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The lack of standardisation is frustrating, but it's certainly no worse than the car or motorcycle industry. The good news is that replacement parts never really go out of production, even for completely obsolete standards. Parts tend to get much cheaper with time - you can buy a perfectly usable 7-speed freewheel for $9 or a square taper bottom bracket for $12.

>I’m not sure about the “plenty of life” thing, either.

As long as it isn't left out to rust, a lugged steel frame will outlive its owner. Aluminium frames might be corrosion resistant, but they'll inevitably fail due to fatigue cracking. A properly maintained set of quality wheels will last ~30,000 miles before the rims wear out. Quality tyres and chains are usually good for at least 3,000 miles, cassettes are good for 10-12,000 miles if the chain is replaced before it stretches.
"Its" seems obsolete there, even.
Reminds me of a Buckminster Fuller quote:

>"I'm going to give you an important kind of a picture. I hear a lot of people say "I don't like machinery and technology it's making a lot of trouble", so we're going to take all the machinery away from all the countries of the world, all machinery, all the tracks and the wires, and the works and were going to dump it all in the ocean. And you'll discover that within 6 months, 2 billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain. So we say, "that's not a very good idea, let's put all the machinery back where it was".

Then, we're going to take all the politicians from all the countries around the world and we're going to send them on a trip around the sun, and you'll find we keep right on eating. And the political barriers now...scientists say very clear you could make the world work and take care of 100% of the people at a higher standard of living than anyone has ever known despite the increasing population, but you can't do it with the political barriers, any more than you can try run a human organism with a wall between the ear, the eye, and the stomach. It is an organic whole, it is total industrialization."
Aye, the sad saga of the name continues.

My first job after college was working on data visualization software at SGI in Mountain View. Today, these buildings serve as Google's headquarters.

For me, SGI was a dream job at a dream company!

Disruption interrupted that particular dream, it would seem.
What's the canonical way to cite this essay? Answers on the back of a bibtex napkin please.
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You'd think there would be a way and there might be some money in it for the work it would save. Perhaps something like a boilerplate app that does the usual stuff you need like https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter

But perhaps less hackathon orientated?
I run a multiboot workstation with OS X, Linux, and Windows. My preferable for daily use and coding is my archlinux desktop but since I dabble with iOS dev every once in a while I'll use my hackintosh and end up using it for days.

So yes, it's totally stable and will work for you. Just be sure you get the right hardware.
> which monitors when people show up based on their cell MAC

That sounds miserable.
see: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Hackintosh

FOR EXAMPLE :

"Building My $1,200 Hackintosh"

https://medium.com/swlh/building-my-1-200-hackintosh-49a1a18...

hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12024949
> "Well maybe we don't really understand infinity".

Not a specialist, but "infinity" is indeed a tricky thing to make sense of.

First, if you decide to use and define it only in a "theoretical" sense (constructed through the set of axioms you mentioned) things are fine, there are lots of things we have constructed in an abstract way in the past which have proved to be intellectually solid (think of the idea of God constructed by the scholastics).

The problem appears when you want to apply your idea constructed on a "set of axioms" back to the real life. The scholastics' idea of God had a very short life when that happened (more or less during the early Renaissance), and I wouldn't say that the mathematical idea of "infinity" would have a better life were people to view it in a more critical way.

Because were you to apply the idea of infinity to the real life (the life made up of stars, planets and Hacker News) that would mean that there are an infinity of planets and stars out there (some of us have started to be ok with that) but that would else mean that there are an infinity of Hacker News instances out there and there are an infinity of "me", the user paganel, making this comment on HN. This is hard for a lot of people to grasp, including me.
Most interesting for me was the Mojo interfaces defined at https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/mojo/tree/master/public/in... and https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/mojo/tree/master/services.

E.g. the application interface at https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/mojo/blob/master/public/in...

And the framebuffer interface https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/mojo/blob/master/services/...

I don't see any mention of a file system.
> There's proof of electrons

There's also proof of God: to borrow Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph, si monumentum requiris, circumspice.

I don't mind a little atheist boy proclaiming his disbelief in preschool, but I wonder how his father would feel about a little religious boy proclaiming his belief in that same school.
Work is exploitive only when you're not compensated adequately for it, or if you cannot leave that job voluntarily. And I assume that by "people who don't work for someone else," you are referring to people who still work rather than, say, landowners who collect rents whose main work is to go to the bank to make a deposit.

