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They're application distribution models that have a great impact on security.

> the best you can do is an anecdote about "some software" you don't remember at all?

It was a wallpaper changer, and it was 3-5 years ago and I didn't keep a detailed journal of my Windows experiences. But it tells you something if you can be infected with malware from the official Microsoft apps store. That's not a platform I want to be doing banking or even email on.

I like Android for lots of things, but a model of safe and responsible software distribution it is NOT.

Anyway, if you like the separate namespaced app model, Linux offers that possibility too, you can use something like Cockpit [ https://cockpit-project.org/ ] to manage apps running in containers.
I wonder what is more taxing - (A) Government's social media tax or (B) One's daily time spent on these social media platforms

For me it is definitely (B). I keep off Facebook but once in a while I get into it because an email appears "XYZ posted a new photo". Tempted to see the photo, I logon to Facebook and then I lose control - I surf through the endless news feed clicking those click bait headlines and funny videos. And an hour or more just flies by. Just like that I lost my time and some of my energy. Fortunately I am able to resist the temptation to comment on FB stuff.
> There is almost nothing like his ideas out in the wild.

Go to Ted Nelson's Wikipedia page and mouse over the "Project Xanadu" link.

> Give them crappy tools and they will be satisfied to create crappy things with them. Give someone a better tool and many will rise to that level.

The value of Wikipedia page previews has very little to do with the quality of the technology. The quality of the technology is perfectly adequate for at least one version of what Ted Nelson is describing.

The value is determined by what those tooltips are legally allowed to link-- can they show all primary documents which anyone on HN can trivially discover and access in a digital format, or can they merely show other Wikipedia pages?

As long as it is illegal to link at least primary documents that whose authorship was funded by public money (like everything on Scihub), it really doesn't matter what type of view or even doc format you have.
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Also check out Albert’s List on Facebook. There are a lot of non tech jobs posted on there.
> If you ever wondered why so many people only have relatively expensive cable internet in Sweden instead of being connected directly to widely available fiber networks that is to a large extent because of EQT.

Care to expand on this? Among OECD countries Sweden is near the top in "Percentage of fibre connections in total broadband subscriptions" [0], with 61.8% (for reference the OECD average is 23.3%, with US at 12.6% and e.g. Germany being woefully poor at 2.3%).

[0] https://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/1.10-PctFibreToTotalBroad...
Since we just asked you to stop breaking the site guidelines and then you posted this, I've banned this account until we get some indication that you will use HN as intended in the future. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com with that.

In HN comments, it's more important not to turn this site into a flaming pit than it is to be right about Hellenic antiquity.
Jobless people aren't often just jobless. They're stay-at-home moms. They're people on disability. They're people with medical or mental conditions. They're people stuck in welfare trap - they get just enough money to make it not profitable to work (they'd lose it if they went to work, but no entry-level job will pay them more than the amount they get from welfare), but not enough to support any creative hobby. Or they have jobs - on the grey/black market, so that they can get both benefits and some shit untaxed pay.
>why not tax it like other vices but in this case use the revenue to address the problems which surface.

What problem?
I feel like there’s an ‘all or nothing’ attitude recently around starting a business which doesn’t make sense to me. Either you’re making millions and have 100 employees or nothing.

I work in a company that has 5-10 employees, nobody is working their ass off and there’s steady income and gradual growth. Our CEO is not a millionaire, but he enjoys his work and the company he works for. There is no plans for fast growth or VC funding.

Can anyone explain to me where does this obsession with VC funding and huge growth come from? I feel like if you grow your company by more then 50% YOY you will end up with a totally different company culture, and you might end up hating your own company.
There's some truth to that, but I'm still going to stick by my my first line:

The only yardstick of teaching that means anything is to look at what people go and do with what you taught them.

