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That is a totally false equivalence. You need to be a film maker to make a statement like "shooting film on medium format is so much harder than people think". Especially when you're armchair critiquing a professional film maker who shoots with it every day.
…That's actually one of the things I like about Photoshop—you can just press Ctrl-Z repeatedly to look at before/after a change. Sure it's odd, but there's a reason it's the way it is.
I need to regularly kill firefox. I just did in fact. It didn't technically crash, but it becomes totally non-responsive for seconds at a time. Maybe it is a misbehaving plugin and not ff, but the effect is the same.
Rather than looking at it as a language that needs an IDE to be bearable, it might be more helpful to look at it as a language that is most pleasant to use in concert with well build tools.

I look at it similarly to the way I look at Smalltalk. It's possible to use it as just a series of text files (with GNU Smalltalk), but using it with tools that understand the language (such as Visualworks or Squeak/Pharo) turns it into a very different experience.

I know that a Smalltalk dev environment feels alive in a way that Java doesn't, but using Java with a tool like IntelliJ is a nice experience. Using something like JRebel or HotSwapAgent to swap code changes into a running application also improves the dev experience significantly.
And what if the server sends something different back when you visit the URL again?

The internet allows it to do that.
Firefox has been terrible for disk access for many years. I remember I had a post install script (to follow, I never actually automated) that I would run through in my linux boxes back in about 2003 that would cut down on this and speed up the whole system.

Basically chattr +i on a whole bunch of its files and databases, and everything's fine again...
I was definitely using :-) on Plato in 1979. I'd be surprised if Plato was the first use, though.
Appeal to authority requires an actual authority to be involved.
But, you'd have to go do that search for Father's Day where this interface reminds you, like a Calendar, that something is coming up that maybe wasn't on your mind atm.
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How much do you want to be part of a side project?
I'm trying to gather feedback from you regarding working on a side project with someone you don't know.

So, are you looking for someone to?

1. Join your side project
2. Help you start a side project
3. Join his/her side project
4. Other

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Best,
Alin R.
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The i3? It looks exactly as wierd to me in real life as it does in photos. It's like they crossed a BMW, a Fiat, and a Roomba.
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> You do not advertise your house as a place where other people can come and freely store their valuables

A house offers protection, no doubt about it and anyone but a social recluse will potentially offer it to others, although not foreigners. You are certainly not trying to say negligence would be OK as long as it concerns foreigners.
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If I normally make 60k a year and get a one-time payday of $1MM, I'll be paying around 13% more in income tax on that million dollars than I do on my regular income. Even with AMT it isn't a huge deal. This seems pretty reasonable to me. It's not perfect but it's not a reason for completely eliminating income tax. It's a reason for having exemptions, which is exactly what this article is about.

>If they have more money in their pocket, they will spend. That is what America is built on.

This is simply not true for people with millions of dollars. Look at the percentage of income spent for someone making $500k a year, and the percentage spent by Bill Gates or any other billionaire. It's a huge difference, and there's a huge difference between both of those groups and someone making $100k a year who is usually spending almost all of their income. Consumption tax is also completely ignoring the "spend it overseas" and million other loopholes.

I am not convinced any method of consumption tax I've read about, regardless of safeguards, would retain the same level of tax income the government receives while also not increasing the burden on lower and middle income households. The vast majority of tax revenue comes from an extremely small percentage of earners, and you'd be losing the vast majority of that income if you only taxed their spending.

The only way I can see this working is if you almost exclusively taxed things rich people bought. Increase sales tax on homes over $1 million, cars and boats over $200k, private jets, etc. But the tax rate on these would have to be ridiculously high, more than doubling their costs. All the rich people would just buy them overseas.
I've been thinking about how something like this could be done in a completely distributed way, I think I've even seen some research implementation of it. In any case, it'd be interesting...

Hmm... http://twister.net.co/ maybe? The biggest issue is going to be mobile, but if you have enough people firing it up on servers and stuff, you'd probably be okay. And then of course you realize that there's also the even bigger issue of actually getting people to use it. You're fucked there unless you have some serious marketing talent, which most people capable of writing such a thing in the first place lack.
If you have any doubts about his true beliefs, just look here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/palmer-luckey-alt-right.
rg is harder to type with one hand because it uses the same finger twice. :)
How do phone manufactures get their customers to upgrade so often?
Frequently, companies have a 90-day exercise window on options, meaning that employees have to exercise within 90 days of termination of employment. What that often translates into is employees sticking around indefinitely at companies whose value has grown during their tenure because they:

- can't exercise options and leave, because they would have to pay potentially huge taxes on an illiquid asset

- don't want to lose their stock, which makes up a nontrivial part of their comp for effort already invested in the company

So, your understanding is correct - but people often don't want to wait for a liquidity event to be able to exercise and don't want to miss out on something they already earned.

