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> And dying is necessary for evolution

That's not true. An previous generation might actually be better suited to a particular environment than the current generation.
As opposed to dodgy proprietary games from the original source, which would never, ever, include any malware.
Vegas has wide pedestrian boulevards, escalators for elevated pedestrian crossings, throughways inside casinos, and even a pair of monorails. The Strip is mostly linear and there aren't long stretches with nothing there - food, lodging, entertainment, and (of course) gambling are never more than a few dozen feet away at any point.

But I have to say, Rochester, MN - the Mayo Clinic - has to be one of the more extraordinarily walkable places I've ever been: the whole city is not only interconnected underground between apartments, parking structures, and offices but there are plentiful underground facilities as well. It amazed me to have streets so empty when I first showed up: I had no idea where everyone was! The answer is: why on earth would you go outside? :)
Ask HN: YC App Ideas from YC Partners, Alumni, Etc.
Do any YC Partners, Alumni, etc. - have startup ideas that they would like to see YC Apps for, and if so:

(1) What do you feel would be your requirements to endorse the application as "infinite" or "A"?

(2) What be the weekly growth metric you feel would be the benchmark to hit week over week?

(3) Would it be okay to follow up with you directly on the idea by email?
Also, how the hell is college so damn expensive when
the people teaching classes are paid 12 bucks an hour

Lack of effective price competition.

Imagine I'm the boss of a university, and I push through across-the-board budget cuts of 10%, and cut tuition by 10%. I drop the out-of-state annual price from $25,000 to $22,500.

Am I going to be widely praised for my radical move? Probably not, the price remains extremely high. Are sales going to skyrocket, offsetting the price drop? Probably not, most good universities fill 100% of their places.

Are loads of the colleagues I see on a daily basis going to be mad at me? Quite possibly! Did I take this job because I love slashing budgets for libraries and arts education? Probably not. Is there a risk, due to different departments' abilities to raise funds externally, that some departments will be disproportionately impacted? Absolutely.

If I'm a university boss and I want an easy life, much easier to turn a blind eye to increasing costs.
I'm a child-free man. My best friend of 12 years is a mother of 2, and 10 years older than me. We're extremely similar people, with extremely similar interests. We just have completely different daily lives. I'd really struggle to think of her as not a peer. But my identification goes in the opposite direction - I identify more more older people. So it's possible you could find peers among 20-somethings?
You put 3 p's in the endswapper link
I am not ridiculing anyone, I just do not want any special treatment for someone who willingly gets into that state. Try to spend a intercontinental flight next to this poor 170 kg guy as I did once and you may agree that - because they decided to be fat - they should pay two places in order to accommodate everyone.

BTW, I was 30 kg overweight. Then decided not to be anymore.

"Why did you work in a mine when you knew it could cause black lung?" - because I had to in order to bring money for my family. I have in very high esteem such people. As you say, you get the idea.

"Why did you willingly eat nasty stuff knowing what will happen, and you absolutely did not have to because you live in a country where you can get healthy (= normal, not some bio stuff) food?" - that's harder to explain. But still - this is a choice, we are free people, just do not come later stating that "you should understand, I have all these reasons not to be on time". Sorry, overweight, to get back to the main thread.
Having just read Greg Egan’s The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine (also posted to Hacker News today, a short story about how Silicon Valley would keep supplying people with enough income to continue selling them services once they had obsoleted them all), I must admit this sent a chill down my spine.
But if you did interact with the ad to accept whatever it is pushing, presumably you would be breaking the law.

It is not clear to me whether these ads are being presented in Germany, the UK or anywhere else where responding would be a violation.
How do you measure simplicity?
> The problem is that GPU don't have error correcting codes

.. eh? What are you referring to here? Mainstream CPUs don't have error correction either, unless you're talking about ECC on the higher-end ones.
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I don't think you can easily ban people telling each other about speed traps, and by extension having a program with similar features.

But I agree that it's an unethical feature. The people who have the most interest in it are the same people who routinely exceed the speed limit -- otherwise, what's the point!

Eh. If it were up to me, regular streetworthy cars would be both sensibly limited in power (say, 60 HP) and speed (say, 80 kph).
I used to think European roundabouts were exciting. Then I went to China.
There is self selection going on in the comments of just about every article. In general people with strong feelings are more likely to comment, and on the internet strong negative feelings seem to be more common (and especially in an article about failing institutions).

In this case, people that hated going to college (or hated the idea of going) are more likely to comment. People that were pleased with their experience probably don't care as much about the article so they either don't comment or don't read it at all.
I agree with the reply in that thread which points out that Rice's theorem is the real gem, of which the Halting Problem is just a particular specific instance.

