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> Slogans like "Resist" and "Not My President" ... Hopefully they don't mean what they are literally saying,

It's not that bad. The people who say these things are neither so dangerous that they really mean something terrible, nor so silly that they don't mean what they say.

They mean what they say, but they mean it according to a pretty benign interpretation. They wish "resist" the government using the tools of democratic action. Trump is "not my president" for all those who find his stances repugnant to their ideals -- i.e. those whom he does not represent.

That's all fine; in a free country it is good and proper for people to stoutly oppose the supreme executive. But you are right to be concerned there is a fashion for stating that opposition in language that has darker meanings too. And the danger is that when this language becomes standard, people will slide into really meaning those darker things.
I think people sometimes (especially on the identitarian Left) equate questioning the Left as automatically being on the "Other Team."

When people reach the point that merely asking questions marks you as "the enemy," it's precisely those people who constitute the greatest danger. For one thing, it indicates that 1) they aren't interested in dissent, nuance, or their own fallibility and 2) they think they have enough power to behave in such an authoritarian fashion.
On the other hand, Alphabet's target demographic is likely not to be misled by the lack of “www”. I'd be impressed if too many people outside of tech & finance actually knew what Alphabet is all about. In any case, their domain name certainly serves its purposes :)
Yeah I’ve had terrible focus and attention span for a long time. It can improve dramatically but takes time to get to crazy long hours per day. Deep work suggestions are good, don’t use the internet too much etc. but for me the biggest difference has been meditating for 1-2 hours day, doing some light sprints late at night, and focusing for at least a few hours everyday. If I focus everyday my deep work hours start to improve, if I take even a day of it reduces. So consistency with all your habits is key. I would say that in a couple of months you could probably get up to 4-5 hours per day.
I'm... kinda bewildered by this.

Honest questions:

Do you think FB users want to have their like counts hidden or delayed? If yes - what evidence? And if no, are you saying that you want legislation that changes FB to work in a way that neither FB nor its users want? How do you justify that?

Do you think noprocrast would change anything about Facebook? Would anyone use it? Can't you just make a chrome extension that does that and see if anyone is interested? For that matter, do you have evidence that a statistically significant part of the HN audience uses noprocrast?
Got it, makes sense. So the only way you'd have a global bucket is if you created it before a certain date (whenever they were regional-ized, I assume). Thanks!
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Google lost our faith after shutting down countless services.
The number of requests that Googles homepage does in order to load has _nothing at all_ to do with

It has a lot to do with the desire to work around limits on the number of in-flight connections allowed to a single host, which is one of the primary things HTTP/2 is designed for.
My advice would be to find opportunities to get paid to tell people the right answer, not to implement the wrong answer against your better judgement. Hot job market right now, more jobs than talent, all that jazz.

If you're stuck implementing a suboptimal solution, that's not your fault, and not the intent of my above comment.
I would think Apple themselves are looking into this (probably on the processor level as they control that now) for iOS; in order to make it more free for devs / users while having software run securely sandboxed, they need a way of running 'anything' securely. So I don't think they mind users testing out different ways of making it work and learn from it.

Does that processor have hardware support for it already but Apple just doesn't do software support? So they can only use it themselves?
Luckily, somebody already did the work [1].

In short: There is an implication in the Coleman essay that African Americans have less wealth because they spend more.

Problem with that:

1. While black people spend more on these items than white people, white people spend correspondingly more on other luxury goods.

2. Quote: "[...] once income is controlled, if anything, black families actually have a slightly higher savings rate than their white counterparts. [...] If anything, it appears that blacks generally live more frugal lives than whites; a study conducted by the Institute on Assets and Social Policy using the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances found that, at comparable levels of income, whites spend 1.3 times more than blacks (Traub et al.)"

So, yeah, the entire argument depends on a cherry-picked metric (we're leaving aside the question to what extent cars and clothing are necessarily Veblen goods and to what extent differences in types of spending are the result of different social constraints and incentives [2]) that does not reflect actual spending and saving habits well.

What Quillette essentially is: a Gish Gallop [3] in webzine form. Debunking all this takes time and effort and few people have the spare time to keep up with their output, and even then the debunking is often not seen by the original readers.

[1] https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21121635...

