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You mean people complaining about the lack of Vulcan on OS X?

I mean if we're only paying attention to desktops than this whole discussion is moot. Safari on the desktop has a pathetically small market share, Chrome and various versions of IE easily dominat it. There's no reason to think that even if we ended up with the equivalent of WebMetal that would seriously boost desktop Safari's market share.

iOS, especially given the rules around alternate browsers, is the reason this discussion is important at all. Those hundreds of millions of devices or where this may matter.
If the system is dynamic, then there's no reason to expect that it doesn't somehow oscillate between extremes.

If income inequality and unemployment gets too great, maybe there's a phase transition. In that case, a little bit of communism could help alleviate the pressure.

Regardless of whether you believe it could actually work, it certainly means that it's not absurd to consider, at least not for the reasons you've stated.
You're going a little easy on IBM.
Agreed. Or maybe even a settlement.
Everyone is pointing out potential problems with the methodology, but really this matches up pretty well with experience. SQL, MS Office stuff, boring things like logging, and testing all show up as being about work. Haskell is actually infamous for having an evangelical following and limited real-world uses. And, yeah, your C-like languages work well for both work and side-projects. This all makes perfect sense. The only thing I'm surprised about is assembly being for pleasure (maybe hardware people?), and web stuff being as versatile.
In theory, making UBI only provide 'essentials' is a good idea, but in a large country like India (or the US, or China), the cost of living in different localities varies wildly.

A person receiving UBI who lived in San Francisco proper and got free housing would essentially get 5x - 10x effective benefit than someone living where rent is $500 / month. Cue the inevitable conflicts over who gets to live where, and caps on what level of UBI will be provided.

But conversely, if the UBI benefit were a fixed monetary amount, then you'd be consigning UBI beneficiaries to never live in an expensive area where urban professionals work, so you would create a geographical and social divide where UBI recipients are consigned to live in low-income slums.

I don't see any way to resolve these dilemmas that would make all people happy, unfortunately.
> England has a single-payer (the NHS) and a population of 53m people. So I guess the answer is England?

GP was being rhetorical, but if you really want to know, Medicare has 55 million beneficiaries in the US.
Cats are bastards, you may always have to give a good reward. Not necessarily food, but something. The key to long term training, for cats or humans, is to repeat often, and then gradually lengthen. Don't teach daily for a month and then wait 3 months. Train daily, then weekly, then monthly, etc.
I think in contrary this is the ideal experiment since aspirations generally float high in aggressively growing economies. This is the exact opposite of Mao's' communism where people were forced to pick up skills based on a notion of a common good. A UBI can enable individuals to select, educate and work on tasks big and small, knowing that the govt. is behind them.
Hi - I'm the author of the Parinfer Vimscript port.

If you've found a bug with the port, please report it here: https://github.com/oakmac/parinfer-viml/issues/new

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Exactly. GVFS is not a filesystem based on Git.
They were also already available on the website in high resolution, many of them since 2011. The difference this time is the CC0 licensing, I'm pretty sure.

A lot of people are confused about the licensing of museum images and why it's news that a major museum is releasing them CC0 when they're already public domain. I see some good thoughts here--e.g., absolutely there is a difference between 2D and 3D images (an image of a 3D work might have sufficient additional creativity involved to support a separate copyright), and yes, the Bridgeman decision is a thing. But Museums have a lot more to worry about than that. E.g., there are a lot of orphan works. More importantly, there are important people they want to be careful not to offend, whether living artists, their estates, their representatives, or potential donors. In my experience, all of those groups except artists tend to be more conservative about sharing than the staff at most museums.

This is not to say that any of that trumps the law. But Bridgeman was one weird case in one weird situation and it hasn't been tested in a museum setting. What we're talking about is not whether you can legally use the image as you like, but whether the museum will willingly show you the image. By 2011, the tide had turned and it was not going to be long before most/all major collections saw sharing as more valuable than hoarding. But in 2009 that wasn't the case.
Fair enough. I'm all for having the program do some intelligent prompting of the user, as long as it doesn't become annoying (like Microsoft's "Clippy" :-D).

There is a sweet spot with most software between being buried in a sea of options and having no options you can configure at all. I tend to gravitate toward having a sensible set of defaults and letting the user configure them otherwise if they want. Having options grouped together can be good too (like keybindings -- vim vs emacs style bindings for example).

I also like the idea of customization through functions/scripting rather than just giving the user a choice between N options. That's another area where a set of sensible defaults can be good -- defaults in that case, which can be programmed around.

BTW, thanks for responding here. Always nice to get feedback from the developers of a piece of software directly. I really haven't looked at fish for years (though I'm certain I checked it out a while back). I'll give it another look to see if there's something there to catch my interest.

