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Particularly none that were really suitable for transport. Good luck trading along the Andes with your turkey-carts.

Another thing I seem to remember from that book is that we do have occasional evidence of various discoveries of the wheel in the Americas, it just never caught on due to lack of cart-pulling beasts. (skimmed the book: evidence of wheels in Mexico, but no Llamas north of the Darien gap)

Besides, preindustrial transport did not happen anywhere on the scale required to transport bulk goods like base nutrients over the distance between latitudes of different biomes. Luxuries and spices, sure, but not basic foodstuff with low value per unit. Even the roman empire never really left their comfort zone of wheat-producing regions.
The only way to save the economy is to crash it
I don't get the internet connected part of a lot of the devices. Why not just use Bluetooth to smartphone. And have the smartphone proxy all data to the internet.
> the Screenshot app knows how to obfuscate text

Wow, that's a pretty great idea. Enough people do this wrong manually that it seems like something that could be better solved by the OS.

One example I've seen of doing it wrong is adding black opaque rectangles as layers and then sending out all layers including the original. Another is pixelating it in a way where it's possible to revert the pixelation since the font is known (e.g. parts of a facebook post)
Eh? Not all tea is kosher, especially flavored kinds, and those with more processing. So what's wrong with them telling you it's kosher?

And there are non-gluten-free teas, they have barley malt, or roasted barley in them.
Google finds 'task_t' major Apple bug
I managed a internal version of jitsi meet, its great, but it has had a bunch of glitches and issues with parties with more than ~15 people on it.
I'm not sure what you are referring to. Could you give an example of a constitution written by people untrained in law that was well thought out.
It works really well on old computers in my experience. I first ran it because Ubuntu was so slow to be unusuable on an old Core2Duo, and on that hardware Elementary was very fast.
Sure, I don't think it's a silver-bullet explanation, just one that you hear frequently. I still think it holds water, to a certain extent -- the central plains have continually been the cradle and heart of Chinese civilization. And one of China's most culturally fruitful periods, Warring States, occurred when even the central plain was fragmented, which would seem to uphold the theory of the article.

I think spread out over enough time, these pervasive environmental factors do have a real influence. You could see the unity of the Roman Empire as being Europe's fluke, and the disunity of the Warring States as being China's.

But again, it's really all speculative.
They didn't only solicit the opinions of Icelandic lawyers.
Given the nature of shortwave propagation, I would suspect the delivered service will be less than promised. According to this document it utilizes a form of peer-to-peer cell networking over shortwave. I would suspect that with the increase of base stations there would be lots of contention for usable bandwidth. As someone once put it, you canna change the laws of physics.

"While connected to the existing infrastructure, the radio switches to base station mode for offering INDEPENDENT communication to other users in GLOBAL network as well"

http://hfindustry.com/meetings_presentations/presentation_ma...

btw: Whatever happened to that low earth orbit satellite system that was going to provide Internet anywhere on the planet.
I don't know. It's true that there is only one Kim Kardashian. But Kim Kardashian archetype isn't that hard to replace. She's not famous because she's Kim Kardashian. She's famous for a bunch of other reasons that are not that difficult to replace. Even that show isn't really a monopoly that matters.
but there is simply not any alternative that can realistically compete with the Mac platform right now

I think you forgot to add two important words: for me. Other beg to differ for a variety of reasons.
Here is a great video[0] with an exploration of using SIMs for a (very) micro telco, including a discussion of the APIs available

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-nxemBCcmU
Apart from AUR build as others have pointed out, there is a repo for that https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon
Mail used to use webkitgtk (the old api), but has been since ported to use webkit2gtk (the new, multi-process api), you might wanna give it a second look.

EDIT: I stand corrected. This has not happened yet. I confused this with some other changes.
"Truth" is a slippery thing. Keep in mind you can't create dissonance in someone. Only they can do that, given it's an internal conflict of two opposing truths. You can, however, introduce a thought process that breaks dissonance by double binding them. Making someone choose between two undesirable options is a sure way to get rid of one of the "truths", leaving the one that best suits moving forward.

