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I'm mid 20s and my hearing is pretty much perfectly cut off at 11 khz but is fine below. I've had tinnitus since youth and have had lots of exposure to loud music but it hasn't gotten tremendously worse overtime and doctors either wave it away or say it's from noise induced hearing loss, which seems at odds with the 4 khz thing I've heard from you and others.

Any perspective on what the deal with that would be? I haven't ever used an ototoxic medicine or anything
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I wouldn't say anything is categorically better unless, hey wait do you think my thing is pure crap? :-)

Seriously though, I just want different things. From the GitHub v3 API I didn't see things like estimates or priorities, or whatever I may think of next. I use these every day so I'm just scratching an itch. If others like it too, all the merrier.
Consider what startups are/have actually been building... collectively.

There are a lot of individual startups, but most of the money driving them comes from the market cap of "tech giants" directly or indirectly. First, VCs invest based on the probability of a startup becoming a tech giant. Second, most exits are buy-outs by existing giants using their market cap as currency. Ultimately, either new giants are created or existing giants are made bigger. That's where all the startup money comes from, and that's where it ends up in success scenarios. Startups are a part of that, not the antidote to it.

What are these tech giants, and why are they worth so much?

As Thiel put it, monopoly. MS learned this game early. They understood, platforms and moats, network effects and ringfenced markets. Google is a search monopoly. Amazon has its fiefs. Uber raised all that money because it looked like they could become a monopoly. Now "their" market looks a little more competition-friendly. There are actual market dynamics pressuring prices down to marginal costs... Hey! how are we supposed to justify $100bn market cap with competition?!!

Unicorns are a dime a dozen (well $1bn, technically). Unless the market crashes, we'll probably have 3-5 dragons(TM) within 3-5 years worth >$1 trillion each. They will all be relatively unexposed to market forces.
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The issue is that we don’t need more woodworkers or death row inmates, but we need more programmers. Expanding the talent supply by being more inclusive will be beneficial to the industry and humanity as a whole, though we can definitely argue about how it’s currently being done.
Sorry, I misunderstood your point.
On the other hand Paris proper (where those height restrictions apply) is already one of the densest cities in the world, along with some of its suburban cities [0].

I think around these parts there are two separate problems:

- foreign/1%er investors buying up property and leaving it empty. Across central Paris ~20-30% (depending on districts) of homes are empty [1].

- The city is geographically too small, being locked inside the area of its mid-19th century fortifications, replaced in the 70s by an urban highway. This makes most of the land (and homes) outside of this circular highway much less desirable and therefore a lot less dense. If the suburbs were built as densely as Paris proper, most of the people living in the metro area would be able to live in a space a tenth of the size, avoiding so much commute misery.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_d...

[1] https://www.terraeco.net/A-Paris-toujours-plus-de-logements,...
For context: This reply was written when the title on here was "With 95% confidence, we expect our Universe to last more than 10^58  years"
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Yes, but does this make OPs forecast any less possible?
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The standard model is definitely flawed in a couple of known ways.
I feel a similar way about micro-brews. It's good because people think it's good. They think it is good because of cultural/narrative reasons. It's not good for any underlying or objective reason. If Budweiser made a beer that tasted like micro-brew, the connoisseurs would be drinking a micro-brew that tastes like budweiser.

Don't feel bad for me though :) Being a philistine is not life-threatening.

Wine is a good example because it's proven to be nonsense. Neither experts nor consumers can rank wines for taste in either a consistent way or a way that corresponds to price. Prices & blind test preferences are random. OTOH, people demonstrably prefer expensive wine when they know it's expensive.

This comes back to my earlier point, it's not all economics. Human beings are complicated. In these cases, some of us want to pay a premium for a premium product. There is no such thing, so the market spoofs it.
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yes they basically broken internet the same way it was broken with wap, including broken sharing and deeplinking, for no good reason at all... well except to run amp you need to run it on their resources and all your users are now profiled across all websites...
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This is a quote from EU tarriff on US, but I found it interesting

http://thehill.com/regulation/international/376467-eu-weighs...

> The products listed by Juncker appeared to target industries based in the home states of congressional leaders. Harley-Davidson is based in Wisconsin, the home state of Speaker Paul Ryan (R); Levi Strauss & Co. is headquartered in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's (D) hometown of San Francisco; and bourbon is made in Kentucky, the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R).
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Most Blockchain projects heading for actual production aren’t decentralized though.

