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Missed the early 90s; started late in 1999. However, I remember the fun Flash era in the early 21st century. I played my part religiously (my name was on the credit roll of the Flash IDE). Published my personal site[1] for the first time in 2001, with designs inspired by the likes of 2Advanced, Ultrashock. It went on for few years. I remember those days where design award was a thing. My site used to win quite a bit. :-)

I also remember using Blogger[2] to publish to my site via their "Publish to FTP" feature. I remember using a different comment system because Blogger didn't have its own. Later, moved to Movable Type[3]. Beta tested WordPress[4] at a time when it had no option to create pages. I think, by 2003/2004, my website became just a full-fledged blog, powered by WordPress and it remained to this day.

The early 00's was, indeed, an era of lots of fun and experiments.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20020515000000*/brajeshwar.com

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

3. https://www.movabletype.org/

4. https://wordpress.org/
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As someone from India, whose internet exposure started with facebook in late 2000s, your site and other sites shared on this post by HN community are fascinating.
As with Canada it's best illustrated by the ability to make sculptures out of pee.
I'm curious how much of this could also be related to cost of living. At a glance of Wikipedia, California actually has the highest poverty rate of any state once you account for the cost of living as I understand it. For the curious, the adjusted poverty rate is 23.8%. That's huuuuge!
Well they are not a bastion of free speech... They are a company. Create your own website if you want free speech (as far as you consider it ).
“Worst air quality”, but only if you’re in Fresno. This ranking system seems pretty flawed and biases it towards smell, very average states.

California has a lot of good and bad, and this ranking only looks at the bad.
It's more like "the internet detects censorship as desirable and strives toward it" now.
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Most controversial subs which have been banned have been so because the moderators tolerated users' discussions of explicit plans to commit violent crimes; /r/incel is a good example, or because the subreddit organized harassment campaigns, such as with /r/fatpeoplehate. Other subreddits like /r/shitredditsays and /r/the_donald complied with admins' orders to keep their garbage in the dumpster and have been allowed to thrive. Then of course there is the "do not sexualize minors" rule, which I think is quite clear. It's not perfect but there are subreddits which openly advocate eg fascism or communism so the rules do work in some sense. /r/againsthatesubreddits is unintentionally a good catalogue of the ways that the policies allow for more-or-less free expression while safeguarding the site from lawsuits. I find it all grotesquely impressive.
It was like the idea behind a lot of startups: "We're gonna bring a lot of really talented people together in the same space to collaborate, and just see what happens."

In another galaxy far, far away, the palace ended up as .jabba, a trendy coworking cafe. You had Boba Fett hacking away in the corner on his space-food delivery startup (bounty hunting's the day job), jawas on their ridesharing service (can't ever understand the damn drivers), C-3PO his AI blockchain chatbot, etc.
I can agree that C is a poor language (as opposed to "rich"). It's a pretty thin layer over machine code, and its means of abstraction, and means of static checking that these abstractions hold, are very weak. It was designed around 1970 to work on hardware from 1960s.

The problem is that in early 1990s, when Linux started, no viable alternatives existed. Pascal required a standard library; Modula-2 did not, but it was late to the scene. C++ was poorly supported, and even more full of hidden traps than C. Ada was theoretically a good choice, but accessible compilers did not exist.

C had widespread use, 20 years of history, many compilers, including a free (GPL'd) GCC, wide platform support. Because the language is so compact and simple, these compilers were mostly reliable, there are no complex features that are tricky to implement.

Hence the choice.

Now we have a much wider choice, we have Rust, we have ATS-lang, we have good-quality C++ compilers, we have various tools to synthesize verified C code from higher-level code, etc. We can hope than in 10-15 years we could see e.g. a viable OS kernel written in Rust.
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I'll do one better and explain how and why disney saves Luke in episode 9.

How: Time travel

Why: Money
Austan Goolsbee on the math of tariffs (via Twitter)
Does your employment agreement contain a forced arbitration agreement?
Reddit had to tune its algorithm to make the_donald stop appearing on the front page. And it wasn't Russian bots upvoting Trump stuff. It was people who actually liked and voted for Trump. However you want to slice it, a good portion of this country voted for Trump on their own accord. Not because of Russians, but because they actually liked Trump. No one disputes this. So stop with the Russian bullshit. It just makes the left look like idiots, like they're trying to come up with a reason Hillary lost when in reality people just disagreed with what Hillary had to say. People are tired of this Russian stupidity. Everyone knows it doesn't pass the smell test. It's been years investigating this and the world's premier spy apparatus can't dig the dirt up on Trump. Think about what that tells you.
Women having it harder and sexism are small and very personal problems? It's just not true, things are right the opposite. If there was enough support the described situations would not be the norm. It is not enough support until it completely stops. And even then, women will not be compensated for huge damage already done to them, and will still need support due to this fact.
Indeed the only good thing happening here lately, aside from contributing two reasonably good senators, is how much one's house has appreciated. The traffic now is almost unpassable in the BA.
> I get a lot of enjoyment from visiting places where English isn't spoken

