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If you want the absolute easiest to deal with experience, try https://elementary.io or https://solus-project.com or https://linuxmint.com - if you want relatively easy with the latest packages, go with https://antergos.com
He is clearly highly literate.

For a similar argument that doesn't make use of the word 'objective', see http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
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Keep in mind that a lot of construction and earth-moving equipment has substantial counterweights and center-of-gravity mass engineering. Replacing steel with battery doesn't imply a cost constraint.

I have my own doubts over the viability for long-lived battery-powered construction equipment. At the same time, running high-voltage power leads all over a construction site would be dangerous (it already is a hazard for carpentry and powering handheld equipment). A combination of modest battery packs and quick-charging stations might offer a fair mix.

Construction equipment spends a fair bit of time at or near idle power, mixed with high-load (mostly high-torque) power demands. This actually fits the capabilities of electric power fairly well. It's the storage capacity, cost, and damage risks which seem to argue against it.
Ask HN: Will you consider using this Whatsapp tool?
Hello, I started to make a tool for managing and automating mine and my clients' whatsapp accounts 2-3 months ago and day by day I improved this tool according to my needs.

Right now, it's so easy to use. You will register from project website and it will give you a token and with that token you can send/listen messages and also you can still use your whatsapp account at your phone.

With using this project, I managed to create a whatsapp poll & whatsapp wall(streamed incoming media messages to a TV) &multi agent whatsapp support desk easily and every developer will be able to create tools (or bots) with this project.

I also consider integrating this project with services like IFTT&Zapier for extend my audience to power-users not only developers.

Here is a quick demo; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfAUozWNPU

Question is; I want to sell this to developers like 20$/mo do you think it's nice product?

Disclaimer: Please do not give legal advice.
Technically, they're preaching that you might not need JavaScript rather than advocating against it
Hm I like the idea, but in my testing, yarn is about 2 times slower than regular npm3...

EDIT: Even when it's hitting the cache, it's only ~5% faster than clean NPM with networking for me...
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You need Windows Server don't you? I can't imagine that many developers running Windows Server on their development machines.
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There's definitely some merit to not requiring users to download and run arbitrary and untrusted Turing-complete code. Whether abusing a stylesheet language to achieve that is worth said merit is certainly debatable, but I for one applaud the effort.
They're estimated to have to have to pay over (or have losses of) $5 billion! The class action lawsuits haven't even started yet, and you bet your ass InQTel, Facebook, Apple shell corps are going to be funding those lawsuits to the billions if it goes there.

It's a pretty nasty trick the Americans pulled on Samsung, and we'll see how this plays out in the end. It was bound to happen as Samsung completely began to dwarf Apple, and snubbed the CIA operated Facebook. Taking on American tech corps is akin to taking on the NSA and CIA.

For now their best bet is to narrow down the culprits, reassess who their friends are if they have any (I think they're heavily dependent on Americans). It's obvious there's a move to break Samsung apart and to feed their remains to the American tech corps, so Samsung will likely have to play second fiddle to US intel lackeys like Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc...
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That really depends on the bank's offer, amount to be converted, etc.

A general question to a very specific case :)
Good points. The NHST thing was invented by Neyman & Pearson as a tool for decision making, not for finding the truth.95% confidence means your intervals will be not to far off, in 95% of all samples.

Perhaps this is nice fur Quality Asurance in factories. Where I do repeated measurements and where I want a simple YES or NO.

But science usually asks: "what can I learn from this specific data? I don't do 100 samples and I'm not interested in being "not to far off moist of the time". I want a best estimation based on this specific sample".

NHST does not give that answer. Bayes does.
Yes, in this case it was a good change.

On the other hand, some of the mods' title changes significantly reduce the information content, as for example the title that was changed for that other thread today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690853

Originally that title was something like "Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in Docker", which gave some helpful context. But they replaced that with: "Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Express", a change that was not helpful at all, since it sounds like a product announcement of SQL Server 2016 now.
Stderr should only get error messages, and, arguably, warning messages. It shouldn't get status and progress messages. Those should go to /dev/tty, and the program should be gracefully quiet if run without a terminal, e.g., from cron.
To be honest with you, if you have to ask that question, you don't need SQL Server.

In order not to mistake my comment with an attack (it really isn't) one reason is tooling. Postgres doesn't have 1/10th of the tooling available for SQL Server. Another is BI. There isn't a better BI stack out there than Microsoft's. Also the price if very small compared to the competition and licensing costs are dwarfed by implementation costs, in general. So no, SQL Server is not expensive at all. Also the documentation is actually very, very good.
Heh, it's amusing to watch the karma sink on these comments. Here we are on HN, a community that conceits itself on its intelligence, and we apparently can't figure out that original TL;DR from the linked article's title + subtitle, let alone skimming the pictures or article itself.
I have a similar rig for my Oric-1/Atmos collection, wherein the processor being used to emulate a disk sub-system for the Oric is itself a ridiculously faster computer than the Oric hardware its supporting .. (Cumulus)

Nice idea to make a Wifi Modem, I've got an ESP8266 I may just wire up to an Oric one of these days, when I open that drawer full of junk and find it..