People in dissonance will attempt to spread the dissonance and will resist any attempts to break it. I've seen people bounce between two opposing beliefs in a matter of seconds and rationalize the whole thing as if it made perfect sense. The only way to "fix" this behavior in someone is to double bind them and then let it be - walk away from the dissonance least it spread to you. Pushing too hard on the dissonance will cause it to blame you directly for calling attention to it.
Talking about Emacs on Facebook is awful. As if the thing was "only a text editor" and not a symbol of freedom...
Why are you afraid to click the link?
Constitution 2.0
I believe his point is that Europeans don't occupy a unique point on the moral spectrum, either positive or negative.
Although in Europe land ownership was by feudal lords as well. So not a strong argument for or against. I'm following up on the energy crisis lead, that seems promising.

I don't suppose it is lost on people that if the land provides your needs, it seems you don't develop a lot of knowledge, and if it doesn't you do[1]. And that correlates at least loosely with myths about losing access to the garden of eden by eating from the tree of knowledge.

[1] Sort of a variation on the maxim, "Success makes you complacent, failure makes you smarter."
It's not a blog, it's a Wiki (https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy), and the blog just hangs off it. I see no damning in that - you can always either not visit or not click :)
I am chocked that somebody that can be so involved in Emacs can share it's ideas on Facebook.

It would be a big failure for Emacs.
FWIW, I've hacked a little bit on bash, and IMHO, Emacs internals are _much_ cleaner than bash's.
I've had a logitec keyboard with a small display on it and the software was terrible. There were enough people writing things that interact with it, so it was useless most of the time.

I think the software is what will make or break this concept. It needs to be hackable. It should probably define a standard generic interface. People need to be able to integrate it into various applications in complex ways. It'll be weird to have multiple applications that try to change the layout in their own ways, so you need a daemon that makes the final decision and you need a simple, intuitive but powerful way to control this behaviour. If not done correctly, it'll be a nightmare and/or completely useless.
I agree. But this is a misconception about functional programming in general, that its purpose is to somehow replace imperative actions that are done by the computer system with something else which is not imperative.

But that's not the goal. Functional programming is there to provide a better formalism for writing programs, it doesn't want to change the way the computers actually execute the programs (or how the systems eventually internally work).

That means more work for the compilers to figure out how to make the same old imperative program out of a functional one, which is a good thing (it's generally the direction the compilers evolve).

Benefits of functional programming are not in how programs are executed (quite to the contrary - it's actually more effort to make them as efficient as good imperative programs), but in how the programs are written by people. I think the article is a little confused about this.

For another example to see this, even notion of non-pure function goes already in this direction. Today, having lots of (small) functions seems to have negligible downsides, but historically this wasn't the case at all, look at any better program that had to fit into memory of an 8-bit computer. These were rarely written in this style, because compilers were simply not capable enough to produce a reasonably compact spaghetti machine code out of those (by means of inlining, for instance).
> Note that the US did not industrialize equally - notably, consider the part where slavery-based agriculture was profitable

That's an astute observation. The slave based southern economy did not industrialize. Slavery is not a free market. I do not know of a free market economy that failed to industrialize.

As for slavery being profitable, one of the big drivers of the Civil War was it was becoming unprofitable, and the South needed to protect its inefficient economy. Separating itself from the North meant it could enact protectionist trade barriers (which were not allowed by the Constitution).

Like so many things in human history, the end of slavery came about less because of a moral awakening, and more because it didn't pay anymore.
Coroutines are goto.

That's not a joke or anything, the semantics of coroutines are the semantics of goto statements. All this async business is just the old spaghetti sneaking back in while people are distracted by the nomenclature.
It's certainly on the to-do list, but some features related to swipe were implemented in the GTK version after than the one Ubuntu 16.04 LTS currently ships, so it'll take a bit more time.

