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I used to swear by Waze, proselytizing to anyone who would listen, and otherwise. There are two main reasons I stopped using it altogether.

1) As tends to happen with our favorite apps, they started fucking with the UI. I don't remember exactly what it was at this point, but every release after Google's acquisition included some changes that made it less convenient and more aggravating.

2) I gave up having tower service and went wifi-only. Google Maps is very good at storing the map offline and recalculating without an Internet connection. Waze needs an internet connection every time a fly passes between you and the GPS satellite.

I still miss the police warnings, but I also changed my driving habits to where I don't need them anymore.
It also doesn't seem that far fetched to actually write a 60 page book. One topic per book (civil war, computers, carbons, whatever) copy and paste wikipedia articles on various points related to the topic, some crappy pics, and bam, one day of work and you've got something you could claim to be a real book if anyone started investigating.
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When I unexpectedly found myself single after a long-term relationship imploded last year, I did the Tinder/OKCupid thing for a bit. One of the more amusing experiences was when I had planned a date with a girl and was telling a friend about it. At one point after describing the girl's profile, my friend stopped me and asked about some detail before pausing and telling me "she's a smurf! I know her!"

(For those unfamiliar, Ingress players have tongue-in-cheek epithets for the opposing team. Green team are "frogs" and blue team are "smurfs".)

The date didn't lead to anything as I don't think she had any romantic interest in me, but it was definitely a funny point when during a lull in conversation I paused and gravely asked if it was OK for her to be on a date with a "filthy frog" and she busted out laughing.
There is no consensus opinion. The anti-war movement died with Obama's election. Since the consensus is that Trump worst president ever, actual crimes of previous administrations are irrelevant. Calling a country a shithole is worse than waging war against it, apparently.
This article is taking the estimated arrival time into account, but not sudden external influences like accidents or traffic jams. I’ve used Waze in São Paulo, throughout the UK and Germany, and find it to be very creative concerning route finding. In the same situations, Google Or Apple maps seem much more conservative and consider “riding out” the traffic jams instead of taking nifty shortcuts. Especially in São Paulo, that was a HUGE time saver.

Another feature I prefer with Waze is integrated speed limit display. I never had to endure any ads though in Waze, that’d be a reason to quit and switch.
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Niklaus Wirth's "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass" is an interesting read on language design (I started reading from section 4):

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/10bd/dc49b85196aaa6715dd468...

"Actually, a language is not so much characterized by what it allows to program, but more so by what it prevents from being expressed. Quoting the late E. W. Dijkstra, the programmer’s most difficult, daily task is to not mess things up. It seems to me that the first and noble duty of a language is to help in this eternal struggle."
There is pretty widespread consensus on the difference between topics where different viewpoints are valid and acceptable (taxi regulation) and not so (murdering people that didn't commit any violent crimes). There is no difficulty in allowing different ethical systems and still have some boundaries on things that a certainly unethical.
By the same logic economics is applied physics. This fallacy is called "reductionism".
Listening to Steven Pinker definitely makes me feel warm and fuzzy; he's an optimist and we need those. With that said though, I think that trying to show that things are better could lead to an incomplete understanding of the world as better is not only subjective, but a value judgement, and therefore can only be given within the framework of the currently accepted morals of the present day. If you substitute different for better, then you are more free to consider all the aspects of a change, not just the ones that present day society considers the most important. So you might instead conclude something like:

Current society is safer than societies of the past, but also more closely monitored, and therefore less free.

We haven't had a war of naked aggression between major world powers for a while now, but probably because the weapons we have available to us are far more apocalyptic in nature, and everyone is afraid to use them.

We are rapidly improving our control over nature, but at the expense of depleting limited reserves of various minerals, and polluting the earth's ecosystem.

I don't know that I would necessarily describe any of those developments as better.
The "no need" case is pretty thin.

People seriously underestimate how little you are promised in the plaintext HTTP scenario over a potentially hostile network (ie almost any network)

Everything you say, or the site says, can be read and changed by any third party between you on the network and there'd be no sign they did so, no trace left.

That's almost never what you actually wanted, so, why should we keep allowing indeed arguably encouraging this practice?
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Reminds me reading on some guy phoning his lyft drivers whether they're using Waze for a similar reason some days ago, may have even been on HN.

