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Depends on your perspective. From an American perspective, our Fighters are half of the reason our carrier strike groups are so lethal, and our carrier strike groups are lethal enough to topple a small country.

They have to be lethal too. They're not just enforcing American law, they're enforcing International order by keeping shipping lanes open and international waters, well, international. Admittedly this capability is being challenged in the South China Sea right now, but it's important to keep the lifeblood of international trade flowing (shipping!) and America is pretty much the only player on this front.
I was talking about the graphic design of the product screenshots.

I'm personally not a fan of time limited trials -- I think feature or usage limits are better, especially when you don't have any users yet, and you need people to use the app and give feedback...
Google? Facebook?
I would say yes, post WW2. It's a wealthy capitalistic representative democracy which seems to be what people say when they mean "the West", at least in terms of economics and meritocracy.
And in five years the consensus might change again. Excessive use of everything is harmful. Use common sense.
Apple is not as good as its bottom line
"....a culmination of more than six years of planning and nearly three years of public meetings....". Now why would you say that? /S
A similar thing is happening with helium too. The concern over the impending closure of the US National Helium Reserve prompted people to start looking, and the results are already promising:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-07/tanzania-...
This story doesn't undermine the idea of meritocracy.

A rich child may end up a rich adult and a poor child a poor adult purely because of nepotism, with the two individuals being roughly the same in terms of skills and abilities.

But another explanation is that the rich child ends up a rich adult because his rich parents actually instill more merit in the child and he ends up with more skills and abilities.

In the latter case the standard could still be meritocratic.

I think there's truth on both sides - things like growing up in an intact family, or learning the value of thrift, are going to inevitably lead to better outcomes for the child - but I think there's also a whole lot of unmeritocratic signaling (who you know, where you went to school, etc) and on the reverse side, measures to prevent people from getting ahead (regressive taxation, poor schools, etc)
I'm not sure, but the idea might be that tests against (current gen) Russian and Chinese fighters are more important than tests against other American fighters. The F-35 has presumably had much more experience with the latter during development.
Hi ibdf, thanks for your feedback!

I've described my service in my comment to the original post above, and how's it different from existing services. It is a mobile app.

In short, however, my music streaming service basically tries to serve you the right music to go along with what you're doing (commuting, exercising, etc.), using an A.I. technology that can accurately understand the music you listen to.

Using this A.I. tech, we're able to understand your music tastes much better, and give you a "discover weekly"-like experience, on-demand.

Hope that clarifies, and would love to hear any other thoughts/questions you have!

Thank you so much for your questions!
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All IPFS needs is less install friction. The local IPFS server packaged as a chrome extension is what is keeping it back:

https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/issues/248
> My guess is that in 5 to 10 years, we will be blown away with some AI abilities.

I'm already blown away. The last decade has seen stuff come to fruit with actual applications that I did not expect to see in my lifetime. At the same time, plenty of stuff that we consider trivial for humans is still well outside the realm of the possible, so there is plenty of room for growth but even though there is talk of a new plateau in AI technology and applications of that technology I don't see it yet from where I'm standing.
> Indeed, SPECint performance continues to grow exponentially, albeit more slowly since ~2004

Interesting chart! However that looks like moving goalposts. If you allow functions to still be exponentials when the rate repeatedly diminishes, any monotonic function can be an exponential: f(x) = x is an "exponential" with diminishing growth rate log(x). That curve looks approximately logistic to me, as most technologies usually do.

Actually I believe speculative execution theoretically allows increasing linearly single-threaded performance for exponentially more multi-threaded performance -- so a transistor price Moore's law (if not power/density) should allow a continued linear single-threaded growth. The problem is that without power (inverse) scaling, this would also cost exponentially more power. It seems the slight increase in power visible in that chart could account for a fraction of increased single-threaded performance (other factors would be improved efficiency and architectural gains); expect those factors to also stall soon (which would fulfill the "logistic prophecy").
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I'd say headphones are a must in any office.
You don’t need 100% accuracy to save money using Waze. Even if they only catch 90% of speeed traps, that still saves you 90% of your speeding fines.

For you, whose speeding fines are $0, ninety percent of zero seems like a small number. But for someone who spends >$0 on speeding it is worth some money.
While not everyone is a fan of this, I think it's the best article on web design i've read in a long time, and easily the best thing i've read on HN this year. Kudos.

