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> For example screening for knives is useless because anyone can make a shiv in an airport bathroom the same way prisoners do.

I'd never really thought about shivs before, but I've always felt that the available materials in duty free (after security) must be more than sufficient to blow a hole in the side of a plane (lots of aerosols etc)?

I guess the additional danger comes with a plane lands somewhere and a train has far less potential to cause massive collateral damage. However looking at the tube bombings in London it is clearly possible to make a decent fist of terror using trains.

>The main reason there haven't been any repeats of 9/11 is that as of 9/11 all passengers are on notice that resisting hijackers is mandatory, and even a terrorist with a knife can't fend off 100 passengers at once.

I disagree. The changes to cockpit doors are far far more relevant, it's simply not practical to take control of a plane through threat of violence (plus all pilots are now aware they won't necessarily be hostages - they'll be weapons). Yes a bladed weapon will only let you harm a small number of passengers before being overwhelmed - but a couple of guns probably achieves the same. The clear difference being the chance of depressurising the cabin.
The offer was at least 10 years ago, we weren't renting most of them back then. I gave it as an example because I don't know what the actual evaluation of each apartment is.

Santorini boomed the past 5 years I'd say to the point that this year the Government had to cut down Ships from mainland to Santorini because the Island couldn't afford having that many tourists on it.

Using your calculations yes it would go for more than 6m euros although you have to calculate the fact that Greece is currently in a very unstable economic state, with heavy property taxes etc, and of course being close to the Middle east tourism can be affected heavily by wars etc. Although again I have no idea what the actual price of any of the apartments would be nowadays.
Sure, but the population of cells we call an individual human being does "evolve" over the course of its life.
You know what I meant. If you're entirely serious then I'll engage but I think you're splitting hairs somewhat. ;-)
I think this assumes that this is a new development, which I don't think it is, people were writing books on the topic when Obama was in power.

In some sense Snowden was the same thing, and a big chunk of the public was happy about what he did.

The scale of resistance is new, but the fact that the president is so wilfully incompetent is also new.

Maybe they will feel emboldened, but it seems more than likely that heads will roll as a result. Congress is already starting a review into the leaks.

It might be quite healthy for some heads to roll to show that you can't use leaks to amass power.
Portsmouth is a community of 20ķ and from a cursory look on Google maps relatively small area wise.
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If parking downtown is that in demand, has the city investigated things such a bus circulator, demand-based pricing to fund parking improvements, improving bike amenities and connections or negotiating public parking agreements with private lot owners? There's a lot of potential solutions here, but paving over business districts doesn't make sense.
Completely agree.

I mean, i'm all for having humans no longer drive asap, but that doesn't mean we'll be done with roads and travel. Also people need to remember that these "trucks" come in many shapes and sizes, and a big truck will move the inventory most of the way on interstates, and then vans / smaller trucks actually deliver in many cases. Especially within cities where traffic and space would make driving a fullsized haul impossible.

Imo, people shouldn't be driving - but people should be traveling still. The world wide delivery system cannot be moved into city limits.
There is a very clear difference. The MSRP of Windows OS is over $100 or the Microsoft tax if you bought a Windows system. Secondly, you can turn off Google services when you setup an Android phone. Where is the option to turn off all Microsoft services and not have to interact with them at all?
Every single one of your items about Europe applies to New York.
Because if you already use the sledgehammer to build mansions for your day job, using it to build your shed will take no time at all.
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True, but anytime I hear Ceres, Phoebe, Eros, etc. I can't help but think Expanse.
>My opinion is that dense cities unfairly favor extroverts and minglers/hustlers.

City-dwelling introvert here. It's exactly the opposite. Sprawl isolates introverts because introverts have a harder time expending the effort it takes to maintain social connections.

I was lonely and miserable when I lived in an exurb. The accidental contact you get in a dense area makes it much easier to be an introvert who still has people interested in his life. It also makes it easy to go and make appearances at social gatherings and leave once you've had your fill because getting home is easy. Even more importantly, getting home drunk is easy.

>Also, "social homogeneity" (all people in a spatial region having the same cultural background) is really underrated - it really helps you focus when you have deep intellectual/technical work to do when you don't have to always be on alert for "what makes everyone different" or "what joke/metaphor could happen to offend anyone different enough from you"...

Ok. This isn't introversion, this is just social ineptitude. I'm an immigrant to this country and have never had enough of a problem with this despite not having the inculcated tribal knowledge that locals have. It has certainly never impacted my ability to focus. For one thing, if you're concentrating why are you paying attention to people around you at all?

> I've really perceived it as heaven/utopia for people loving more personal space, depth, uninterrupted focus and "free attention".

