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I've chosen to live outside of large cities, in suburban areas. I think of cities as the noisy, hectic places that I'll visit occasionally for some specific purpose, then want to leave as soon as possible. They feel like crowded, hostile places to me.

A big part of that is probably that I wasn't raised in a city, so my contact with them has been while on vacation. Living somewhere and vacationing somewhere are certainly very different experiences.

I live within walking distance of about a dozen restaurants and a bar. I've never been a nightlife guy. There are museums and concert halls 30-60 minutes from here. My home is fairly cheap for the area, and I live under 15 minutes away from work. I don't feel like I'm missing out.

So while I understand that a lot of people would like to live in a city, I don't see the attraction. I feel like the downsides outweigh the benefits.
Amazing job! Congrats :)
Balance in all things: a design should be minimalist where that is called for (the background, unimportant or repetitive elements, etc.) and should increase in visual complexity/depth/color/brightness in areas that are important and need to draw the users eye. (NB: minimalism does not mean "nothing". Sometimes a slight texture completely changes the feel of a UI, but it requires a deft hand.)

I'm glad to see the flat-ui/material-design over-application of minimalism is coming to an end and designers are getting back to more complex visual treatments. My hope is that, rather than casting back and forth between the various schools of thought, designers start thinking in context-sensitive terms: not "Should I use flat design or skeumorphic design for this app?" but rather "Where in this UI are flat design AND skeumorphic designs best utilized?"
Couldn't a conservative say exactly the same about climate change research? How historically climate change research has been used to justify increasing government powers?

What would you feel if someone said about climate change something like "I am very recalcitrant about allowing that understanding into politics, policy or most discussions I want to have about anything"?
So not Canada, half of the year?
I was also on the science/rebellious side, which was really cool learning since of course ~80-90% of the things I disputed I was wrong, which only made me learn and be more motivated! I built my model of why I thought something was not correct, if I thought it was strong enough I'll ask some key questions and then I'd learn about it.

I don't fully agree with no simplification though, but I agree your teacher reaction was wrong. I think saying something like "yes, there are more states, but these are the ones commonly found in nature" would be the best.

I've taught programming, and for example in Javascript I would just teach that there is a type that is Number. But I wouldn't go into detail between int, float, different bases, etc since it doesn't make sense in a really basic level when general knowledge is more important.

At points some people would ask me more advanced or old-school questions, like table layouts, then I would acknowledge those exist but there are better alternatives nowadays and that I would teach that.
IQ can be measured in middle school (before the student has a job or income), and the resulting score can be used to predict future income and job performance. In that sense, it is a predictor rather than a mere association.
>Direct democracy for every issue individually is not the best overall system.

Straw man in the wild. Nobody here advocates direct democracy on every issue.

However, one simply can't argue that a government that acts against the interest and preferences of 90%+ of the population it supposedly represents and serves is doing a good job.

>Furthermore, legalization of cannabis requires more...

You speak of these questions as if they haven't been answered already in several countries and multiple states in the US.

And in any case, this is another strawman. The problem is not the slow rate of legalization, it's that the Federal government is not moving at all towards that goal (in particular, by keeping marijuana on Schedule I), when simply letting the states regulate the issue would have satisfied many people.
Didn't the "tokens backed by something off-chain, and then a fork happens" already happen with Digix?

I believe they just basically said "we are treating the tokens on Ethereum, not on Ethereum Classic, as being the ones which are redeemable".
I don't see what the problem with this is. It is inconvenient for the people who prefer to use Ethereum Classic, yes, but they didn't lose their tokens. They still have control of those tokens on the Ethereum (ETH(F)) chain, and can sell those if they want to end up only using Ethereum Classic.

This is unfortunate for them, and if this inconvenience could be avoided for free, then that would be better, but I don't think it is unfair to them. They still have the same control over the same tokens that are accepted as legitimate as they did before.
Not only do I think there's a lot of benefit in representing data for which the schema is already fixed, we've actually gone to the extent of showing this by building a whole replica website for Stack Overflow.

https://github.com/dgraph-io/graphoverflow (unmaintained, so please don't complain if it doesn't work :-)).

If you build systems like inventory tracking, question answering, etc., the hard logic of relevant data retrieval can either lie in your application or within your DB. Former is the case when you use relational DBs, latter is the case when you use graph DBs.

With graph DB, you can put the data together quickly, but then have the DB do the hardlifting of "given a customer, find me all the items and the locations of delivery" (just random Q that I spent 2 seconds, not representative of real workload); or "given a question, find me all the answers, sorted by a score; top 5 comments on these answers sorted by date, with a count of total comments, count of likes, count of dislikes, etc." (real workload for QA sites). Then the application iteration becomes largely a factor of query iteration, not backend logic iteration.

