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Sadly, I don't think many people do anything for fun anymore. Feels like every site/channel/project/venture now is done with the possibility of a career in mind, and nothing online is made without some sort of extrinsic benefit to the creator.

Seems like the idea of a hobby in general has died off sometimes.
I would recommend GiveDirectly. They give can, not phones, but for any family whose first priority is a phone, they'll get a phone. Others might get a roof first, to deal with leaks leading to sleepless nights, or proper flooring to deal with parasites that live in dirt floors; both of these are problems with major impacts on educational outcomes, which individual families will know they need to deal with. And families that have those needs met will almost certainly go in for a phone or two.
It's very hard to call this spyware.
I launched veropost.com a while before earn.com pivoted. Didn't get much love, I hope now people can see the value proposition.
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Fair enough, you'll miss out on a lucrative user base.
And I'd add that requiring a Mac is another unnecessary barrier to access. Things like Fog Creek's Glitch IDE are making it clear that it's possible to build things from any device with a browser.
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Indeed, but if control and resources (e.g. immune resources) are allocated via some kind of map in the brain then mightn't that make proximity relevant? (notwithstanding the bone barrier!) I admit it's a stretch...
Fingerprints as used above wouldn't satisfy the "beyond a reasonable doubt threshold." They are circumstantial evidence of the identify of the suspect, but fingerprints aren't as unique as once claimed, nor are the imaging techniques (including resolution) referred to in the article sufficiently detailed for a proper fingerprint ID in the first case.

It's questionable whether the bathroom situation would satisfy the threshold, as it's based entirely on the testimony of an officer who somehow was able to ascertain gender but not (approximate) height, (approximate) weight or build, or race from his brief glimpse of the assailant. Moreover, it assumes the officer was correct about the gender of the assailant. Finally, it assumes that the officer was truthful in his statements. All in all, reasonable doubt exists at multiple levels and a good defense attorney only needs a single element of doubt.
So I'm copying and pasting part of someone's comment I saw on mobile - which has since been flagged and removed for including their referral URL - because I wanted to reply to it.

They said:
"I've earned around 0.0060 BTC so far (~$50), mostly through airdrop offers -- without taking into account the airdropped crypto itself."

What I wanted to reply was, no, you earned ~$50 if you sold it off immediately, however otherwise you earned "~$50" MINUS whatever "profit" earlier adopters earned, the wealth unreasonably/unnecessarily reallocated weighted toward the earlier adopters; e.g. that could be $50 minus $30 because you're paying for/legitimizing/realizing/covering the difference of their purchase price and their sale price. They know of course they can't dump it, however they don't care if the Pyramid-Ponzi scheme takes 10-20+ years to allow them to realize $100s of billions, or even potentially trillions of dollars, worth of "profit."
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I'm just coming back from a couple of weeks working disconnected in Cuba.

What I'm going to try is:

1. Have phone forget home and office wifi
2. Turn cellular off for some distracting apps. (Including stuff like email which doesn't require a fast response)
3. Put those apps on their own internet app page

Then, go somewhere with wifi and only use those apps there. I have enough data that my regular use of other apps won't be an issue.

In Cuba, I could only get internet at wifi parks. Apart from that my phone was a wonderful non distracting device which let me set timers, take notes, voice recordings, photos, view offline maps, translate things, played saved podcasts etc

It felt good to have my phone with me at all times, like it augmented things. At home it feels like something I have to keep away.

This may not work, as I can just flip on cell data for those apps. If it doesn't work I'll search for a different solution. But I'm hoping the physical segregation of apps will be enough as a cue.
I've long looked at their courses with interest, and recently took a free class intro so I could scope out if the place was worth the money and.... I wasn't impressed, especially not for the high prices.

The instructor was a "senior engineer" while his resume was only 2-3 years long, and he was an average at best instructor. The furniture was Ikea or Ikea-level. And perhaps most unforgivable to me, the (cheap) desks/benches did not have power outlets, even though laptops are a fundamental requirement. My last point may seem petty to some, but to me it indicated a distinct lack of consideration for what students actually need to succeed.

If I'm paying north of $100 per class hour, I expected considerably better.
Too bad they got your money already :/ I had to take the same action, for the same reason, with Windows 10. Though, in my case, there was a far superior alternative. Not sure you'll be as lucky with GW2.
Sure you can!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/29031630962/
There's an interesting thought in there somewhere. Something about maybe that hick from the country wasn't as stupid as he was made out to be and people bought into the derogatory term to their own detriment. Seems some modern era people might consider that from time-to-time.
> why are you openly supporting China?

