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There's a rather negative critique floating around that someone is bound to post, sooner than later. And it is, in itself, worth reading. It's possibly even right–I read both the book and the critique twice, and came away believing both, somewhat paradoxically.

But I wish to make the case that the book is worth reading for its literary value alone. The narrative parts are a gentle, beautiful telling of this father/son trip across the northwest, and reading it will leave you with enjoying nature (or, more generally, reality) with something like a calm optimism.
what's more fun is to read the nyt comments section - looks like a decided lack of enthusiasm + a serious hatred of the rich and the silicon valley mindset... given the usual commenters lean heavily liberal, it is somewhat surprising to see so much vitriol aimed at this puff piece and its subject
As someone from outside the US, this is a crazy suggestion.

It would be an immediate red flag for future investors and would also scupper legal access to other countries like UK, Australia, Canada in the future. Don't do this.
D Lang without the garbage collector: writing Excel functions
Taxation is theft, but HN loves it.
> Is it theoretically impossible to fit an interpreter for a dynamic programming language in the L1 cache of a modern chip?

The APL, J and K languages are known for being very fast; I vaguely remember one reason being given that their programs are so terse and high-level, they're compact enough to fit in cache. Not sure if the interpreter would though.
I mean in being able to generate source code as text files at any point, or update from text files

It has been done many times. There was a Camp Smalltalk initiative to standardize such a mechanism back in the early 2000's. Anyone could code something up that does this for a particular dialect in a matter of minutes.
I honestly am sorry that I see that as my last resort when cornered. I don't want people to get hurt, but most importantly I don't want to get hurt over some unwritten honor code that gets you killed.
There's also "Anglish", where non-germanic influences are replaced. A funny sample of this is Uncleftish Beholding [0], a fictional textbook entry by sci-fi writer Poul Anderson.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...
Paul Krugman is an idiot.
I've been really happy with Pythonanywhere, a PAAS (basically Heroku, but exclusively for Python). Pretty cheap, really easy to set up Django right out of the box, and great customer service (fast responses to emails and forum posts, even when they're less about the hosting and more about how to do something in Python or Bash).

My co-founder and I ran our startup on Pythonanywhere and used transactional email (although we used Mandrill) with no issues.
Geeeeeze, 10k? Here i thought ted was about making ideas accessible/spreading ideas. Not elite nonsense. Damn totally missed that.
Nothing at all. We should all aspire to such bold visionary behavior.
Read it in the context of someone who would now be old enough to have died through a variety of causes, be it a motorcycle accident, cancer, or a heart attack. You also now have to read it in the context of (spoiler alert) the author being dead as well.
Im sure you have plenty of 90 year old socialist tropes yourself.
Upvoted this only because I feel that hiphop is a genre that doesn't appeal much to the hacker news crowd, which, from my experience, is more focused on metal, electronic or classic.

Good playlist but ultimately (and predictably) incomplete
Not to mention noise. Today's cars are gratifyingly quiet. Ground effect craft are emphatically not
No mention of Ehang 184: http://www.ehang.com/ehang184

I don't know much about the company, but they seem to have got something airborne in the last couple of years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iyCgy1juHc
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That's really really cool. I thought it might be related to how glasses for colour-blindness work (eg. http://enchroma.com/technology/ - just the first one I found) but apparently they just use lenses with a specific transmissive spectrum to let through mostly lower frequency reds and higher frequency greens to improve differentiation.

I wonder if you could combine the two to give even more spectral resolution?
Run faster, don't kick the other racer's ankles.

That sounds like a good rule of thumb for trying to apply to questions of business morality. "Are we trying to run faster than them? Or are we trying to kick them in the ankles?"

I mean, lots of people are young and just starting out and haven't had the time to think a lot of things through. Or they are busy developing expertise in things other than law and morality, but still need some kind of guiding principle. I think this is a good, simple rubric.
Oh, okay! Cool!!

I've had Haskell on my todo list for a little while actually.
Thanks, helpful for sure. Yeah I'm not looking just because I'm "bored", I suppose it's a myriad of reasons but that is one of them.

Why did you decide to make the change to security consultant?

