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Hi Crucio! Lorenzo from Quell here.

We're improving the gameplay every day, and with Kickstarter funding we'll be able to really bring it to the next level. We absolutely think it's key to have fast reaction times :)

We're really interesting in opening the platform up to developers, including for modding!

Regarding the resistance bands: we've tried a wide range of different positions for the bands, and we're happy to say that the current design provides really effective muscle training. But I totally see your point, and we'll be constantly looking to improve our Gauntlet Wearable with even more resistance!

Thank you for your feedback :)
CypherPunkLabs
That is a magnificent explanation. Well done.
This is just a press release and I haven't read the full paper, but from this top-level summary it seems like it could also be construed as "toddlers who have a higher exposure to touchscreens are better at using touchscreens later on." This feels like it could just be a function of practice, or perhaps familiarity with computers (not sure whether they controlled for computer use - did the "non-touchscreen" kids use computing devices in general as much as the "touchscreen" kids?), not attention necessarily.
We're talking about culture in tech, probably relatable:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rlmnptRyRWi6w73x-blasw
Something similar was commented below. These figures are not comparable, as GDP is "collected" every year. Revenue for Apple sits at 260B$, which is closer to the GDP of Vietnam.
Open Source HTML5 and JavaScript Games
Yeah when you gain 59% in value in a single year during a pandemic that will do it.

Bezos net worth has also gone up 80B (to 190B, even after a divorce haha). Musk up 60B while Tesla has a what, 900 PE ratio? Zuck up 20+B. The pandemic has served our tech overlords well.
Are you really offering an easy setup to the senior devops person? I'm sure they can figure things out.
Copyright is irrelevant also because you are not redistributing the program to those users (and possibly not at all).

Yet, the copyright law is what the AGPL is trying to wield as its basis.

It does not seem valid. Has anyone tested it in court?

I don't think that copyright can assert use restrictions. You cannot say that someone is not authorized to have a copy of something if they do not use it in such and such a way.

It's exactly like a "license" written in the flap of a book which says that you must read only the even-numbered pages. If you read any odd-numbered page, then you are breaching the license under which you're permitted to have a copy, and must destroy the book.

I would cheerfully deploy a modified AGPL program and not reveal the code to anyone. Nothing would happen at all.

I'm surprised Google are so allergic to the AGPL. If it came down to it, they could crush this bullshit in court like swatting a mosquito.
If the President of the USA told a US gas company to buy TikTok they would buy TikTok. That's the business need.
Brain, with a USB Port in It
When you reach a certain scale, you will verify the tools which are running on the machines of your employees.

I'm not seeing a problem with it and my default stack is not that big: chrome, intellij, shell etc. it is reasonable and someone has to do it.
Comparing income (GDP) vs. assets/market cap isn't really a meaningful comparison, here, as they're fundamentally different things.
To be clear, they don't continue to search the cellars as an actual security measure. It's purely ceremonial and done as part of the traditions around opening Parliament for a new session. Hence the oil lanterns and swords.

They also (ceremonially) hold a member of the Commons "hostage" while the Queen is in Parliament to ensure her safe return.
For this little gain, at what cost to the future growth of the kid? Attention span? Ability to focus on anything other than small screens? Social ability? This research should really address the pro/con for the kid in the long run rather than just benefit of finding target using their fingers.
Anyone who has came up with a plan to fix our economy deserves a merit.
To some extent Tesla could be Starlink's AWS. Every Tesla user could be a potential starlink customer. Could we even imagine a more efficient data collection?
I would again suggest reading and thinking about Keens much more extensive treatment of the topic. We aren't going to make much progress here.
Harder to block ads in the app.
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GitHub coming online. First guide:

https://github.com/CypherpunkLabs/ExitRelay

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/cypherpunklabs/status/129610493151932416...
Appeal to tradition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
I really like this approach (and I tend to do this myself), but lots of people get really upset.

PG wrote an essay recently in which he talks about “aggressive conformists” and “aggressive non-conformists”. You’re right in that being an aggressive non-conformist at a big company likely (though not definitely) won’t get you fired, but it certainly will rankle the aggressive conformists and not make you many friends from that group. And that may or may not be really bad for your career.
Spain, Yes

Italy, No
I like to turn these over-produced mandatory training exercises into speed-runs, posting my results to internal chat.
This is a really great list. I'm currently about midway through a very similar list that I arrived at through trial and error. It would've saved me a lot of time to have seen this a couple of years ago :).