^ And that's solid! That kind of stuff is what makes developers love JS over C++ (random comparison).
Ditto for my $8,500 Nissan Leaf EV. I have read the issue is Tesla has no experience with steel manufacturing.
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> Just a few months ago, they were still building Model 3 cars by hand.

And this why quality is all over the map. Manufacturing cars at scale is hard. It's a similar problem that Apple has. There are designs and components, and then there are designs and components you can manufacture at scale. The two are often very different.
Sure, I love the fact that I can speak many languages. Why not.

If you don't like the translation form 方言 to dialect, should I just call it fangyan or 方言? Or is there a more precise linguistic term for that?

Our definition for "Language" is also different then. Should we call it "Yuyan" instead?
I have mixed feelings about this.

Lets take something that most on here probably remember, the floppy disk. It is still a common sight as a save icon, but my youngest children have never USED a floppy.

I don't mind the concept, as long as the concept isn't sacrificing functionality, and astethics for the sake of nostalgia.
Google Accounts are free and simple to create, so if a user doesn't want to "link everything together" they can create a new separate account that they only use for Kapwing. Plus, we're aren't "linking" to your Facebook/Google data; we're just reading your name and email from your account.

We decided to rely on Google and Facebook for three reasons: 1. It's technically easier, and since so few users care about needed to sign in with one of them it's a low-priority feature request to add email sign in.
2. My co-founder and I worked on Google's identity team for a year. The fact is that passwords SUCK - people hate them and they lead to a huge amount of friction in UX. Reducing the number of passwords that a user needs to remember is a huge benefit.
3. Having user's "real" identity helps with validating credit card transactions, sending follow-up receipts and confirmations, and personalizing the site. If we do one day become a social network, we're less likely to be taken over by bots.
Of course there are, just like there are many valid reasons for leaving a return address off of postal mail.

Imagine the anonymity of the type of P2P networks that could be built if end users could still rely on ip->saddr not being required. Broadcast a request for a specific file, and then willing/able peers could anonymously stream fountain-coded bulk data, and nobody would be able to tell who actually supplied the file.
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> Tesla refuses to disclose buyer lists to third-party research companies that have been trying to conduct such surveys.

I would prefer it if my car manufacturer wasn't selling out my personal details so I can be harassed for surveys.
The very first thing I thought of when I started seeing everything moving to "flat design" was "I wonder how long this will last?"

I figured everything would go flat and then designers would bring back skeuomorphic designs and they would pop extra hard in contrast.

Now I bet we'll go really loud and retro ("Stranger Things") for a while until we get worn out and need to take a break and go flat again for a while.
While much of this article hits upon the right points, I’d like to add a few things.

- GitHub also allows you to display your activity on private projects (as long as their development also happens on GitHub, of course).
- It’s not a great indicator, but it’s an indicator of what kind of programming people do for fun (or alternatively, that their employment/life circumstances don’t allow them to be active on GitHub).

I don’t think not having anything on there is a bad thing, but I’d like to talk to the candidate about why. Sometimes you’ll learn that people have the most fun non-programming hobbies or the most responsibly-filled lives.
It is essential to discriminate in hiring on the basis of qualities that are relevant for the job. If a person's race or sex does not affect his or her ability to perform as a programmer, but his or her intelligence does, then of course you use perceived intelligence as a criterion. Athletic ability is heritable. How can sports teams not discriminate on the basis of athletic ability?
Couldn't agree more.

I was a reluctant convert to the cult of flatness - the OS changed beneath me (if OSX still allowed theming I would have instantly regressed). Then they took it so far that you no longer have enough visual cues.

I'd love to see something nearer iOS 7, or Mountain Lion. We don't need to return to pads with margins and torn paper though.
So.. if I have multiple proposers spread across a WAN, all trying to update the same register, latency will be pretty bad. Every update will incur an unbounded number of RTTs (in case of a duel), but usually at least 2.
75% ISP's in Europe don't do IP Filtering.
Oh yeah, I got that in University. If I remember correctly from thermodynamics, high pressure and heat above the triple point [1] makes the change from liquid to gas to be a continuum and not a discrete jump.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_point
That's not even a true statement.

In fact, you actually don't need to apply skepticism towards your pet political topics, in order to apply skepticism to the IQ test. Funny thing, the physics of this world seem to allow you to treat unrelated things differently. Even more so, your ability to predict the movement of the stars doesn't depend on reading articles from Flat Earthers either. Weird!
Tomorrow (March 9), the sun rises at 6:05 am in Pensacola. This bill would have it rise at 8:05 am. A couple of months ago it would have risen, in their new found EDT life, at 8:46am.