Maersk may be heading toward running container ownership claims on Blockchain tech, but they will be in full control of the network and the deciding nodes.
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Queries to my local Spectrum DNS service are 4 times slower than 1.1.1.1, and they redirect you to stupid search pages instead of `NXDOMAIN`. I switched the whole network over this morning.
Americans from the major cities have a much higher purchasing power.

You're throwing numbers that are a year of disposable income. That's madness for the rest of the world.
It’s not that simple. First off, OOP is actually useful if not abused. Even in modern C++ it definitely has its place. And secondly, you run into the same problem outside the limited scope of OOP. Every large, well-designed library provides its own solution to this problem of “holding onto” a value and extending its lifetime, if necessary. Obviously I agree with you that a bare pointer shouldn’t ever be (ab)used for this purpose but as mentioned that’s easier said than done, since the alternatives aren’t trivial. Lifetime extension really is difficult.
> What is the "right" framework stack to use to create a Java web application TODAY? And by "right," I mean "most popular," in order to make finding answers as easy as possible.

I understand that motivation, but given that someone else (company) has made some of this decision for you, based on - it seems - ability of other people in the company to take over the apps, is there not some internal standard or existing apps you can learn from?

I realize telling you how this is a stupid decision your company has made doesn't really help, but given the decision, I'd think that would mean there's someone else with existing Java web app knowledge/experience for you to learn from?

Having the app done in Java - even if it means it's 6 months late - seems to be more important than having the app(s) available now, which - that alone must be frustrating. :/
I would argue you are woefully wrong. Much great music is made of sounds only fleetingly able to be considered 'intentional'.

A noise that conveys a feeling, no matter that feeling, is music.

Sure, I don't sit around jamming to John Cage, but I similarly feel vaugely ambivilant about much pop music. Is it any different? Much good hiphop is atonal, much jazz does not repeat, and much popular techno has but a faint hint of "humanity". And yet they are not just music, but wildly popular styles. there are few qualifiers you can put on music, art, etc. without drifting dangerously into 'I know it when I see it' territory.
The future is a lot less deterministic than you think.

Unless our current understanding of physics is completely wrong, the future is entirely deterministic.

I think you mean to use the word predictable, which insinuates that we don't have enough information to accurately model the future.
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Mattress quality = subjective (how it feels)
TV quality = objective, you can measure technical features.
The railroad barons are going to be the middleman for everything. They have all the best engineers and control all the suppliers.
Not just luxury cars, even economy cars are shipping with adaptive cruise control, automatic lane-keeping, and automatic collision avoidance, and (at least the ones I've tried) work fantastically. On the highway you really don't have to do anything.
You can treat the 'approved' services list using a whitelist, like a CA.

The other issue is that none of this is necessary. If I want to prove to Person X that Gov Y says that I have property Z, why can't I just present a cryptographically signed certificate saying I have property X. You could even have a similar revocation list as CA.
Can't agree more about (b). Last september around a long weekend here on the east coast of US, I had "booked" an SUV since I was planning a road trip with my extended family. In addition to booking it online, I had also called up the office a few days in advance to let them know that I will be picking up the car at 4 pm after my workday is done. When I reached there, I was offered a pickup truck and was told "cars are never guaranteed". I agreed to take any car that can take 5 people and even after that it took then 3 hours to arrange a mid-size sedan for me. What is the point of taking reservations if you cannot honor them? The model is seriously broken and in need of disruption.
Yeah, or netlify cms [0] if you want a version which is usable from the net.

[0] https://www.netlifycms.org/
I don’t literally mean you do n reviews to get your review - I mean members of the community generally spend some time reviewing. If you're new you will get some of your papers reviewed before you start to contribute back but it’s not a problem. It’s how it works now in CS.
> Choosing version 3 means first adopter risk.

I upgraded a couple v2 to v3, mostly because of concern about security (moderately sensitive data, most of the 2-era plugins aren't updated, etc). The allure of v3 was supposed to be "it's all spring boot!" but... I'm not capable enough of just installing random spring stuff and configuring it for boot - there's still 'stuff' grails does its own way (or... it's just my competency level?) But if I need to become much more proficient in spring boot to get benefit from grails 3... i'll just move to spring boot in the long haul. This seemed an inevitable move for grails, but not one I was excited about.
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Go to https://start.spring.io. It will let you down laod zip file which contains base project structure. Choose maven or gradle. Don't create your project using any ide netbeans, eclipse, Inyelij IDEA. USe file -> open menu and open maven(pom.xml) or gradle(build.gradle) file and choose as project.
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I think that was about the entire Universe, not our local part of it.
>But US unemployment is at historic lows

Meanwhile the wealth gap is at historic highs. Increasing demand when supply is already low should bring up wages.

