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Apart from the issues you list, the biggest problem for me is game quality / support. The VR native titles, aside from few exceptions, feel and play like a tablet games, the non-native titles are usually riddled with rendering artifacts, despicable camera work or really unstable framerates (showstopper for me in VR).
You can also use google's paid email through google apps. $5/Month for one email (some limits on storage).
It’s not about “just buy some produce”. It’s “decide what I want to eat, go to the store, find the ingredients that turn into said meals, wait in a 15 minute checkout line, haul things home”.

For me, Blue Apron lowers the time commitment of cooking at home below that of “go out for a quick dinner”. At the end of a day at a desk, I enjoy doing completely brainless work with my hands for a half hour or so, but the cognitive load of figuring out what to cook is more than I care to do on a regular basis.

Also, depending on where you are, urban grocery shopping is often a terrible experience.
Not a bad idea in spirit, but the store's mark-up might be too much to make it worthwhile. I like the idea of Blue Apron in spirit, but the sheer amount of waste it produces in the delivery boxes turned me off.

One thing it does well is providing only as much of said ingredient as you need. I recently tried to get into Chinese cooking, and before I made my first two or three dishes I had to run out and buy Hoisin sauce, chili garlic sauce, oyster sauce, Chinese rice wine, and minced ginger. That's quite a bit of an initial investment before I even decide whether I like the food or not. So if I can pay a little extra upfront just to get whatever amount of those sauces I need while I'm still in the trial phase, that would be nice.

As someone else said, local grocery stores could probably do very well just by providing their own meal kits. Wegmans does this on occasion, although their stuff is usually assembled to the point where you simply bake it.
I think this is in front page because we nerds just want the definitive reason to say 'fuck Word' and use MD or similar.

But -as we can read in these comments- there are lots of reasons and situations where this is ridiculous.
> Computerized control systems are not optional

They were before computerized control systems existed.

People have been cracking petroleum molecules since 1891.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_(chemistry)
I loved watching Top Gear and I generally like his politics, but even I wouldn't dare invest money in Clarkson with his history of behavior, even with a virtually guaranteed return.
Page 4 specifically refers to papers that don't have a lot of equations.
I have a hard time seeing how you can be a "finance expert" and not know what an error bar or histogram is.
Android Security 2017 Year in Review [pdf]
Yes, you are correct. It's just that I considered "Lisp"="Common Lisp" in this case.
The term of use is not the same as the license for the content. As is stated in the summery of the linked page, permission is granted under conditions such as "No Harm – You do not harm our technology infrastructure" and "You adhere to the below Terms of Use and to the applicable community policies when you visit our sites". Those conditions are not part of the license, which is a important distinction.

So all they need to do if they wanted a legal tool to prevent google is to create a community policy which dictate how scraping may be done for the purpose of youtube. No 30 day comment period.

Further down on that page, section 10. Management of Websites: *"The Wikimedia community and its members may also take action when so allowed by the community or Foundation policies applicable to the specific Project edition"

And finally in section 12. Termination: "We reserve the right to suspend or end the services at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice."

In summary, they reserve the right to block access in response to abuse.
Amazon Prime LTV is on the order of thousands of dollars per member. If they can convert new customers to Prime for ~$100 that is pretty cheap. Of course, media is a hit driven business, so they would have to blend the cost of all the shows that don't do as well as their headliners.

I personally don't like Prime shows other than Man in the High Castle. And they are increasingly pushing down other New Releases so you only see Prime shows above the fold on TV devices (Roku etc). But I understand they are playing the long game here and quality will probably improve. I used to dislike most of Netflix original shows, but now theres a steady lineup that I could watch regularly every week.
Typically all these are on Modbus or similar though. Only the SCADA controller itself is on ethernet (in addition to modbus).
I think your post is also misleading. Under co-decision, the EP only gets to /propose/ amendments, not to approve them. The council are able to reject parliament amendments and get the law passed anyway. And of course, there are other procedures than co-decision for creating primary legislation which give the EP even less power.

While the grandparent wasn't 100% technically correct I think the broad view (that "The EU Parliament has no real power") is effectively correct. The lion's share of the power of the EU still rests in the Commission and the Council. By all means, write to your MEPs, but don't get too hopeful
Walmart's getting into that game as well: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/5/17081466/walmart-meal-kit-...
Monarchy is fine as long as you elect the monarch every few years.
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Excited to check out this series and glad that Antirez took the time to make it. Would be cool to see more people make this kind of thing in the same mold of this and the DHH series from the last few weeks. Very interesting to hear something like a person's inner monologue while they're writing and reading code.
4-5 hours of uninterrupted, high-quality coding time per day is plenty for any developer. My opinion on this is that it is not the actual wall-clock time that matters, it is the quality of the time. I'm most of the time not that efficient myself because I read hacker news and shit. :) But if I weren't, I could get everything done in 4 hours/day.
> Yes, you are, because you seem to put everything under the common label of "staring at screens" :).

