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The point of this change is not to mess with www. or m. any other subdomain. The real reason for this change is obviously from latest google moves is to hide one and only one subdomain from users - amp. They really don't want you to know when you are not on independent website but actually inside google silo, playing by google rules.
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What scares me about the massive push to electric vehicles
- Most grids' even in recent cities such as built in china, are inadequate to supply demand and basically don't exist
- In China you can buy an EV with no penalties, try and buy an ICE and there are fees and long waits
- What will we do with all the batteries once they are exhausted?
The range and recharge time on EV's is crap and there is virtually no infrastructure in place for charging if and when it all scales up, yet car firms are saying they will be all electric by 2020 (Tata/JaguarLandRover for example) On what planet is this going to work?
- When EVs have violent crashes the batteries keep reigniting for days. What will future scrap yards look like?

I'm all for hybrid vehicles but there is something sinister about this flamboyant pr piece about the benefits of EV's...I just don't see enough infrastructure or tech maturity for the foreseeable future
I actually like to use websites that were made in the last decade, so instead of doing that I just use Chrome.
Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard manager for Windows
Clipboard Plus is a Windows utility to view and manage the Windows clipboard.

Download : https://github.com/oormicreations/ClipboardPlus/releases

It maintains and can display up to five copied items or clips.

Clicking on a clip loads it back into the clipboard and it is ready for pasting into another application. You can clear or save individual clips or all clips by clicking on the corresponding menu items.

You can edit the clips and open urls directly from the clipboard plus.

The clips can be added to sticky clips, which is like a built in sticky notes with reminders etc.

You can enable or disable password mode. When enabled, it masks the copied passwords. You can minimize the Clipboard Plus window to the tray.

This tiny but useful utility is completely free and open sourced.
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It's not about hiding www. or m. subdomains. It's about hiding amp. subdomain, and google is really invested into turning web into collection of amp pages on their own servers.
Airtel has similar plans.

Ultimately this is game of who runs out of capital first. Jio has a debt of >1,25,000 crore as of now. Airtel has plenty of cash reserves which it is burning to sustain through this.

Data is still not cheap. Its being subsidized. For how long, no one knows. Until Airtel or Jio run out of cash, or think they must stop bankrupting themselves in a price war which no one can win.

Another important thing is Mukesh Ambani has plans for e-commerce. So I guess he is playing a big game on that end too.

Consumers are benefitting though.

Bonus statistic: Jio alone is serving more data than all US networks combined.
I know a few people at the NYC office and have observed some of this, but I'm not sure if that muchworse than other "startups". My own (far smaller, about $500m / 400 people) employer certainly has a bit of groupthink itself.

If the one correcting comment on the article

> Pescatarian not Vegan. Wework still have dairy, eggs and fish allowed at their events.

is true, I'm not sure how much i can trust the rest of it.
Very impressive CV. You had a busy and productive last couple of years.

Major point: you have worked on a large variety of very different tasks, which is exactly the right thing to do at this stage and will benefit you hugely in the long run. However, that means you will need something other than your CV that indicates some sort of focus in an area that will likely interest you longterm. People that hire want to know that you will still be around tomorrow. For academics, "being around" does not necessarily mean their research group but extends to the general field. You should start by communicating the direction(s) that you would like to pursue when making something like this post. Long term, I would try to build a portfolio of small projects or one larger project in that area.

Minor point: "Wrote couple of technical articles" is a bit colloquial and jars with the language in the rest of the CV. Use "several" instead of "couple of".
I think they wouldn't survive either.
Well yeah, I mean if people go by the looks then you might have an easier time if your tanned, muscular, beardy and loud. I got the impression that in Germany this is the case for startup(like) companies. Anyways, for me this is great advise. Too often I got into these stupid situations where people take credit for my work, in the most sneaky ways sometimes. Or that I get these demotion-promotions. I used to love going to work but after 10 years it's just depressing.
Today? Every time since transplants were invented or at least perfected?

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-04-18/desperately-poor-filip...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/01/05/...
My reply has to be read in the context of other comments from speedplane: “You're still trying to read the future, if you could do that well, you could make money betting on coin flips.”
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The price ratio is roughly 6 historically, it has lowered to as low as 4 only recently, and stainless steel has been largely used, since the '80's, instead of conventional rebar steel.

But there is no stainless steel capable of having the same resistance/elasticity of cable steel.

To give you some comparative data in EU the normal rebar since more than 40 years is usually grade 44 or 45 that means that it starts elongating (and eventually fail) around 4300-4500 Kg/cm2 and breaks over 5400 Kg/cm2 (still as a reference normally the calculation uses a max of 2600 Kg/cm2).

