skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how you can argue against all ads, no exception, without at least somehow addressing the problem of content currently financed by ads.

Journalism provides a necessary service for a democracy, and unpaid bloggers haven't actually made much of a dent into real, investigative journalism. Hell, they haven't even made a dent into regular ask-questions-at-press-conferences journalism.

Which leaves paywalls. But even if I everyone bought subscriptions to the top 5 or so publications they read regularly, we would all drastically reduce the variety of sources we get our news from. No fan of Breitbart is going to pay for the New York Times, even though now, they might (sometimes accidentally) come across an article offering them a glimpse of real journalism.

It's really easy to try: Just for a month or so, don't visit any sites showing advertisement that you haven't paid for.
What do you mean by "not much below 60-70hz?" I presume you saw the graph that shows the bass drops off between 35-40. Is that not much below?

Also, what speakers in the price range of the KEFs in the article would you put against the HomePod to show the deficiencies of the HomePod?
Pretending that strings and sequences of bytes are identical and interchangeable is fundamentally flawed. The only reason people were able to get away with it for as long as they did was because of immense pain inflicted on the rest of the Python programming community.

If you require an eternally frozen implementation of Python 2's behavior in order to get your work done, you can download the source and keep it around as long as you like. Nobody else has an obligation to support you or hold back the rest of the world in order to suit your use case in your preferred way.
HTML emails are here to stay, and the billions of dollars that companies pour into designing, building, and sending them are proof of that. Given the constraint that we're stuck writing and consuming them, I'd rather have a technology that does a good job than a technology that makes me want to boil my laptop.

If you're afraid of HTML, by all means please check your email from a sandboxed VM in the terminal. But some poor chump is still going to be toiling away to make the latest Pottery Barn newsletter look great on a Blackberry, so we'd might as well build better tools.
Wow time to short if possible.
Far as bringing CPU's and memory together, here was one of my favorite attempts that used DRAM processes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16350560
What always stands out about startup reflections like these is how utterly undefined, freeform, and rapidly evolving the roles can be.

The old fire hose saying is true, but it’s not just that you’re drinking from a fire hose, it’s that you often don’t know what’s coming out of the hose next. One minute deep technical decisions, the next minute helping to establish hiring philosophy, and cashflow and growth always on a background thread.

After a few years of this I think my experience is not uncommon. If you exit and through whatever circumstance (success or failure), come back inside an F500 company, you realize that trial by fire has force fed you a vast amount of new skills without even realizing it.

On one hand, the realization is really empowering, the realization you feel comfortable taking on various high impact tasks without much thought that you could have never jumped right into before. On the other hand, it can feel limiting, because F500 companies tend not to encourage even the most talented technical people to cross roles and help define company wide hiring practices.

It’s an invaluable education, but I don’t know if MBA is quite the correct ananlogy, not sure what a better comparison is.
Hmm, I thought a growable stack via a guard page that allocates more stack on a fault was common in C-based languages. (Though this would be an OS feature rather than a language one.) I routinely put very large buffers on stacks in C and C++ and don't generally run into problems unless I accidentally do infinite recursion.
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>Advertising is the necessary evil that keeps the internet afloat.

Disclaimer: they work for Google
Dont underestimate how inefficient public transportation is
Hopefully Thomas Palef will update his "Discover Phaser" book for Phaser 3.
I'm using Chrome on Android, and it the site doesn't seem to work correctly on mobile (maybe it isn't intended to- in that case, sorry!) The initial badge selection screen isn't cleared after one is selected, and by scrolling to the right, I can see a clutter of other elements underneath.
If it can't break even on a 25% cut of every ride, someone else will be able to. It's a glorified SaaS app, and they have similarly priced competition in many markets.

This idea that the price is unsustainable is just wishful thinking by opponents.
They lost 4.5 billion last year.
[needs 1990s ASCII usenet checklist of why your calendar reform idea won't work]
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>What Google wants to do is bridge that moat, essentially to allow applications to run inside emails, limited ones to be sure, but by definition the kind of thing that belongs on the other side of the moat.

How is this bad?

I do not understand the hate?

If you do not like the product then move on.

I can see this working well on a mobile devices, not sure how it will work on other platforms, but I'm definitely open to giving it a shot.

