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I tend to prefer English suffixes and camelcase rather than Hungarian prefixes and underscores. Like, for a steel coil, InnerDiameterMM, MassTonnes, GaugeMM, etc. I prefer to leave abbreviations for cases where it's obvious even to non-experts, like mm for millimeters.
Agree the article lacks content.

Just to raise a point on your comment - though 'midcentury modern' is a slippery term i dont think your references quite capture it. When i see the term it is generally less canonical modernism (architecture-focussed, pre-wwii, Corbusier/bauhaus, france/germany-led) and more something different (furniture focussed, post wwii, influenced by modernism but also arts and craft/frank lloyd wright/etc., scandinavian led with notable american examples).

I think theres a reason it has appeared as a term - because many things described by this term are quite definitely not 'moderism'
Do you know the real reason for contracts?  It might surprise you
Aren't static site generators supposed to umm, generate a static site, so one wouldn't have to maintain any binaries?
Also in Boulder, also a time I have to be hyper aware. I find the bike infrastructure in this city slightly... uneven. Sometimes, it's great, sometimes it's not very well planned out. I live off of 36 in N Boulder. It can be downright dangerous using the bike lane.
A lot of mid century modern stuff was extremely functional. From Mies van der Rohe's skyscrapers to Herman Miller's office chairs.
> Cyclists are already second class citizens on the roads. People who ride bikes are upset about this and would prefer not to become third or fourth class. It's also very frustrating to have to assume everyone is so ignorant that they wouldn't mind accidentally killing you for the sake of saving a second or two.

I'll bite. Any cyclist who rides on the sidewalk, runs a red light, or flaunts traffic convention in general absolutely deserves to be treated as a second class citizen. Your wheels don't belong on the sidewalk. I'm sorry if I sound rude.
Ask HN: Which countries are best for software engineers?
I'm currently living outside of NYC and have for most of my life. I've always wanted to live in another country but I'm unsure of what other countries would provide a similar quality of life and would allow me to continue working as a software engineer. What other countries have strong tech hubs with well-paying software jobs?
I never get the fussing with aligning. I get the importance of clean indenting, but so much SQL I see looks like the writer spent a long time tweaking the alignment with spaces to make sure the data types lined up perfectly or the ON clauses or what have you.... And then had do do it all over again the moment they changed something.

Just indent when scope changes, and don't align things. Alignment is a time-sink.
Try Denver. Downtown has several main routes of terrifying bike lanes on the left side. No one looks left/back when they are taking a left turn, even when theres a full car sized lane with reflective dividers (they also frequently forego blinkers, but thats another issue). The worst is the people pulling into parking garages mid block.
For those wondering what to do with an asset pipeline, check out Victor Hugo (https://github.com/netlify/victor-hugo), a boilerplate for using gulp and webpack too manage the asset pipeline around a hugo based project.
I just ride way out in the middle of the lane, at least five feet from the cars. If that doesn't leave enough room for cars to pass me, too bad for them. Maybe some day they will realize how much of the road is being wasted on parking.
What is missing from this view is that wealth is good. If you run a company (that isn't a monopoly) you will quickly realize the obvious:

The only way to create wealth is to give most of it (>50%, at least) away. You have to provide more value than the price of what you're providing.

It is a very good thing, for society, for you and me, that that wealth is created. If the rich ever "stop accruing an insane amount of wealth", that would be very bad. We don't want that. We want that wealth to be created.

And then there's the obvious fix: just have the government do it all. The problem with that is that it takes away the wealth creation motive and replaces it with raw power. The point of business, at that point, becomes advancing it's management position in the government, not to serve anyone. I very much prefer a lot of highly capable people working to provide more goods for me cheaper & better to a lot of highly capable people working to provide a tighter and more controlling government. So should you.
How do you generate an image of the stack?
It isn't the best, you just like it best. Lots of people do not agree. I also used darcs and mercurial. I still do use darcs, and have essentially stopped participating in most open source projects because I find git so unpleasant to try to use.
You sound not only rude but also ignorant and wrong. Welcome to the Internet!

In California many bicyclists do in fact belong on the sidewalk, and this includes any child and any adult riding with a child.
When I said "people believe what they want to believe" that applied to all people. It is a universal condition.
Good point on white and black gadgets. I think you're right.
> When is that going to happen?

It already happens/has happened with AMPRnet, HSMM, CUWiN, Freifunk, FunkFeuer, OpenWireless, Firetide, Guifi.net, Netsukuku, Ninux, Senceive, and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network

When higher levels of portable energy become safer and cheaper, then it would be more likely that a small radio could be used to transmit and receive over longer distances.

