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Some what off point, but Elon Musk, in his biography, said Space and renewable energy have been things he has concentrated on very early on, before even selling PayPal. They in a way, are his problems, along with everyone else on this Earth.
But in practice, more tax money just gets allocated to homeland security, military, police, domestic surveillance, and things that generally don't benefit most tax payers
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I think the point is that to keep the project relevant the underling aging Gecko underpinnings may be going away. This would cause the maintainers to have to take on maintaining their dependencies as well as the core project. I can totally understand this as a motivating factor here, however, I use Thunderbird as a local offline mail client. Though I see these are out-of-fashion these days, it doesn't make the need for this kind of software go away. I only hope a web-stack version of thunderbird still stores settings and content locally and hopefully outside of the browser (not going to say electron here, but similar).
Almost makes you wonder if there isn't a very strong anti-trust case here.
I hope you're already following the first two, most important points: shower before cycling to work and wear natural clothes.
Here's Michigan's law forbidding pedestrian and bike use:

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(disednjhhuuyovzmbvhdxfys))/...

Are you sure that Washington doesn't just have a provision in state law requiring action to close a shoulder?

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.160
Sounds good :)
Seaplane rating is a bitch to use unless you wanna buy one, I know of no club that lets you solo their seaplanes for insurance reasons. An old apple coworker used to own a Lake amphibian, looked awesome.
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I don't like insecure defaults. I might remember to take the steps to secure this thing, but not everyone will. They might forget, they might not realize, it might be an innocent mistake, but it will happen. It shouldn't be possible to send commands over an insecure channel.

I'm also a bit concerned about the authentication story. You can require the sender to provide a hash signature, but you have to specify the secret in plain text in the webhook config file. That's not best practice. Better would be ldap or Kerberos integration. And again, there should be secure defaults.
As with all things, this advantage will wither. I heard Milton Friedman once say something along the lines "There has never once been a natural [not the result of government action] monopoly that stayed a monopoly for very long." People just need patience and faith in the free market.
I simply updated mvim and :E stopped working on OSX.
I could work around with NERDtree, but its one of those things turned into a timesink when I didn't need it.
If you really want I'm sure we could list out plenty of "serious programmers" that use vim.
If you want a MacBook-quality laptop running Linux, the obvious thing to do is put Linux on a MacBook. There's only an issue if the MacBook is out of your price range, or they Apple doesn't support a specific build you want. But will this company be able to deliver custom-designed, high quality hardware at a lower price point?
Their existence doesn't surprise me, but they deserve less respect for making foolish choices.

An idiot savant is still an idiot.

I'll welcome any points made for VIM that acknowledge the immense value provided by IDEs, but if I had already seen such points I wouldn't even be posting here today.

Every argument I've seen for VIM systematically denies:

* That programming is hard work.

* That making life easier is a good thing.

Its just an extension of the masochism that permeates programming culture.
I feel like Google stole this idea from DuckDuckGo (correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember them having this first).

If you use DuckDuckGo for "tintinnabulum," you don't get the girl on a penis, but instead a set of five possible definitions to narrow your search. When you click on them, you typically get the wikipedia box, but off to the right as an aside.

I really miss the world of Lycos, Yahoo, Hotbot, Dogpile, etc. If you didn't find what you were looking for, there were other search engines with different algorithms and different results.

Today if Google censors something (removed by DMCA request or government order, which can vary by country, etc. etc.) there are few other big indexes (DDG uses Yandex) to conduct your search. Their index is so massive that the cost of entry into their market is very high.
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Mine's about 13km, and I'm not mentally able to ride slowly. Maybe it's the bike I ride, maybe it's the fact that I'm next to traffic. I don't know.
> "Competent bureaucracy" is essentially an oxymoron.

That's the belief that underpins your opinion but that is far from a fact. It's also a belief that tends to be self-fulfilling -- you get the government that you believe you should have.
That's a great point. Means testing is portrayed as fairness because only people that really need something will be the ones to get it...but that ends up being something that makes everyone who makes just a little too much to get the benefit really angry.
Seconded. We are a major enterprise customer of Lenovo's and have been deeply disappointed with the level of service particularly vs. what we used to get with Dell (~6 years ago).
I remember the last time I looked at Nylas, it was a fancy gmail frontend. Now it appears to require a "Nylas ID" which is not something I need. I don't want my mail being synced to someone else's computer. Where's the "host your own sync system" package?
you're commenting on sloppy use of language. you're right, we do tend to abbreviate and exclude relevant descriptive words. the "full stack developer" that knows both JavasScript and PHP (or whatever), and probably some database stuff, and how to config a HTTP server, and a few other bits of web odds and ends is really a "full stack web application developer". usually there is enough context to know if "web application" has been abbreviated out of the term though.

as for the other kind of "full stack developer", the legendary creature that is equally comfortable doing UI scripting and Linux Kernel hacking...well personally I've never met one. mythical beast in my experience.
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Well it's an extremely challenging edge case to address. As noted, mixed alphabet domains have decomposed to their punycodes for a while, but the single alphabet case is harder to separate malicious from legitimate.

