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> This is a conversation I have occasionally had with non tech friends. I'm sorry, you are the one being hyperbolic. It's like you haven't even noticed what's been happening the last 10 years or so.

In my opinion, you're mistaking apathy for ignorance. Reasonable people can disagree about whether or not the exchange is fair. I work in tech, have heard everything you just wrote many times, and my response is continually, "Eh, I'm okay with that." People I've spoken to about this outside of tech often don't know about the data collection to quite the extent you're talking about and don't care about it. When I mention how extensive the data collection is, they're often surprised, but often they still don't care. The most I've personally seen is a vague discomfort that didn't seem to persist, given the person's behavior didn't change at all.

It gets kind of frustrating for people like myself to hear this argument rehashed over and over in the way you've just presented it, as though people who are okay with their data being used simply "don't understand" or haven't been paying attention. Everything you wrote is - while clearly not neutrally presented - in the zeitgeist on HN. There's nothing really new about it, and you're only convincing the people who already agree with you. Yes, we know our data is being used, we get it. We're picking up what you're putting down. Right there with you. We just don't really care.

You can draw a normative conclusion about me based on that statement if you'd like. It probably sounds callous and asinine from your perspective, but like I said: reasonable people can disagree. Anecdotally speaking, most people I "enlighten" about the data hoovering you describe don't meaningfully change their behavior or preferences. Consider that when people are not aware of how their data is being used, it doesn't always mean they're being victimized; it can also mean they are vaguely aware that their data is "out there", and they implicitly don't care enough about it to investigate further. That's a valid position to take.
It's unlikely that humans could colonize space without entire ecosystems. If that (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/how_habi...)
i know it's a joke, but the usb logo on the plug is always on top, so you can just orient it 'up' according to the underlying board (up for laptops, and facing left for desktops)
That is pro-OurLanguage protest.

Also, as long as there is English, its totally useless to learn Hindi.
I think you misunderstand his intended audience. He is talking mostly to people who already want to do a startup, and more specifically to people who agree with his definition of what a startup is. Within that group, his writings help refine ways to work. But it is definitely targeted to a very specific type of business and entrepreneur.
Something I learned a few weeks ago (after many years of using USB) is that usually cables have the USB logo or marking on the "right side" up. So if you don't know which one is the right side up, the one with the logo should win.

Might help some other lost souls here :)
Right now it has real-time tickers. For charts to work I need to find a good reliable real-time historic data as Robinhood does not provide history as part of their API, still looking on it.
Not my observations, observational studies.

Regardless of the exact reasons why plasticity declines with age, it's obvious that any fix is a long way off. I wouldn't take this news as positive, rather negative, actually, since it just means we have yet more work to do

Like, instead of saying "I always lamented the idea that as we grew older we generated less and less neurons" the GP can now say "I always lamented the idea that [other unknown mechanism behind declining plasticity]". Hardly good news.
"I noticed many developers were musicians"

How does that compare to other fields? That is, my previous dentist was a musician, I know authors who are musicians, I know scientists who are musicians.

Sting was a bus conductor, building labourer, and schoolteacher.

If developers are underrepresented, percentage-wise, as compared to other fields then all of these conclusions about a connection are wrong, or at least very weak.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I have worked in both kind of projects. Both very big and heavy based in database access. One using Hibernate and one using plain SQL. We've had considerably more problems with the added complexity of Hibernate.

Hibernate does not save you from writing queries. You are still writing queries, just in a language different than SQL (e.g. JPA). It's an abstraction layer. The problem is that this abstraction is very leaky, so if you really want to write performant code with Hibernate you do need to understand how SQL and your database works. And if you really understand how it works, you end up realizing that the abstraction is kinda pointless because SQL is already a really fine abstraction over your database.

And if you need to scale, for example working with a replication setup with multiple db servers and having to deal with eventual consistency, then Hibernate really complicates things.

I think Hibernate is a good example of something that makes things easier at the beginning. At the cost of enormous complexity and difficulty in the long term.
I've lived here in NYC for decades.

Most of the new buildings that go up are luxury condos, out of reach for mere mortals like myself.

I actually purchased a condo in a new building in one of the neighborhoods this article mentioned about a decade ago but I was never able to move in, even after signing the contract, because the city wouldn't grant a certificate of housing occupancy to the builder (long story). But yes, I've personally lived the red tape issue.

It's not exactly parallel but check out this NYT article from December about why the 2nd Ave Subway was so outrageously over-priced -- while most people aren't tunnelling under Manhattan the issue of overpriced construction applies to all 5 boros: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Qualcomm is going to 7nm next year (with the 855), right? I'm not sure that Apple's lead will get significantly larger over the short term.

