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In Nigeria you obviously won't spend as much on rent and food as in Amsterdam when measured in the same currency. It doesn't make any sense not to include the cost of living to some degree. Making that assumption may or may not have been conscious, but questioning why it surprises someone doesn't help the discussion. They were asking why the cost of living is not included by default, not wondering what possessed them to have such a notion.
This hasn't been true for a long time. The same enhancements that conserve battery also tend to ensure that plenty of processing and thermal capacity is available for whatever does want the CPU. (For instance, your top CPU "turbo" speed depends on how many of the other CPU cores are sleeping.)
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For me its similar as well

- Firefox incognito and Bing for sites I dont trust and/or wanting to watch any videos I want (tv shows, movies, porn, etc). Bing is miles better anyhow for this because of googles DMCA takedowns. Theres no risk of XSS because firefox is sandboxed and I have nothing important there.

- Firefox I occasionally use for devdocs.io and some documentation resources.

- Google for everything else. I have too many plugins though here though.

I am debating on using a 3rd browser bc I do occasionally scrape things and keeping track what I am being tracked on is hard to remember. Id rather not run the risk of getting banned anywhere. At the sametime, getting tracked through cookies is convenient to me so I dont have to relogin etc.

So I also run a scorched earth policy. Possibly using a 4th browser for seperating bank logins, social media etc on a different browser entirely. Granted I 2FA everything

VPN for everything, I turn it off only during gaming. Rather not deal with my ISP and net neutrality implications.

I dont care what google or microsoft knows about me in all honesty. There are so many ways to fingerprint users on the web that its almost impossible not to get tracked, unless you took extraorindary measures against it.

Anything I do on my phone I assume is compromised, managing app permissions is too much work. I dont take photos with potential blackmail material. Same with anything I use chrome with, I use a lot of extensions. They always get compromised.
So Linux is going to shit. This will be fun and sad to watch.
Well, at least they had the decency to scrap the "do no evil" clause from their mission statement first... I knew that was an omen for sure...also note that one of founders has more or less disappeared to his private Caribbean island...I cannot blame him one bit for hiding, for he must be ashamed.

It is my deep belief, perhaps naive (but I doubt it), that Google has been co-opted by some very shadowy people. I mean, sure, everyone knows about Schmidt's background, which is scary enough, but clearly things are getting even worse lately...it is too bad. :-(
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He is selling himself and his services. He uses pageviews of blogspam like this to justify selling his services to create more blogspam. Poke around his site (hell, follow his own links on this submission) and this si readily apparent.

The reason this is bad is the same reason letting kids pick what to eat for every meal is bad: the entire MO OG HN being "stuff hackers find interesting" has been subverted by an advertising industry they've largely helped create.
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I read an article (blogpost?) by one of the Apollo programmers who presented a very elaborate argument saying that the Apollo mission would have ended in disaster if not for one very specific code change that happened by accident.

Sadly I haven't been able to find it again for the last year or two, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about I'd be grateful.
He was a pretty smart guy who said some smart things.
The free market would have developers building housing here.
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Good point. To elaborate on it:

> If you simply compare average income to average housing costs you're going to get a skewed result.

Particularly because averages give skewed results given outliers, which there surely must be. (Particularly with wages, I imagine, someone can be hugely overpaid (like 1M vs. 100k), but you can hardly be 900k underpaid because then you'd be making negative money.) The median value makes more sense when one does not want to be affected as much by outliers.

Not that comparing the median housing price to the median income is necessarily a correct or complete view; I just noticed that we're talking about averages which are even worse for this purpose.
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News flash. This happens not only in China. It’s rampant in North America too.

Source: I know someone who does this for loving. Plus there are a ton of services online advertising these services.

Universities know this. They don’t care. They are just squeezing out the last juices from the dying industry.
It can be pretty random what gets traction on HN. That's why we explicitly allow a few reposts (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and why we do things like the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380). Eventually we want to add some kind of karma sharing so earlier submitters don't get left out when a later submission takes off. In the meantime, though, it evens out in the long run, so please keep posting good stories!
Amazing, the article does not mention the most obvious sunk cost fallacy of our current time: Brexit
Giving everyone the same access is fair. Those in poverty are only much less likely to be qualified in situations where education is commercialized/capitalized. Also, subsidizing is a rather dirty word to use for this case (we're talking about a general pool of money in a tax system, not your money with a serial number on it going to one specific place to be spent), as well as selecting 'the wealthy' as the ones who are to profit, since they most likely pay taxes that easily cover all the expenses an enrolled student would require.