Sure, but people decide what language to speak based on what is most practical for them. Not on what gives you the most exotic vacation.

Personally, I see a future world where all people on earth can talk to each other as an enormous benefit. I'm really confused by the priorities of anyone who honestly thinks otherwise.
They often are because of forced arbitration agreements.
Does this suggest epilepsy is on the same neural circuit?
Microsoft Africa supposedly said something about donating a system.

But I think the broader problem is as he says: why would he not teach this way? In rural areas, it's normal.

This is what OLPC was supposed to be about. Solving a systemic lack of access, not simply donating to one person because it hit social media and we feel bad.
Loved that too. Forced me to remember some classic laconic phrases.

The wikipedia page is a goldmine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase
It's also worth mentioning WASM has no GC today.
There is definitely a place for a company focusing on dev workflows for web apps.

This project from the list is very cool:

https://github.com/vapor-ware/ksync

But it should be even simpler then that, with full integration of npm and python dev cycles to create a full illusion of localhost development but in a fully controlled reproducible environment where every prod service can be swapped for dev version of it, iterated quickly and then committed.

Draft also looks promising, but it's not the same thing.

Projects like telepresence are getting closer to this, anyone knows anything else?
Well said. Social networks don't have to have an exploitative business model; Facebook and Twitter aren't the only possible models.
Ask any politician - there is power in appearing to be above the frailty of bias, apathy, etc

Ironic, considering the current President seems to have gotten his position by doing the exact opposite.
Do you suppose that the deBruin Firm did this deliberately to distance themselves from the case, so they still get a cut of the money, but Leslie L. Jacobs, Jr. and his firm Rubin and Rudman get the potentially bad publicity for being patent trolls? Leslie L. Jacobs wrote pro hac vice ("for this occasion only") after his name, which makes it sound like a one time engagement and not a frequent collaboration with the deBruin Firm.
Yes. Not a ton of people (yet), but yes, some are.
To clarify further, a seedbox is a server used to continually "seed" (or share) any content downloaded to it.

Seedboxes are mostly used on private torrent trackers, simply because the majority require users to maintain a high seed/leech ratio. In other words, users need to upload more than they download.
That's just not how language works. Gödel, Escher, Bach really hammered this home for me. Many ideas are easier to express in one language or another, to the point that they are practically inexpressible in another language.

This is even true in math. Based on the set of axioms you allow, you can prove certain facts. A math with different axioms may have completely different theorems, and some observable real world behavior can be better modeled under one set of axioms than another.

Language could be described as a math for personal expression and everyday life, and each language has its own axioms and theorems.
Can you message me? I might be able to help. I work with some of the biggest attorney orgs for consumers and employees.

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The one question in my mind the whole time which the article doesn't answer, is if you exercise options and buy unregistered stock with has a current FMV in excess of the strike price--a taxable gain--but then within the 5 year deferral period the company dissolves in a puff of smoke, making the stock you hold actually worthless... do you still owe the tax?

Seems to me that a key advantage of the deferral period would be if it allowed one to net out the true capital gain/loss if you actually sold or otherwise disposed of (e.g. it became worthless) the stock within the deferral period.
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One should probably disregard any report that tries to rank anything as hard to pin down as quality of life over entities as large and diverse as states. Even the smallest states in the US have wildly different quality of life depending on income and geography.

The large ones like California and Texas are practically like countries when it comes to how varied quality of life is within their borders.

It's better to look at specific metrics (health, education, housing, opportunity) that comprise quality of life. California excels at some of those for some people, and fails at some for some people.
A big difficulty is that HTML by itself doesn't give you good ways to define templates so it's a pretty dreadful task.

Web components can change that in the future but until that it's pretty normal for developers to opt for tools that allow for creating a HTML fragment and building up HTML in another language.