Not all the advice is going to work in all situations, but they do serve as a great collection of simple but effective tips for improving the design. I've spent a long time tweaking things about in this realm, so these tips are welcome even if i already use many of them. Seeing them together also helps identify new techniques or combinations you can use.

I don't agree with tertiary buttons with no border and no underline, for example. I think that poorly communicates what's clickable/tappable and whats not. But then again, that's an easy tweak.
Slightly off topic, are there any good books on urban planning? It’s a topic I want to educate myself more on.
I'm not completely opposed to digital center consoles, but I'd expect something that feels less flimsy on an $85,000 car.
Yep, and there's a whole market for radar detection. It's basically an unethical software feature.
It's great that you love AMP. There were probably people who were happy with Ma Bell's phone service too. Monopolies usually deliver efficient service, at least for as long as they have to.
I don't think that I need to given the universal stakes I’ve described. Neither you nor the original poster I replied to have explained why a much less significant “race” aspect would be helpful, and I’m not eager to adopt that burden for you.

Science works best as a collaborative effort, and races breed insular teamwork. There is already tons of money tomfoht cancer, not in the least because of the fame and fortune awaiting anyone making signifanct inroads to curing cancer.

So what does this additional “race” crap add that isn’t already there?
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Aren't people complaining that their office is too noisy to work in? I wouldn't be going to the pub to work, rather to relax and have a beer and a chat. For the record I'm talking about a traditional, "old man" pub where I can get a nice pint of ale and a table, not some trendy place full of office workers.
Different strokes for different folks, right?

I'm at a WeWork now and I'm far more productive than the time I spent working in a quiet home. I speak to people here who love it, I speak to people here who hate it. One of the best things about being in 'tech' is unless you're terrible, you can probably find somewhere to work that better fits how you like to work :-)
I've already beaten them out in some niche markets where we went head to head, so, yes.
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I believe that part of the difference is that when the education systems gelled in the US there was in the air the perception that the US is this historically radical experiment in democracy and that it needed a citizenry that well-rounded enough to participate.

I don't believe that there was as strong a sense for those things in other places. But it fit with the way that at least some people thought of the US, at the time.
Update: here's a one-liner that will do exactly that

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -strict -2 -crf 51 output.mp4 && rm input.mp4 && mv output.mp4 input.mp4

For better results, run the above command ten times:

for ((n=0;n<10;n++)); do ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -strict -2 -crf 51 output.mp4 && rm input.mp4 && mv output.mp4 input.mp4; done
For reference that's 2/3 of a standard bottle of wine, or a little more if you drink white wine. And that would be a boot of german beer, or 3 1/3 pints of pale ale or lager.
The only thinking I'm depending on Google for is some post-loading. Otherwise AMP is just optimizations, most of them are just thinks I hadn't thought of before trying to make my site AMP compatible (things like only using hardware accelerated animations and such).
>a completely insane Nixon proposed nuking North Vietnam

Knowing someone sane held back the insane leaders of each superpower gives me hope for the future. If humanity was truly hopeless, we wouldn't be here.
While an additional 6-8 tablespoons of nutritional yeast sounds like a great addition to my day, it's going to get old before the end of the week.
Are we really now scolding people for crawling the web now, and not following terms of services on Hacker News of all places?

And your stance is that people aren't allowed to judge characteristics about you from your public photo that you put online?

Are you also going to be outraged over people shame conference presenters over a lack of diversity in panels, which requires the same sort of determination?

What's next, requiring filters installed on peoples' eyes to prevent them from seeing race/gender in photos?
Depends on the mask. A good one is only really noticeable as something on your face. I find it easier to breath as the air feels cleaner and my chest feels less tight.

PS: I suspect re-breathing a tiny amount of CO2 probably has a measurable impact over a longer race. (Don't have data on this though.)
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Starting a group is the best strategy to know people. The organizer has some bonus standing. Attending to many meetups of other groups is the second best strategy. I mix them. My focus is on business relationships but I knew many people for sure.
I've worked at several different co-working spaces and it seems that the culture either becomes really loud (phone calls and open conversations) or library silent. Nothing in between seems to last long. I'd love to see this improve. It's like being in an elevator; it has a social weirdness that's hard to overcome — if that's even what people want. Finding a way to encourage conversation in some areas and silence in others would go a long way to making these places more enjoyable. How to do that? No idea. That's an open question and my guess is the alcohol centered parties are one attempt at trying to solve this.
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Like with a ballistic missile submarine?