Using taxes in a manner that gives everyone the same benefit is seems like a reasonable thing, especially when compared to the places tax money seems to be spent to much (arms, military, open-loop energy systems, politics) or too little (i.e. too little for roads and bridges...).

The main difference is getting value out of your taxes. Value can be direct or indirect (the impact of education on your family, neighbors, friends etc indirectly impacts you as well, this goes for infrastructure, healthcare etc. as well), but having very little value kind of misses the point of a taxation system in an organised society. Might as well live in a forest by yourself in such cases. (but people tend to migrate to a country with a better system instead)
It took me forever to figure out that you can force push on a picture then swipe up to give me sharing options.. where as just pushing lightly and holding brings up a menu right away — or did before.. so it definitely felt like a solution looking for a problem and in fact added a degree of freedom to the UI that didn’t need to be there.. for example while it might sound clever to add the ability to say double click keys on your keyboard for separate functions it basically means you have to divide your motor memory up into multiple areas. Anyway, I suspect very few people would notice if 3D Touch died.. I hope it goes away soon.. so lame.. sure the technology might be cool but not helpful on my phone..
I can't tell if my question is off-topic or not, but..

Can anyone recommend a book (or whatever) that introduces the aspects of type theory relevant to a would-be language designer?
maybe the commission could prepare some 'tariffs' on the 'export' of 'grey matter' to soon-to-be not-EU countries. just saying.
Strongly recommend Types and Programming Languages [1]. I think it's the most useful + accessible book on type theory out there.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Types-Programming-Languages-MIT-Press...
Amazon and Walmart don't receive subsidies. Their workers receive subsidies. You may be tempted to ask, "why don't we make Amazon and Walmart pay wages that put workers above the poverty line?" The likely answer is that this would put the companies at a competitive disadvantage and they would end up laying off much of their workforce to stay in business. And now the government is paying an even bigger unemployment subsidy to these former workers.

As for Oklahoma, that's the voters making the decision that cutting school hours is a better choice than to increase teacher spending. Sure you and I don't agree with this choice, but elections say Oklahoma voters do.
There was a potential rather aggressive - not quite killer - app on the iPad Pro, which was multitouch pressure sensitivity for music applications.

Poly aftertouch is missing from most keyboards, and it wouldn't have taken much to turn the iPad Pro into a virtual Roli Seaboard.

But so far there's been no 3D Touch on any version of the Pro. So that never happened.

The other everyday UI applications aren't very interesting. IME it's too hard to gauge touch accurately to use the feature for anything useful, so most of the time it just gets in the way.
No, We Can't “Upload Knowledge to Your Brain”
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Hey Patrick, congrats on the big decision. Just so you know, you can have a successful consulting career and continue working with SV startups no matter where you are in the world. I’m doing it from Baltimore. Unless you have other reasons for leaving that behind.
Also, duration is easier to control than the force of the press. In other words, it's harder to accidentally perform a long press than to accidentally perform a 3D touch.
Encoders usually harder, because, for example, you can't verify it using reference vectors (there no exact reference to compare with). Also encoders like h264 contains big part of decoder as well, because it must reconstruct encoded frame internally for motion compensation.
CoL?

Seriously here in Norway getting over 100K € annually is becoming normal. If you are really talented, then you can even make 150k € annually. Freelancers make over 200k € annually. There is a huge shortage for developers these days, much thanks to "digital transformation" trend.
Does this for loving? Prostitution is illegal in most of the US, at least.
Don’t be a jerk. So much for being “cheerful,” as your profile says.
I’m not an economist, and the following argument is qualitative- “cost of capital” essentially means the cost of things (as opposed to, the cost of services/labor.) Perhaps, indeed, when the cost of things goes up, this will lead to an increase in wages- but humans also require and purchase things, so this will drag their effective earning (their purchasing power) back down, even if their nominal wage has increased.

Which leaves peoples’ motivation to be truckers (and the fortunes of the middle class) in roughly the same boat regardless of the cost of capital.
No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu
California is the highest state; DC is the highest of the regions listed at 20.2% vs California's 19% [2].

Also interesting to note that the rate in California has been dropping over the past few years - 20.6% avg for 2013/2014/2015 [0], 20.4% for 2016 [1], and 19% for 2017. The national supplemental poverty rate is relatively flat over the same time frame -- 14.3% in 2015 and 13.9% in 2017

[0] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

[1] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

[2] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
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> ... so I find that display quite confusing. I hope the spacecraft controller's display isn't like that.

