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Personally I trust the recently completed[1] Apple/Stanford heart study with my health data a lot more. It's a company with a record of protecting personal data, and on the Stanford side was presumably approved by an IRB before they collected a single piece of data.

Granted it's not the same dataset as you'd get from a "Collect everything and figure out what to do with it later" approach, but I think it strikes a better balance.

For all we know, Fitbit's eventual plan is to sell their heart data to your insurance company so they can say "It looks like you have a higher than average resting heart rate and don't exercise much, we're going to double your premiums." Heck, maybe Fitbit isn't planning that, but they'll go out of business in 20 years and auction your heartrate history to someone else who does that. We have no idea.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/01/apple-heart-study-survey/
Lol this title is literally a recipe for fighting. That said, I love how they eliminated the need for JQuery with all the functions up top. Super minimalist.
> Typical data scientist role I see posted is looking for: - SQL - AWS/Azure - Tableau/Power BI/Other BI tools - Python/R - Increasingly Hadoop/Spark

They are looking for programmers.

Unless...

C programming makes you a hardware engineer,

Fortran programming makes you a physicist,

Ada programming makes you a rocket scientist,

and Lisp programming makes you a god.
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I’ve not seen an idea suggested that solves all the issues Skype does in one package, and doesn’t add other baggage.

To be fair, Skype also appears to be trying to add a lot of baggage too.
Initially one of those elite consulting marketplace things. And then my own pool of referrals. I hate PHP so I set my rate higher on those projects and people still pay it.
It had the lessons of Bitcoin and hundreds of dead alt coins.

Every time ETH gets used for an app, it takes down/log jams the network.

I dont think it will be possible to use blockchain to power the web. Slow, unreliable, and expensive.
How to Keep Your Business from Running Your Life
Extensions have access to various browser APIs and you can enter a list of sites just like Safari. There is no difference.
Or you know, they pass it on to your insurer who can trivially deanonamize it...
To me maintaining it is a hassle. I don't care about fixing it, I explicitly do not want to fix it, I also don't care about the software it runs. A car is a tool like a stove to me, I only care that the stove works. Fixing or maintaining it is not in any way interesting or worthwhile it's just a means to get from A to B. If there is transit I would take that instead, but if I have to own a car I would rather own one that simply works and otherwise stays out of my way and is not a hassle.

Who says that you need to own it either? Perhaps you just subscribe to a car service like zipcar or somesuch and you text msg the car to drive over to you when you need it, and when it's not being used or books it goes off to get itself serviced and whatnot. Sounds great to me.
Here's hoping Web 3.0 goes back to minimalism. Unless you're building a fully interactive web application, let's get back to server side rendering, optimized images, and minimal web requests. Now that everyone is getting faster and faster internet speeds, the web has turned into the old sloppy coding practices, where CPU speeds were doubling year after year. Just give me the information we need without all of the magical fluff around it.
Hi HN!

Creator & founder of VidHug here. It started for me with a request to create a video montage for my mother's 70th birthday. I hacked together a very lousy prototype to make it easier for people to send me recorded videos (even DropBox would have been too complicated for some of the more elderly users) and then iMovie'd the result together. It was a success in that my mother loved it (tears of joy), but what I was left with was a feeling for how much work the whole process had been. So I set about to create VidHug, to make it easy enough and low-effort enough that anyone can do it.

There are still a lot of features that I want to add (music, photos, etc), but so far it's extremely gratifying to see people use it to connect on a deeper emotional level for special occasions (rather than the usual "Happy Birthday" text/comment). I'm also exploring other use-cases.

Thanks for checking it out!
Sounds like this is Integrated Chinese. A very popular undergraduate text in the US for teaching Chinese language skills.
Speaking of "noisy text", is it really necessary to require javascript access to read that blurb.

-- p.s. to other script averse --

https://github.com/pmichel31415/mtnt
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Epmichel1/hosting/mtnt-emnlp.pdf
> Unless the programmer is programming at a very low level

If you write unixy tools that do just one job then you often have to deal with this. For example rsync and tar put files into sequential mode and perform readaheads or writebehind-drop the page cache.

