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Not everything modern is good or positive or even acceptable. JS is not uncontroversial, for good reasons, both technical and political via its influence on society.

Lamenting that it is used when there is no need for it seems reasonable to me. The grandparent even made an effort to not just offer destructive criticism but also constructive alternative approaches.
Apologies, but it feels so strange to me to see FreeDB framed as being "in competition" with anything. It was designed to do exactly one thing: continue a community-focused and technically-compatible version of CDDB after that project pulled a bait-and-switch in the late '90s by taking the data that was generously- and freely-submitted by users and then spinning themselves into the for-profit Gracenote LLC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#History

I'm sorry you found it unsustainable, but from what I can find about Daz it seems to have been pretty much the same idea as Gracenote: take the data submitted by users out of their desire to share alike, lock it up, and then commercialize it by putting a bunch of semi-related functionality around it. Assuming this link is the correct Daz, anyway, it talks about mp3 downloads, used CD shopping, artist exclusives, and other things I was always very glad FreeDB didn't want to be:

https://www.j-oe.nl/2011/06/development-of-daz-com-share-you...

"Visitors and members can search for all kinds of music related information and listen to ten thousands various samples. DAZ.com offers members a free mp3 to download every day (see homepage) and two RSS feeds: the free mp3 of the day and the updates from last 24 hours. Feel free to point your reader to this feeds.

In the near future we will add more community features, create a better user-interface and offer a second hand cd-spot. At the moment I am contacting with signed and unsigned artists to discuss ways of working together."
Stop stressing, mate. Since just not giving a fuck doesn't seem like quite an option for you, I'd do this (and have done this).

1. Go through, spend maybe 45 minutes (15-30 would be better) collecting specific things that are relevant to "now," out of those buckets. Forgot an entire category of thing? Too bad, it isn't that important _now_.

2. Then put everything else not collected, (don't start going through the shit again) into a a tarball (or whatever archive format you want).

3. Put that tarball onto a USB drive (or a couple for piece of mind), untar it once to make sure it works right so you feel "secure."

4. Then, and this is the important part, DELETE EVERYTHING you collected in the tarball (delete emails, bookmarks, erry' thing).

The noise and weight of just seeing it all there can make everything seem insurmountable. In fact, the noise will constantly get in the way of what is important, thereby putting more between you and whats important, causing even more noise until the loop spirals to where you are now.

You'll feel like a new person afterwards, within a day or two you'll probably be more productive and less stressed out than you have been in weeks. The reason being, is most of (if not all of at this point for ya) that electronic weight is expectations no one remembers or wants filled.

And don't forget the peace of mind from having all those forgotten expectations safely tucked away on a thumb drive... just in case.

Right now all this baggage is only preventing you from improving your work, improving your relationships, and improving your life.

Good luck, friend.

P.S. Its fun to go back through the drives years later when you re-discover them (you'll likely never use the drive after a week or two) and think "holy shit, I cannot even remember why I gave a fuck about any of this" as well as salvage a few forgotten gems.
A small number of reposts is ok—see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Two is a small number.
First, 22 billion Turkish lira investment coming from local billionaires/companies according to newspapers, not from states pocket.

The biggest problem of Turkish economy is the lack of gasoline and imported cars. The country pay $20B for gasoline and 76% of the gasoline consumed for cars (remaining percentage for airline and sea vehicles). They import over 500M cars every year. Probably $30B to $40B goes to imported cars (it would be over $100B including taxes)

These issues, makes the negative trade gap in the balance sheet.

Overall, seems producing electric car will help a lot for Turkish economy, and Turkey might pay it's debt very short period by this step.
I read Crime and Punishment after reading The Brothers Karamazov.

I found Crime and Punishment shallow in it's story and characters when compared to The Brothers Karamazov.
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Lots of languages have different assumptions about which edge cases you must handle or are handled automatically for you, or what restrictions you have. How do you account for a language which allows memory management or not? One that has higher- vs. lower-level threading APIs? These can be handled, but consider the complexity necessary to do so for only a single language. Then, imagine the thousands of other things you can't call to mind until you hit them as a crazy edge case trying to do this. While it may be theoretically possible, this means such a model is probably not the best tool to do this.
It sounds enticing, but I would need a few days advance notice to see my doctor.

I will ask, though.
Props for trying something new. Also the savings on bandwidth.
That sounds pretty good to me.

Funny story. Good references from one of my ex wives got me in bed with two of her friends. However, they didn't want me, just my sperm. But it was still fun.
Murray was citing the findings of a forensics team comprised of veteran members of the intelligence community.

There's two aspects to the time stamps. One is that based on the time stamps, the emails were all copied on Nov 7 2016 at rates of up to 49.1 megabytes per second.* This is fairly high for internet transfers. The other aspect is that the last modified timestamps of all emails and attachments were quantized to a 2 second granularity. This means this was not a hacked internet server to server transfer but was a copy to an intermediary drive that was formatted with the old FAT format.

