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I don't like articles like this for two reasons: (1) they trivialize actually building a company, growing it, and selling it, and (2), they provide comfort for those that don't have the drive/luck/privilege of getting there by arguing that "hey, money doesn't make you happy!"

First of all, as others mention in the thread, this is hardly an example of an "overnight success" -- there are no such examples, barring a few extreme outliers. Not only do the great majority of startups fail, the great majority of successes grind for years and years before seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It's not like some dream-land utopia. If you're like me (and I think most HN'ers are), you continue building stuff in spite of the overwhelming odds. That's the real lesson here. Trying, failing, trying, failing, and doing this over and over, even though expecting a different outcome is technically insanity.

Secondly, the adage of "money doesn't bring happiness" is obvious to anyone that's not young or incredibly naive. We get it -- money is not the end-all of life (duh). But at the same time, can we not kid ourselves? Money makes life much easier than the alternative. Anyone that grew up poor and achieved some modicum of success (I grew up in essential poverty in a third world country; now I make a "modest" six figure salary and live in Los Angeles) realizes this. I'm reminded of a (2008 crash) documentary I saw years ago where a banker says: "I grew up poor, and now I'm rich; trust me, I'd rather be rich."
theres one pattern, opening google photos, pressing share, choosing facebook messenger, sending a photo to a group that ALWAYS causes messenger to get stuck at the share screen. pressing back minimizes fbm but doesnt back out of share, so when you reopen the app, you are buried back at that deep share page. (one may ask why you would ever do it this way, with android 10 many apps couldnt access the device photos directly. even though its fixed, this still serves as an repeatable example of 'back' being confusing and broken.)

the inconsistency of the back button ranks very high on my "ios to android" learning curve list.
The intended pronounciation is /speɪˈsiː/, i.e. spay-SEE. The capitalisation refers to the fact that it's a C extension, implemented in Cython.
Hamburger, because "coleslaw" is some random word suddenly imported out of nowhere, whereas a hamburger is a major food type and a huge part of American culture (and at this point, of the Universal culture).

Yes, I'm totally unfair here and essentially asking food fashion to get off my lawn, but that's why I wrote I'm only half-serious. Not all cases where I feel annoyed are 100% rational.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmaioTs0NH8 @ mark 1:26:00
That's exactly what I've been doing. But I value portability - I'm a (hobby) photographer as well and my backpack includes 2 lenses and a Nikon D850 (combined > 10lbs!) + my MBP 2015 + My usb-C powered second screen.

I travel a lot with this full backpack and if I can reduce that second screen, I'd jump on that!
There is hardly any energy behind consumer PC development at all outside of games.
This just reminded me that SideShow was a thing in Vista times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SideShow
Looking back now, I feel I responded too harshly last night. It was late and I was tired.

I have more to say on the topic but cannot take the time to write it out at the moment. I may edit this later, if I have time.
‘This Game Is My Life’ (Overwatch League Grand Finals)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/

> Most Plastic Products Release Estrogenic Chemicals: A Potential Health Problem That Can Be Solved

> Results: Almost all commercially available plastic products we sampled—independent of the type of resin, product, or retail source—leached chemicals having reliably detectable EA, including those advertised as BPA free. In some cases, BPA-free products released chemicals having more EA than did BPA-containing products.
It is interesting that so much of the discussion of meat consumption and climate change has been centered around cows and other terrestrial animals. I'm curious if anyone knows of a good source that compares the greenhouse gas emissions from fishing vs land-based livestock.
I like those pictures. They only show the two hands that are holding the device. The third hand touching the screen is missing.
Clamshell phones let you close your phone completely, and have been around for a long time. Actually, are they still a thing?
Actually this is as much a waste of time as telling people who are concerned about climate change that they should stop using plastic straws rather than pushing for systemic changes that only governments can address with laws.

Tech folk always seem to think more or new tech is the answer, and it absolutely isn't the case of privacy. If you really want to help, do that in your 20% time and focus all your energy on advocating for a GDPR clone.
Yes, lead is a very useful material, which is why it's a bit ridiculous to say that putting a tariff on lead in itself would somehow allow a "win" in a trade war. In that generic sense, it's no different than any other raw material.
What about the military (navies) too?

I'm just now reminded of stories from a guy who served on a troopship. The waste and pollution was staggering.

Dumping fuel, garbage, bilge water.