On the other hand, I in the starting days of apple maps noticed them having a baker in my neighbourhood twice. They got back via email I think a week or two after me reporting it, and a couple days later it was fixed, so maybe you're just not lucky here..
There is not a single area of the planet that hasn't changed for millions of years.
Not a thought that would have occurred to me since I was always bothered by crappy CRT monitors and knew full well most people couldn’t hear it.
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The faster the site, the longer a visitor stays and the more likely they are to purchase. Even Google acknowledges that as well as many other sites that study such things. Sites don't gain income by just displaying an ad in many cases. You have to have visitors click on them and, often, make an actual purchase.
I don't believe that myself, but I do believe that people advocating for a specific ethic are usually supporting their own point of view, which may be closer or further away from the ideal.
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Agreed -- I even think that we have concrete proof of exactly this. Namely that immortality already exists in the form of reproduction, if we discard the notion of an individual identity. Just as cells in our body have a much shorter lifespan than the body itself, so does the family or community have a longer lifespan than any individual member.
The scientist who coined the term Alpha (wolf) that inspired the "alpha" male BS thinks otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtFgdwTsbU

He made an understandable mistake of interpretation but no one wants to correct.

Science is also about accepting we erred.

To err is human, to perseverate is evil.
I'm the same, I'm quite new to iOS but I love the Maps app when it goes into a more birdseye view when you're coming up to a roudabout or other tricky areas, it's much easy to see which exit to take.

Sometimes I have to use Google Maps when iOS maps can't find what I'm looking for which is the only real let down.
I completely forget its name but wasn't there was a Mozilla project to do basically this a dozen or more years back? Obviously without the benefits of HTML 5 etc.
Western society rewards extroverts.

Are you sure about that? I get the impression that the English culture regards extroverts as freaks of nature and terrifying monsters.
I understand that companies heavily invested in silicon would like to portray it that way, but CPU frequencies haven't ceased to grow.

DARPA manufactured a THz transistor made of InP back in 2014.

Silicon isn't the only semiconductor in nature, and others are actively being researched.

Also, "when you increase the frequency you increase the power" (which is their argument) doesn't explain why they can't increase the frequencies. That was always the case even back in 1960s.

What they actually need to explain is why they can't make the silicon more power-efficient anymore; all toy-physics arguments (such approximations/linearizations work only for a very limited range of frequencies, if they do at all, anyway meaning their scaling-relations aren't universal like they're trying to portray and those coefficients they ignore aren't constant across voltage, frequency, materials, ... either; you almost never get such simple and universal answers in condensed matter physics even for much simpler problems) mentioned there could have been made 50 years ago as well, but silicon CPU frequencies did go up.
> What is wrong with me?!

You have an unrealistic expectation of Reddit. A subreddit is not an information dump for people who want to learn about a topic (for that you should look to the sidebar, or FAQ, or Wikipedia).

Its a community of people who are interested in a topic (and trolls... so many trolls) sorted by the most recent things they were talking about and whether the community wanted to talk about it. Communities don't constantly post and upvote introductory stuff in case new people happen by, but they are often responsive to questions from new people

Think of it like a clubhouse that you walked into. Right now you are standing at the bar trying to listen in on random conversations around you and saying "none of these people are talking about what I want to know in terms I can understand, some of them are even talking about whether they like the clubhouse's new decorations! WTF!".

Instead you should try joining into one of the conversations, or looking for a sign that says "new people come over here".
As an American, I've never heard of Vint Cerf until today, but have known of Tim Berners-Lee for years
It’s not just the number of offsprings a single individual produces, rather all offspring defending from that individual that should matter. You can waste energy trying to change according to the environment and live long enough to produce more offsprings, or you could use that energy to produce more slightly evolved offsprings Who in turn can produce more offsprings.
nobody cares.

How about that for rude or introverted :)
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> Out of interest, how do we know it's not a common but undocumented form of tinnitus?

I get the impression you can measure the sounds waves just fine, the folks investigating it just have a problem locating it. Which can happen if the noise doesn't come from a point source, and/or its wave form features aren't well suitable for tracking.
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If you're up for the task, I've wanted to write a script (POSIX /bin/sh certainly) for interaction with DNS providers. Basically lower the entry barrier, and avoid the web interface:

$ foo mydomain.org --init ovh
$ foo mydomain.org my.sub A 1.2.3.4
$ foo mydomain.org my.sub AAAA 1234::abcd
$ foo mydomain.org --remove my.sub A [1.2.3.4]

etc.