Sorry I didn't see your response until today, I was busy the last couple of days and just got back to it.
VRML (and most of the scene graph style 3D apis) died in the 90s for a reason.
The downside of Google art project is that you aren't supposed to download the images.
Does this mean Trump will be prevented from leaving the country? I honestly don't understand how I'm expected to pay taxes when the highest in the land refuses to pay his.
As a developer, I much prefer Microsoft's approach. That way I don't have APIs pulled out, products being abandoned and services axed whenever Google feels like it.

And let's not get started on the absolutely awful quality of APIs Google puts out.
I agree. But the reason they felt forced to do this is because even "reputable" software companies were auto-injecting unnecessary extensions as a side-effect of installing their popular software. Companies like Adobe and Microsoft, and "industry leading" "computer security" companies.

My first instinct is to say "it's important to not install crap software, you need to reasonably trust the software you install". But I immediately recognize that it's un-intuitive that Adobe and Microsoft and Symantec and McAfee are not on the "trusted" list. (Office and .Net have silently installed problematic Firefox extensions in the past.)

I don't really have a conclusion here, just, it sucks.
I guess my angle isn't: What is there to gain for me.
Even though I was made redundant, the employer is nice and I'd have no problems signing it.

But it's the first time I'm asked to sign one of these things and some of the things I'd be agreeing to doesn't even sound like it's in english. I don't want to inadvertently sign over any side project I was working on in that time or IP for the industry I was working in or even future IP as some of it seems to be worded without time constraints. But take all that with a grain of salt, no legal background.

The sale of the business is predicated on all former employees signing the deed.
Isn't that obvious? I'm not sure how I could be more explicit..
> This shows, that this idea wasn't thought through enough.

Isn't this the way you're supposed to do open source? Post code early and often for comments?

It seems like a ridiculous requirement that to show a sketch of what they think a web API should look like for next generation 3-D graphics they should have to design an entire shader language that's different from the one they already have.

It's just a placeholder. They didn't even SHOW the language. They just referred to its name and said they were using that for expediency during the initial version of the document they were showing.
> I think we both realize that solving the two job problem is much harder.

No, it's not harder than solving the problem of how you let the government substitute for absent parents without creating a regime that exerts authoritarian control of the adult population through its control of content.
we will not buy any other drugs from you

Private payers are free to do that, but don't. The reason why they don't is because they have customers and telling someone "no you can't have this drug" makes people really upset.

I'm not sure Medicare would have much more success in that area. I could imagine politicians phones ringing off the hook with call from retirees stating "why won't you pay for my drug"?
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> Most of the IH audience will read this, care very little about the "secrets" behind the trading strategy, and instead focus on what you call "trite lessons".

I'd like to think I'm part of the core IH audience. I come for interesting stories of people building software from scratch and generating revenue from it.

Someone who got lucky gambling their money for a few months is just not an interesting story. It's way outside the mold of what you usually publish.

> My minimum cutoff nowadays is $100/mo, but in the past I've done interviews where the revenue was $0 or not shared. Although it's fun celebrating big revenue wins, that's not the point of the site.

It's good that you have a cutoff, but I think the issue is that this project doesn't necessarily meet that. With your typical interviews, you know they're making revenue from actual customers and that revenue is a meaningful metric. He happens to have generated profit so far, but I also happen to have generated profit on my gambling trip: it's not a meaningful metric, and in fact, might as well be 0.

He could easily have all his revenue wiped out next month (and, in fact, almost did). I'm really not sure what we have to learn from someone who has successfully gambled for a few months.
I find the topic of event sourcing / CQRS a little frustrating. Somewhat tangential, but I've slightly similar experiences with rxjs as well.

For both, whenever I read about em or I hear someone discussing em, it makes so much sense in my head! But later when I try to execute on the ideas, I can't make it "come together". It's like some puzzle piece refuses to click into place.

In the cases when I've tried hacking something together, I've always ended up with something that seemed more brittle than if I'd just gone with a safe relational database. With that said, I'm also completely open to the possibility that I've just been trying to apply the pattern in cases where it's not a good fit.

I'd seriously love to poke around in a real-world application showcasing CQRS. I don't expect something perfect, but getting a chance to look at what tradeoffs and concessions a bunch of engineers made would surely be incredibly insightful.
You might have to use the back of a t-shirt.

A spec which includes the term 'natural numbers' but not subtraction might even be argued to be incomplete, rather than minimal. Ymmv.
> All around the country you can see regulated rates that are too low and drive out investment. A great example is water utilities. Almost everywhere, water rates are far lower than they should be, and as a result water infrastructure is crumbling, customers are drinking water through lead pipes that haven't been replaced in a century, etc.