It's weird, given that the panhandle is solidly republican, that the GOP dominated Florida legislature wants give those folks a ~9am sunrise. They are probably very lucky it's not likely to happen.
a blockchain is an immutable ledger that keeps transactions transparent and untampered. can be used for all money transactions and also for asset ownership and log transparency by governents.

It is very simple.
What if both the SAT and "college performance" are biased in the same way?
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[This is Julia, the OC] If you're interested, we wrote a blog post on why we included the "I don't want to pay" option and our reflection on the results. It's the first blog article on our website. Also the fact that you would call this "information rape" is kind of disgusting...The user doesn't have to give us information, can create a new Google Account if they want to, and are only asked for read-only access to their name and email. Happy International Women's Day!
The only catch I've had with Rocket is that it relies on nightly. This can create issues with other libraries, and it is constantly requiring new versions of the nightly version.

If you're going to use Rocket, I recommend pinning the Rocket version in a Cargo.lock, and setting a specific version of nightly with rustup override.
The question is not whether or not someone would accept it. The question is, would it make sense for charges to be filed against you if you had accepted the cheque (or not accepted the cheque).
This is why people do twin studies. Orphaned twins that were separated at birth are as close to a natural instrument as one could ever hope to get.
The reason why Teslas don't sit at a dealership is because Tesla doesn't have dealerships.
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Less impressive than the title suggests. The solution was likely pre-calculated. As in, all moves to complete were known before the first move was made. I'd endeavour that they were known before the video started rolling. The robot did not pick up the cube from a random placement. Essentially this is less impressive than most AI, as the game is not very complicated, nor are the motor functions.
There are a lot of technical reasons. At the wholesale level there is no way to know if a source is valid. Even AT&T routes to dozens of providers for some calls and has no idea what is going where. Even local calls from someone in your own city might end up on someone else's VoIP network to get connected.

It is true though if the FCC started handing down fines that VoIP providers would require insurance/bonding all the way up. That would not fix it all but would be a large jump forward.

We also need end-users to force the issue. File suits and complaints. Every time we'd receive a complaint the resolution was "we blocked that number" and "we have no further info". If there was someone pushing a lawsuit through then suddenly everyone up the supplier chain would hand over their customer info right to the real end-user.

Instead, the FCC runs silly programs like their Anti-Robo-Dialer thing.
I have tried evil mode many times. It just doesn't work. It may be 99% faithful implementation of vim but I hit the missing 1% so often that I throw up my hands before quitting out to use the real thing.
It's probably worth noting that the "consensus statement" cited here was only signed by 52 of the 131 researchers it was sent out to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intell...
> Haredi Jews are notable in being an oppressed minority in Israel

Forgive my french, but what the actual fuck? Haredim are almost dictating the whole country their religious laws, calling them "oppressed" is as far from reality as you could get right now.
[This is Julia, the OC]: We started integrating with Paypal and basically gave up because of the engineering effort required. Vs Stripe, which has a great web and iOS app and has been seamless from day 1.
It's essentially what SSA is.
Prove the badness of coworkers at your own risk (2012)
Nonsense. The last two full time jobs and several gigs I've landed in the last five years I provided the hiring manager with a link to my public profile on github in lieu of a resume.
Do you honestly, truly think this is a productive question?

Yes, someone could make structurally the same post I did about any topic instead of intelligence research, even right down to the grammar. Turns out that completely changes the meaning of the post!

The answer is that I think climate research has clear and obvious input into not just state policy but how we structure large scale human activity in general. So, I would think such a conservative was wrong, and perhaps an asshole too depending on how earnest they are.

But you could have already guessed, so did I miss the point of your question?
> Notice there are no textures.

It has a leather case and metal binder rings. It absolutely has textures.
Changing paths in PDB files for source files (and PDB file path in DLL as well)
>This is not a problem innate to cities, and it’s not even endemic within cities that have these problems.

Density still matters though. You can go your whole life in the middle of nowhere without seeing someone take a dump in a public place or see a car that's been broken into.
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I'd be on board with you if we were talking about cars falling apart or actual maintenance.

UX in radio receivers drive me crazy every day. Slightly non-symmetrical gaps in hardware I don't look at? Not really ever.

And you'd think the latter would tell you something about maintenance costs. Maybe it does in aggregate? But I've had expensive lemons and beaters that withstood anything, and vice versa, it just really depends.
The issues I have with Hulu aren't all that different from the issues I have with Netflix. Yes, content is removed without warning, but it is on Netflix too. Yes, there's a delay between a show being broadcast and it showing up on Hulu, but there's a considerably larger gap with Netflix. Neither of these applies to Hulu's own original content, same as it doesn't with Netflix.