I personally want that feature too.
The Linux subsystem on Windows seems promising too, and it may fill the same gap as the Mac OS X BSD backend when Apple transitioned from OS 9 to OS X. I'm curious to see what MS does with it, and I wonder if it could possibly win back a lot of Mac developers.
Anti-Intellectualism and the “Dumbing Down” of America
I imagine you are living in a Mac bubble.

On our main building, which has four floors, there are exactly 4 Macs.

On two of the customers sites I visit regularly, with several hundred people on the respective buildings, only iOS developers have Macs, and they aren't that many on site.
Has it? I haven't heard about any important improvements for quite some time... What has changed? (genuinly curious)
Show HN: Ambient Guilloché
The delegates were generally convinced that an effective central government with a wide range of enforceable powers must replace the weaker Congress established by the Articles of Confederation. Their depth of knowledge and experience in self-government was remarkable. As Thomas Jefferson in Paris wrote to John Adams in London, "It really is an assembly of demigods." According to one view, the Framers embraced the federal ambiguities in the constitutional text allowing for compromise and cooperation about broad concepts rather than dictating specific policies for the future.

Are these the "rich landowners" you are referring to?
Hey there. I am actually the author. I completely agree with your point. The issue I was having starting the company where my immaturity and naivety hurt me was investing too much into "my problems, my issues, my company." I think a lot of people fall in this trap and come to that realization that you made that placing value into yourself or accomplishments is where you'll inevitably falter. I actually wrote something as an antidote later about the importance of shared purpose in organizations: https://medium.com/@DanielTawfik1/fencing-in-the-mirror-23d5...
They certainly weren't angels, but neither were the Chinese or Arabs or Africans or Aztecs or any other large group of humans at the time. Though maybe we can grant exceptions to small, isolated groups.
I recently read the Wikipedia pages for health cards, and was surprised that these are demi-computers (by that I mean, no IO, no power). Standard chips are 4MHz >8bits these days (with added crypto etc). A Gameboy Air.
Arsenal still play possession football. They have not won anything for a while, to the point "playing like Arsenal" (i.e. hogging the ball without actually winning) has become a joke. Their early-'00s success was due as much to an exceptional generation of talents (Vieira, Bergkamp, Pires, Henry...) as to any other factor.

The same for Barcelona - Pep Guardiola, known for being the most successful manager to insist on "possession first" football, was not particularly successful at Bayern (he inherited a team winning all domestic and international trophies in 2013, and only managed to win domestically for the following two years), and is somewhat struggling at Man City.

Famously, Leicester City won the Premier League last year playing the exact opposite of possession football. Someone like Jamie Vardy, capable of quick bursts of speed but with relatively poor skills on the ball, would be embarrassing to watch at Arsenal or Barcelona, but was absolutely lethal for the Foxes last year.

Possession football, like "moneyball" baseball, looks nice on paper but IMHO is a red herring. Technically gifted players will like to hold the ball, and gifted players naturally tend to win more because they are better, so people link this and that and say you have to hold the ball to win. What you really need to be successful is to play a style that suits your players. If you have Messi, Xavi and Iniesta, you play possession; if you have Vardy, Mahrez and Kante, you play counter-attack and long balls in space.
Hah. I thought this was an article about PM2
Why is asking a forum and not just googling still a thing???
Ah I see you've also read the stratechery article about apple's structure :-)

I think it's pretty clear from the WWDC Gruber interview panel that the execs who love the Mac are Schiller and Federighi but you're right that it's speculation. Either way, we can be negative and whinge or take this update as a glimmer of hope - because whatever we choose to do Apple aren't paying us any attention on HN!
Since the article was about MacOS/Apple and Linux I thought they were comparing to MacOS.
Yes, you've hit the crux of the issue. The money lended has essentially no risk to the lender (assuming the US govt doesn't collapse). And schools can charge as much as they want. So since loans are riskless, anyone can get one, so schools just charge a bunch because, why not, why not have seventeen overpaid deans and a new recreation facility? The people who lose are the borrowers.
What is a simple explanation of the Hidden Markov Model algorithm?
> Having recently noticed a little carpal tunnel (though in truth I don't know how to distinguish the two)

