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I mostly like the changes Apple has been making to OS X. I usually use Ubuntu but I keep an older MacBook Air around and enjoy kicking the tires on new releases.

One thing that I don't like is Apple Photos App. I have what I consider to be an ideal system for managing photos, and it is not Apple's app: I set my cellphone to wait until I am back home on wifi and then send new photos and videos to Google Photos, OneDrive, and Dropbox. I love having triple copies of everything.

I am downloading macOS Sierra right now on my old Mac and I hope they have some flexibility for disabling/uninstalling unwanted built-in apps. On 10.11.6 you can't delete Photos app.
You'll be more or less forced to upgrade at some point. Chrome, Slack, and pretty much everything else stopped supporting 10.8 this year. Even CLI apps like Keybase refuse to run.
Hey, nevermind that the article you linked expressly notes that the entire policy is around a standard for the classification of produce, and that the EU is first and foremost an economic union with the goal of harmonized trade regulations.

You know, the type of thing where standard gradings and classification of produce and manufactured goods would be fairly important? (and you know, in no way different to any other modern nation or industrial group).
Arguments between people are best kept off Twitter, period. Once they get on Twitter not only are both sides forced to become defensive but the Twitter mob / cult of popular uninformed opinion gets involved and rocks start getting thrown. Adults should know better. If Al Jazeera did not respond to private inquiry THEN perhaps it would be justified to use a public medium (as that would be the only medium available) but that did not happen.
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Except the people already were there, and they want to stay there. The imaginary high caliber people who can do this in a low cost of living place are exactly that: imaginary.
> Have you ever tried managing development with an RTOS? Or streaming data out of RAM while your code was running? Or fiddling with the processor registers when debugging?

Yes to all of the above, and had to script it too, which I couldn't do with an IDE at the time.

I indeed haven't used CCS-Eclipse in years. Has it finally eliminated its lag and RAM usage? I was always amazed how it managed to continuously stay just ahead of Moore's Law in terms of resource usage.
Ask HN: Thinking about making a website to teach people Excel. Good idea?
Hi HN!

I recently realized that a lot of people use Excel in their day job, yet most of them don't really know what they are doing. They could save hours of work per week if they knew how to filter data, use the VLOOKUP function, play with pivot tables, and so on.

I'm a web developper who knows a lot about Excel, and I'm actually good at writing tutorials. So I'm thinking about making a website with Excel tutorials, an email course, and a paid course (I have a lot of free time for the next 12 months).

It seems like a huge market, but it also looks like there are already a lot of websites doing that. Though most of the tutorials I saw are either out of date or not very clear. So I have 2 questions :

1. Do you think it's a good idea or not?
2. How would you get traffic for this website, besides SEO?

Thanks! :)
To the point that sometimes, it seems they go out of their way to make things insecure...........
They did, the initial article was really unprofessional.

I didn't say voicing wrongdoing makes a company untrusted, but instead that doing it in an unprofessional way makes you someone that I wouldn't do business with.
I'm assuming that scrollytelling has this as part of their terms. I mean, that's the only way to get customers to pay the €399/month subscription fee [0], which seems to be the minimum offering, i.e. there's no plan for just using the editor and then exporting it as flat files that can be uploaded to any file server.

[0] https://www.scrollytelling.io/#pricing
We really just need new hardware!!
What is worse is they're selling their hardware at full price. I was in the Apple Store and the rep was trying to sell an iMac / Mac Pro to a poor punter who had no idea of their age. I didn't quite have the courage to interrupt the conversation but I did leave this little gem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hgury35bsickbvu/MacProProtest.jpeg...
Would their staffing cost also include office space (even remote companies have headquarters)? Or would that be included somewhere else? Or do they actually not have an office?
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When I (age 26) was looking for a job, I remember needing to know if the company sponsored visas (US->UK for me) and seeing that lots of other folks had the same question. Naively, I would have said that older folks are more settled and less interested in that. Upon actually reflecting on that, it might just be an unjustified ageist assumption.
Is this so terrible? Presumably El Capitan will get security updates and your machine will continue to work for some time to come.
A few people have asked that, so maybe. Another thought was you could tweet an image to the Twitter bot and have it tweet back the result, but then your image is out there for the world to see, so maybe that's not as good.
That's great, but they arent buying top-end phones then, and they have lots of optona, so new premium phone announcements aren't interesting.
Thanks for the personal reply. Of course I'm glad you made the effort and it's amazing so much has made it online after all. I suspected rights where an issue and part of my critic was based on the anger about the protective art world in general (I really love the open internet and the art world makes it very hard to share and debate it online).
>> Once you add pedestrians, one way streets dramatically increase the fatality rate.

