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Getting Started with Electronics -- wow! I think I read that one as a kid, as well. I grew up in the eighties so Radio Shack was still (I think) a good place to buy electronic components and equipment. I remember the electronics kits and educational books that they had. A lot of the Radio Shack electronics books were printed on graph paper and looked like they were taken directly from an engineer's lab notes, informal font style and all. As a kid, I remember being bemused by this style since I had not seen it used anywhere else.
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Like you said, personal preference - I have the Dell at work and a MBP 2015 with the force touch trackpad at home, and I much prefer the macbook - the Dell requires more force to register a click the further away from the bottom where the MBP is even.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_47_CFR_Part_15 ?
I don't get what your point is with mentioning CSS shapes and `content`.

What I am talking about is CSS Zen Garden and the movement around it of frontend web developers professionalizing, rejecting table layouts and non-standard browser features.

This was enabled by CSS being barely powerful enough, and people creative enough to make it work. Eventually the movement won, non-IE browsers won market share and the way was paved for a more healthy evolutionary path of the web which has yielded these new features.

You look at CSS from a perspective that it's hard, as if there exists a solution somewhere that is easier. Before CSS there were simply the less powerful HTML features, the 'easier' but less semantic and non-adaptive tools like Flash or SVG, and the always present and expertise requiring method of simply imperatively coding the styling in WinForms or whatever.

CSS was absolutely crucial.
Chrome similarly used to honor the /etc/hosts file, first by default, then via setting. Now it always uses Google's DNS, no workarounds. I cant create localhost aliases for dev VMs nor can I block distracting sites. I've switched back to firefox.
Building API's on Jekyll 3.4.0
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I kinda of figure what you mean by 'barely-living', is actually worry free living style(good housing, close to workplace, go to decent places for dining/partying) in SF/NYC. And yes, 130k may knock the door for that standard, but not quite there.

But saying 130k is 'barely-living', if not bad wording, is close to insulting, and helps little in the conversation.
Used it in Europe, sometimes cheaper than busses. Sometimes useful for unusual routes. It truely was "ride sharing", chipping in for fuel costs rather than a new job.
I've commented on this before, at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13433540 I'm copying the comment below:

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I'm on an H-1B, and the thing that infuriates me about the dialogue on this is that they are effectively trying to ban skilled immigration, and exclude people like me from coming.

If you don't qualify for the family-based or refugee route, employment-based immigration is the only viable pathway. The amount of hate I see piled on people trying to come here via the employment-based immigration seems insane to me. These people make it seem like employment-based immigration is not as respectable or legitimate, compared to refugee/asylum and family-based immigration.

The problem with requiring higher wagers is that for people like me, who were students in US -- it's very hard to get an ultra-high salary for the first job out of college. (I did my undergrad here, and I don't have a Master's.) I was a student (on an F-1 visa), and my first job out of college offered me $60,000/year. On my first job on my H-1B visa (in NYC), I was offered $85,000 a year (got slightly over $100,000 with bonuses). Then, just about a year and half later, I was paid (incl. lucky cash bonuses) slightly over $200,000 in a single year. (My base salary is $130,000 now.)

If you raised wage requirements, you'd basically be not allowing people like me to continue to stay and work in the US (after graduation from college), and would instead only allow people from outside who have lots of experience (and skill) and can command a much higher salary upfront.

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It's very disappointing to see the level of vitriol directed towards people who are just trying to build a better life in this country, especially here on HN.
Upgraded Windows 10, clean install with Manufacturer's drivers, or truely clean install?

I've found that only by avoiding drivers direct from the manufacturer do you ever achieve true stability in Windows.
Everything is about optics. What world do you think you live in?

EDIT: I don't know what to tell ya, but downvoting doesn't make it less true.
I think it's more because Grab (Uber's competitor in Singapore) has always had the cash option from the start (Grab introduced GrabPay — their credit card option — after) [1], and Uber was trying to match the "feature".

[1] https://vulcanpost.com/171862/grabtaxi-uber-challenge-cashle...
I think we've seen throughout history that what you listed above is largely possible for powerful nations. It is a "benefit" of being a powerful nation to express that power. This is much more an optimization problem than a logical debate.
Perfect assessment.
Thank you both. That was very informative. Trying the OpenWhisk Vagrant demo now.

I've seen a couple of issues and I agree that it would be fabulous to have OpenWhisk integrated into OpenShift/Kubernetes.
Campaign finance reform, gerrymandering reform, compulsory voting...these are all good things to have in a democratic republic, but they're difficult to sex up for mass appeal.

Instead we get stuck in the mud with tangible topics that affect regular lives like universal health care and free public higher education. Good things, sure, but not the solution to our deeper problems.
Uber could have participated by changing the surge pricing to 20X, 100X or some similarly high number. That's not to say that they should have.

