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You're right, this is a long way from Nielsen ratings. Online media is definitely not cable.

What the NYT is offering is no different than what Facebook or Google is offering. You're paying with your personal information to consume their service. If you don't like the terms, then you're free to simply not use their service. I believe that's fair.

Why are we entitled otherwise?

That's kind of tricky, because wouldn't that expose business data to competitors?

I'm not sure we're entitled to that right as a user. The NYT is providing us content in exchange for analytics on how we use their site or respond to their advertising. As a user we're free to not buy what they're selling.

Learn how to touch type.

I've worked with many programmers who don't know how to touch type. Anyone who uses a keyboard for more than an hour a day should learn to. It only takes about 2 weeks to learn all the keys, but it's a skill that'll save you thousands of hours throughout your entire career.

It completely baffles me that some developers haven't learned this basic skill. I've heard the argument that thinking is more important than typing. I counter that by saying if you learn to touch type, then it's easier to get into "flow" and your resistance to writing code drops pretty quickly.

Watching this is really heartwarming. It's inspiring to see young talented minds directed towards curiosity and engineering while also sharing the fruits of their labor for everyone else to benefit. Kudos to the team!

I've got a really naive/dumb question for you.

Could you use a CPAP machine as a poor man's ventilator? Would it be better than nothing?

There's definitely a ton of CPAP machines out there.

> These are simple tactics that every country should be utilizing.

Although simple, they have a large socio-economic impact.

There're many of us who are privileged enough to not work for a short period of time, but a large number of people can't afford that.

Is it worthwhile to shut-down schools before any reported cases? What if we encouraged those who are most vulnerable to quarantine themselves while the healthy population develops herd immunity?

I think the heavy-handed response is partially based on the notion that the virus can be contained. It cannot. It will continue to spread, if not in your own country it will in others around the globe. Viruses don't respect borders.

If we assume a that the spread cannot be stopped, then a better approach could be to maximize herd immunity while minimizing overall deaths and severe cases?

Most vaccines take 1.5 to 2 years to develop. By then most of the population will have been infected by it and will develop a natural immunity or resistance to it.

By buying a "put" he is wagering that the price will fall.

The more the market crashes, the higher the value of the put.

I used to do this too. You know instead of cold-turkey with withdrawal symptoms you can just gradually lower your intake.

On the first day or of the break I'll just drink half the amount I normally drink. Then by day 2 I'll drink a third. Probably nicer to ease into it.

I'm Vietnamese and I was born and still live in Canada. My body has adapted to the cold quite well and I prefer it over the summer heat. This makes me feel that ancestry is not a part of cold resistance.

I doubt it's a chicken/egg problem.

There's too much evidence that our obesity problem is caused by excess caloric intake.

Mentally and physically human beings are "anti-fragile". Applying the right amount of load and stress to ourselves we become less fragile.

Too little and we don't grow. Too much and we break. Do something uncomfortable. Fail a few times. That will make you more resilient.

IQ is probably one of the closest tools we have to measuring intelligence, at least in terms of a person's ability to process information and reason about it.

IQ is not intelligence, but it's the closest thing to approximate it for certain cognitive aspects.

Using print is sometimes superior to pdb. If you want to quickly see how the program runs without stepping through each line print is justified. This looks like an evolved print. Nice tool!

> this kind of a project is corporation knocks to your door and offers a pile of cash you can't reject

I hope that actually does happen for Ivan. Wouldn't that be a great outcome for him? He spent a considerable amount of time on it.

> Is that an efficient use of their time in terms of creating value for each other?

Yes. Value is largely subjective. This underpins supply and demand. Things that are in demand are valuable to us, and what's in demand is often subjective.

So although you or someone else may not value things like Snapchat or Facebook, society in the aggregate does. Much in the same way that gold, bitcoin, or a rare painting is "valuable". It's valuable because someone is willing to pay for it.

Case sensitivity does already exist, it's just turned off by default.

The antagonist was a huge disappointment for me.

Spoiler: In the original the antagonist is basically the singularity, a new form of life born from code. In the remake? Oh, her ex boyfriend.

Exactly.

The total running time of the remake was more than the original movie, yet somehow said a lot less. Aside from the visuals, the movie was embarassingly mediocre.

If you're wondering why you're so downvoted, your reply of "Nope." is at best lacking of any substance in a discussion and at worst offensive.

Spoiler alert: Not only that, but making the "Puppet Master" Kusanagi's ex boyfriend is so cringe-worthy.

I started getting into weightlifting this past year, and doing deadlifts has always scared me.

I still do them, and try to do them with proper form, but it's always in the back of my mind that I might hurt my back due to the load.

Could you give me more detail on how you hurt your back? How heavy of a load was it? Was it during a deadlift?

I don't see a Linux version on there. Does anyone know when/if Google will provide one?

You have to start somewhere.

Moving manufacturing and infrastructure from "dirty" to "green" is a transition process. It's infeasible to modify the entire supply chain to be non-renewable in one shot.

The entire world's economy is incredibly intertwined. The entire manufacturing stack won't be purely renewable until the entire world is running on renewable energy.

Can you pair a Wii controller to it to act as a controller extender?

It really depends on the amount of snow and type of snow. Where I live in Canada, we get enough snow that AWD > snow tires. Given enough snow, or conditions, even snow tires will get stuck. Having power on all 4 wheels really does give superior traction in those situations.

It sounds like you're extremely talented as a programmer. Hang in there, someone will get lucky and pick you up!

One thing that I am disappointed in is that I wish the Liberal government first decriminalized marijuana.

For one thing, decriminalization is easy to do. Simply revoke the current criminal laws. The bill would be passed quite quickly. Which would then buy time to figure out a bill for legalization.

Why is this important? Despite popular belief, simple possession laws ARE upheld in Canada, but the people charged are disproportionately minorities and poor/homeless people. IIRC, there were 40 000+ criminal charges for simple possession last year in Canada. That means thousands of citizens who are now burdened with a criminal record, making job searches difficult and border crossings into the US.

So while laws for legalizing pot are getting figured out in Parliament, more people keep getting locked up for simple possession.

This comment is slightly grayed, meaning it has some number of downvotes to it. But it doesn't violate any of the HN rules.

It feels like this was down-voted by those who disagree with the content. Such a sad state for hacker news.

The only problem with this is that ad blocking is kind of indiscriminate. There are obviously obnoxious ads out there, those that use popups, use audio, video, or dialog boxes that block out the main content.

But on the other hand, there are non-intrusive ads that are text or simple image based ones. Those ads get hit in the cross-fire of ad-blocking.

Most of the sites that are producing content charge nothing from the user except for in the form of advertising. That's not a big ask most of the time.

It's like Google providing this amazing service, of cataloging and indexing THE ENTIRE INTERNET and providing relevant and fast search results to everyone, and all they ask is that users are displayed simple text ads. It's not a big ask for the service they provide.

I realize you can whitelist sites with ad-block. BUT, if you are going to a webpage to read and ingest content, I would argue that morally the transaction is to disable ad-block to view the content.