How were your security skills before you decided to make the change? You said it was a hobby, but for how long? I'm thinking I'll have to carve off time for a while to invest into learning the new hobby then see where I'm at in 6 months time.
I used Apple World for doing some graphics work in around 1982? Great stuff. 1MHz number crunching FTW.

Age 50 and writing C# .NET Core web services.
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When you decide out of ignorance or willful misconduct to ignore contracts you enter into, you're going to get sued.
Churchill was one of the best coders out there. Like when he said "My Java code be buged. But in the morning will still run, and you will have to update your npm dependencies".
I'm 63 and started coding FORTRAN in High School on a GE teletype. Did just a little coding. Went to college and took a FORTRAN class and a PL1 class. I loved PL1. All my undergraduate coding was with punch cards. IBM 360/50.

Im graduate school for engineering I coded just FORTRAN with punch card images but on a terminal. So that was 1000 times better than physical cards. IBM 3090.

Then Apple II, IBM PC, IBM PC-XT, IBM-AT...

First hard drive for IBM PC was $1000 for 10MB.
I especially love the pusher. Lots of milled out pockets to save weight. They need to save weight because... ?
Congrats on starting, building, and finishing (at least the first iteration!) a side project. And the cherry on top is that the docs look really good!
I just graduated with a CS degree at 36; have an offer and will start soon. The age aspect is scary, but I've honestly found it less of an issue than I thought. The most difficult part is pushing past the part of me that says I'm too old to be starting now.
"Zen" has its strengths and weaknesses, but I found its discussion about "gumption traps" (Chapter 26, I believe) to be absolute, solid gold. Pirsig's description of what it's like to do gritty work on a complex system -- and all the logical, mental, and emotional blocks associated with that -- really resonated with my experience as a software engineer, and they've helped me get better at being aware of those blocks and getting past them.

May he rest in peace.
I feel like you are missing or intentionally ignoring the point here.
Feature request for GCE load balancers: Attach multiple/lots of SSL certificates to a single LB instance.
So I can brute force your laptop in a coffee shop and steal your shit, because you didn't stop me?

The lengths people will go to justify Uber is amazing.
Because age discrimination is less prevalent in doctoring, lawyering, and artisting.
It's such an insufficient title when your product is a robot and the database is closer to the top of the stack than bottom. I gave up on titles a few years ago when I began to realise that so much of it feels fitting of the dot com era but not today.
...the worst coffee this world has to offer.

Having heard this from a number of coffee fans, I suspect you're not the market Keurig really targets. Rather I suspect we non-coffee-drinkers might be the primary buyers. We want something that will sit innocuously in the kitchen, looking good and doing nothing, on the off chance that we'll be expected to provide coffee for someone. We don't know how to buy coffee, we don't know how to prepare it, and we don't know how to clean up after preparing it. Also, we don't care to know any of those things. So, here's a something we made for you that came out of a fancy package. Now we're going to throw away this little plastic cup.
Sounds like butterfly level vision (4 cones)
I have a rule. If I trust the PM, I always give my best estimation and a level of confidence on this estimation with the risks. Like:

- I think it will take a week, but this part looks a bit complex, so we may have delays.

- Or, I did something similar last month, so I am quite sure that will take 3 days.

A good PM will know how to deal with this information and what to expect.

If I don't trust the PM, I just add massive paddings.
Thanks for pointing it out. I read them all after encountering your comment. Best entertainment of the day
Indigo is common in daily life. A pretty substantial portion of the population wears "blue" jeans. Also in a world without street lighting, we would see it more in the sky at pre dawn and post dusk.

Violet is the real oddity in the modern age because it is outside the gamut of most (all?) of our displays, so we only see it in RL
young richies driving drunk

Why are you singling out rich people that drive drunk?

By your reasoning, we should give less value to their lives.

How might we act on that lower valuation? We might demonstrate that we don't value a mugger's life very highly by shooting him in the act. How would we demonstrate that we don't value a drunk driver's life very highly? Shoot the car with a rocket launcher?
Not an original author, but had it several times as well.
Example one - tracking number was plain fake. Amazon refunded after I've contacted them through A-Z guarantee.
Example two - tracking number was ok, but order was delivered to Florida, instead of California, with no comment from seller. Amazon refunded through A-Z guarantee.
It was Quality that helped my understand why, exactly, I was (and am) so attached to my old HP 48 SX.
I think it's the other way around:

In physics, we don't know what the fundamental rules are, we can only see complicated outcomes and have to infer (guess) what the rules might be.

