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You haven't answered the fundamental question: How are they going to make money? The internet can be decentralized, and everything can be FOSS, but how is that going to make money for companies? If it isn't making money why will anyone bother changing their existing model? Unless we change the rules, we are not going to get different results. I wish there was a sustainable way to fund new tech by people. The growth we see in tech right now is manifested with this massive surveillance capitalism. Think about all the shiny tech/open source libraries coming out of google and facebook, now advertisements are what funds that. The line "All great civilizations were built on back of slaves" comes to mind. Our data and privacy is what we lose, for us to achieve this massive technological prowess.
Naval reactors are expensive upfront and expensive to operate. So the likeliest path to commercial nuclear vessels is onerous carbon regulations. That path isn't likely.
Interestingly Ive noticed the same thing in regards to exercise plus sleep. But instead of taking that as an indicator of my immune systems strength, I thoufht it was more an indicator of how absolutely filthy gym equipment is. I always shower IMMEDIATELY once Ive finished working out these days.
The Note 8 has a pretty nice stylus. Better than any stylus I ever had on a Windows CE device (never owned anything from Palm, so I can't really comment on that).
I am very curious on what Apple uses as the server OS in its datacenters. Do they use OSX or do they use Linux / FreeBSD?
This is the first time I've seen MathJax used at a mainstream site like nytimes.com. Good for them
Anticipated by Paolo Bacigalupi in Ship Breaker. Great book if you're looking for some semi-dystopian SF.
Hmm, I don't see how that changes with longer/stricter deploy processes - unless you have some of the tooling around that makes CD very possible in the first place (automated checks/etc.)

I've certainly worked in places with very long and strict deploy processes that managed to mangle production data frequently. Even worse, because the deploy process was so strict and long the bad code managed to stay on production for much longer than 10 minutes (the deploy time mentioned in the article).

There's some vague notion out there that long deploy process == safe, but there's very little evidence to suggest that's the case. If anything, it seems much more dangerous because larger changesets are going out all at once.
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Chinese dictatorship is panicking; it’s economy is en route to a crash, sped up by tariffs and trade restrictions coming from US and Europe. It will be interesting if their people wake up to their dystopia filled with pollution, random house arrests, disappearances, censorship, higher prices for consumer goods, and jobs disappearing.
I'm not sure it is for anyone. I'm simply stating facts about the geography and public viewing spaces.

It's amazing if you work there though. There are these sketchy rusty bleachers you can go chill at that are distressingly close to the launch site. Everyone has to wear inner and outer ear protection, no kids allowed. Pretty epic, but only for contractors and airforce staff.
>a code of conduct that seems very inoffensive

The creation of a code of conduct in and of itself is offensive. If your community is bad enough that you need to remind people to not be assholes then your community already has a problem and it isn't going to be fixed by adding a CoC. It doesn't help that codes of conduct are often selectively enforced whenever it's a convenient way to expel people the "in group" doesn't like. I can't think of a time where I've seen a code of conduct actually do what it is meant to: create a better community, providing victims by providing them an escalation chain of authority to seek help from, and expelling actual assholes and people causing internal drama and a negative workplace/community. They're extremely good at creating a divisive community, driving away talented people who happen to be outside the "in group", and being used as a strictly political tool instead of a tool meant to foster a healthy community.

The inclusion of a code of conduct, to me, tells me there are political busybodies that want to seek political control of a group by citing good intentions. Because what kind of asshole would be against something telling people to not act like assholes, right? You can pass anything by painting anyone against it in a bad light. Many overreaching bills pass because no politician in their right mind would be against an act like "Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act" (FOSTA) or even a less polarizing title like "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" (PATRIOT).
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In the case of browser it would become: embrace, extend til no one else can keep up without expending a lot on it, kill competitors that do not have the pockets to follow up and monopolize
This article could not be more wrong, and anyone who has been a truly serious athlete will agree with me.

There are perhaps a dozen times in my life when I was training with abnormally high intensity even for a very competitive endurance athlete and fell ill immediately afterward.

These range from 2 hr brutal races to 3-4 days of 5-7 hrs daily intense training or race efforts. I very rarely catch a cold, but it's more often than not after an effort that stands out to me as memorably difficult.