Do you think people who live in cities don't have their own offices or rooms or something? We live in apartments, not bunk hostels dude.
I've never been diagnosed, no, and I've never had any interest in doing so although I was often pushed to get a diagnosis in school/college. As I said in another comment it's only ever been a problem in my life when other people make it a problem for me.

A principle I will life and die by is that everything I have in life I've earned. I've never accepted any welfare, or any kind of extra help or support in any way my entire life. I was probably the only kid never to enter a cheat code on GTA.

I don't want a job because I'm filling the retard quota. I couldn't accept that. And either way, I'm quite capable of doing my job.

The only time it's really anything close to a disability is when I'm trying to explain some tech, or something like that. But I can do it just find if I'm given time, or pen and paper. But that's never been the issue. The issue has always been people disliking me in the office for not fitting in. Or not giving me a chance in interviews because I don't know how to correctly answer questions like, "what makes you excited?".
I suspect basic income would lead to an increase in inflation in the current environment.

How? It's the same amount of money, just redirected from existing welfare programs and redistributed via taxes.

Then wouldn't it follow that inflation would then take place all but entirely removing the utility of the basic income?

If you're making $10k/year and get another $10k from basic income, you'll be much better off even if somehow there is significant inflation.

Basic income isn't a magic wand to make everyone richer. It's an efficient way of guaranteeing that everyone can cover their basic needs, without the inefficiencies and harmful incentives of the current system.
...and where the first line of the guidelines says "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."
Code your own smart headphones
Do you remember IBM's OS/2? It turns out that a lot of really important systems still rely on OS/2. ATMs, ticketing machines, industrial control systems. Stuff that still has plenty of lifespan left, but would be prohibitively expensive to replace from scratch. A company called eComStation produce an OS/2-compatible operating system, with full support for modern hardware. Their clients include Boeing, Fujitsu, Alstom and Siemens.

I know of many vitally important systems that are still running on DOS, Windows 3.1 and a variety of even more obsolete platforms. I expect that Windows XP will continue to be a significant platform for several decades. If ReactOS ever gets out of beta, it'll be a boon for huge numbers of users.
It sounds like there's a lot of demand for parking and some land mistakenly allocated to condos and hotels, as evidenced by the low occupancy you cite! This could be a great opportunity for the enterprising business to put parking in place of that housing and charge market rate for it!
There are definitely a lot of people who fall into those categories, but the articles/links give the impression that everyone is senior. Which is why it's great when articles like this come around.
No, "we as a society" don't need to decide on anything. Customers need to decide what they want/like.

Apples trying to make devices appliances, because that's what most of the world wants. Many customers don't want to repair their own devices, and by the time most of the devices stop working they are close to obsolete anyways.

I have a 2014 Macbook Pro, it also scores 1/10 for repairability, but I've dropped it numerous times and it has never broke. All the adhesives and soldering Apple uses make for a very tough device and I value that far more than any ability to crack it open and replace stuff. If it breaks I'm happy giving it to the Apple store to repair.
And on a related note. https://archive.org/details/anacomp

Lately I've become really interested in analog computing and want to explore the possibilities of analog/digital hybrid computers. If anybody has done / is doing anything fun in this regard, I would love to hear about it.

Also, there's a subreddit for Analog Computing if anyone is into that sort of thing. http://analogcomputing.reddit.com
Analog electronic computers actually offered significant advantages in precision over their digital equivalents for much of the mid-20th century, due to limitations imposed by slow clock speeds and small word sizes. Calibrating them was non-trivial, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer#Modern_era
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The article is about phenomic, a static site building tool for React.

As a long-time C# dev, about a week ago I started learning phenomic and typescript by porting a large-ish horrible-mess-of-html-and-javascript site to typescript and phenomic using VS Code. It's been one of the most joyful coding experiences I've had in years. The joy wasn't because everything was easy (I was doing too much learning for it to be easy), it was because everything was just so right.

I take back everything I've ever said about web development. Those horrible days are behind us. Thank you to the react, typescript, and phenomic teams. I can easily base my next 5-10 years of web development work off the frameworks and directions you've set out for us.
> I have about a hundred domain names. How can you expect me to check my inbox daily and click a link for all these domain names.

Why would you have those mails go to your inbox? Why not have something in your incoming mail filters that looks for them and moves them to a mailbox dedicated to domain admin mails? It's way easier to monitor that way, and harder to miss something in the noise.
I guess we both see what we want to see.
Private offices with separate collaborative areas. The actual architecture and interior design could be performed tolerably well by a monkey.
For me it is. I was raised on soda, especially coca-cola, and plain water just doesn't have that good taste. I guess it's kind of like an addiction.

