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> This sentence is ridiculous and has nothing to do with scihub and libgen.

But everything to do with the French government's attitude towards traditional publishers and why they work so closely together. This issue doesn't begin and end with research publishing, it is bigger and older than that.

Calling something "ridiculous" simply because you want a black & white answer to a larger complex cultural phenomenon is a little disappointing.
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Maybe not shutdown, but the Maps API 10x price increase has definitely made me gun shy about using GCP.
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Ask HN: Best Hardware for VP9 Encoding
I'm looking for an SBC platform to implement a fast VP9 encoding and live-streaming device.

Does HN have any experience with hardware VP9 encoders out there?

I know that the choice of SoCs with hardware implementation of VP9 encoders is rather limited: effectively, we're talking about KabyLake (which can be found in Latte Panda Alpha) and Exynos 8890. Wondering what sort of FPS I can reasonably expect to achieve.

Also, I've heard anecdotal evidence of people using Google's Coral Edge TPU Module (https://coral.withgoogle.com/tutorials/devboard-datasheet/) for very fast VP9 encoding.

I can see that it does not appear to have a VP9 encoder implemented in hardware, so I guess the software implementation of the encoder runs really well on the ASIC being used on the TPU.

Any experience with any of these?

Thanks!
It's also a cultural thing in Japan to be honorable with the service you provide. If a critical connection in Japan gets delayed it can have huge impact. Thanks to the vertical split of ownership you can always blame a specific operator for some outage. In Holland we often see a blame game where the operator blames the network owner. The network owner pretty much has a monopoly here.

> the Dutch system is already in the top 3 of punctuality

I've oftentimes tried to find such numbers but have never been successful. There's some efforts that attempt to compare European countries (I think Holland is not 3rd here). But not worldwide comparisons. The problem is also that countries have different ideas on what constitutes a train being "on time".

Meanwhile in Europe 76% of all freight transport is still happening on the road. In Holland 72% of all private person-kilometers are happening on the road. Switzerland has an amazing rail network which is state owned (although it started out from privately owned companies). But also in Switzerland 75% of all person-kilometers are on the road.

Let's say we'd want to get those trucks off the road and onto our wonderful railway network. I think it wouldn't even be possible. Could we run all those freight trains on the same railways as the passenger trains? We'd probably need separate specialized lines. Then we need to quadruple its capacity to accommodate for all the road kilometers.

How much would that cost? Perhaps it's cheaper to subsidize electric vehicles.

I'm not particularly against trains. Fine if it's viable. But I don't see how it will become the answer to the global warming problem. Also because of the other arguments mentioned in this thread (The hub and spokes model being inefficient).
Like many others in this thread, I lost data due to Evernote bugs; I also found their app incredibly slow to use, and then combine that with the price increases as perfectly fine alternatives (OneNote, Apple Notes) were still free or much lower price (Bear plus Drafts on iOS are my current replacement)---I cancelled my account last year.

The headline makes this seem like much more of a mystery than it is. "Offer an unreliable product at a high price" isn't a recipe for commercial success, not unless you're a monopolist (it works for the cable companies).
I like and use OneNote, but "all platforms" isn't quite correct - there is no native Linux client, so I have to use the browser version, which isn't nearly as good as native versions.
The article refers to Klotho as a "hormone." It appears to be an enzyme instead, and a membrane-bound enzyme to boot:

> Klotho is a transmembrane protein that, in addition to other effects, provides some control over the sensitivity of the organism to insulin and appears to be involved in ageing. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotho_(biology)

That means that you're probably not going to make a drug my injecting Klotho or with Klotho tablets. Instead, your best bet is to make small molecules that inhibit or promote the activity of Klotho.

Then the article compounds the problem with:

> Now Dr. Dubal and other researchers are trying to build treatments based on these results. Either by injecting Klotho into the body or by stimulating the brain to make more of the hormone, they hope to treat diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Later:

> When Dr. Dubal injects Klotho into mice, for example, the hormone doesn’t actually get into the brain. It must trigger some series of reactions in the body — but no one can say what they are.

This is why an injectable of the enzyme itself seem so unlikely:

1. Brain penetration is difficult to engineer into molecules, and especially so with proteins. Small tends to be a requirement, and peptides rarely fit the requirement.

2. An enzyme requiring to be bound in a membrane makes a terrible drug target because no only must it escape the body's housekeeping machinery, but must somehow survive with its membrane intact or miraculously become bound into the membrane of a passing cell. I'm unaware of any examples of that.
> little about how not to design a competitive game

I’d love to hear more about this, although I guess it’s a bit off topic... I played LoL for a while, but never too obsessively or heavily. It was mainly an activity to share with some coworkers so I suppose, like you say, it wasn’t so much about the game itself. I certainly didn’t play it competitively, so maybe that’s why I don’t see it as bad as you make it sound. (I also hear it’s got worse and more lootbox greedy. I last played it circa 2014).