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a specific condition where your carpal tunnel constricts around a nerve. RSI is the umbrella term for these types of injuries.
All but benchmarks.
The thing I actually really like about Mac laptops is that there are no vents or intake fans on the bottom, so it can actually be used on your lap without trying to keep your knees in just the right spot. Apple has a pretty unique cooling system that seems to be hard to find elsewhere.
Hasn't it been getting really bad now? Canadian incomes did not go up by %25 when the currency went down by %25, but rent has risen a lot recently in the past year. I moved away years ago, but that is what I've heard. That chart only goes to 2015.

But yes, that was the only thing saving BC from being a place where nobody could afford to live in it, since the rental market reflected the local supply & demand only.

If your a typical professional making $4000/month after taxes, you will be paying something around $1500+ for a 1 bedroom apartment in Vancouver, which isn't %25, but %37+ of income.
He certainly picked a replacement he believed in. He made very sure that Jony Ive had certain powers inside Apple. He didn't die overnight, and had plenty of time to consider how to set up Apple.

On the other hand, last time he picked a successor in the 80s he picked the wrong guy.
Show HN: Certainties in Life
My working list of life's certainties:

1. Death.
2. Taxes.
3. Unsolicited marketing emails.
4. Bookmarklet gets submitted to Hacker News at least once a day.
What are the workarounds? I upgraded, noticed the option 'anywhere' was gone and wished I hadn't...
I don't use desktops since 2006, only laptops with docking stations.

Many of our customers follow similar patterns, I hardly see new desktops being deployed, so I have some sympathy for Apple thinking that it might not be worthwhile to keep doing them.
There could be a third option "soon"; Fuchsia, the new OS Google is developing. From what I see, it seems like a modular OS running Flutter apps, with Material Design as the system's UI.

Google has folks who worked on BeOS, Danger, iOS, ChromeOS and Android working on this new OS.
I'd very much argue that a hardware token is more secure, and less complex, especially with multiple devices. It's a lot easier to remember where you put your smart card than to need to get a password store somewhere shareable, to secure that, to remember to put passwords in the store, etc.
How do you utilize your alumni association? Do you look for people from your alma mater working at a company or contact the actual association?
> Why are you afraid to click the link?

Because ransomware criminals would probably love to take over that site and start distributing ransomware or other malware from it. And I have no way to judge how well that site's owners have protected it from that sort of attack. When I'm in doubt, I tend to err on the side of caution.
Thanks :-)

you can check out https://github.com/nenadg/traquer/tree/master/runner which is test runner that extrapolates from saved events.

Mouse position is irrelevant in selenium cases right now.
Right now I'm trying to create basic case in which recorded events would be reproduced in correct sequence, reproducing what we've done on page.

The down side is - what is collected is xpath (just because it is shorter than dom selector), xpath is absolutely vulnerable to changes so your tests will fail after F5 (in case of generated ID's whatsoever).

I need to work on this, any help is welcome :-).
SIM cards make it easy to change phones, by moving the SIM card to a new phone. CDMA phones make this hard, and sometimes impossible. They also make it a little easier to change carriers, since you can just switch the SIM card. It'd be even easier to switch if phones had that functionality built-in, so you could sign up for a new carrier and switch entirely via the phone, but in that case I think you'd find that carriers frequently broke that functionality.
As someone that been on HN for 9 years, pushing back on these kinds of comments is my business. This is my opinion on the value of you coming to Hacker News to complain about the author's writing style, and secondarily aimed at other commenters here. Your style of just summarily shitting on how the author wrote this piece adds no value to the discussion. Clearly lots of other people like it, this has been the #1 piece on HN for hours. If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to read it or asking for your opinion.

