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Should I create this folder or install brew now? I've been thinking about installing it on my macbook and doing some development on it but haven't yet. Last night it told me the OSX update was available. Which order should I do this? Or should I just not put brew in /usr/local ??
Yes, of course, that's exactly what I mean. Sheesh.
Yes correct, I actully lived in EC1V, there are not a lot of businesses there. But there a whole lot of businesses all over the UK registered with a 'registered office address' with https://www.yourvirtualofficelondon.co.uk/ . Including me when I was running my own company (contracting business, rental agreement where I lived forbade using address as registered office address).
London's financial markets are notoriously unregulated since 1986. They mention the Big Bang frequently throughout the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_(financial_markets)
Isn't using the word "bubble" against official HN rules?
That is why I said I searched and got the standard for the person who said "certainly it isn't the standard." We have the ultimate resource to know the answer to any question that does have an answer.

I gave this down voted "I googled it for you" because people need to just look up what the Standard is and than speak from a position of knowledge and not some vague non-answer.

For the still lazy the Unix File Hierarchy Standard for /usr

/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere.

Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the /usr hierarchy.
It should be even worse in London, where outside of the very center most buildings are single family houses (with garden!), unlike most other European capitals, where the most common living spaces are flats in high rise buildings.
It didn't happen by accident, but rather because he "(looks) at both visible light and infrared light and based on how different materials absorb light, (he) can compare that with the laboratory data and make some inference about what kind of materials are present.", and before that because he learned the required stuff to end up doing this.
Fuck yes or no
Ask HN: Great personal portfolios on GitHub Pages?
Just looking for design references, thanks.
"Windows & Mac - Transpose works on all kinds of desktops."

Are there native clients? The screenshots appear to show a web interface.

Evernote's clients are a selling point for me personally.
Exactly, and most of them are out of a job right now. Employment opportunities as Pigeon-Of-Piece have gone down drastically over the past couple of years. The Pigeon-as-a-Service industry has an opportunity here to step up in the name of social responsibility and do its share to increase and distribute wealth in one of the most ignored sectors of the populace.
Typically most real world gears vary in teeth shape. I mean among the gear pairs. Some are more pointy and some more round. What we see here is probably optimum teeth form.

I have done some calculations about them. But the manual I used was so vague about everything that I can't honestly say why and how for certain. My current understanding is that first you select gear ratio, then you get somewhat good nominal distance for the axels, and then you adjust teeth shape to accommodate all that.
"People" in the 5th Amendment means "people", not citizens; 5th Amendment protections are not limited to citizens.

But note that it has no explicit warrant requirement; just a reasonableness requirement and a limit on when warrants shall issue. It's read as implicitly requiring warrants in most cases for reasonableness, but there are plenty of exceptions.
London Underground Rent Map
Never use a rouge IP. They're red for a reason, man.
Making the invisible visible, npm module versions
I honestly can't tell if this is a joke or not...
Oh no! The horror of unwanted employment possibilities! If they're such a problem you can forward them to me.
Jesus, he's either good or crazy. But given anaesthetists salary in Australia he can probably work part time quite easily.
Financial wit is a killer definitely. A lot of people spend a lot of money on things that they don't need then complain about their life collapsing around them. I've done this before and spent 5 years digging myself out of it. Everything I'm saying is because I've learned about it the hard way.

I'm glad to say that they teach this in secondary schools now. I have hope for the younger generations.
So, why do people want to fight in the first place? Is any natural inclination all bad? If we level up in perspective from that of personal tragedy, is war an important force of evolution and largely responsible for the place we are at now?

I realize technology changes the equation. And human suffering and destruction are never pleasant. So hopefully we are wise enough to find other ways and I think we will eventually. But I think in order to do this, we have to honestly admit that war has had an important role in human relations and development and the some of the outcomes of war have been for the betterment of humanity.
I definitely recommend installing El Capitan first, followed by Homebrew. That will lead to less possibility of the upgrade screwing with your Homebrew installation.
One reason is that "rare" earths aren't really that rare, what's rare is First World countries that are willing to tolerate the mess of refining them, which roughly entails boiling the ore in acid a thousand times. What was even rarer was a willingness to sell them at a loss when the PRC was selling them cheaply, before they established export quotas and the world market prices for them reversed.

See e.g. this article from 2011 which looks accurate to me: http://fortune.com/2011/11/18/molycorps-1-billion-rare-earth...