The forensics show it wasn't a hack. No one competent in security or forensics would honestly come to that conclusion based on what is known. When coupled with Murray's testimony that he personally couriered the emails from a park near American University in DC back to Assange himself, it's curious Murray has not been subpoenaed to name the leaker, also it's curious the FBI had no interest in inspecting the DNC servers or drives.

* The wikipedia article deceptively misrepresents this as 49.1 megabits per second. Both its own sources explicitly say megabytes, and this is confirmable by examining the original data, which anyone competent can easily do themselves if they have doubts.
Be careful, if you haven't done this before or done much network programming it's easy to get weird issues with endienness. Check out the ntohs etc. macros.

IMO you should try to find a really simple computer to do first. The advantage here is you have other people's software to run which makes for a nice integration test. My first time I did the original apple and had it run the monitor program (which is nice you can just keep adding opcodes going up from the beginning of the program until it works.) For the Z80 I think maybe the ZX80 is the one where it was pretty much just a Z80, a ROM and SDRAM chip and some glue logic?
Diigo 2007
The 6 year graduation heavily differs based upon selectivity of the university in question. From one of the related tables linked in your source [0]:

> Graduating within 6 years after start, males and female

> 2011 starting cohort: 60.4%

> Open admissions: 30.7%

> >=90% accepted: 42.3%

> 75-89.9% accepted: 57.8%

> 50-74.9% accepted: 62.0%

> 25-49.9% accepted: 70.3%

> <25% accepted: 86.9%

[0]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_326.10.a...
It's ok for downvoting to express disagreement on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314.
You will find very few students eager to learn Pascal in 2019 as their first introductory language.

I say this as someone who grew up in the 90s with my father's Pascal textbook and a deep love for Turbo Pascal.
Props for building this! The online dating market is a complete mess. It's basically an oligopoly, and has a pretty obvious misalignment of incentives. Novel ideas and competition are sorely needed.

As regards all the brilliant psychologists here who are commenting "looks matter to most people!": it's not as though you will find every person you meet on ohmyperson unattractive. The issue is that meeting people you find attractive might happen less frequently than it would on eg Tinder. How much less frequently is an empirical question. It's worth noting that edited, filtered, selection-biased Tinder profile pics are not always useful. Sometimes they're worse than nothing. I've been on a bunch of internet dates in the past year, and half the time my date looks nothing like their photos. At least with ohmyperson I won't feel duped.

The problem I see with this model is that it might naturally lead to the situation where people develop a strong connection over messages and then feel disappointed when they meet IRL, only to find that they are incompatible for reasons of physical attraction. This happens sometimes and it's a real bummer. (It's for this reason that I think you should meet - or pass - after sending a couple messages, rather than having a protracted convo).

Just as the Tinder model provides a coarse grained filter for looks, I can see ohmyperson providing a coarse grained filter for interests, values, and relationship goals. Some apps (bumble, okc) have various filters for these sorts of attributes, but in my opinion none have really figured it out all that well.
I couldn't disagree more. I find continuous scrolling much worse for long texts.
> However if Apple is really privacy, they should put this option in wizard

I agree with you in theory, but read my point again. If everyone disabled it, then app developers would find a worse way (privacy wise) to accomplish the same goal.
I agree, I’m not the person arguing that.
it's more like a pathological workaround.

it's similar to people who spend years doing "hunt and peck" typing. if you practice enough, you can get up to a decent speed, but you would have been much better off taking a couple weeks to become a mediocre touch typist.
Peter Thiel has zero involvement with HN. What a strange thing to say.
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Ask HN: Should I shut down my startup?
here is the story:
I started working on my startup last january.
it's an ecommerce chatbot for selling on facebook, backed by crm/platform for managing orders and customers.

we are targeting the middle east.

As a single founder, launched in a private beta last march, and in 9 months I got 300+ sellers signed up with over 35000+ orders/mo.

I did all of this progress alone, with barely $600 all I put for my startup.
And I am running out of cash. I am working full time on this.

I can't find any investor to fund me.
I got rejected at every program I tried.
I got rejected for this startup at ycombinator twice.

I am running out of cash, and can't go on with the harsh and aggressive competition, as I have no money to spend on marketing!

I wonder if you suggest to just shutdown and get back to a regular job?
With numbers mentioned, is it considered a bad progress?

I am really tired and lost hope in getting funded.
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This was canceled at the point where Apple needed to commit to spending a lot of money to implement the design in silicon. I heard it was canceled because upcoming COTS processors looked like they are going to be faster and cheaper. (Source: I worked in a different part of Apple ATG and was talking with some of the people on the project.)
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Yup, I know. You just were pointing out the difference so I wanted to explain my POV further to clarify.
This is why I try to use old software. It has much less feature creep and will stay relevant for the long run. If you can compile it yourself, even better.
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Prices may go up if it goes through.