[2] For example, the problem that it can be more important for a black person to appear well-dressed to compensate for racial bias than for a white person.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
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Thanks to saagarjha for the effort and making the case to Apple that this should be fine. If it is allowed, it opens up a lot more possibilities.
I wouldn't describe any of my 5 comments on this page as ugly, but I guess interpretation is the core of this whole conflict.

1 is a simple statistical note. 1 is admitting I might be wrong.

1 is a bit harsh. 1 is a bit mean. I shouldn't have called it a rag. They at least seem pro-a lot of things I care about and don't seem malicious.

1 is a tame assessment based on several articles I read that became popular here on HN.

I plan to give it another look based on /u/natalyarostova's comment. Maybe you should do the same with the comments you find so ugly.
I think you have to separate phraseology from intent.

Better yet, do an analysis of subjects, verbs, and objects. If you diagram the sentences and analyze the rhetoric, what you'll see is that certain groupings of people based on hard to change outward characteristics are characterized as harmful, while certain others are characterized as inherently good. The further towards the extremes of both ends of the political spectrum you go, the more of this you find.

Instead, the hostility from the left is more directed towards those that hold these prejudicial views.

Are you saying that no one on the left calls out particular racial groups and demonizes them? The truth is the opposite. The further left you go, the more identitarian the rhetoric becomes, until certain skin colors are called out as being inherently bad.
Makes sense, it’s hard shit
Based on the OP's comment with an example, it sounds like the question is more like "what feature/capability/etc currently in the spec could be removed to improve performance?"
There's three different frequencies commonly used in microchips for pets: 125, 128, and 134.2 KHz (the last being the ISO standard). Hope your local animal shelter has a universal chip reader, because I doubt your vet knows whether the chips they use are standards-compliant or not.
Can't always correlate usage share with performance, especially on things that are extremely hyped.
Wasn't there some strange IP ownership conflicts between this version and the one that eventually became Netscape?

Not to mention there was the swirl society of Netscape: http://totic.org/nscp/swirl/swirl.html
Why isn’t it reasonable? And wouldn’t such people also want to discuss that the mean IQ of Southeastern Asians and Ashkenazi Jews is higher than that of whites?
I used a cheap* Chinese service recently and the quality was excellent. They're a great option if the dimensions of your design make OSH Park's by-the-square-inch pricing uneconomical. In addition, the boards were delivered in under a week.

*100mm x 150mm x 2 layer x 10pc order for $44
you might want to consider the Samsung Frame TV:

https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/the-frame/highlights/

43" at 4K is 102 PPI, so I guess you would need a 16K TV to get 250+
> I think there will be a movement of build your own open source robots at farms.

As a farmer, as much as the techie in me would love nothing more, I struggle to see it. There is a pretty large chasm between hobbyist-level tools and industrial-level tools, and it is a stretch to, quite literally, bet the farm on the former. Proven tools with timely service and support are essential to getting the work done in time.

Robotics is already big in agriculture and has been for decades. As someone once said "technology is developed by military, adopted by agriculture, and then the rest of the world is finally exposed to it." If you can dream of a way to robotize agriculture, it is quite likely already commercially available. Any farmers who do happen to come up with a novel idea to improve agriculture will be undoubtedly looking at commercialization to raise the necessary capital to develop such a machine.

There is unquestionably a long history of farmers bringing innovations to the industry, and undoubtedly will continue to be, but they are not exactly projects that you slap together in your free time from open source materials. Those who have something to build put forth serious investment, and often requiring outside investment, to make them a reality.

That said, I could definitely see popularity among gardeners, where the scale is tiny and the practice is already a hobby.
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Seems like everyone is focusing on reasons why you should use www and why those reasons aren't important. Any reasons why you shouldn't use www besides 3 less letters in the domain name?
Network with people directly via physical world and web meetings. It requires some time and monetary investment (building relationships and traveling to conferences), but once you have build a network of even 4 or 5 people who value your skills out of which at least one is offering you a gig, you are all set. You can now use this network to vouch for your skills, ethics, and expertise to get more gigs.

