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Im a developer, but also paint seriously in bursts when I have chunks of free time between projects and the urge takes me - some of my work on : theartispainting.com

I can say firstly that making a reasonable copy of a face or old master painting in oil on canvas takes a _lot_ of skill. It may or may not be art, thats another matter.

I wanted to comment to mention that, for someone who paints daily, it is most likely 8 to 20+ hours work to make a reasonable quality portrait in oil.

A tube of oil paint might cost anywhere from 7 to 40 dollars, then you have mediums, brushes, possibly studio space rental. The raw materials for cheap cotton canvas + stretcher might cost 15 dollars in the US, and a high quality linen support is much more expensive, more like 60 for a small painting. Ballpark.

For a US based artist, expect to pay something above 10hrs x $20/hr + 30 materials = $230 for circa 16x20 to 18x24 size.

So perhaps a fair baseline cost to produce a small portrait would be 250 dollars. Thats not accounting for an artist putting more time into it for his or her unique style. Some styles can be done more quickly of course. Its not going to be easy to pay rent if your doing that.. in fact its worth considering moving to a country where rent is much cheaper [ and I have done this at several times in my life ]

Reflecting on all this I'm happy that artisans and artists in china can have a reasonable standard of living doing this - we can all benefit from their work if we choose.

I have myself bought affordable violins made in china for my son, and they have been made to an exceptional standard, both playable good sound and excellent finishing. Without these chinese violin artisans we could not afford to work on playing beautiful music. Does that take away from local luthiers, perhaps not because they are likely at a much higher price level we could never afford, with brand recognition that is well deserved, and likely more time on the finer details you'd expect in a high end instrument. Its wonderful to have more playable instruments for young talented musicians.

One side effect that I don't like is the undervaluing of art and artisans in general - there are artists who live in the US and are working incredibly hard in their unique style and vision.. its a lottery, they may win and get a reputation and then earn good money for the work, but most never do. And there is such a deep pyramid of knowledge in art making, and in violin making .. I really want those dedicated people to be able to make a living.

Maybe patronage of the arts, is a tax that we self-impose when we have means, in order to keep our quality of life, preserve culture. Or perhaps it really should be covered some how by taxing very wealth companies more aggressively.

I like to think of myself as a code artisan, so I can appreciate and empathize to some extent with these violin-carving and oil-painting artisans.

yet the robots are coming ... I'm sure one day well look back on the craft of programming-by-hand with a wistful melancholy. I just hope when that day comes, we are sharing wealth and resources better among all of us.
FSF policy is that GNU software should not have features that will only work on non-free operating systems. The decision to remove multicolor glyph support was made on that basis.

The FSF don't want to make their software better on non-free operating systems which, given their goals, doesn't seem particularly unreasonable to me.
I'm sure it is, but attacking fellow community members with no basis is a bannable offence. That's what you're doing, and you need to stop doing it if you want to keep posting here.

If you or anyone sees evidence of astroturfing on HN, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can properly look into it (which we always do). We take the issue seriously, and it's also a serious breach of civility to casually sling these accusations at others. Two wrongs don't make a right.
True. But he did that in order to refocus on the company on what was important to it.
That or he doesn't want a laptop made of flexy plastic.
I work on quality control medical data (MRI images) and have huge data sets from machines going back over a decade. Most of the useful stuff is extracted metrics (stored in a db), but every now and then we need to pull up a data set and run updated analysis algorithms. We'll usually keep the latest couple of years in S3, and the rest in Glacier.

The data trove is fairly unique, and valuable in being the only of its kind, but we don't need anywhere near instant access to most of it.
Are NYT and WSJ Clickbaiting HN?
Lately I'm seeing too many posts on HN by mainstream media that have a paywall. I assume YC is cool with that.
Welcome to the difference between "in a security researcher's dreams" and "occurs frequently out in the real world".

I went to a security conference once where a presenter was telling me about a previous conf, where he was demonstrating a 'free wifi' box that snooped on all connections and pulled passwords out of them. He was demoing it on stage when the wifi went out in the other auditorium behind (also part of the sec conference). His magic little box then went berserk as huge amounts of security professionals at a security hacking conference then connected to it to try and re-establish their wifi. [1]

Compare this kind of story to the kind of setup you need to have to sniff EM radiation from a cat-5 cable.

--

[1] The point of his story was that security professionals love to lecture others on correct tech use, but in reality the sec recommendations come so thick and fast that even the sec professionals don't keep up with them. How is a mere mortal to cope?
There's an iPad version of ReBirth now: https://www.propellerheads.se/rebirth
https://github.com/prettydiff/biddle
I agree, the launcher isn't as customizable as a linux desktop. To change the entirety of a linux user interface is much easier on a linux desktop. But nonetheless, Android is still quite customizable, and the other interfaces you mentioned (nav bar, pull down menu, etc) are still customizable if you're able to flash a custom ROM. It's all possible, but desktop Linux is much easier to fiddle around with in that manner.

