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I look at it like someone who wants to learn French. Maybe they live in a French-speaking country and have French-speaking friends. When it comes to learning French, they decide they just can't stand the way it is spelled, and immediately give up. Wouldn't that be ridiculous?
I can answer this. (Background: I was a PC user 1989-2007. MBP user 2008-2016. Back to PCs from 2017 onwards.)

I do machine learning development. It is very helpful to have a CUDA-compliant GPU (read: NVIDIA) on your local machine so you can develop and run things quickly. Yes, you can use AWS, but that is costly, you need to push your data into the cloud, and you definitely cannot do it w/ sensitive data such as health records/medical images with localization clauses.

I waited over a year for the new MBP and was disappointed to see no NIVIDA GPU on them. I love the MBP, it is an absolute pleasure to use. But the new line had barely any horsepower improvements. It was almost a step back from the 2014 MBP I already owned. Further, the cost was obscene for the value/improvements I was getting.

I'm not happy about it, but I purchased an Alienware w/ a hefty NVIDIA card and 32GB RAM. It is a beast, but it meets my work needs. I do miss the agility of a MBP (e.g., carrying it in one hand to a cafe or onto a plane), but ultimately horsepower is needed more.
The basic limitation is how wide a load you can move by road and rail. That usually limits you to a double-wide house.

There's panelized construction, which is like IKEA for houses. This works reasonably well for rectangular houses. The joints can be a weak point, both structurally and as leak points.[1] Plumbing, wiring, and interior walls are best done at the factory, but that makes the connections complicated.

If you're willing to have exposed bolts and joints, it's easier. Butler Buildings makes industrial buildings and barns from prefab panels of corrugated steel. Those buildings are everywhere in rural America. They're strong, they go up fast, they can be purchased with insulated panels, and they last a long time. You can even get a fake brick exterior and a nice interior. But the result will look industrial.

[1] http://www.huduser.gov/portal/Publications/PDF/path_panel_co...
It's interesting how the same article can support different opinions just because of context. The points which Greenwald - a serious professional, to say the least - makes may look just strange enough to suspect that each one of them is left unfinished, and questions regarding them unanswered - and so the whole impression is - not there. For example, lack of evidence - as soon as you think you have one, you're left to wonder what to do with that piece of evidence, if the proposition of the article relies on the absence of something in which you aren't sure.
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You can just finish it with a layer of render.
Don't you need to be an affiliate bringing them a decent amount of sales before you get access to that. Usually there is a rate limit that makes it impossible to keep up with all their prices. How did you get around that?
I think this expectation has mostly dropped away in the last couple years. A lot of apps now have interfaces inspired by apps (e.g. Airmail on Mac OS X acts like an iPad app) or web apps (all the Electron apps). Obviously this isn't saying that a personal dislike for it is wrong, I just think that it's becoming less important in the market.
> “It’s just not gonna feel as nostalgic,” Ware tells GamesBeat when we asked him about the problems with the modern display technology. “The pixels will be sharper on an LCD, but they may not be 100 percent accurate. Colors won’t be quite as vibrant.”

The absolute loss of dead online games bothers me. I can't get too fussed about arcade games that are still 100% playable but with less nostalgic pixels.
Yes, I've been a consumer of Ramnode for years and have had nothing but good to say.
1.37bn items stored in a MyISAM table.. I sure hope that's the researchers copy of it rather than the origin.
If Apple has given up, then Microsoft has given up us well. Windows 10 is just as bad, it's worse. The majority of Windows users still use Win7, as Win8/10 has little benefits and makes things worse. Many (incl me) are sticking we the perfectly fine Windows 7.
You ratbag, you just cost me 10 minutes. :P

Nice implementation though. :)
Ah, but it would be less "vibrant" and "nostalgic", according to the article.
They're probably using it for higher-priority investigations, like keeping track of terrorist communications.
What I find interesting is that is we move slightly beyond BASIC, we get to a somewhat middle ground, where things like Python live. The question then becomes, at what point in the learning cycle do Python's choices in accessibility become liabilities, if ever? Does optimizing your code for legibility of novices end up hurting you at some point? What about if society shifts, and the majority of people have some programming experience? What if the journeyman of today is tomorrow's novice? Does Python end up being tomorrow's BASIC?

This is of course focusing on specific aspects of Python, and not Python as a whole, which I think is a very capable language (if not my cup of tea).
Depends on what you consider a limitation. There is the Broad Group in China which had proposed to build the worlds tallest structure in 90 days. [1] They have pre-fabricated buildings and put up a 57 story one [2] in 19 days. To be fair there is still a lot of prep for the foundation.