Edit: Kalman Filter (ahem)
The best solution would seem to be reporting the fraud and money laundering to the police.
Should have gone with annual payout from re profits. Not sure if possible, but probably circumventable (through trusts etc)
This sounds a bit like 42 floors. Whatever happened to them? Did they implode into a black hole with the weight of their own hype?
If your merit is dependent on your parents instilling that merit in you it's hard to say it's merit at all, it had nothing to do with you, just the environment you happened to be born into.
This list is worth to recall and consider because it is actual in our days.
On what grounds could he get more from the hospital? IANAL and am not familiar with Japanese statutes, but the law almost certainly doesn't guarantee any entitlement to wealth from being born into a wealthy family. He probably has a very good chance of making a claim on the family's estate though.
The F-16 was shot down with an anti-aircraft gun with old skool iron sights. No one will ever develop a technology to defeat that.
Is this some kind of coastal culture thing, to add all kinds of stupid, non-productive crap to your work environment?

Here in flyover country, you can rent an entire suite of multiple private offices in a strip of class B office-park units, including utilities, for less than what WeWork is apparently asking for just one private office. And that's without the insane brand-connected features like having beer kegs at work.

Out here, a foosball table in the office is a red flag. People working on laptops on couches is a red flag. An untidy kitchenette is a red flag. Conducting an interview at a noisy restaurant is a double-red flag. (TSB. I was eating there with my family.) An open office plan is a red flag, unless it is clear that situation is aspirationally temporary, as the company is trying for ramen-profitability. People drinking beer at work is a triple-red flag.

I have been in plenty of small-business service company or business incubator offices (for me, plenty = 2), and they looked just like regular large company offices, except the employees all worked for different companies and had the actual keys to their own lockable office. In one of them, instead of a data center in the secure area in the back of the building, there was a bio-chem lab. Neither were hard to work in, even in the rent-by-the-desk bullpen, because it was quiet. The tenants were mainly working from home and using the rented office only for customer contact, interviews, and the mailing address.
Pretty much every movie production company ever, ad agencies, etc.. Not sure why tech thinks they invented this idea.
I don't know if this is what you're trying to say exactly, but I get tired of the mentality that "they only give to charity for the tax incentives." The govt has these incentives in place to encourage charity, that's a good thing, yet the armchair critics love to criticize people for using them, because they aren't being fully altruistic or something. Were taxes part of reason for creating the foundation? Probably. But it still exists and does real work. Overall this is a win for everyone. Dropbox continues to offer a good product, this foundation gets to exist, and money goes to them instead of the govt where it's restricted by all sorts bureaucracy.
Hi there - Jon from Mux here. We've been working hard on this product for the last 6 months and are excited to open it up.

Try it out and we'd love feedback. Free to start.

As background, here are a few blog posts about what we're doing and why.

Video is too hard - https://mux.com/blog/video-is-too-hard/
An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters - https://mux.com/blog/an-api-to-video-why-abstraction-matters...
Do you think that many experimentalists actually are able to / have the luxury of figuring all this stuff out if an experiment works? Of course when stuff goes wrong you investigate all confounding factors until you make it work, but that doesn't mean you've chased down every loose end. And if you are doing industrial drug discovery and development, then validation, documentation and quality are absolute priorities. But from my experience (again, managing tech transfers, not being an experimentalist), people solve for getting something to work with some level of reliability, and you simply cannot test all confounding factors

To use the Feynman example: experimentalists do all of the things the rat researcher did to "debug" an experiment. But you can do the same study in a different lab, and there may be another environmental variable you have to control for that didnt exist in the first lab. Especially when you have experiments that are orders of magnitude more complex than the rat experiment

My perspective is that in theory you can do perfect science and figure out all the variables but in reality you just can't. Again, not a scientist, but I think the reproducibility issues in research and low success rates in drug development support that perspective

If you are a mathematician, there is basically no expected failure rate. You prove it or you don't. If you are an engineer, some stuff just isn't possible, and unpredictable stuff happens, but many times there's a right answer. If you are a psychologist, if you get the treatment right half the time you are good. If you are a drug researcher, even getting one approved drugs is phenomenal. It's by nature a field with low technical success rates
They are in your phone.

10 years ago it was almost impossible to find a phone with a battery of over 1500 mAh. Today the standard size is 3000 mAh.

While the capacity has doubled, the volume of the battery has stayed the same or diminished.

There are phones with 5000, 6000, and even 10000 mAh batteries on the market today.