The best part about this is if I don't like it I can always switch.
Scott has poured many more than one thousand words into the cause of educating people about quantum computing. The point here is that this journalist didn't do his due diligence. Reading the tag line on Scotts blog would have made him question one of the core assumptions he made in his piece.
A year or so ago I did a lot with Phaser. I learned I'm not cut out for indie game dev and since moved on, but man is Phaser easy to learn and easy to get more advanced in. Even though I don't use it anymore, I am a big fan of their work.

Congratulations on shipping 3.0. I hope it inspires a lot of great talent to discover themselves.
> you have to wonder what the myth of child sacrifices in the brazen bull really means.

The stories of sacrifice to Moloch are supported by archeological finds of child remains around Carthage.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/21/carthaginian...
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I guess saying "especially from Amazon" was pointless because, now that you've pointed that out, I definitely don't feel any better about them :)
They list a gmail address. This should entitle them to a free blogpot blog. They would just need to migrate the content.

Though audio files are not supported, AFAIK. If that is part of the content, they might need to put those on a service like Sound Cloud.
"You'll understand when you're older" is something I heard from my parents a lot as a kid. And now that I'm older, I understand just how full of crap they were about that. I thought they were selfish and trite then, and they're no less selfish and trite today.

The basic pattern is that anybody who lives their life carelessly peddling slogans is an idiot.
I love the idea of a “liberal” GC that occasionally throws away bits of memory still in use in the name of raw performance for restartable tasks.
I don't believe it's incorrect, but thanks for letting me know you do. Genuinely - like I said, I just want to talk about “acceptable ads”.
The use of mobile numbers to instantly transfer money is using UPI, a system built on top of IMPS. UPI is actually just an API. Third-party apps provide payment features on top of UPI.
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Sure, it’s a decent read.

http://comment-news.com/source/www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/sc...
Does that imply it's fundamentally impossible to run the SaaS side of Uber's app (routing, payments, users, etc.) for 25% of the cost of every ride?

Or does it imply they're likely spending a lot of money on development, expansion, and breaking into new markets (like Uber Eats)?
Evolution selects for child-rearing practices that ensure that offspring will live to reproduce -- not necessarily child practices that are optimal for the offsprings mental well being.

Furthermore, there may have been a time in the past where evolutionarily selected child-rearing practices that today we would consider abhorrent were actually necessarily to ensure survival. In a brutal world you need to be brutal to survive and one way to ensure that your offspring is brutal is to well... brutalize them.

Our western world is far less brutal a place than it was even fifty years ago and that may necessitate developing child-rearing methods that are counter to our evolutionary ingrained instincts.
> See, email belongs to a special class. Nobody really likes it, but it’s the way nobody really likes sidewalks, or electrical outlets, or forks. It not that there’s something wrong with them. It’s that they’re mature, useful items that do exactly what they need to do. They’ve transcended the world of likes and dislikes.

Except forks are fine and e-mails are a dumpster fire.
> it's not like all your coworkers in a SF startup are talking about their 4 bedroom ranch houses.

No, but they can't talk about something more reasonable, either; the price of the majority of the Bay Area's housing exceeds the income of the majority of Bay Area engineers.

(This assumes a median house price of ~$750k (cf, [1]), and an unwillingness to pay 45% of your after-tax income in housing.)

[1]: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/12/29/bay-area-median-...
It's Hacker News, someone is always going to be "well I could write this myself in 20 minutes and print it out why would anyone pay money for it." I don't think those are the people from whom to take pricing advice.
As someone from an African country with govt affiliated ISPs, even if my vpn service logged almost everything, I'd still use it as compared to the alternative
Since the 1960's our ability to communicate with each other has significantly expanded. It's natural for everyone to end up a neurotic perfectionist when you can see every day what other people across the world are doing. Not so much when you only saw your friends and family in town and at home; your standards would be much lower then.
> if nv does invest in more card production they run the risk of bringing that online just at the crypto market crashes, when there will be much less demand for cards and a flood of old mining cards on the used market

Are you saying they shouldn’t manufacture & sell more card now because that this will cost them future sales? Can’t they just put that extra income in a bank and earn nice interests on the profits that are shifted from future to present due to that crypto craziness?
In that case, I'd recommend specializing in one particular language/framework/domain.

