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Github pages can also work with exported org pages rather easily. (For an example, here is one of my blog posts: http://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html)
Alright let's go further ... so how is this different from XMPP rooms? (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html)

XMPP can support all the other things you've mentioned.
But they already did that work for you. You put extra work into finding a new point of comparison that happens to be more unfavorable to Blacks. Why?

If the directional comparison was all you cared about, why not compare Asians to Whites?
iOS seems to actively avoid integration with anything.
> Toyota could probably do it more cheaply than Uber.

I agree. The fact that autonomous cars will likely reduce ownership will put a squeeze on car companies, and it might make sense for them to branch into service areas, as they can get the cars at cost. I guarantee that for 10,000 Camrys purchased by Uber and 10,000 Camrys built and shuffled to a ride service division by Toyota, Toyota's ride-sharing division will get the sweeter deal on price.

Put another way, it's much easier for Toyota to start a ride service company than it is for Uber to start manufacturing cars to get them at cost.
Awesome, exactly what I wanted to know! Thank you!.

Edit: specifics.
Thanks for your input. I think my main point is that a phonetic language goes both ways.

Without any context, or meaning, you should be able to write a word just by hearing it. Similarly, without any context or meaning, by seeing a word, you should be able to pronounce it.

Now, of course it's a sliding scale.

But I think Chinese is on one end of the scale, where if you're just given the phenome shā without context or meaning, it's literally impossible to figure out how to write the word.

In English and all romance languages, you can try to spell it somewhat, and then give it to a native reader to see what it means. This helps a lot when you're reading subtitles for television programs or listening to the radio. If you're reading subtitles, you can sorta figure out what matches up to what. If you're listening to the radio, you can make a best guess on how to spell a word and ask somebody what it means.
My concern is what happens if a block of people start to become disenchanted with UBI. Will the State cut their funding? Can the State, as the sole employer, lock the group out of the political discourse?

In general I'm not a fan of going to the United States government hat-in-hand. Look at Scotland. They do that with the Brits. They're kicked around all the time.

Here's an example. South Dakota v Dole, the Supreme Court said the government could tie general funding to states to enacting state laws. In this case the states had to raise the minimum drinking age to 21 if they wanted road funding. What's to stop the government in a UBI world, from putting different life-rules on its people.

The government goes from working for the people to providing for the people. That's a massive power imbalance. I don't know of any government I want to give that power. I do know it's not the United State's.
Stop looking for tactics and start looking for motivation. I was a heavy drinker suffering from depression and anxiety. My wife left me and started dating a friend that's been trying to get with her for years. Revenge is my motivator, which some people might not like but I'm in the best shape of my life and curbed a lot of bad habits and patterns.

I'm not a self-help type of guy, but the Tony Robbins documentary on Netflix made me start to think about my life as something that can be designed, the same way I would design software.

Fear and anger are much stronger motivators in my opinion than love, fun, or sense of accomplishment. So I'm not afraid to leverage those at least in the short term. Find the person or thing that really pisses you off, even if that is a version of yourself.
This means they'll have to get really good at understanding how many rides over the span of a vehicle will continue that revenue and provide just the right amount of vehicles to meet a regions needs.

And a pox on all of us if we hand firm control over regions to single players.
I hate the apple apps. People have loved to hate Apple apps for years but I've been ok with them.

However, more and more I'm running into things that are just stupid or buggy or both.

The TV app is the latest annoyance. All our purchases are under my wife's account, and there seems to be no way to view family sharing purchases with the app.

I'm using a beta of iOS and I keep hoping it'll be added, but this is the seventh beta I think, and I've pretty much given up.
Looking at it, I'm thinking google hasn't learnt anything about the failure of google glass, who wants to buy a car like that?

A car is more than a commuting tool, it really matters how it looks.
Any references? To my knowledge these issues still haven't been resolved.
I've noticed mds (the spotlight indexer) will occasionally, and randomly peg one or more cores on my machine. It seems to come in fits and starts, but it's definitely a battery hog when it's running.
SQL is just inherently repetitive. What I would do with macros is start with a simple list of column names and turn it into a statement updating them all, or a join, or whatever I needed. Eg. a macro could turn "FirstName" into "a.FirstName = b.FirstName", and then work just as well on "LastName".

In other programming I don't have particular favorite macros, but still find small repetitive bits here and there that can be turned into temporary macros. Say for example you have ten variables that each need to be reset to zero. Don't type all the resets, just type the variables, turn one of them into a reset while you're recording into macro w, then type 9@w to do the rest.

Copying up to the second f is just a silly example. It could maybe occur though if you were manipulating lines in a data file. You look at it, see that on each line you want to do something with everything up to the second f, so you make a macro. You don't save it for general use.