Always cool to keep the old machines going, no matter what ..
It all depends on the implementation. In some implementations the plaintext is still revealed even with an incorrect key, and so more than likely the cracker sees random noise. The Honey technique, of course, gives plausible looking plaintext to fool the cracker.

Not forgetting you can just slow a brute force session down by punishing multiple attempts.
What's going to happen to your latency when you have to wait before you're able to get on the escalator because it is already at max capacity?
yes, I think this is a very appropriate answer. yet, google somehow did it - why no one else?
They're easy to deal with once installed and have the latest drivers/are more likely to work with latest hardware.

You can use something like https://antergos.com to install Arch and https://www.sabayon.org for Gentoo.
I stand corrected. I thought I might get burned by C, but didn't expect it to bring Windows in on the action :)
Sorry...totally unrelated but I remembered your name fellow telescope maker ;) I think I read about your atm journey on cloudynights. Are you the one who did simple turntable grinding machine?
Our mongodb periodically hangs on our new machine with Intel Xeon CPU E5-2630 v4. After debugging for a long time, we found the intel-microcode update which likely fixed our issue.
Her book (graphic novel) is worth it for the footnotes alone (some of which take up more than half a page), even if you don't like steampunk fantasy with Lovelace, Babbage, Boole, Brunel, and more... And who wouldn't?
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They're also assuming people are willing to stand tightly packed, rather than one on every second stair. I've never seen an escalator, no matter how dense the crowds, with strangers standing on the same side of adjacent steps.
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You can definitely install these on all there distress without a problem.
> Apple wins this battle every time. Welcome to the ecosystem. :)

Yes, that's true, but we can also start being sincere about the fact that the whole story is BS. I've been recently assigned a mac by my university (never used one before) and I have to say that the ecosystem is at least unhealthy.

Maybe mac users don't really care, but having to install a third party software for common tasks like reverse scrolling, keeping the system from going to sleep, writing to NTFS, are symptoms, in my opinion, of a too much strong top down interaction between the os and the user. Same goes for the whole "OSX only on Apple hardware" story.

So no, Apple isn't shooting temselves in the foot, but surely they are disrespecting the end user. You can excuse that by saying that it is business, but I would reply that it is still true and by avoiding to talk about it we are implicitly doing Apple a favor by hiding the issues with what would otherwise be a great piece of software. We should say more often that these practices are bad for the consumer.
Agreed. Have a look at the Barbican or the South Bank Centre in London. They should be flattened.
And walking-only escalators can carry even more people, provided people walk on both sides.

I'm in favor of building enough escalators to give everyone a choice. In an emergency situation everyone will have to walk anyway.
I'm saying that if someone seriously wants to end insecure IoT gadgets, there is nowhere else in the chain, other than the end consumer, to usefully target. Manufacturers are typically overseas in jurisdictions where the appropriate regulations won't reach, and retailers can be bypassed by online sales and delivery. So if you want to use the threat of lawsuit to discourage insecure devices, the end user who purchases the device is the only entity in the chain who can be targeted.

And, you have to admit, it'd be effective: the market would instantly collapse if device owners could be held liable for damage caused by their devices.
Converting a large excel file into a format for their new inventory system is valuable to them. But it might not be that complicated for most developers.

They would probably agree to a fixed fee more easily than a higher hourly rate. There is some risk here if you're not confident how long this will take.

Figure out what your target hourly rate should be based on what you want to make or feels fair. Then setup a fixed fee price that works for you.

I would propose three phases.

A. Initial meeting, they provide a small sample of their existing file (a few lines) along with the same data in another excel file manually converted to the format their new software requires along with the full excel file they want to convert. Also ask for rules/requirements, special cases for the conversion.

B. Setup a sample 50 to 100 lines as an initial test, that you will convert and provide them as a test to verify the conversion is working properly.

C. Once they ok part B, convert the entire document.

So maybe part A: $50, part B: $50, part C: $150.

Prepare a contract ahead of time with the Phases and amounts included so they can sign off on it at your meeting. A simple one or two page contract should work. You can probably use the short version of the contract eschutte2 posted. Just replace the hourly rate section with a fixed fee section.

I would invoice them $250 payable by check when you deliver the final excel file(note this in the contract). Companies usually don't like writing multiple checks for small amounts.