A lot of the anger at Uber is also due to their CEO being an economic advisor to Trump.

Meanwhile, Lyft played this perfectly. Stayed out of the fray and then donated $1MM to the ACLU.
My daughter too, she got heavily into the kids' MMOs for a while there (Moshi Monsters, Bin Weevils).

(The business model for these things is: hook the kids with the free version, get them to nag their parents to buy membership.)

Now she's into Pixelmon, a Pokemon-themed Minecraft mod, and various servers running it ;-D It's apparently in Technic Launcher, which will save you approximately forever downloading and setting up the precise version of the mod with the precise version of Minecraft.
yes of course, to approximate the analog filter in digital you need to calculate some nonlinearities, and could aswell go so far as simulate electric circuitry to such detail that you would need a supercomputer to run it. But that's not the complexity of the synth architecture (which is low on the sid), but the default complexity of simulating anything analog.
I had this book, too. It was given to me as a Christmas present along with the Star Trek Next Generation Technical Manual[1].

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Next-Generation-Technical/d...
"An EO conflicts/doesn't conflict the statute" is a decision that only the judiciary branch is qualified to make, not you or the president. If judiciary and president disagrees about whether something is a valid law or a violation of the law, the judiciary branch is right by definition.
haven't Apple made quite clear with the new MBP they don't really care about the developer market? The scale market is in upselling to "power users"
Actually, you do need to fall on your sword in some circumstances.

The point of a Nuremberg defense is that you were compelled to do something immoral or illegal by orders of a superior officer or other official.

Since senior DOJ lawyers are not conscripted soldiers. Resignation, including mass resignation is the appropriate response. Dictators get surrounded by "spineless yes-men" when people place paying the mortgage above their professional and ethical duty.
Nor have I but apparently it's big in some parts of Europe, so I don't assume my experience applies everywhere.
Your one example is an obscure book from 7 years ago?

How about you enumerate all the digital content you've used over the last week (books, music, movies, games, software, tools, etc) and identify what percentage of them were created with zero expectation of financial gain? Yes, some people make digital content as a hobby and produce laudable results, but most of the time if you want quality you're going to have to pay for it because "zero distribution cost" doesn't put food on the table.
right-click --> uninstall. Not difficult.
> We don't understand this process in a scientific manner yet

Again, are you sure? There are industry scientists that study this.
Sounds about right. Nothing some creative use of foil wont fix. Just what I'd want to do to my new ~$1000 monitor.
It's not ironic because that didn't happen. I'm sure the strike could have been called off very quickly if that happened.
Bet that USB-C cable is the issue. I've come across plenty that had horrible RF shielding.
This monitor is pathetic. 900 dollars for a monitor and it doesn't even support upstream.

Save your time and money and buy a DELL or something that actually works guys.
Ask HN: Would you use a coupon app?
why or why not? what would you like to see that doesn't exist?
"The lesson for other companies is clear: no business is going to be able to ride out the Trump years without being held accountable for their actions or inaction."

Note that arguing right or wrong of the action or reaction is not relevant - this is a description of the present mood of your market.
I have one of these displays at the office (as well as the 4K version) and they both very much feel like an Apple product sans the aluminum casing.

So this makes me suspect that the metal case was really supposed to be there when the electronics were put together.
I have no experience in this so take my opinion with a grain of salt but what about charging for support contracts? While the project is open source and anybody could make changes/fixes it isn't always an option for a company to have somebody jump in the code to try and get a handle of the codebase to make certain changes. If they had a contract with you, somebody who is intimately familiar with the codebase, then bugs and changes could be implemented faster and better.
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Maybe not malloc but mmap
One possible threat here could be access being gained another way (court-order to provide text key), then with the device unlock key known being required to try each finger in sequence to identify if you provided a genuine try to unlock the device. Could be seen as obstruction (IANAL).
I'm surprised no one mentioned Arcade City[0], which is working on a peer to peer alternative to Uber and Lift, using a blockchain. Drivers set their own prices, and there are no georestrictions like on Uber.

[0] https://arcade.city/
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> one of the very few places that I feel I can get reasoned discussion

you must run in some small circles. There are lots of communities out there.
It's the reverse. The FCC is about jamming the signal not being jammed.
It's really astounding how well OS X works on notebooks.

My brother has an old Thinkpad X220 (with IPS panel) which he converted into a Hackintosh. The only thing he needed to do is to replace the internal wifi module with another one (cost roughly $8). This was done in 15 minutes as the old Thinkpads are highly serviceable.

He's pretty happy with the machine as a MBA replacement. (He's waiting for an update MBA model. That optimist.)

I myself converted my gaming rig into a hackintosh some time ago. Now I got a beefy "Mac Pro" for a fraction of the original's price. Also I can upgrade and fix it myself.