People can be both ends and means and be quite content. Personally, I think there is too much emphasis on people being ends unto themselves in the current culture. Madonna is a great example of this. She ceased to be entertaining more than 30 years ago, yet I still come across news snippets about her. Why?
Hi there,

Several years ago I built a hackinstosh workstation for a family member that is still going strong. Now that Macs are on Intel's architecture setting one up is a fairly straightforward process if you pick out the right hardware. This website single handedly assisted me in the creation of that hackinstosh.

http://www.tonymacx86.com
It's strange. You seem to be really concerned about wifi security and the greater implications but are using the most exploited OS in the universe and you seem unfazed by the fact that security updates have stopped.
This is only really a problem when there's a collision of the quadruple identifying the connection. The article indicates as much - "If you want to reproduce this weird scenario consider running this script. It will greatly increase the probability of netcat hitting the conflicted socket".

I will admit that I probably wouldn't expect an ETIMEDOUT over a loopback, but I think I would very quickly assume that one side or the other has a bug regarding leaked resources.

> It seems that the design decisions made by the BSD Socket API have unexpected long lasting consequences. If you think about it - why exactly the socket can automatically expire the FIN_WAIT state, but can't move off from CLOSE_WAIT after some grace time. This is very confusing... And it should be!

One side-effect of having a timeout drive you from CLOSE_WAIT to LAST_ACK without a close() would be that the remote side would not be able to see the application-level reaction to its active close. Determining whether this was a graceful application-level closure would not be possible anymore (though I'll admit I'm not sure how critical that is to the protocol).
I always had both Windows and Linux (Arch) on every computer in my house (now only a few of them have Windows because I use Windows in VirtualBox in Linux). It seems to me that wifi speed in Linux is always slower than that in Windows. Drivers are the culprit?
If you want people to use Linux laptops, I think you should make them really really fast (esp. at boot) so that everybody has to wow when they just try it. No need to use gnome or kde, openbox is fine as long as it's not ugly.
Then wifi spped must be faster or at least as fast as in Window. Next is printing.
In summary, most of the issues are related to drivers.
The worker would be using vastly less resources. In my life I spent so much money/time/energy commuting to work and everything that entails having a job, not to mention time wasted in adult education, post grad degrees, trainings, etc I would never need as non-working welfare person. Heck, college is questionable as well. So there's a majority of my debt/spending there, ignoring my mortgage. Also, a robot doesn't need breaks, a cubicle, vacation, etc so its using vastly less resources.

Businesses would be forced to compete so those savings would be passed to the consumer which means a lower cost of living. Not to mention taxing automated businesses to pay for this new welfare/UBI/whatever.

Seems like a win-win to me once things shake out.
You could modulate the data into an analog signal using the range of distinguishable sound frequencies from the fan and probably achieve a useful data rate. Modems do something similar to stream data over a phone line.
Compensation per hour is being pushed up. What's so special about taxable wages as opposed to non-taxable benefits?

If taxable wages are preferable to non-taxable benefits, should we eliminate the various laws (e.g. Obamacare, 401k) that push employers to provide benefits rather than wages?

Also, there are many market distortions that won't push wages up but will still create scarcity. For example, we could simply ban food vendors/cigarette walas/etc, or we could impose various occupational licensing rules that raise wages for some while lowering them for others. Why are those not worth thinking about?
I tried running it as my only os on my daily driver laptop a few years ago (mountain lion, I think), checked all the hardware before even thinking about installing it, everything was "fully compatible"... and it was pretty bad. The os itself kinda worked (except for audio dying after a while and standby not working), but the experience in general was horrible (laggy ui, things crashing everywhere, even a few kernel panics).

Keep in mind this was a few years ago, but I wouldn't recommend even trying wasting the time to try installing it.
Easily ~Youtube-able option with lots of episodes : "Kipper the Dog".

Also 'findable' : The Clangers (charming 1970s show from the UK); Mr Men; Shaun the Sheep; Mr Benn.

All of these are 'gentle' but fun, and not really educational per-se. Even though you'll end up watching all of these again-and-again, Shaun the Sheep remains entertaining for parents too.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipper_the_Dog

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangers

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Men

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_the_Sheep

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Benn
IMO any TV with adverts is unhealthy childrens's television. Seriously we don't have broadcast TV at home - when the kids go to their grandparents (with us) it's amazing how sad, unkind, and needful they get because the adverts told them they needed $latestPieceOfPlasticTat and we won't buy it for them.
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Wouldn't that be nice after Google has affirmed again and again that Java would be the only supported way to develop Android apps, even though they keep Dart funded internally...

Hey, I'll bite. Let's see.
Yeah I'm not convinced they are. As far as I know most blockbuster movies are still using helicopters for aerial filming, with drones being the exception rather than the rule.
i run them on KVM and have not much of an issue. But i do not use them for much really. However i was actually somewhat surprised that it runs as well as it does... I dont feel much of a difference to running windows on KVM except that RDP works much better than VNC...

