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Kickstarter takes 5% of your campaign. There's an extra 3% on top for payment processing but you would be paying about that (2.9%) if you accepted payments on your own.

So you're giving up 5% to have a completely ready to go platform optimized for setting up a description page, create rewards, handle payments and everything you see on the KS front end. Then on the backend you have a bunch of tools to help contact your backers and post ongoing updates.

Back when I used KS, they took 10% not 5% and it was still a no brainer to use them instead of rolling my own platform.

Let's just say your campaign raises $20,000. That means KS will take $1,000. Even an MVP of KS would likely still take 3 months of legit full time development. Would you trade 3 months of your time for $1,000?

I wouldn't, and it's not just about the money too. I want to be in the business of doing freelance dev work and making video courses, not creating a crowd funding platform that I only used once or twice.

Plus, there's the credibility factor of KS. That holds a lot of ground on its own.
What about comparing to something that isn't a status symbol? Personally, I paid 6k for my car and according to my bank statements seem to be spending 1.7k yearly on fuel and maintenance. I would love to drive an EV, as the distances I drive are small, but Nissan Leaf is way too small for my family and a Tesla 3 would mean I'm paying a bit too much for that warm fuzzy feeling. Is there another choice?
Then should the study then take it's hypothesis / theory elsewhere and see if it applies where edu was increased and there were no missions?

Without that level of proof, the conclusion is premature. Or as I already mentioned, the core stimulus wrong.
Frankly, I only go on Facebook a few times a month to occasionally check in. I feel like logging in daily is not the point of the service.
They just keep buying niche enterprise applications that have entrenched non-technical users and then raise prices, drop interoperability with non Oracle and start milking.
But a Workers customer gets to use more than one of their servers at once....
the point of these daemons is so that their activity is not duplicated by each app.
"But this is not a shiny metro-dwelling sentiment, so I suspect this comment, dispite being useful and relevant, will end up the same."

That's whinging, plain as day.
That's a valid perspective, thanks for mentioning.

> buy a visa/etc giftcard

I like that suggestion the best as well.
You’re right that we need affordable electric cars. But the elephant in the room is still charging and range. I’d love an electric, but I live about 100 miles away from the city. I need over 300 miles of range for one to make sense. Not to mention I need AC as well. That extends the range I need. I also need access to charging because I live in an apartment. Electrics will win the day and I can’t wait for them to win.
What he probably meant to say: "I do care, but only because of others who may need/want privacy."
people living near the ruins of Jesuit missions complete 10 to 15 percent more years of education and earn 10 percent more

Are you making a joke that I don't get, or did you skip over the first occurrence of "percent"?
Exactly this, „non-traditional“ and noSQL is as inexact as it gets. It includes an incredibly wide range of architectures, from Spanner and CockroachDB which deliver ACID guarantees equal and even surpassing relational systems to pure performance tuned systems such as Aerospike which have few guarantees and features but are blazingly fast. There are pretty much all shades of consistency in between, like Cassandra and Scylla with tunable consistency amd LWT. Lumping them all together into a single category will yield poor results.
That's a simple and easy solution.
I will try it out the next time, thank you!
> I look forward to no longer having to deal with the absurd complexity of the internal combustion engine: pistons, cylinders, crankshafts, distributors, oil pumps, water pumps, radiators, valves, belts, mufflers...

I'm looking forward to pervasive electric cars as well, but really how much of this 'absurd complexity' do you need to deal with in a conventional car? And how exactly do you have to 'deal with' it? You get a mechanic to look at for a couple of hours once a year and that's it.

You could dramatically list all the complex components in an electric vehicle - down to the microscopic integrated circuits - as well and say that they all need to be 'dealt with' because it's serviced once a year.
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Correction: FLAG_SECURE doesn't make app "less responsive". It makes it appear as a header with a blank rectangle beneath in Recent apps, which lessens the UX but not responsiveness
Planet Money did an episode (#842) where one item was on flavoured tobacco products. A particular law targeting tobacco products expressly exempts menthol cigarettes. The episode pointed out that this was a result of intense industry lobbying, who were facing competition from non-US producers, mostly supplying products flavoured with all kinds of other things.