And it's not just that kind of tool. At $JOB I did a fairly simple optimization to significantly reduce loadtimes (from NFS) in a render farm by importing a 3rd-party library which provided the necessary libc bindings for readaheads. It's only a dozen lines of code but reduces user-perceived latency from minutes to seconds. The PO was quite happy about not having to pay for hundreds of NVMe SSDs.
I would also add here Norway as the prototypical example. Norway is not only a mostly homogenous society with extremely low inequality, but is now considered arguably the most gender equal nation in existence. But the interesting thing is that this does not translate to an equal proportion of people in every single activity -- or even remotely close to it. What they found is that when working to actively push people into careers that would not normally fit gender "stereotypes" there was a small and relatively constant improvement. As soon as that push was relinquished the numbers would trend back towards the pre-push ratios. The point of this is that even when given completely equal opportunity in a completely equal society, different groups trend towards different things.

This whole notion that everything and everybody is identical with most, if not all, differences being the product of some form of ism or discrimination of some sort of another is a very new, very wrong, and very dangerous belief. The only way you're going to achieve identical outcomes is by pushing society towards a dystopia as it would entail either preventing those who want to do x from doing so, or by pushing people who do not want to do x into doing just that.
Care to share a link to your licensed ML product, for those of us who're curious? Got any tips for people who are playing with the idea of doing something similar?
The trip is dominated by the speed of light (or more accurately, the speed of electricity, which is close to the speed of light, at about 300,000 kilometers per second)

The circumference of the earth is about 40,000 kilometers. A round trip from CA to Netherlends and back will have electricity going roughly that distance. Speed of electricity times 150 milliseconds is 44,000 kilometers.

That means that the number won't change over time.
I like natural light at a medium level (eg, blinds 1/2 closed). I despise bright artificial light.

When I went to work at Google, in a large windowless room, I was one of those people with a cover over their cube. Without the cover, one of the rows of artificial light would shine right in my eyes.
That sounds like it'd be solving a different problem.
I think your best bet might actually be an apple iwatch
Right, my point was that this is a subset of modern approaches.
Or did their counters reset? ;-)

30 odometer miles per engine hour seems about average (to one significant digit - varies with proportion of highway vs city vs idle hours). That would suggest all your 20+ year old cars are under about 120K miles? Or they have a very high mix of freeway miles. Either way, they're not likely getting the average 10-15k miles per year.

Conversely, that rough evaluation is making me question whether my recollection of nearing 10K hours was correct - the vehicle is under 200K miles, which would suggest <20mph average.
"True Hackers" can write LISP in any language?
Accessibility is not a feature
Opened https://www.reddit.com/ in Private Browsing and measured it after some ten or fifteen seconds, 92.69MB (38MB of objects—of which 16MB is ArrayBuffer—33MB of scripts, 7MB of DOM nodes, 5MB of other, 2MB of strings).

https://old.reddit.com/, 13.70MB (1MB of scripts, 1MB of other, 2MB of objects, 6MB of DOM nodes, 782KB of strings).
For good reason: how exactly do you propose to enforce anything if you don't have a government that's allowed to use force? Give everyone a gun and let them shoot anyone they think has wronged them?
Using your basic health data like HR and weight against you would make a great episode of Black Mirror actually.
Software developers should be more efficient with symbols. This approach may actually work better.
Which is why raising money isn't the defining feature of a startup. And being a SaaS is likewise not a defining feature of a startup, necessarily.
It was more about taste than being cheap about clothes, but I understand your perspective. But I still kept most of those clothes because they are still in good enough state.
The original article was updated as the results were completely incorrect. The only time a linear search is faster is for a very tiny in-place integer search.
You should take a look at embedmd, which allows you to include files (or just portions of a file) in a Markdown file: https://github.com/campoy/embedmd

As I wrote in the post, I didn't use it because it doesn't allow me to include a portion of something and then comment out a part of that, but today I got thinking: if it could include a portion of a function and also the relevant (semantic?) context, it would be 99% of what I need. But the "relevant context" is the tricky part, I guess. I like what git diff does, when it shows the signature of a changed function (does it simply use the first of the previous lines that are less intended?), but I guess it's hard to get really right...

edit: GitChapter is also a really interesting project. If it didn't use a real git repository, but something like folders that resemble single commits, I think I'd use it. https://github.com/chrissound/GitChapter/
This is great for server development, but I'd love to see the numbers for mobile phones nowadays. Rather than year, mobile phone by year class...
I used to be much more positive about decentralization. I even wrote this little decentralized side project[0] that did well on HN a few years ago.

But lately, I've become more cynical about it. I fear it just doesn't map that well to the real world. From an abstract/logical architecture it makes a ton of sense, and would be beyond amazing to have a decentralized, unstoppable, computing platform that anyone can hop on, like Ethereum promises.