If you do part A and part B and the conversion isn't working out, invoice them $100.

Let them know that you will provide support if there are issues with the conversion at no additional cost if it's an issue outlined in their original rules/requirements for the conversion. If it's a new rule/requirement you can provide that for an additional fee.

They will probably ask you for a W-9 tax form for their accounting department so they can send you a 1099 for taxes, required if they pay you $600+ for the year. You'll probably be operating as a sole proprietorship which is ok, I'd recommend getting an EIN (free online IRS) so you can use that instead of your social on the W-9. You could prepare this ahead of time or send with your first invoice.

I would include a clause in the contract that the deliverable is the converted excel file, the scope of work is converting the excel file and that you retain the exclusive rights to code developed to make the conversion.

Google convert excel for 'name of their inventory software' if it's a popular search/topic. You might be able to setup an online conversion tool that you could charge companies a one time fee for converting their file online. Might be a fun project for you and a potential money maker.

Good luck with your first freelance project.
Awesome site, make sure you play the Castle Wolfenstein game and check out chapter 2 - "Operation Stallman".

It's the most /g/ thing I've seen all day.
I think it's naive to not review dependency updates.
Also if a minor or patch update touches tens of thousands of files, you are dealing with a monster. And monsters need to be in cages.
Old HN discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507786

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9162566
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I love the individual soundtracks for all the applications. They're so well-done.
Yes, the entire thing seem to rely on the personal room required for walking vs standing.
"I agree that `--version` should always be present"

I'm not sure why version information has to have an option on its own. For humans it can be provided in help. Considering the limited usefulness it has as a separate thing, it's just command option garbage.
This is an attack on our very way of life and must be resisted with all our strength.
when my station's escalators are crowded (mostly standing only) I use the steps.
It probably helps congestion at the bottom of the escalator where people wanting to stand cross from left to right and vice versa as well.
Interesting. Previously when I've needed in-memory relational logic, I've used

conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')

For example, an SPOJ context judge. https://github.com/pauldraper/spoj-judge/blob/master/judge.p...
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Yeah, I don't know why I was downvoted, it's a completely legitimate question to ask a data scientist.

But anyway, you'd get enough for a follow up question, but not really enough to pass. The key is that the sum of uncorrelated distributions has a variance that is the sum of the variance of those distributions. This isn't true for standard deviation. This is useful so we use variance when we think we're dealing with random variables. Standard deviation isn't as useful for intermediary processes.

Another follow up question - actually the first question in my head, but by a mental slip-up I typed out the wrong thing: Why do we use square error when absolute error would do?

The answer to this is actually quite illuminating because there are multiple valid but contradictory positions on it, much like the Bayes vs Frequentist debate.
This is a big pain point for me right now. Due to the licensing we have two mac minis in the datacentre running VMware fusion with a few VMs on each. But the hardware is not suited to the role, performs abysmally and is a pain to manage.

We're currently moving our Linux, BSD and Windows CI from VMs and bare metal to openstack. It would be great if openstack could (legally) run MacOS X on the Linux hosts, or if we could have it use the openstack API to interact with the VMs via vmware, so we can use ansible to maintain the VMs across the board.
lmdb has some special cases where you can store capnproto/flat-buffers objects and read without copying/deserializing!
Hang in there, this is par for the course with a lot of these boot-up hardware projects, the guys behind CHIP are not yet mass-market vendors of these things, it is always bumpy for first adopters of this brave new world of quaint hardware ..

That said, I have my PocketCHIP. It is a great little Linux box, the perfect thing to .. indeed .. stick a pencil in, ssh into, and use .. well, like .. any other Linux workstation .. like, omfg, could this actually BE a decent Linux desktop? Answer, immfo, is this: YES! Worth the wait!
I'm sure your customers will appreciate that when it turns out you have some massive security vulnerability and you won't be updating anything.
In the trash, there's a zip that contains a link to this album:

https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v :)
This is art.
Most examples of "brutalism" are just excuses for local governments to quickly build cheap housing, it looked terrible and was mostly a failure.

The UK is a prime example of it's wrongful use, but there have been some great examples.

Barbican in London is one of those examples, it's the only one I know which I actually really like.

http://mllongworth.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/barbi...
Yes, people seem to forget that SpaceX's long term plans are so for nothing but a vision and they're pretty far away from achieving their goals. They do have an excellent technology roadmap, but they still do need to execute on it.

The Orion space craft is the only current deep space capable manned spacecraft that has flown to space and returned. Meanwhile the Dragon v2 has only completed a launch abort test and will initially serve low earth orbit only (it's designed to be upgraded to deep space capable, but this is years away).