When my current 2013 MBP breaks I think I'm going to buy the small MacBook (the plain one) and do my heavy computation work on the Hackintosh.
OK, they are a company. And a company has no right to customers. Sorry, that's business, that's capitalism, that's the market.
Waiting for the oil to get hot, and cleaning up afterwards, are both basically wastes of time. I remember switching to air poppers happily.
Ask HN: How to switch from front-end to back-end
Hi!

I am currently a solid frontend developer (which is pretty laughable to say, because my experience is just about 3 years), I know (to some degree, of course) you can say almost everything "new and shiny" (for regular apps, without graphics and etc) – popular bundlers, up to stage 1 features, React/Vue/Angular/Cycle, all this state management systems, like Redux/Mobx/Rx and other, CSS with css-next, and so on. I also played with ClojureScript and Elm – and while it seems kind of cool, I don't really see it as a solid option to bet on.

The thing is that I feel stuck. The new frameworks come up every month, a lot of people in JS community have pretty low CS understanding, and therefore the level of discussion seems pretty miserable. Moreover, I don't really want to keep up with frontend, and want to learn something more solid. Not as solid as system programming, but I feel that back-end might be a good choice. But the availability of platforms is astonishing – and while I played some time with Elixir and Clojure, I feel that I should bet on Python and Go. I want to get a versatile language(s) (I know, it is not a good idea to stick with just one language, but I need to pick it up during the year; also I like to move between countries, so it should be in demand in general in Europe.

So, what can you recommend as a fast-picking language and what is the best to become familiar with the whole cycle – development, testing, deploy to the cloud, monitoring, etc (I only scratched the surface in all these topics, so I definitely need to solidify it). I am leaning towards Python/Go (I wrote a small API for my side project in Go).
Not all systems in developing countries develop at the same speed. Some systems lag due to regulations, culture, etc. Other systems manage to leap-frog a generation.

I've been in Qatar for business. Coming from the US, it is shocking. Some systems have leapfrogged -- e.g., ease of banking, 2FA, mobile phone plans, messaging, ride-hailing apps, etc.

Other systems lag -- the most egregious example being the lack of a national address system. Correct -- i have no home address. Half the country does not -- people send GPS coordinates and WhatsApp location pindrops for ride-hailing and food delivery.
>"It's a matter for the judiciary to determine exactly whether an obscure law is contradicted"

That's more than a little hand-wavy and dismissive. In multiple places in this thread you quote various laws that seem to support the legality of the EO.

Along comes a law that seems to question it - and your response is to say "oh, well, we'll have to consider whether some obscure law may be contradicted".
Oh, and comparing to the average probably isn't what you want to use to make your argument, you probably want to compare to the median.
Part 15 is only for transmissions. However, it sounds like it isn't handling reception very well.
> a strike is generally a work stoppage intended to force management to in some way

This is also a political protest. Just because it's not against the U.S. government doesn't make it less so.
"Relying on donations to keep the lights on is difficult."

You just have to plaster a giant banner ad of your puppy dog face, begging for donations at the top of every article. Works for Jimmy Wales.
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Same for the cash bonuses. All the workers might underperform and never see the bonus.
Reminds me of when Lego launched their first forum back in the day. Posts needed to be approved by moderation, which sometimes took upwards of a month. Posts would often be rejected even if they contained no inappropriate material. Still, kids came out in droves to take part in discussions that spanned months.
There aren't a ton of job for PHds in chemistry, biology, chemist, math etc. They end up working at hedge funds or web developers or things not necessarily related to their PHd. Look at big pharama and see how much they spend on R&D or basic research. Its a very small percentage of revenues.
It's worth noting that the Office of Legal Counsel 1) is responsible for producing wild contortions of logic to produce anything resembling a legal defense of any of a president's chosen actions (e.g. torture), and 2) is actually part of the Department of Justice and therefore reports to the attorney general.
Until you have 0kcals available. The surfeit of labour is coming.
Apple has actually been pretty tolerant of the Hackintosh community so long as they don't share pirated copies of macOS or try to profit from it. I doubt they will have any issue with this project (or the dozens of other projects like it)
O-1 is only awarded to an exceptional few.
> as a Canadian who may want to move to the US

You can move to the US on the TN visa (as long as NAFTA is still valid). I've met programmers from Canada and Mexico who are on the TN visa.
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Broadly speaking, I hate the tendency to conflate "we expect you to hold this view" with "we expect you to take this action". There are some views that I think it's genuinely reasonable to expect of people, but claiming that those views create a right to redirect people's time and money to your tactics is a way higher bar to clear.