Any serious cyclist will agree with me. Even competitive high school athletes know that you are most likely to get sick right before taper.

This is an example of misinterpretation of scientific experiment, most likely by the journalists but possibly by the scientists themselves.

EDIT: I don't take issue with "immune response is heightened after exercise". I'm sure it is. I take issue with this quote: "But it is unlikely to have made you vulnerable to colds or other illnesses afterward, according to a myth-busting new review of the latest science about immunity and endurance exercise".
I built a series of articles around Tim's work for Medium. The article he wrote to lead off is the most I've ever highlighted an article.
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Basically what we do is that the user uploads a CSV with a list of domains and we then take screenshots of each and every domain and show it to the user with enriched data.

The user then marks each item as 'Lead' or 'Junk', Tinder style!

This saves a lot of time, because the normal way to do this is just having an Excel file with lists of potential leads and then you'd have to copy and paste the URI into a browser and wait for it to load before taking a decision for each item.

This takes way too much time so we built a tool that lets you do it 10x faster.

We wanted to solve this problem, because we encountered it ourselves with our main product (we had a list of 60K companies and had to sort the junk out of the list).

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on LeadQ.
Hey! I actually did see this before because I was searching for exactly that. I think I found it helpful in a specific way - maybe I should try using it for longer to see if it sticks in my mind. I think that's what I'm really lacking - a kind of mental visual short hand that holds together in my head.
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I will try to implement your suggestions as good as possible!

Do you think the orange/yellow UI itself is too light, is it the gray/white background combination or just some of the font colors that might have not enough contrast?
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I think it's important to bear in mind that Apple's goal (generally) isn't to do cross-platform social apps. iMessage is a success because it bridges to non-Apple platforms via SMS. Everything else is largely siloed to Apple devices. This naturally limits them.
here's my algorithm for my passive investments:

- if rolling average of VIX is below 15, all in on vanguard

- if it's above 15, choose from a basket of historically defensive stocks (Mcdonalds, Coke etc). Allocate more toward stocks with lower pearson correlation to the index in the past year.

- add hysteresis to taste

the idea is to avoid extended downturns while not really actively managing. This strategy backtests pretty well and it's what I use personally.
The only problem with that theory is that Apple is a much older company stemming from the days that the only way to make money was to sell things to consumers. Nearly all of that company's infrastructure and inertia has always been that way. They may be opportunistically touting privacy now like they're doing us a favor (and they kinda are...), but the main favor they did was simply never commit massive resources to a pivot to data-driven services. iAd, for example, was basically a "me too!" way of creating revenue for early iOS app devs (because Google's Android was the only competition in that market).

For all of the other companies mentioned: data was basically their only asset and business model, and they were started 25+ years after Apple.

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Yeah, can't get much cheaper than readers, unless you want to get a pair with glass lenses for very long term (much harder to scratch, can shatter)
Wow, a 21% year-over-year drop... and this makes the fourth consecutive quarter of annual declines (in the previous three quarters, shipments had dropped -3%, -5%, and -14% year-over-year). A hard landing indeed.

The implications for phone makers are unpleasant: price competition is going to intensify and profit margins, which are already thin, will get squeezed even more and might even turn negative. (Only Apple, which makes exclusively high-end devices for style-conscious, less-price-sensitive consumers, looks well-positioned to avoid a profit margin squeeze.)

The implications for mobile software applications and services are also unpleasant: the days of ultra-rapid user/subscriber/revenue growth are likely to end soon.
The world was a different place before Ebay, Craigslist and TV shows about flipping junk.
How accurately/precisely can your wrist watch tell you what your energy expenditure is?
> E.g. why the Swedish academy instead of the Royal Society?

Because a rich Swede endowed it over a century ago, and its had that time to build up prestige.

It's sort of like why Harvard is so prestigious: it was the first American University, its existed continuously, and has always ran itself like it was elite.

> I think it is a bit strange how we fetisihize the Nobel above all others.

My guess it's one of the oldest extant awards of its kind, if not the oldest.