[1] Article on the "overly" ambitious Sky City -- http://fortune.com/2015/07/09/china-skyscraper/

[2] The video of them building 57 stories in 19 days -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxwgLYbAk0
I found that I could actually stop the snakes moving by staring intently at them. However, they easily started rotating again if I let my focus drift a bit. Yes, could probably induce a migraine if I kept at it for while.
Yep, any sort of event sourcing approach will theoretically give you the time machine this guy is looking for (albeit with the data from the "bad" release being entirely thrown away). However in practice I think it's non-trivial to bake this into your deployments.

In the process of rolling out a CQRS-based system now though so maybe we'll give it a go when time allows.
SSH does not cover all use cases.

One example if you have an internal web service, how would you restrict access only to employees (without having it open to the internet?). SSO is not enough since you want the ports closed to non employees.

Another example is accessing a database that is not configured with SSL. You don't want your info travelling in plaintext on the internet.
CRT production is a much more complex bit of modern manufacturing than making vinyl LPs.

This youtube video documents what a rather dedicated individual does to resurrect small-scale Nixie tube manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA And technologically, color CRTs are way beyond that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube#Color_CRTs
> Do you have any evidence for the claim that TOR is so badly compromised?

Only that it would be incredibly cheap and valuable to do so.
I am not as worried as other people are about Facebook, and here is why:

a) Facebook has less users not more, while they always emphasize their user growth I come across more and more people in real life who simply don't have a Facebook-Account, and those are social people. I am careful about basing too much on my own experience ofc, but this was very seldomly the case 4-5 years ago and now happens to me very often.

b) More and more users are disillusioned with Facebook to some extent. Due to some minor reasons I keep a Facebook account (various purposes, among those domain-specific groups to get questions answered and log in maybe once a month) and I see among my peers many who aren't really using it for much anymore. The occasional photo update with minor interaction via comments, the occasional posting of a music video, or the few users in between with heavy political activism on their timeline who apparently don't realize that next to no one will read it anyways and sigh about that crap. Facebook simply isn't cool anymore, so many don't care for most of its features and instead all they want is something to easily chat with people, aka WhatsApp.

c) Facebook certainly has trouble with attracting younger users and this won't stop. A social media platform where it takes a few days after account creation til your grandfather sends you a friend request and you have to answer to your parents about what you just posted? Definitely the cool place to be. Similar things probably can be said about WhatsApp to some extent. WhatsApp is what used to be normal SMS functionality in a way, while probably everyone has it cause everyone has it, it certainly isn't something exiting anymore.

d) Those who in my opinion over-estimate Facebook's role grossly under-estimate how fragile companies are and how easy (in my opinion) something like Facebook could start to fail. It happened to companies before, it will happen again. I don't know when, I don't know exactly why (though many possible reasons are viable). Everyone being on Facebook instead of just your 10 coolest friends might be what kills it in the end for young people for example, who knows what comes along and might attract user growth. The mobile market has made that certainly more dynamic via Apps, it's easier for a new chat App to gain traction than for a new social media website and WhatsApp with 1+ Billion users might not be bold enough to explore what the next big feature is people yet don't know they want. I know Facebook owns WhatsApp, I know Facebook invests in VR, I know their revenue is extreme and they have money stockpiled, I also know that isn't a guarantee of anything...

After thought: Anyone believing in the mighty power of Facebook should put their money where their mouth is and invest heavily in the stock, if Facebook is this monster of a multinational all-controlling company led by this young genius, a company with only growth ahead and such a minimal risk of failing then it shouldn't be a tough decision to make right?
If there is truly no reason, then I wouldn't tell you to get over it. But if there are other languages you'd be learning and using, and the only reason you don't is because of syntax, then you have a reason.

To take your example, Haskell can be poetic too, but until you become familiar with the syntax you'll never see it.
deal with the systemic inequality and lack of opportunity that make terrorism an attractive option?
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Thank you for your comments... I am on meds and have had the prednisone shots and whatnot, still have attacks that last weeks on end. Was told by my doctors that unfortunately it comes with the territory.
Ask HN: Possible to use Stripe on a website if one's country isnt supported yet?
Is there any way to use Stripe on a website if one's country isn't supported yet?
Yes, it only helps partially.
Nope. Almost none.
The "why are firetrucks red?" one is really interesting as the page result itself is great, but Google is pulling the wrong snippet of the page to feature as the answer.
I'm not quite able to run the code (too much load on the server probably). But is this something that can solve LPs in the browser (possibly more than just LPs, I think)? This would be incredibly helpful for many people I'm sure--all the existing online ones have arcane input reqs (and unhelpful errors) and standalone applications either cost money (Gurobi, cplex) or are not easy to use at all (gnu glpk).
You're trying to compare a simple case of Finder with an Explorer screen that's on the middle of reconfiguring the view. Ordinarily it's much simpler-looking than that. This is not a remotely fair comparison.
You might want to check the older version of this course
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> Facebook has less users not more, while they always emphasize their user growth I come across more and more people in real life who simply don't have a Facebook-Account,

