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This is one of the most annoyingly formatted and written articles. So antagonistic and condescending, with not-as-funny-as-you-think jokes and images inbetween, half a dozen single sentence, hell, single line paragraphs with white space inbetween, constant repetition and using up half my screen width.

As for content, meh. The point of the story is: it depends. Renting isn't throwing away money in every situation, fair enough. But it begs the question, what reasonable assumptions can be made for your situation. And here the author mostly fails to deliver, as it builds on a tens of assumptions without rooting them in evidence, or only partially.

So the author will happily use a timeframe of multiple decades to show interest rates are historically quite high, and thus a 5% rate is warranted, but then disregards a historical timeframe of a few decades and just assumes houses will appreciate 2% per year (!) and inflation is also 2% a year, aka houses haven't appreciated in real terms at all. Despite the fact the timeframe she uses for interest rates, shows housing prices vastly outpace inflation.

In short, awfully written, with a very basic point: it depends on assumptions, and then pulls assumptions out of thin air (no surprise, as the story ends with the buyer/renter being exactly as well off, indicating the author picked assumptions accordingly) without evidence, which often aren't even realistic in the first place.

But yes, agreed, renting certainly isn't always throwing away money. And dropping out of school certainly isn't always a bad thing. And amputating your leg certainly isn't in every single case bad for you, it can sometimes be good, like when you have gangrene. But all of that is silly without seriously talking about assumptions, taking 10 pages of antagonistic writing to tell someone to run their own numbers is beyond me.
If "temp mail service" means a way of receiving email using a temporary account then Mailinator does, but it's quite expensive. https://www.mailinator.com/pricingmatrix.jsp
The exploit concerns most Tegra chips currently on the market, not just the Nintendo Switch. Those are used in, for example, cars. I believe that was part of the reason.

Not to mention, it's not patchable without a hardware revision, so sharing it privately before sharing it publicly, while strongly hinting at that it's not patchable without a hardware revision (which has been done) has the same effect in practice for those wanting to escape Nintendo's jail, while letting those who use the Tegra in security-sensitive environments prepare adequately.
Yes, as far as I know both the Tegra 3 and K1 are vulnerable.
Human org dynamics are always interesting, because they can be applied to many other fields. Consider, "Xerox, the forgotten home of OS's GUI era".

How an org can pioneer a multi-billion business such as modern tennis and still become forgotten, unknown and semi-dilapidated is an insightful lesson IMHO.
You’re taking a bunch of things deliberately invented to solve an existing problem as an example of fundamental research paying off quickly?

Counterexamples: one of the early prime number researchers was proud that his work had no use at all, and now it’s the foundation of a major class of encryption. That was a century or two.

Or, Maxwell published “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism” in 1873, and it took another 30 years to become voice radio.

Of course, as the LHC only discovered the Higgs in 2012, even your 10 year lowball would be four years in the future.
Banner Blindness
Did you even read the first sentence of the article you quote?

HURLING a banana at a black soccer player was commonplace in England
in the 1980s but has, thankfully, long been eradicated from its
national game.
Microsoft Discontinuing Skype for Business, Teams, and Yammer for Windows Phone
I'm on my fourth Thinkpad (T42, T420, T440, now X220i) and all of them have worked perfectly with Linux, including suspend and hibernation.
HTML Tabindex Explained
This was always a running joke for the .NET devs I've worked with. If you need a fresh install of Visual Studio, SQL Server, or anything from Microsoft then you'll be waiting a while, so go make the dev team a round of tea/coffee. Every other bit of nontrivial software installed in less than half the time of an official Microsoft product.

With that being said, Visual Studio 2017 was incredibly quick to install on a fresh system (no VS installed previously), to the point where I assumed that I'd done something wrong or missed something during the install.