The key is not to put the pedestrian paths next to the roads. That's similar to putting the opposing traffic right next to the road.

Imagine a suburban neighborhood where the sidewalks run through the back yards instead of out front by the road. You have branching walkways that are the inverse of the branching roadways. Now start to design high density cities along similar lines, where pedestrian areas connect high-density buildings in a sort of fractal pattern with roadways around the outside (one way of course) and branching in between the fractal stuff. You can add pedestrian bridges in key places if desired.

I don't think a large 2-d area with high fractal dimension makes the most sense, it should be more like a long strip with bulbs off the sides. These are then surrounded by an oval roadway with intruding branches. You lay multiple ovals next to each other and have a larger oval connecting them all at the ends - a perpendicular oval. Something like that.

If you think about how blood circulates in the body, it's a hierarchy of different sized arteries and veins. You can get from any capillary to any other by just going around the system one time. Now imagine you put a loop at each level of the hierarchy so you don't need to go all the way to the top level - long trip. If your try to lay that out flat there will be some intersections, and you may still have things close together that are topologically farther apart - it's when you start making those short connections that you create intersections and congestion which starts to destroy the efficiency.

I'd also prefer a fractal-like city with green space mixed in, so perhaps those ovals should not be side-by-side, but sprawling. How about all buildings are high density (so public transit makes sense) but the overall density is more like the burbs? Clusters of towers in the woods or open areas.
"More than half (58%) of home candle fires occurred when some form of combustible material was left or came too close to the candle."

I don't see how Ludela can solve this, so that leaves <1000.

In fact, this kind of large candles probably don't set much on fire, it's the little ones that people put on Christmas trees and such that are really dangerous.
Haha.. Totally.. I've been working on my startup's pitch ever since we started working on it with my team.. This post by Marc took it to another level in an instant..
The ceaseless drumbeat of "why do I have to correct every breaking error in my code just to try it" just... Don't people realize how old and flawed this argument is?

And it's even stranger applied to Typescript, which is a fairly good implementation of a real-world gradual typing system.

Most modern type systems are quite good at giving you info about problems, blocking errors about the outright incorrect stuff, and otherwise get out of your way. Typescript is no different in this.

But many people (including the top reply) argue like secretly it's 2007 and we're talking about inscrutable C++ compiler errors from the last generation g++ compiler. We're not. Typescript is not only fast and friendly, but it's a heck of a lot more "batteries included" than Babel.

The funniest part is that ultimately flow desires to asymptotically approach what TypeScript already (for the most part) _is_ today.
2m - ~200k in benefits. Looks like 180k per engineer. Thats high, but looks like they've got the corporate sponsors to support those salaries.
The problem with this argument (and why it comes across as somewhat reductionist) is that it fails to acknowledge the sharp dichotomy between employment and entrepreneurship.

The question of working on something for 10 years is less relevant in entrepreneurship, because your role and the nature of what you're working on should be highly dynamic and therefore unpredictable.

One should question the mindset instead. Here's what I now tell anyone getting into entrepreneurship to consider: when what you're working on flatlines in 1 to 2 years, do you have the resources and the courage to keep going? I've seen untold numbers of very capable people try their hand at it and then give up after a year or two. That's a waste. And more to the point, it's also a good way to squander much of the value of what you may have learned in the process.
Are we to take away from this that founder charitable giving is more important than employee equity compensation in YC's eyes? Wouldn't make me want to work at a YC company.
In fact, it is well known that the two hardest things in programming are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
OK, so $200k in salary then. Still stupendously good. WOW!

Maybe there _IS_ something to all these "I know this guy who's brother's roommate makes $300K at Google" threads. It just seems so unbelievable.
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I think this is a neat idea but I wish they would explain this in a simple sentence on their site instead of all the mumbojumbo.

Something like

This is a Donor-Advised Fund that is completely free to participate in. Donor-Advised Funds are the best way to give when you have a major liquidity event because:
Reason 1
Reason 2
Reason 3

Join a community of people who want to do the same. This is useful for you because:
Reason 1
Reason 2
Reason 3
How many employees does it take to run Let's Encrypt? 8
2 to run the website
1 to ask for money
5 to say "are you sure you need a wildcard cert?"
I focus on can I get traffic, then can I get a lead, can I sell the lead. Then, focus on the automation part.
I'm not. I test a lot of ideas but don't have much money. I have already to pay for hosting and DNS. SSL is optional. I'm very thankful to let's encrypt for the opportunity to use SSL on my sites.
Also SSL (and the web) is a broken technology, I'm not going to pay for something broken.
I think it says something about the Hacker News community that these posts always float to the top. Hardly a day passes where I don't see a "no more procrastination" post.