In short, macros aren't for major repetition that should be factored out, they're for the minor repetitive edits which, if you're not using vim, you might not even think of as repetitive. Sometimes they're useful for refactoring.

So no, I'm not using macros "without even thinking" and this would probably be a more productive discussion if you didn't make such assumptions.
Suggestion: Start loading more results when I'm scrolling already. No need to display some text saying I should scroll. It should just work.
It needs to be very clear from what and how you're presenting information the quality, source, and rigor of your data.

This blog post is pretending to be true.

I want to contrast it with this: another startup(ish) blog post about their own data

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-...

That is a wonderful, useful, trustworthy source of interesting data.

The post source seems like made-up marketing fluff pretending to be real information. I'm looking at graphs I entirely believe were made up, I have nothing to support the conclusions, and I'm very concerned that a less wary reader would think it's true.
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This... so much this
The article says the backdoor has been present for "5+ years". Microsoft's acquisition of Skype was completed in Oct. 2011 (just over 5 years ago). Based on the timing, that seems unlikely unless MS's first order of business was to backdoor Skype.
Please don't argue like this here. It has troll effects whether you mean to or not. Instead, please argue substantively, and get less inflammatory (not more) as a topic becomes more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168197 and marked it off-topic.
> And I hardly think the registry and PowerShell, which came out nowhere near the same time, were conceived of at the same time.

I believe that the registry, in a way, caused PowerShell.

PowerShell works the way it does because Windows is structured data all the way down. A text-based shell a-la bash would not be very useful for Windows sysadmins. If you want to do Windows automation (e.g. on a cluster of windows servers or whatnot), you need to process and manipulate structured data (server settings, user permissions, AD groups, whatever). Hence, a shell and scripting language for doing just that.

If Microsoft hadn't moved from .ini files to the registry between Windows 3.1 and 95, I don't think PowerShell would've had the same design goals as it does now.
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It's unbearably hard to read. I might do it if my life depended on it. Otherwise it's nothing but torture.

eg: You need to scroll down a whole page after just 4-5 sentences.
The flipside of course, is how much extra are you willing to spend to save every preventable death?

How much are you you willing spend on someone else's life before it's ok for you to consign their death?
> the Edge engine is open-source,

Only the Javascript engine is open source, fwiw. That's not the majority of the browser.

(Unless EdgeHTML was open sourced since I last checked.)
I take "clearly" to be a flag to come back to that point later. Especially if it is not clear to me. It is often a flag for points that the author feels contributes to the intuition of the proof. Which is not that it is easy. Just that it is an educational part of the process.
What sort of discussion are you interested in having that this guy is preventing?
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Which is the consensus about better alternatives?
While XMPP is wonderful in theory, in practice, it's very difficult to assume that any given set of client+server can support anything, especially once you're talking to people on other servers. Even things like the features allowing messages to be delivered to multiple clients, rather than only one, are rarely implemented according to the standard. Matrix has a reference server and client which supports the entire protocol, so any other implementation will hopefully wind up implementing at least the majority of it, or won't be used.
Strange, I ordered after you and got a December 30. Perhaps a different contingent for Europe?
Less common = less attention to security.
It would be interesting to see how these morbidity rates correlated with losses in wages and job security, since that magical year 1980. Particularly among middle-aged white males -- which are a pretty large group; and for whom stark rises in suicide rates have been observed by others, e.g.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/insider/more-white-men-die...
In addition to OLPC, Open Firmware was used on PowerPC Macs.
I've been burned twice now. First with Name of the Wind, and again with Blood Song. Both books were incredible masterpieces, and both books were a part of an unfinished series. And at least with Blood Song, the rest of the series was pretty disappointing by comparison. I vowed to never again read an unfinished series (although, I was not burned by Harry Potter, and so far I have not been burned by Stormlight Archive)
Try immigrating to China.
XMPP hasn't really played out to its promises. Pity, it's such a great set of technology.

There's something to learn from this - there's likely a "right amount" of anarchy, some goldilock zone where people can still be creative and unburdened but not so much that things become fractured, fragmented, and incoherent.
I've got a 2013 Nexus tablet, and it's got all sorts of things in it that aren't from Google.

The majority of components in a car are not manufactured by the car maker.
Extrapolating a "prolific engineer" from one's commit log is no less absurd than from lines of code.

Their methodology fails to account for so many things, commit squashing feature branches, for example. A fundamentally flawed "study".
And is not December 13 a primo time to hype the pee out of a $159 (U.S.) "stocking stuffer" (or an IOU for one)?

...though I cringe to think of the pressure at this time of year to release a product whose quality is not yet vetted by early adopters.
Five years from now:

* All the big auto manufacturers are shipping self-driving cars.
Volvo is the first to ship a Level 3 system to real customers.