I remember hearing Scott Hanselman discuss this on a podcast (.NET Rocks, maybe?), and he said that one of the selling points of the latest versions of Visual Studio was how they were planning on splitting individual components out, making them easier to install, easier to port (a nod to .NET Core), and making the IDE experience faster. It may be that the reason why Microsoft tools take so long is because you're installing one large chunk, whereas the more they modularise the software the quicker it is to set things up.
That's absolutely true but if you read between the lines it's possible that's not what he means. Lots of people in Europe use the word "Europe" when they actually mean "EU". This is such a common verbal tic it largely passes unnoticed.

The systems groups you name are mostly in the UK (soon to be ex-EU) or Switzerland (not EU, doesn't want to join). Only Linz is in an EU country with no signs of that changing.

Substituting Europe for EU and the original statement might well be correct from a purely geopolitical perspective (obviously tons of research is done in the USA by people from Europe so we're only discussing geography here and not ethnicity).
Your explanation sounds logical, but it doesn't hold in practice: In France, you can also have 30-year fixed-rate loans and the interest rate is a bit below 2% (without counting loan insurance, a bit above 2% if you count it).
Your best response ? Win the hackathon !
Heck I make fun of PHP as much as I've made fun of JavaScript (maybe less actually) but now I'm heavily investing my resources at becoming a fine grained JavaScript developer, and I'm looking back at PHP all these years later because if I wanna "hack up something" in PHP I don't have to think about where to host it, you are totally spoiled by the offerings. Have fun trying to say the same about any other web framework / stack.
Our future AI overlords, I imagine.
Introducing 300m range Eddystone beacon suited for outdoor-indoor application
We at Beaconstac do not want marketers and business owners to restrict their beacon use cases to 100 meters!

This beacon hardware broadcast notifications in the range of 300m and have a battery life of more than 2 years. What hasn't changed at all is that these beacons still work out-of-the-box without a developer's effort.
I used to care about the native feel, but now as long as something has a good UI I don't really care that much. Case in point, visual studio code. The file menu is native and that's about it. The rest is html / JavaScript and it's a great interface. I don't care that the buttons don't match whatever OS theme I'm using. The web never has.
You can't be a traitor to someone you have no allegiance to.
WeWork is planning a major expansion in Southeast Asia
How to call JavaScript on angular 2?
Great to see some anecdotes to support my gut feelings on this! I am amazed that Americans would consider this pleasant police behaviour. As an Australian, I consider this unnecessary and heavy handed, although it gives me more than a little pride that the cops were able to admit to being wrong.
Umm-- it appeared to me you were trying to bash America (a perfect country?? Hell NO... NOT EVEN CLOSE; lol) my point, as you helped make, was that here I can trash talk the Prez with impunity, pretty much, Anywhere and everywhere. (But I think you knew what I was getting at). Peace :)
You may want to consider mobile-friendliness purely client side, using CSS to set up different layouts depending on the resolution - what's typically called Responsive Web Design. Sounds cumbersome, but with just the right couple of design tweaks you may get 90% usability on mobile.
They're "sponsored by", just like some YouTubers do. So if your target audience is significant, you can choose to include something from a sponsor in return for a payment.
Web security for single page applications: great impact with little effort
They just put someone in the pen for 8 months for having a laser jammer on their car and flipping cameras the bird.

I'd be making my way toward the door, as well.
TSB Bank: Botched upgrade has left customers unable to access their accounts
Ah, that's a fair point, I didn't see that.
> a Flash VM inside a Java client, to read HTML.

I feel ill just reading that sentence
Notes: A Firefox Test Pilot Browser Experiment
Yes. Australian police are racist specifically against indigenous peoples. To even suggest this is really dangerous in Australia, which is why it continues to happen without most people noticing. It's terrible.
It’s bizarre because, according to that definition, “decentralized protocol” is a contradiction of terms.
But if you already have a trusted third party, then why do you need a blockchain? The whole point of a blockchain is to avoid the centralization of trusted third parties. At that point you might as well have a normal relational database / transactions with ACID gusrantees.
How to Get a Verified Name?
Of course you can borrow it :) It's not very articulated. Just an early morning brain-to-keyboard dump.

