To safely "park" your crypto assets when it tanks in price. Many exchanges offer tether as a trading currency instead of fiat, to avoid regulatory hurdles.
Completely agree. Had hoped with iPhone X they would move to have interactions at the bottom, since constantly involving reachability (which is now disabled by default) to go to the top menus (since not all apps allow you to swipe from the left to go back consistently). Several apps like Instapaper work great the main navigation actions in the bottom. They have items in the top but those are ones you won't need to access often. And they leave space at the bottom to not interfere with the home button line area. Maybe we will see a push to this UI direction from Apple officially in iOS12 as I imagine iPhone screens will only get larger.
I really don't understand. Looks to me like I am surrounded by different people, then. I didn't caught real RPGs because for some reason it is difficult for me step in someone else shoes but I love board games as well as PC games. The richer story, the better. All my friends are either playing as well, or at least aware about such kind of entertainment and none of them said a bad word about it. Certainly not avoiding the subject. Some of them even meet weekly, old chaps playing board games in a pub. If that's not cool, I don't know what is.
I just block all notifications. Phones are much more pleasant that way.
No, I'm referring to the UI in general. The images just basic examples of poor and inconsistent text spacing and positioning. I didn't even mention the more important issues like the crowded dropdowns, poor layouts and use of space in general.

As I said, I like LibreOffice, but the UI needs work.
In case you’re wondering why your comment is all gray: people think you should go to your school and demand your money back if you think „pied piper“ was invented by the TV series.

(Unless you’re not in Europe or its cultural descendants)
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> Final as in this will be the last time Ng will teach the course?

Courses on Coursera aren't really taught that way. The course instructor(s) prepare the course materials (videos, presentations, quizzes, assignments, etc.) once only. Courses start on a regular schedule and the platform, rather than the instructors, takes you through the material in sequence. There are forums with moderators for peer-support, but you don't typically interact with the instructors as they're not really there.

I assume the OP is referring to Ng building the fifth of the five courses that comprise the specialisation.
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As I was reading the article I thought about how cool it would have been to play with dad, but I’d be cautious not be pushy towards playing with my (future) children. Sons specially are thrilled to share activities with dad and will surely entertain him until they lose interest.

But kids come with their own personalities and skills, should I have a child who is into sports, I would rather enjoy that with him or her instead of passing my old hobbies. I’d be hesitant to share time in front of a screen though, video games don’t seem to be real interaction.
Except Germany, Austria, and AFAIK most EU countries, Switzerland...for education at least. Healthcare in some of them
It seems like not accepting any user interaction within the first 500ms for popup dialogues / notifications like this would be a better solution than crushing the notification into the middle of the screen.
>I've never been able to understand why the operating system does not manage this case and ignore input that occurs within say 0.25 seconds of the dialogue's appearance

That's why Firefox save file dialog is inactive for the first few seconds.
Anything creative will never be seen as cool outside of the niche it lives in. You are cool if you play in a movie, not if you write it. You are cool if you wear clothes, not if you design them. You are cool if you play football, not if you compose teams.

It's because it's difficult to assess the quality of creative work. It requires to take a personnal stand.

But it's easy to engage emotionnaly in a demonstration of something basic like wearing a shirt or hitting a ball.

Hence most of the world can do the later, but surprisingly not that many can do the former.

In the HN bubble it's easy to forget the vast majority of the world is composed of simple people. And they are the major force driving the world, just by sheer number.
What position in the distribution is suitably "scientifically rigorous"? Should all children's cartoons represent only the population mean? Or perhaps the median - at least that is guaranteed to actually exist. Maybe the mode would be better - but what if there is more than one? We could be willing to be a bit more relaxed, and allow anything within the middle two quartiles. Or, perhaps, we should just remember that there is a distinction between material produced for children and the academic consensus.
See my GitHub fork. The last 2 checks were too strict for me. But the todo list looks ok to me.
Sorry but you're mathematically wrong. The "wisdom of the crowds" does not work on things were everybody is wrong in the same way. For example if you ask a lot of people to estimate income inequality you get the wrong answer because everybody underestimates it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/economic-inequali...