Rice's Theorem is rather profound and relatively easy to understand - all that's really needed is a good grip on the mathematical interpretation of what a program is.
We are not given enough details to know what the criminal’s intent was.

It does look more like a card cashout method than a laundering method, two very different things.

A common cashout pairing is Payoneer + Amazon/Fiverr/Upwork/etc. Payoneer allows almost anyone around the world to get a debit card which can be ACH loaded with proceeds of many marketplace partners including Amazon. You can walk up to an ATM and withdraw cash quickly after selling to “yourself” on Amazon. Their AML/KYC methods are a joke.

All it takes is one weak link in the AML chain for identity thieves to succeed, and due to the unstandardized and nebulous nature of current AML laws, there will always be a weak link especially as companies struggle to scale quickly.

SSNs and easily-photoshopped ID scans as primary verification methods are the two biggest weak links in the ecosystem right now IMO.

SSNs as passwords should be illegal at this point. Homework: go see how long it takes you to buy your own SSN on the darknet.
> Do these types of PR lines from companies that make productivity tools actually resonate with folks?

In the case of Dropbox, for me, it comes across as cynical virtue signalling.

If Dropbox were funding the EFF or the FSF or even dropping some funding to CCC or FOSDEM then I could start to overlook their ties with the sort of people¹ that create clients for Warchild.

As it is this stuff comes across as pretty horrible, and I keep on thinking about Dropbox as being part of a network of businesses closely tied to the military that create the problems that they now care about.

I realize I am not their target audience, but this PR has the effect of making me dislike them more than ever.

1. http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
it's pretentious nonsense about how programming should be declarative rather than imperative and the implication that Haskell (the one true God) is. this point of view of course forgets that Turing tape machines came first and lambda calculus second and that most theory is still done using TMs rather than categories.
So would gamers.

"Nice LEDs bro"
"Nah that's my CPU"
Having 281 processes is not a biggie. Having 281 processes that can actually use a piece of the CPUs is quite a different thing.

I think we should, really, start thinking about such things. Maybe prefixing instructions with the execution unit that should handle them (and overflow back to the first one in a circle if we have more EU's in software than the actual hardware provides), separating dependencies within code flow in a more explicit way and, at the same time, not bothering with creating threads.
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Thank you! Edited.
In general, mining is very responsive to price signals. If a given commodity becomes dear, prices go up, and mining recommences. A couple of years later, all is back to equilibrium.

Our planet is fully of all elements. True, some deposits have higher grade ores, right on or underneath the surfaces, and are more accessible via transport links than others. It all comes down to price.
Anyone interested in this can take a look at the Bookmarklets context menu WebExtension: https://github.com/mems/bookmarklets-context-menu
>They never could have anticipated this growth

That's silly. San Francisco isn't the first city to boom. Detroit added more than a million people between 1910 and 1930. Brooklyn added a half a million people per decade in the early 1900s.

And neither of those cities look like Midtown Manhattan or Tokyo or whatever else SF residents seem to imagine is required to support fast growth.

They did it by building vast areas of multi-story mid-density mixed-use developments. There is zero mystery here, both about what was clearly starting to happen in the SFBA 30 years ago and what should have been done about it.
While there may be some important technological differences here, from an end-user perspective they already achieved this 5 years ago (https://blog.chromium.org/2013/02/chrome-app-launcher-develo...), removed it 3 years ago (https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...), and now they're adding it back in.

I like that we're moving forward, but on the desktop this just feels like, "Hey, look what you can do again!"
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If this were true how would we reproduce?
There are 664,435 reported abortions in 2013, compared to about 33760 firearms homicides. There is a scale difference but not in the direction you anticipated.
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How many sites like indyhacker and this are there?
Sure, some previous generation specimens could be better survivors than their progeny - but for the most part, the cycle of the creation of many offspring with mutations and the dying off of the previous generations provides most of the evolutionary "force".
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New languages are coming up, it will just take long adoption cycles, given the library and surrounding tooling ecosystem has to be mature enough to go with it.

Prominent examples being Go and Perl 6.

Perl 6 especially, given how audacious the project is. There are performance issues with it currently though, from what I hear they are working to fix it soon.
Thank you for providing this extra detail..

I do travel enough that I would need to bring the charger with me it sounds..

But yeah so far it's one of the nicer looking smart watches I've seen aside from my Pebble..
> There needs to be regulations in place so that we do not build another free market tech Stasi.

Too late, sorry. Try going back 30 years in time and pray our younger selves listen to you.

...