In the mean time comments like yours dissuade other people from putting themselves out there. I'll get 100 positive responses on something I write or say at a conference, but the 1 hater always sticks out more. If that means fewer people write publicly it makes us all worse off.
You don't need a "hands on" nor 30 days to realize 16gb of RAM isn't going to be enough for the CAPEX of a $2500 to $4000 dollar machine over the span of (hopefully) 3+ years. That is just one example... there are many more.
Planning permission is granted or refused by the council though, based on the need and impact on surrounding areas. A HOA can stop you hanging your laundry out to dry on a line, force you to water your lawn x times a week, prevent you painting your house a particular colour, prevent you installing a fence, determine they type of vehicle you are allowed and whether it can be parked on your drive or if it must be in a garage. It is not really comparable to planning permission which is really only required for significant construction work or change of use ie. Shop to residential or vice versa.

Plus if the HOA members don't like you they can make your life difficult. Planning permission affects everyone equally. If a neighbour can extend a property then more than likely you can too, if you are refused it is likely all similar applications would be refused, you don't know the planning officer and they don't know you so no bias can be involved which make the whole process much fairer.
The solution is simpler and doesn't involve giving more power to idiots: don't buy shit.
JS is not the only attack surface in a browser. There have been exploitable bugs in image parsers, font renderers, etc. Tracking is possible without JS as well.

Maybe try lynx?
> but the ability to get information from the Internet

No, the "both sides" thing and lack of fact checking is absolutely nothing new. It's a fear of being accused of bias, plus some sheer laziness.

On balance, I think the internet has been a hugely positive force for getting real information and marginalized views out there. Of course it can be misused, but some people are just going to choose to believe insane things and nothing can really be done to stop that.
I used Cocoa on iOS and I agree that it's easy to build an app matching the platform UI guidelines. When using the storyboard designer it's ridiculously easy.

Qt gives one a lot more freedom to screw up and look out of place if they're not careful. But when one wants to customize controls or build a customized UI Qt will win hands down.

The problem with Linux UI has nothing to do with Qt per se. Qt is more than able to build high-quality UIs, but as long as Linux is lacking a UI identity (like Unity, which many hate) it will never be as good as macOS.
Sorry, but Steve Jobs also released lots of products with rough edges like that. (Remember "antennagate"?)

I think we won't see how Apples management really works until there's a new product space that Apple entirely misses, and I don't think we've seen that yet (it could be AI, VR, or something entirely different we haven't thought of). If they miss that just like Microsoft did in the tablet / mobile space, then we can start comparing Tim Cook to Ballmer.
I just want to point out that the HEPA ratings are pretty lax on how much and what they are effectively cleaning in the air. Pretty much everybody can use the word HEPA and it not mean that much if they are, for example, using an ionizer that essentially just makes the particles 'sticky' while putting them back in the air.

Source: I work at a top international air purification company.
I've been an elementaryOS user for years and I ended up dropping the whole thing in favour of xfwm4 + synapse + tint2.

eOS is a really nice looking thing, but it's buggy, release after release it's losing features, like [1] - this specific one was never fixed in the previous release.

The built-on music app collapses under a reasonable amount of music, same as banshee or quod libet can easily handle. Geary, the mail app looks nice, but lacks basic features and has a tendency to corrupt IMAP folders.

The window manager of eOS, Gala, is indeed impressive, but lack options to tweak. In the previous release, it was impossible to disable the ALT+TAB effect, even if all the other effects were set to none.

So overally: it's looks nice, the window manager is fast, and if you're fine with the defaults, you're probably going to be a happy user - until you find something you miss, and there is no way to fix that.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/switchboard-plug-power/+bug/13590...
Are Emoji Domains Inevitable?
Intent is only irrelevant in statutory offenses.