Why? You're assuming you have a similar amount of training/experience as the controller?
If you feel that way, what do you think is the most effective way for you to move the needle? I suspect not like this.
The quote wasn’t from an amateur photographer and most of my point was based on the quote being from a pro photographer. For an amateur, they will usually get better photos with a currentish iPhone than they likely would a dSLR. But a pro photographer should know how to squeeze the most they can out of a dSLR. Not to say they can’t get a great photo out of an iPhone too, just they are more guaranteed to get it with the dSLR and right set of lenses.
Curious which country you moved to!
I'm living in Italy at the moment, and I can watch the brain drain happening in real time. Every single university student I know here is looking to go to the UK or Germany when they graduate, almost without exception.

If you allow your gaze to de-focus slightly, you could think of Italy as contributing towards the EU as a whole. If it helps, just down the road from me is a helicopter manufacturer that used to be known as Westland Aircraft (there are railings with WA in them still). It is now known as Leonardo (as in da Vinci). You might also note that before I get to Leonardo I pass a Lidl store and a Macdonalds. On the northern side of town there is an Asda which is effectively Walmart.

I remember, many moons ago (1970s), the UK whining about "suffering" a brain drain to the US. Maybe there was a net migration in that direction or not - who knows? In the UK we have had scandals in the past about the Home Office not knowing how many immigrants have entered the country, so I doubt that anyone can claim to know how many have left either. I also suspect that Italy has a similar lack of decent official data capture.

Anyway, it sounds like you are still a nipper (a young person) and have opportunities. Take advantage of them and don't get too hung up on what you might perceive as a problem that some people might love to have to deal with but can't because they are in real poverty and/or oppression.

Think, say, Syria (for example)
He was talking about some of the limits of just inferring that repeated behavior is induced ad infinitum. He talks about it more. [0]

[0] www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/ProbPhiloBook/chap-VI.htm
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Very little retained value there. Short term
What happened to this future?

I miss it.
Would you please stop posting such shitty comments to HN as this one and the one below? We've asked you a huge number of times, and are going to ban you if you keep it up.

(This is independent of whatever valid criticism you may have of the article.)
> Isn't it arguable though that the politicians are choosing to cut social welfare instead of choosing to cut cronyism and political favors? In which case it's actually the left-wing which is abusing the economic crisis, using those in poverty as pawns in a bigger game?

I don't understand what you're saying here. Cutting social welfare is not a left wing position. Neither is avoiding to cut cronyism.
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I think I disagree entirely.

The typical things one gains from higher order functions are things like mapping and filtering of data structures. Excel only has one data structure—the table. Mapping is done by writing the formula once and then dragging it from the corner to the whole column. Filtering is not really done. Normally use the gui to hide the rows to be filtered away.

Functions add in questions of scoping. How are closures supposed to work? Could there be some way to say “the function in cell A1 at the time and closing over the state of when cell B2 was last logically computed”? Excel handles scoping in the non-function-in-cell approach using $.

Obviously this all breaks apart when you don’t want tables where you drag things either always down or always across
I don't watch the show -- is Bighead a person and Hooli a company with a product that google's mimicking?
Yes.. the paywalled article is from China. Thing is.. Chinese PhD and masters students are cashed up. The good ones studying overseas are my partners main clients, seeking help with english as a second language.

These bad actors are paying for a Chinese thesis written inside China. Maybe competition keeps prices down.
It isn't a scam if it is working exactly as intended

It's a backdoor way into Australia that not many Australians know about and nobody rocks the boat on because everybody knows the country needs the migrants and investment.

Ditto with the investment visas. Pretty crazy when at the same time everybody loses their minds over boats with a few hundred people on them
I don't know what a reality-show fascist is, but could you please post civilly and substantively or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There really is a long-term productivity problem in the USA though.
Edward Luce wrote a good book on the subject a couple of years back, "Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent". He's a journalist at the FT. That and his "The Retreat of Western Liberalism" are very well researched and readable.

The book speaks to exactly these trends of decreasing productivity, loss of manufacturing and a decline in educational attainment of the US population as a whole.