Expending all your ration of ammo, killing the porpoises riding the bow wave, so that you don't have to unload all that ammo later.
24/7 CTF – The game never stops
The real crisis is lack of high quality shareholders. Basing businesses on stakeholders rarely works as groupthink sets in quickly; the current shareholders are however mostly either persons that inherited wealth with no real connection to business itself or pension funds that are unable to guarantee contractual monthly retirement benefits, pushing for short-term stock profits.
Yes but they generally only get used on rails and in low speed applications.
Payfazz wants to build a network of distributed bank agents in Indonesia (2017)
Always fun to spot the "what is X" -> two minute window -> "okay, <strongly-held contrarian opinion about X>" comment pattern.
Why nor CRISC-V? Or CaRISC-V? Or (eww) RaCISC-V?

It's not like current "CISC" architectures haven't taken a lot of the good aspects of RISC already too...
"A scientific review of 52 studies recently concluded that humans on average consume a credit card’s worth of microplastic each week."

Wow
Being a bit more charitable, I think the problem is that people look at VLIW generated code and think 'wow that's so wasteful look at all the empty slots' without realising those 'slots' (in the form of idle execution units pipeline stages) are empty in OOO processors right now anyway. The additional cost is in the ICACHE, as already described.

Also, these days you would pretty much just need to fix LLVM, C2, ICC, and the MS compiler, and almost everyone would be happy.
...and more wasteful manufacturing. There's usually a reason products are shipped.
I hear you. I took the point as more of a, "if we want to realize more diversification of wealth and a more representative distribution, ..." I normally pick on stuff like this too but I'm willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt and not assume they're racist because the article is so well written.
Zero Hands Up
> CSS is a similar phenomenon, you can't approach it as code.

Mozilla put out a good video about this today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHUtMbJw8iA
The airborne particulates from brakes is asbestos!

edit: Very odd that both mine and the contradictory reply to it are both down voted. What I said is a fact, so I'm not sure why anyone would disagree with it.
Stepping on Rakes: Terry Eagleton’s “Humour” and Peter Timms’ “Silliness”
Media-Proclaimed Tech Genius Lied His Way to Forbes and New York Times
It's soft. I have old Tupperware right here in my kitchen that has frayed surfaces and little bits and pieces must get into food.
>In 2018, there were more men named James running Fortune 500 companies than there were women.

Nothing is stopping women from being CEOs. This has nothing todo with "equality"

>It’s frustrating—even heartbreaking—to confront evidence of the many ways our country continues to hold women back.

Nothing is holding women back. What is this author talking about? Women have the same rights as men.

>That’s why, over the next ten years, I am committing $1 billion to expanding women’s power and influence in the United States.

So now its okay to be sexist because men have held higher positions, worked longer hours and with positions of power. Melinda wants to shame men for this very reason.

>Gender equality in the U.S. has been chronically underfunded.

Because Gender equality is a buzz word. Men and women are equal.

I have to stop.. This does not belong here, and hits nothing but a feminist piece to put men down.
It probably wouldn't, but then a few years ago I would never have guessed we'd be getting things like WSL, a real terminal, and native SSH.
I'd say more like Elm's Pheonix LiveView, to be honest.
A New McLaren Supercar Might Have Just Leaked on Instagram
How much lighter is a second screen attach to the device than an iPad - which weighs 1.07 pounds or the iPad Mini that weighs 2/3s of a pound?
USA has a lot of places. However, everyone wants to live in CA. That doesn't mean other areas are bad. They are very good.
>>If 2 men ask for a pink cake with chocolate frosting and a straight couple ask for a pink cake with chocolate frosting, there's no inherent difference in the product, and thus in the production.

The only difference is who the consumer is. Also, the hollow difference between "I created this just for you" vs. "I created this, and you will be using it" of your pre-baked vs bespoke cake example seems extremely weak to me. Legally, this doesn't matter, but hey legally at one point black people couldn't vote because "reasons".

The point I'm getting at: Why was OP comfortable with half measures? Why is "black" a protected class, even against "deeply held religious beliefs" but "gay" isn't? Why is "use a product you created just for me" different from "use a product you created"? This difference feel arbitrary to me, and grounded more in homophobia than any sort of sound logic.

Put bluntly: If you think gay people shouldn't be allowed to request cakes, I don't see how you can logically hold the belief that black people should be allowed to request cakes.
Maybe if Andrew Yang makes it through we'll see something happen, since his overall approach has a chance of reducing gridlock.

And on this issue is proposing data as a property right: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/data-property-right/
I've certainly gone on vacation and spent the entire time walking around to museums or lounging around on the beach - is that really higher carbon than driving around in SoCal?
By simply reinvesting his money into the economy via stocks and bonds he is contributing the making the world a better place.