An example: as I hear it, there are quite a few early Uber employees sitting on tens or hundreds of millions of options who can't leave because if they exercise, they'd be slammed with millions in taxes. Since Travis Kalanick disallows secondary market trading of Uber stock, they wouldn't be able to sell stock to help pay the taxes, and thus can't afford to exercise but can't afford to leave. That's how you end up with employees who just come in to work the minimum possible amount waiting for an exit.
The Wave technology also now powers a lot of the "collab" features in their Office suite. So the "product" died, but the capability found a home.
This is a direct result of the "tough on crime" laws from the 90's, combined with the fact that we treat our convicted felons like human trash. Ridiculous sentences for low level, non-violent offenses turn people who did one dumb thing one weekend into hard criminals, and then we throw them on the street with a twenty dollar bill and nothing else, prevent them from getting work at every opportunity, and wonder why the end up committing more crime.

And on top of all of that, there's NO evidence that higher sentences and harsher punishments have any effect on the overall crime rates.
Was disappointed to not see a days.to "Game of Thrones Season 7 premiere", so I requested adding it.
As if we needed another reason not to buy an Oculus.
Then you were exceptionally unclear about it. What does Google News's science section have to do with anything? A newspaper's "science" section has little to do with real science.
I interviewed at Mongo a long time ago for a Drupal developer position. It was strange, they took me through a bunch of whiteboard algorithm crap that had nothing to do with Drupal. Obviously they weren't Drupal devs and didn't know how to interview for one so they just gave me the standard CS stuff. Obviously I was a Drupal dev so I didn't know shit about actual CS topics. I failed hard and learned a lot from it.

Steve was the only one of the 3 that I interviewed with that didn't come across as a self-important asshole. He was kind and helpful and overall seemed like the perfect guy for a Developer Advocate or whatever the title was. I wish him luck.
This is about fixing the reasons leading people to commit those crimes in the first place.

Let me tell you a story.

A friend of mine helps convicts with societal reintegration.

One of the guys he was working with, we'll call him Mark, had dealt heroin. Did his time (3-5 years, I think), had gotten serious in prison about his life and responsibilities (4 kids by 3 different women), and decided when he got out he was going to stay clean, get an honest job, and do what he could to take care of his kids.

He had child support judgements against him before and during his time in prison, and he owed something like $30k in back support. So, after he gets out, he has to go to the family court judge and tells him, "Sir, I know I have responsibility to my kids, and I want to repay what I owe on my child support. I'm working on getting a job, what do I have to do to meet my obligations?" Family court judge helps work out a plan whereby Mark is not going to be held in contempt for his back support as long as he makes his current payments. Mark sleeps on couches, eats ramen, walks 2 hours to work the each way to work the night shift, (can't get an apt near work without 3+ months of deposit because he has a felony) saves as much as he can while paying his child support, spends time with his kids every weekend, finally saves enough to by a car. Not a nice car, an older beater, but now he doesn't have to walk to work, and he can go pick up his kids, take them to the park, etc, etc. He's saving up so he can get his own apartment and not have to sleep on couches in the neighborhood where he is surrounded by his old friends that are trying to get him back into dealing.

Mark is doing lots of hard work now. When he was dealing, he drove new cars, partied, always had money. Now he's going through the grind of constantly having to make the right choices, but doing good.

Did you remember Mark's old car? Well, he didn't realize that the taillight had gone out. Mark's night shift job was in a 'whiter' part of town. Mark's black. Mark got stopped for having a tail light out. Mark's license check showed that he was in contempt for back support because some clerk didn't file his repayment plan correctly or something. Mark went to jail. Mark's apartment deposit went to bail, and he only got 75% back. Mark's car got impounded because he had to spend 48 hrs overnight and his one phone call couldn't cover getting his car in time, and his deposit dropped another couple hundred dollars.

Mark's doing OK now, he was able to get some help and get his apartment and keep doing what he needs to do. But that's largely because he had some white friends help him navigate the system. I could tell you have a dozen other stories of guys like Mark who had something similar happen and say, "Even if I do what's right, the man is going to get me. Why bother?" And kids internalize these stories, and then they don't even want to make the changes.