Whether it's NodeJS, Python, C#, Swift -- pick one and run with it. "General programmer" is fine for management but not great for senior developer.

It seems little odd that at 35 you're still in the $25/hr range. Either you got a late start or maybe there's some soft skills you need to improve (running a meaningful meeting, developing a strong rapport with business partners and management, etc).

Good luck.
"Games can be compiled to iOS, Android and native apps via 3rd party tools"

Gonna need some explanation here... does it spit out native code? Where are the tools? And since it's HTML5 why can't I just run the thing in a native web view? Are there perf issues?
A lot of cosmetic rules can be fixed automatically (e.g. `eslint --fix`). In that case the cost of having them on is near-zero, so even though the benefits are pretty mild the ROI is still positive.
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How is free shipping or "shipping included in the price different?

Even if you say "free shipping" the shipping is still just included in the price. Tanstaafl.
Is this how they try to increase profits now?

Given the decline of everything Google lately, I can actually see it happening. But going for full profits instead of what made them good so far, will just be one of the final nails in the coffin.
Ok, I'll try to explain myself better:

First, of all, it should not surprise you that there are limits to what can be achieved with reason or knowing how things work: Within the boundary of what can be thought about there are already problems that can be proven to be unsolvable, such as finding an algorithm that can tell whether a program will halt or not (undecidable problems), or finding a formal system of rules that is both complete and consistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem).

Now regarding physics - you said it yourself: The map is not the territory. Physics is nothing more than an ever improving map. It will never be the territory. The mental models you speak of are exactly the ever changing map which attempts to fit reality (which is what exists prior to giving it a name) to concepts which make sense to us. It is crucial to understand that our concepts/thought about reality will only ever be a subset of reality. Equations are nothing more than a description - they are not the thing in itself. Consider the question Stephen Hawking phrased: "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"

The last thing is understanding the difference between the soft problem and the hard problem of consciousness. These two problems are not on the same level at all. The soft problem can be successfully used as the "God of the gaps" type argument and therefore I could in principle agree that it can be eventually be resolved (though I might argue regarding the time frame required to solve it). The soft problem is "simply" fully understanding the functionality of the brain, part of which includes an explanation of which physical processes in the brain are followed by which experiences. The hard problem asks a completely different question: how does a physical process give rise to a subjective experience? Saying that the subjective experience is just some illusion while the physical process is real is silly considering your only access to reality is via your subjective experience, followed by your theories on what that experience means (including the thought that there are such things as physical objects).

Now the reason the hard problem of consciousness appears solvable to many people comes from the mistaken view that consciousness is an emergent phenomena of physical processes, that the "subjective" is emergent from the "objective". These terms are of course necessary for science to exist, but as many wise people who have meditated long and hard on this matter have suggested, the nature of consciousness exists prior to concepts, prior to the division of reality by the mind into subjective and objective and therefore prior to (and so beyond the scope of) scientific inquiry.
Ipad - $220

Macbook Air - $900

iPhone 8 - $700

While anyone buying this will likely have all 3 of these (or similar) I can't imagine buying an untested beta version hardware device instead of the three above items. Those 3 devices would actually come in less in all likelihood. The HTV Vive is already supported with a fairly robust ecosystem and this hasn't even made it to the "creator edition" yet. It would be awesome if this is as amazing as they say it is but frankly its probably another Clinkle type company.
Your hypothetical element of being pro-user makes it hard, because it requires a great deal of fantasy to support.
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He's apparently never been to China... or he'd already understand "Why VPNs".
I don't want a company that releases a "privacy focused browser" with telemetry enabled by default deciding which tracking is "ok" and which isn't. I love Firefox compared to other browsers but there's definitely some user-hostile choices being made at Mozilla and I'd rather they just not get involved in ad blocking (other than ensuring the add-on architecture allows proper blockers to do what they need to get the job done right).
I can't see inside, but I can imagine it is teaching people how to use Webpack 4, meaning it will have to be rewritten from scratch in two months, when Webpack 5 is launched (with many nice features, indeed!).
That's rapidly sliding back in America as higher (grad) education is increasingly becoming a good idea for only the independently wealthy. (That, and people in search of citizenship.)
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> We have two things that are ALMOST the same,

I think we've got a fundamental disagreement here. I don't believe they're similar at all. They just happened to get confused a lot in the past when it didn't matter that much.
Just try using it on Android. Regardless of if you like Uber's design better (which I think it is, though design can be subjective), Lyft would often show wrong locations, not show if a driver had cancelled, not cancelling rides when you try to cancel, and much more.
As a lay person, it's not clear to me whether these malacidins were found in mycelium (fungi). I'm inclined to think this is likely. If so, finding them in dirt is not really surprising (30% of dirt is comprised of mycelium - living and dead). It seems like the obvious place to look for new antibiotics.