What does this mean? Is it that we're all procrastinators? I don't think so, many here are highly accomplished. Is it our fear or procrastination? Is it perfectionism?

Strange.
New OS versions are not considered "updates" to anything so you have to look for them on the Mac App Store. Though Apple usually puts a big link on the front page.
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probably not. the best canadian coders are already here in the US.
Al-Jazeera along with the Guardian are the most honest mainstream news outlets on the planet. Put American journalism to shame.
Maybe there's something very obvious I'm missing - but why?

If their environments are not bare-metal then moving from a virtual solution to a cloud one seems fairly simple. If they are bare-metal then it hardly seems necessary for issuing certs - but if you have more insight I'd love if you'd share it!
It also has a lot of prebaked configurations in it. For example there's one that changes Slovenian Apple layout (which is pretty nonsensical with @ on 3rd level) to the standard layout used by PCs. That's hugely useful for people who use Mac Minis / iMacs with non-Apple keyboards (since Apple refuses to add the standard layout to OS X).

With Karabiner that's an issue of a single tick.
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How about donating $100 to Lets Encrypt then? :P
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Healthcare takes the top stop for all ransomware
Worth noting that the GPGMail plugin doesn't work yet with sierra.

https://gpgtools.org/
You have just pattern-matched to a response without understanding. And you're wrong.

See http://www.evanmiller.org/sequential-ab-testing.html for a very similar methodology presented by the very person you are citing. The difference is that I am aiming to always produce an answer from the test, even if it is a statistical coin flip, while he aims to only produce an answer roughly 5% of the time if there is no difference.
The author states that people are too mercurial to know their own long-term desires. This is true for many young people - it was true for me - but you can and should define long-term goals for yourself. I spent enormous time in the last few years thinking about what I really wanted, and it was an enormously valuable activity. Tracking your thinking in writing is also highly recommended - writing clarifies and objectifies your own thoughts, and once you've accumulated a few years worth of properly-written notes-to-self, you have an incredible resource for self-analysis.

The secret is to rationally analyse your own values, identify why you value what you value, and try to define what unites the different tasks that you have found meaningful in the past.

This post contains some hints of the framework I used: http://aristotleadventure.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/what-is-cen...
AS an outsider looking in. What is holding a developer from moving to Linux? I don't understand the draw of OS X for developers especially the past few years. These yearly updates seem to break everyone's workflow for a while.
I would be more concerned about security updates. Does Apple still publish security updates for those old versions or even for 10.10 since El Capitan has been out for a year?
I really commend YC for supporting this. If my startup ever succeeds, I definitely have a duty to give back to the world which has given me incredibly luck (and benefits).

I just took the pledge and realized it would be nice to have a sliding scale based on exit size.

If I have a relatively small exit (<$10M), I would prefer to donate substantially less (maybe 10%) but for a larger exit I would scale up closer to 50%. Obviously I can still donate more if I want to, but it would be nice to pre-commit.

Also, it would be nice to include an option for employees.
Closed source, so E2E has to be taken on faith.

Strictly better than Skype in some ways, but privacy can't be taken to be one of them.
As others have pointed out, with benefits, taxes, etc the actual salary is going to by way under that.

But I don't see why you're getting downvoted either. The income inequality in places like SV and Seattle/Redmond is insane. People working "normal jobs" struggle to get by and often have to commute further and live way outside the city just to survive.

It gets even more ass-backwards because public transport hubs are way more expensive to live near and, once again, only highly paid individuals can live near them (and therefore ditch their cars potentially saving even more money, where as the not so well off have a car requirement because .. American's transportation failure. And before you give me that "American is too spread out for rail" shit, Russia has three high speed rails and St Petersburg has the 2nd largest tram network in the world).

You're pointing to a very real problem. If there was plenty of housing and transport, those wages wouldn't put the strain they do on every one else. But there isn't and they do. Working remotely would actually be way better because at least they're not in the SV area.

And to rant a little more, a high end engineer that would cost $200k in Washington/California (maybe NYC too) would start at 50k euro in Berlin. They'd top out around 70k euro at the most. Even for really highly skilled positions, Germany tends to have way less income inequality and flats are also way more affordable for everyone.
Ha!