* Tesla is doing OK, but the big electric car brand is Chevy.

* Waymo is a Tier I supplier to Fiat/Chrysler.

* GM and Ford are using their own self-driving technology.

* Uber is still around, but is out of investor cash, and has to be profitable to pay back its loans. The service is much more expensive to use. Their self-driving thing never works out for them because they can't spend big money to buy cars, build garages, and staff up for maintenance.

* Lyft is still around, about the same as it is now.

* The mini autonomous bus people have some installations, but they're rare outside airports and campuses.
I should be clear, I meant their focus being on the bigger picture. Not on pleasing the HN/Slashdot/reddit types.
I believe it is quite literally a contraction from the saying "empty of nutritional content." (If this helps.)
Do you actually go to the brand stores though? The other day I needed something that wasn't on Amazon, so I bought it from the retailer directly. And then I remembered why I love Amazon and Prime. The ordering was terrible, and I had to wait 10 days for it to arrive.

With Amazon the purchasing is seamless. That's where they really win. And they just keep making it easier. Now I can order things with my voice (using Alexa).
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I think it is doable. I write a few desktop apps (text editor) for OS X, Windows, Linux, iPad and I have a few games in the app store with more coming. Some days I pull my hair out from the stress but overall I am happy writing the products.
Funny, two years ago I built an MVP for the same market/problem with a couple of friends. It helped us understand the problem and was very MVP (3 man weeks of work all in).

We concluded very quickly that the problem is reaching the audience. We did have a strategy, but the impending arrival of babies means that the entire thing was put on ice.

It's tempting to revisit the niche because, at least if our numbers are correct, we have a real chance of being able to reach the niche whilst keeping the CAS manageable.
Which Linux did you choose? Which laptop?
It's also easy to convert R notebooks to PDF, which are easily viewable on GitHub, if you don't value the interactivity highly.
Yes they do work alone, iPhone will even switch to mono. About the replacement, don't know yet, but I think Apple support will let ppl buy them individually.
Yeah, maybe it's because I've got a lot of friends & coworkers that served or are active, but I just don't get the whole thanking thing. It's just another perfunctory statement.

I've kind of come around to the idea that asking some questions about the person's experience, and letting them tell some of their favorite stories is usually a better way of showing appreciation, even if it isn't openly stated. Everyone likes to be heard, and it's a rare veteran that doesn't have a bag of moving / funny stories to tell about being in the military, so everyone gets something out of it.
This assumes autonomous vehicles exist, which they don't.
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They're not selling a car. They're selling a driver.
They're presumably going to partner with auto manufacturers.
> Or, if there are enough cars for peak hours, then demand for new cars will not fall that much (although the structure of ownership may in fact change).

Initially, no, but long-term you can move much parking to cheaper places around the periphery of the urban area rather than needing a parking spot where people live, one where they work, and fractions everywhere else they might go. So sustainable density of everything that isn't parking spaces in the city core goes up, walkability and transit access improve, so the cars/people ratio drops.
This just made slack 10x better.
Availability barely matters though. When I need a ride I open Lyft, see if they have a car nearby, and if the answer is no, I switch to Uber. The switching cost is so low it's negligible.
Where they will be discovered conveniently ensconced 15 yards below a subway grate. For those of us that live in cities and commute via public transit, having them fall out is probably 70% as problematic as vanishing entirely.
Looks like he read these comments, it seems to be resizable now (chrome). People can be pretty brutal here sometimes.
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Nix has no dependency resolution: all dependencies are specified exactly for every package.

The reason this is tractable is that Nix packages are written in an expressive language. Most package definitions are actually functions, which accept their dependencies as arguments. Such functions provide flexibility, making it easy to switch out dependencies or perform other changes, and are often passed around using higher-order functions. The closest thing to dependency resolution is to take the fixed-point of a function, which is used to populate each package's dependency arguments using the other packages (which we're also populating the arguments of; this relies on Nix being lazy!).

For example, the `cabal2nix` tool can read a Haskell '.cabal' file and create a Nix function, which accepts dependencies and returns a package. We can turn this into a concrete package by specifying a version of Haskell to use (e.g. `haskell.ghc7103` for GHC 7.10.3, `haskell.ghc801` for GHC 8.0.1, `haskell.ghcjs` for GHCJS, etc.); each contains a higher-order function `callPackage`, which we pass our generated function to, along with any non-default overrides.

For example, we can run the command:

nix-shell -p "(haskell.ghc7103.callPackage ($(cabal2nix /path/to/project.cabal)) { some-dep = my-version-of-some-dep; })"

This will drop us into a bash shell where the Haskell project at /path/to/project.cabal has been built using GHC 7.10.3, with default versions of all dependencies except for "some-dep" which we override to be some other package. If, for example, our Haskell package defines a bunch of executables, they'll be available in this shell's $PATH.