For anyone that's interested in fungi I can't recommend listening to Paul Stamets talk on the subject more highly. Like a lot of people here on HN I take in a lot of information and his recent interview with Joe Rogan[0] was one of the most fascinating things I've come across in years.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ
A few months ago I set out to move to fastmail and then got lazy and didn't follow through. This is the kick in the butt I needed.
People don't understand how miserable getting a cab in SF was prior to Uber. It speaks to the original commenter's point that it really was, and still is, providing an exceptional service compared to what existed previously.
Chip fab has high fixed costs that take time to recoup. If they build more capacity now for demand that evaporates by the time it comes online, they are out a huge amount of $$.
I wouldn't "launch this" because it's not needed in the first place. You should accept email for what it is. The same point the article is defending.

> and was actually trying to make stuff better for users

Now, if we're talking about making communication between users better than yeah you need to go beyond email. E2E, open protocol, something like jmap (imap sucks), focus on privacy and interoperability, yada yada, so many better stuff to "fix" before trying to amplify my inbox and adding more rendering issues between platforms. Do you see a trend? You're now treading a thin line between chat apps, social networks, Android instant apps and glorified iframes. And introducing a whole new set of problems at the same time, not to mention the monumental effort required for something like this to keep backward compatibility (just so you can still call it email and use the superset). And getting the implementation right the very first time.

I too want the worst problems of using email to be solved but since nobody wants to adopt open protocols and work with each other (or eee the whole thing a year later), like history showed us time and time again, it won't happen. So again, let's at least no lose what we have now.

(Sorry I'm a little tired so my writing is bad)
500px's plain-spoken terms of service
If you can identify the recipient, then it doesn't provide privacy. If you can't identify the recipient, it is open to fraud by the principals.
Is it wrong that I don't particularly care about supporting the ad-based web? Ads don't interest me, and I don't particularly feel like making space for ads in my daily attention span and thereby degrading the quality of my web-viewing experience so big corporations can profit. The whole reason I switched from watching TV to using the internet as my primary source of entertainment was to escape advertising. I have a website and as long as it's up I am not going to put ads on it. I feel like information just wants to be free. I'd be interested to hear some alternate perspectives on this however.
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" if Tor made users untrackable by US intelligence, would US intelligence really keep funding it?"

On top of dragonwriter's answer, I'll point out that "U.S. intelligence" doesn't exist as one entity in the way you ask that question. There are a number of groups that cooperate in some ways and compete or just diverge in others. The NSA and FBI want Tor cracked the most to find their targets. Whereas, the State Dept and/or the CIA that back Tor's funding want to protect both dissidents and assets overseas from state-level agencies monitoring communications. They need it to be unbreakable for some set of nation-state attackers.

Now, that doesn't mean that it needs to be unbreakable for the NSA, etc. The original guidance I read on Tor even warned that global adversaries would probably break it. The Many Eyes collaborations have visibility into a lot of the network. They're probably also honeypotting it with high-bandwidth links. It's also written in a tricky protocol in unsafe language on OS's done similarly running untrustworthy apps. They'll probably always have attacks on it for at least worthwhile targets even if State and CIA don't want that. It will still be valuable in many threat models, including NSA if combined with other methods. Especially if about delaying rather than permanently denying them info.
I partly agree with you. But its a fact that you can't just start learning assembly if you have never learned C in the first place. So, young devs, please start learning C first.
As a consumer I like the speed of AMP but hate the usability of it (ever try sharing a link? ugh).

As a developer and a content creator? I absolutely hate it. Not only is my content hosted outside of my control but they give them a visual weighting in Google search results. So now, if I want my content to have the best chance to be seen, I have to use AMP.

I wish they would have just made AMP a framework or build system that out spit out optimized web pages. Instead they force us to use their CDN which also has multiple trust issues.
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