And yes, menthol == mint.
First I’ve heard that. Link?
Thank you for mentioning this website, I will def. have a look later.
> My next step is to make a personal website with some contact details and a scraper script for the links in the HN top 30-40 that I can run as a cronjob.

About a year ago I was 30 minutes into creating exactly such a script, and then I found https://hckrnews.com, which lists all the posts that reach the frontpage (or are top 10/20/50%).
What if this is caused by pent up demand? Model 3 had multiple years of preorders totaling more than 400k and now Tesla is selling them all at once at a rate of 5k cars per week. Would they still find buyers for all their cars if they produce 50k per week?
(not OP) It is for a side project that gets very little traffic. I'm still paying that $5/mo just to play with this tech but I can't say it's not too much for my use case. I guess that's not the target market for Workers anyway
That's not a good comparison because many Linux advocates still have to use Windows and/or MacOS so they do know how it feels.

For example, I used MacOS in my last job and Windows 10 in my current job and I still prefer to use Fedora Workstation. In addition to that, my experience with MacOS and Windows 10 showed me where Linux could improve (except software selection which is a hard problem to solve)
I think Joyent has pushed the limits of what is possible in that area with their tech. From the dev/ops point of view I run docker container / images and they "translate" docker api calls into smartos/opensolaris/illumos zones. NB I don't know much about those OSs/projects.

Docker has a nice and evolving API and OS zones provide an amazing core technology.
I think people are saying that that's something they're not happy with. The big methods in AI, like backprop,

1) work a LOT better for specific problems than statistics or statistical learning ever has (and at this point, I think we can safely say: ever will)

2) a lot of methods either can't be explained, or outright shouldn't work, according to statistical theory.

The use of statistics in machine learning is limited to evaluating performance and individual element performance (and even that is tenuous at best in many cases). If you ask, say, why would an autoencoder, with an LSTM on it's compressed representation and Q-learning evaluation have somewhat decent performance on half the computer games humans ever designed ? Statistics will not be useful in formulating an answer.

If you ask extremely valid questions, like "why would an LSTM predict anything ?". Statistics draws a blank. There is no good reason to assume an LSTM will ever converge (and on a truly random dataset, it won't, whereas statistical methods will still allow you to say something).

I think there's 2 reasons for this

1) the "upper limit" of complexity a human can understand in a statistical model is lower than the upper limit a neural network can "understand". In statistics the human understanding is critical to getting to a valid model, in machine learning ... it is not. Meaning machine learning can learn relationships a human mind cannot.

2) There must be some fundamental property of the world we live in that matches neural network architecture. In order for backprop to work on real-world problems, it has to be the case that almost all real world phenomena are continuous, both "raw" and in the frequency domain. If this wasn't the case, machine learning would never be able to learn anything.
Yes, "The Network is the Computer" (SUN's motto) and it's best implementation I know is Plan9 one. Which means me (user) at the center with my control on my system.

Having anything on someone else computer it's not "The Network is the Computer" it's simply someone else computer. Also it can't scale, no matter how much you work on it, no matter what wonderful tech you create/integrate. Many now talk about edge computing because of that, and I fear it can succeed for a certain amount of time but still it can't scale.

We are people, not puppet, we need to be autonomous and social, not a herd of sheep with very few shepherds.
oh yeah, ofc, those two are just centralized pre-mine scams. that's even worse than PoS imho. the biggest question is why do people even consider them cryptocurrencies.
It would be nice to have a comparison cost for the cost of gasoline infrastructure globally.