I consider "premature optimization" a spectacular failed experiment.
This comment has significantly boosted my Bayesian prior that they're crooks.
Except for the things Steve presented... they started at 2.
The only thing that sounds worse than design by committee is design by democracy. Do you know of any successful projects that are managed this way?
That invasive advertising surveillance must happen — or we wont be able to afford to stay in touch with each other — is a very common argument, but not a convincing one to me. This was zucc’s argument to Congress for extracting as much personal data as possible from people.

Surely there must be a middle ground between an app that people enjoy using being worth $570B and employing 25,000 experts to tweak it slightly, and being worth less than nothing after server costs.

I agree with you that should a decentralized social media app take off, it’s likely to be less profitable, but I dont think that necessarily means that no-one wants to work on it, that no-one wants to use it, or that it won’t exist.
To me it just feels as though the "get rich or die trying" mentality is something more alluring to people, whereas success stories from slow, steady growth makes more sense but is less hyped.
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You may be right, but this comment breaks the site guidelines by being uncivil and unsubstantive. That's not a good way to be right on HN. Better is to politely provide necessary corrective information, so then the rest of us can learn something.

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I think he's saying one way to control misinformation is by applying censorship, with the obvious implication that censorship is undesirable. You take the good with the bad, whether that means freedom of speech and some misinformation, or "correct" information and censoring any other news or view points.

I know which I'm more afraid of...
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And PostgreSQL has a thing called commitfest, which has some simple state tracking as well, with all discussion being based on mailing-lists.
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You post a lot of great submissions to HN, but if you continue to be uncivil in comments we're going to ban you. This is the second time I've had to warn you in as many days. Not cool!
Please don't respond to a bad comment with another bad comment and thereby make this place even worse.

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But only by 3% - so I still won't set up my chillout lounge right next to the tank fill station! :-)
The word "unthinkable" here is probably just hyperbole. There were other hypotheses, complete with papers published about them, but there was a lot less to support them than the amyloid hypothesis. Amyloid is simply the only obvious difference between someone suffering from Alzeheimer's and anyone else. As a result, at least half a dozen different pharmaceutical companies each spent billions to develop a therapy based on it. Since it generally takes around 10 years to develop a drug, they made those choices before a lot of the alternatives had any data to back them up. I'm no expert, but I'd be willing to bet that the recent study of the viral hypothesis couldn't even have been done 10 years ago.

The fun thing is that even if you consider the amyloid hypothesis to be false, that doesn't make any of the alternative theories any more likely to be true; in 10 years we could be seeing another big round of failures. In fact, the amyloid hypothesis could still be true, but nobody has found the right way to tackle the problem.
Would also potentially add "voice control" to this list. It's amazing to me that by trying to be "innovative/modern", most car user interface designs have become increasingly user unfriendly.

Case in point, the other day I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to connect my phone to a car via bluetooth (I'm still used to there just being a button for pairing).

Ended up having to search online for the instruction manual to figure it out, turns out pairing is only available via voice command when the car is in park ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree with you and see your point, but many businesses (especially B2C and high-tech) can't get to profitability without millions in venture capital.

Venture capital is high-risk and high-reward, and investors won't gamble millions without a chance for a massive return.

Massive returns usually happen at large scale.

If you want more companies like yours and fewer like, say, Twitter, then venture capital would need to be a charity.
I'm about a quarter way through this book and I'm enjoying it so far. This line, however, didn't resonate with me:

> To encourage 8-10 productive hours, serve dinner 8-10 hours after morning stand-up.

As a person who enjoys life outside of work, the idea of having a job where they were serving me dinner every day is baffling. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
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It's definitely both the cooling (otherwise the cylinder would get hot, just like a can of duster gets cold), and the safety thing. The walls of the container would generally be more than enough to withstand the acoustic shock and send that energy upward as a burst of water, but your real enemy is shrapnel from the cylinder, which the water will promptly slow to non-lethal speeds. I'll agree that a guy doing it in a plastic tank or a smallish metal one would be asking for trouble.
I just went and grabbed mine to check. It's there. That's badass.
You’re on a website which is run by an arm of a prominent venture capital firm.