I have yet to find anything that handles any DNS changes in a simple, stupid way. Most API clients I've seen only handle one kind of request: acme.sh only does TXT challenges. DynDNS endpoint only does A records. Etc.
Try driving around in New Jersey, especially close to New York. There are some exits, for example, where the exit is two lanes, but one of the lanes splits off from the main lane, but you better be in that left lane because you have to keep left right after you take that right exit... and then take another right after that.

Lane guidance is very helpful in these situations.
You can click on the link icon beside the "techcrunch.com" text at the top and the actual link shows up. You can click it and go to the actual page.
I found the email pop-up he mentions in the story as being important extremely annoying and exited the page when it popped up. I guess it is different strokes for different folks.
Amazon is rapidly turning into eBay at its worst. It's very hard to buy things there. I used to send my 85 year old mom to Amazon to buy things, but she has trouble distinguishing name-brand items sold and fulfilled by Amazon from scammy clones. (And those pop-ups for extended warranties aren't good either.)

The fact that they let fake customer support numbers appear in Amazon hosted forums is reprehensible. And facilitating identity theft and money laundering seems downright criminal. I hope this victim can get the attention of a prosecutor.
"Virtue Signalling" was a stupid concept to begin with.[0]

But if you insist on using it, at least use it according to its actual meaning: proclaiming some supposed virtue without costs.

In this case, it doesn't apply because they are, actually, spending $20 million.

[0]: Because it's a cheap way to disparage anyone, cynically using the perceived virtue of their stated opinion against them.
Are those mission statements even aimed at consumers? I've come to see them more like legal safety nets for when investors complain (and potentially sue) about some high level decisions that could be seen as benefiting the users more than the investors: "It's in the mission statement, that's what you signed up for when you have us that money".
Your son could have that at a state school for probably free (depending on the state, and with good grades), and work in a restaurant three or four nights a week to offset some other costs.
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70 years is insane to begin with. Keeping art out of the public domain for that long does seem hardly in the interest of the general public.

They'd need to justify these 70 years really well. Which they have not.
>There are people out there doing 6 figures selling artisanal mechanical keyboard keycaps

Source?
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Or you could optimize your website and not depend on google at all forever.
May I ask for a source? I heard the opposite. Your car must not participate in traffic when you use the phone. It's fine if you're parked somewhere and have the engine off. But being parked at an intersection where people would expect you to react to traffic doesn't allow you to use the phone.
The thing about certificate authorities is the whole system is as insecure as the worst of them, so you may as well go find the cheapest.

I've even managed to get wildcards for $30/year from an alphassl reseller.
> Also, whoever thought it was a great idea to permanently stick a button in the user interface that brings up an ad for Waze Carpool needs to be soundly whipped

Since I do not drive or use Waze for navigation I cannot see how this works for myself, but could it be that they put this there so that you as a driver have an opportunity to start offering to give people rides rather than taking one? As a person without a license, I would very much like to see more drivers in my area. I hope that Waze can find a way to encourage more drivers to opt in (and to do so without being obnoxious or intrusive) so that I could use the service more. So far I have been able to take only one trip in over a month of using the app because there are no matches found. I'm commuting in LA and it's hard to imagine that there are not more people whose commute is similar to mine.
Not especially. It has goroutines, C# has Tasks, C++ has green thread libraries. Added onto this are channels which are basically thread safe queues, other languages have those too. (I am aware that there are differences between what features goroutines and Tasks provides)

Go's implementation of these things is nice, neat, and all included out of the box though which is nice.

In general you can make parallelism easy, or efficient, rarely both, at least not in a way that can solve problems generally.

edit: I should add Go does also come with a data-race detection tool which can be very useful. Not sure any other language includes that out of the box!
IYAM, any major web property such as google, facebook, credit card issuers, etc. should buy up all the most likely typo-ed versions of their domains so that this doesn't happen.

The average user is going to blame Facebook anyway if they get duped into logging in at faccebook.com, and it goes to protecting their brand (trademarks are weakened if the owner doesn't defend them).
if you went to traditional university instead of community college, then you would most likely fee different.

Community College typically don't have dorms and high participate in student orgs.
I know its not an online course and its a relatively massive tome, but I'd recommend just working through "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen/Leiserston/Rivest/Stein [1].

This book has great explanations and exercises for everything you could want to learn from the basics of sorting and algorithmic design and analysis, to graph algorithms, linear programming, and dynamic programming.