It's too simplistic to blame this on government regulation. The rest of the world also regulates utilities, and far from all of it has the crumbling water infrastructure problem.
Haha I was just thinking 20 bucks in wood and carpeting and you could build a really cool wheel.
There are definitely consumers who care. There are a lot of them here on hacker news.

But that number doesn't seem to be high enough to cause serious sales dips on iOS devices.

I'm not saying the number is 100% of consumers don't care. But it's also pretty clear it's not 70% who do care.
Never; except perhaps when the fact that it results in greater concentration of wealth isn't mitigated and leads to destructive, violent revolution, which cuts GDP.

But that's not really analogous to eliminating health care inefficiencies.
Nope. Medicare has 55.3M beneficiaries.[1]

[1]http://www.ncpssm.org/Medicare/MedicareFastFacts
The question specification is such that you don't need special handling of comments, strings, etc. "every paren" isn't qualified as "that is part of the code".

The point of the question is more to gauge your understanding of/familiarity with available tools and ability to think laterally rather than immediately jump to "I've got to write some real code to solve this"
Awesome, thanks! We're using this too, but have been thinking about making the switch to https://github.com/rails/webpacker
I try to look at the upside – our rabbit recently got behind my recording equipment and scissored a ¼″ balanced audio cable. Just so happens I needed a ¼″ TRS jack for a project so it saved me a purchase…
The first neathenderals to figure out how to use tools didn't have property rights, but the tools still augmented them. We are not so different from them, and faced with an overwhelming opposing power, (tech + extreme wealth) we don't have much of a chance, either.
Most Yegge blog rants are well worthwhile, IMO. I wish he wrote more of them.
Why would any serious gamer want to burden themseves with Apple's overpriced and underperforming platforms. Let them die, this would be a nice step in that direction.
This is not true. Intel has (unofficially?) said they will deliver production quality Vulkan drivers for their iGPUs. https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/developing-games-and...
I feel like using something like TOR would help here: it would create a background noise of other traffic while also providing a way for other users to not have to connect directly to the remote server.

So I ask: is there a way to provide an optional TOR endpoint?
e.g. can I have an MX record with high priority that points to a .onion address, and then have a backup (with lower priority) that points to the normal global IP?
> The link I posted is the only good technical summary

Agreed, except for...

> Its automatic high-speed protection system was triggered 3s later, with a maximum indicated air speed of 358kt (662km/h), or Mach 0.9, recorded.
This is all risk for you... why would you take on that risk with no compensation for an employer that fired you?
It seems like you have nothing to gain, but potentially something to lose by signing. On the other hand, do you have anything to lose by not signing?

IANAL, but from your description it does indeed sound like you have no IP rights to assign.

If they really want you to sign anyway, and you are ok with the terms, at least get compensation for it - that at least gives you an upside.
I assume they will need to sign off on the model... I expect to see a lot of this in the future.
Did you know where world beating apps come from?
According to https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/developing-games-and... Intel DOES plan on releasing official production quality drivers at some point.
You should feel free to draft alternative language that you are comfortable signing. It's then up to the lawyers and bankers in the deal to figure out if that's good enough for them.

What they're trying to guard against is an Oculus Rift type situation. You signing a clear statement of "mordrax has no further interest in any IP that's part of this deal" is probably good enough for them. You don't have to sign exactly what they put in front of you, especially if you can't understand it.
An event based system with a reliable event log becomes something that you can do a resync on. Which makes it into a pull based system in time of need.

Alternately you can have some sort of confirmation protocol. It is easy to go too far, but the kind of confirmation/resend logic that turns UDP into TCP has very much demonstrated its value in practice.
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Don't feel pressured. Sounds like you're trying to do the right thing and should be worried about signing an agreement you don't understand.

If you're worried, get an attorney (who understands software IP) to read it. Get the company to reimburse you for the attorney fee (and maybe your time).
I think it's highly dependent on the cat's personality. We have two, a brother and sister pair. The male cat (Curry) will follow my snapped and pointed finger every time, and responds immediately to voice requests (I use "requests" instead of "commands" intentionally, as any cat owner can attest). If I say "jump down" he'll quickly leave whatever roost he's warming with his bum. His sister Sage, on the other hand, will offer a sassy mew if you snap your fingers at her, and otherwise ignore any requests. She is no less intelligent than her brother, she simply doesn't share his desire to cooperate with her human pets. Curry will also, if he's starved for attention (or out of food, or just bored) come up to me at my computer desk and gently tap-tap-tap on my elbow until I stop what I'm doing and attend to his needs.