My kids are used to drinking water, and I don't have any soda in the house (too bad for me :().
I recommend s/watch/read/. I'm just finishing the second book, they're great so far.
In PHP I like using Yoda Conditions because there's a common idiom of testing assignment in the conditional:

if ($value = getSomeValue()) {
// Safely use value
}

Yoda Conditions defend nicely against accidents when '=' and '==' can be used legally this way and honestly you get used to reading them pretty quick.
The popular vote is irrelevant to US politics. Hillary clearly lost because the voting base that normally shows up for Dems did not show up for her. Trump did no better than previous Republican candidates.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/09/graph-shows-hillary-c...
Counter-example: Slack chose growth and they swallowed up a multi-billion-dollar opportunity that 37signals (now Basecamp) rightfully could have owned.

Slack employs over 700 people now (compared to 51 people at Basecamp) even though they're a decade younger.
Why should humans work in factories doing mindless jobs? We need to prepare people to re-educate themselves as technology advances.

Andrew Ng discusses "basic income" where people need to learn:

https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=1h1m57s
GitLab contributors, please take note.

Fossil's UI is very fast and the navigation is intuitive and discoverable.

I know it's on the roadmap, but it is so often an afterthought.
'If you are claiming that the article is a lie, written only to encourage a change in messaging rather than a change in perspective, you are violating the core principles of discussion of on HN which is "charity"'

^^ Huh? So if the parent is fully convinced that "the article is a lie, written only to encourage a change in messaging rather than a change in perspective" it is against HN principals of discussion for him to say so?
It's people, not things, behind my back that are the usual issue.
Protonmail is not email. Its like email, but it isn't.
Have you seen AirTable? It's definitely the best modern alternative to Access I've seen - easy to create tables, great web UI and a phenomenal iOS mobile app.

https://www.airtable.com
First "no one" cares about SPARC, I'm glad the focus is on platforms that people use like x64_86 and ARM, secondly *BSD like and Debian don't run well on recent hardware, it's a lie to say otherwise, at best you will have terrible battery life, wifi / bluetooth that doesn't work properly, touchpad half broken ect... BSD support for modern hardware is worse than the Linux one.

> If you run "testing" or "sid"

So you drop your stability to use beta / alpha packages that are unstable where in Ubuntu LTS you have all the recent packages / drivers that have been tested. I mean with that statement you can run anything if you can compile it.

One can complain about many things for Ubuntu but not hardware support.
This trick can only save people who remember to use it. Warnings emitted by tooling save everyone.

Also it's slightly awkward to read, as mentioned by others already.
Thank you. Good point
Serverless[0] does support Python (the CLI tools are just written in JS). Zappa[1] is also a great option if you want to deploy a WSGI compatible app (flask/django) to Lambda.

I've used them both in production and have had a great experience.

[0] https://serverlesscode.com/post/python-on-serverless-intro/
[1] https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
This isn't really about what logically makes sense to you personally, Germanier just explains how the law is currently interpreted.
The idea that Priuses are only about virtue signaling is silly. For people who don't much care about power and handling, they're good cars that can be bought for a reasonable price and are cheap to run.
What customs have you gone through where they do that? I travel internationally regularly and have yet to come across this.
If only this desubsidzation was met with an offset on mass transit because sadly many folks either have a home in town and have to commute to the burbs because the company built their campus that way or vice versa. In the Midwest, there's no real push to augment mass transit even with BRT and dedicated lanes for it. All kinds of NIMBY complaints seem to be holding back any kind of progress on such things. So odds are that it'll still be politically easier to subsidize the roads and cars until the cities break apart under the pressure of infrastructure maintenance costs and loss of tax revenues as working populations move or age out.
This just moves the goalpost another few years into the future until robot repairs are just as viable as robot manufacturing.
I get lots of second-hand hardware in the projects I do. Mainline Ubuntu works on all of them. The other Linux's are more inconsistent. Fixing their issues with Google is less straight-forward, too, if we're talking non-technical people. I've seen them do it with Ubuntu esp where it takes an apt-get or something.
Now I wanna study a multi-armed bandit where levers get added over time, perhaps even one where levers don't have a fixed distribution, but can have some drift.
People aren't an economic game. Society has a pace at which it can absorb change, and a pace at which change is too fast causing too much harm to too many people. I agree with you that BI or a negative income tax is a good option for distribution, however that money does have to come from somewhere and he's correct, those benefiting the most financially from automation are the ones who are keeping the gains that used to be salaries paid out to employees they no longer have.