It lacks some degree of depth on more advanced topics, but if you work your way through it and actually implement what you read and do the exercises, you will be more than well enough equipped to take on just about any problem.

The key is going to be to actually implement what you read/learn, I think it might take you a little more time than watching an online course, but in the long run it will give you a much deeper knowledge of the material.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corm...
It's worse than that, the authentic name-brand listing can still ship scammy clones instead because Amazon aggregates the listing from multiple sellers and pretends they're all the same thing

Previous discussion including some firsthand experience from sellers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13926015
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What a load of nonsense
Sure, but it will save many more lives by reducing speeding.
You can simply start charging taxes based on money ingress, which I believe has actually happened in regards to VAT?
> where did that overwhelming hate for higher education come from?

Same place the racism comes from. Ignorance and fear. Anti-intellectualism must be at an all time high; and is encouraged by many prominant public figures
I see you haven't read a lot of right wing media over the past 20 years.
I would be interested in hearing what other's think about this from an economic theory viewpoint. As others mentioned in this discussion

friendship = time x struggle

Time, for everyone, is the ultimate "limited resource". As a kid, time seems an unlimited resource. As you get older it becomes more and more limited - both daily and in absolute quantity.

My situation. At 50 with my daughter off at school, and my wife working/living a thousand miles away, I realized that many of my "new" friends were coupled to my daughter and my wife. I didn't have my own friends locally - most were concentrated in my hometown. I was lonely but really didn't know it.

I go to the gym every day and often take group fitness classes. At some point a woman showed up in the class who had just moved back after being away a couple years. She and I became close friends and she introduced me to several of her close friends. Now I find myself with a very intimate social network and feel blessed beyond measure. Our is very much a "time x struggle" closeness - much time together and much of it working out and, when not working out, sharing our personal struggles.

My advice to anyone who suspects at some level that they are lonely is that you're probably right. But the world is full of kind, loving, trusting people - seek them out!
He totally missed the main reason most people use Waze. Crowd sourced speed trap locator.
I'm not sure what class of error this is, but it's a common reasoning mistake in discussions on evolution.

By your same logic, you could pick any species at all and call their traits "the winning strategy for long-term survival" as long as you live contemporaneously with them.

There are known species that don't seem to exhibit planned senescence--the naked mole rat is a commonly discussed example. Check the Wikipedia page for biological immortality[1] for more examples and info.

The article essentially claims that ageing is likely a result of interacting thermodynamic processes. If so, then without specific preventative measures, organisms will "age".

The discussion at this level is pretty hand-wavy. So without introducing more rigor, the best we can say is probably something like this: there hasn't been strong selective pressure in the past to develop anti-ageing strategies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
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At the Tier 2 regional colleges that people here tout as the alternative to Ivy League universities with astronomical tuition? That's preposterous, you don't even get teaching assistants!

Most people here went do university, and they still have no notion how the sausage is made. Why is that?
But Google also often uses "shortcuts" that send you through residential areas just to save 1 minute. Esp. in the US if there's no interstate anyway. Instead of keeping you on the large road, GMaps often sends you via small (gravel) roads.
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I still miss the police warnings, but I also changed my driving habits to where I don't need them anymore.

Hey, that's an idea: obey the law.

[ETA: funny that this is being downvotes.]
I wonder if the author is worried that now that they have had success getting their story on Hacker News and Reddit they will face much steeper competition. The product is cool but expensive, I suspect there is a lot of room to undercut their prices.
@patwalls: Curious, how're you finding founders to interview? Anything you've learned building out StarterStory.com that you didn't expect, and if so, what did you learn?

(patwalls is Pat Walls, the founder of StarterStory.com)
Why? You might come across his site, think it is interesting but need to move on to something else. Email is a really easy way to get reminders, learn more, etc.

Email converts well because the people on the email list have already shown active interest in whatever you're doing. It's a high quality base to market to.
How do you really know this to be fact? Perhaps it is simply something our cellular machinery can't "solve" or "fix"...

Emphasis is not exactly "can't", rather it is "has not yet"...
I wish the author would have expanded on that. I'm interested to know what the response was from the early customers. Did they accept? Did they offer to buy the next batch? Did they think it was weird and reject the offer?!
Cancer treatment should not be viewed as a race. The world needs to team up. We all win when someone finds a new cure.
Yeah, it's a city ordinance.
I'm sorry, i wanna say "Static analyzer"