Imagine if we had to do the c calling convention song and dance on every function call...
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I’ll pay more to not drive to a brick and mortar at this point. I don’t want to get in my car and go to Best Buy or Target or whatever and hope they’re stocking what I want, when I know I can get it in two days from Amazon or another online retailer. I’ve been bitten by that too many times. I sometimes miss browsing in person, but I don’t miss wasting my time.
I could have been clearer, I'm aware they're a private company and under no particular obligation to the preservation of free speech principles. My point was that if we're comparing hosting your own site to operating on someone else's platform, it seems like there's marginally more freedom when hosting your own website.
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I got me one of those embarassing homepages from the 90s too

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~keithn/

can't even run my java apps anymore :/
> Unless you expect all of your users to build your app from source on linux that they built from source

You forgot to tack on "using compilers, etc., that they also built from source".
I always assumed they were there independently. Oddly it hadn't occurred to me that Luke, Leia, and Lando might have tried to coordinate.
get your popcorn ready.
> Before anyone suggests it, I'm experienced enough to know I wasn't 'doing it wrong'.

Hello, Walter's ego!

You were meditating incorrectly because everyone does in the west. It's not a mindfulness life hack, and there are millennia of spiritual and philosophical background that are ignored when people claim it's simple. And as I'm sure you know, the Buddha taught that ignorance causes suffering.
Sure, hence the reason physicists tend to say MWI is valid and good, rather than 'true'.
Sorry but this is complete crap. I'm not sure if you read the article, but it states:

"More than two dozen clinical trials are aiming to modulate brainwaves in some way — some with flickering lights or rhythmic sounds, but most through the direct application of electrical currents to the brain or scalp."

Two dozen clinical trials which will hopefully lead to a breakthrough. This and countless other medical advances have come about through hard science and rigorous testing in the realm of traditional medicine, not "alternative health". Crystals and homeopathic magic water aren't going cure Alzheimer's.
The big problem is the lack of interoperability that this encourages. No Amazon Prime in Chromecast. No Google Play on Amazon Fire. No integration with Alexa and Nest. The petty squabbles hurt the customers’ experience.
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If the flash plugin was a huge pile of shit I can’t see how good flash dev could produce something lighter than anything running on the modern highly optimised JavaScript engines.
Agree. The developer did a poor job of actually "walking us" through how to actually learn it. Most of us aren't piano experts obviously.
These discussions are always composed of people who don't know very much laying down philosophical assertions (that they very rarely realize are philosophical)

That seems needlessly judgmental.

...and innocent bystanders posing reasonable what-if questions...

They’re rarely reasonable. You get a lot of questions which are philosophical in nature, but which people believe are scientific. “What is time like for a photon?” “What was there before the Big Bang?” “What is spacetime expanding into?” “What’s inside of the event horizon of a black hole?” “Why are the physical constants what they are?”

When you give the scientific answer, “Bad question, like asking what’s North of The North Pole?” People are unhappy. Plus you’re a dick, because you can figure out what they’re asking and try to give a complete and accessible answer, complete with warnings as to the philosophical/metaphysical nature of both question and answer.

...that really can't be answered with (present) empirical knowledge.

Often the questions themselves are essentially unanswerable in principle. It’s not easy to ask good, relevant, scientific questions about QM or STR/GTR. The lack of knowledge is more of a factor when the questions are insightful.

Like politics, the content of what is said is dominated by the dynamics of the discussion, with English skills "winning" arguments more often than anything else.

Depends on the audience... try that in a rigorous environment and be crucified, but on HN the rigor is absent. It’s a good thing too, because it’s Hacker News, not PhysicsForums.

Physics is already approximate; experiments don't have access to infinity significant figures. If you'd prefer a more complicated example then ask anyone who has ever calculated a QED problem to less than infinity terms.

And? You seem to be complaining that on a site full of non-physicists, people don’t act like physicists. Besides, ontologies of QM are philosophical, not scientific, and hardly limited to laypeople.
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Your information is incorrect because of many reasons.

1. EU and associated countries (e.g. Switzerland)? Germany does not care

2. Other countries? Give reasons, get a permit.

3. German dual citizenship law does not make any statements how many citizenship you can have.

4. There are countries that do now allow citizens to renounce, e.g. Iran.
> This is entirely by design

No it's not and it's frankly insulting and factually baseless to suggest Twitter is deliberately sowing discord in order to sell more ads. Ever thought comments like yours are part of the problem too ?

The fact is that Twitter and Facebook are reflections of who we are as people. We are the ones who chose to encourage celebrity culture by engaging with it. Which of course in turn has a whole raft of negative side effects. We encourage loneliness and intolerance by our xenophobia, racism etc. We are merely taking what happens in the schoolyard into the digital realm.