Although it does seem that Qualcomm isn't really doing anything that is likely to close the gap any time soon.
We used to only use Stripe, but some users preferred PayPal and now it's 20% of our revenue.
Facebook and Google both know that you are married to your wife. Facebook because of Facebook and Google because of Gmail. The use of your social graph to gather data is pretty well telegraphed by both these companies.
I'm a bit confused as why this is still such a big deal. A couple of years back when phones were a bit lackluster in performance I followed news like this all the time, but as we've passed the jank-barrier I really don't need the fastest phone to have a good experience anymore. I really hope these top-of-the-line phones stop being the "standard" and that they be regarded as enthusiast devices instead.
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Project ice cube seems to always be looking for people to winter over. I suppose the hiking isn't as good then. :)

http://icecube.wisc.edu/jobs

Since the employment would not be in the US, I'm guessing that no work visa would be required. If you are really interested, I think it would be worth your while to contact them.
I used the graph part of ArangoDB for a recent project and I appreciated the flexible nature of the relationships between entities (being edges, so always n-n).
For example, my customer did often change its mind about some critical parts of the business logic (and thus relations between entities) and it was a pleasure to update without rewriting too much code.
Also the queries involving many relationships seems more powerful and simpler than in a RDBMS.
Anyway, maybe not an universal solution but, as a web/mobile developper, I can't see the actual limitations with my daily use case.
I had no idea we had already progressed so far on the path of quantum computing to the degree that we have mostly functioning processors on the order of 10^2 qubits. I know that's not a huge number, but I had thought previously that this was more the realm of science fiction.

If Moore's Law or similar applies at all to quantum computing then that puts us in the realm "Useful error corrected QC", as stated in the article, in or around year 2045, or 27 years from now.

Near-term specific applications may be found even sooner, in less than 10 years.
So, you want to be like Erlich Bachman from "Silicon Valley" sitcom? :)

Once upon a time comedy was just for fun, now, if you are screenwriter for a sitcom you have to be carefull because someone, somewhere will take your foolish ideas seriously...

Honestly, we need more "Don't try this at home" warnings.
The headline was about decreasing suicide rate, not about decreasing the number of attempts (and actually that was the main point of the article: decrease the ratio of successful attempts)
Extra days off when Google is down! \o/
> hitting some sort of database from a lambda is not uncommon.

of course. Like e.g. dynamoDB?

Here are some examples of non-blocking calls from C# to dynamoDB that you could make from a lambda

https://matthiasshapiro.com/2017/03/21/tutorial-dynamodb-in-...

The rest of the AWS SDK for .Net core is like that too. All those Async methods.

Http should also be done in a non-blocking, awaitable way too.

The deleted comment is exactly right - Async/awaits operators are the .Net mechanism to avoid blocking calls, and they are available here.
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Also, I have a problem with the word "hard" in the context of software development.

Things are usually hard not because of some lofty technical goals, but because the sum of all the papercuts is hard. It's just developer hubris to look at the trade-offs someone makes and say (on HN of course) "meh, these other trade-offs aren't even that hard, c'mon!"
https://www.theonion.com/police-slog-through-40-000-insipid-...
Just to clarify, I am not criticizing the Java language. I'm criticising the use of excessive layered frameworks that increase complexity.

I like Java. It's simple and performant and has excellent tooling. I just don't like that sometimes I see a lot of incidental complexity in its ecosystem.
I'm glad this isn't a horror story about one person suing another, thinking they had stolen their shot. Happenstance fun-ness is better!
> If we actually understood that people literally died of not having enough money, or of lack of willpower to deal with a bureaucracy, or of homelessness, or of their mental state, there’s every chance that something might change.

if you actually understood the implications of following your logic, please take a moment to explain:

why do people not have enough money?

do some people waste away whatever time and money they have?

do some people fail to develop any marketable skills?

are some people just incapable of rendering valuable labor or service to anyone?

what percentage of those without money fit into that hopeless category?

what should be done about those people?

why does money exist in the first place?

how do we ensure that everybody will "have enough money"?

why do people lack willpower?

why do bureaucracies exist and what is the alternative?

why does homelessness exist?

do people in dire straits often reject help?

do people in dire straits often make things worse for themselves?

how do we force people to stop doing that?

why do people have differing mental states?

that's just for a start. then answer those questions in context of each individual life and death. but that won't be necessary if one thinks that all homeless are just "the homeless", or that all poor people are just "the poor".