The "wisdom of the crowds" is pseudo-nonsense.
> C++ is designed by its standards committee...

When it comes to design, C++ is a good example of why having a benevolent dictator is better than a committee. I still think it's a huge mistake to not have a standard ABI and rely on C's ABI.
> Powered by D StatusPage on IPFS

The URI on the footer of the status page points to here: https://www.statuspage.co - but it doesn't appear to load, is this an artifact from development?
At least in my whereabouts, tick testing is no longer used. They said chance of false negative is too high. On top of that, bad tick doesn't mean you're infected. Two stages blood test is only fool proof way to test for Lyme.

Can confirm that ticks need time to give you Lyme. I've had Lyme twice. Both times I missed a tick on initial check and found it a day later. I get bitten few times a year and every time I find them on time all is good.
Apple customer care: "We absolutely can help you! Please deactivate notifications for the apps which bother you. Nothing as easy as that!"
People who are 'locked in' are not cut off from perceptive stimulus. They're simply cut off from being able to have their nervous system output result in manipulation of the world. I imagine this does have a significant effect upon their conscious experience, but it's not something that would be easy to study. Even studying how less significant damage to the body results in 'personal' changes can be difficult. Studies of victims of spinal cord damage which results in parapelegia and how that results in depression and reduced emotional range beyond what should be expected from the pain or trauma alone strikes some people as 'insulting'. Our adamant refusal to recognize that the 'brain' is nothing more than a convenient formalism used to talk about the entire nervous system and body and that every part is necessary to give rise to what we recognize as human consciousness runs very deep. Dualism (in the sense of a body/brain split) is wrong, but apparently far too alluring for many.
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It's really strange... I grew up on a farm and remember running through the fallow fields barefoot with shorts on all summer, but the first time I actually saw a tick was in my mid-20s after I had moved to the city and took a walk through the local park. Since then I've found at least one tick on me every summer.

I don't know if I just got lucky in my youth or if ticks are getting worse, but it's something that's stood out to me as curious.
On a completely unrelated note, I thought your spacing of punctuation was odd. I didn't know that it was a thing in other languages: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4645/is-it-ever-...
> who apart from utter novices would ever want to use a UI where the keyboard shortcuts are non-obvious

How are keyboard shortcuts worse than in old Office? I still have the common shortcuts and everything is accessible vie accessible Alt+... access keys (easily discoverable if you press Alt once). True, you cannot add custom shortcuts. Is that it?

> the buttons take up half the screen

On a decent-sized screen that extra size doesn't matter much, and not just novices benefit from applying Fitt's law.

> discoverability is non-existent

Could you elaborate? I don't have data but I would guess that making common options larger and/or putting them on the home tab makes them more discoverable.
To be fair, the LibreOffice Fresh PPA also doesn't (from it's website) have 6.0 yet. While OS vendor repositories naturally take time, I don't know that there is a good reason for the PPA to get debs slower than the website.
One word: IPNS.

It's a DNS-like system, though much slower than DNS due to propagation delays. It points to the latest version (hash) of a document, much like a git branch.
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Yes, however matter-of-factly while moving about the office. I did not perceive any difference between the Mac plugged in and on the go.
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A lot of schools have also switched to google docs. Free and easy for kids to use to get the concepts. And much easier for the schools than Libreoffice.
This is incredible, money being put to good use. Just a taste of what's to come in the future as more and more money is transferred to the people.
I was thinking about this yesterday. Dozens of times I type a search into cortana - see my item - click on it, and milliseconds before I click (but before I can avert the action) the item changes. I have at times almost felt the electrons racing down the nerves in my arm in my attempt to not click.

I like your idea of a .25 second delay. I can normally send a movement request to my hand in about .13 seconds (fastest time I can click twice on a stopwatch is .13 seconds), so .25 is good for me.
If CRISPR can be used to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes, then maybe it will help to eradicate ticks
Need something similar for DRAM prices!
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Can Dündar once described the prison library of Silivri

Sadly I couldn't find a translation in English, but the original in Turkish is also linked

http://www.zeit.de/2017/43/meinungsfreiheit-tuerkei-haeftlin...
http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2017-10/meinungsfreiheit-tuerkei-h...