Also, $6Tr seems on the high side to me. That's the same as 150 million $40,000 electric cars. Is the infrastructure really that expensive?
I read a study a while back that concluded that fruit flies who reproduce at an older age tend to have offspring who live longer lives.
Only if we assume a large enough transportation labor force ;)
# get root:

cd /etc; Xorg -fp "root::<passwd>::" -logfile shadow :1;su
For Microsoft, at least, take a look at work done by Leslie Lamport and Simon Peyton Jones while working for Microsoft Research. Look at the papers they've published, and also what they work on - things like TLA+ for Lamport and Haskell for SPJ. I'd argue that both of these guys do interesting and important CS work that doesn't have an immediate commercial payoff for Microsoft.

They're far from the only ones doing good CS research at MS; they're just the first that came to mind.
- Go to meetup.com events; most areas have some.

- Check out Facebook events.

- Some areas have couchsurfing events (hosting people on CF is also fun, but usually people move on after a few days at the most, although there are exceptions; I've hosted people looking to move in to my city).

- Volunteer somewhere (for example I volunteered at the local beerfest this week).

- Work in a coworking space or coffeeshop every once in a while if your job allows it.

- Dating apps are frustrating and annoying for a host of reasons, but they do work to meet people. I met a few (platonic) friends like that.

Basically, go where people are. A lot of the other people are also there to just meet people, so it all matches up.

I moved to New Zealand last month; and I lived in the UK for two years before that. In both cases; I didn't really know anyone there. This worked fairly well for me (I'm 33). British people aren't exactly known for being open, so a lot of my friends were/are expats like me.

Also don't be afraid to talk to people, or ask people if they want to do something if you're interested. I naturally tend (or rather, tended) to be somewhat socially anxious, but a lot of that has been better since I have been "forced" to go out and meet folk. Turns out, most of the time those kind of things are received positively.
Just a friendly reminder that B-trees are often faster on modern microprocessors than RB-trees. See kbtree.h for a simple, yet fast example.
I didn't test it, but I'd assume B-tries would be rather efficient.
Without punctuation, the transcript is pretty unreadable, hah. I'll watch the video, though; thanks for posting!
One of the disastrous consequences of the current government rule is the stifling effect it has had on press freedom. There is no honest discussion of the issues. I have invested in the non-banking financial sector, as have many other Indians, directly, or indirectly through mutual funds.

There is no honest and frank financial reporting on the current imbroglio even in the financial press, aside from some vague reports on the fight between the government and the central bank, RBI.

What is the exposure due to ILFS default? What are the projections? What are the fallouts? How much recapitalisation is necessary? Is it only ILFS? No discussion.

What was the demonetisation for? No discussion.

The fin min has been trumpeting "consolidation" of public sector banks. Isn't this "too big to fail" coming up? Do we really need this? No discussion.

-- Another fact that I sometimes worry about: after demonetisation, real estate has stagnated, and mutual funds have seen a boom. Hence the exposure of the economy to bad loans made by the banks has increased in the last 2 years. So the catastrophe, when and if it happens, might be much more enormous than might otherwise have been.
Agrippa's trilemma, used as a reductio in your argument. Unfortunately, it applies to pretty much all claim to knowledge not just the case you're using it in.
> There are people outside cities. Lots of them. Stop pretending we don't exist, and calling us rednecks/flyover/etc. Its become a staple of HN and getting worse.

Spillover from the culture war, sadly. So long as you're prepared to make it a two-way street and understand urban problems and environments, things needn't be this way. It's probably related to how many far-right politicians seem to come from the more rural states.
> If solitude makes you happy it takes very little effort to isolate yourself.