Is that the best way to find the money, taxing progress? I don't think so either, but it's not at all irrational, though it is a bit indirect. I'd much prefer just taxing wealth directly, not income, wealth. In either case, heavier taxes on the wealthy in whatever means they come is preferable to the degradation of society at large due to mass unemployment which will lead to social unrest and eventually war.
Well, the same can be said about Western Europe. When did you last see a person in a national costume in Austria?
Yes it is Iranian. There are original lyrics with their translations line by line. Users can comment on each section of a song or leave comments for the whole song. Unfortunately I don't know any alternatives in Arabic.
I am purely naive of this project and not of another project with a similar name. I thought ReactOS was newer than ReactJS due to the version number.

The analysis was entertaining, but over-speculative.
> "Every car driver ought to pay for their parking space they use—whether it’s in the public or the private realm."

I do pay for private parking spaces already. Stores and businesses provide them and they're paid for by the money I pay them.
There's no way to make the numbers work if BI is funded by just redirecting existing welfare programs.
> Why is it morally ok? Because earth is a place of sin anyway and goal is to work towards going to heaven. This is done by performing religious duties. So 'rule of law' is either an inconvenience or irrelevant towards main goal of life.

Heh. If you're smart enough, you can "morally" justify anything I guess. People living in the "mortal plane" do need to accept the laws that govern that plane though...or work to change them if they are not acceptable.
To be fair, that feature is in the next version of C#; not release yet.
It's self righteous to want clean air?
Salesforce often ends up filling this gap in organizations that can afford it, but often results in a technical debt of layman-designed schemas persisting long into production. (cleaning up or directly working with SF data is an expensive nightmare in my experience even post-Heroku acquisition)

You are correct that a modern MS Access alternative would certainly find its market.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi...

^ Per the parent you're replying to, it used to be called Startup News.
And I have the feeling that if you would use public content from said news organizations without permission, things would turn out rather differently.
I 'was' a technical person, so id gravitated here to learn. Ive since left that role but I still enjoy the higher level of commentary here. One can only Reddit so much.
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That wasn't an official riseup response to the failure to update the canary statement. That was a tribute to Leonard Cohen. It seems many people on twitter thought this was a hidden message, but Riseup said it wasn't.
The Chinese version NEVER does the same things.

The Chinese don't even have an actual clue about what constitutes HD. To them, it's any wide-screen format (as evidenced by my "HD Camera Glasses" which only records at 720x480.)
Having run an (internal) app that is deeply integrated with Google Sheets for about a year, I think that Sheets is good and bad. It's _extremely_ powerful for allowing business users to easily get access to and manipulate data manually. Downside is that it really struggles past a few thousand rows when you've got more than 20 or so columns. Definitely good for a quick and dirty way to expose data to internal users, but it essentially can't scale. Engineers need to be ready to move off of it if the system works.
Alright - took a look at the docs and have a bit of feedback:

1. First off - great job! This kind of thing should be part of graphing libs to begin with (real perspective projection) - most only have orthographic.

2. But! You should add the ability to switch to orthographic, as it can be useful for certain plots.

3. Other plotting types would be useful - I'm not an expert here - basically everything matplotlib offers: http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/tutorial.html

4. Gridlines, labels, legend, titles, etc.

5. Perhaps an x/y/z gnomen?

6. A way to pick/point at a datapoint and see the data values that generated it (perhaps with a way to apply formatting to the information popup?)

Ok - I know it is "early days" and what I've posted is probably things you have already thought about and are working on. As a first showing, I really like it. I can see it being useful for a variety of tasks - and again, I am glad you do the perspective projection instead of only ortho - because sometimes, you just want to see the data in a more "real world" fashion...
I read three or four places trying to source this, none of them made this distinction.

Is this any different in practice? Don't you have to do a bunch of work before you can provide a bona fide development plan?
There are people who agree with you in the US, but far too few of them are on planning councils.
How is that philosophically different than using Windows with Spybot Anti-beacon (or similar telemetry-blocker)?

You're critical of Windows for collecting data, but use other software that collects similar data, saying "that's fine I have 3rd-party privacy tools". These same tools have existed for Win10 since week 1.
No, that is not the same thing at all.

The equivalent would be "are there programmers and non-programmers"

That is a specific job. "Technical person" is not a specific job.
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Ask HN: Who are the “Old Masters” of programming?
Many are well known but I'd like to gather a comprehensive list for study.

1. Who are the Old Masters?

2. What are their best works?

3. Where can we find their code or descriptions of their systems for study?

Thanks!
Any of them MIPS or SPARC? Or how about something a little more exotic?

How is it everyone is overlooking that I'm talking about CPU architectures?

Seriously what's with people these days just playing on a few x86 PCs and maybe a raspberry Pi and then making bold claims their distro x runs on everything. Lets talk about some real niche platforms that are non-trivial to port software to please.