That's how I know that everyone complaining about thinner phones and reduced battery life is kidding themselves.

Thinphones are the top sellers, thickphones with batteries that last for days are not.
Why worry about a word in the title, and why worry if it is a race. Someone always has to lose a race. Right now its cancer patients.
The first assignment was writing an algorithm for managing a job queue according to some precedence rules involving job and worker properties. Input and output were JSON formatted data over stdin/stdout and my solution used native collections and car/cdr style recursion.

They said it was OK and asked me to turn it into a REST web service as the second part of the assignment. Now I had to keep score between calls but sharing data using a global structure goes against every fiber of my developer muscles so I picked a database. I'm no clojure expert but I guess in the real world most REST APIs are using databases under the hood instead of atoms.
I love libraries and my city has some truly beautiful ones. The problem with working there is that unless you work in a group you have to basically pack up your whole setup if you want to go to the bathroom or get a cup of coffee. The coworking space I'm at has physical access controls and the members/residents/inmates all know each other.
Technology makes a convenient scapegoat though.
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About #7, the article is not advocating making things not look like a button¹, it's advocating making secondary buttons lighter.

1 - In fact, the buttons there don't look like buttons. But that's because it uses a normal design, and nobody creates buttons that look like buttons anymore. Could we please standardize the "button look" with a small, fuzzy outset?
Doing both is an option.
My point is that there is prosperity outside of a college education, and that we should think about what assumptions are made by employers about people who do get a college education.
For those who are curious, see the Wikipedia article on Landauer's Principle [1]

I hadn't heard of this before, but it sounds like we are a long way off from reaching the limit; as the article states, modern computers use millions of times more energy than what Landauer's Principle implies is the lowest possible amount.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
Reliability, strength of the field (density), efficiency.
Comments of that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250704
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>In the latter case the standard could still be meritocratic.

This is a logical escape hatch of meritocracy because you can push money into services towards training the child, but the source of that money isn't self-owned by the child. It's essentially meritocracy alchemy where money=merits, but that undermines the idea of meritocracy in the first place.
Tokio for IO concurrency, Rayon for data parallelism.
I think it's a useful shorthand to indicate that someone/some entity is making too big a fuss about actions for which they intend to garner approbation. I especially like using it as it has become irritatingly common as a criticism currently, but usually deployed by those who see themselves attacking some nebulous left/liberal opponents.

I don't think your definition or objection is correct.
> Neither you nor the original poster I replied to have explained why a much less significant “race” aspect would be helpful

and

> Science works best as a collaborative effort, and races breed insular teamwork.

The answer to these is easy: history clearly shows that competition makes a big difference, in both science and technology.

Have you considered also that these collaborations often occur within a larger framework of competition between competing groups?

> fame and fortune awaiting anyone making signifanct inroads to curing cancer.

As I said in an earlier reply to you, this is a reason why competition is intrinsic. It's not a choice about whether you want it or not, it's going to happen, and the quoted part of your comment is pretty much admitting that.

> some poxy “race” ... a much less significant “race” aspect ... what does this additional “race” crap

you keep describing it in pejorative terms, without explaining why it is supposedly so bad. The only thing I can see is you mentioning "races breed insular teamwork". Do you have any evidence that races actually slow down progress, or is it just that you find the idea of them distasteful?

And I'll ask again, what has competition (there being races) have to do with ideology?
This is wrong, but it's a very common misunderstanding of evolution. There is no imperative for evolution. There is no "evolution must happen, how can we make sure of it"? Selection happens at the gene level, not the species level.
Isn't it the same for any large city?
> The study you link claims to study a "long term ketogenic diet", but only cover a 24-week period. That's less than 6 months.

24 weeks is 6 months give or take few days. but obviously you will keep coming up with higher barriers no matter the evidence presented to you.

you silence on this one is very telling: so what about that overeating protein? and what about your ketoacidosis fud? will you concede you were wrong?

inform yourself on the topic, then come arguing.
Silicon Valley was admittedly relatively pricey even by the late eighties. I turned down at least one job in that timeframe because of the CoL difference and I lived in Massachusetts which wasn't extraordinarily cheap.

But there certainly have been rapid changes, especially in some currently popular cities. For example, I believe Boton was still losing population in the 1990s and, at one point, when Teradyne moved out that was pretty much the last tech company in the city (including Cambridge) leaving. There may have been some early biotech but pretty much none of the Route 128 computer companies were in the city.

New York City was also in pretty dire straights in the latter part of the eighties.