Cable steel (again since more than 40 years), typically in 7 wire strands, is almost 4 times stronger, the same values are 16700 kg/cm2 and 18600 kg/cm2.

Typically it is pre-stressed to 12500-13600 kg/cm2.
Once upon a time, back in the middle 1990s when it was a major WWW browser, Netscape Navigator assumed that it could wrap domain names in URLs within "www." and ".com".
Yes.

Just because something is difficult to model doesn't mean the outcome/results can't be wildly dangerous. We should still try and guess the impacts of our actions, but it seems like no one is concerned.
Hi Piyush. Great points but would like to say that not even half of India has access to internet just yet. While Jio is certainly expediting this growth, we have a long way to go.

You can find my reference here: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
What makes traffic loud isn’t engines. It’s the damn horns.
Uh huh indeed. I am showing off my true age, but I had this exact discussion with a couple of Gimp developers in 1999 and 2001 (not sure what exactly they worked on). I am glad it is done about 20 years later, but not encouraged about this timeline.

I understand that open source means you can do whatever you want yourself, but both conversations started when they heard I got photoshop and said "no no no, do not waste your money, let us show you how gimp is the better tool".
I was in Shenzhen on Tuesday in the Futian district, and while the vehicles might be quieter, there is still a large amount of street level construction; and worst of all, the streets /smell/. Shenzhen still has a long way to go for it to be pleasant for pedestrians. I am sure they will have it sorted within a few years!

(My phone's autocorrect tried to replace Futian with Durian!)
The Arnold Carnegie of India. Mr Carnegie funded hundreds of public libraries around the USA in the 1800s. He was a rags to riches 19th century steel billionaire in modern valuations.I have read dozens of testimonials of how small town middle class children use their libraries to enter ivy league universities and onto fantastic careers. I am one of these people.
What are these "pedestrians, bus is turning" sounds ?
I'm Switzerland I have never heard those.

Is every bus turning emitting these sounds ? Seems crazy to me.
Jio is huge in India. Jio is specifically targeting rural areas. Areas which would have taken years for internet cable to reach. They have strong presence by maintaining cellular signal, Jio shops etc in these areas. Maybe that is the reason why India leads in number of people who first accessed Facebook on mobile.
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> The NYT even defended her (Sarah Jong).

It’s even worse than simply defending her - the NYT admitted they knew about the tweets when they hired her!

So in a competitive market like journalism where dozens of qualified candidates would have applied for the job the NYT deliberately chose the candidate who openly hates white people.

And shortly before hiring her they ran an article stating it was good that Roseanne Barr was driven from the workplace because of a single racist joke she made.

Alex Jones has more integrity than the NYT.
Upvoted from Firefox. Only reason I use Chrome nowadays is when apps launch it directly (whereupon I strongly consider uninstalling them) or when work requires it (... which is utterly ridiculous, and very likely why our web rendering performance and consistency is utter trash).
It’s more like they are dangling over an abyss and the person holding them up lets go.
As a man, an example from this blog post that strikes me as a piece of advice that I won’t follow. Men need to hear from other men that this type of behavior is inappropriate.
> As for the car industry - who cares?

We care about industries such as this because they contribute massively to the public purse, provide stability to entire regions via employment, and make products that much of the world relies on right now.

> It's not like we cared about horse industry when cars appeared.

Horses weren't banned to encourage a car industry to emerge, users gravitated towards cars until eventually horses were superfluous/a burden.
You’re overlooking the agency granted by real wealth!

The vulnerable needn’t be poor. They only need be situated where the exercise of your power could put them into a position to sell.
You think the guy who wrote the article should swallow that line of BS and be motivated to do more free pentesting for them?
> Am I not mistaken that in the US it's already common to get paid for blood donations?

My understanding is that it in the US, it is common to be paid for blood plasma, but highly uncommon (I've never heard of it happening) to be paid for blood.
I don't know what's cool to you, but a general artificial intelligence would be cool to me. An operating system + userland without remotely exploitable holes would be pretty great. Working quantum computers would be cool too, but that's more of a hardware problem.
What is the probability of Ocaml/Reason becoming mainstream?
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The DUH makes shitloads of money by side-stepping elected bodies to enforce policies that are highly symbolic and known to change exactly nothing. Next step will be Otto engines, then EVs, then ...?

The actual cause is that currently Everyone has to move to the big cities I'd imagine lots of Berlin Hipsters would not be so complacent once the DUH sues them because their Altbauwohnung wastes precious space and energy and pollutes the city air.
Focus is so crippled, for no conceivable benefit (as a user), that I find it unusable. A nice concept, but it can't even switch tabs without causing a full page reload, which is like reverting back to the pre-tabbed-browsing stone-age.