Not if you are in relationship.
It sounds like that’s irrelevant because the problem was compromised accounts using the system:

> On October 16, 2018, we found that a number of agent and broker accounts engaged in excessive searching for consumers, and through those searches, had access to the personal information of people who are listed on Marketplace applications.
I think he’s using the broader definition of computer in this case. Think microwaves etc.
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> to be the #1 best selling cars in the US in $

Rather like the iPhone is the most profitable phone, it just means the price is a lot higher.
> ... why people feel so strongly about not installing apps

Because it means I'll be prompted for the App Store password, which I probably won't remember (or will get wrong 3 times) and so will need to change it, but the process won't let me change the password to anything I've used in the past 12 months (so I cannot change it to whatever I though the password was). So I need to make up a whole new password, and that means my mail and everything else linked to the account will stop working on all my other devices and I'll need to update the account passwords on those too.
Algorithmic survival of the fittest
This class of needs is important but is an outlier. A typical American daily commute is < 30 miles and an electric is more than enough for that.

It would help a lot to have better infra to support infrequent needs like long range driving, hauling, etc. If it was easy to access these services I'd feel more confident owning a shorter range vehicle. Traditional car rental services are dinosaurs.
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Agricultural tribes carefully tended their land, when a drought didn't force them to relocate. Hunter-gatherer tribes moved to where the game and other supplies were. Most had a certain amount of mobility depending on the season and the climate.

Of course there were territorial disputes, just like there are today with other nations. But most of the difficulty between tribes arose as a result of white influence, starting with the Spanish and continuing onward.
It’s actually really annoying. I hardly ever drink sugary drinks, but sometimes on a long drive I’d get one specifically for the sugar content (sans caffeine and taurine). Now diet versions of everything seem to be default.
An insanely cute project, I keep trying to build/install/play with almost every new release, with mixed success (e.g. the previous release wouldn’t even install, in QEMU).
It's not easy to find another situation where no other confounding effects were present. As explained in the article, the scholar brings good arguments as to why this is as close as it gets to a randomised trial.
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"How many binary blobs inside your computer?" is even more pressing. For the paranoid you could always buy a Purism[1] laptop with Trisquel[2] (pure libre Linux) running on it (if that's even possible, I'm not sure)

[1] https://puri.sm/

[2] https://trisquel.info/
For those interested the general area I saw a good talk about representing and manipulating floating point numbers in Julia at CSAIL last week by Jiahao Chen. The code with some good documentation is on his github.

https://github.com/jiahao/ArbRadixFloatingPoints.jl
One does not get 5 year old Mac as a status symbol.
I think that SanDisk SSD is a good product. It certainly has been reliable over the past 8+ years. I'm sure that these days, there are faster SSDs out there, but you need to confirm that you MBP model has the appropriate SATA speeds to interoperate.

I googled a guide on how to replace disk drives and since it was a long time ago I can't remember the exact steps. But it was roughly as follows:

Put SSD into a USB HD case.

Clone internal disk onto new SSD, the tool allowed the use of larger drive. Again, can't remember the exact program. It was recommended by the guide I followed.

Make a TimeMachine backup - you know, just in case something goes bad.

Shut down MBP

Remove screws on bottom

Locate HD, remove, move some mounting hardware onto SSD (now out of USB case)

Screw in SSD and connect cables - power and SATA.

Put bottom back on, replacing screws. NB: some are longer than others so you need to keep track of which ones go where. Again the reference guide had good hints.

Power up MBP, activate Trim program.

Enjoy.
Disney owns BAMTech, the company responsible for the baseball streaming service and they rearchitected HBOs service after HBOs in house effort flailed.
Japan’s wealth has varied over time. Same for the other countries you listed. It seems that a good work ethic that includes working to educate yourself, and a stable environment for your good works to compound on themselves is the main driver. The US had these qualities in abundance and at a large scale for some time.
You are swapping what is ultimately a stupendously simple mechanical system where any given garage worker can reliably identify the cause of faults for one with unassailable complexity on circuit boards where a single transistor failure can mean loss of all forward movement and the only economic repair will be "swap the board".