The Falcon Heavy and SLS rockets are both still development programs, and by the current schedule, the FH will fly (probably a satellite payload) only a year earlier than the SLS (which will fly with the Orion). The SLS has higher payload (70 vs. 55 metric tons) too.

The SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System is just a visionary roadmap at this point and should be treated as such. They've only completed the first (but important) baby steps with the Raptor engine tests and composite tank manufacturing so far.

SpaceX is doing a very good job, but the SLS + Orion program is a long way ahead of them if their schedules hold.
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Do people still case houses? I know at least in my area burglaries are waaaaaay down because unloading the stuff inside is basically impossible. The few remaining burglaries are essentially smash the door run in and grab any loose cash, unlocked guns or jewelry and run out. To pull that off it seems easier to do it the old fashioned way, by ringing the door bell.

I'd be much more worried about identity theft & credit card theft with IoT devices than physical theft.
Not exactly. But there are definitely overtones of nationalism and anti-liberalism in what ministers were saying at the Conservative party conference and in recent anti-immigration proposals. They're also insisting on denying MPs and the public a vote on the exact terms of our withdrawal when many people are calling the referendum irresponsible and the result a flippant protest. So currently "respecting" this vote is not exactly the height of liberal democracy either.
1. Practical and apparently legal means:
https://lumendatabase.org/notices/2037976

"• Accessing Facebook or collecting user content or information using automated means without Facebook’s prior permission;"

So it's clear that if I know of someone's public data feed and gather it, that's fine. But what if I gather from a list of 10,000 peoples public data feeds? So I'd argue there are two points of contention here:

(1) Does making something hard to discover make it less public? Assuming there is such a thing as "public"

(2) By creating a legal barrier to a particular kind of discovery (automated), and then selling access to this data, does this make it less public?

2. I'd argue that there are different kinds of public. For example, in one kind, I can look at a room full of people, find a man, learn that his name is Mr. Brown, and see that he is wearing a green hat. In another kind, I'd need to create a request to find out if Mr. Brown exists, if he is wearing a hat, and if so, what color. In both instances of "public", this information is readily available to me, but in the second, I have to have some idea of what I want, and specifically request it.

What Facebook is doing, for me, seems like they are selling access to the first kind of public, and then allowing everyone else free access to the second kind of public, within limitations: I cannot write a script to cycle through a list of names and clothes, and I'm probably restricted in how many requests I can make within a certain timespan.
> Problem: It's very hard to find technical talent

It's not. The problem is not finding talented people, the problem is
hiring them (hint: "what can you offer me in your job? why would I want to
work for you?").

And one doesn't really need talent, just competent workforce would be
enough.
And in Britain, women operated the anti-aircraft emplacements along the coast:

http://ww2today.com/27th-december-1942-the-life-of-an-ats-ac...

Known as "The 'Ack Ack' Girls".
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> A huge majority of developers in your situation go out and buy a Mac; another hardware purchase in their pocket

Yeah, not happening. I have some users who sometimes complain about something broken in iOS on Safari, I google, and it turns out to be a known Safari bug. I just tell them that it is their device which is broken, which they agree with because it works fine on their computers. And it works fine for other users with Android phones.

The people who this hurts, are the Apple end users. There are a few bugs they just have to deal with because it's impossible for me to test a fix. Tough luck for them.

This is however for a free product. Anyone is of course welcome to buy me Apple hardware, but I don't see that happening either.
I'm pretty sure Facebook would be covered if they decided not to pay, I doubt the developer even read the ToS, let alone understood it.

But to the point, "steal" is to take something. If you didn't ever own it, I don't think it can be called stealing.
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If I get enough CPU power, a proper monitor setup with digital output, lots of RAM and modern m.2 SSD, I'm all in!
This is cultural too. In some regions it is normal to list absolutely everything to the extent of "Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook)". If you did that in other regions they would bin your CV for what looks like mere padding.
Unless this is some non-standard variant, ZRTP only negotiates a key exchange for use when encrypting the audio packets (the 'S' in 'SRTP'). Neither of those protocols has anything to do with codec selection, which is done via a SDP sent over SIP, or some other signaling protocol.
What bothers me is that I saw many of these things implemented in CSS only in ~2004. Of course, it required much more code then, including shims for IE 6 and careful slicing of GIFs, but things like tabs, accordion or lightbox were being implemented. Makes me wonder where the last decade went. At least there was a good reason to avoid JS back then: it was slow and often looked worse than CSS hacks.
And if I'm not using any CPU for my window manager, why do you think I don't need any for other stuff. I need to compile pretty big rust/clojure/scala projects daily...
The PlayStation boot sound kind of surprised me...