Some other interesting activities they've displayed: At night we confine them to their own bedroom in the house, so they aren't constantly scratching at our bedroom door for attention or running up and down the hallway waking us up at 3am. They know when bedtime is, and while Curry is perfectly content to go to bed on his own or with minimal prompting, Sage will find a place to hide before we even realize what time it is. She absolutely refuses to go to bed of her own accord, and we must resort to trickery to get her to go in their room. We can only use the same trick once though; like a Jurassic Park velociraptor, she remembers.

The gourmet food trick worked for a few days but then she would lay her ears back and squint at us as if to say "I see what you're doing there", and run the other way. Next came the catnip-stuffed mouse toy, which she fell for exactly once and never again. Ditto the laser toy; chasing it into the bedroom only to have the door close behind her worked the first time but no more. It seems the only way she will come of her own accord anymore is if we start lavishing her brother with attention; she will come to see what the fuss is about and we'll shut the door behind her. Jealousy in a cat? Perhaps, or just feline curiosity and nothing more.
It's kind of a joke. People getting rich off moving money around is kind of silly, and it would certainly be better if those jobs could be eliminated by machines.
Ask HN: Solopreneur here. Should I take investment?
I've been running a bootstrapped SaaS business for a couple of years and lately things have started to grow faster. MRR is around $25k, growing $1500 to $2000 every month and accelerating.

Except for a couple of part-time customer support contractors, I'm running it all by myself. The code is getting more complex, but the overhead that is eliminated when you don't have to work on a team makes everything very manageable.

I have been contacted numerous times by investors and other bigger companies, but so far I have been declining every opportunity because my goal has always been to run a lifestyle business.

Being able to run my own business from anywhere in the world has always been a dream of mine and now that I've achieved it I am starting to question if this is the best path.

I know without a doubt that I prefer to spend my working hours writing code and improving the product rather than managing people and money. That's why I've been declining VCs and partnerships. However, I sometimes think that if I sacrifice the next 2 years, take VC money and focus on rapid growth, I could make a very good exit in a couple of years and be set for life.

I'm looking for advice, specially if you've been in a similar situation.
Tlon owns about 40% of the address space (95 galaxies). Of those 24 are owned by Moldbug.
I would refuse to sign without hiring an attorney to review it. That will cost you something but at least you will know what you are signing.
Oh, don't worry. People will still get rich off of those transactions.
Yes that is true. I didn't say he disapproved of Israel. I think we're in agreement: as you said, he disapproved of the right-wing predecessors of modern-day Israel. He was very, very critical of them, and even compared them to Nazi Germany (his words).

>a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.

source: https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYork...

Today it's not hard to find op-eds criticizing Einstein as being "wrong" on this.
Ask HN: Making Visual Studio 2015 usable as a long-time Xcoder
For as long as I've been programming, I've been using Macs. Very little of my development has taken place under another OS, and what little has was under Linux in a cross-platform editor (Sublime). The bulk of it has been in Xcode developing for Apple platforms. This is probably pretty unusual.

I'm now developing a native cross-platform side project, and this has me using Visual Studio 2015 to write the Windows-specific portions of the project. This in itself isn't much of an issue, but VS has me absolutely bewildered. Practically nothing is where you'd find it in Xcode and some of its design decisions make no sense to me (two separate three-key shortcuts for commenting and uncommenting lines vs Xcode's single two-key comment toggle shortcut for example) and so now I'm trying to figure out ways to make VS more productive for me.

Does HN have any tips/tricks? Google yields virtually nothing on the subject but gives pages upon pages of results for those looking for the reverse (making Xcode more like Visual Studio).
This should be the top comment. Apple has no ground to stand on on this. Their self-serving intentions are plainly clear.
They are probably following a process on autopilot. Maybe just being extra safe, covering all their bases.

Just ignore it until they offer money for your supposed IP.
Chances are they messed up the paperwork somehow. Either the agreement you signed wasn't acceptable to the buyers or they just lost them.

I would definitely run it by a lawyer before you sign anything.

It's unlikely they're being nefarious, but realize that you'd be doing them a favor. It's up to you to decide if that's something you'd want to do.
Cool if I shoot a message to the address in your profile?
Public has its benefits. So does private. It's only when they work together that you get the optimal solution.
They have some of the best smartphones in the world ...
I'd go further and say it's not complex, but rather complicated. In the same way that (forgive the example) the Vim command language is complex, but the Vim source code (gasp) is, well, very complicated.

I use Emacs (Spacemacs, so maybe that doesn't count!), though, and I'm willing to live with this if it means it can do what it does! :)
Build a JS app today is extremely complex.
> We defined weekends using UTC dates...

...which means quite a few Saturday mornings in Asia have been counted as weekdays and many late Friday nights in the Americas have been counted as weekends.

It would be great if StackOverflow had information on the local timezone that the question was asked in. Seeing Mon-Fri 9-5 vs other times would be interesting.