There are also higher-order functions like `ghcWithPackages` for defining Haskell environments with pre-populated package databases, `override` which takes the fixed-point of a set of packages (so overriding "foo" ensures that all packages depending on "foo" get our version, transitively), etc.
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To prod back, you have three source code files---one is in Word Perfect format from 1987. The second is from Microsoft Word from 1998. The third is an ASCII text file from 1972. Which one can you open and reuse today?
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Tell me that somehow writing this comment was worth making a new HN account for.
You've been using HN primarily for politics, and partisan politics at that. This is an abuse of the site, and we eventually ban accounts that do it. We're also going to add this explicitly to the site guidelines (though it's already implied by them).

I realize that it was the GP comment that pushed the thread in this wrong direction, but the thing to do in that case is gently nudge it back, not shove it off a cliff.
Reviews varied, some claim that they sound better. We'll see.
Headphones or earbuds? The former have considerably more space in which to put an antenna that extends past the side of the wearer's head; earbuds have a pretty strict limitation in this regard, and indeed all the ones I've tried (ranging in price from about $10 to about $60) have at least occasionally dropped signal with the phone in my front trouser pocket on the same side as the earbud. For AirPods never to do so would be a significant differentiator in my experience.
The use case that I'm interested in is being able to have just one bud in my ear (to be able to hear what's going on around me) without the other one dangling. To me, that's worth the money.
The /r/homenetworking subreddit will be happy to answer and walk you through your deployment, plan, etc. in whatever level of detail. They basically spend most of their time telling people which Ubiquiti gear to get, since that's the #1 solution to most people's problems (buy good, purpose-built hardware), why to get each peice, and how to arrange it, so basically exactly the sort of thing you're asking.
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Knowing that RabbitMQ is full erlang, why bring a really big dependency if you have all the things in your everyday language anyway ?
Had to choose: biology or electronics. Guess which I learned.
Wait five years. It'll almost certainly happen. The technology is solvable and lots of very big companies are spending billions to make it happen.
The train of thoughts here is that less common == smaller exposure, therefore less likely to be a target. Also, your statement isn't entirely true, for example, OpenBSD, albeit not being a linux distribution, is a project orders of magnitude smaller, yet with equal, if not greater, focus on security.
Who cares what struggling startup founders believe? This forum isn't specifically for startup founders and their perspective isn't favored over anyone else's here.

It just happens to be hosted on a subdomain of a startup accelerator but the overwhelming majority of people who read it are not involved with startups.
Pretty sure an NSL and the accompanying gag order will disallow them from speaking out publicly.

I'm wondering though, what exactly is the "incoming administration’s proposed data collection policies"?
Why Volvo?
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I appreciated the nosql-like database model of a "notes" and "views". It inspired the way I managed data for the remainder of my career. I believe the concept of "tags" of flickr or "labels" of gmail are Notes-inspired concepts.

Maybe it doesn't scale well for late 90's internet-enabled desktops, but Ray Ozzie developed software with a solid 15-year shelf life.

I'm happy to have had the few years experience as a lotus notes developer, and also happy to have it in my past.
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That's ironic, EE usually has more math requirements than CS.
Scientists appear to be actually doing this for the reasons that WaPo is reporting. The implication being that Trump and co. at the very least appear hostile enough to climate science to provoke this response. I don't think anyone is trying to claim anything else.
The methodology also suggests a particular workflow is better. A workflow where you commit and merge, instead of commit, rebase, then merge.
Google has ridesharing price comparison built into Maps already.
Was it an immediate success? If these graphs are true [0,1,2], it looks like it took several years for it to really take off. It didn't really become a huge success until the end of 2004, the same year they increased storage capacity (for the second time), moved iPods to the click-wheel, and added the iPod mini. Also the iTunes music store was released in 2003, and added Windows support in late 2002.

"Apple’s total iPod sales climb past 10 million, with 8.2 million units sold in 2004 alone" [0]

[0] http://www.macworld.com/article/1053499/home-tech/ipodtimeli...

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/ipod-sales_n_468000...

[2] http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/01/29/apple-stops-divulgin...
Hmm, I'm replying to a comment... Oh well. :)

> you'll get paid more than you need to survive - so don't be an idiot with your money.

Adding to this is something to consider:

You will be paid more than you need to survive, but you will most likely survive longer than you will be paid. Make sure you save money for those times.
There's an option for the home button under "Accessibility" called "Rest finger to open". Turn that on, and you'll be able to unlock your phone with no clicks. It probably doesn't work for non Touch ID phones.