As far as I know, the PRC doesn't have a long term monopoly on anything but the largest concentration of Han Chinese in the world, which is of course rather worthwhile.
No, the problem is that Japanese who study english are taught to pronounce English using Japanese kana instead of something like IPA-like transcription. Not that they are physically unable to separately say "t" (this can be easily disproven by an example of Japanese person who speaks English fluently, which clearly exist). Moreover, spoken Japanese does contain individual consonants, for example the quoting particle って (t-te) in the beginning of the sentence, or stuttering "t-t-temee-e-e!".
The regulation was optimized for making the normal case as efficient as possible, not for mitigating the worst case.
For an entertaining view of the issue, there's Yes, Prime Minister - A Conflict of Interests. An excerpt:

- Yes, well, they lent a bit of money to the wrong chaps. Could happen
to anyone.
- You haven't heard rumours?
- There are always rumours.
- Of bribery? Embezzlement? Misappropriation? Insider dealing?
- Dear lady, those are strong words.
- So they're not true?
- Well, er, there are different... er... different ways of looking at things.
- What's a different way of looking at embezzlement?
- If a chap embezzles, you have to do something.
- Have a serious word with him?
- Absolutely. Usually it's just a chap who's advanced himself a short-term,
unauthorised, unsecured temporary loan from the company's account and
invested it unluckily.
Yep. I was just going to correct them on this:

>> In our system the cathode is a cylindrical rod of conducting material that we choose to use as fuel (eg magnesium, vanadium etc).

This is wrong. They are using it as propellant, not fuel.
Most Mac users will never need to do this, and the short reboot cycle is, to many, worth the extra security rootless brings. It's hardly WTF.
The biggest takeaway from their chart is that culture clash leads to war and bigger, more powerful countries have more noticeable wars. In addition, their chart of things that didn't result in war is mostly inaccurate.

Japan vs USSR was never actually a real idea because Japan didn't have an army. USSR knew the actual battle would be against the USA.

USA vs UK never existed because there wasn't a culture clash (and their focus of power was a bit different).

UK, Germany, and France don't clash today because their cultures are closer than they've ever been and because they perceive a shared foreign threat in Asia.

Thus we're left with the only war that never happened being USA vs USSR -- a war that didn't happen due to self-preservation.

It seems most probable that USA vs China fits into the same category as USA vs USSR where self-preservation will keep war from actually happening. I don't think any reasonable person trusts a losing government to NOT use weapons of mass destruction -- especially when the first one to use them wins. It's easier to get forgiveness than permission (that happens when you're the last superpower standing).
will it scale?
I live in a rural part of France, use OS X, Ruby/Elixir, I'm not working for any SV startup, and indeed what the OP describes in one of my favorite things in HN!
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It is if by manually managed we mean _not managed by the system/OS, and not updated without user interaction_. If you update OSX and you had homebrew binaries in /usr/bin, they'd be gone. Homebrew also won't you that there are updates and never updates packages unless you decide to get a new version.
In part I agree fully with the notion that nation trade intel in order to bypass domestic restrictions, but state sponsored industry espionage has also recently seen an increase (if you go by number of news article). In that race you need your own system to hack, grab and steal, as it would not make sense for the US to sell information if they already got a national actor that wants it.
The explanation is that facts don't matter for some people.
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Unfortunately, /usr/local is a total mess now. There is no internal package management in os x so applications could (and do) overwrite files in /usr/local. These conflicts are very annoying sometimes.
Likely because it is far more desirable to have an investment property in London than any other city in Europe.
You're out of your mind if you think anyone will be paying $15 a month for a note taking application.
I haven't been following this too closely. Are the salt streaks where the water is too? Are we actually seeing the water itself in these images or not?
An introduction to differential dataflow, part 1
Is that correct? The tip of the gear tooth seems to rub up against the other as it approaches. Shouldn't there be a small clearance there? or is there?

Also, is there a way to export to a format that can be loaded into SolveSpace?
Being required to reboot my computer into recovery mode just to add a directory is certainly a WTF worthy situation.

BTW, thanks for the down vote?
It's not so much anything that needs the raw UNIX filesystem, it's anything that touches files that Apple has deemed not needing to be changeable, which I think app icons safely falls under. Fortunately, you can turn the whole thing off if you want.
China isn't the only place with rare earth elements. Molycorp mine in Mountain Pass California for instance. The mine has been plagued with legal/financial problems, but the existence of rare earth elements that the US doesn't have are not the reason we don't go to war with China. To be cynical, if the US vitally needed those elements and China did indeed have all of them and was choking the supply off... at that point terrorists might suddenly appear in China requiring the US to send military troops to liberate the poor Chinese (and their rare earth elements).
Even 100 basis points is below inflation. It's hard to see a reason to keep more than an emergency fund in a savings account.
Honest question. If he bought the domain from Google and the transaction went through, is that not technically a legitimate transaction and "cancelling" and refunding the money is essentially theft?