This scandal (and the hiatus) might allow a competitor to emerge as the most prestigious award in the field of literature, but I doubt such award will have the same popular awareness, because the Nobel's breadth helps a lot with it's fame.
It does if you are using the web version, because the key card there is chosen using a specific method.
Interesting you say that. The engineers I talked to always told me that they preferred lower (sea level) launches because of disaster recovery (lower winds and lower potential contamination area) and because stats suggested lower launches gave more stability at the start of the flight when the rocket is typically most unstable.

I am _not_ rocket engineer though. This is simply what I remember experts telling me >10 years ago. :)
Same here. They only reason that I upgraded to the nexus 5x from the nexus 5 was that the modem in the 5x supported additional LTE bands. If there's no signficiant changes in the modem hardware you're just paying more money for a slightly better version of the phone you already have.
That happened to me too, they charged me for an IP address that I never got the opportunity to attach to a vServer (because there were no physical instances to spin the vServer on)
Very interesting article. Being taken over is the ultimate body horror.
Several games have explored the concept so far- mostly by having "zombiefied" versions as opponents.

It would be interesting to have this concept in a game where you as a AI hijack humans with apps, to act against there own interests.
So, I think my answer is a little different but: first decide what you mean by Web Development.

These days it isn't really one thing, but an ecosystem of technologies.

Secondly, inventory what you already know -- and tell us.

Now one has a basis for recommendations.

To put it another way, if I think you are a beginner who knows nothing, I might recommend the most "mainstream" system. So a nodeJS backend and react front end, or whatever TIOBE tells me is dominant right now.

I would recommend this even if I don't use it, trusting the crowd to be wiser than I am.

However, if you told me you have been studying python for 10 years (or however old python is), and you love it and have it all set up, I might recommend Django or something.

Once you know what you are learning, there are many (many, many) courses on almost anything you want to learn.

Even there I would trust to the wisdom of the crowds. The most highly rated book on Django on Amazon is probably more relevant to what you would do, probably contains better practices, and is probably won't break compared to what I happen to have on my shelf that I have read.

Once I do all that, I look at: Udacity, Coursera and EdX to see if they have the subject I want, and I audit the course. (And in that order). The Udacity web development courses were, for me, a revelation.

Finally, have a project in mind and use git.
"If you're a part of a security team and you are not automating your processes and procedures then your team is going to drown. You must automate."

Except we just saw automation fail with two big companies - Twitter and GitHub.
Fifteen years ago, buying glasses was a three-week experience that could be expected to cost in excess of $300. Now I can get two pairs, retail, for that price in a single day.

Warby Parker has helped make this accessible, and for that I'm very grateful.
> Well, as it turns out, the opposite was true and the fear was unfounded. The vast majority of password leaks we've seen over the past decade have been due not to malware but rather server compromises.

That's absurd. I can count on one hand how many account I need to be extremely secured. Accounts that will actually affect me if they were hacked.

- Works
- Bank
- Paypal
- Google
- AWS

All have a different and secure passwords.

The remaining accounts that I care about but won't affect me much if they were hacked use variation of a single password.

The accounts where I don't care use a simple password.

If any one of the first one are hacked or leaked, well I was already screwed I guess, the service was hacked... just hope that they take care of it.

If I get hacked, I just hope that I catch it before I log into one of theses accounts, which funnily enough, doesn't happen that much (except for work, but that's mostly at works so not my responsibility).

If any other password get leaked? Well not too bad, I request a new password and that's it.

> The single points of failure offered by servers are far more valuable now than the unwashed masses of networked user computers.

It's true up until it's no longer the case. So many people use cloud backed password manager too... your point currently apply to them too.

You see the big leaks but you don't see the peoples that get their passwords stolen from their computers, it's not new worthy.

It's also the classical: it won't happen to me.
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The "small world" effect of HN never ceases to astound me. It's always so cool to have somebody chime in with an anecdote about (what appears to an outsider as) something totally niche and out-there.
“Wake up to” May not be the right phrase when many of those things are the normal that many have known their whole lives.
This is all anecdotal evidence that's pretty well countered by this statement:

> Their first conclusion was that athletes are lousy at identifying whether and why they are sniffling. The original 1980s studies had relied on runners’ self-reports of illness. But newer experiments that actually tested saliva showed that less than a third of marathon runners who thought they had caught a cold actually had. Statistically, their odds of becoming sick were about the same as for anyone else in the race’s host city.
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Because even determining that there is an update available requires checking against an outside source to see if an update is available. This requires internet access, which requires handling network protocols, network security and encryption, none of which have anything to do with file compression. Increasing the scope of a project introduces additional failure modes, and a larger security risk.