I'm not and don't exaggerate with this. I don't mind if someone commute for a an hour and a half to work and reads a book, skim the news news or prepare for work meeting. This is not the point here.

It just hurts me as I see people who evidently met to spend time together and for 40 minutes did not exchange words but they scroll through instagram or facebook all the time and I am a witness to such situations constantly.

But this is not a thread about it, anyway I think that the AR deserves better times and much more convenient equipment than the phone in hand.
Fossa-cli: Fast and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase
Content Marketing Secrets from Buffer’s Rise to 4M Users (And Beyond)
Ask HN: Tech blog – Why to do it and what to write about?
Hi,
I am trying to build a technical blog, and I would like to know what do people expect and what write about. Do I need to share experiments ?. I am a backend engineer with focus on Data engineering. Do you have any recommendations, or examples ?
but ... the cost of all those ingredients will still be significantly less than what you pay any meal delivery service, is it not?
for a $1, you can get a bottle of Hoisin sauce.
This is a bland marketing demo of course they're not going to get to the really interesting parts.

Isn't the point of marketing to emphasize the interesting parts? If the demo isn't compelling, who will take the time to make something that is?
> "send me a box now"

So instant food delivery but you still have to cook it? That would be a very narrow market.
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I like iHeartRadio. Non-intrusive app on my phone and computer, it's free with very few ads. It's simple and I can just fire it up when I want some music. No libraries, no discovering music or sharing playlists with friends, it's simple and works.
Not in itself. Even the various Communist revolutions cited in other comments don't correlate well with inequality: Tsarist Russia in 1905 and 1917 had lower levels of inequality than Victorian England.
And yet the BBC version of Top Gear is getting slated for 'just' 2.8 million viewers in the UK alone:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/top-gear-2017-ratings-...

[Edit - this is for the 2017 series]
Setting Up Oculus Rift and Running WebVR on Top of It
Excellent. I can’t read it because of the pay wall, but the key value it brought, being one to always live blocks from a coop, was the sack of seasoning and the like in the right amount. Previous attempts at learning to cook had always lead to 80%+ waste in bottles of perishable sauces, seasonings, et. al. BA/Plated overall are a Godsend, this headline sounds like a good step given the holiday pileups/reschedules and sometimes missed/misplaced deliveries.
exactly. if i have to cook my own food, which will turn out shitty, why should I pay $10 a meal for ingredients that cost probably $1.50?
Ever since I got my FIRST Blue Apron box (two years ago maybe?), I felt they should've sold boxes in stores. I simply don't understand how they had such a blind spot for something so obvious.

We used Blue Apron on and off for 2 months and just got tired of it. We loved the food but sometimes we just wanted to have our native cuisine. But some nights, you want to try something new impulsively, which is where having them available in grocery stores would've been great.

Blue Apron also had seemingly slimy tactics (even if they weren't, they felt that way). Like for example, you had to cancel a week in advance for a delivery, but you could opt in for a delivery 2-3 days before the new week started. Also you couldn't just say "stop until I say start," but rather you had to login every 2 weeks to keep clicking "Skip delivery." All these things leave a bad taste in your mouth (pun fully, and proudly intended)
Here’s how an LBO generally works:

1. PE company secures a loan in the company’s name (usually contingent on a turnaround plan executed by the PE with a history of turning companies around)

2. Company turns around and loans the money for purchase to PE firm

3. PE firm buys the company

4. PE firm runs the company, normally collecting management fees (paid out of the pool of cash used to buy the company)

5. PE firm cashes out by IPOing the company (usually at the same or higher price paid during LBO process).

6. PE firm uses the proceeds from the IPO (which the PE keeps because they are the sole shareholders; NOT the company itself) to pay back the loan.

The PE usually breaks even on the transaction itself once transaction fees are taken into account; but they make a killing on the management fees (which can be hundreds of millions a year). Normally, the company is left in roughly the same situation as before the buyout, just with a lot more debt on the balance sheet.
I would call that having health insurance and a place to stay when things go south 9 times in a row.
I have been a voice in the wilderness since about 2007 on this one, so this is shadenfraude on a level that makes me kind of embarrassed about myself.

My background is biomedical engineering, and I just never, ever understood how the sampling rate could ever work. If you're looking for a low-energy signal and your sampling rate is really low, you're just going to miss it and this should've been screamingly obvious to everyone since the beginning.