I've got a couple additional suggestions/pieces of advice: First, if Calculus on Manifolds is too advanced Munkres's Analysis on Manifolds is very good and covers mostly the same material. Second if you are shaky on trigonometry it's worth taking a couple of days to relearn it since trig identities and manipulations are used all the time. It makes you feel a bit stupid to review stuff you probably learned in middle school but if you're like me and hadn't used this stuff in years the review will save you lots of time down the road. Third, get used to working problems. It's easy to fool yourself into thinking you understand something because you can follow the worked examples, but you can't actually apply it. I try to do at least a few exercises from each chapter. Shankar's QM book is awesome because the exercises are interspersed with the text, so doing them as you get to them really helps you understand the material. I wish more textbooks had this format.
Because there's some product manager somewhere with a line on a spreadsheet called "Mobile App Engagement" and their career status depends on that number going up.
Does anyone know if tiktok has any patents or potential patents that oracle can leverage? That's even more scary to me.
Because the US Post Office couldn't handle even a Christmas rush of cards and packages. One ballot per person per year will absolutely crash that system.
> I mean that RawTherapee and Darktable don't use the same code as each other at all. The instructions (usually sidecar files) the tell each program what to do to generate the output are completely incompatible.

I'll be honest, this is probably the most ridiculous argument against anything I've ever heard on hacker news. This is like saying C/gcc sucks because Javascript exists. What the fuck?

> I'd expect this to be the case with any good photo developer, but it doesn't pay to take chances. There have been significant bugs in the past with DNG files, for example, and different bugs could be introduced in the future, or bugs you didn't know about could be fixed, and so on. There's a lot of stuff that could go wrong. It's good to be able to just tar the source code.

So... it's a non issue? I don't even...
Only the envious care. They try to justify it by conflating poverty with inequality.
from website: WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.

asm.js
an extraordinarily optimizable, low-level subset of JavaScript
http://asmjs.org/

so, IMO WebAssembly is not a stripped down version of asm.js even if they sold it as that to js devs to foster adoption
An attempt at an easy to understand monad guide
If it wasn't obvious, I'm talking about changing the FDA's mandate to nationalize drug R&D, while contracting the work out to private entites. I would actually require those entities to operate as non-profits too, in order to receive FDA contracts.

If other agencies are a better fit for various parts of this plan, I'd do some reorganizing to bring them into a single organization. Maybe that's called FDA, maybe not. It would definitely be doing the FDA's current role in drug approval.
This is not exactly a direct answer, but I've really enjoyed clicking through this expansive guide to electronic music:

https://music.ishkur.com/
I've been happy with my Nvidia Shield, which so far has not received this update. The HTPC that it replaced ran on Ubuntu and automatically booted into Kodi. This worked okay, but having the hardware setup to support the latest audio/video features (eg. HDR, Dolby Vision, Atmos) can be a frustrating experience. The Shield has been great because it "just works", and also makes it easy to switch between streaming services and local media. So depending on your viewing habits, and must-have features, it can be very difficult or impossible to replicate the experience.
It is. Farmbot, System76, LeTote, some naval systems, etc etc.

Frank do a good overview of "known" projects in the second part of this talk https://youtu.be/bkLABs04k5o?t=1173
Have you ever spent serious time actually living in a developing country? Do you truly believe California, the richest state in the US, is on par with a developing country because of their high DMV fees? Please think of those living in truly oppressive situations, or in brutal poverty, before making such generalizations.
Why does every popular "Ask HN"-Post receive so many reports?
> Yes you're expected to register a trademark in each country where you're conducting business.

Generally speaking, you don't need to register a trademark to do business. Many (most?) businesses don't register their trade marks. Walk down to your local main street and likely many of the shops there are operating under marks that are unregistered.

Trademarks are useful to have an official record of your use of that mark in the case of a dispute with another company at a later point in time.
It's kinda obvious that the few people who'd gain from net neutrality are proponents of it. My point of course, was about the 99,999% (or so) other people.
What's equally absurd is that I assumed they ruined the web experience with their redesign in order to make it mobile compatible. It just goes to show they're ruining both web and mobile experience to pigeonhole users into environments where they can force feedback loops of their users so they have to spend more time in either platform.
so apple added $1t market cap in just 24 months, did apple actually created $1t value in any way or form to justify that $1t market cap increase?
We live in a digital age. It's better to help kids learn to navigate technology effectively then pretend that it doesn't exist. And one of the huge advantages is they have access to the best educational programming available at the tap of a finger. Rather than wait for a teacher to teach them, they can follow their own natural curiosity to learn whatever interests them in a given moment. A challenge with technology is that it can become more of entertainment and stop kids from thinking for themselves (same for adults)! I find it helpful to sometimes engage with my child when they're watching TV to nurture our own connection and also encourage him to think critically. Sometimes he yells at me and then I go away;) But hey, I do the same when someone interrupts me when I'm trying to work! It's also often a nice bonding experience. Generally after an hour or so my child asks to play at the park. When I don't tell him he can't watch TV, TV loses it's charge, so his natural desire to get a break from digital media is able to rise up in him without me forcing me to go away from it.
If I'm not mistaken there are still lots of 100$ plots on HemNet with the same requirements.
I used to think it's a good idea to ditch cars and use public transport and bikes, but now I don't think I want to ever use public transport again. The personal car is a protection shield against infection, and for that reason I think many people will turn back to them.
Nokia Could Stop Mercedes from Selling Cars in Germany: Lawsuit
I think he means headlines from the 90s.
Company has their office under control but not yours. Doesn't matter if you think your office is more secure. Mine has access control.