Sure, Upwork is much easier than this but with this ease comes this huge risk of your livelihood disappearing into thin air at the whims and fancies of Upwork.
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That's all fine and good if the democracy actually works. If it has been subverted by a corrupt elite then a desire for a real functioning liberal democracy by a vast majority of the populace can be handily written off as populism using that same definition. It's quite a convenient to define the term in a way that makes it vaguely pejorative, in that case. The fact that you set it up as a contrast to liberal democracy is a good illustration of that. Populism, like elitism, can be right or wrong for a given situation depending on context and policy details.
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You could look at N.Zabaras courses on Statistical Computing

https://www.zabaras.com/courses

I prefer 2017 version
> I thought the "cloud" was supposed to make this kind of failure impossible

You have to remember that you're trying to have access to backend platforms and infrastructure at all times, which almost no public utility does (assuming "the cloud" is "public utility computing"). Power plants go into partial shutdown, water treatment plants stop processing, etc. Utilities are only designed to provide constant reliability for the last mile.

If there's a problem with your power company, they can redirect power from another part of the grid to service customers. But some part of your power company is just... down. Luckily you have no need to operate on all parts of the grid at all times, so you don't notice it's down. But failure will still happen.

Your main concern should be the reliability of the last mile. Getting away from managing infrastructure yourself is the first step in that equation. AppEngine and FaaS should be the only computing resources you use, and only object storage and databases for managing data. This will get you closer to public utility-like computing.

But there's no way to get truly reliable computing today. We would all need to use edge computing, and that means leaning heavily on ISPs and content provider networks. Every cloud computing provider is looking into this right now, but considering who actually owns the last mile, I don't think we're going to see edge computing "take over" for at least a decade.
> I thought privacy concerns around RFID payment and identification were more to do with abuse by private parties, like recording, spoofing/replay attacks, or just private collection.

Those are all legitimate concerns, though ultimately a well designed solution would use NFC smartcard emulation with a properly designed applet to alleviate these issues.

Unfortunately, most of the time I see people online wanting to figure out how to block RFID signals from their cards it's because they think they can be read from a distance much greater than a couple mm away from the card.
I was talking mostly about the actual content. I virtually never read the comments anywhere on the Internet, aside from a few trusted sources (like HN) where high-quality comments are the point of the site.
GP is citing to you an actual HN guideline that specifically refers to the tone of your post. If it helps, here's the guideline in full:

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face.
> Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

In your case, you accused your parent poster of not thinking critically, instead of constructively saying "hey, here's a nuance of this issue that you may be missing".
Now they do, as a result of significant negative media coverage from a few years ago when their administrative costs reached as much as 90% of their total donation revenue.
> Let's hope you don't have a life threatening medical emergency that can't wait near an affected healthcare facility while that silly software is down.

If your ability to operate an ER is dependent on a remote data center, you have no business being a public health provider.
Depends on the acquisition, several have went well.
Police only need a warrant (or other court order) to look at private camera recordings if the owner demands it. Most supermarket managers will happily hand over anything the police ask for.
Most people will dismiss absolutely everyone they disagree with reflexively anyway, but the few people who will actually bother to argue with Holocaust deniers, young-earth creationists, etc. do so with facts and evidence, whereas the people who argue in favor of e.g. blank-slate psychology will, at their most charitable, concern-troll you over the social consequences of your ideas.
I use AWS free tier and get customer support through email, but thats not the case with GCP. Do they provide free email support?

If you are an early stage startup can you afford their 200/Month support, when your entire GCP bill is under $1. However, that doesn't mean you don't have to support them.
The majority of your sentences are full of bile, prejudice, raging hypocrisy, ridiculous comparisons etc, the kind of writing that will get you downvoted, flagged and banned from this site.
Very nicely written. While not a direct response to OP, you articulated some great points on k8s. k8s will naturally succeed as the future of data center orchestration as VM's give way to containers. But it is questionable if everyone needs it.
As someone who has had to manage access cards before I would think it is a cost saving measure. The amount of users who lose their cards several times a year is surprisingly large.
Not to mention that the users also tend to lend them out and swap them.
I hate the word Microservice, so I'm just going to use the word Service.

Most monoliths software companies build aren't actually monoliths, conceptually. Let's say you integrate with the Facebook API to pull some user data. Facebook is, within the conceptual model of your application, a service. Hell, you even have to worry "a little bit" about maintaining it; provisioning and rotating API keys, possibly paying for it, keeping up to date on deprecations, writing code to wire it up, worrying about network faults and uptime... That sounds like a service to me; we're three steps short of a true in-house service, as you don't have to worry about writing its code and actually running it, but conceptually its strikingly similar.

Facebook is a bad example here. Let's talk Authentication. Its a natural "first demonolithized service" that many companies will reach to build. Auth0, Okta, etc will sell you a SaaS product, or you can build your own with many freely available libraries. Conceptually they fill the same role in your application.