How is that any different than walking in to someone's house and leaving them $20 for the TV you took? It seems to me that "oops, take-backs" Is not a legitimate enough justification to reverse a transaction under contract law.

It seems rather ominous if even this kind of situation is permitted because it sets a precedent that corporations can simply decide to change their mind when something is not in their favor. Sure, it's an example that many people will simply rationalize or defend, but just on matters of assuring the credibility of the integrity of the whole market based system, Google should not be allowed to simply step away from this as if nothing happened without at least a fine that gets noticed by the executive suite.

How would you feel if in the future mega consolidated food corporation can arbitrarily decide that "oops, we changed our mind. That food you ate and sold to you for $X should have really been charged at $3X. Don't worry, we will charge your account. Have a nice day"

How about a different scenario; the airline industry decides that "oops, someone else was willing to pay more for that last seat on that flight you just booked. We just cancelled it and refunded your money. Have a nice day"

I get that it was probably a mistake of some kind. But what is it that immunizes corporations from the consequences of mistakes? I guess that's kind of rampant right now in our society and economy, but still.
MOOCs are a great resource, for myself, that goes with books and other attempts to educate those who can't be in an ideal learning environment. I really dislike this quote:

"If I had my wish, I would wave a wand and make MOOCs disappear."

Sorry but there are some great MOOCs and some poor MOOCs but we are certainly off better with them as opposed to without them.
People are fat because of all the little and big things they do on a daily basis.

What you eat is the most important thing. How you exercise is next.

What you do in your leisure time is important too. In the 70s, I don't recall anyone binge-watching Netflix while sitting on a couch. TV just wasn't that great and there were only a few specific times per day or week that were something you might be interested in. I don't remember many people playing video games for hours at a time. Sure some minority of people did but the games just weren't that fun and anyone that played Pacman on the Atari 2600 knows that. Kids played outside more, and throughout the neighborhood not just in their own back yard. Adults socialized outside more. There was no Facebook to spend hours per day sitting and reading. I don't think the 70s had Amazon.com either so people burned more calories walking through stores. I distinctly remember shopping with my parents as a kid and it was exhausting walking through a mall for hours.

I don't see any evidence the study took any of this technological change into consideration.
> Maybe a personal year-income-threshold would be a good idea. Once that's earned, just relax. Makes more sense in countries with progressive income tax rate.

Isn't a progressive income tax usually applied monthly? In that case, not working for some calendar months is hurting your income.

At least where I am, we have progressive income tax, and if I did this I would end up paying more in taxes for the same amount of work, as for 3 months I would not use any of my lower-tier income tax, and the rest of the year I would be paying more to the higher tiers than if I balanced things evenly over the year.

I guess you could make a deal with your employer to split your payments across the inactive months, not sure if there are some legal issues with that.

One of the many ways tax systems can create weird incentives, as this actually sounds like a pretty nice arrangement.
So this is basically how satellites already work, except the energy would be sent back to Earth through microwaves. What would be the room taken on Earth?
Is this publication approved by Dr. Linderholm?

I love this book, but my gratitude to the author means I'd like his wishes honored.
Nice one. Is there an offline/downloadable version available?
Someone was able to buy Google.com from Google for one minute
Noteshare: instant math web pages with LaTeX
A couple of year ago I made a prediction that Apple is going to try to throw out OSX long term. While I thought it would proceed at a greater pace, gradually locking down things because of "security" can easily have double utility. I hope I'm wrong, I like my OSX machines ...
Can someone explain the advantage of having a financial advisor? I was under the impression that mutual funds offer the best returns for low risk investments
Homebrew is great, but using /usr/local as the default install location just a bad idea.
The "rounded" design allows constant contact to be maintained between two gears. If they were of the simpler design with flat faces on the teeth, they would simply wear to this shape anyway, but in the process they would also end up with slack between them. A helical twist is also usually employed which improves the transition between adjacent teeth, and consequently reduces noise. Ever hear a transmission with a loud whine in reverse gear? IIRC, it's because they didn't use the helical twist trick on the reverse gear. I have no idea why they wouldn't though. If we're lucky, an ME will be along in a bit and explain all of this for us much better.
Nice site and nice app design. I think the app has some merit but your challenge will be finding fun/obvious use-cases that are strong enough to get entire groups of people downloading it. Planning a night out seems to be one challenge no app has adequately solved so I'd steer clear, but the angle of convincing groups of people to join for outfit reviews is stronger. I could see girls using it in change rooms before buying clothes, or getting ready to go to a party or whatever.
it just shows that language design is part of IT that moves slowly, because they are good enough. Also, we do happen to have a few millenia of experience with languages, whereas most people get by quite alright without solving numerical puzzles of all kinds.
The article says "He frantically took screenshots along the way and detailed the whole ordeal in a LinkedIn post."