Nonetheless, I think Android should've been left out of that group in the OP. Not a big deal, but for someone who used to tinker with Android quite a bit, I couldn't resist commenting the point.
"Therefore, when someone implements a useful new feature but only for a non-GNU system, we do not accept it that form."

Users of non-GNU systems that use GNU software: the FSF is actively trying to make your life more difficult.
As the kind-of-sort-of maintainer of Linux's syscall infrastructure on x86, I have a public service announcement: the syscall auditing infrastructure is awful.

It is inherently buggy in numerous ways. It hardcodes the number of arguments a syscall has incorrectly. It screws up compat handling. It doesn't robustly match entries to returns. It has an utterly broken approach to handling x32 syscalls. It has terrifying code that does bizarre things involving path names (!). It doesn't handle containerization sensibly at all. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it contains major root holes. And last, but certainly not least, it's eminently clear that no one stress tests it.

If you really want to use it for production, invest the effort to fix it, please. (And cc me.) Otherwise do yourself a favor and stay away from it. Use the syscall tracing infrastructure instead.
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I suggest adding a binary-to-decimal decoder at the bottom to make demos more exciting for people who can't read binary

I did that for a 4bit knex adder/subtractor
Emojify[0] provides all the emoji support I seem to need on both Ubuntu and macOS. It uses non-proprietary emojis though. If that's unacceptable, it can take arbitrary directories for emojis[1].

I must say, Emacs still runs better on macOS than Xcode does on Linux.

[0]: https://github.com/iqbalansari/emacs-emojify

[1]: https://github.com/iqbalansari/emacs-emojify/issues/19
Google Opens Montreal AI Lab in Global Race for Scarce Talent
Please don't post inflammatory rants to HN.
If you're going to dodge the question on a technicality, then frankly you're not worth the time.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13002257 and marked it off-topic.
I've been thinking about running for office in the next few years. To be honest though I want to understand more about the roles available and where I would benefit the community the most.
Please don't break the HN guideline against name-calling, even if someone else's views are wrong.
If one is getting constatly downvoted means there are more people (here and now) on the HN community who disagree with your line of thinking. If that breaks your heart there will always be some other forum where the majority agrees.

If you are getting downvoted occasionally then there is not much to bother its part of life. There will always be ones who disagree. But adding comments to downvote will be piling up mess upon mess.

in case you got downvoted and you didnt mean to be a trouble maker, lets ignore and live happily together. In the end is HN a place where one seeks appraisals alone?
OT: That fwd:everyone service is really cool. Damn :)
This kind of thing is exactly why I will always support and use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's macOS Emacs port (https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac), which has been consistently rock solid and committed to implementing nice to haves on macOS that this sort of political bullshit holds back on official development.

Homebrew tap here: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport
Just last week I bought a Nokia phone (Nokia 208) for my gf's dad, who just needed a cheap phone with physical buttons to make calls with.
It's more about breeding early comfort and familiarity with Microsoft software. It's the same tactic Apple and MS use in schools
I could potentially see a conflict if we were talking about a subscription-based or microtransaction-based game, but Minecraft is a one-time purchase. And, I expect, most of the kids who are super-excited about Minecraft already have a license anyway.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13009417
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Really cool. I don't want to create an account just to try it out though, maybe letting users play around until they are satisfied would give a better sign up conversion rate? (Although the video itself is great).

Just a thought, not sure if good or viable. But maybe let users buy their designs for self-hosting would be an idea.
Well if your downvoting comment is bad it will get downvoted.
Tape is cheaper than hard drives are cheaper than flash drives are cheaper than ram.
This assumes many people voting knew beforehand that their chosen candidate would win/lose.
Since they don't it's safe to say that all results are a surprise.

As pointed out, trump himself didn't expect to win.
Unfortunately I don't have a decent or updated resume (missing 1 year), but here's something: http://francisco.io/resume.pdf
To expand on this a bit, I also find these Meetup hikes great for learning about trails in my area I otherwise probably wouldn't know about, so I can go back to them on my own later or with a friend or date. Also there's a lot of singles in some of these hiking groups so it can be a good way of finding new dates.
Storing the data in tape systems or some other system which is automated but not available in a matter of milliseconds.
> Is there a reason comments aren't required when downvoting?

Yes, downvoting exists to increase the signal-to-noise ratio, and adding more weight of comments attached to a low-value one does the opposite.
I agree that federalism would be preferable in the case of the United States in theory, but experience has shown that in practice power tends to concentrate in the highest level of sovereignty.