I would count myself on your added category. Objective-C has been mostly unchanged for decades. I wanted an improvement, even if a breaking improvement.

We got properties and dot notation, which I was skeptical of. I saw a lot of misuse of those (specially with slower than O(1) accesses.) They were supported to signal intent, but instead were used as a shortcut.

We got ARC, which I must admit is useful for a large segment of developers, even though it creates a false sense of not needing to understand memory management and bites people left and right with circular dependencies.
The good thing about ARC is that you can use it on a per-file basis and you can still do the performance sensitive parts with MRC.

The magic isa optimization was good.

But these were either small syntactic sugar/quality of life or internal performance optimizations. None provided significant leaps forward.

Apple could have picked Objective-Smalltalk :) And poached Lars Bak from Google.

Swift's slogan is great, but it's misleading.
I read Rob Rix's rant shortly after he wrote it, and it was on the mark.
The government gives food stamps to poor people (good). The stamps are replaced by an electronic debit card system (good). The government outsources the food stamp/debit card management to a private contractor, Conduent (not inherently bad in a capitalist society). Conduent make an app (good).

The startup, Propel, makes their own app, and uses the Conduent database through an API (good). Many users like Propel's app (good), and it becomes more popular than Conduent's app.

Conduent controls the database, and tries to block Propel from database access (rude, possibly anti-competitive). Their reasoning is that Propel are making too many API requests ("a capacity ambush"). Propel turns to mass media to defend themselves (rude, possibly libellous).

If I trusted the government, I'd recommend that they take back control of their database, and offer it as Open Data. In the meantime, I think Propel should scrape the data from Conduent and run their own servers so they're not vulnerable to API blocks. The Internet is great, but we can't always expect servers to keep working (for political reasons like this, or technical ones), and that's one reason I dislike the shift from the Digital Hub to Cloud Subscription business models.
Actually people have been predicting the smart home since the 70s and they were mostly wrong.
Doesn’t that effectively mean that no decentralized network system/protocol can possibly exist according to this definition? Of course users have an incentive to be able to communicate with one another.
Link to the actual software: https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/pythran
RSS feeds that provide a paragraph (or less) and a "more..." link make me unsubscribe immediately. I'm most often reading my feeds when offline or on the go, and not having the full article makes it worthless.
Of course it does not, for that you need a headless browser ( = Chrome Headless).

Neither Python/Go/Java/Rust/C/C++/D/Ruby/C#/F#/... nor any other language (not even Node afaik, but Puppeteer handles that) can handle Javascript rendered sites.
shrug I've built things in more than 10 languages and sometimes I consciously choose PHP.
Ah! Partly the total incompetence of the people who are in charge of making Brexit happen, partly because I don’t trust the UK government with human rights unless bound by international convention (a bind which looks like it will be a lot weaker after Brexit).

It’s unfortunate, really, there’s a lot of nice stuff in the UK too. And I know I’ll miss it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aswinmohan....

Here's the PlayStore Link
"I spend almost no time fiddling with my system nowadays."

And this is perhaps the main difference. You stopped tinkering.

You can install a Linux distro aimed a people not interested in tinkering and it will likely just work.

"... but in my opinion quality ux requires someone to get paid to do the un glamorous work like fixing compatibility issues and corner cases."

There are in fact quite of bunch of people getting paid to fix compatibility issues and corner cases.

Try buying hardware from a Linux-based vendor.
Linking Together Personal Data in the Era of Big Data and GDPR
It ought to be the law that anything I can do, is fair game. If I fuckup something it shouldn't be under warranty, but only for the issues the tinkering causes. If I can connect to a port in the car I've paid for, and read something, it's not industrial espionage. That is just Tesla being lazy and trying to get security-by-obscurity, instead of a proper secure implementation.
Vendors and employees are presumably receiving a fair market value for their services; in a competitive market one buyer more or less won't make a significant difference.
> After brexit I’d like to see business & gov across the EU standardize on english as lingua franca to enable faster growth.