If a company like Google and Facebook were to provide free adequately high-speed internet access, there'd be less incentive for a free peer-based network wherever they provided free access. Google's free wired plan is lower speed and they didn't plan to expand it; however, I'm not sure about their plans for Wifi. Neither Facebook nor Google have stated they plan to provide access everywhere. So, free access via a peer-based network would remain an incentive over paid plans for the foreseeable future.
Switching to Hugo
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> And we can all name a lot of things that are broken: healthcare, education, homelessness and poverty, food waste, climate change...

Successful people in Silicon Valley are not concerned by these issues. They can afford to pay physicians without relying on public generosity, they can send their kids in private schools if they're not happy with public ones, they're neither homeless nor likely to become so (by hypothesis : they're successful), and they're not poor.

So basically, the subjects that are mentioned are really problems only for people who have a high sense of altruism.

Why are people not as altruistic as the author? I don't know, but it's probably just a fact.
Riding on the sidewalk, for short distances and with a good reason, can be done safely and courteously, though it may require slowing to walking speed.

How many car drivers never exceed the speed limit and always come to a complete stop at stop signs? Your absolutism should apply in both directions, no?
Why oh why would you put it behind an email wall? Why would you need my email to show me "what I assume" is image search.

My feedback. Ok, I can search for stock photos. But can't I already do that? There are lots of stock photo searches. But this one uses AI. So what?

Ok, let's see how your solution is better than anybody else. Oh, I can't you want my email, and I'm not really that bothered.
You could say the same thing about random conversation. Which is what twitter is, it's conversation. But you get to choose who you follow on twitter, it's not like you just sign up and get a firehose stream of random tweets. It's a great way to keep up on your friends and interesting people.
Snapchat created a multi-billion dollar market via centralized tech and money taken in on the promise they'll monetize it (or the data under EULA) somehow while giving app away for free and operating in a pseudo-police state. I was hesitant to think anything good would come of that after the main SMS and Facebook alternative I pushed for mass audience, WhatApp, was acquired by Facebook in one of largest acquisitions in history. (sighs)

Also, WhatApp was losing incredible amount of money with its number of users despite using efficient, centralized tech. I bet they'd loose even more if people were mostly sending images. I've been thinking secure, decentralized apps with no advertising or acquisition will cost money to develop that will require paying users. Or some clever freemium model. Also, not in a police state. ;)
Exactly what is the problem with these batteries? Who is responsible, i.e.is there a 3rd party battery manufacturer involved? How do I know other Samsung devices don't also have exploding batteries? How do I know that the battery problem is isolated to only Samsung products?

What if this is a bigger more widespread problem that hasn't shown up yet because it is affecting other new Samsung products and newer products from other manufacturers?

What on earth is going on here?

Could the airlines be at fault somehow? Did they install faulty microwave ovens that are causing the batteries to explode.

What on earth is really going on here?

This is not a Samsung issue any more. It is a global air transport safety issue as well as a global product safety issue. Samsung has no right to resolve this problem in private. The people must be informed about all the facts.

Would you fly anywhere on any airline before this problem is completely resolved?
Well, maybe second-worst. The worst would be them getting all your Dropbox files.
Which is why most people shouldn't found companies straight out of college, they should join organizations with impactful missions that align with their goals.
Given the sensors required to be self-driving, a self-driving car should be able to detect a bicycle in the "dooring zone", and prevent the door from opening and/or alert the car occupant.
Except that Samsung is the largest supplier of Android. So if somebody was going to get an Android, it is likely they were going to get a Samsung.

https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore-Reports-...

If they don't get a Samsung, it is possible they will go to Apple, the other large supplier.
> It's all about people who've seen how absurdly rich you can get

Yes and no. As is often bandied about, the expected value of a career in startups is lower than in many other fields, and yet people do stay after seeing through the myth.

A large part of it, at least that I've observed, is the energy, speed of execution, rapid change, the excitement and adventure of the startup world. You willingly give up expected value in exchange for a more interesting life. The stress is part of the fun, the person it moulds you into is something that becomes part of your identity. If the personal risk wasn't real, it wouldn't be fun. The man in the arena etc.
Subpixel rendering would give the font 3x the horizontal resolution. Its just as useful for bitmap fonts as it is for vector fonts. Especially at that resolution, anything that makes the font more legible would be a boon.
Such models presumably can be tested in some sense. E.g. build some sort of predictive model of elections in each state using Twitter users as a surrogate, see how well you do.

I'm not claiming that such a model is guaranteed to be perfect or even as good as a pollster, but it sounds in principle like a reasonable thing to do, if you take appropriate precautions to reduce bias.
Cycling here in Boulder is definitely much more dangerous compared to The Netherlands. A lot of cars turn right without checking for bikes. What's up with that?

On the other hand the bike sharing program here in Boulder is the best I've ever seen.

(I'm Dutch and live in Boulder, Colorado)
> Oh please. It took 6 years for the EU to penalize Ireland for the double irish/dutch sandwich avoidance mechanism.