This isn't a full solution yet anyway... a Russian user could still be phished for example, because their locale would match.
Fair enough. I just wish it were true that users were deciding. All my research and data shows that the majority of users don't know how to whitelist a site or even that they have adblock installed. A friend told them to install it or a family member etc. Which is why Google controlling what is acceptable without user input may not be that bad.
I see motorists conflate irresponsible cyclists with all cyclists all the time and this argument(? if it is one, I'm not sure what the argument is) doesn't hold any water.

Also, The next time you are on the road take a look around you and note how many drivers are distracted by their mobile devices. Just because the motorist has gone through government regulated tests doesn't mean that they are obeying the law.
One problem with showering before cycling is that it takes me a long time to cool down/dry off after a shower. If I start riding 15min after getting out of the shower I'm going to sweat like a pig. At least it won't smell, I guess.
Every time I see a story about the Chinese space program I have two thoughts. First is the standard "good for them, let's get more competition in space."

The second is "thank God I'm not the head of security for SpaceX."
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14157015.
Yup, I'm a HUGE icebreaker fan. I always wear icebreaker t-shirts when I cycle to work.
Shift down to 1-2 and go up the hill slowly?

Or go the Chinese route and get an electric assist bike.

The bigger obstacle for where I live would be 90F temperature and 80% humidity. You get sweaty regardless of hills (or any physical exertion for that matter) - just by being outside an air conditioned room for more than 10 minutes.
I supported skydiving, then my buddy died base jumping. This article is a logical disaster for myrad reasons.
I use YouCompleteMe for all my autocompleting needs (Python, Go, Rust, C) and it works quite well for me. My experience was that it was literally as easy as (copying the command straight from my shell history):

./install.py --clang-completer --gocode-completer --racer-completer
The vast majority (outside HN) would still choose the network where their friends are conveniently already located over privacy concerns. Especially when those concerns involve pictures of their cats or other trivial personal information.

And so the network effects remain.
I really hated the movie. I preferred the Mini Series from 2000 from SciFi. The special effects certainly didn't age well but it told the story much better.

It would take at least a Hobbit level of production and length of time. I don't ever see that happening. The book is just to large. It would be like movies for Asimov's Foundation Series. (Though the Caves of Steel would be awesome!!!)
I stopped shopping at Amazon after returning to the US. They're pretty much the new Wal-Mart, except with mutant superpowers.
That doesn't make it non-annoying. I am personally annoyed at the current state of the open source ecosystem where all the top open source projects are dominated by large tech co's.

These large companies are developing open source as a strategic asset but most people have no idea and just think they're being altruistic.

The reason this really sucks is because as a result, all the large projects backed by large companies kill of the alternatives which have very pure motivation. Just like react is replacing a pure open standards based way of web development. Sure, it's "open source", but this is not right.
I've only been trying to respond to this statement above, which wasn't yours

>The exact same 'homogenized' batch can kill you at any time. One dose you can slam half a syringe, next dose a day or two later, you can do 1/4 that amount and die.

Based on your elaboration, I suspect you agree with me that it is nonsense, and that opioids are far more predictible than it implies.

Still, I believe you are overstating the danger associated with opioid dosing. This subjective tolerance you speak of likely falls within a reasonable narrow normal distribution and is the reason that based on your weight and gender, doctors may estimate a safe effective dose without titration.

Also, I don't believe morphine injections are titrated.
A side project that I've been working on to look for cheap books. My goal was to keep it very simple. Let me know what you guys think! :)
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I find virt-install cumbersome, how do you all do it?

Use only Vagrant machines for any Fedora / CentOS / CoreOS development?
Embarcadero would disagree with you.
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Is there any way that I could buy an IP from the MIT address block? As a memento.
I think I found a good list - http://telnetbbsguide.com/
My old bike commute was 3km which was frankly too short. My current one is 13km which is fine, but I can never do it for more than a month or so at a time, with any regularity. And I definitely don't drop an ounce from that distance over a month.
Congrats on your work on Nylas -- 2.0 is shaping up great and is already my primary email client on Linux.