OMG!!! Did I just create Richard M. Stallman????
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I've been in serious debate with myself over whether to encourage my son to go to college when it is time. I guess it depends on what field I see him become interested in. I could provide enough resources for him to learn enough to get an entry level job, if he chooses tech. But I guess I still have that romantic notion of him getting a well-rounded education in many subjects that I couldn't help him with, making friends, and meeting interesting professors. At least I could help him find a good college. I was the first person in my family to even graduate high-school, so I was flying blind.

Besides the notion that so many jobs expected it when I was starting out, I'm not really sure what good it did for me. Put it this way, I couldn't even tell you where my diploma is. But once a month I still go online and pay for it.
I don't see any performance measurements before or after. Are these presented in the video? If not, this is a monumental waste of time in my opinion.
Universities make a boatload more money peddling basket weaving degrees in social sciences, psychology, athlete nutrition, literature of forgotten tribes of Egypt, history of hair weaving vs. engineering because the prices charged are nearly the same while the outlay needed to "train" a person for b.s. degree is smaller.

This means that universities are incentivized to peddle b.s. degrees.
More than likely he borrowed money and despite the entity structure, personally guaranteed it (which is typical for most small business loans)
Is this time different? Robots at the helm of financial markets and crypto
Are people honestly faster with emacs? I can see learning it for understanding purposes.
Nvidia is pretty big in the machine learning space in general, not game specific these days - GPUs are pretty general purpose highly multithreaded number crunchers and Nvidia's been making moves further in this direction with their own CUDA-based training tools, the DGX-1, the Jetson and other products.
If you squint a little, you'll notice that go is pretty big on not hiding complexity. There are obvious exceptions to this such as the garbage collector, and heap/stack control.

I'm unsure if the intent of not including a map function was due to this, however with a for loop such as

for x := range ch {
slice = append(slice, x)
}

, it is immediately obvious there are allocations happening in the background.

The fact that map access, and slice access is not thread safe means there is no trickery going on in the background. The fact that it is not threadsafe means I don't need to worry about a lock if I only write to a map when it's created. Sure the compiler could take care of this - they have the race detector after all, but the compile speed is one of the design goals of go. I really like being able to compile in less than 1 second.

`sync.Map` however calls a function which implies there is more going on in the background.

If you follow the go mantra of share memory by communicate, don't communicate by sharing memory - handling data becomes a whole lot easier. It does allow you to share memory in case you do need the extra speed.

Like most things, all designs are a matter of trade offs. Sacrifice one thing for another. There are other languages that provide the functionality you desire - but I understand the frustration when one thing is 90% what you want.

Go obviously has room for improvement, and perhaps a native threadsafe map is one of those areas.
It seems like you got snared by the title. My gut reaction was the same, but I was pleasantly surprised by the article.

Its main point is that ageing follows a roughly Gompertz-Makeham distribution, the statistics of which also nicely describe "wear-and-tear" processes like protein breaking.

The final paragraph even explicitly addresses the concerns you raise about possible routes to intervention in ageing processes.
The mayo clinic link is actually reaffirming my opinion:

>For most healthy people, a high-protein diet generally isn't harmful, particularly when followed for a short time. Such diets may help with weight loss by making you feel fuller. However, the risks of using a high-protein diet with carbohydrate restriction for the long term are still being studied.

They are still being studied - poorly at that.

The second link is hilarious in that it fails to even describe the two types of LDL cholesterol, but lumps them both in as "bad" - which is typical of the "cholesterol is bad" crowd. In fact - the first study I clicked on in the nutritionfacts.org fails to mention the same. How can you do a study on cholesterol without even testing the two types of LDL? Frankly, it's embarrassing and is absolutely not mechanistic as you say.

Once again, these meta studies are attempting to show that a diet with lowered saturated fat intake is better in the long run than your average diet. This is not something that anyone is debating. However, it absolutely can not be misinterpreted as proof that high protein/saturated fat intake, in all cases, is bad. Which is exactly the mistake all of these authors are making, and is why there are many intelligent people on the other side of this discussion as well.
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What could be an objective basis for morality?
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No the business model is very different now in some key ways. First, I'm not aware of any seed manufacturers having any motivation or ability to prevent the genetics in your seed from spreading before. They didn't license what you could and couldn't do with descendants of your crop. They were suppliers of materials (seeds), not licensors of the genetic code they contain. It's quite analagous to buying and owning a BSD CD with freedom to do what you want with minor conditions vs buying a license to possess a music CD and listen to the music under certain conditions. Second, the higher barrier to entry and how recently GM became a factor (and how significant the advantages are, especially the short-term ones) has essentially allowed a monopoly to form, and there's even less competition than there used to be.
Go can use multiple cores. Goroutines will run in parallel (assuming GOMAXPROCS > 1.)
That's untrue, there are a number of biologically immortal creatures[0]. Most recently found being the naked mole rat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
There's a bunch. This site (which is mine) interviews e-commerce businesses and businesses that sell physical goods. There's also https://www.failory.com (interviews failed businesses) and https://www.blogprofits.co (interviews blogs).
I've been looking at Haskell, Rust and Go for helping with parallelism but decided to go with a less known language: Pony. Not used actors a lot right now but looks really promising.
This sort of thing is just killer in the hobbyist market - think people out there making miniature train towns, very-high-setting-realism RPG campaigns, etc. It's not a billion dollar business, and it doesn't have to be.