If a project already performs telemetry, or if they have developer announcements, then the project has already increased its scope, and checking for updates is a relatively minor addition. If it is a well-behaved stand-alone application that doesn't make unwarranted external connections, then checking for updates is a large increase of scope.
It goes back to my original comment above; if you have the proper tooling (tests executed that must pass prior to deploy given a green light, green/blue deploys, canaries, automated datastore snapshots/point in time recovery, granular control of the deployment process), I think continuous deployment provides a great deal of value above what you've invested into the process. But that investment is critical if you've bought into CD. Otherwise, it's "deploy and pray".
That’s pretty rough from a financial audit perspective.

For budgeting purposes I’ve tried to find a full list of my iTunes purchase, and couldn’t find it in the store. Didn’t think to look in privacy.
Minor hiccup on your LaTeX translator... It outputs YES N0 (instead of YES NO)
Yes, considerably stronger. They are one of the most deadly tools in the animal kingdom in fact.
I’d love to see an article summing up some of these concerns re Chinese debt. If you have a good one please post it. Thanks.
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"It was a simple piece of code, partly copied from an internet source, inserted by the one man responsible for information security at an organization that runs three dozen United States lotteries."

"Tipton’s extra lines of code first checked to see if the coming lottery drawing fulfilled Tipton’s narrow circumstances. It had to be on a Wednesday or a Saturday evening, and one of three dates in a nonleap year: the 147th day of the year (May 27), the 327th day (Nov. 23) or the 363rd day (Dec. 29). If those criteria were satisfied, the random-number generator was diverted to a different track. Instead, the algorithm would use a predetermined seed number that restricted the pool of potential winning numbers to a much smaller, predictable set of numbers."
What I'm waiting for is for foils to become useful. It doesn't make sense to (only) replace energy source, drag should be minimized too. Admittedly it will take a long time for technology to be ready for these huge ships though.
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We had an electronics recycling day in our neighborhood once a year. It was fun to just go pick through the old boxes to find blank tapes, old computer games on floppies, assorted cables, keyboards, tape decks and VCR's that needed small repairs, and the occasional outdated computer or two.
Yes, but it would be blown up right before it finished computing the question to the ultimate answer.
I had one of those too, an ASR 33 with RS-232. I connected it to an Intel SDK-85, which had optional RS-232 stuff on it. Fun times!

If I recall, the teletype was sourced from the Green Bank Observatory, which had some really impressive old equipment - racks of hardware with nixie tube displays, all that kind of stuff.
I actually found it great and took some information from it, so it was useful for me at least :)
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I think the opposite. People that fast for a period (> 16 hours) report improved energy levels. This may be because after a while the body enters a ketogenic state where it burns body fat, which is a great source of energy and perfect for when on the hunt.
The same guys, except it's different guys, and even it were literally the same writer, that ad hominem doesn't address the content of this article.
¿Where is this magical world where you study up to your twenties and retire at your 30s?
Totally out of my element here, I read: "Ordinary crystals such as salt or quartz are examples of three-dimensional, ordered spatial crystals. Their atoms are arranged in a repeating system, something scientists have known for a century." Do we know why "time crystals" are structured differently? Does this structure have any implications for our understanding of how atoms can be arranged or is this already well documented? I see in the article the potential applications of this in "clocks, gyroscopes, and magnetometers" but I'm wondering if there are further implications just in our understanding of the universe.

(Sorry that may be a bit vague)
One thing that is completely omitted in the discussion here is that Outreachy is doing something based on your residency (if in US, different rules apply). This is well within their rights, but I wonder how that part affects the "diversity" stance - I would expect a black person from Africa to have generally a much harder time in tech than an African American.
Kubernetes isn't tied to hosting on Google' cloud. Amazon offers EKS and Microsoft offers a hosted service.