Also we are not talking about the person who is really smart about it we talk about the avg person. There are plenty of stories of laptops being stolen in coffee shops or from a train.

And its also a Network thing. Do i want you to be able to pull/push something into my corp network fromyour home network?
right, but then understand that if someone wants to create a software for which a goal is to be packaged & distributed by e.g. Debian, homebrew, msys2, Fedora, CentOS..., this is an absolute non-starter.
Exactly Once Delivery and Transactional Messaging in Kafka (2017)
> With the app, you can not only send notifications, but you also have the app icon which reminds people of the apps existence.

This is exactly why I don't want to install the app. All of these things seem designed to steal my attention and direct it towards stuff others want me to focus on rather than what I want to focus on.

While having a mobile App store is probably a net good, in a lot of ways I wish Steve Jobs' initial vision of having the iPhone run WebApps and just improving the OS level support for improved hooks and functionality with actual websites was the way the world went.

The apps would never have gotten as good and stuff like Uber might never have happened. But it also would have kept Facebook and Reddit and all these other sites focused on making you visit because you want to visit rather than because you're being skinner boxed and nudged into visiting by overbearing tracking technologies.
I believe 30 doublings are about a billion. The poster is referring to a "Trillion".
Natural Language Processing Research Papers Decoded
Fair enough. I haven’t had that experience yet because I’ve been working through the first party titles like Zelda and Mario.
If anything, the comparison drives home how big the US's military is.
Show HN: Outpost – Collaborative Email for Teams
What put you off about the Advantage 2?
r/mobileweb is the “official” subreddit for the mobile interface, yet it’s filled full of complaints that go completely ignored.

Try the legacy mobile website https://i.reddit.com/ there’s no thumbnail view but otherwise it’s much faster and less annoying.
KDE has a tv environment. I’m not sure how good it is though, I use an Apple TV.

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

https://dot.kde.org/2020/03/26/plasma-tv-presenting-plasma-b...
Hi HN!

I’ve been working on Outpost (https://www.teamoutpost.com) for a couple of years now - it’s a shared inbox tool for teams that manage email addresses like info@, sales@, or support@. It has collaborative features like assignments, notes, saved template responses, etc.

We launched it as an MVP in 2018 and started getting great feedback from users about how to make it better. A couple weeks ago we hit a huge milestone: we got our companion mobile app approved in the App Store.

I work on the marketing team, and it’s been a really rewarding journey working with our smaller team of developers to build a tool like this that can compete with other tools in the market. We’ve spent a lot of time talking to our users and developing features based on their requests.

Outpost is a web app that syncs directly with Gmail or Office 365 via IMAP, and connects to other mail providers via forwarding and SMTP. If users don’t have a mail provider, we also provide free email hosting.

We built the iOS app earlier this year, and are working on the Android version right now. We weren’t really sure what to expect when submitting the mobile app to the App Store, especially given some other product’s recent experiences, but we were able to get approved in about a week. That was a huge relief, and we’re really excited to keep moving forward.

I’m happy to answer your questions, or you can check it out for free and let me know what you think of it. Thanks for taking a look!
Notre Dame enacts two weeks of remote instruction
The semiconductor value stream will be huge! W/O that, I've always considered Apple to be one phone competitor's pivot away from being obsolete.
I paid good money for a Nvidia Shield in part because I liked the simple interface. Would you like it if in the next Android update you had "trending stuff" occupying a third of your smartphone home screen?

I wouldn't mind it if it were optional, but it seems that it will not be.
Arizona has "authorized 3rd party" providers who can do 90% what the DMV does. They charge a "convenience fee" but is totally worth it since there is never a line and they are all over the place. It seems to strike a good balance between private/public operations.

https://azdot.gov/motor-vehicles/mvd-hours-and-locations/aut...
In theory it is not sold to the public. In practice, it isn't hard for motivated members of the public to figure out how to get access.

I personally know someone who was a victim of stalking back in the 90s. Her stalker managed to find out where she lived by getting it from the California DMV. The only way she found to block it was to move and have her car owned by someone else so that there would be no DMV record.