but that would be oversimplification and "heavily missing information" in many cases, don't you think?
The real MVP is always in the comments
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thanks for that link!
The regularity of Lisp's syntax suggests an interesting way to render it in speech, at least for blind people who happen to have a good ear for music. Set the TTS engine to monotone (i.e. no attempt at natural intonation), and increase the pitch for each level of parenthesis nesting. So it would basically be singing the code, going up a note or two for each level of nesting. It would sound weird, but I think it could work for some people, myself included.
Those third party engines have to use something. I don't think anyone expects all game developers to write their own engines using the vulkan API..
You're missing the other dimension to this: it's not that two photographers took pictures at the exact same time, I'm sure that happens frequently. It's that they took the exact same picture. There were definitely not 10 trillion photos take of this lighthouse in new england.
It would probably be the other way around: an REO firm that made investments in startups.
Indeed, it sounds like one of the trendy corporate gyms you'd find in the Bay area and other corporate centers. I've been to gyms like that, where grunting while lifting (omg, you're using free weights?!?!) is grounds for a warning, and to other gyms where people bring their own bars and the occasional drop, while met with angry stares and sometimes invective from other gym members, is not cause for immediate termination of their membership.
Seems like an insufficient reason to me. Many software developers automate processes which in turn eliminates jobs entirely. It's a little different, but still a case of one person/group benefitting at the cost of another's livelihood.
Because the landlord knew exactly what they were doing when they rented the apartment to Grandma. If the landlord didn't want to enter into a contract the involving rent control, they shouldn't have been in the business of renting NYC apartments.
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Matt, so sorry for your loss. I only know you through old YT videos. Reading this I am so thankful I told my wife I love her this morning before she departed for work and due to scheduling we wont see each other for 26 hours.

Damn. I don't know what I would do without my wife. She reminds me to change my clothes and shower when I have been coding for days and always makes sure I am warm enough while I sleep.
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From what I've seen in XDA, soft-brick is a state which is recoverable without physically opening up the device and hunting for JTAG headers ;)
I pay $4000/month for a crummy apartment on the lower west side..
That's a neat idea. Looks like someone beat me to it though: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/whois/results.aspx?domain=...

I've reached out to them to try and see whether they want help.

[UPDATE: they're benevolent and I'll be working with them on this. Cheers]
The time in the EXIF metadata is just based on the time/date stamp that's been set in the camera. I don't know about the newer Canon but I'm pretty sure the older model would just be something someone manually set.

Re-reading the article, I think saying the pics were shot at the "same millisecond" was just a colloquial expression to mean the look of the waves makes it look as if they were shot at the exact same time. They shared metadata but that seems to have been to share the other shooting parameters. I believe (and this would seem to confirm [1]) that EXIF timestamp data is only precise down to 1 second. added: and only as accurate as the photographer who set the date and time.

[1] https://www.media.mit.edu/pia/Research/deepview/exif.html
Your justification for the Th/s being an issue for electricity consumption is one I have seen bounced around a bunch but other than the justification of the environment there are other issues. But, the idea of cryptocurrencies is that without some kind of artificial scarcity you will have other incentives. If you are really concerned about electricity consumption what about using a ledger technology that is designed for low resource consumption such as Sawtooth? I'm not sure how Stellar helps you in this regard. Also, why are you seeking more funding in the first place?
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Let's do a little digging, shall we?

Who is 80,000 Hours?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80,000_Hours

"[80,000 hours is]...one of the nonprofits funded by startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2015...William MacAskill is the Founder and President of 80,000 Hours..."

Who is William MacAskill?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacAskill

He is a proponent of Effective Altruism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

For an article that says it will cover " What types of events are causing people to have the crises that lead to attempted suicide?"

All the commentary we have is this:

> "Robert Wiblin: Do you know what kinds of events are causing people to have these crises and attempt suicide?

> Leah Utyasheva: Well, as I said, quite often it is a cry for help. It is the acceptability of using suicide as means of solving certain life problems. For example, if a child is having, a student is having problems at school, or an old person feeling sick, or a couple argues. So, all this could lead to an attempted suicide. And quite often, as I said, people just need a little bit more time to think about it, and then maybe they decide that this is not a good solution to their problems.

Then they move on. That doesn't sound like a very robust discussion around the real problem.

More importantly, for such a lengthy discussion about pesticide use, nobody speaks about who benefits from switching pesticides.

Leah informs us that: "I must point out that the United Nations and the WHO agencies are highly behind this, and they are supportive of the ban of the most hazardous substances. There are a lot of guidelines and tools developed to find out what alternatives to highly hazardous pesticides are available, and what other substances or agricultural production methods could be used instead of highly hazardous pesticides."