It's like going to the beach, drawing a 5 gallon pail of seawater, looking into it, and then declaring that the beach is shark-free today and it's safe to swim.
Participating in cults is profitable for a subset of cultists.
> we're in the iPhone 1 stage of VR

You could immediately do a number of useful (read:productivity enhancing) things with the iPhone 1 - play your music, make calls, browse the web, take pictures, send emails. It deprecated a lot of what needed to be done on traditional phones, desktops, and laptop computers. It would last a day without charging, you wouldn't have to hook it up to a GPU or strap it to your body to use it, and it wouldn't give you motion sickness. Cellular technologies developed quickly to support the bandwidth needed for even better user experiences. Shipments jumped from 1M in 2007 to 20M in 2009.

There are very few polished games or apps available for VR 2 years after the "new" generation of VR headsets was released in 2016 by Oculus and HTC, and total headset unit shipments for the entire market (excluding phone-mounting headsets such as Gear) are probably in the low single digit millions for 2017. It hasn't yet deprecated any traditional dedicated communications technology or functions.

I wish I could get excited about the future in this field, but I really just don't see what the killer app will be for VR. Facebook thinks it will be virtual meetings for the enterprise and hanging out virtually with friends/family for the consumer market...I am very skeptical but want to be proven wrong as VR is one of the last platforms pushing hardware and software innovation forward at the moment.
Show HN: Video Marketing Is Big, and How
The effect of visual marketing is immense. One of the newest trends marketers are following nowadays is that of video marketing. Here are some killer tips that will take your video marketing campaigns to the next level:

1. Watch your video length

If you want your video to be a part of someone’s day, it’s better to keep it as short as possible. One to two minutes is good if you can squeeze your message in that quickly. If not, try not to exceed five minutes.

2. Plan your videos

Plan your video from start to finish. Write a script. Draft a storyboard. Do a few test runs. Shorten or lengthen the script based on those test runs.

Yes, it’s going to take hours of work for a video clocking in at under five minutes, but the results could be worth it.

3. Tell a story

Humanize your product. Tell a story; in fact, tell a few stories. Get testimonials and show real people using your products or services.

This bears repeating, though: don’t focus on being salesy in your video. You’ll have other opportunities for that.

4. Don't forget your tags:

As a marketer, you’re already familiar with keywords. You pepper these into your content, add them in your landing pages, and subtly inject them in your social media post. With YouTube, it’s not that different. Choose five or so relevant keywords, and keep them shorter when possible so they’re easily searchable.

5. Don't leave the description box blank

The description lets users know what your video will be about before they click it, as a few lines show up in YouTube search results. If you leave this blank, you could miss out on a lot of traffic.

Not only that, but Google relies on these descriptions, too, so writing a good one could boost your SEO.

For more detailed tips, read here: https://www.engagebay.com/blog/17-tips-video-marketing-succe...
> Everyone uses it.

Not everyone uses Word. It doesn't run on Linux.

Word might be useful for legal docs or other specific purposes, but I wouldn't assume that everyone will be able to use all of the functionality in a Word doc.
Successful people are often volatile and impulsive. Not sure why that is but you see it in top executives, coaches, etc.
Using LaTeX is like writing a program to automate something you do a lot:[1] lots of effort up front for payback down the line. Once you work out how to use it and iron out the kinks in your templates, it becomes much easier, permanently. Whereas with Word, while you'll get started much quicker, every sufficiently complex document will break in new and strange ways that require extreme dexterity with a mouse and a good deal of random fiddling to fix.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1319/ (ignore the bottom graph)
Frankly, I think it is often jealousy. It is not blatantly false that if you work harder, take a second job, take night classes, save and start a business, that you can rise up in the social ladder and provide more opportunity for your children.

I have some personal biases here.

There are very different shades of privilege here. The bank director may have been the son of an immigrant, had straight A's in school, got perfect math scores and found an interest in finance, gotten into a top school, and generally worked hard his entire life. Their child also has natural ability in school, his father tells him to shut up, don't complain about anything, teaches them to work hard and pursue their talents but pays for their school. The kid works 80 hours a week, perhaps develops a talent and launches a business around it, and becomes successful as well.

The alcoholic single mother may not had an ounce of ability in school, partied her way through life and mooched off of her boyfriends until around 30 when she has to get a job and then keeps one to survive. Then she has a daughter, her daughter is very beautiful, fails out of school, is used to getting things for free as well, is jealous of her friends who have more, and does not end up going to college or doing anything of great significance.

And then of course you have successful father, child drinks and parties their way through life, abuses others, then inherits everything and preaches to others about how they had to sacrifice everything, and, against all odds, made it. I would not complain if this unfortunately substantial portion of our population got dropped off in Siberia.

I think it is very rare, but perhaps the next Von Neumann is working two jobs and failing out of school to pay the rent for his younger sister and alcoholic mother somewhere. That is a human tragedy and I hope it is rectified and I believe we've steadily been changing in that regard for centuries. We certainly have a lot of issues regarding educational opportunity that needs to be rectified. I think the wealthy are highly under taxed in this nation and that needs to be fixed, but anybody who thinks success is purely luck does not deserve success.
Flavoie's comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16593355) are really good. Some questions you might ask yourself:

1. Do you live in the CLI?
2. Is your desired software available for Linux?
3. How much do you like tinkering with your desktop/system?
4. Are you bothered by features being possibly unreliable or unavailable?