... but, just curious, is your procrastination the same in year 10 as in year 1?
The answer is pretty simple. Most tea party members as well as most libertarians simply want the federal govt. to do what it was designed to do; no more and no less. They understand what happens when it gets too big and too powerful. It's what our Founders understood and the reason we have state legislatures and municipal govts..
Essentially the same as http://www.evanmiller.org/sequential-ab-testing.html except that he aims to not produce an answer most of the time by chance, while I aim to always produce an answer even if it is statistically a coin flip. (Because, after all, you need to actually choose a headline in the end...)
> charitable giving is more important than employee equity compensation

You are probably assuming that employees are definitely under compensated.. what about the case when founder owns only 5% and still wants to donate a part..
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Well, why? It's been overrun by the very same help vampires.
It might be an entirely different thing altogether! why restrict our "open mind" to only those two choices?

> So far we haven't come up with a decent explanation of consciousness which is why I am prepared to be a bit more open minded.

Then we should say we don't know. It's disingenuous to say that because we don't have an answer, or as in this case, a full and complete answer, then it means that it might be this entirely different thing for which nobody has any evidence, no one has any explanation and no one can even describe or define.
I would never use this company's services after this.
Maybe if I had focused on just HTML+CSS, but alongside going to university and studying/working with other more predictable things like page tables or Django...nope.
GitHub repos full of markdown. A Jenkins job rebuilds using a static site generator (mostly Jekyll, a couple use Pelican). Each team has a subdomain on our internal network, so like accounting.company.internal type thing. Most have a TOC type landing page with popular links. Commit markdown -> site rebuilds itself.

GitHub desktop is easy to use and we're generally staffing under 35's, who are pretty computer savvy. They may not get the in's and out's of Git, but Customer Service people are rebasing (their internal knowledge base is built the same way).

Upsides for users: Using whatever editor you favor. Anyone can help support your teams efforts (copywriters are committing tweaks all the time to every teams repo, use dem writing skills). We avoid fragmenting and putting multiple UX's in people's faces.

Design folks even made some CSS that's easily injected to match company branding. Optional to use of course.

This is for the things teams can/want to share. HR obviously doesn't people's salary info in there.

We needed GitHub anyway. So we found a way to avoid spinning up some kludgy wiki framework with a shitty WYSIWYG editor no one wants to maintain or paying money for some janky thing like Jive or Yammer.
Assuming things about people from internet comments is usually rude, but I agree. From my experience a lot of the people that don't "get the point" of TypeScript or Flow haven't worked in largue applications that needed maintaining. I'm sure there are good arguments against them for large applications, but I'd need to hear them from people who've maintained (not just written!) a lot of large JavaScript applications. Your average React or Angular frontend probably doesn't count.
This has gotten better since they started public betas. It seems like people that work on developer tools are more prepared.
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> Donor-Advised Fund

This sounds more like mumbojumbo to me
I think 2bitencryption's point is more along the lines that the government regulates fields and that regulation quickly becomes unworkable because its a "quickly-evolving new technology market." For example, if the government mandated that all computers had to be Windows 9x-compatible that might have prevented the rise of the iPhone.

The embryonic stem-cell research ban didn't have anything to do with the underlying science and technology--it was based on a moral objection to the practice of destroying embryos for research. If the government had, for example, mandated the use of some testing methodology that soon became obsolete, that might be more on point.
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This is not an informed opinion. This is an opinion carefully shaped by the same influences from different industries over the last 30 years who generally benefit from the removal of their regulatory environment (miners, oil industry).

The real byline is in your proposed commitment to trying too improve government process: you don't have any. You think it's hopeless. You're apathetic. Which is what everyone, pushing any agenda, wants from you.
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The purpose of those companies is to get and help people to make stuff. That's not useless. Making is the point, not so much the final product. And still 90% of what I've seen on Makezine was more useful than LudeLa.
This is really well done, nice work.
You think that memorizing facts in school is useful for factory workers?
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CAs require special hardware security modules (HSM) to contain the signing keys and have to control the entire path to them, so yes, you need to own your hardware for a public CA.

And independence from their sponsors is an important organisational feature for Let's Encrypt.
Thinking of taking a stab at this problem. Now taking feedback on www.meetnucleus.com.
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Also office space: 100 - 200 sq.ft. per employee * $75/sq.ft. in SF -> $7k5 - $15k per employee.
I work 9-5 and I do it for the highest bidder.
It doesn't make sense but it is true. If you're really good, someone will make you an offer for an SV salary, and now everyone needs to compete with that. Besides, it's only fair. Your value shouldn't be tied to where you live per se. It's true that people in some areas make less because they have fewer options in their area, but for a high caliber person, they have plenty of options whether they move their physical location or not.

I'm pretty sure we're going to see a trend as remote work becomes more popular where there will be a much smaller delta because of location of the employee.
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They're working on it- https://www.braininitiative.nih.gov/
Moves away from Unix compatibility?