And, as mentioned, it's not even Firefox. It's just a cache-less webkit wrapper.
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It's a sound made by the free shuttle buses in Baltimore, Maryland. But it's no more audible than the beeping and kneeling-bus air compressor. I have the feeling it was added for blind pedestrians, as we have some blind schools nearby.
For a different materials and useful libraries for OCaml there is an "Awesome OCaml" [1] repository.

[1] https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml
You can get a 5GB/day plan for INR 799 (~$11) per month. That's more data than most will use in a single day.

That's not all - you also get free access to Jio's music service, movie library, streaming TV, and cloud storage.
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One reason could be lack of very cheap Smartphones. I mean like good sub 1000 rupees phones.

India has a great Android phone ecosystem and the sub 10,000 rupee phones are really good. But 10,000 rupees is still quite a bit of cash for many people.
Oh my, are these people going to have a "Well, that was embarrassing" moment later.

Then:

A big part of being a woman is to help men [like Adam] manifest their calling in life.”

Aaaaaaaand nope.
Nice. But it should explain float arithmetic, i.e., why can I do 1+1 but not 1.0+1.0.
For 80$ per month in Canada:
- Unlimited call + texts
- 6GB per month

And this is considered a good deal
One of the keys to breaking any news is that whether it is good or bad, most people immediately translate it internally into how it impacts them. Bad news makes that translation come out as "Here is what I just lost."

The loss of leadership credibility comes when you are dismissive of that loss as part of the announcement, or you pre-emptively tell people they should be feeling another way. Most change management education will tell you that whether you like it or not, the process will happen the same way as any personal loss - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. The trick in business is to speed the process to acceptance without being dismissive of the people going through the change. The tools to do so normally are all about communication: Listening, answering questions, replying with clarity so everyone knows the path forward.

In fast-changing organizations, such as startups, there is also a question of how often you change things. If you send your teams reeling with bad news and changes before they have accepted the last round of it, you will trash morale. One school of thought is not to make small changes, but instead to think out bigger solutions to your problems, and lay out changes all at once. Trying to fix one piece at a time, then rolling changes to smaller parts of the organization every few weeks may feel easier to manage, but it comes at a higher personal cost to the teams, and frequently saps productivity and morale for a longer term.
"500 Million by June 2018".

Even though that is still less than half of India's population, it is a bit misleading to put it that way because 500 million internet users is a HUGE number specially for a country like India where GDP Per capita is still very low compared to other similar economies. So I would say that is AWESOME. Long way to go for other things but Indians are way forward when it comes to Telecom/Internet in my opinion
Well, on top of everything that's being said here, one thing that strikes me is that this "calculation" omits that technical debt has value.

I consider myself a pretty ok developer, in the sense that most of my time is employed at re-writing systems that have been written poorly by employees. So instead of writing new a shiny software, my valuable time is spent replacing something existing with something else. Zero value? Not quite!

The first-written system has 2 objectives: 1. getting something out to validate the business model quickly - 2. Refine requirements following business needs.

Point 1 implies that for the original system: the sooner the better. Definitely at the expense of quality.

Point 2 implies that the system will experience incremental engineering, often leading to messy code.

But, the market will be validated and the requirements refined. That definitely has a cost, happily paid by technological debt.

That's actually why it's called technological debt!
>And yet I have to wonder, would future generations see it that way?

Sometimes we need to have morals that go beyond what a period thinks.

Whatever way future generations see some things, they would still be bad.

It might not be easy (or possible) to go against one own's era morals, but moral relativity in this sense shouldn't be an argument for the present era ("yeah, we think it's bad now, but in 2500 they might consider it ok, it's all relative").
Have you tried communicating these concerns to him? Break down the expectations, e.g. that everything must be committed in the repo, with covering tests etc? If he takes it on board, win! If he ignores it and takes offense, well at least you tried?
Plenty of good things about nicotine :
- weight management (appetite suppressant) [1]
- clarifies certain kinds of decision making
- heightens alert­ness
- improves attention for those with schizophrenia [2]

Smoking cigarettes on the other hand is... less than optimal.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/brain-p...
[2] http://schizophrenia.com/nicotine.benefits.htm
> I was really expecting the slice WATs to carry on to talk about what I consider a real WAT: you have to perform robust checks on your input slice's capacity and length if you use append in a function, because append makes its own choice whether the array of a slice is reused or copied.

At a fundamental level, the issue is that Go's design decisions make any modification of a shared slice dangerous, and the language provides no way to mitigate it.

A really fun one is divergent appends to slices with a shared backing array and enough capacity for an in-place append: https://play.golang.org/p/ZHWo3bFOR0X
I recently switched to a local internet provider. INR 850/month (~$12) for 50mbps with no download limit.