The result is that while this is not new, it really should be a story.
Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
FYI, you probably meant "empathetic", not "emphatic".
After I listened to the podcast Conversations with Tyler interview music writer Ted Gioia [0] (one of the topics: "how to cultivate excellent taste in music") I would have to say a good place to start is read books by him, follow him on Twitter. He seems to have the well-roundedness, the breadth and the intelligence to be a good ad-hoc guide to the world of music.

[0] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ted-gioia/
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The headline and article
specify “U.S.”, but isn’t this true for any company in the world throughout history?

Honest question.
This is something Comma, the IDE for the Raku Programming Language, also does: https://commaide.com
Plex, that's a good idea. I tried it on my QNAP NAS and the connector is too old to be useful (couldn't get https to work reliably and opening a port to the outside world just wouldn't work). What are you streaming from?
No. Facebook already had a history of lying by 2014.
Drugs are not somehow different from any other type of product. All products have some level of risk to the consumer, and may or may not do what they're advertised to do.

The Car & Truck Administration (CTA) approval process
ensures both that cars and trucks perform an intended
function, and that cars and trucks don't harm people.
Part of the expense of this process is making sure that
both of these aspects are performed to sufficient
standards.

And yet, we don't seem to need an FDA of cars and trucks costing auto manufacturers $1.4B to develop a new car, and our cars don't explode and kill us. The reason? A car maker who makes unsafe cars goes out of business. Consider Ralph Nader's "Unsafe At Any Speed" did to the Corvair corporation.
I've been using Sync (formerly Reddit Sync) on Android for quite a few years and love it. I paid for the Pro version (only US$3.99 one time payment) a while back. I turn off almost all notifications (do this for like 90% of apps anyways) and I only use it when I want to, not when I'm being asked to. It's very customizable.

I'm just waiting for the day that Reddit decides to lock down their API enough to hurt all third party apps and force people onto theirs.

Free version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda...

One time payment version to remove ads
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda...
Apple succeeded because they managed to do something that was previously unimaginable in business theory - create a mass-market luxury good. A well taught theory in business school is Porter's general theory, which was to create a sustainable competitive advantage you either competed on differentiation or cost, and if we did something in the middle, you would die.

Apple managed to create a luxury product - the iPhone (differentiation) at mass-market scale (low cost base) which has driven the majority of their profitability since it's launch.
Which is a good metaphor for the success of Reddit as a company.
There's a lot they won't get from a six-month program, like writing and other soft skills. (Not that a lot of four-year degrees really end up doing a good job of teaching those, either.)

I'm very interested in Signum University's program to focus specifically on these[1], at a cost higher than a MOOC since it involves a lot of interaction with a human being, but still much lower than a four year degree. Between the two it might just be possible to actually get T-shaped education without the distressingly high cost of a traditional diploma.

Then we just need to get people to actually hire them, instead of taking the easy path of requiring a four-year degree as a proxy for education.

[1] https://path.signumuniversity.org/badges/
This feedback is great, thank you so much for sharing!

I agree about the rhythm section and some of the menu downtime. As for the sweating, any game in the fitness space needs to recognise this! We're making sure the Gauntlet can be washed just like any fitness kit should be for this exact reason!
Gmail was down for most of last week
And yet, life will go on.
"12-month-old infants who had different levels of touchscreen usage"

Why the fuck would you have infants with 'levels of touchscreen usage' at 12 month?
Looks like a catchup feature to Apple Maps. Traffic signs must be next.
Exactly this ,please. I need something like this ASAP. And I would have bought Quell, but I am afraid shipping to my country would be expensive and problematic.
This is a shamefully clickbatey title from the University press office!

To quote the article, "...We are currently unable to conclude that the touchscreen use caused the differences in attention".
I haven’t read the paper. But if the researchers were bringing in children regularly for testing involving eye tracking equipment, why not also test their ability to manipulate physical objects, recognize faces, and track faces? That all seems like low hanging fruit.
Because my home is in Rome in Trastevere neighborhood?
Pharmaceutical companies have every incentive to make their drugs safe, because if their drugs hurt people, the drugs will not sell.

Many drugs have passed FDA approval but later killed people. If the FDA were a private company, it might have gone out of business. But as a government monopoly, it's very hard to stop paying for. Between pharma companies, the government, and individual patients, the FDA has the least stake in the health of a particular patient.

UL is an example of a non-government organization that offers product safety certification. You see the UL seal on most consumer electric appliances. Imagine an FDA seal.

Drugs are not magical or special. They are a product like any other, and it is the consumer's right to choose a doctor, and for that doctor to choose proper medication. We regularly choose the best mechanics, plumbers, and other specialists we can find, and their reputation is partly a function of the type and quality of the parts and tools they use.
No offense, but from what I know that is exactly what an anecdote is. As for your claim about the mafia, I have no idea personally but good thing you mentioned it.