Market economics has been lifting the world's humans out of poverty at an alarmingly fast rate since 2000. You'll never hear about this in the news of course.
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An iPad Mini is 0.66 pounds a regular iPad is 1 pound.
M1 is for measuring velocity, not growth. Velocity of money tends to better model the health of an economy than does GDP.
Microsoft is a software company first, and is supposed to only be in hardware for "aspirational" reasons. It doesn't seem clear what the Duo will encourage (Android) OEMs to "aspire" to, and at least from the announcements so far doesn't seem to give much reason for software innovations either. As a return to the smart phone market, it is hugely underwhelming for Microsoft's stated goals.
Toying with Statsd and Graphite
This hasn't been the case since the early 80s.

Edit: Yes, you can probably find some no-name pads with asbestos if you look hard. Nobody is selling them knowingly in the US or EU. There are definitively some pads/shoes from the far east that contain asbestos. They don't get purchased by the auto parts stores and big parts suppliers that supply the shops that change most of the countries brakes. They get sold to importers who don't care what they're made of who are selling them on Amazon/Ebay/etc to DIYers at bottom dollar prices. That is such a tiny slice of a tiny slice of all pads it's basically nonexistant.
2600 Magazine to start selling new issues in PDF
What keywords should I search for? "us vs europe management quality" didn't result in anything obvious.
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Honestly, I'm actually looking forward to VR headset just for this. If I can get rid of my multi-monitors with just 1 headset then not only will it be more portable but also give me more real estate.

Of course, the compromise in picture quality is still a deal breaker for me.
Fair. I concede the point, I guess I've been hiding a set of additional expectations under the term "cabbage salad" that's region-specific and also not explicitly stated in the name.

I admit that I'm just whining here (that's why I started the subthread saying I'm only half-serious about it). It's not the occasional new unique word that annoys me - just the impression that those new words seem to constantly pop out of nowhere, and half the time they are new names for some regular dishes.
In case anyone is interested

Great Big Story: The Vultureman of Spain (3m14s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQKaYUEknCU

"Manuel Aguilera wants you to know there’s no reason to fear vultures. The ornithological guide has gone as far as climbing into an animal carcass to get closer to the birds of prey. He’s spent 40 years studying the griffon vulture, and has dedicated his career to changing peoples’ perceptions of the birds, hoping to have others realize that they are majestic creatures to revere and protect."
That comment does start out with a meta criticism, but then it turns into a much better comment by saying something fun and interesting about the article, which gratifies curiosity in its own right.

The one about elk isn't irrelevant: it describes a comparable situation. Better still, it's based in personal experience. Anecdotes are fine—they're the life-blood of good conversation, and HN threads are supposed to be good conversations [1]. We're not doing peer-reviewed replication here.

That's perhaps the real problem with the comments you've been posting in this thread: they're bad for conversation because they're bilious. Bile is a bummer.

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It'll be needed eventually, if progress with the treatment continues, to quantify exactly how much of a difference it makes.

But say you've developed a treatment device for heart attacks. Untreated, let's say the death rate is 90%. With your treatment, the death rate is 20%. Even without running a controlled experiment where half the heart attack patients get the deactivated device, you can state pretty strongly that your device has better-than-placebo results.

In before "the placebo effect is real!" Well, sure it is. But it's most effective for subjective complaints, such as for pain relief, where the person's mental state is responsible for a large part of the experience. Placebos aren't so great for objective issues like "cardiac arteries are experiencing insufficient blood flow", "liver has cancer", or "patient has late stage Alzheimers".
Oops, thanks— clearly I’ve not been following things too closely!

(I think I wrongly assumed it wasn’t out yet since I hadn’t heard of a new ARM-based Surface release.)
I'm an experienced and hands-on product and engineering leader. I've led multiple high impact, productive teams at early-stage startups in both engineering and product capacities.

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last mainstream device i can recall in this form factor was the droid 2? I think it's been a while since a major one was released, but I could be wrong.
Presumably why fast-track Windows Insiders have been testing 20H1 for months already, if most of the platform guts have to go out in 20H1 for these devices to meet shipping goals.
I'd also be quite interested in knowing which queries are detected and whether different tools have any effect, but pretty sure that it's a black-box situation where something can be surmised only if the DPI is in the binary mode of ‘block/pass.’ IMO in fact there might be a gray zone of ‘mark this dude as suspicious’ with an unpleasant prospect of future non-digital trouble.
Because investors are happy to underwrite risky startups... recent article about about how many of their clients end up going out of business.
I do this all the time when I want the live scores but don't want to watch a game
Without sarcasm, what are "raybestos" brakes made out of then?