Prices may go down if we split telcoms into smaller companies that compete with each other.
I’ve had migraines since I was a kid and have been fortunate to have identified my triggers(caffeine/cacao) and found medication that works when one comes on.

I can’t imagine how awful it is for folks who have no respite and hope this treatment can provide some relief.
I'd like to give this a more thorough read, but so far this critique strikes me as done in bad faith. I read the book. I'm also in the middle of a biophys PhD, so I like to think my opinion is "extra super special". Here are my comments:

Point 1: the chart bottoms out at 7, which falls within the range the book recommends. I'm fairly sure he recommends 7-9, and that the required amt varies from person to person. Another thought I had: metabolism and longevity go hand and hand. I mean, I just read a brand new paper from George Church's Harvard lab, showing that they reversed several chronic ailments in mice by inserting FGF21, which regulates glucose levels. And sleep absolutely regulates metabolism. Personally, I'm keeping my ears perked up when it comes to metabolism/circadian rhythms/homeostasis, etc.

Point 2: Depression is an incredibly complicated topic. It is a psychological construct, the net result of thousands and thousands of genes, filtered through a modern technological world, and then filtered through inventories, interviews, and assessments. For this reason, I am not at all surprised that Guzey was able to find studies that suggest that sleep deprivation might have some benefit for some people. I would HIGHLY recommend this new, open-access Nature review paper covering the genome wide studies on depression: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-019-0450-5. Its almost not worth pitting a complex phenotype like depression against another complex behavior like depression. But what the hell, let's brush with broad strokes: the significant genetic variants associated with depression have to do with regulating homeostasis (eg sirtuins). So I would not be surprised if good sleep is at least correlated with low levels of depression.

Point 3: I know almost nothing about FFI, but we have kept mice awake, and they do eventually die. I'm pretty sure humans would die too, but ethics precludes us from performing such a study.

Points 4&5: This is just fussing about Walker's writing and WHO. I'll have to agree with Guzey that Walker's citations and consistency are often weak. And I honestly couldn't care less about WHO. But I'm pretty confident that sleep quantity has declined with time across the world. I remain curious about the connections between light and circadian rhythms (I think retinal cells go straight to the superchiasmatic nucleus, the circadian rhythm controller). Also, sugar is a thing in the modern world.

So yeah, I'm just frustrated by his nitpicking, and his seeming lack of appreciation for sleep as an open biological question. We don't know why we sleep, really. If anything, the title is the worst part of the book. But at least the contents respect the question. This criticism does not. Nonetheless, I am a sucker for obsessive bloggers (eg slatestar, gwern, cowen, etc), so I will definitely be checking out Guzey's other writing. It looks interesting.
have a handy note always tucked away into your body saying you are not a suicide risk, and don't intend to do so.
What’s the incentive for attractive people? Why would you voluntarily give up a competitive advantage in a highly competitive market? If you’re ugly like me this is great.
Agreed. Nexus also bundles access to Global Entry and TSA precheck at no extra cost -- a good investment for $50 over 5 years (works out to $10/yr!).

It's the best deal ever, not only for travel between U.S. and Canada, but also from any other destination to/from U.S. and Canada and within the U.S. and Canada domestically.

I travel regularly from U.S. to Europe and I get full GE and Precheck privileges through Nexus. I usually clear customs in less than 5 minutes as opposed to 1.5 hr line at larger airports like ATL.
This is basically what happened when Ok Cupid tried this as an experiment for one day. Long conversations were instantly abandoned.
That crosses into personal attack. Please don't. Please do follow the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
More disease happens from lack of proper gut bacterial environment than most realize, we seem to be finding out.
Does it really make sense to change the URL from a non-paywalled site to a paywalled one? The NYT version doesn't even load a hyperlink that I can use to read the Nature paper, while the hackaday site loads and I can follow links through to the paper and to NYT.
The same could be said about any closed source library, including the ones that ship with the macOS and Windows SDKs. There's no need to bash this particular project and sow doubt that it contains malware.

"I wish sources were available so I could understand more about the code I would be linking into my application, like I can with GTK and Qt."
$14.99 isn't really that much money when you factor in the time you'll spend reading a long book, but I guess people don't see it that way.
You're not kidding! I once worked with teams of field techs for a large american cellular operator who shall not be named. I'd have 3 or 4 teams in the field, and I was at a desk pulling marionette strings in the network for them.

To communicate with them, I was issued a cellphone (natch), and when I asked if there was a preferred way to juggle the multiple teams, my predecessor said "Just keep the calls short so you minimize the chances of having to put one on hold when another calls you."