Question: Will the revenue from the Pro product really support development and maintenance of the free product? The free product is perfect for my needs, none of the Pro features are that useful for me (and its too expensive - email accounts from Google or Fastmail are $5/month, Nylas Pro is $12/month on top of that just for the client). The free product, as is today, is easily worth $20-30, IMO.

Additional Comment: https://www.nylas.com/pricing needs to be updated. A lot of the Pro features are now available in the Free 2.0 version.
Depending on your technology level in a few areas, a road network with wheeled vehicles is likely either much harder or much easier than legged vehicles of some sort. Tracked vehicles probably fall somewhere in between.

I winder, if we started heavily colonizing Mars 100 years from today, would we bother to build roads?
There are a few things stacked on top of each other to make it happen, but this is a good start.

Combine this with GPS information and you can roughly "place it in the world" and make sure it doesn't clip the ground plane. After that, it is just pulling it up from your sparse 2D DB and dumping into the scene for other cameras. If they really care, there'll be some data included from the placement camera to help localize it.
"But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again. "

John Maynard Keynes
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It fundamentally shifts the debate from "this is a human right" to "this is charity".
Reason/self-consciousness turning back on itself.
Actually I think that is very on-point for my post... perhaps that was why he was successful with it because he has a passion for it. Or perhaps because, to paraphrase you, the "industry" here is human kind and in that respect he has spent his whole life thinking of the challenges of that industry.

Also, as I said in a comment the other day on a different post [1] I do think that under the right circumstances not being an "insider" in an industry is an asset not a negative.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146850
I hate that. For example many IDEs look for pylint, not pylint3 or pylint-3 ...

The one without a version number should be a symlink instead. RPM and DEB support that.
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They've already neglected Thunderbird for years, and now they want to start from scratch? Doesn't sound like a good idea. Sounds more like another project they will shut down after a while.

I used to use both Thunderbird and Firefox a few years ago as my main mail client and browser. Since then, Mozilla started spreading between too many projects, chasing the failed phone thing, and both Firefox and even worse Thunderbird are nowhere near where their competitors are.

I now use Google Chrome and Google Inbox (via Electron app Wavebox, formerly WMail), and they actually look from this century. I downloaded Thunderbird a few months ago out of nostalgia, and everything looks the same as 5 years ago. Pretty sad.
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I wanted to share the fake Apple URL with my team, and Slack expanded it to https://www.xn--pple-43d.com when I hit send.
This might not be a popular opinion here (so please reply too if you intend to downvote me), and I might be biased because I just came back from F8 Dev Conference yesterday, but I don't think the reason Facebook beats a lot of rivals is network effects, it's because of Zuckerberg. He runs a very tight but organized ship. Let's be real, before facebook and all this stuff, mySpace had incredible amount of network effect and market share for those days, as did friendster (for that era of technology). Twitter had a network effect (albeit, an interest graph not a direct network of friends) and it is not doing well at all, even in areas where interest graph network effects should come in and dominate. You get my idea. I might be biased here because I got a small few minutes to converse with Zuckerberg at F8, but I think calling things simply "the network effect" and being done with it as to why facebook is so successful is a bit disingenuous, it's network effect + right leadership (aka Zuckerberg and to a lesser extent Sheryl). A lot of companies had network effects before facebook and didn't manage their advantage properly. Mark seems to be the overseer of all decisions at facebook and so far almost everything (except for crushing Snap) has worked flawlessly. It remains to be seen what happens with Snapchat.
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Because the commercial entity will keep the name so all the docker mindshare suddenly 'points' to a thing that people would have to pay for.

If they had renamed the commercial stuff to Moby they'd have to start from scratch, now there are thousands of articles and links that say 'go get docker' intending to point you to the open source stuff, instead directing you to the commercial stuff.

A very effective bait-and-switch.
There's money in saving other people money. And in this industry, time is very, very valuable; thus there is money in saving other people time.

If you write development tools that save other people time, there is plenty of money in that.
I wish there were fewer references to Mastodon and more to GNU Social (since Mastodon is a particular implementation) but the more people in the ecosystem the better!
"People just need to have patience" for how many generations?

Standard Oil was a monopoly for over 20 years. There are countless monopolies that have gone on that long or longer, only to be broken up by government eventually.