The data strongly disagrees with your anecdote. It wasn't but a few years ago they were targeting 1 billion users. Now they're at almost 2 billion.

http://1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
Is this a serious statement, that windows update mines Bitcoin?
You're not the only one. Only course that I took that I crashed and burned on.
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Yea my layman understanding is that it's a social pressure to not publish the results in the first place.
I've got a lot out of reading https://www.fullstackreact.com/

React, Redux, Relay, GraphQL are covered comprehensively, with good examples and explanation.
I never had a magsafe2 laptop. I love magsafe1. I have no idea why they went through with changing it.
All the top torrents are the 3h 49min or 4h 11min extended version.
If you don't use Facebook, you should block all their domains

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Sure, but you'd be talking about a civilization that could afford to build it, and operate it... a civilization so advanced that they can afford more than double our current energy production just to electromagnetically shield Mars.
L1 isn't a _stable_ Lagrange point. I think only L4, L5 are.
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> intended to be a permanent fixture

Are you sure about that? I've ordered two and I've never thought about leaving it in: for me, it's purely a normal connector except that it could "break" safely.
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Just make sure you are not relying on one droplet and you are good to go.
I used to be all for the removal of highways, but now I worry that this trend will accentuate economic inequality and hurt poorer people who might want to move to the big wealthy cities where these highways are being removed.

50 years ago, when these roads were being built, they enabled wealthy workers to flee to the suburbs and commute into city centers for work, cutting through the poorer neighborhoods left behind.

Now the geographic patterns are reversing in some areas, and city centers are now far more vibrant (read: wealthy), while in places like Los Angeles, where I live, much of the new population growth is occurring on the periphery of the urban area, where lower income workers can afford to live while enduring long commutes into the city.

I live in an affluent neighborhood, and many of my neighbors want to make the city more walkable and "friendlier", by making roads smaller and de-emphasizing cars in favor of transit and human-scale development. In the long run, I think this is a good idea, and would dramatically improve my life in the city.

But at the same time, if policies make a city and its high quality jobs difficult to access for people who can't afford to live in the city itself, it's not necessarily a net positive, especially when the wealthiest cities are enthusiastically restricting supply.

Ultimately, I worry that we will look back at this period in urban policy as the time when city centers got far wealthier, low-income people were displaced, and the focus of wonks turned to creating cities that rich people like them would like to live in, without realizing that the same policies that makes a city enjoyable to live in also makes the engine of good jobs hard to access for people who aren't fortunate enough to already be living there.
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This is so stupid, the "primer on the basics" should be "Algorithmization for Computer Science", not a 900+ page math textbook (that doesn't even explore graph theory, calculus and differential calculus).
> I'm a professional developer, I don't want a new toy language

Why do you think Swift is a toy language?
Now, that you point it out, I think that is the situation. When the answer were not easily verifiable it has been websites I wasn't familiar with.
> His company sells persuasion tools to manufacturers of consumer (and industrial) goods and services producers.

I think the whole "Fake News" is the start of a new thing. What has happened is that traditional media failed to manufacture consent like it was supposed to. It surely wasn't for the lack of trying. They were passing debate questions to their favorite candidate, claiming reading leaked document is only legal for the media and so on. So they really tried, failed, and everyone noticed.

That in effect, created a vacuum in that market. That is the market of "pay us a lots of money and we'll persuade millions of people to accept whatever ideology, products, ideas you want". It is good for selling trinkets, but also good for electing officials and so on.

Notice how quickly (and smartly) both Google and Facebook jumped in:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/technology/google-faceboo...

Now it has to be wrapped officially in "We are saving those poor uneducated slobs from being told lizard people run the government" and so on, but I think the message has to be read between the lines.
To clarify, this is a tutorial on how to use a C++ computational geometry library named Wykobi. It is not an introduction to computational geometry or a tutorial on how to implement computational geometry algorithms.
> what kinds of programming related things will only be in chinese or devanagari (india) script?