In computing, we know what the fundamental rules are (universal computation; whether that's turing machines, lambda calculus, sk logic, etc. they're all equivalent in power), but we have to deduce what the complicated outcomes are.
You're the one claiming we shouldn't call a spade a spade.

So, do as you say, not as you do, eh?

Also, how on earth is suggesting a piece of software has a terrible security reputation, "assholish".
The essence of populist politics is that political and economic freedom are deeply intertwined—that real democracy requires not just an opportunity to vote but an opportunity to compete in an open marketplace.

There's a deep confusion at the heart of the article. Wal-Mart got huge because it was extremely competitive and because most regions' marketplaces were open to its very effective competition. The argument is confused because it's trying to criticize some outcomes of markets without admitting that those outcomes are natural to market competition and only preventable by non-market mechanisms. He can't just say "markets have both good and bad effects." Every unwanted effect of the markets has to be rhetorically set off as if it were separate from the Real Market, which every right-thinking American knows to be made of unalloyed goodness. Members of the jury, my client did not take that purse; the arm and hand incidentally attached to my client took that purse.

The author doesn't want powerful corporations or individuals to have too much economic clout, relative to the median citizen. I am sympathetic to that. But he gets twisted in pretzels trying to praise that kind of freedom in the vocabulary of market freedom. It doesn't work. Big business is the natural outcome of robust competition between smaller businesses. (Not every natural thing is desirable.)

Reviving small grocers and other fondly remembered set decorations from Main Street Americana would require substantial protections from competition for small business. It would also tend to increase retail prices. A Mom and Pop retailer cannot obtain much economy of scale. That may be acceptable to prevent overlarge accumulations of financial power in private hands. I'm open to that argument. But I have enough capital that I could imagine joining the re-invigorated ranks of the petite bourgeoisie if I didn't have to compete with bigger businesses; most Americans don't have even that.

At one step further back, my reaction to this article is: Were the last good populist ideas invented before 1960? Is the future of populism a nostalgia-off between conservatives LARPing as coal miners and liberals LARPing as trust-busters? Enough with looking for greatness in the rear view mirror, already. America's post-WW II economic golden age was a one time only deal. Think about dealing with the future starting from 2017 instead of 1947.
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I'm guessing you aren't conversant with how taxation and class mobility have changed over the last 40 years. Let me save you the suspense: you're wrong.
I think you're right: the headline on the article is bad/awkward in terms of how most people use multi-cloud. I get the impression that Google uses this term internally very differently. I also think you're right that they are leaving out the not insignificant detail about egress pricing.

In the context of this article, I think what they are pitching is the idea that, if you are already running services on AWS, you can still leverage some of the value-added service provided by GCP (e.g., their Vision API) by fronting them with Google Cloud Functions.

So, for example, let's say you built, and are running, an ecommerce platform on AWS. Now you'd like to leverage some of Google's Vision services to make "visual recommendations of related products". You already let customers upload product images via S3. Now you can have a Lambda function forward that image to a GCP CloudFunction, have it get processed by your visual recommender system, and spit back out a list of SKUs that have a visually similar image.

I think the goal is to convince companies that you don't have to put all your eggs in one basket in terms of capabilities, rather than convince them to have availability/capacity between multiple clouds (which how I think most people would interpret the headline).
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I think some things are already available:

- moving windows around is done with Win+Arrow key

- if you want to bring a new terminal with a hotkey, you can just assign one in shortcut properties (that's a Windows feature). Once automation feature is implemented, that terminal will behave similarly (or better than i3).

- sounds like Ctrl + d is basically Win key on Windows, that brings up start menu with integrated search

- virtual screens are already available on Windows 10, and there are hotkeys

- maximizing a window already has a hotkey in Windows 10 as well - Win + Up. Currently, Stack overrides that hotkey though

- hjkl sounds possible, however, I'd like to avoid modes, so they'll have to be used with modifiers

I will see what I can do to make it possible to run similarly to i3.
I have to wonder how much business/competition experience some of these guys replying to you have.