>It's also notable that tariffs are one of the few policies that economists are almost in universal agreement about [3].

Tariffs will not generally improve the welfare of Americans, removing the tariffs after our global competitors have ceased their own unfair trade practices, improved worker conditions, stop polluting so much, etc. may improve the welfare of everyone.
>Soviet housing never worked. More to the point the wait lists for apartments was measured in years (ripe for corruption). The buildings were shoddy and depressing (hope you like grey). Urban planning was haphazard and may or not may have corresponded to where people actually wanted to live.

And yet there was no homelessness in the USSR.

If that's a system that doesn't work, sign me up for two.
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you've constructed a straw man- many people care about the inhumanity of incarceration and the death penalty and these men fall under the purview of that activism (not for want of equality but just basic humanity). but why would there be a call for universal equivalence? do we care if the Koch brothers feel marginalized because the world isn't a libertarian Paradise? do we care if Robert Mercer feels like he's not represented? to drive the point home: do we care if Oprah thinks there's not enough day time TV? no. we care about none of those things because those people are not by and large marginalized (neither the individuals nor the groups they represent wrt to those political positions). this is all to say that the people that are most consistently marginalized through out history (and in many meaningful aspects) should get the Lions share of attention. there is nothing odd or paradoxical about this
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I had to avail myself of cabs on a number of occasions over the years in a backwater town. There were a number of outfits that were all perfectly compliant with the law and regulation and although they were independent cabs they were all dispatched by the same idiots.

In no particular order I was...

- Only picked up an hour late because a different cabbie stopped by the shop I was in front of to shop and took me home after he got his groceries.

- Picked up by a cab that had been in an accident earlier and the steering was in some way totally screwed in a fashion that made the car veer to the side unpredictably when it hit a bump. I thought at first he was blind drunk until he showed me that it took a quarter turn of the wheel to make the wheels turn at all.

- Picked up by a cabbie that was showing his little brother how to maximize revenue by picking up and dropping off as many people as possible along an optimal route while talking about his time in prison along with a colorful story about his friend smuggling cigarettes in his rectum. Kudos for entrepreneurial know how but the trip took waaaay longer than it should have because 5 different people going different places were in the car.

There was one outfit that was technically non compliant after the county I worked in in decided that county specific taxi regulation including requiring outfits to paint their cars was actually going to be a thing. These were the only people that showed up in a reasonable time, provided good service, and actually took a damn card in the cab. They also used to violate the law by dropping me off in the half assed county where I worked.

So long Mr P's taxi and thanks for all the rides.

The regulations that don't keep taxis from ripping people off or threatening their safety but DO ensure that the "investors" in taxi medallions earn some money can collectively burn in the pits of hell.
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I'm open to paid or free. I know of Feedly and haven't been crazy about it; wondering if there's something better to check out.
Was there a reason you decided to focus on a subset of consensus protocols? I.e, only blockchains v. blockchains, DAGs, hashgraphs, and any new protocols that may appear.
Choosing to adopt a technology that makes deletions impossible absolutely shows a lack of respect for user decisions. Not building in the ability to deep delete from backups is the same. There is no technical restriction on deleting data, just company decisions that make it difficult.
hahaha i thought this was a billing issues landing page for YouPorn which was well designed, couldn't find it!
> Or go the other way and have process-per-core with userland drivers and TCP state, where each process is just listening for interrupts and handles everything from there?

A kernel. You are describing a kernel, minus workers, plus a web server.
The problem is that mattress manufacturers create different product lines and variants for each retailer. This makes it difficult to comparison shop or price match between retailers.
IRC logs from last time it was discussed:

2018-03-05 23:47:38 assos in greek it pronounced fegari instead of fengari
2018-03-06 00:12:41 RhodiumToad assos: several modern greek dictionaries I checked give the "fengari" prononciation either alone or alongside "fegari" - are they wrong?
2018-03-06 00:31:44 assos RhodiumToad: after I checked you are right, the pronunciation depends based on the location in greek, the correct one is fengari. Btw, the word is a derivation of φεγγος which translates to light/brightness.
2018-03-06 00:31:53 assos in greece*
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I can control my computer with my brain using my fingers.
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I think it is a common social practice to disclose a pregnancy at the time of your choosing rather than amazon's.