Im running these on a Core2 Duo E8400...
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> If we are all made in his image, a bit of him must have been gay, trans, fluid, etc. etc.

> Or is this not how it works?

I think that the orthodox position would be that man was meant to be in God's image & likeness, but the Fall has warped the world and imperfections have crept in. Kinda like if I took a photograph of you, and then some random person came by and drew on a moustache.
Wouldn't a better analogy be comparing to a cell phone? Yes, we know the "owner" of the number. And we might know roughly where they were a short time ago. But, we can't, with any certainty, tell you where they'll be tomorrow, because cell phones are portable.
I think the current title does a better job than the title you suggested.
I would love something similar for Facebook...
I used one every day for two years. I loved it. The only time it was unstable was when I did major OS upgrades.
Use patience.
> There's no such thing as "not enough time"; we all get the same amount of time for everything.

Technically correct.

> What there is, what people actually mean when they say "not enough time", is "things I'd rather be doing".

True; I'd rather be taking my child to daycare, and picking her up, and spending time with her. I'd rather be commuting 45 minutes to a job I enjoy rather than moving next-door to it and suffering a 200%+ rent increase, or working next door to where I live as a much lower-income grocery store clerk.

Other people might rather spend time managing a chronic medical condition. Or taking care of a family member. Or doing any number of things that is out of their control.

We all get 24 hours in a day, but we don't all get an equal allotment of choice in how we spend it.
You don't need to buy an old ThinkPad; current-generation ThinkPads work fine, as long as you avoid nVidia GPUs. All the other hardware (including power management) Just Works.
It certainly held us back morally.

But from an economic standpoint? It was a very effective way to accomplish a lot. As disgusting as it was.
> Find the exact combination of browser/OS that does more than show "return true to win" on a white background to win.

I see:

return true to win

(Come back in a few minutes.)

What do I win?
Anyone can cook. Will people pay me a living wage to cook? Will that wage cover lost income from being on government programs? Does cooking (given the relative difficulty of becoming wealthy doing so) provide an income ceiling higher than getting paid via welfare/Social Security?

There is plenty of work to be done. It's just not paid work. How do you propose to coerce people to pay for this work?
I have the sudden urge to run a game of Paranoia.
This was my experience exactly. Seemed like a great idea at the time, but always required some sort of maintenance at various times that required researching solutions, posting on message boards, and trial-and-error. Basically, it's the same amount of effort required to run a linux based desktop.
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I do, but like with Linux, be prepared for constant troubleshooting after each update.

Also you'll probably get lower performance, especially from your GPU, and also from your CPU if your ACPI tables aren't properly configured.
I ran one as my primary work machine about 5 years ago and then built a duplicate for home. Yes, it saved me money (I built the box for about $600 and it was hardware equivalent to probably a $2000 mac at the time) but you basically couldn't ever install any update (even security updates) unless you were mentally prepared to potentially lose half a day to troubleshooting. Usually they installed fine, but you could never be 100% sure in advance.

This meant putting off updates longer, which would lead to bigger updates, which only raised the chances of things going wrong. By the time OS X had gone up two major versions I just stopped using it and got a Mac mini and dumped more RAM in it instead.
I ran a Hackintosh a few years ago on a Samsung laptop. Like Linux of yore, your key issue is hardware support. To have the best success with a Hackintosh you need to nail down exactly what hardware will work with it, and buy that hardware. Just trying to bung it on a spare box you have lying around is asking for trouble, a lost weekend, and a very cranky spouse.

Hunt around on the Hackintosh forums, find a hardware list that works, get the bootloaders or kexts you may need, and give it a go. I won't say it's not worth it, because I do know people who run Hackintoshes on a daily basis without issue. However, you will not be able to upgrade easily. Every major macOS upgrade will require a rebuild.
As the article mentions, the dosages of lithium that are naturally in water tend to be well below the levels that we're familiar with in prescription lithium. (Less than 1/1000th the amount)

But if lithium is more like a micronutrient, then long term administration of low dose lithium would be much better than temporary use of prescription dosages, and have very few side effects.
>And then those children age in a world where they never have to stop being children.

That is a truly horrific thought.
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On average kids are vastly smarter than we give them credit for. From 18 months to 4 years, kids add ~10,000 words to their vocabulary with minimal repetition. 26 letters and 10 numbers is nothing as long as it's meaningful for them.

Educational entertainment is more about parents than education. However, kids also like to learn things so interesting and educational are frequently linked when done well.