One set of “complex” non-multiplayer (at least, 90% of the time I played single player) games that I do, personally, find incredibly interesting on a multitude of levels are the FROM SOFTWARE games. Even ignoring the difficulty (although I really do enjoy the challenge — or more accurately, when I eventually overcome it), I love the world building, the characters, the intricate level design, the deep but vague and mostly environmental storytelling, the rich implied but often left open to interpretation lore, the aesthetics and the voice acting of Demons’ Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne and in the past two weeks, Sekiro. I could (and have done) play nothing but one of these games for months and still find them interesting. Few they games manage this, for me, though.
I liked using Evernote for myself, but we subscribed to the team version or whatever they call it, and didn't enjoy it.

"I put that in Evernote. Did you see it?"

Turns out you have to add it to the right notebook. Then you have to explicitly share it with your team members.

THE WHOLE POINT IS SHARING. It should be default. It's too much work to do the one thing I want to use this for.
Or it starts getting fun when you have to carry a corp pager!

No other game can pull you in this way, where geo is important because you live in a timezone opposite to the defender's, and thus can prep and ambush for when the target's prime-time comes online.
Obviously the US should try to stop other countries that want to drop bombs; it makes sense from every perspective in a moral and realpolitik sense.

However, the issue we face in your counter is that the US dropped 2 bombs, the world didn't end, and obviously they were happy enough with the results that they've kept a rather large nuclear arsenal in prime condition, ready to be used. I'm not even sure if the US apologised for dropping those nukes.

From a high-functioning-sociopath perspective, which is what large agglomerations of humans do frequently degenerate to, why shouldn't a given country not strive to emulate something that clearly worked? For the US to decry such mimicry is meaningless at best, hypocritical at worst:

1) If they think an act is against some great universal principle they should not have done it in the first place.

2) If individual politicians would almost certainly seek power by any means if roles were reversed, that is just the sort of people who become politicians.

It is fine if they want to boss countries around to support their own interests; that is sort of expected. To do more is to invite eye rolls.
Yes, recent studies have shown that Vitamin D is the marker that's associated with whatever process sun exposure induces. It's not the vitamin itself causing the benefits. Get some sun, just not too much.
I'm not sure what you're asking for. Do you want hydro stations to pump water upwards when there is an energy surplus? What problems would that solve that a dam wouldn't?
I disagree to an extent.

My first business was with a guy I knew and trusted well. He was a housemate for years and I witnessed him saving lives of friends. In fact, I trusted him so well that I turned a blind eye to his weaknesses. He was, in the end, dishonest and greedy, fatal personality flaws for a business.

On the other hand, my most successful business was with someone I only knew through Facebook. I bought his book. We shitposted a lot. The second time I met him in person was when making the business proposal to him.

After that, we sold the company to friends, who have been operating their company great for years. But shortly after the acquisition, the acquiring company felt apart because of lack of commitment. Historically, they worked great, and were expanding aggressively at the point of acquisition. They just stopped after that.

I think for the most part we have plenty of experience with humans. Every major mistake comes from being infatuated with the person, much like with marriage. And with both, charismatic people are likely to sneak past the filter.

I think marriage is a really good analogy though. But I feel it's not chemistry that makes marriages or businesses work. It's commitment.
Batteries are getting more reasonable too and dropping about 15% per annum. Roll on green energy. https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/09/100-kwh-tesla-battery-c...
> reality completely walks out of the window in Gravity

A bit of an overstatement. Gravity got orbital mechanics very wrong, but it got orbital mechanics relevant in the first place. Most movies dealing with space are far less realistic than Gravity.
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You can just, um, Google it :-)
The whole Nexus brand springs to mind. The best mid-tier phone available was killed and replaced with nearly the exact same specs at the highest price possible.

Sent begrudgingly from a Pixel.
The thing about coal here in Idaho is that there are very few reasons for conservatives to like it. There are no coal jobs here.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying conservatives here are actually conservationists, I just mean that many of them tend to be more interested in the outdoors. I'm just basing that on people I know and encounter, so the sample size isn't huge.