A premature disclosure can significantly affect you.
Mind sharing which brand? Texas here.
Well, yes, I agree. That's kind of what I was getting at.
My hope is that the ethos of FAIR* data sharing principles spreads and researchers finally replace the current commercial aspect of publications with an endowment funded system.

* https://www.monash.edu/ands/working-with-data/fairdata
Lmao. I heard the north south split discussions as far back as the 80s in cali. But a bid to grab the best area of coast will be hard fought, and basically create a gated affluent zone. Quite contrary to the goals of most californias residents. It just highlights the intolerance of those who push it in more than a joking sense.

Perhaps a day late?
> only the domain nameserver owner knows what queries you made (and you are probably hitting that domain in a moment anyway!)

But these are different people, with different incentives. The NS owner may be logging everything, without the domain owner's knowledge, and the NS owner won't even be in the wrong, because they likely made no promise to not log.

With a single resolver, I can verify that they're trustworthy enough [for me], just once, and direct all my traffic to it. Cloudflare's "We committed to never writing the querying IP addresses to disk and wiping all logs within 24 hours" is something, I imagine, they very much wouldn't want to be caught violating or changing their mind about later.

In the meanwhile, with the root NS method, I can only hope that my queries will get lost in the "noise". And I'm putting noise in quotation marks because there isn't much diversity in the name server ownership: 75% of Alexa top 1M domains are hosted at Cloudflare, GoDaddy and Amazon. [0]

[0] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/dns/Alexa%20top%201M/
So.. you mean developing and using a really shitty, slow and expensive database cluster?
Before this get "censored" ... unless you made lmgtfy this is not a good ShowHN, from https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> What to Submit

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

Anyway, your link is too general. Do you have an specific example?

The initial community here was the readers of the pg "articles" (aka blog posts), so you should expect to see a lot of fanboys/fangirs of pg here, specially in the old users.

IIRC the mods try to reduce the flags the users put on the post against YC, HN, pg, ..., so there is some kind of official anti-censorship of the post/comments against pg.

[Also, in case you want to see the [dead] post and comments, you should enable that option in your profile. Warning: there is a lot of crap in the [dead] post, but from time to time you can find something interesting and vouch it.]
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Number of citations is gamed too easily. You would first get self-citations and, after you started ignoring those, citation rings (groups of people colluding to citate each other excessively).

So, yes, you would need to assign a reputation to citations. I don’t think that’s a solved problem or even simpler than the problem of assigning reputation to papers.
> Is it open source / where can I read more?

It's just toy fragments at present. Using an idiosyncratic format. And a Windows MR HMD (for resolution), on linux(!), with three.js-but-not-WebVR (for resolution), and React, and emacs ... so in its current form, market size seems order-1. Low order one, since even I don't use it.

One might pull together something simpler for people to play with. Maybe preprocessed yaml. Just a browser window. Simple three.js. ... But I haven't.

What aspects of it sounded interesting? I'd been thinking of it as a niche itch-scratch type project.
Counter-argument: How could “they” have predicted a civilization with the necessary tools to detect the object would exist at this point in time in our solar system?
Nice work. What is the source for these jobs? And do you scrape the sites or use APIs provided by the sources (if they do). Just curious. Thanks!
That's not the point, though. In the case of undefined behavior, a compiler doesn't have to define the behavior or even act consistently (most evident by the behavior of the compiler's optimizer).

This is entirely different than implementation defined in that a conforming compiler has to document the behavior they implement and do it consistently.
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I am not sure about that, but what I meant is that they can afford to hire the best in their field.
Would it make sense to keep probes at standby around the solar system to quicker intercept objects like 'Oumuamua?
We don’t really need more programmers anymore than we need more woodworkers, or construction workers, or plumbers, but no one is calling for women to enter those other careers.
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Then you should be able to rewrite that into a spring boot application in a day at most and the company gets the advantage of a more homogeneous software stack that can be more easily be extended with metrics or whatever.
I just did this. I picked up a mattress enclosure/cover, pocket coils, a couple natural latex toppers and cannibalized a couple pieces of rigid foam from a previous mattress.

The hardest part of shopping for this was finding pocket coils and a mattress enclosure/cover. My troubles finding this may have been because of my personal preference. There may be some alternatives to the typical mattress enclosures.
> the bulk of the time is data transfer, not DNS lookups

You’d be surprised.