Sometimes, the reasons for crimes are that being a reasonable human being says there's no reason not to commit crime.
The intent is for a limited audience of peers to recieve postings

That might be your intent, but whoo boy, do I have news for you: that's not the way it works, it's not how it was designed to work, and it's not how "they" tell you it works. Your "intent" has nothing to do with it.

If you wish to keep your audience small, Facebook and Twitter aren't the way to do it. But long before "social media" showed up, we had means to keep things to a limited audience, things which do require a warrant to access.
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Number one reason why I switched to mutt was after mailbox was discontinued, I wanted an easy way to move my mail between several organized folders (this requires 3+ clicks in gmail). Now I have keyboard shortcuts to move a message to my various frequented folders, and I can move through dozens of email in less than a minute.
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If it's not, using incremental deltas is surely a no-brainer here?

Might be surprisingly hard or inefficient given that you're trying to capture "webpage state". Think about React sites etc.
I don't think I will spare you the "independent" label, thanks.

The press is a deeply flawed institution. The idea that what the press needs to become less flawed is to be more controlled by the subjects of their reporting is, frankly, idiotic. It's genuinely the stupidest thing I've heard this week.

I have no particular bone to pick with the FDA. I neither revere nor hate it. I don't want to defund it, but neither do I think it is above all reproach, nor that it is above trying to make itself look better than it is. But this isn't really about the FDA in particular, but about the general relationship of the subjects of reporting with the press in general, and particularly about the relationship of the government with the press.

Having as reliable as possible information about what our own government is doing is a bedrock foundation of a functioning democracy. We should be doing what we can to make sure that we get that information, not celebrating the government's attempts to manipulate the press. The certainly does not preclude criticizing the press for their many failures, but it does mean supporting them when they do the right thing, as the Scientific American is here.

PS: As far as the general sentiments of the alt-right go, the alt-right is defined by a belief that we should have a more authoritarian government that maintains order and ignores democracy. Guess who sounds kind of alt-right-ish in this conversation?
google-Calendar as a widget on my linux (mate) desktop. Aside from [1] does anyone have a working setup?

[1] https://www.linux.com/learn/tricks-using-desktop-integrated-...
I think you are confused. A PG extension is code like any other. For the use cause such as partitioning you should not need to create any schema, what you are doing would be to write a code that acts on schema.

Schema usually is needed for application that will be using a database. I also don't understand the scare about using schema. Schema is FAR FAR FAR simpler to deploy than a Java application.
Launchpad is such a shitty website, aimed at Ubuntu and only Ubuntu, links to source code or more information are nowhere to be found...

Searching on Github, this seems to be it. Turns out, there's releases for Arch, Debian, etc. and it's even in the repositories. No need to add a ppa. https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon

For Debian and co:

$ apt-cache show profile-sync-daemon
$ sudo apt-get install profile-sync-daemon
This could be pretty cool. There are times when I search for something that happened recently (say, 20 minutes ago in a live sports game, or if I see 6 police cars blocking off the street out my window) and google has no record of it, or sometimes the news tab stories are now wrong/obsolete. In these cases I'd love to see twitter results, particularly from "trusted" sources like reporters or news orgs or even just from popular sources.

(Presumably Google could work out this deal now without buying twitter. But it could be a benefit, similar to how the videos tab is mostly YouTube).
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Best book you can read first is "Debt the First 5000 Years" by David Graeber. He is an anthropologist and the book outlines many economic topics giving you a historical context.

Then go and read all the standard literature and you will be surprised how terrible and unscientific it all is.
Actually, with the new iMessages app platform I wish all my Twitter conversations moved to iMessages. If Apple buys Twitter, that would be personally awesome.
This gives me such mixed feelings.
Using technology to increase productivity? Good

Committing resources to quality of life improvements? Good

75% of enforcement done in neighborhoods of "color"? Yikes

CIA-backed data analysis firm Palantir Technologies? Dear god
Even for prestige, is it ok for gang members to break and enter properties, even if they don't anything, for prestige? I suspect not so the same should apply.
> What's the difference between strict liability and absolute liability

Not a lot, AFAICT; the main differences seem to be:

(1) "strict liability" is the term used in US (and, AFAIK, UK) law (though the latter seems to refer to a criminal offense to which strict liability applies as an "absolute offense"), both criminal and tort, and

(2) "strict liability" can be either an attribute of an offense as a whole or an attribute of an element of (the actus reus of) an offense (that is, there can be a required mens rea for some element of an offense, but if there is an element which does not require any mens rea, the element can be said to have strict liability.) From what I've seen, "absolute liability" is universally a trait of offenses-as-a-whole (though that may be because I've seen less about it, and am less familiar with the systems in which the term applies.)
Yeah, that's what I thought. And I've also been there, done that. Is there basically some willful blindness around this issue with Go fans, or something? Or a lack of experience doing code? Or am I completely missing something?
I seriously doubt most people even know whst "broadcast" means, or that "their" wifi is not limited to their own four walls and personal use.
>>In those cases, if your device is compromised, it would authenticate as you anyway, so such a scheme would solve nothing.