[edit]

Thanks all for the clarification.
OR: Boeing went through the a series of merger consolidations in aerospace that effectively destroyed their engineering culture, blew up their competition, monopolized their markets, and removed the need to innovate and then when they got caught on their ass by Airbus they made a half-baked airplane that killed hundreds of people.

See: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout
> In September 2018 the UK Labour Party proposed a policy for “Inclusive Ownership Funds,” which would require corporations with over 250 employees to ensure that employees receive dividends.

But most professional employees get an 'ownership stake' (shares) in the company as part of their compensation anyway.
>are you able to elaborate?

He must be taking pride in the fact that managers grind employees into dust in the US...US managers have overseen the removal of employee benefits like health insurance and pensions, managers have kept worker wages stagnant decade after decade...meanwhile worker efficiency is at record highs, profits are at at record highs, executive compensation is at all time highs, and there has never been a wider gap in executive compensation vs employee compensation.
Has Reductionism Run Its Course?
No matter what the story is, someone will always post the comment "In other news, water is wet" or "No news here, this has been known for 10 years" or something to that effect.

All bugs are shallow given enough eyeballs, I suppose.
I used to live in a small mountain village in the US, in the middle of a wilderness area. A mile or so around the village is not considered wilderness, and hunting is banned there. It's the largest group of people for miles and miles but the deer have no compunction about coming into the village. They even tend to come there to give birth. They know the hunters don't hunt there.
> everyone wants to live in CA

Except for the people who actually live in CA. They all want to live in Oregon, Colorado or Texas.
Using Eclipse, any jetbrains stuff, android studio, and xcode (even GNOME builder!) is super helpful for me. They have completion features, a robust set of build tools, and everything in one window with all the controls visible. I love the autocompletion, console, build environment, and when I think about the time it took me to get my .vimrc to where it is now, just for writing text and basic scripts, I shudder to think of how much I'd have to add to make it even close to something like Eclipse.

I am hobbyist programmer and a parent, so I don't get a lot of time to do programming these days. When I do I don't like fiddling my half-baked tmux/vim setup. I just wanna write code. So I use IDEs.
Setting up a private distributed storage network with IPFS
I was not referring to youtubers, I was simply attempting clarify the GP's statement.
I mean, going from 0 to $600M in a couple years may as well be overnight.
DeepMind Uses GANs to Convert Text to Speech
Talking to a foreign ATC is just too much of a hassle... :-)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
the entire team is 3 guys. The lead, a senior guy and me.

We all have tasks that are pretty independent of each other, so there's no real need to talk and there's not real oversight in the form of peer-review or testing.

Every now and then there will be glimpses of discussing issues. For the most part I work alone till someone asks me what I'm doing. I tell them what I'm doing and the say I should be working on something slightly different than what I've been doing.
im already on top of this new one! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21137596

ive given apple credit for the new iphone naming scheme, but the iphone x, xs, xr, x max, xs max naming conventions absolutely appear designed to confuse. i dont think air, nothing, pro are all that great either, with no suffix being the standard lowest end of the three. +, pro, max, etc all get used interchangeablyish. sometimes its Apple, sometimes its i (legal probably drove this dichotomy.)
More like one component per person.
Polled responses will be cached away at Google's Edge Cache. It's dumb on the client, but this scales practically without limit.
My parents live in an over 55 community in Arizona for half the year and let me tell you: you're fucking smart to be going after this demographic. They've got money, they've got time, they're way healthier and more active than their parents were at the same age.

I'm not sure lack of a community is a problem for my mom - she's way more social than my dad and has no problem making friends. That being said, I'll let her decide for herself whether or not she needs this. I sent her links to this comment thread and your homepage. My mom rules, and if she finds a great friend through your service - well!
I think a key difference between AOL and Facebook is that Facebook actually respects the threat of new competitors. if they feel sufficiently threatened, they will just buy the company. so Facebook the product could certainly die, but the company probably has enough money at this point to keep buying competitors in its space and profiting from their products.
It compares favorably to most New England ski resorts I have been to, but I have been told that West Coast ski resorts are much better than New England ones.
I think you're missing the point, for asians "being asian" has become a bad thing. You can't be smart and play piano and excel at tennis if you want to go to an ivy league, you have to do "non-asian" things. Isn't that crazy?