There's endless potential for lifestyle businesses in the hobby world. There are people out there doing 6 figures selling artisanal mechanical keyboard keycaps.
Or "occasional" contributors. My biggest problem is I am often reading the comments a couple of days later and the discussion is no longer active.
Google should be penalising the actual problem - page weight, not building their walled garden.

So encouraging speed is ok to a point. Do they stop there and create AMP because Google is so invested in their ad ecosystem? Serious question, as it's hard not to feel cynical when the solution appears to avoid the actual problem. AMP seems a way of actively avoiding the issue.

It's so far beyond ridiculous that a website downloads from 30 domains, and pulls down so much JS that you have more code than an entire 16 bit OS, GUI and game, just to see one text only page.
So what? Those scammers will just take chapters from multiple different books slap them together and there you go, same auto generated book but with non-gibberish text.
There is a genus of jellyfish that don't die of old age because they can revert to juvenile form after aging:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula
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not sure if this should stimulate me to re-try Haskell, or to totally scare me :)
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Almost 9 years for me without downvoting.
Would you say this is good for someone who has recently graduated and has been in industry for a year or so to refresh on?
I though the same!
Not sure where you get pleasant perk from - a lot of teachers I know are often working 12 hour days.
Time for a class action against God. He's got the money. Every rich guy keeps comparing how much money they have to him.
I just love this huge bluish background with the text "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.". I guess in 2018 I need scripting even to display some text and images.
i don't know, i know i have a bad one, as after 15+ mins of cycling, when i get off the bicycle... can't describe it differently.. my balls sleep... and i can describe that that is not a pleasant feeling. e.g. 10 fold worse then a sleeping foot or leg.
Just to clarify: are you arguing that sexism against men and racism against whites is OK because these other people exist?

If not, what you just said is pure whataboutism.

It's also incorrect. People on this very page are arguing that conservative speech shouldn't be protected because of the existence of those extremists.
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>Is there any sense in trying to go all out and write my analysis code in Julia or Numba (via Python), and spit out the LLVM IR to feed to Emscripten and compile to JS?

Julia is working towards something like this. This GSoC project description is pretty clear about the current state of web assembly:

https://julialang.org/soc/projects/general.html#webassembly
> Am I the only one who thinks the way we deal with certificates is just completely backwards?

No. https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/moving-to-https
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I love Spacy, and highly recommend it to anyone who needs to build production NLP software.

It is truly groundbreaking, and a major improvement over NLTK. I also recommend gensim, another phenomenal library for NLP.
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I spent yesterday creating an AMP portion of a website and it was a pain, I got it to a decent state but when I ran performance tests it wasn't that much better but the usability seemed to suffer. I'm not sure if it's worth it. The website's sole business purpose is to succeed in SEO so that's why I thought it might be worth doing (if it sends a signal to google). Since non-amp and amp are already getting high marks and loads very fast I rather not include amp if doesn't actually increase SERPs. If someone knows the facts here I'd love to know because I scrapped it and would prefer not to look back.
What do you mean by 'right research'? Proper scientific method will give reliable results no matter what motivations the scientists or their institutions have.

Do you perhaps instead have 'right' or 'wrong' priorities of science funding in mind? That's a political issue which should ultimately be decided by the voters and the representatives they choose.
Right, because it has a net positive total, but instead has a net positive reaction from the community.
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These look like they are of exceptional quality and I can see these being _incredibly_ popular. I'd certainly love a desk full of different bits to help me think along in the day.
I wish I could download this because it is so wrong. There's been a lot of amazing work in biology explaing why aging exists. It has nothing to do with physics
For downvoters, I guess parent is making a reference to the Evolution mail/calendar client from Gnome. Which is (was ?) indeed a memory hog.
From a quick search, looks like Comodo's PositiveSSL is being resold for $3.88 for 1 year and $2.88/yr for 2 years.
So if I fix my DNS to 8.8.8.8 (or other well-known public DNS) does that not largely squash the coffee-shop attack vector?