"Can I set up a conference bridge and then have them all call into it?"

"Those are expensive. No."

So apparently everyone at this enormous phone company was still living in the 80s when teleconferencing was something you paid for. I called up a buddy who set up a private bridge on his asterisk box, and I gave that number to all my field techs. It was great, I could step away for a moment and come back to find one tech giving advice to another, and in the end my buddy made a few bucks on recip comp over the thousands of minutes we logged.

Did anyone else in the whole company know this was possible?
Hybrids are are good example of my point

The Toyota Prius have TERRIBLE resale value as the age largely due to the replacement costs of the batteries
> I guess a good portion of dates are disappointing anyway and there are even those that get catfished, so it's always worth trying something else out.

100%, well put
So just buy a large display. And sit closer.

Also makes it easier to watch DVDs and torrented stuff.
Good idea. I haven't uploaded to IA before, but it looks like I was able to do it. I put the software metadata attribute on the files, but other than that I wasn't sure of what other metadata to add if any.

The files that were mentioned above should now be available at https://archive.org/details/freedb

After uploading the files I noticed that there were some results on IA already for FreeDB, and one of the results is even a user named freedb which I guess might be an official account of the FreeDB people.
Focus on positive things.

Whats the current income ?

Why do you think you need to be funded ?

300+ active sellers sounds like great achievement!

Kudos
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth, geometric growth is exponential growth.
Do you think there is any place in the mathematical ecosystem, as a career, for mathematicians who do what "should be done", and not what they think they'll like to do? For some (faculty? consensus?) direction of "should be done"?
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Grumman LLV is the name for those white US-Mail trucks with the steering wheel on the wrong side. I didn't know that until now. Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV
> Search was terrible, integrations/automation were clunky, and it was difficult to post code into chat

Ok, so Slack solved #2 I feel and formerly solved #3 (but has regressed significantly in recent months). Not sure gaining #2 was worth the new negatives we got.
One of my favorite sights when I was commuting into Chicago - seeing a large section of switches a little North West of Oglivie lit on fire. I presume they use kerosene.
> I still look for two things: a/ great engineers/designers/product folks with deep empathy for problems people have, and b/ a real problem to solve.

That... sounds like just regular investing. Rather than trying to save the VC brand (which is already pretty tainted in entrepreneur circles), why not come up with another name and scale that?
> It should be noted that this research was likely published with a specific agenda in mind:

Just like the previous "study" which claimed everybody not part of the corporate media were alt-right.

These types of "research" are funded and run solely for an agenda. Primarily to push social media platforms to direct traffic to corporate media.

Also, radicalized is such an interesting word. If the saudis ran the exact same study with their definition of "radicals", I wonder how that would turn out? What if the chinese or the russians? Are their radicals the same as ours? Also, are the liberal elites' definition of radical the same as conservatives or the general population at large?

At the end of the day, it's all about "authorative" sources - an orwellian and creepy word if there ever was one.
I use the exact opposite approach.

My inbox is simply a message log. If I read something, I read something. If I don't, I don't. The number of unread will forever grow.

Things that need non-immediate follow up get snoozed.
The U.S. and Canada already have a growing infestation of wild pigs, descendants of European wild boars brought for hunting and domestic pigs that escaped.

If someone contaminates these wild pigs with African swine fever or foot and mouth disease they would endanger the domestic pigs from Canada to Mexico and the worldwide pork prices would skyrocket.

Canada and U.S. without bacon, that would be a cause for a revolution.
Anecdata, but my S5 is still working after...6-7 years I guess. My brother also has one and his works. My charging port broke so I have to remove the battery to charge it, but I have three batteries that I rotate between so this isn't a big deal. However it hasn't received a software update since 2017 (I am on T Mobile), so there are probably all kinds of security issues lurking.

It will, however, be the last Samsung phone I buy.
Wrong guy is wrong.

It is possible to speed-read TFA with no loss of comprehension, because it is information-light. Most things available to read are, and when you are obliged to look at them, often a glance at each paragraph tells you all you need to know.

Things that are really worth reading are information-dense. Then, the time to think about what is presented dominates, and the time to take in words is negligible. Sub-vocalizing can aid comprehension by slowing you down, and by providing additional information via the rhythm of the presentation.

The last book I read by Robert Sapolsky took me 30-60 minutes for each of the last 30 pages, because they were tying together all the material in the rest of the book, and really gave full value for those minutes.

So, speed read what you must read, but choose material that delivers for careful study, and read it as slowly as it deserves.
The choice is to use Slack or not. It's their service to offer how they wish, and your choice to use it or not. Tesla doesn't have to make a manual transmission (equivalent) car just because I'd rather drive stick, but I just won't drive a Tesla then.