Uber took steps to help their affected drivers, and stated intent to raise the issue at meetings with Trump. They decided not to engage in the strike along with the taxi drivers. Somehow, what looks to me like a tactical disagreement got recast as proof that Uber doesn't care about immigrants.
Is California not part of the United States?
If you think protection of software patents is a good idea, you may be deeply and fundamentally wrong about software.
I haven't manually looked for a command in Windows since... Vista? XP? Whichever was the last release to not let you search from the start menu.

I had to take the A+ certification for a stupid work requirement (I'm a senior security consultant, how does that make any sense?) and even though I've been a Windows user since Windows 95 came out, it was really hard to answer questions like "what is the name of the Control Panel task that manages users?" They didn't like the answer of "hit the Windows key and type 'users'".
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Ask HN: Bettermet Raises Fees – are you leaving?
Just got this email from betterment telling me they are raising my fees 67% - will you leave? Any better options?

"Since we launched Betterment in 2010, we have worked every day to empower investors like you to do what's best for you and your money, so you can live better. I hope that you feel we've been living up to that aspiration.

Customers have told us that they want direct access to Betterment's financial experts. So today, we're introducing new plans that allow customers to choose how they prefer to receive financial advice from Betterment: Digital, Plus, and Premium.

You are currently on the Digital plan, which will offer the same great service you've enjoyed with Betterment to date. Plus and Premium plans include direct access to our team of CFP® professionals and licensed financial experts, who will actively monitor your accounts to help you confidently reach your financial goals. If you're interested in learning more about the new plans, you can read about them on our Resource Center.

Each plan will cost a simple, flat rate. Starting June 1, your Digital plan will be 0.25% per year of your average balance. In addition, we're eliminating our monthly minimum fee, and eliminating our fees on all balances above $2 million. Furthermore, all plans are backed by our new Satisfaction Guarantee..."
From what I read, I don't think OP knows. My dad came here on a J-1 visa as a student which meant my mum, my sisters and me came here on a J-2 visa since we were dependent on his visa status.

It took us 10 years of constant applying, thousands of dollars spent before we got our green cards. I still remember my interview because I got my green card in 2015 and it was the most invasive thing I've ever gone through. I still even remember all the interviews we had to do before we got our visas to come to America.

In my opinion, I don't think OP really knows how difficult it is to get to America in the first place as an immigrant. It's not as simple as the media makes it out to be.
I really like Firebase, but for specialized cases as others mentioned. The realtime updates are solid, and the iOS SDK at least is deep enough to let you dig into edge cases when needed (like, how many clients are listening to this node?). But I use it like an in-memory store to sync live data. Can't imagine having to use it like a full database - I use Parse for storing more permanent data across tables.
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It took me a while to understand why but you kinda have to see where Trump supporters get their worldview. Unfortunately, they use Facebook/Twitter a lot, and have been bombarded for years and years by outrageous fake news. When they try to debate some of this fake news, they are immediately dismissed by the reasonable sort who know fake news is fake news. They see shares/feeds from their friends about mostly the same thing. End result: an unreasonable hatred of the left and democrats. And an acceptance of Trump: just because he ain't a "damn liberal".

I don't even think it's the fake news or etc, it's the moral highground/horse that the far left stands on, and is unwilling to debate, talk, communicate.

Regardless of all this political shitstorm, i am quite sickened by the thought control that the far left seems so unwilling to yield from. They have so many dismissive weapons in their toolbag of verbal war that make hope for discussion a fickle thing. A lot of people have very unpopular views, either on the edge or over it from what the far left believes, and we all need to be willing to discuss. No ones views should be dismissed. Once we start doing that, a "surprise" voter turnout happens - ala Trump.
You're welcome.

I must stress that I do not blame developers for not catering for a language they do not speak, and I can't blame I company for not supporting a group of people if it doesn't make business sense.

I do, however, hold a grudge against a company that prevents me from fixing an issue in a product I payed for and own. More so when the fix is for a issue that renders the device useless and is incredibly easy to fix.
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Yeah, I've had some trouble with driver availability (the onboard bluetooth doesn't work). But nothing has ever crashed, graphics and SSD performance are what the hardware offers, even sleep works flawlessly. And I had originally planned to use Linux and hadn't even researched the hardware.

Made me think about the argument that Windows needs to support so many hardware combinations that <X> which I seem to remember sometimes hearing :) Although, to be fair, I obviously bought rather mainstream components and am not running RAIDs etc.
No they scabbed as well, but we're just better with PR. We've been so inculcated with Neoliberalism that switching to a more successfully deceptive brand is now seen as protest.
Your prospective colleagues and bosses would have been impressed by it. However, to impress the recruiter is a different ball game. Especially the inexperienced recruiters, who don't always understand the challenges of one technology vs another. Another possibility could be you were person #25 or even #7 to apply to the job and they already found a pretty good fit in the first 6.
Thanks for letting us know that you are a fascist.
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