Sometimes I've come across Chinese language sites for golang search results. It made me wonder what is being uniquely expressed in Chinese about Go.
"OVH" and "great" in one sentence. Good the roulette ended up in good spots for you, like it did for me for some time. They can be rather cost effective for private toy projects.

But. I can confidently say I would seriously consider quitting my job if forced to use OVH in a work context.

Linode on the other hand actually do things like respond to support requests, often in a helpful way even.
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I always thought that services like Startpage or DDG paid for access to search databases, it maybe some form of revenue sharing. It's not that they're stealing the search results from Bing or Google and repackage them.
I guess d3 (https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/master/API.md) can handle most of these things.

Others you can check out:

- http://turfjs.org

- https://two.js.org

- http://paperjs.org (especially "PaperScript" which does some magic to allow adding / multiplying etc. vectors if that's what you're after)

Also worth noting is that for most "computations" there is a likely a package available on npm
Ask HN: Director of food operations at (imaginary) space station
So..you are soon-to-be director of food operations of a space station that is being prepped to be populated by a diverse range of people. The first arrival is 100 human persons.

1. You don't know their food preferences, food intolerances, health data, age or ethnicity.

2. You can't grow food in the space station like on earth.

3. Artificial environment aids human digestion just as on earth.

4. All food and beverages are 3-D printed. You can print a variety of textures and shapes of a lab created 'complete food'.

5. You can customize by flavouring it and colouring it.

How would you go about creating a menu for the incoming future residents?

I don't mean actual names of dishes etc, but how would you go about programming the attributes of the food from 3-D printer.

Example: We know from codified data that there are Five flavours. But what about textures? Al dente pasta, silky cooked spinach..crunchy apples.

What can such a food printer do and how would you imagine a typical lunch day?
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$280??!!

I knew prices were "high", but good grief! I guess I really am out of touch.

Glad I held onto my vintage copy. Don't imagine the intervening 20-ish years have added circa $200 (at a guess) of value to the latest edition.
I'm sure some of this has to do with wealth and the ability to pay for intangible, but definitely positive, experience premia. Go into a cafe in New York City or a college library and you'll see a sea of MacBooks. I might say 90% MacBooks (i'm a part-time grad student.) The situation is very different in the workplace, especially in lagging industries. In finance and management consulting, my past careers, I saw 99% PCs.
It's a lazy Sunday, I'll reply to both here.

Downvotes are essential. Replying to a poor-quality comment wastes time and effort, downvoting means that other people won't read it.

> Obviously that reaction isn't rational in this case, but I don't really know what to do about it yet other than to always try to provoke earnest debate.

Consider that the reaction may not be rational in other cases. The appeal here is basically an emotionally-founded ultimatum, "Reply to me or else I won't change my opinion." That's how I interpreted it.

A core problem with earnest debate online is that comments are so often misinterpreted. Maybe I just misinterpreted yours! You can write defensively, but defensive writing is less clear. My writing on Stack Overflow, Hacker News, etc. is very defensive and it suffers for it, but I deal with fewer comments that misinterpret things. You can also interpret comments liberally. Consider, "You can't find women unless you have a job." Literally it means that unemployed men are incapable of getting girlfriends or wives. This is obviously false, so there's no point in replying to the literal interpretation here.

> I disagree with this fundamentally - my assertion is that the most reliable and broadly applicable way of attracting women is to be charismatic, and that charisma is a trainable skill.

Here are the problems I see with this series of comments:

The original comment did not make this claim, no matter how generously I read it. At best, that claim is a presupposition of the original comment. The difference betwen presuppositions and claims is critical for good discussion. It is cumbersome to reply to a statement when you disagree with a presupposition, which is why unjustified presuppositions are considered a type of informal fallacy.

The second problem is that the claim is not germane. The comment by jokoon claims that it is much more difficult for unemployed men to get a girlfriend, and saying that charisma is more important than employment status is tangential at best.

The third problem is that the reply to jokoon's comment is poor quality. The first four sentences seem like they were copied from the section headings of a random dating advice article. The advice is so obvious that the comment seems to carry the implication that jokoon must be a true idiot in order to need this advice.
I need more upvotes for this.
It's likely to do with the fact that the people you encounter on daily basis are functioning with a different mindset, compared to that of being excited about political news streams on your newsfeed 24/7.

(There's definitely use for FB, but as a platform for spending your time on, it's useless. If anything, Facebook Messenger is the only thing that keeps me on the platform.)
Europe is also relatively lax in terms of building regulations, it's only the North America which is hung up on having a rule for every little thing.