... I find the choice of words funny. If he hadn't bothered to buy a domain he knew he would never be able to keep, there would be no ordeal!!!
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That's the idea. We would like people to. We have about 5000 publisher members. Co-ordinating an entire industry can take time.

As to why people don't... I wish I knew.
it ain't that hard, and it actually makes sense. i can take a look in my own family and it's apparent.

answer is - we became lazy, so slowly that many actually think that nothing changed. sample job you mention - carpenter now doesn't do as much physical work as he used do do 500 years ago. the ones who don't use modern approach, they are skinny, muscular athlete-looking types, even if they are 50-60 years old.

most people really have very sedentary lifestyle, and even the same profession got more passive over time. you don't need to run around that much in the office searching for some document, if you have DMS for that. all is electronic, reachable with few clicks/taps. Especially in US, but also generally in 1st world countries, people are using cars all the time. For my parents, the only way to do shopping was to carry 10-20kg shopping bags 500m back home from shop, usually few times a week. These tiny examples stack up.

Add to this crappy oversweetened, junkish food most people are eating, and it couldn't end up any other way. I live practically in France (Geneva), but most colleagues eat fine tasting, buy shitty composition-wise foods. Most countries fare worse on this. A bit of veggie at the plate doesn't make it magically good and healthy.

Also, most people lack any kind of discipline when it comes to food. Spoiling oneself ("treat yourself" bullsh*t), small cheat snacks that somehow don't count to whole food equation, people focused too much on work, and not on their well being.

I could go on and on, but why, its apparent. we are to blame, nobody else. you and I choose every day what we put in our mouth, and how much physical exercise we do. Eat better, less (especially dinner), exercise more and all will be good. But for many people, for some reason this seems to be too-hard-to-succeed challenge in life.
It looks more like an alternative to Trello than Evernote.
No way to archive a "note"?
I've never been caught. Does that make me good at cyberespionage? I think there's more to it than that. You might argue necessary but not sufficient, but I'd even disagree with that. The fact that the NSA was outed by Snowden has not made everything they're doing ineffective or we wouldn't be so worried about it.
I see this more as a lightweight MS Access replacement.
Would be an interesting project to slice these into individual panels, and then make them searchable by era, OCR'd text, dominant colors, artist etc. maybe bolt on a meme-generator that lets you change the text.
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The other thing I've noticed having recently trialled Netflix in Australia is that they seem to push TV series harder than movies. I guess if you watch a movie, you're done in a couple of hours. If you get hooked on a TV series, you might be watching episode after episode for a number of seasons.
It seems like a team building exercise. Everyone sees how everyone else works, and helps them grow. The 'client' is there to provide feature requests to see how whoever's on the hot-seat implements those and responds to changes/criticisms.

Note: In this scenario the client might just be a senior programmer, pretending.
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It says in the article: Rectenna arrays up to six miles in diameter.

Interestingly, the article also suggests that this could be useful for remote applications that would have difficulty getting supplied with diesel or other fuels:

"An advantage for the military, as well as civilians,
would be that they could build receivers at remote
operating bases and locations where it is
logistically difficult and incredible costly to
deliver diesel fuel."

I find it hard to see how setting up a 6 mile diameter rectenna array is any easier than setting up a diesel supply route except in the most specific circumstances (e.g. mountain-bound plateau inaccessible by road intended for long-term station that can be supplied initially by a long chain of helicopters providing the array components).
It's very confusing. I guess the image captions are not written by the article author, but by some unrelated staff that only read the article superficially.

Anyway, the chocolate example is very strange. Did they find one? Did they have some info about it? Did they just made up it?
The US withholds taxes based on the amounts in the paycheck, but the actual tax is figured on annual income, so you either get the money back or given a predictable annual income, adjust the withholding (there is some risk of getting penalized for owing too much, so the predictable part matters).
I 100% agree with you. I taught high school in Baltimore's public schools. Some of my brightest kids were some of my worst performing, most challenging students to deal with. I honestly believe some of them underperformed because they could perceive what a sham the system was.

But in my original comment, I was using "gifted" in the more traditional sense of "high performing" or "high testing", which doesn't necessarily correspond with brilliance. A big criticism I have of the gifted track is that it misses out on a lot of students who are capable of doing accelerated work.
Before Apple there was companies' IT's Puppet mangaging away /usr/local from usefulness. Main reason I only use Macports which has never failed me.