I wonder whether this will become easier now when the UK leaves, because the English language won't be tied to the competition between the major states.

This is definitely a shame for London, which I think was emerging as the centre of English-speaking Europe, I expect that role now will be more spread across a number of northern European cities, like Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam etc.
They are pushing Teams pretty hard to compete with Slack.
Testing the Leonardo Drawing App for Windows
Exactly this. Also you get paid real cash money. And really proper healthcare. Which is handy if you want to have kids.

I often see criticisms of bigtech as overpaying... or perhaps it is everyone else who is underpaying? Quit making the argument you should be underpaid!

Not to mention that at the big companies (FAANG) you get to work with some really awesome smart people. And work on hard problems that matter with products people actually use.

In the best case small startups are awesome. But there are many mediocre cases out there. Crazy crazy stuff. Every small startup I’ve been part of has had huge drama. Including extortion, sociopaths, bad senior hires, funding gone weird, and sheer embezzlement/misspending.
AI helps grow 6B roaches at China's largest breeding site
Could they not just offer to pay a premium for a larger API quota and additional support?
The search results take some time, since it's just launched.

It also hurts me badly to see advertising ruin my design, but I got to make some money to show my parents that this thing makes money

Thanks for trying this out :D
Isn't there already an application of neutrinos: to detect nuclear material (so weapons inspection and so on)?
Many will only read the image captions and will miss this buried "info" bit:

"Conduent, in another twist, has begun competing with the start-up. The business services outsourcer, which has $6 billion in yearly revenue, introduced its own smartphone app last year. Conduent’s entry, ConnectEBT, has significantly fewer reviews and lower ratings on the Google and Apple app stores than Propel’s FreshEBT."
Polaroid camera hacked to print on thermal paper
Here in the west, we prefer organic, free range roaches sourced from the finest inner city cottage farms.
This was 12 years ago, so it's possible that I don't remember the details correctly. I thought that "self" could not be selected for fire damage, but looking up videos of spellmaking in Oblivion this seems to be possible.

I do distinctly remember being unable to recreate that one fire spell, though. Perhaps it was not possible to set damage to 0 in Oblivion? That was part of why the spell became so cheap and allowed for extreme duration.
diy mass production plant :)
It's all white and light grey, very hard to see anything :/
European countries and companies are less likely to go big or go home in my experience. The USA has the expression, "bet the farm" and American leaders like to use it frequently. I can't think of any European equivalent saying off the top of my head. That results in bigger bets, bigger payouts when they succeed, more capital to invest in even bigger bets, etc.

The UK case of DeepMind is a good example. A big bet by British standards - lots of money raised and spent on pure research with no business model to drive it. By British standards that's incredibly brave and/or reckless. Yet a successful gamble, sold for half a billion dollars. But, sold to an American company literally called Alpha bet.
Assembling a team is tougher for a lifestyle business. A startup lottery ticket is more desirable. "Build this with me so we might get rich" is better than "build this with me so we might pay ourselves large salaries".

Then you've got the current funding climate that absolutely loves companies that look like lifestyle businesses. The temptation to take money is going to be huge.

Also - a failed VC-backed startup looks better resume-wise.
IBM's blockchain team is led by women
The "modern" in modern weaponry is the precision.

Bombs were bombs a hundred years ago and they will still be bombs in 2118.
Interpreted C++ for GIS with Project Jupyter
Do you think that model works for textual content the same way it works for Podcast?
I've only "deployed" a Philips Hue setup at home, but no, just internal WiFi is enough.
Why would an event in NK cause a change in gravity? Wouldn't the energy liberated in a nuclear event would cause the same amount of gravity to be felt elsewhere as the mass it came from?
Was it an public API, or scraping Conduent's website?