I don't share your pessimism regarding wars and smaller sovereign states. I think a world filed with relatively small Switzerland-style nations would be a less bombed world.
It is indeed curiously unspoken among the major providers. (Softlayer too raised all their bw rates when IBM bought them.)

Part of building a moat? On one side we have a big stack of custom APIs. On the other -- once you have a few hundred terabytes of data in our systems -- it will be very costly to emigrate.
I was thinking the same thing - JWST is slated to ride an Ariane 5, which has had something like 75 consecutive successful launches.
Start a private limited company. Start working for companies you used to work for as a permanent employee before. Market yourself as a consultant with specific skillset who works on a per project basis. You come in and help the in-house engineering team deliver the project, implement new technology etc. Look for shorter term contracts, 6-9 months per contract. You can build up a rolodex of clients and referrals like this which will make future contracts come to you without you having to look for work.
What bothers me more is the greying out on the very first downvote (assuming no upvotes). Perhaps it should go grey after 3 downvotes at least.
Yeah, that is probably my favorite aspect of the entire system. The slow road speeds and open space that allow kids to safely play outside, but close to the walkability of a grid.
Running Doom on the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar
As you say, it's probably not what's at issue here. That said, I feel this deserves to be addressed:

> "I'm sorry , I just got terrible news" takes about two seconds to say.

But the wherewithal to do so in that circumstance is considerably less available!
This is about increasing awareness and reducing the mortality rate by screening at risk groups that have traditionally lacked access to comprehensive care. It's not about rising cancer rates in general that aren't otherwise explained.
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Totally makes sense. Keep up the good work!
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>Given that's no longer the company we're being left with, is there a window of opportunity for a new entrant to step in and start filling that void using the same principles of design and cohesion that Apple have made famous?

Xiaomi can steal the entire process and product sell that same product for half the price
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> We're already at that point where some, at least, fail to consider the working class around them at all.

I don't know that we've established that class actually paid a role. Do we expect he wasn't simply so oblivious that he'd also not have noticed a peer trying to get his attention?
Honest question here: What do you do when you want to have eight or ten or twelve people over for dinner?

In case anybody asks: yes, this is something I do on a regular basis.
They were talking about front end dev, backend dev, and full stack dev. Those distinctions are only applied in web development. Grandparent post thought full stack meant knowing about deployment and setting up deployment environment too which goes beyond full stack into the realm of operations.

Outside of web development I haven't heard about such distinctions like backend or frontend. There are application developer, system developer etc.
Using S4cmd on my Debian box I backup copies of my entire Lightroom folder structure contents. All my personal photos and videos get uploaded to a bucket on S3, then I convert the entire bucket to Glacier. Now with the new pricing of $0.004/GB and easy retrieval, it's a very nice setup.

To backup nearly a terabyte of photos costs about $4/month in storage costs. Uploading costs a bit extra due to the pricing for requests.

https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
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If memory serves, WOW64 translates system calls and allows 32-bit apps/APIs to interoperate with 64-bit apps/APIs.

Which is still a pretty good trick, at least when it works.
I suggest reading the actual sources for the software: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/

:)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13009587 and marked it off-topic.

Perhaps your intent was sincere, but the effect you had on the thread is indistinguishable from trolling. Please don't do this on HN.
I live in LA, traffic is an issue here too. I see other comments mentioning take a brain break from IT stuff. They have a point, but up to you how much you need or want this.

Another option: instead of learning something new during this time, use it to teach or mentor someone over the phone.

Whether talking to a student or beginner dev, a couple of the commutes you can schedule weekly mentoring sessions while you drive. Similarly, one could offer tutoring over the phone if relevant. Up to you if you want to charge $ for your time or do it just for the good karma of helping someone.

Either way, chatting on the phone while mentoring/tutoring in my experience affects the brain differently than learning something via audiobook, and it is still possible to concentrate on driving while giving good advice.
In modern medicine, the treatment is for disease; in homeopathy the treatment is for symptoms and conditions. That means one drug treats one disease cannot be basis of the trial. so they may not have been compared well in the previous studies. Double blinded study also will be difficult because the practitioner has to see the patient. So when considering studies, have to consider these. The mode of action explained by homeopaths may be wrong, so could say it is unscientific. This story is on the results and measuring it and results can be measured scientifically.