I love the free market, but between regulatory capture, legal costs, and aggressive pricing structures, monopolies can be absolutely unbeatable within the career lifetime of any person.
What substance in particular would you recommend?
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That makes sense, thank you. If you're already removing the flow that comes from the fish's own circulatory system, you may as well remove the remaining (comparatively small?) effects of the convective flow.
The study said it considered "all other risks" but did they really factor in all the cyclists who get murdered by drivers?
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I think you'll find that most people don't believe that taxation (with representation) is immoral. if that's what you believe, that's fine, everyone disagrees on the morality of some aspect of society.
It was one of those minor chrome changes that shouldn't bother me, but ends up driving me slightly insane.
Keynes: "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" which I think speaks to the frustrations of the current line of entrepreneurs.
As a longtime user of Python's scientific stack, I understand your pain.

In a practical sense, the libraries that make up the Python scientific stack -- numpy, pandas, matplolib, sklearn, etc. -- are all akin to domain-specific languages, each with its own magic behavior, quirks, and recommended best practices that one must master. It takes a long while to become proficient in all of them. The good news is that there's a large, growing community of helpful people using these tools, so you can usually find the answer to any question with a single Google search.

For numpy specifically, if you are interested in getting the most out of it with the fewest possible headaches, I would recommend the following online book: http://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/

Otherwise, please make sure to read bmarkovic's spot-on comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14158597
Are you in the US, and in a major metro area? You don't have to say where, but I'm having fun guessing, and if you're commuting to, say, a place like Biloxi, I might as well give up now. My best guess currently is that you're commuting from northeast of Philly.
I think you may have just nailed the fundamental difference between Swedes and Americans. The majority of Swedes are fine with having their income delegated by "someone else" if it means they'll both live a happy, healthy life.
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Also anecdotal, but this past Thanksgiving I got into a chat with two nieces and a couple of their friends, all in the late-teen range.

They're really concerned about the amount of information these big data stores have on them.

They're worried even more that there is a government snoop checking in on them or another unknown.

Personally, I have gotten more and more leery of putting data online. I deleted my Facebook 7 years ago. Twitter is strictly read-only for me. I share kid pics directly with family via private storage I control.

Really needs to be a peer-2-peer suite of "social" tools that cut out middlemen as much as possible.
We need a list of founders who have sold out to large companies that have eventually closed the product down. This would be worth consulting to see who's behind a new app before trying it.
First, I don't think it's reasonable to simply say that in any situation the sensible and civilized thing to do is to walk away and "let the courts handle it". It seems extremely naive to say that we should never directly challenge the request of anyone in a position of authority because we can then address it in the courts later in a fair and civilized manner. I'm not saying that this is the right case or even that he was acting completely sensibly but as a blanket statement that it's always better to obey, no matter what the request seems absurd.

Second, I agree that encouraging physical confrontation is a bad way to go. But you seem to pin the blame on the passenger, and that there's some inherent violence or threat of violence in voicing an intent to remain on the plane. To my mind the actors who created a physical altercation were the police officers and not the passenger. Surely at the very least the video shows a certain lack of restraint in removing someone from an airplane, given the circumstances. (there was no direct threat or indication of violence or criminal activity )

> I don't see what other option United had

To me their options are clear, persuade one passenger on the plane to get out, or lose whatever amount of money they were going to lose by not having that crew on their plane. If in fact Dr. Dao was not in violation of any law, (and united should have known this to begin with, it is their responsibility) then that is what this situation comes down to. Allow the state authorities to escalate the situation into a physical altercation or lose x amount of money. Seems clear to me.
Don't use TMUX, but other than that yes (presuming you mean that you can't copy to the clipboard buffers with * and +). I've not got round to fixing it yet; copying from iTerm works for single lines (for multiple you get line numbers too) and just doing pbcopy isn't too much effort otherwise.
I completely agree, and see this narrative gaining traction, at least in my social bubble. When enough will point the emperor is naked, the same network effect will make facebook into the next myspace.
The cleanliness part cannot be helped, but isn't your alternative actually costing you more time? Your workout is probably longer due to the lower intensity, and you still have to use body wipes.
The idea that Facebook has beaten Snapchat just because they've cloned features is such a weird proposition to me.

Facebook's problem is not that they don't have features, it IS the network that is stopping kids from signing up. Snapchat is a safe haven for creative, throw away content that isn't indexable, searchable, doesn't have a social graph or a permissions model.
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That is only true of the media, it isn't representative of general discussions. As such to many of us it feels like the argument is rigged and where either outcome is to the benefit of the ruling elites.
Young people avoid the timeline because it is for old people and mostly public. Facebook knows how young people use Facebook. It is in ways you don't see. It's Messenger and private groups
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