The book is not anti-American but a warning by someone who is concerned about the decline of America and the social and geo-political implications that implies.
That’s a very Cartesian world view on biology, luckily abandoned a long time ago. Animals where merely automatons and scientists dissecting dogs alive could gleefully ignore their cries as nothing more than automatic response stimuli. Today we know that physiologically humans are not very different from other mammals, even if we want to be. We all have a limbic system and that means we all have the same emotions. Animals have feelings and emotions. When things happen to them, they react with emotions be it sorrow, anger, happiness, fear.
and in the real world you do configure; make install then ;)
edit: or docker every one i've met so far, uses docker as a kind of "package manager". Database? Oh year use this docker image, elastic search & kibana? shure docker. What they actualy want most of the time is: an easy way to install this stacks, in an non ancient version, where i can actually use the stuff i need to use.
This would be illegal in many economies,is grossly unfair and probably racist.

Plus, the rate of Chinese IPR and future knowledge is huge. Do you e.g. want to miss out on Chinese PV and wind and emerging battery know-how?

Use the interview to weed out fakes. Don't make sweeping assumptions which risk self harm.
> It seemed to have genuine curiosity.

Yeah, they really do. I found one on a sidewalk a while back. Watched it for a while, then it came right up to me. I got it to come onto my hand. No fear.

Last picture here:

http://justinpombrio.net/about-me/pictures/

I left it in some bamboo after.
That's really cool. I've been wanting to delve into the inner workings of ciphers for some time and I think this will make it easier.
This update really broke a lot of things. There are a lot of services that rely on the first logged in google account. I used to log into chrome with a personal account, and log into gmail/etc first with my business account. That way, my bookmarks and history would stay with me personally, but things that I use a lot, work email/google cloud etc would open as default under the work account.

One common issue is some sites (google’s gallery.io even), only really associate based with the first account logged into chrome, or the OAuth flow breaks.

Now if you log out of google, to set the base login to your work email for example, it logs you out of chrome also, so there goes your password manager/bookmarks/cookies etc.

I’m still figuring the best strategy, currently I just made a second chrome profile to separate but it’s super time consuming/annoying.

I feel like it was a major change without any heads up.
I think you may have just brilliantly expressed the human condition...
Speedometer is not really a "Javascript" benchmark, it's a browser benchmark, all the actual "heavy" lifting is DOM operations.

It's absolutely useless as a benchmark for hardware, because it's testing wildly different codebases. Safari on iOS is not the same as Safari on Mac OS. DOM performance on iOS Safari has always been remarkable compared to Desktop/Android browsers.

It's pretty sad to see an entire thread of clueless people (including DHH) talking about how amazing the hardware advances are when it's all software.
Considering 3D Touch is still in the iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs max, I don’t think it has failed. Personally I use it all the time while using my phone for notifications and the quick app actions.
Man oh man I hate those fancy lads.
Firefox has containers that allow you to effectively run multiple profiles at once.
I don't like that different Google services are linked together. It would be fine if Youtube would remember what videos I prefer, but I don't want Google to save my search phrases to the same account, don't want Google to know what sites I visit (using Google Adsense and Google Analytics that are present on most sites). That would be too much information and I don't want to share it with Google.

So when I need Gmail or Google Maps, I have to open it in a private window. Not very convenient, so I don't use them often.

By the way, if you use Chrome and haven't changed the default search engine from Google, then your browser pings Google every time you open a new tab. You can check it yourself with Developer Tools: a new tab page is loaded from Internet and it sends cookies. It can be fixed by creating and choosing as default a new search engine with Google's URL, but using other name (for example, Gogol instead of Google). Then Chrome will load its start page from disk, not from Internet.
Clicky: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=African+flower+mant...
Nobody that doesn’t use double negatives wouldn’t have the slightest idea what your sentence meant
Would you mind sharing what biography did you read? See a couple on Amazon.
For those who have built and deployed applications before, how do you go about planning/developing your idea before you begin building it? For example, do you sketch out rough drafts with something like Balsamiq Mockups or just pen and paper? Do you bother filling out the YC application to flesh out your idea (even if you don't plan on applying)?

There are different approaches to achieve this, but finding a technique that is both comprehensive enough and time efficient is the challenge.
What other animals have a limbic system. Are some species' more developed than others or are the base components the same in every species that has one?
It's true that differing currencies is basically negligible as far as friction goes. So long as you can exchange your money fairly (and you could and can), it's nothing.

Contrast with, say, Venezuela, where there's a fake exchange rate propped up by the government that the average person cannot get, and you start seeing some actual monetary friction.