I think you have reading comprehension issues if you feel that I'm supporting China.

It helps to actually try to understand something if you want to solve it. That's nothing to do with 'supporting China', but everything to do with analyzing how we got here and what will get us out. Hint: trade wars - either direct or by proxy - and protectionism are not going to get us out.

Japan used to be viewed in much the same way as China is today: cheap counterfeiter of Western designs. Korea ditto. And now, 30 years later they produce stuff on par with what the West was - not is - once capable of. China is also going that route but is substantially larger and far more ruthlessly managed. If we don't wise up and start playing this game a little smarter we will end up losing it in a big way.
If you aren't willing to offer it, I'm sure someone will.

Given that some of the services my businesses offer are in various niche markets, and as far as we know they are totally unique and have no direct competition after several years on the market, apparently you are mistaken.
Check out veropost.com too :)
Akamai found evidence of compromise on 65,000. Said around 4 million were vulnerable.
PyPI is dead. Long live PyPI!
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That could have been avoided if they hadn't been so insistent on all drivers being part of the kernel.

Then again, for as much trouble as that policy causes it is difficult to argue with its success, since Linux supports more hardware than any other open source OS and most proprietary ones too (or all, depending on how you count ancient hardware).
I think you may be using "monopoly" in the colloquial sense of "dominant market share" and not in the more specific sense of "using dominant market share to prevent competition" which is the legal sense.

There is nothing about NPR that discourages other public broadcasters.

(I'm not sure I'd call Google or FB a monopoly by that definition either, despite their market shares.

> and yet we don't constantly hear about all the evil stuff they're doing

We do, though, from conservatives.
Although, at a traditional 4 year university you can easily spend 6-10 times that amount of money and many students coming out of CS programs still aren't able to code fizzbuzz.
I've done 150+ interviews for Google.

A single candidate will do 1-2 screens (this changes over time / role), plus at least 4-5 on-site interviews. That's about 7-8 hours of meetings, minimum. Having interviewed at a number of other SF tech startups, almost all of them had about the same # of interviews.

Once you're past the screen interview, you'll almost always get all 5 interviews in the pool unless you're terrible - it's more efficient to just have the candidate come in once.

Google recommends a 1:1 ratio of prep/feedback time to interview time, so it's ~2 hrs per interview even if you're not involved in the hire / no hire discussion.

The discussion here was specifically that it was likely that background checks would start disqualifying candidates, so maybe it's better to do them up front as that's cheaper than having the interviews done first... I'd say that still makes sense, at least before the pool, if you think there's a reasonable chance they'll get punted.
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Ask HN: Bootstrappers, how are you implementing GDPR?
Small companies and bootstrappers, how are all of you implementing GDPR?

Most of the guides I'm finding are written for big multi-national software companies. Haven't been able to find anything at all for how it impacts freemium, which seems to be a big impact judging from my read of the official Articles.
Gruen did not intend to throw together anything.
In order to finance a dollar of monthly spending, you need roughly $300 invested. Actual returns are generally somewhat higher, due to requiring a lower amount of variance to handle sequence-of-returns risk in distribution, but the rule of thumb holds. Which suggests the car-buying habit puts you roughly $150k in the hole.
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It's not their platform. The devices belong to the people who bought them.
A fairly large number of people don't drive but have cellphones (Kids, NYC etc). So, I don't think numbers of people who turn it off is going to tell you much.
Are there numbers that say what the success rate of immuni therapy is?
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Effectively if Apple did anything for the mobile industry it was to retard it by a decade (or more), because all you describe we already had.
Of course technology can make learning better. I'm pretty sure smart boards would help your average American classroom. But the target for OLPC was Africa, where the classroom itself may not exist. If there is a classroom, maybe there isn't a simple black board. If that's there, maybe the students don't have stationery. Maybe they have to share a book between 50 students.

In this context, a laptop is as useless as a paper weight. They need basic stuff like books, pens, decent lunches, desks to write on etc.

I'm sorry but having your "heart in the right place" doesn't cut it. They wasted money on useless crap that could have been spent on far more useful stuff.
> Would they be considered array languages?

No. Is like claim "C" is a OO language. Is more correct to say it have "array capabilities".

To be considered an "X" language it must that "X" be the most primitive/idiomatic/natural/default way to think and program on that. And also a primitive of the language!

You can do OO on SQL, but that is hardly the idea!

Similar, with a array language you see everything as arrays and as array manipulation and rarely deviate from that. This is the same on other languages.