We have an enormous amount of posturing without a single mention of what the replacement pesticide should be. It sounds more like the UN and WHO woud like some kind of "moral" ground to push their own agenda.

I find it all very disingenuous.
Shockingly, there are some cardiac effects correlated to cosmic ray activity. See four references in the article.
I believe that this is the US Antarctic Program's IT contractor's jobs page: https://ghgcorp.applicantpro.com/jobs/

It looks like they only hire Americans though (probably some requirement imposed on the contractor).

There are of course lots of other contractors for other sorts of jobs.
Some context on the competition:

We are given a list of pre-booked rides in a city and a fleet of self-driving vehicles. The objective of the competition is to assign the rides to vehicles, so that riders get to their destinations on time.

I updated the README.md with some illustrations to help you understand this project.

https://github.com/AkselsLedins/google-hashcode-2018-live-si...
I'm not sure how that is related to my point? I don't use expensive Samsung devices either and won't be updated to Oreo any time soon.

But Samsung does have a large market share and them moving to Oreo right now will make the numbers start to shift pretty quickly.

Basically, Android adoption tends to be glacially slow for quite a few months (~2% total), fast for the next few (up into the 20% range), and then the growth slows again for the next year or so with no single version ever quite hitting 50%.
'Process technology size' is more of a marketing buzz word these days than an actual indication of anything meaningful. One company's Xnm process is not directly comparable to another's Ynm process..
if ($haz_sumo ~* "/sumo-plugin/") {set $happy "1";}

if ($sumo_makes_more_than_it_costs ~* "/making-$$$/") {set $happy "${happy}1";}

if ($happy = "11") {set $no_problem "true";}
Google made plenty of money from search and search advertising before personalization.
Shorter than a millisecond. One shot at 1/1000th, the other at 1/1600th.
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Should be relatively easy to crunch those numbers - is there a significant reduced life expectancy for surviving widows/widowers?

I'd be surprised if this hasn't been tested.
Lame Google Play apps that attack users with Windows malware is still a thing
Serverless by the numbers
It's not like a cert is necessary for it to function. A VR headset is basically a monitor you wear on your face. This is their own poor design choice that just ensures they're going to lose business of anyone who needs reliability in their headset.
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What about this (only one example)

ID3D11DeviceContext::IASetVertexBuffers
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff4...

It's no different from manipulating the opengl context..

Also google bindless opengl
The time precision that you can derive from the spray of the waves is a lot more precise that anything you will get out of the exif data - the wave will only have that exact captured spray pattern for a small fraction of a second, but the time synchronization on the two photographers cameras is almost certainly out by a larger amount of time than the wave looked that way.

Working with images from multiple photographers cameras who haven't gone out of their way to sync the time beforehand, I've usually had to assume about a 10s time skew. They do not have precise clocks and are not sybchronized often.
And the market in SF and other Bay Area cities is _really small_. I recently read that Cupertino has only a dozen houses on the market total, and SF may have as many as hundreds or even a couple thousand (in a city with a population over 800,000). Actually, I just looked at Zillow and there are 17 properties on the market in Cupertino, which had about 20,000 households as of 2010.
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Similar methods are already in use in clothing design. Programs and patterns have the "extra space" built in; the jargon for it in knitwear is "ease" and it varies not only according to desired fit but also type of yarn/fiber. A garment with negative ease, for instance, needs to expand to fit onto your body, while a garment with positive ease is larger than the body measurements, and of course you could vary the ease within the garment.

There is some interesting engineering that needs to happen near large joints -- as you say, a "perfectly form-fitting sweater" might have some difficulties at the armpits for instance as we have such a range of motion there. But these are well-studied problems!
Genetics is an outdated paradigm and race is not primarily an expression of genetic variation?
We do not need another conversation about video games and violence
Because to the kind of people who leap to the defense of businesses like Airbnb and slag off rent control, this is just an abstraction. They don’t know or care about the poor people who these policies helped, and think they’ll find some measure of safety by aligning themselves with the Capital class.

They won’t in the long run, but that’s where we are now.
It's certainly not clickbait by any convention that I know that term. It's only useless to those of us who already knew about Lovelace's contributions. But, like many reposted articles, I'm content to let them lie for the sake of other HNers who haven't seen it yet.
So many broken links now!
The relevant methods in the AWS .Net SDK are all awaitable, i.e. not blocking. Even if you did block on waiting for it, an operation on DynamoDB such as writing a record should typically take under 10ms, which would be ok.

So there is no reason at all not to do it in a lambda.