What did you expect? Us all talking about the successful McDonald’s franchisee in Wichita, Kansas?

You’re consuming news from a portion of the overall economy where there are high stakes, big bets and a lot of money involved. Outsized, massive multi-billion dollar outcomes are the name of the entire game.

That’s why you get that feeling.
My words were not clear, I meant and edited to "semi-democratic" way. The voting is one indicator but I also believe strong vision and strategy of leader is the key to success.

And my point was not +1 button but splitting code into open source "Client side + Test-backend" and closed sourced "Production-backend". Backend can be composed of some interface and multiple implementation such as test impl and prod impl. Actually Github could be hosted in Azure and I do not care their backend as I go github.com anyway.
Re macros, I had a similar thought this morning. Except for code instrumentation and boilerplate generation I've actually never found macros to be useful.

ADT DSLs + free monads or similar abstractions give you everything you need, in a more principled way.
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Nobody understand the brain well enough to do that yet. Furthermore, the existence of a cure for a disease goes a long way towards proving what the mechanism of the disease is.
I wasn't criticizing Rust, and I'm aware of what you linked. The point I was making is that this sort of functionality is a sine qua non for C-replacement languages. That Rust has it is to its credit, and one reason that I think it is a very good C-replacement language.
Three votes came from /newest and the rest from the front page. The post obviously struck a nerve.
Yes, and then they bought inktomi.
On the flipside, water is used for the periodic pressure testing of scuba tanks, precisely because it is essentially incompressible. So if a tank does blow up during testing, you have a very small expansion and thus very small energy release.

If you draw a curve of gauge pressure as a function of volume, the energy release is the area under the curve, and as the curve steepness goes to infinity (i.e. compressibility goes to zero) the energy released starting at a given pressure goes to zero.
Somebody's trying to fit in and say what they heard somebody else say. Thence are these things born and propagated.

This one takes an adjective and makes it a noun. Sounds more like 1950s lingo (a black, a white, a gay etc.) but with the illusion of freshness with its being applied to old people for the first time. Call me a rude, but it's a sucky. At least "old person" acknowledges they're a person.
I don't dispute that HFT can reduce spreads. The question is whether that benefit may come at some expense to smaller investors.

See the previous link I posted. Also, of course, "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis. There is no shortage of discussion around this question.
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If you have evidence of people successfully gaming HN with 'marketing actions', I'd like to see it at hn@ycombinator.com. We work hard to stop that, at least in its abusive forms such as ring-voting.

Abuse exists, of course, but people also imagine it onto everything they see on HN that they happen to dislike. Then they come to the comment threads to post unsubstantiated claims about it. That doesn't help.
There’s a lot more of the bootstrap stuff on Indie Hackers. Sounds like you’d enjoy their podcast too. indiehackers.com
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Oh love that “Bayesian prior” take for prejudice. :D will definitively reuse
You don’t have to eat it.

They serve dinner every day where I work. I simply go home earlier than that. Nothing happens. It’s quite simple really.

On days where I happen to need to stay late, it’s a really nice convenience. For people who go to the gym after work and come back to eat, they save money by grabbing a quick dinner meal at work.
Very neat and responsive. Thanks.
Ban media organizations larger than some size (or some better proxy). Nothing is fundamental when you can control the rules.
There is also https://leanpub.com/ which I think is a bit more established.
Not sure if it’s related but Facebook is building fiber backhaul for Uganda.

https://code.fb.com/connectivity/airtel-and-bcs-with-support...
Generics and operator traits ought to be orthogonal and composable. Would you still be comforted if the compiler didn't let you mix for loops and arithmetic in one function? I mean, even if it gave you a detailed error message...
What Autonomous Driving market? From what I have heard, right now autonomous driving even by leaders like Waymo is incredibly small-potatoes and the rigs running in these cars are mostly prototypes built with commodity hardware.