I'm waiting for the next MBP revision, but I might just bite the bullet and get a refurbished 2015 MBP.

My work computer is a 2017 15" MBP and I use this "dock" to make the dongle problem significantly less annoying: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0746381W6/ref=oh_aui_deta...

Work would have preferred me getting a Linux laptop, CUDA would have been a nice-to-have but isn't a necessity for my work, but after some research these were the Linux options: System 76 or RazerOne. You might find this interesting: https://fossbytes.com/best-linux-laptop-razer-blade/
Varnish 6.0 released
>Quicklisp

Um... basically the only command you need to learn is ql:quickload followed by the name of the system you want to load.

Perhaps you had problems with the concepts of Lisp packages (namespaces)?
Netflix has an impending cliff with Fox pulling shows to make them Hulu exclusives and Disney putting together their own streaming service in 2019.

They're doing a good job with their original content efforts, but I don't know if it'll be enough content quickly enough.
IANAL, but is there an enforcement or oversight mechanism?
hmm, perhaps medium-sized cities are in better position to compete then? Places like Hamilton, Ontario come to mind.
Prelude is extremely good. It's the best way to get up and running with helm, and only the support for langs you care about (thanks to prelude-modules.el).
Announcing Lightning on Bitcoin mainnet
"Zwiespältig"
A computer reading a bunch of serial lines can be a lot safer than one communicating with a bunch of nodes via TCP/IP. For starters, you're talking about a massive reduction in the amount of code needed.
Jim Carrey said it best (paraphrased): It is by sheer luck that an opportunity presents itself. But once it does it is up to you to have the means to execute on it, and to execute on it. The good news is that opportunities present themselves often in life. So just get to where you can act on them, and once you see one, act.
Not only is the MS eqn editor slow, it also doesn't work consistently across versions of Word. I have a work colleague whose equations never show properly on my machine when he sends over Word docs.

By contrast, LaTeX works the same everywhere -- to the extent that SymPy can derive an equation, output it as LaTeX, and it goes right into a paper or presentation without issues.
iHeartRadio makes billions of dollars in revenue every year, they just can't keep up with their debt payments from the leveraged buyout. Radio ads make plenty of money and stations aren't really that expensive to run.

edit: to be more specific, in 2016 they had $1.5B of operating income which is great. Too bad they had $1.8B of debt payments.
Android Wear, it’s time for a new name – WearOS by Google
Afromusic got in but not this year for Afrobeats at the 2018 Grammy awards
The other thing that needs to happen is that the skill, time and money required to create quality VR & AR content needs to be significantly reduced. This will come with time too.

We're doing our own small part to try and make that happen with our automated 3D scanning platform (http://realityzero.one)
If you're in Firefox, go to the about:config URL and set media.autoplay.enabled to false.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovea_centralis
I am glad the U.S. doesn’t push for this kind of regulation.
Yes? It could've been their environmental regulator for all we know.
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The majority of politics is to do with the exceptionally mundane and politics in market based economies are as much about what people buy as who they vote for.

If you want a perfect example of this, go back to the start of modern advertising and look up the phrase "Torches Of Freedom" and Edward Bernays.
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The data store itself does not necessarily provide authenticity verification natively, so certification authorities would be required to validate the authenticity of the users, which in turn validates its input data, much like the root CAs, intermediate certs and server certs in a X.509-based PKI.

The competitor would have its identity tied to the data it inputs, so it wouldn't be able to impersonate the target company.
3/5 people in Atlanta rent so his costs will increase no more than other folks (who rent). I get the affordability argument, but the Atlanta metro area is 5.79 million people. If you add 50k jobs and everyone is from out of the area, you get 5.84 million. Is that really going to double everyone's rent? Lots of people already in Atlanta will work for Amazon. Lots of people who move in will buy a house in the suburbs because they don't want to live downtown.
> average computers to be able to render high frame-rates without breaking the bank

High res stereo at 120Hz is never going to have to same graphics as the latest high budget big game release. Current GPUs are already very powerful, but if people have the expectations of getting the same graphics when they use VR they are going to be very frustrated.
I'm not 54. I'm 22 with 32 years experience
The French Revolution?
I disagree there. Curling has tons of strategy associated with it (“chess on ice”) I’ve never seen in archery. In fact, curling is kind of like archery but you can knock opponents arrows around the target...

Am I missing something with archery?
We've been working with Google to create content that can harness these new specs:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-lmlkrmJalNqp7Q_dLA...
Bain Capital strikes again!