The first paragraph is a rather good summary

>Do you know where the literacy rate in Turkey is highest? In Silivri. Because there is Turkey's largest prison, and it is full of writers, journalists, scientists and intellectuals. There is a fairly extensive prison library there, which is steadily growing, as each inmate author asks his publisher for donations or donates his books to the library at the end of his stay. When I was there I happily discovered four of my books in the catalog. Imagine, you are behind bars as "offenders" and your books are there to "help the offenders better them self". Another piece of black humor in this matter: Once a prisoner asked for a book, the librarian's answer was: "We do not have the book, but its author is here."
My personal experience is: After spending time outdoors, get a shower and a complete clothes change. They often don't bite right away but crawl around for some time until they find a spot they "like".

Also, the lore that was told in my family was, that ticks dropped from trees in the forest. But you can get them also from gras, hedges, bushes. So not being in the wood is no protection against ticks.
10k steps worked really well for me but I would plateau a lot and not lose anymore. It was also hard to find the time to put in the 10k, it would typically mean walking somewhere for lunch and coffee and almost all the time I had to run 2-3 miles in the evening.

The thing thats worked better for me and actually led to noticeable changes in body composition has been olympic lifts and intermittent fasting. I try to at the very minimum do 3x5 of any of the big lifts at high intensity, and barbell complexes 3-4x10 for volume about 4-5 times per week. It helps having all the equipment in the garage.
Here's an alternate solution: Have the sound for the notification play before the popup actually appears on the screen, say 0.25 seconds.
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Some window managers like KWin implement some measures to deal with that, called "focus stealing protection".
What I'd like to see is a sort of queue for notifications while in quiet mode.

Just put them all in a queue similar to a twitter feed, that can be reviewed later. This would be the best way imho to handle the need for focus.

Then people can decide to review these once a day, or multiple times a day, but when it actually makes sense for them.

This would also require the ability to specify an exclusion for some apps (ie. "notifiy always" vs "queue notification").

ps: the notification area is a sort of queue, but I don't want to see it on the homescreen as it still is begging for attention. Put it away in a separate app or area that can be reviewed intentionally.
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use such a device as a random number generator whose bits would then be fed into a set of stochastic logic circuits. In such a system, values would be represented as probabilities—4 would be represented by a seemingly random string of say 100 bits, of which about 40 would be 1s. It’s easy to see that stochastic computing would be relatively immune to simple errors where a bit or two gets flipped, because it would hardly make a difference. But it also makes some calculations less complex. Multiplying two numbers, for example, can simply be done with a single AND gate.

I found this as clear as mud. Are the random strings always the same or are they different each time (derived from some stochastic process which always has the same probability of 40/100)?
It's very much a thing over in Europe though, the new MiFID II directive is a thing intended to protect investors - one implementation that (online) investment banking sites have to offer now is things like a basic test, that is, you need to prove you have half a clue what you're doing.
The problem with such calculations is the assumption (often incorrect) that those little bits of "wasted" time would have been used for something more productive and are anything more than statistical noise.

While my home machine came out of hibernation yesterday evening I stroked the cat. I would have probably done that anyway while the authentication screen waited for me, had it started up faster.

While my work machine started up this morning I discussed the outcome of one of yesterday's problems with a colleague. This took several minutes so the PC starting in 20 seconds instead of 30 would have made no difference at all.
What if I wanted to always link to the latest, like from my normal HTTPS powered web site?

Is there a way to link to the head so that it always references the latest version?
I agree in principal but society is currently set-up to help those who are first to ask for it.

Paradoxically, many such problems come-about as a result of being reluctant to ask for help because it is perceived as a sign of weakness.
If I understand correctly, you still need a gateway VPS to proxy the ipfs site out to the internet over http. Isn't this a single point of failure, as your gateway server will be pegged. Or am I misunderstanding the implementation? You could have a VPS in multiple regions, but we're back at square one.
Ticks and mosquitos are why I spray my hiking clothes with permethrin. It's a potent contact neurotoxin for both. It takes a little bit to act after exposure, but ticks will die quickly. Mosquitoes will also fly away and die after contacting my clothes.