Internet in India has suddenly become really good. Made my work so much easier
>I'm in Sweden and I've never heard these...

I'm in America and I've never heard these. I think it may be something unique to that poster's city?
Glad to know that North Korea, Guatemala, Sudan, and South Sudan are considerate enough to provide paid maternity leave.
I use Firefox as my "at home" / private browser. However for work i unfortunately feel forced to continue using chrome. First I just really prefer the chrome devtools and i just can't seem top find an equivalent replacement for the "manage people"/multi user built ion function that chrome offers. I really wish Firefox had something similar...
Out of topic, out of curiosity: Is one person behind this profile? Do multiple people share the login info?

During my years of HN usage, I don't remember ever seeing another username enforcing the rules, only yours.
Ethics is fine and most of us probably believe that we are doing a proper job at any point in time but to look back in 10 years and say that code you wrote when you were 18 years old 3 companies ago is having a bad effect now is unlikely to illicit any practical response other than making insurance and legal companies richer.

Unfortuantely, it is harder to measure how "good" things should be in software engineering compared to the need for a bridge to stay up or a doctor to not make somebody sick.

I could see governments introducing laws that say every company who writes software need certain credentials etc. but as we already know, ISO registrations or PCI certifications do not actually mean the people who do the work know what they are doing well enough.
>am I the only one who thinks this is pretty great? that ambrosia company seems pretty dodgy, but the field overall - who wouldn't wanna cure old age?

...and solve overpopulation and unemployment by using young people as its raw resource in the process?
CalRobert means walking _nowadays_ (i.e. without poop) in cities that were built in the middle ages.
> I always just kind of assumed people were just using overly flowery speech to describe music!

Yes! I realised this a few years ago. When people say "that's a sad song", they really mean that the song makes them sad in and of itself.

Whereas, for me, the only way a song can make me sad is if it brings back sad memories - i.e. if I had previously heard the same song on a sad occasion.
Nicotine temporarily lowers the effects of some forms of anxiety. Socialising can be scary for people.
Whether this is the norm for a large population of employers is a statistical question that you cannot "personally witness" even in principle. We desperately need a better way than anecdata to look at this.
This reminds me of how a friend from SF texted me saying he missed 4G speeds in India. I genuinely thought he was being sarcastic at first.

Another thing hard to ignore is the cost disparity between data in India and the developed nations; data in India is cheaper by at least a few times.
Not as long as possible. Just long enough for them to secure a position on the electric hybrid market.
Andrew Carnegie :)
True! It also allows C-levels to imply that the problems are someone else's fault (lack of resource) rather than poor management. I struggle as a C-level to recruit good people but ultimately, it is my job to make things work regardless of the constraints I have.
I largely agree with her. An individual animal doesn't matter to me (not from a "hey, lets go kill things and make them suffer" perspective, but "hey, life has a bunch of bad bits, things are gonna die and suffer, thats just life" see that lion thing I posted a bit further down).

You can absolutely be an environmentalist and not think that the lives of individual animals matters. I'm reminded of nature documentaries that will sit and watch an animal starve, because that's the natural thing and they are not there the interfere. I don't think this viewpoint is horrific.

"maybe because coming from an environmentalist, who are supposed to be the good guys" I think you should look at why you think these people are the "good guys". By the sounds of it, sorry if i'm wrong, but your thoughts on environmentalism comes from a place of empathy. You look at individual animals and empathise with there suffering. And by the sounds of it, you expect everyone else who considers themselves an environmentalist (which I also would say I was), to also come from this place of empathy. However not everyone does, and this isn't horrific, people just have different priorities.

I don't know about what else she said, but "animals only have value as things exploitable by humans" doesn't necessarily follow from: 'species matter individual animals don't'. Personally I think animals have a value completely apart from people and are even more valuable when they have no interaction with humans at all.
>Anyone over 35 with the necessary cash was eligible to receive two liters of plasma donated by young adults, which Ambrosia purchases from blood banks.

Is this taking blood from donations from people with more genuine needs?
The actual cause is having too many cars in cities. This trend has been obvious since the nineties at least. Why didn't the government act to reduce the need of cars in cities? Nobody likes bans for Diesels, but the people responsible sat on their hands instead of implementing plans that don't disproportionally affect poorer people who drive older cars.
Could someone from the ocaml world comment on Typescript vs Ocaml ?

Is Typescript as close you get to Ocaml world... without writing a "ml" ?
It's a question of culture. I live in a country with awful driving culture, but blaring horn is still considered very rude. Car alarms sometimes misfire, which is more of concern.
>Remember that time someone made a healthier and cheaper food

Are we talking about soylent? hasn't took off yet has it?