Even in multi-paradigm languages like python or C# maybe you put a little functional here or linq there but that portion of the code seriously look "alien"
So people keep saying around these discussions, but I've yet to see any hard data to support it, either published by others or from our own market research.
I think they just deployed a "smart inverted mode" that inverts the colours of everything except images/videos.
Yes, that would be one possible fix.
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Sorry if I was unclear, I’m talking about how US law annoys me (it does affect me despite not living in the US, e.g in terms of prices on goods from legal overhead in the US) and how I like that my non-US country has precedent from a Supreme Court and no one knows a lawyer because there almost aren’t any (probably much for that reason - law is rather simple)
US + EU + Japan (who respect IP) = 40T GDP

China (who doesn't respect IP) = 11T GDP

pretty sure China needs the developed world's customers more than they need China.

China can be replaced by automation and other developing countries for labor
AOSP works great on Nexus devices with zero modifications, the only real exception being apps that require location and apps where the developers chose to require having gApps installed. Get an AOSP Nexus and install the latest build of Chromium and you'll actually be using a more advanced browser than someone with gApps running stock Chrome. Nexus blobs are proprietary, but they're not missing.
But apple could provide an ios sdk for linux or windows.
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> Plus, you get to use a proper text editor instead of editing on a browser textarea

I have a shortcut that lets me edit any browser text area in MacVim, which works out really well in the Jupyter notebook.
Your story reminds me of "Flowers for Algernon" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WJQ74E). If you haven't read it, you might enjoy it for the parallels.
Anyone know why it always seems to be given as an infusion, and not any other route?

If it was just about bioavailability, I guess they'd just give large oral doses.

I recall reading of people self treating with ketamine off the darknet, and I imagine they are not giving themselves an infusion?
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Licence costs aren't an inherent advantage of 'digital' distribution over paper, though.

But if we could get to the stage where the licensing costs are are small compared to the production costs, the laptop would do better, because it could contain thousands of books.
They don't even need to look at the guys phone, he is a drug dealer who operates over whatsapp. Get on his list of numbers and he'll send you the evidence on his own.
Here's the largest Nescafe plant in the world, located in Southern Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzxjMxKUvIg

Check out some of the jobs on offer:

18:15 - the coffee tasting job

22:30 - the optical controller job

The latter one is crazy. The video doesn't make it clear why it's not automated.
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It's not baseless -- they want to help perpetuate the ecosystem and use cases for people to get utility in acquiring any incentivized crypto-assets. The same utility described on Earn.com however is possible by paying people fiat currency, instead of paying someone something then making them have vested interest in it maintaining a certain value or increasing its value (at the cost of society).
Unrelated to this - I've heard that many VC funds were going through their legal paperwork with a fine-tooth comb to see if they were allowed to invest LP money directly into crypto or ICOs. Some were not permitted, and it definitely demonstrated how some of these funds lack the flexibility to pursue opportunities that do not pattern-match classic VC investments of the last few decades.
Lol, no. It's higher than that because 70% of screener interviews end up not resulting in a hire, and probably 50-70% of on-sites don't. I think the last estimate I saw was about 50 hrs of interviewing total per hired candidate, and that feels about right to me.

7 interviews just for the hired candidate (1-2 screeners, 5-6 on-site pool interviews.) Maybe less than 7 hrs if they're cut to 45 mins each.
I signed up for earn.com with the expectation that anyone wanting to message me would have to pay first. Then they sent me spam from ICOs without paying me. Worse than useless. Their previous hardware mining ASIC product was also poorly thought out and ultimately a colossal waste of money.

I'm thinking the people claiming that there are other motives behind this deal are probably right.
Imagine you install $ANYTHING as a PWA. It's now on your homescreen, you launch it. You do $THING. now you switch to twitter. Now the PWA -- in the background -- loads some ad with an autoplaying video and now theres ad audio coming from ... well, you're not sure where, but it doesn't seem like it's coming from twitter. now you have to go find it and stop it. Meanwhile bitcoinminer.js is burning through your battery in the background because those video ads just weren't quite enough revenue.

I'm not sure which one sounds worse.
Apple decided many years ago that they were going to make it rich by controlling as much of their product/software as they could. In the past, when I guess they put out unique and well crafted products it worked. Today, not so much. Their stuff is garbage. Apple has continuous problems with production and have used strong-arm tactics to control what people can find out and fix on their own.

You hit the nail on the head with "In 5-10 years, native iOS apps will be as common as Win32 C apps. Apple will go kicking and screaming, keeping iOS Safari behind the curve, blocking PWA progress where they can. " Personally, I don't think (hope?) that it will take 5-10 years. Right now they have less than 80% of the market. As more and more people figure out that their products are not what they used to be that market share will become less and less. At some point it will no longer matter.