It's derived from a chemical found in Chrysanthemums.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permethrin
As a proud owner of a herniated spinal disk, the advice makes alot of sense without any study. Putting pressure on an untrained bent lower back a bad ideea. The spine is held in place by strong muscles that will indeed atrophy for office workers, allowing the disk to damage and bulge towards the spinal cord.
Long, long time ago, I started writing my stock trading robots in Python and I am still using it to this day... Not sure why I chose it, maybe it was easy to learn for a non developer like me (one thing I don't like is the syntax), but way too late to change the language, there is no way I am rewriting my robots... if something works, don't touch it :-)
The "polish death camps" laws are intentionally bundled with the more controversial ones that take more time to understand. This makes it easy to craft strawman headlines.

As for the word like "szmalcownik", throw it around enough times and it will lose its power. For example, in Ukraine both sides of conflict call each other "fascist". In Poland, both sides of political conflict call each other "communists" - but very few actually back up their claims.

My favourite: "targowica", used by right-wingers to accuse political adversaries of treason. However, members of Targowica Confederation:

* had a conservative point of view,
* were hostile to western Europe,
* criticized contemporary Polish constitution,
* had a strong Church backing, including archbishops and Pope,
* called themselves devout patriots.

Sounds very much like the current Polish right-winged scene.
Feature idea: allow the user to change the app permissions directly in the push notification.
I have this problem more often on the Mac than on iOS. In particular, Mail notifications only have “Reply” and “Delete” actions.

Anyone know how to quickly dismiss these without taking an action?
Except what if it’s an application I care about, but just not this 0.25 seconds?

Also, why the implied snark?
Does your contract specify a daily hour limit and number of days in month? Just curious how you handle overtime and time off etc.
Dipon, why not rewriting Kafka itself in Pony? The biggest problem is the synchronous API, and as pony service it would be much better, being controlled by async actors, without polling. Scala is very similar to pony.
And "taking money from other people by selling useless shit [that plays on their naïve hope to also get rich quick]" doesn't trouble your conscience at all, I assume?
What you're saying is quite possibly true.

This is part of a bigger problem - it is just so hard to understand the internal structure, processes and needs of these organizations.

There must be some people on HN who have extensive government contracting experience and can shed a light on this?
> By the time I’ve navigated back to the Notes app and performed the originally intended action, I’ve experienced pure agony for about 2 seconds.

Is this a parody? Don’t people have real problems? This level of petty self–indulgence is almost worrying.

I‘m not disputing that this may be a minor annoyance. But to invoke „agony“ is an insult to anyone who has ever experienced real suffering or existential dread.

And to slap on the old „Dear Apple“ cliché just to get your 15 minutes of (limited) attention is somewhat sad.
If you want to convince me, show me the relevant statistics. Medical errors are not unknown from other health providers.
Cool observation - not as bad on Android due to a hardware back button, but it still happens.

Or another option to solve it??? Just don't show notifications when the user is "obviously" using their phone. e.g. if there's been any tap in the last 5s, make the noise but don't show the pop-up until the screen has gone untouched for 5s (the user can still swipe down from the top to see it).
I think you can run IPFS locally and access the IPFS network without a gateway this way.
MacOS's notifications drive me crazy like that... when I'm listening to music on iTunes and using my browser, I reach up to click a tab as the song changes and now I'm suddenly clicking iTunes instead.
Economists tend to forecast at 30 years by extrapolating the last few years. It is not obvious to me that the chinese economic miracle of the last 20 years, largely fueled by foreign investments (every industry in the world outsourcing to China), and after 2008 by domestic debt, is sustainable and reproducible in the long term.
I would teach your children the value of not caring what other people think. Probably a difficult task at such a young age. But the sooner people realize that grade school is a bunch of social nonsense, the better. Once you've graduated, the real world forces us all to work together, regardless of what we do in our free time. Enjoy your life, do whatever you're interested in, stop worrying about others. Chances are, they actually don't care either. You'll be happier for it.
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I think you don't need to dismiss these notifications as they will go away in few seconds anyways.