Also, the weird thing about Idaho is that there are at least two, maybe three Idaho's. There is Eastern Idaho, who are largely extremely conservative farmers, then there is the Boise area, which relative to Eastern Idaho is less conservative. Then there is Northern Idaho, which I don't really know how to describe, but they don't fit either category.
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This is, arguably, a slippery slope. A lot of companies thought of themselves as too big to fail just to be ditched by customers very quickly. The side effect of being complacent is that things work for you until they don't - aol, myspace and yahoo died, microsoft barely dodged the bullet and apple with google are starting to venture into the danger zone.
Small typo: Valter Longo, and you can google Fast-Mimicking Diet (FMD). Highly recommended both as stuff to read, or a 5-day fast to try.
> I'm a paid customer of Evernote

I think what you want to say is "paying customer"
Syncthing is indeed great, and works across all my platforms very well. It's also still actively maintained.
for life to have moved from one planet to another is unlikely: it's the product of life being on the rock on the source planet in the first place, multiplied by the probability the rock gets ejected into space, that the life survives a journal, and that it lands on a planet where it can survive. All of those are extremely tiny probabilities (but nobody denies the mass exchange between planets).
Where I live, the recent arrivals, let's call them "visitors" although cynically they are probably permanent residents now because our legislators treat them like they're more important than actual citizens. Anyhow, these newcomers seem to enjoy throwing trash out their car windows ALL THE TIME. I have witnessed it personally. Who the hell thinks it is okay to get fast food and then as soon as you're done eating in your car while driving, pitch it out the fucking window? It makes me fucking livid.

My wife and I (and sometimes my kids) spend several sunny afternoons each year picking up bags of trash gathered from the streets around our home. I don't enjoy this work, but if nobody else is going to do it, I will. I refuse to live in a 3rd World dump and I'll do what I can to keep it from looking like that.

But yeah, push us Americans a little harder. See what happens.
I was excited for A Hat in Time and backed it on Kickstarter, but it felt kind of weirdly unpolished to me. I got up to the third world. I generally love 3D platformers too.
You might as well state that no republican is pro-renewables, and that would be dishonest as well. This binary labeling of people and states in order to franchise hate really has to come to a close. The moment any movement convinces you that someone is a single choice and not a human, you have failed.
As far as I can tell, if they took a public domain image, modified it in some way, and sold that on their site, it would be copyright them. They could sue you for using it or whatever they wanted.

What would count as modified, I don't know. E.g. Maybe they put real man hours in on Photoshop to remove some artifact and to correct the color. I don't think anyone would argue they shouldn't deserve to be paid. But if all they did was crop it, resize it or even just compressing it as a JPEG they might be fine in legal terms.
I don't think a "mid-level manager" makes minimum wage.
Firefox absolutely steals focus for this permissions dialog, as recently as AFTER you made that post (Firefox 66.0.1).
Gee, you sure convinced me with that textbook use of tu quoque.
Well that highlights that they lack an economic interest in it. Except nearly everywhere that applies - mid-tier restuarants like Arbies are bigger than the coal issue yet so many declare coal their hill to die on as some sort of symbol.
Yeah but international weapons treaties are actually being sabotaged by our beloved and glorious leader Trump right now so I wouldn't count on it.

Everyone seems to be gearing up for a new race of tic tac toe.
Don't worry, we'll be back to that pretty soon as the cost of throwing anything away has skyrocketed. I recently (as in, two days ago) had to dispose of a bedroom's worth of carpet and padding. It wasn't much material, but it cost me $56.

Also, for all of you saying "wow our country is dirty" well pick up a fucking mop and get to work!
> draining everyone downstream to 0%

I don't see how that follows. Hydroelectric power use doesn't destroy water. Minus some evaporation, all water upstream makes its way downstream whether the gravitational potential energy is converted to electricity or wasted like normal.

When building a dam, there's a temporary and arbitrarily small reduction in downstream flow as the reservoir is accumulated, but the more significant issue is usually permanent upstream flooding.

Regardless, my understanding is that Idaho is planning to increase its use of solar to make its way to 100%, with hydro being used to balance the supply-demand discrepancy. I would expect any hydro capacity to already be fully utilised on a long term basis.
Those omnipresent dialogs are a cancer on the web. It was the worst idea ever.

I actually can't believe the browser vendors made basically the same mistake as the obnoxious JS "alert()"
If this has been created by government agencies, then the data should also be public. Once the data about what politicians are doing and saying becomes public, the program will end. :)
It's not a far fetched idea. At least up to a certain point, higher intelligence means a higher chance of survival and thus better chance of passing on the genes.
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The exact reason why I transitioned from a Nexus to an Android One. The Pixel price-point is too damn high.
I'm using a definition of colour under which two lights are the same colour if they look the same to a typical human, whereas you're using a definition where two lights are only the same colour if they have exactly the same spectrum.

Can we at least agree that computers can produce a colour that looks the same as a spectral violet light reflected off grey paper?
Tell HN: Crashplan Business excludes some of your data
Just got this email from Crashplan:

Important Product Update

The CrashPlan for Small Business Code42 app is intended to back up your user’s business files (pictures, music, documents, etc.), not your operating system or applications. For this reason, we have always recommended you not include applications or large files in your selection as they may not backup correctly. We have allowed you to back those things up, but beginning in May 2019, we are making some additional changes to our file exclusions and will be disallowing the backup of applications, VM image files, and some backup files.