All the streaming services, IMO, share the same flaw - they can't provide all the content I want to watch. I really wish we'd ended up in a world where I can just buy the latest episodes of Black Mirror, Handmaid's Tale and Star Trek: Discovery when they come out, rather than have to maintain separate monthly subscriptions for each, but alas. Ironically, I can buy a lot of network show content by the episode on iTunes/Google Play/whatever.
How many Honda’s have falcon wings?
You might enjoy reading Glory Season by David Brin. It's a scifi novel with pirates and a competitive version of Conway's Game of Life- it's not central to the plot, but I've forgotten the plot and still remember Life. I read it several years ago and it piqued my interest the way Brin describes the time spent searching for new patterns.

It won't help you understand the mathematics of the game, but it might help you appreciate the beauty.
Please do bring it back. In my opinion, it looks better than the flat modern interfaces that everybody now uses. Starting with Windows 8 phone minimalism has made computer interfaces uglier, and harder to use.

It seems like UI designers are just as fashion concious as clothes fashion designers, and also have less concern for the comfort/usability of their product.

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They’re not, in the scheme of things, making very many cars, though. Once the true believers are exhausted, I suspect they’re in trouble.
I wouldn't have been hired for the jobs i've had if it wasn't for my Github. I don't think false-negatives should lead you to disregard the ability to find that perfect developer. Is it not your responsibility as a developer to keep an accurate portfolio of your skill set?
Is disclosing a buyer list really that big an obstacle to those research companies? Like, how much could I charge for a (large) list of Tesla owners?

It seems like an easy thing to motivate (share your Tesla story, learn about other owners', here's a free t-shirt) and confirm (what's your VIN). Much easier than other target audiences to develop a true survey audience...
Ask HN: Hosting a website
Hello everyone. What do you recommend is the best option for creating and hosting a SaaS website (mostly static except for user registrations and payment gateway integration)?

Should I go for a website builder like SquareSpace, Wix etc.

Or should I go for AWS S3 + Lambda to host the site (my SaaS is deployed on AWS stack anyway) and do payment gateway integration myself.

Or are there any other options that I haven’t considered? My priority is to make the site look professional and also try to keep the prices down.
For that line of reasoning to work, you'd have to prove that the IQ test only presents novel challenges unrelated to practice tests. I think that's a much higher bar than you are thinking, and I'd be interested to know how they would prove it.
There are a few online. Just search for homebrewing water chemistry calculators.
> One of the most shocking things for me when I went through highschool a decade ago was how new things we learned about maths/physics showed the previous things we learned were not accurate. Things like relativity and time dilation, integrals/derivatives, etc.

I can see this for relativity. If any physics is explicitly taught before relativity, it's going to be Galilean/Newtonian.

I'm having trouble thinking of anything taught before integrals and derivatives, though, that is shown to have been inaccurate once the student learns about integrals and derivatives.

At least in the US, my recollection is that before calculus we just get arithmetic, geometry (sometimes), algebra, and trigonometry, and that all holds up fine when we get calculus. I'm guessing you are not from the US, because you said "maths/physics" rather than "math/physics", so it is different here. What was it that learning integrals and derivatives revealed as inaccurate?
I don’t have cable. I have DirecTVNow. I can get most of the shows I watch on Hulu via DTV, but I still subscripbe to Hulu without commercials because it is a much better experience.
I think the problem people are pointing out is that those cars go sold so quickly because of Tesla's great marketing and brand image. Quality problems could change that. If Tesla goes from being "the sexy new car company" to "the first company that really made proper electric cars, but now other people do it better", then they could lose it all very, very quickly.
The floppy - sure, that's obsolete. With what should it be replaced that's universally recognised? Does your youngest need to know it's a floppy, and what that once meant, or just it's the funny icon for save? Just like some of the other indecipherable "universal" icons.

The trouble with flat design is it had design without any aesthetics, so a return to some depth and skeuomorphism isn't likely to lose aesthetics.
Of course IQ tests test for secondary effects of intelligence. In what way does that invalidate it? It's important to remember we're talking about population level distributions here. A person could theoretically test well for some form of IQ but actually be a moron. That would mean nothing with regard to the efficacy of the test or validity of IQ in general.
i wouldn’t say that’s true at all. proof of work isn’t the only “artificial scarcity” that we can have... its paying money to compute some thing to get a vote... why not just put money for a vote? or better yet, prove that you have the means to pay a lot of money for a vote.

if you have to hold a lot of limited thing X (that’s difficult to get; eg $10m worth of ETH) on the very chain you’re securing, then that’s scarcity too.

another benefit here is that you can make a trusted network; that way you don’t have nodes coming and going, you have a group of trusted parties with their own network, and there’s less potential for a 51% attack

electricity and work isn’t the only thing that can be scarce
I meant as background fill. Textures here are used to augment (borders) and not fill.