PS: If you actually want to teach kids to read then integrating subtitles and story seems like a great option.
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What advantages you see of running archlinux vs Ubuntu? I wonder if I should change my default server distro...
"Ditto". Longtime user (of the iOS app) and have never lost a note that I can recall.
0: If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN", because there is something to play with and want feedback. Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

1: Right now, the page does not pass the 'what is it?' test at a meaningful level. I mean I know I'm looking at some JavaScript and something that looks like it's output, but after reading your comment that's not the important bit.

2: For feedback purposes, I think providing instruction/explanation on the page would be a big improvement. That could be as simple as the explanation you just provided. The implementation could be as minimal as commenting the code or more elaborately an HTML "header".

3: As a tool shared with other people, 'What it is' is the first thing people need to know. So a "product" landing page (could be as simple as text) is probably appropriate. to move instructions out of the implementation. A more elaborate version might have a hyperlink to a code repository...'how to get it' is probably the second piece of infrastructure for a "product".

4: Using Firefox, "back" was broken.

5: It's not clear what javascript functionality is available and what is not. I could create DOM elements but not add them to the output. That's the sort of documentation that a 'product' needs.

Good luck.
We have one master PG database and handle upgrades during "planned downtime" during off-peak hours (during weekend nights our B2B app is relatively empty).

We prep a new instance with the upgrades in place, and then load over the production data during downtime.
That's exactly how I felt. Every update had a risk of being a maintenance nightmare. The machine was really fast, but now I ended up buying a top end iMac 5K and a MacBook Pro. I'll never go back to a hackintosh, but if I didn't do it originally I doubt I would have gone Mac full time. My old hackintosh is now relegated to Win7 for those game devs that are making games for Windows only.
Not every visitor can use a QR code. I can't think of a single situation where QR code is the best answer.
It wasn't; the language was implemented from scratch in ten days.
Evidence refers to that which can be evidenced on demand, or rather more apropos, produced upon demand. Therefore, unless you mean something other than the commonly accepted meaning of the term 'evidence', then evidence must be reproducible. Perhaps if you could share some examples, we could explore your definition more fully?
Wow, that sounds like a really nice open-source company.

They offer sources, repos for both apt and yum as well as this:

> Need more help?

> Click here for pglogical's documentation.

> Click here to look at answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.

> Want to know even more? Need some help to implement pglogical? As the developers we're probably the best people in the world to help you get up and running with pglogical. We have consultants available to provide assistance, plus our unique 24/7 Production Support subscription service also covers pglogical.

That's a company I'd want to deal with. (Not using postgres at the moment, but hired Tomitribe for some minor work and the whole experience of dealing with the people who actually write and maintain stuff instead of marketing drones etc is totally awesome.)
> Any reasons why I should not use this?

If your use case can't handle eventually consistent data or you have no way to successfully resolve conflicts/never cause conflicts then this product is not for you.

They've chosen availability over consistency, so when the network between your DB servers partitions your applications will still function. But partition A won't see what's happening on partition B and vice versa and when the partition heals you might have conflicts to resolve.

One great use case I can think of for this is a case where you have geographically clustered clients that need to read globally but only write locally. As long as you model your data correctly you could set up a master in each region so that your writes were fully ACID compliant then have the masters replicate to each other so that data from other regions was available for reading. You'd get the benefit of distributed writes, your local clusters could continue working even if there was a partition or one of the other clusters went down, and you'd assure yourself that you wouldn't have conflicts.
The thing is that it never knows for sure. And in many/most cases, it only knows an area best case. In the case of only knowing it's the US, yes, it's a big area. Yet, for a variety of reasons, developers/users find it useful to get a point returned to substitute for that area. Which is what this company does.

I'm not sure how that's negligent just because developers and/or users of various kinds don't understand the limits of the data they're using. If anyone is negligent, it's developers who use this data and provide it to users without caveats about its accuracy and precision.
> What makes you think that they would allow p2p on 5g?

That's a good point. The answer that comes to mind (again, just pulling this out of my rear end) is that Google would benefit from more people having more ubiquitous and cheap internet access. As long as at least one device somewhere in a given mesh is connected to the backbone, so is the whole mesh, and then more Google ads can be seen. In other words, for similar reasons as Google Fiber.

And then I'd think Android Wear/TV/Auto devices could benefit from better p2p connectivity as well.
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A friend of mine has a nice hackintosh running just fine, with some quirks like iMessage not working.

Going the Linux route would mean misssing out on a lot of nice software.

I personally think the IMacs have great value. Have a 2011 model, maxed out ram, running El capitan smooth as hell.
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