That's because it's not a clear-cut legal issue. It's pretty much the EU versus everyone else on this one. Even the US government is unhappy about the EU ruling, even though the US government has gone after Apple for its tax practices fairly recently.
In the same vein as this discussion, you can actually set up your own client - and tweak it to suit your needs, such as removing any banners, adjusting style, etc. - and still interact with others via matrix.org protocol.
>Yes and no. As is often bandied about, the expected value of a career in startups is lower than in many other fields, and yet people do stay after seeing through the myth.

Hence, "Lottery".
I guess this is not a bad idea, but just looking in the side mirror before opening the door is easier to do, and probably easier to teach people to do.

As a cyclist, I give parked cars as much room as possible. I've never been doored... though I've never ridden in NYC either.
You get my downvote just for opening with sarcasm.
I support open protocols and not proprietary products that make you pay to simply keep chat history (Slack deletes messages after +10,000 messages). To be against IRC is to be against e-mail. IRC has been around at least since the 80s.
For a pretty long time, for both those planets, they didn't know where to point their telescopes. This was also true for the outer planets, and Pluto too. A similar sort of thing, to a different/lesser extent, used to be the case with gravitational waves not having been directly observed despite other evidence. There were similar problems with the early discussions of atomic nuclei, electrons, neutrinos, neutrons, where all kinds of things were posited based on their effects only. I know it's quite a bit more difficult, and less direct, with dark matter, but still.

(Really, I was objecting to the use of the word placeholder, because I found it unfair.)
Thanks! my mental model was incorrect.
> If a majority survives by leeching off a productive minority then eventually the system will fail and people will live in abject misery and poverty.

If that was true, it would have happened a long time ago.
Hi Slava, any update on the "full announcement and details" that you mentioned? Thanks!
On reflection, that was a cheap shot, and I would retract it if I could.
Oh interesting! Care to share a small write-up about how you set it up?
If you're riding at any sort of speed, how can you reliably check that every car you pass doesn't have anybody sitting by the door?
yet no journalist makes the mistake of reporting on Reddit comments as if it's generalizable to the larger population.

You should stop by /r/austin sometime, and just lurk. The amount of local reporters looking for some kind of pulse to put their finger on and even those nu-'journalist' sites (Vice,Vox,insert here) obviously mining for quotebait is absurd, and the community has been calling it out.

Of course, /r/austin isn't a remarkably interesting place to be anyway for a lot of reasons...it's just interesting to watch the "Austin" phenomenon manifested there. Different story though.
"The "People don't understand" is a condescending statement and is exactly the reason why the people who try to build these decentralized systems never succeed, because they don't even understand why people use information silos."

I've talked to at least hundreds, maybe a thousand, people (not techies) about these issues over past 10 years. Most don't understand the scope of the problem in terms of the tradeoff they're making. Many also think main suppliers couldn't, wouldn't, etc do sinister things X, Y, and Z because something would happen. Many think problems X, Y, and Z are inevitable since all the famous apps allow them for extra profit or growth. Vast majority don't know much about computers, privacy law, or U.S. history of surveillance states (eg Hoover) because they don't put time into learning. They will shout about minor things that are similar on TV they understand with little thought.

So, it's not condescending. It's a fact that "people don't understand," are apathetic, or terrible at long-term risk/reward tradeoffs. There's shitloads of empirical evidence confirming it in terms of what they adopt in the market vs what problems it causes them. And what crap they adopt next time. We definitely should put the share of blame on them that they earn.

"It is these "decentralized" people who are out of touch, not the ordinary people."

A lot of them are, too, in fairness. They come up with all kinds of crazy, unrealistic solutions that ignore human nature, economics, etc. Best models are going to be hybrids.
I tend to counter this argument with an analogy: "I'm building houses, not hammers." It's a problem if you don't know the right tool for the job. It's a good idea to have some idea about how the tool works, but it's not necessary to know how to build the tool from scratch, by heart.

Algorithms and data structures are tools, not products.
Duplicity is great! I use duply to back up my photos to Backblaze B2, which is really cheap: 0.005$/GB/Month.
I wouldn't have to be rude if cyclists rode at walking speed safely and courteously. Some cyclists are incredibly self-entitled.

Of course, I think we need stiff penalties for cars hitting cyclists. However, cyclists need to know they are second class citizens on the side walk.

Yes, cars not coming to a full stop is a problem. But saying something else us wrong doesn't make me right.

I'm glad you guys have a hug box going on here but if you can't ride safely on a bike lane, don't ride a bicycle. I shouldn't have to give way to cyclists speeding on the sidewalk. If you're at walking speed, you can ride behind me. No need to pass.
This is far more believable than the claim that using the far hand will force you to turn 90 degrees inside the car and scan fully before getting out. It might serve as a good habit/reminder, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient to create this behavior.