After this change is applied, you will likely see your file selection and backup archive size go down and benefit from faster restores, syncs, and backups. The new excludes are listed below and a full list of excludes can be found here[0].

Applications: /Users/<username>/Applications, /Applications/, /Program Files/, /Program Files (x86)/
VM image files: .hdd, .hds, .pvm, .pvs, .vdi, .vfd, .vhd, .vmc, .vmdk, .vmem, .vmsd, .vmsn, .vmss, .vmtm, .vmwarevm, .vmx, .vmxf, .vsv, .nvram, .vud, .xva
Backup files: .bck, .bkf
Other files: .tmp, .part, .rbf, .tib, .sparseimage

[0] https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/6/Troubleshooting/What_is_not_backing_up
Wow! I've seen these in my neighbours yard in Japan...
Flowers for Algernon and maybe Planet of the Apes. It would interesting to contemplate the effect such a hormone would have on apes and chimpanzees. I certainly doubt they'd push up anywhere even close to human intelligence but would the incremental gain be such that humans would squirm with discomfort?
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I also got the Chromecast audio and I also think it's great. Historically, lots of great products have been discontinued because they didn't pan out, in business terms.
Spectral colors are _all_ outside of the sRGB gamut. So apart from your needlessly aggressive tone, I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
Of the seven traditional named spectral colors, indigo and violet seem to be the least distinct pair. Newton may have included it mainly to have seven named colors, as a parallel to the seven notes of the western major scale in music. He admitted that his ability to distinguish colors was not acute, and, after he had selected his seven, he asked others to mark them off on a spectrum projected on a wall. This is different, of course, then asking them how many distinct colors they thought best characterized the visible spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo#Classification_as_a_spe...
I wasn't claiming it was well known, in this case I don't think it matters. I assumed anyone that really cares would throw up an arrow and some blinking text pointing at it. Yes, this will be ugly, just like every site I visit asking if they can send me private messages whenever they want is ugly.

That said, the bell icon not being intuitive doesnt stop YouTube.

Likewise, channels switched to "like, comment, subscribe, and don't forget to hit the bell." Literally overnight.

I just see this concern as a non issue.
Google will be "fine," but I've stopped investing in Google products and I'm sure a lot of the tech-savvy community feel the same way. This will make it more difficult for them to get new products off the ground in the future.

They make excellent products, but they just don't want to invest in them long enough to gain widespread appeal. Inbox was a killer app. Now that I've experienced what brilliant email looks like, I'm going to keep a look out for a competing clone and will likely switch.

It's a vicious cycle. Fewer people will invest in new products until they know it will be around in the future, but then Google will shut down product that don't gain enough users. This is a cancer that slowly eats away at the company bottom line.
I see the "this news only impacts tech people" argument from time to time, but remember that all the non-tech people ask the tech people they know what to use. And tech people are who set up their family's computers, deploy software widely on business networks, etc.

The tech-savvy community was on Google years before the general public, and them leaving Google should set your expectations for what happens with everyone else a few years after that.
I've captured (in Evernote, ironically) a few Evernote alternatives. Haven't had time to look them over yet, so not sure how much they address each of your needs:

- https://getpolarized.io/: open source html and pdf document manager. Supports Anki flashcards, local storage, markup of pdfs, tracking reading progress, more

- https://www.notion.so - paid/hosted service

- https://joplin.cozic.net/ - seems like a decent open source project

If you check these out and respond here (or in a new "Tell HN") with your thoughts, I'd love to read it.
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Shouldn't the letter forms in the font be copyrightable? How are those different from a (copywritable) drawing?
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I completely agree. Gmail doesn't seem to have that much customisation. I don't understand why the "Social, Promotions, Updates, Forums" are baked in without being able to customise them.

The Inbox bundles seem to be slightly renamed categories that Gmail has, but with the ability that they're always on the main page and being able to create your own. Why couldn't this be easily ported back over to Gmail and tweaked with user config?

In Inbox I had a "Mailing List" bundle that had all my techy subscriptions and when I had free time I could see them. I could easily mark the entire bundle as read.

I'm tempted to start using one of my domains as my email address and point it at a different provider, but I'll see how Gmail fares over the next few months.
My friend is a professional pianist and wants to see how high he can get his WPM on typing - is the source available?
I pay for an Inoreader supporter account. It's cheap, it works, I don't have to maintain it, and it ensure some revenue to the developers to keep it going.

I'm keeping my gmail.com because it's my main personal online identity, despite hating the UI.

If I could pay to retain access to Google Inbox if I could like I'm already paying for Google One to hopefully gain some resemblance of support if shit hits the fan.
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Who'd trust them to keep a service running at this point?
That's not how it works, as history has shown us.