But there's real computation happening in physical machines somewhere, real fiber connections between servers, real electricity costs, real national borders, real laws, etc.

These days I'm much more enthused, I think, by federation, as that seems to map more cleanly onto the real world, putting the ownership and costs and responsibilities on those who control the hardware. I was extremely excited, for example, by sandstorm.io, but it seems like it's winding down lately. I haven't really seen an equivalent that's caught my eye, but maybe I'm missing some.

I really do support the "Web 3.0" vision as defined here, and best of luck to them. If they can get that "killer app" that makes everyone want to join, and provide a little defense against detractors trying to use physical means to shut down the logical decentralization, then it would be a revolution for sure. But it looks hard to get there from here, to me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531265
> Last I checked most of programming came from the once persecuted nerd and geeks.

...

> The lack of the numbers representing a group does not automatically imply discrimination.

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I think the answer to this is a bit more complicated, and requires demonstrating how the other answer is also a bit more complicated.

When the business goes up, the first thing that happens should be neither giving money to the owners nor giving money to the employees. It should be putting some money in the bank. The most salient reason for this is that just because the business is up this quarter (or over whatever short-term period is being considered) does not mean that is a stable increase.

Similarly, when the business goes down, the first thing that should happen is neither reducing the pay to employees nor reducing the pay to owners. It should be dipping into savings. That is, in fact, why the savings should be set up in the first place.

With this stated, it should become clearer what the answer to your question really is. Because neither employees nor owners should see an increase in pay until there are stable increases in business over multiple measurement periods, similarly they should not have to see a decrease unless there is a stable decrease in business. And if there is a sustained decrease in business, then there are likely other efforts going on to combat it, both in terms of cutting staff and in terms of finding out why the decrease has happened and trying to reverse it, so any decrease in compensation would not be happening in a vacuum.

The shorter statement that increases in business should result in employee wage increases is not (generally) meant to indicate that every temporary fluctuation in business should ripple to the employees, but rather that they should be given some of the long-term increase, as opposed to the owners getting the entirety of it and the employees getting nothing.
> Nonsense. Maintainability almost always matters.

The last three large corporations I worked for never cared about maintainability because the application or portal would only be in use for maybe a year or 18 months before a complete rewrite or total redesign.

All of the recent projects I've been on take the same approach. Get it stood up, make it look pretty and release it. Because agile development makes business owners believe it only takes a few days to build Rome now, maintainability is never a consideration on any of the projects I've been on. Even senior devs are saying, "It's pretty hacky to get this to work, but it works" is a common troupe on our teams. I agree maintainability should be important, but on the agile projects I've been on, nobody cares about it.

To some degree I think executives do it on purpose so they can create more work for themselves in the future. They can pick it apart, ask for a bigger budget, hire more devs and use some shiny new technology to build it over again. Rinse, repeat.
Outside of conventions that's a rather meaningless limitation. We could easily have 20x as many cell towers in the US without issue.
I used Libre Office to write a few short eBooks. I found the "flow" of writing in a word processor better for me and it avoided the thought of writing my own tools for the job. I've published step-by-step instructions for the document setup that worked best for me.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A4112ZM
There are flaws in every evolution of the web, but none that can't be mitigated and presumably the good that each evolution brings to the world far outweighs the bad.
It makes sense considering the lesser sunlight hours certain countries receive (especially parts of UK, Iceland, Germany, Scandinavia): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_sunshine_hour...

Sunlight is not only good for morale, but also good for health.
> I'm not a cyclist, but I'm a huge fan of having these on bikes. They've become more popular in my area and because of that you notice the bicycles earlier so you have a much smaller chance of accidentally hitting them because you don't see them. After I started seeing these, I've become quite baffled why more cyclists don't use them.

I find the sentiment in your first paragraph to be baffling, though common. The problem isn't that horns (or high viz, helmets, or flashing lights) are a bad idea, or that you're wishing that more people would use them - I agree that more should use them. My issue is that the sentiment displaces responsibility on to the cyclist, from the person operating the dangerous machine. It's up to the cyclist to decide what gear works for them, and the burden of responsibility is firmly on the driver to not hit other people using the road.

It seems like every couple weeks, our local paper runs an article on another driver running in to a cyclist, and it nearly always frames the event as "cyclist hit by car" (notice we're already biased - "other-class-of-person hit by machine"), then proceeds to answer the "was the cyclist wearing high viz?". This creates a situation where it's more acceptable to drive carelessly, so long as the victim isn't following your locale's particular safety checklist.