It's just way too early to start picking winners and losers in the hardware space for autonomous given that nothing is being mass-produced. And there is no price-competition in the space because the major players are willing to pay whatever it takes as part of their R&D efforts to win the race.
Sort of. They need good search results so users return and have a probability of ad click again.
This is not "random metric", and I find that talking too much about "metrics that matters to end user" in abstract is muddying the waters. Here are the important performance metrics for end users:

- It's slower than my speed of thinking / inputting. If I can press keys faster than they appear on the screen, it's completely broken.

- I can no longer have all the applications I need opened simultaneously, because together, they exhaust all the system resources. Even though I have a faster computer now, and 5 years ago, equivalent set of applications worked together just fine.

- My laptop/phone battery seems to be down to 50% in an hour.

- Your webpage takes 5+ seconds to load, even though it has just a bunch of text on it.

- Your webpage is slowing down / hanging my browser.

- I'm on a train / in a shopping mall, and have spotty connection. I can't load your webpage even though if I serialized the DOM, it would be 2kb of HTML + some small images, because of all the JS nonsense it's loading and doing.
You may be thinking of Imzy. IIRC, Imzy required you to sign in before you could see anything. That probably scared off a lot of potential users.
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It doesn't seem to work.
Well that was quick.
Not everyone is building web browser, compiler or even a e-commerce site.
Even on commerce-related website, only pages on customer acquisition path and buy path really matter.

Most of those pages will bubble up when you do your first profiling session anyway.

You can get away with good data structures/good sql queries and a little big O analysis almost everywhere.

Premature optimization, premature nines of stability, premature architecture and abstraction are as evil as ever. They all distract you from moving forward and shipping.

Of course, if your product is BLAS library, database, compiler, web browser, operating system or AAA video game, that does not apply. I mean, for most of us "profile often" is a terrible advise.

(edit: spelling, clarifications)
This is a fantastic resource.

>> ...the data shows that solo founders rarely succeed. The emotional burden is just too high.

I am a solo founder and yeah, I completely agree with this. I severely underestimated the emotional burden of going it alone. I am in a much better state now, but it was definitely a struggle. If I had to do it over again this is the main thing I would change - be more open towards and work harder towards finding a co-founder.
I agree, the redesign isn't great but that's not what killed it for me. The same discussions will keep happening there with no changes. I've had the same thoughts as you about discussing with teenagers.

/r/Australia isn't particularly racist or astroturfed but there is still a lot of times I'm amazed at what gets upvoted. /r/bjj is a good place for jiu jitsu content but the same stuff is posted across every network and the communities are so small we all know any news pretty quickly.

Maybe I just got older and care less about reading or discussing the same topics all the time. I've had the same trouble with Facebook recently where so many lies fill any comment section.
We also have a wealth of knowledge about computer architecture and what software design decisions will result in performance problems or benefits. At a high level, trying to design, eg, a computer vision application that has to upload gigabytes of data to the cloud, will result in poor performance. At the low level, iterating over linked lists is slower than memory contiguous arrays, especially if your data is too big to fit in cache. The low-level knowledge that inlined methods let the compiler eliminate branches and vectorize code more effectively, informs the mid level architects that if everything is done by inheritance you lose this advantage since everything has to go through the vtable.

For too long we've been able to make poor performance decisions and be rescued by Moore's law; no more. We will find in the upcoming years that performance is an architectural decision that can come back to bite us if we don't design for it up-front.
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It started much longer than 10 years ago. On slashdot, it was pretty much the only way I've ever seen Microsoft referred to.
I hate it when it's something like Facebook, Twitter or Reddit asking me repeatedly to download their app but even worst is when it's some random website I'm visiting once! No, I don't want your app, random one-off recipe site!
> In addition, if people are working less than 8-10 productive hours per day, then they are clearly not being as productive as they could be.

So, are people expected to be in the office for 12+ hours a day? Nobody is 100% productive from the moment they step in the door, every day. The fact that the author even wrote the number 10 here makes me a bit angry.

I'm only about 1/4 of the way through, does he have a section on employee burnout?
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