If it is placebo effect, it will not be effective for multiple times at multiple times in same person, could say there is personal bias. There are many conditions like cold, migraine which have no definite treatment in modern mainstream medicine, so there is no harm in experimenting homeopathy when having these conditions. I believe it is better to get a diagnosis from regular doctor first and then use homeopathy.
I am unable to see the logic here. Fox news continues to support diversity of opinion lot more than CNN or ABC. The author in question was a consumer reporter with ABC who was fired once he started changing his own opinions based on evidence.
In theory, tape [1], optical [2], or spun-down disk [3] are cheaper but slower than spinning disk. Erasure coding [4] is also cheaper but slower than replication. One could even imagine putting cold data on the outer tracks of hard disks and warm on the inner tracks. In practice I suspect Glacier is market segmentation.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/3/how-google-backs-up...

[2] http://www.everspan.com/home

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/pelican...

[4] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/-under-the-...
I totally agree that in general, wired will beat wireless for security. After all, you can also encrypt your wired connections. I was merely pointing out that it's not a guarantee that wireless is worse. It can be secure.

The "better" argument was my bigger disagreement. Wired isn't "better" in any absolute terms. I'll happily use wireless rather than wired for the convenience of walking across my house with my laptop. Or, you know, actually using my cell phone.
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Of course he can. Ford pardoned Nixon. The pardon power is without restrictions. The real question is why would Obama say this? Does he think that the German press are idiots without access to Lexis/Nexis? Or is he really saying, "I want to pardon him but they won't let me?" His comments otherwise make no sense.
I think we've interacted in the past my service is the reverse of yours - storing DNS records in git repositories:

https://dns-api.com/

I picked up a few new users at the last Dyn DDoS attack; I'm actually surprised many (Dyn) customers moved away entirely. To get redundancy users should add their DNS records to, say, Route53 AND Dyn, not just jump-ship to a new provider.
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There's a difference between can't and won't. There are all sorts of reasons why Obama may not want to pardon Snowden. But if he thinks he lacks the power to pardon, he is clearly wrong. So why would he claim that he lacks a power he clearly has?
Hey, did you mean Reduced Redundancy (not Infrequent Access)?

I just noticed that the new pricing for Standard (2.3¢) is now less than the pricing for Reduced Redundancy (2.4¢)! So there appears to be no reason to use Reduced Redundancy anymore.
> if sentient AI is possible with nothing more than software, does that mean if
> you "load" the sentient AI program into a "computer" made of cardboard and
> marbles, that the cardboard and marbles will be self-aware?

fwiw, quote from moon-is-a-harsh-mistress:

Am not going to argue whether a machine can "really" be alive,
"really" be self-aware. Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I
doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you,
tovarishch, but I am. Somewhere along evolutionary chain from
macromolecule to human brain self-awareness crept in. Psychologists
assert it happens automatically whenever a brain acquires certain very
high number of associational paths. Can't see it matters whether paths
are protein or platinum.
Last I checked the pricing was very different; nodes for BigTable, reads/writes for Datastore. BigTable is more cost effective for large workloads, but it requires buying a minimum of three nodes, which is ~$1,500/mo total. If you're small potatoes it seems infeasible. Happy to be corrected if I misread.
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There is a special char to disable colorful emoji but seems no way to deal with the font issue.
DNS is easy, mostly.

Most users just don't care about DNS, so they use their domain-registrars' offerings (which are frequently terrible). The people who do care seem to pick their provider based on either price, or on features such as non-standard record types (the various different hacks to allow top-level CNAMES, or the ability to return different results on a GeoIP basis.)

Once you start relying on these special things moving becomes hard - because different providers either don't offer them or don't offer them the same way.
As one of GNU's flagship products, why shouldn't Emacs remind users that it is not in agreement with Apple's treatment of its users? GNU has an agenda, just like Apple does. Intel cripples icc for non-Intel CPUs, making it emit pessimised assembler. Apple makes sure that its hardware only works with other Apple products and that macOS can only be legally virtualised on Apple hardware. Everyone has an agenda.

The difference is that GNU is a lot smaller and has a lot less power and resources than Apple and Intel. So much that it is relatively easy and, in fact, explicitly allowed by the GPL, for someone like Yamamoto to come along and decide that, by golly, Emacs will have unique macOS-only features and Apple deserves to have more money to do whatever it wants to its users because its users enjoy Apple's treatment, smelly GNU/Beards be damned. This is a lot easier than fixing icc for AMD CPUs or putting headphone jacks into iPhones 7.

> We are not welcome, and never will be.

You are welcome. You are very welcome. Apple is not. You should not identify yourself with Apple's operating system.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, since Qwiklabs is like AWS' primary training partner.
could you talk about whats your underlying platform? are you using k8s or mesos or something.

k8s currently has incomplete support for metal deployments. for example the integration between ingress and load balancers on metal vs cloud.

im kind of wondering how people are deploying them in real life.

secondly, how do you deploy new code?
Route53 is awesome. I personally wrap it in git - https://dns-api.com/ - and remove the per-query pricing to provide stability.