Remember that there are a bunch of reasons people bike, and a lot of them are counter to some of these recommended safety products; people don't want to mess up their hair for work, have to wear a dark school uniform, can't afford lights, haven't considered any of this stuff, don't have a safe cycle lane to use...
> In the meantime, while they're busy evolving, some cheap energy sources can be created for them.

That may or may not be true. The fossil fuel glut that helped humanity develop industrial technology was the byproduct of a pretty strange set of evolutionary and environmental circumstances: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01...
I think a lot of petty criminals are driving vehicles which are not correctly registered. (I've heard about cases in which a cyclist has been hit by a white van, gone to the police with the van's number plate and been told: Oh, they don't seem to have registered themselves properly. Since no one's been killed we can't be bothered to investigate any further.) So a lot of this computer-based, large-scale surveillance is more effective against law-abiding political activists than it is against ordinary criminals, who drive second-hand white vans and pay for everything with cash.

From your last paragraph, I think we basically agree.
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Lewis never met a billionaire. The robber baron is never satiated. They are not in pursuit of money, or even power. They seek relative money and power. Their greed ends only when they are on top, at which point they become rightly paranoid of their peers. So no, I don't believe that life under the robber baron any better than under "moral" leadership.
The whole point of blockchain/cryotpcurrency was for (1) decentralization and (2) transparency, to instill (3) trust and (4) removal of red-tape fees/processes from traditional agencies/banks/domestic-government/medical/data-compliance/national-relationships, etc. At least that's how I see it. The use cases are more niche than people are led to believe in my opinion.

There are some actual use cases for cryptocurrency in Venezuela right now, and countries that have instable currency / government trust. Other examples, Zimbabawe. Decentralization can be a good thing. I see value in that, essentially becoming your own bank. There's security in that model to some extent, and also huge gaping risks as well (e.g. alot of cryptocurrency heists, volatility in a somewhat new market, emerging technology). I'd rather have my money in a bank under FDIC with 250,000 insurance coverage, split into multiple portfolios

Most of the money and volume just comes from overhype and trading. This might be biased, but traders like jumping on bandwagons, its what they enjoy. Trading doesn't really create value, at least for virtual things that most people don't have an entire grasp of. Just explaining how crytocurrency works is already complicated as is, its almost as bad as javascript fatigue.

I won't say that blockchain technology is entirely not useful. I have been told that its been incredibly useful in the medical industry due to (4) red tapes processes HIPPA data compliance, etc. Other examples would include energy markets, digital identity, supply chain mgmt, and asset tokenization. All very traditional red-tape processes involved that can be circumvented. Basically, blockchain/cryptocurrency is essentially an a high level API anyone can access but is only given partial CRUD permissions unless they have a private key to that wallet/secured-data block etc

I still think the cryptocurrencny market is getting oversaturated though. I'm always skeptical of when blockchain/crytocurrency gets thrown around though, its very buzzwordy.

Unless points (1)(2)(3)(4) are met, I can't get behind a project using cryptocurrency/block chain. Always start with the simplest solution first. I'm very skeptical of messaging app succeeeding off using blockchain/cryptocurrency, most people I know accept that privacy infringement is going to happen and backing up your files/systems locally is always a thing.
> the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital

businesses and risk capital are not related. Proof: businesses existed long before risk capital.
I disagree: it's the concept of voluntary vs. involuntary decisions. If I look for a genetically fit partner to have kids with, that's my decision, and it's my choice as to what I consider "good" genes (which is arbitrary, after all). If the state does it, then I have no choice, plus I might be getting paired with someone who I don't consider to have "good" genes, or I might not even be allowed to breed at all.
How have you gotten around not having a desktop client? I've thought about moving to Paper, but the lack of desktop client bugs me a bit for easy shortcut stuff.
The visual could help programmers think about the kinds of latencies that have to work through, maybe helping highlight them in an infographic for their teams/partners.
The post was updated as the results were incorrect.
In the realm of personal computing, Lisp was nothing in 1988. "Nobody" was doing any Lisp programming for affordable consumer hardware. Lisp had almost no mindshare among people who got started in computing with 8 bit microcomputers in the late 1970's and 80's and who moved on to PC's and
Macs. (Speaking of Macs, there was maybe the OpenMCL exception there.) Lisp was something that you heard about that ran on "big iron" owned by exclusive institutions. Lisp machines count as that, basically.