Just think though. Are Twitter and Facebook to blame when we walk past the homeless and do nothing ? When we never listened to sexual abuse victims of people like Weinstein and Trump ? How about our politicians behaviour ?
Neat!

Just one piece of feedback - for your diminished chord, you spell C dim as C, Eb, F#. Technically this should be C, Eb, Gb. This is because the definition of a diminished is two minor thirds, and the way you have it spelled is a minor third followed by an augmented second. While these are enharmonically the same, from a theory perspective, the spelling is not correct!

Otherwise really neat!
What kind of WASM file sizes can we expect? I know some work has gone into shrinking Go executables, especially in 1.7, but will we be able to produce something like the 15KB Rust Hello World WASMs? Go has a fantastic stdlib but it hasn’t prioritized web optimized file sizes (yet).

I’m looking forward to the results of this work!
It depends on what you are looking for, I guess.
The host obviously knew the guy was messed up and was treating him more with kids gloves than actually challenging him. I'm guessing whoever booked him just thought he was a weirdo and not mentally ill(which, I guess, is the point of the article in OP)
> I'm actually up in arms now against people who insist that mediation/yoga/SSRIs/most therapists can make a damn bit of difference in the case of actual depression. I wasted 20 years of my life listening to them, when the people those things are going to help aren't actually depressed to begin with.

Woah, "actual depression"... hardcore!

The problem isn't other people. You are the problem. Your ego is so big that it bleeds through your posts, as if it's crying out for someone to stop it.
I don't know if I agree with that.

Doctors recommend low tech health solutions pretty often: humidifiers, electric toothbrushes, Dr. Scholl's foot products, ear cleaning tools, hydrogen peroxide, Epsom salts...

I'm pretty sure I've heard of pediatricians recommending nightlights and soothing sounds for kids. This doesn't seem so different.
Luke's plan was to destroy Jabba the Hut.

Jabba had been chasing Han since before A New Hope. If Luke just were to break Han out, then Han would be back in the same thicket he was before: running from Jabba. The group was tired of that.

The plan is rough, yes, but in a confident way: "If we just get us all inside the palace, it will be like planting dynamite."

Was it dishonest then, for Luke first to ask Jabba nicely? No, I don't think so. If Jabba sincerely gave up Han, then that means that Jabba's heart would have changed and would no longer be chasing Han. Therefore both goals would have been reached without blood (free Han and end the hunt). I don't think Luke counted on this. But even though Luke had a plan B, the chance presented to Jabba was real.
I wonder if rural areas like these have libraries, how close they are, and how funded they are, if at all. Rather than donate to a school, a program that funds libraries in areas like these, which in this day and age aren't only for books, but for digital media too, could go a long way in providing access not only for students, but for adults as well.
We're there now! Bids for new renewable + storage in Colorado coming in lower than continued operation of an already existing coal fired power plant. Anyone invested in coal at this point in history is a crazy.

I wouldn't be surprised if 10 years from now renewables and storage are so cheap it starts to represent a new age of energy availability.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/16/1689559...
My favorite thing lately is how Lowes and Home Depot will let you look up items on their website, see how many are in stock, and, most importantly, what aisle and bay that item is in. It's usually correct, too.

I'm not going to buy those kinds of items sight unseen (go check out lumber at these places... I've gone through half a lift of pine boards to get a half dozen that are straight enough to use... And even more regular hardware, I want to put my tape on it first). But it's a struggle to find just where slightly oddball stuff might be located, if you don't know, and chances are you won't encounter somebody on staff that knows whst you're asking for and where it is in these gargantuan places.
We'll just say kkm/s.
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mass shooting in Brazil is rare

Murder rate in Brazil is 440% of US rate.

Violent crime intentional homicide rate is 600% of US rate.

etc.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Brazil/Unit...

General crimes (non mass shooting) involving handguns are common though

It's far easier to a mass public shooting with handguns than with long guns.
6 hours might be just enough to convince support to give you a replacement. It worked for my 5X, and it ended up being a full refund of the original (2 yr prior) price, due to some shipping issue (it never shipped). Give it a try!
> this type of thing is certainly within the realm of possibility

In your scenario, Bezos is an evil worldwide overlord who murders non-supporters casually. And yet somehow the real problem is an Echo on the kitchen counter.

Just... what the fuck?

“Realm of possibility” means something very different to you than to me.