I think as humans we have a better chance of making the circuit board more reliable than the assortment of mechanical gadgets in a modern car, but independent repair is dead.
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In Canada, that means signature (and ID if you appear under 30) on delivery. So far in the US, it's meant photo ID verification on placing an order if an algorithm decides your CC isn't doing what it would normally do.
As a regular user of nicotine lozenges, I’m struggling to work out how my lung alveoli are going to be affected.
It can’t be that much of an outlier when many people live in suburbs and commute.
I would be ashamed to publish the graph with the "trend", the fit is so incredibly bad.
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I've read the WisKey paper.

1. Wasn't it simpler to just store the Key/Pointer(Offset) in RocksDB and put the values in the value log? Then the whole database just becomes a simple wrapper on top of RockDB(or whatever K/V database) with bunch of files as value log.

2. Why 16 bytes for value pointer? 8 bytes is sufficient.

3. If LSM size is around 5GB, screw LSM. I would rather use a simple immutable HashTable which gives you consistent snapshot out of the box for persisting to disk. Every 15 minutes launch a thread to serialize the index to disk.

Am I missing something or there is some more detail missing? I mean the reasoning to write a whole database from scratch isn't convincing.
Hi kentonv!

Do you trust the model enough to get Workers and Workers KV PCI-DSS Level 1 certified?
In that times the primary goal of all catholic missions was to spread Catholicism, not to provide welfare to "pagans"
A school system, where this level of potential and passion goes unnoticed and unharnessed for good, is a broken system. The full extent of their exploits remain unclear, due to ongoing legal action, but it should have been detected well and truly before it got to the CCTV access stage.
AppStore is not a democracy, they decide to keep the power and people working with them accept that Damocle sword.

Closed source comprehend such situation, FOSS does not.
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I do not think that you have ever encountered The Jesuits... They are as Catholic as can be.
> But as it turns out, it's not even necessarily replacing conventional fuel cars.

More than 50% of the trade-ins for the Model 3 are sub-$35K vehicles (new price).

>Wealthy buyers are getting them as third cars!

Source?

>How is the assertion that a $15k gas car that can go 400 miles followed by a 5 minute 100% full up is superior to a $35+ electric car that might make it 300 and then be need a 30+ charge incorrect?

Who said that? Are you rhetorical? You don't seem to be familiar with EV ownership if you think that's how people decide to switch. They are a multitude of benefits in EV that makes it okay to spend some 20 minute charging the car after 3h of driving (like having a fully charged battery every morning for peanuts, or not having to spend much on maintenance, or not worrying much about car depreciation, etc).

>the article's main point about chargers covering the planet

That won't be a problem. Gas stations are already becoming unprofitable so we don't have much of a choice and capital isn't actually lacking (banks are just waiting for the right time to invest). More importantly, all the $$ that are spent on the oil infrastructure will gradually become available for the EV infrastructure (a great upgrade to the grid that will make the switch to renewables even more economical thanks to economy of scale). One has to wonder why the journalist didn't even try to estimate the cost of the oil/ICE infrastructure (capex & opex). Here's one figure: the oil & gaz industry spends ~715 billion USD every year just to maintain the supply! The $6T isn't that big when you factory in everything and when you understand that this will be a multi-decade transition.
A better C would be C with a few features of C++: function and operator overloading and references. Also metaprogramming... maybe not exactly C++ templates but some sort of macros. Also lambdas.

I would also remove the distinction between 'class' and 'struct' and just have 'struct'.

I would add the bracket shorthand [] for arrays and {} for maps (and add a map type, maybe.)

And honestly, the more I think about it, the more a "better C" starts to look like a "better Lua," with the ability to return multiple values from a function.
That's not true; the GDPR is not a Directive, but a Regulation, meaning the actual text applies directly, it's not transposed by the national legislators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)
IBM's research division used to have a good reputation for innovative, long-term work - especially in maths/CS and physics. I'm not sure how much of that has survived the recent changes in the company. Anyone want to comment on what it's like now?