To the argument that the "sales are there" all I can say is look at the statistics. I believe it's less than 1% of all app store products (regardless of which one) make money. And, the average user goes to five apps on their phones all the time. The chances you're going to write an app that actually makes anything is between slim and none. If the user can't install your app for free you're never even going to get it installed on their phone/tablet at all.

Further, the vast number of apps in the future will be PWAs and many of those will be business oriented. As you said, programmers don't want to have to write three different sets of code (realistically only two: JS and Apple - whatever they're pushing recently). And, most of those apps will be "installed" from the web page for that SaaS or your own enterprise.

Apple is done. Stick it with a fork and take it out of the oven. Obviously, with all the dumb money they've collected over the last 10+ years they could do well without ever shipping another product. And, without a doubt, they will continue to get people to buy their products for sometime in the future. But, they will either come to the realization that they have no choice but work with MS and Google in allowing PWAs or they will become irrelevant. It will take them some time to understand that since they no longer have forward thinking management and just surround themselves with "protect our business" types. Eventually, those turkeys will be replaced (hopefully sooner rather than later - we still need competition) or Apple will become the next Oracle. No longer a player in today's world.

And for those doubters out there, don't forget, Apple was going down when they brought Jobs back the last time. Unfortunately, they have no one to go back to this time. It can, and will, happen again.
Half gram would knock you out cold.

A better "close to k-hole" dose would be 100mg. At least based on our experiences 100mg would get some people in the hole, while it took some others 50mg - 100mg more.
I've been working in a company with remote teams for 3 years now.

We try to use Scrum and/or Kanban, and it seems to be reasonably successful. We do struggle constantly with shipping all the features we want introduced in a timely fashion, but I think that is true of all software development.

Here are some pain points, and some partial solutions.

Trying to run meetings over Skype is a pain. It works well enough that you think you are okay, but there are issues. Many times we would start a call, and then need to check who actually made it, and often, hang up and call again so that two more people can join. There was a lot of incidental complexity just getting a meeting together. The chat also gets really cluttered and isn't great for searching.

The best change we made, in my opinion, was switching to Sococo for our meetings. You have a virtual office building, go into a room, summon other people to the room, turn on your microphone (or web cam, or share your screen), and chat. It surprises me how much less friction there is in just talking to someone on the spur of the moment. You just knock on their door, and talk. If you need someone else, you grab them. It is a piece of cake to look and see who is (and is not) in your meeting. We've also got Slack integration working, which helps with recording typed messages and searching them in the future.

(One more nuisance is that are CEOs are often travelling and fail over to Skype when they have poor internet connections. It is a pain.)

Other pain points is that you simply aren't in a room together. Things that would be easy together -- like writing on a whiteboard, or pointing out things on a co-workers screen -- are hard. For just making notes on a whiteboard, and roughing our class diagrams, I like sketchboard.me. For tracking a scrum/kanban board, Youtrack is okay. (I really don't like Jira, and none of the tools I've tried are as simple and flexible as a real whiteboard with cards and swimlanes). Still haven't solved the pairing up issue; we can share screens readily, but typing/pointing/controlling another screen isn't built-in to Sococo, is a little awkward with Zoom.us (because it sends key codes but doesn't compensate for different keyboard layouts), and was okay with, um, TeamViewer.

Being spread around the world is a pain for synchronicity. If you can, get your devs to work core hours together (if they are working in teams, anyways, and not as scattered soloists around the globe). You'll also find that even when you are in the same timezone, different cultures take lunch at different times. (I expect noon in Canada; my coworkers in Mexico want lunch at 2pm). We also try to work on the same days, but you'll find the stat holidays are different; for example, Easter was a week earlier here than in Macedonia, and the mind-numbing start/end times for daylight saving time also differ.

All in all, though, we work together, and ship software, so I think it works :-)
Ask the average jurist, “we found the suspect’s fingerprints at the scene, is it possible the suspect wasn’t there?” the answer 12/12 times will be no.

A jurist is lawyer or otherwise an expert of law. You'd most likely get a panel of 10-12/12 jurists agreeing that it's possible the suspect wasn't there at the time the crime was committed.

You'd probably get a different answer if you asked a juror, but you still wouldn't get 12/12. Jurors are familiar with the concept of time. It's not even to prove that the suspect was there at all (especially if they have an explanation for why they were at the scene of the crime), the prosecution must establish they were specifically there at the time of the crime.
I think it is one of open source's biggest failings that it succumbs to feature bloat at least as easily as proprietary software does, just for different reasons. The problem is that open source people generally work on what interests them, and simple solutions are boring.