I think much of the US is unaware of how seriously some other countries take driver's training. Our standards are appallingly low.
Twitter has no open nature. Twitter exists to control information, that's why they don't care about making money. Twitter is very actively and heavily involved in censorship and manipulation.
It would take decades for new drivers learning this technique to fully replace the current driving population. And I suspect most people wouldn't keep up the habit anyway.
Entrepreneurs and companies that get started are utterly desparate for solvable problems to solve. The ideas may seem "stupid" to you, but that's only because biggest problems have way too many barriers to entry and are typically guarded by rent seeking government lobbying legislation.

Take homelessness. I'm sure there's a technical way to build housing for cheap enough to get people back into houses. But, the government legislation makes it a complete non-starter. There are so many rules and regulations, a potential entrepreneur or existing Company couldn't even begin to dream of creating a solution. It's all Locked up. Homelessness is a problem that is illegal to solve, as so many things are.

Trust me, if it were legally possible to create housing that was profitable (low enough cost to cover expenses), I'm sure there would be dozens of builders lining up around the block to do it.
I was doored once. I remember flying through the air and thinking, "oh, this isn't so bad." Then I landed and almost broke my hand.
Depends on what problem your solving. If you want the oldest 10% of the population not to die in poverty that's actually fairly easy to solve. In you want ~0.00% deaths from starvation that's also easy to solve. However it's cheaper to provide basic heathcare to everyone than it is to provide top quality heathcare to the elderly.

Reducing drug use to some significantly lower level is very possible, ending it is not. Going to Mars is easy, colonizing Mars is a pipe dream. Governments can solve a wide range of problems reasonably efficiently, but open ended goals without a clear stopping point become unbound problems.
Bingo. Mid century furniture makes a property feel larger than other styles. A hint if you are staging a property for sale is use mid century modern furniture to style it. Buyers will feel it is much larger than it really is and pay you more [1].

1. This is assuming you are living in a house built in the last 100 years and not a palace.
Free Client for OneDrive on Linux
What's not to like about the default font that comes with xterm (6x13 size)?

That's one of my favourites too --- the only "what's not to like" about it is the nonslashed zero, but that's easily fixed with a suitable font or even hex editor.

There is a 5x7 in the same family, but I find it too small for regular use; on the other hand, it looks much like the standard font on embedded systems' character LCDs, which are much lower DPI.
What's your definition of success?
Not everything can be solved with technology. Sure, tech will play a role, but the biggest problem is Government, legislation and the laws that prevent innovation, increasing barriers to entry so high, it drives out and prevents all innovation: hence why there's not many innovative companies going after the trillion dollar housing market.
If you can rely on the developer to use gotos in clear patterns like that, then great. But if there is a recognizable pattern, it's an opportunity for the language to provide an alternative like with{} or try{}finally{}.
I find it sad to think that one day we will refer to the "Tusked Elephant" the same we way we now refer to the "Sabre-Toothed Tiger". Evolution may have found a way to survive humanity in this case, but it's reason for needing to do so is absolutely stupid.
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This is a reasonable approach when the world is full of hostile cars, but it doesn't have to be that way if drivers are more careful.

Some parts of town here riding a bike seems like attempting a trench run on the Death Star, there's innumerable hazards and if you're not hyper-aware of everything you will get smacked hard by one of them.

This is completely unacceptable. Nobody should have to maintain absolute situation awareness when cycling. You should be aware of your surroundings, but like walking it should be a fairly effortless process provided you keep your eyes open and scan your surroundings for possible problems.

Imagine if the road was littered with large, random spikes that would pop up out of nowhere without notice. Driving would require every scrap of your attention and would be exhausting even for short trips.
tldr; I solved a problem that I had. Would love to get HN community's feedback.

Appreciate your feedback. I have not launched the app yet, it is in private beta. This is a hackers community. I am looking for fellow hackers willing to go through the e-mail wall to try what I have built and provide feedback.

There are lots of stock photo searches. But this one uses AI. So what?
I have been buying stock photos a lot these past year. Every time, I have spent a lot of time (and the time value of money) finding the photo that I like. If you value your time at $100 per hour, the real cost of the stock photo that took you 30 minutes to find is the stock photo cost + $50.
Why would exercising your eyes make them need glasses?
Hmm, does anyone know how I can import this font on Ubuntu? Nothing recognizes it.
I tried out, Jekyll, Hugo and neither one met my needs.

I found middleman to be the most powerful static site generator.
> The US federal government collects more money in tax revenue alone, than ever before in the history of any country that has ever been.

Even if expenses did not increase, that statement would always be true because of inflation.
I hate that argument; effectively it boils down to "it is hard, so why try anything at all?"

Even if it took thirty years and even if it was only ten percent effective, what is the negatives to this plan? One more minor skill to driving? One more bullet in the driving code?