Let's say you use Postgres. That's pretty much a service in your application. A-ha; that's a cool monolith you've got there, already communicating over a network ain't it. Got a redis cache? Elasticsearch? Nginx proxy? Load balancer? Central logging and monitoring? Uh oh, this isn't really looking like a monolith anymore is it? You wanted it to be a monolith, but you've already got a few networked services. Whoops.

"Service-oriented" isn't first-and-foremost a way of building your application. It's a way of thinking about your architecture. It means things like decoupling, gracefully handling network failures, scaling out instead of up, etc. All of these concepts apply whether you're building a dozen services or you're buying a dozen services.

Monolithic architectures are old news because of this recognition; no one builds monoliths anymore. It's arguable if anyone ever did, truly. We all depend on networked services, many that other people provide. The sooner you think in terms of networked services, the sooner your application will be more reliable and offer a superior experience to customers.

And then, it's a natural step to building some in-house. I am staunchly in the camp of "'monolith' first, with the intention of going into services" because it forces you to start thinking about these big networking problems early. You can't avoid it.
Ask Seattle how they like having their NBA team...
That is a list of where they are different but there are still areas of competition. Just because it isn't a one hundred percent overlap doesn't mean it isn't competition - otherwise one would say that GE isn't really competing with Samsung because GE doesn't make cellphones - ignoring the overlap of the appliance market.

Competing with large and broad corporations is a 'how do you eat an elephant' thing and they are increasingly prodding at each other for weaknesses. Trying to compete everywhere at once in prime specialties would generally be a losing prospect from the start even if they were willing to spend vast amounts of capital by mega corporation standards - not start up ones. You could compete with Apple on cellphones but trying the high end 'fashion' segment of the market would likely be a losing prospect as that is their prime specialty where they are established. Now if it is say Blackberry who has proven inept at their prime specialty they may wind up seized even by companies who aren't even trying for their niche.

Voice assistants aren't even limited to just Apple and Amazon, Google, Microsoft and even Samsung are trying to get on it. Apple is trying Apple media again and Apple, Amazon, and Google all have their own music stores for one. They may not be as prevalent relatively speaking but they aren't just letting each other keep their specialties.

I suppose part of this also has to do with definition of monopoly and it being versatile. Technically speaking owning a grain field, mill, and a bakery is a monopoly - a vertical one. You have to be able to compete with their own grain production costs and milling costs in order for it to sell wheat or flour to their bakery - otherwise they would just use their own as cheaper.

What are referred to as tech monopolies trivially have comparable alternatives but people don't go with them. You can host your own email or have anyone hosting video data - they just won't be the behemoth in the room. I suspect there may be some talking past each other.
I've thought for a while that STL meshes in 3D printing workflows may be a detour in many circumstances.

CSG is one example, volumetric models (from CT/MRI scanners or simulations) are another.
We need to blow the gates open and mandate that

1) a person has the right to export their data and receive it in a usable format
2) a person has the right to use this exported data and give it to a competitor

There is no reason why switching between, say, Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Music, and Amazon Music should be any harder than switching a cell phone carrier. Imagine how much faster Myspace or Digg would've imploded if you could just export to a competitor with a click of a button.
I virtually never see comments about "Jewish misinformation campaigns" or "jewish desire to destabilize America", and I've never browsed Quillette.

Is there a reason people are talking about those things on Quillette?
If there was 100% enforcement of speed laws then everyone would simply stop speeding. We can argue about whether that's a good thing, but the reality is that people do react to deterrents.

Some UK highways have so many speed cameras now that enforcement is close to 100%. Drivers complain, but they mostly obey the limits.
So you’re in Puerto Rico and the hurricane hits.

No cell phone towers for a week.

No electricity for months.

What do you do now? Pawn your backup iPhone X for $30?
It would be news to von Ardenne et al to hear that they were Soviet, and their input to Soviets' "pioneering" space travel is at least as important as von Braun's to American space program.

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Ask HN: What are your crazy tech ideas?
If you could work on absolutely any problem in tech / science, what would it be?

Rules:

- assume you have access to capital
- assume you don't have to move
- assume you can work on it full time
- it has to be plausible, but doesn't have to currently be possible (time travel is out, large scale human cloning is in)

I'm interested in people's seemingly crazy ideas.