I'm not sure Conduent is really the "bad guy" here. The states should supply the API.
I don't understand why carriers feel the need to SIM-lock a phone that's on a contract anyway. I get it for pre-paid phones, the phone is partially subsidised by the carrier and they want to make their money back, but even there they have to unlock the phone after a year.

In the case of a phone on a contract, you're already locked into a contract. Why lock the phone if the customer is already required to pay either way. In fact, isn't it better for the operator if the customer uses their phone on another network, that way they get the monthly payments without even having to provide a service in return.
Marriage doesn't help! "Partnership" is recognised by immigration, and that requires living together, sharing the same address and bank account for a year.

This is because of a cultural shift in the meaning of marriage. It used to be one man and one woman, for life. Divorce, polygamy, homosexuality, and marriages of convenience changed that definition. I'm not trying to get distracted about whether those groups of people should be allowed to marry - that's a different political debate. The outcome is that marriage doesn't matter for immigration any more.

As soon as I get married, I'm going to have sex! But that might bring babies. If those kids can't have nationality, or risk their parents being separated by visa issues, I want to delay having those kids. So I want to get PR before getting married.
Ask HN: What does it mean to be successful?
We read a lot of articles on how to be successful but what does it really mean to be successful?
Facebook will launch changes on advertisers for ad targeting over email
You're a British citizen, you can move to any country in the EU. If you marry your girlfriend, she can move with you, and other countries in the EU will not require her to show income to move with you. You could be there in a few months, without waiting for companies to notice you. Source: am British citizen by descent, have lived in France.
Edit: and then to move to Britain from an EU country she doesn't need to show an income at all https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/family-resid...
And democrats somehow equals extremely left leaning? Huh.
He's not stateless, he's British.
This is often the case. Building a website for someone's portfolio for free is nonsense. But things like this come up all the time, and demanding payment in the form of money is often very stupid.

I got the chance to film alongside ESPN using experimental cameras and technology that I've pioneered, and didn't request payment (just all expenses covered). Gaining networking contacts at ESPN and on-air mentions of the tech are worth far more than I could reasonably bill, and in the case of billing them, you lose out on extracting favors for doing it for "free."

Being a good business operator requires not relying on platitudes you hear from the freelancing community.
"ads aren't abusive"

"believe"
As other people are pointing out specific skills, I would like to tell you that it is a totally wrong approach to start with. There are only few lucky people who start with a very niche technology. Let's say you are graduating from Masters and you luckily get a job in AI/ML niche.

For most people, they start with easy stuff. Skills which are not niche, which are fairly known. You slowly get accustomed and start working in it and pick related technologies from there and keep moving.

I would suggest start with any kind of web programming(html, css, any backend language) and explore from there. Also, enterprise products/technologies are pretty niche but they have a high barrier of entry. But once you know any web programming(either UI or backend), it is pretty easy to switch to these niches. Just start and keep going.
Not since 5.11.
Again, you first. The posts I replied to were just as personal as my responses.
Would love get the perspective of vc’s and /or someone who is part of the vc world.

The op’s question is something I have always wondered and am glad (s)he asked it here. I have always thought - generally speaking- if your business can’t make money it’s not a business. I feel There are some exceptions to this rule and require large amounts of capital upfront, but they are exactly that - exceptions and not the norm.
A multi-trillion dollar blockchain use case
I think they prefer this "freemium" model. It works better when it's free data than having to pay a little something for the same data. As for the idea that DB is moved to Open Data, yes, it is a great idea, I can only think of people shouting "socialism!! communism!! don't kill the private sector!!"

Maintaining their own data center (cloning the data once every 24h) would also mean they need to build a compliance capacity. Currently they don't own any data, they just pave the highway and sniffing the traffic (injecting ads).

> "It does not store or sell users’ personal information, the company said."

This is a big game changer and would require far greater Security/Compliance efforts.

And if the full company is the 9 people appearing in the first photo, then they will need to double that.