But if you had authenticated access, you could find exactly which C&C server controlled that botnet node and then who controlled that C&C server right? All these attacks depend on some form if amplification - if only to go from C&C servers to botnet. If just being on the network required authentication, you could trace back network connections and ID the controller even if attack was by a botnet.
Well Burntsushi, the author is quite famous and level headed programmer who has written in both Go and Rust. He is exception to what you describe of Rust programmers who are still not much changed.
Any detail interesting enough to include in the title? :)
I purposefully took a BMW i8 and a P90D for a test drive.

The i8 was woeful in comparison in all departments. They are different types of cars but the only area the i8 could speak up a little bit was in the looks department.

I haven't tried the i3 but I think it has a certain style of it's own. I'm not a huge fan but I like to see it when it rolls by as it means one more victory on the way to electric cars (and one less diesel cloud filling my lungs).
You can find them in your head. That's where the rest of us find them, actually.
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Is gonum part of Golang? I don't think I should have to pull in an entire library just to get a working round implementation.
Intuit is a pretty funny company. They try to make TurboTax as simple as possible for the average American (most Americans can fill out a 1040EZ and be done in minutes), but at the same time try to make taxes as complicated as possible so that they can sell services around that. It's both smart and infuriating .
"Audi, BMW, Volkswagen and Peugeot all sell electric or hybrid-electric cars."

Audi has a A3-etron which is not an electric car. Maybe they have some $500k etron-R8 but I am not sure if they ever built that.

BMW has the i3 which is kind of interesting, in a low-production-run, dip-your-toe-in-the-market kind of way. i8 is not an electric car. Some hybrids. Who cares.

Volkswagen has the e-golf which, in a sense, is more progress than the others since it's an actual VM car that actual people buy and is actually electric. It's not a car I would buy, but again - it's not a cutesy test market car and it's not a half-assed hybrid, so kudos to VW.

I don't know anything about Peugeot. Probably hybrids so who cares.

In conclusion:

We're in the same place we've been for 9-12 years: CEO of Audi/BMW/Porsche/Merc announce a major electric car initiative with consumer models (6 years from now) and a sexy concept car at a trade show. Then nothing happens. Then three years later, repeat.

Over and over and over.
Krita and GIMP are two different tools.

GIMP sort of fits the PS replacement

Krita is a painting program - Corel Paint

I love Krita but I liked it when it was more of a rasta editor before the remake into a painting program also. I support every kick starter Krita has made.
You're still using 1/4 of your write unendurable for your fricking web browser. And exceeding the endurance rating can make you ineligible for warranty service/replacement of the drive.
"application-specific passwords" are not actually restricted to a single application. You can restrict the scope (only has access to your emails, for example), but any application could use this password to access your emails.
Ask HN: I found a flaw in a card reader. How should I report it?
I'm not trying to nitpick, exactly, but why wasn't it days.to/until/fall?
But you agree that a stack trace is a tool to mentally reconstruct (read: "realign") your mental model of the state the code produces, with what really happened?
Maybe I am not understanding this right, but is this saying that Firefox will continually keep writing to the disk while idle? Does anyone know more about this? Why would this be needed to restore session/tabs?

This is very much the feature working as intended: Firefox captures webpage state every 15 seconds, so a crash, power outage, accidentally closing the browser etc will not result in data loss for the user. For storing the data persistently, it uses the persistent storage, i.e. your harddrive. For the HN crowd, that's going to be an SSD. The SSD can easily deal with the resulting write traffic with negligible effect on its lifetime - I have no idea why people even think this is an issue.

Seems like it should only write after a user action or if the open page writes to storage

Webpages can change their contents or state without user interaction.

Webpages are also big and bloated. Storing a little data, all the time, 24/7, adds up over time to a surprisingly large number.
Well, the actual paper tested experienced academics, grad students, and novices on their ability to differentiate, so you can measure that hypothesis of yours.
Shift-C is only intuitive if you know the actual short cut. So how do you find out about it? Google.
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