Tech people live in a bubble. Because our skills are in high demand and there's a pretty strong natural aptitude barrier limiting the number of new competitors, our experiences competing in the tech bubble can be very misleading.

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. If you are lazy about competing, or trying to "go easy" on someone, you are going to get eaten. This is a hard-coded biological response to scarcity, and it's not going to go away, so we best get used to it and stop being everyone else's doormat.

Successful companies are usually fairly ruthless; they're just good at keeping it quiet. Not only does what I know about Uber's program not surprise me (and I haven't read in-depth on it yet, so this is my disclaimer if there's something more repugnant than signing in to Lyft buried under the covers), but it's downright conventional.

Refusal to compete is suicide. Naively believing that the world will reward you if you play nice-nice and opt out of decisive, competitive action is the best way to find yourself/your company on a platter at someone else's table.

This ethos from some of the other commenters that you shouldn't do something because it might make your competitors unhappy is absurd. Show a little sporting spirit. If a competitor is making intelligence available, you absolutely should take advantage of it.

I've found the guiding star to be "Is this really immoral, or have we just been socialized to believe it's impolite or in bad taste?" One should realize that a lot of this socialization is provided by people who simply don't want you to become a strong competitor, and have indoctrinated this imaginary, soft, cushiony world into everyone's brains so that it's easier for them to come in and take what they want, and their constant empty blathering draws attention away from their dirty deeds. There's no need to allow ourselves to be victimized like that.

Specifically, it's ridiculous to claim that using an API in a way that isn't intended is "morally bankrupt". That's like saying it's morally bankrupt for Walmart employees to go to Target looking for places where they can get an advantage. Far from morally bankrupt, that's a fundamental component of capitalism; how are you supposed to compete if you can't see what your competitor is doing?

Patronizing competing services in a non-disruptive way is normal. Some may be familiar with "secret shoppers", people that companies pay to go to their stores on a random day and report back on the experience. These secret shoppers are also deployed to competing stores. How and/or why is this any different?

Private and undocumented APIs have been exploited by developers for decades. My understanding is that Uber was not even doing that, but rather just accessing the normal API in a non-disruptive way to learn some useful information about their competition.
Solid gold. I just commented elsewhere about the gumption trap chapter, but the whole chapter this passage comes from is similarly insightful -- maybe more so.
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I think this article misunderstands one of the roles of the CEO, which is to be the face of the company, the individual to whom the media can attach its narrative. Group stories don't have the same appeal. Harder to tell. Even if they're more true. CEOs are traveling salespeople. They represent a larger group. They persuade. And one of the groups they sell to is the media.
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I was kind of a punk in high school and I was in a week-long suspension room for skipping a bunch of classes. The room monitor was this cool older dude with a long beard who talked a lot about life, philosophy, and things like that.

We weren't allowed to read or do anything but sit in boredom during suspension (school rules) but he made an exception for me if I wanted to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (at his recommendation).

I bought a copy and brought it to suspension the next day, read the whole thing that week. Good memories thanks to the room monitor dude and an excellent book.
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And evolution laughs at us.
SciPy did signed reviews for the 2017 conference the opposite reason. Obviously SciPy is not Science or Nature, but still. They cite the idea that if your review is tied for your name, you probably aren't going to do a crappy review because it will hurt your reputation. There's probably a balance.
This is the real answer. Nintendo don't want to sell $1 games, because that would re-anchor Nintendo customers to lower price-point expectations, in contrast to the $5/$15/$30/$70 pricing tiers they have right now. But Nintendo just don't (or rather, didn't, until Super Mario Run) have the in-house experience working with mobile form-factors to produce even original games that would stand out enough from the dreck on the app store to be "worth" more than $1 to consumers. So they just didn't bother with mobile.
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Non-sarcastic question about "all life": don't you _have_ to draw the line somewhere? Bacteria? Vegetables?
I certainly did not expect "shut up and take my money" kind of attitude :-D
I read it at about the same age and it had a similar impact on me.
Unless they're using an HSM, that would most likely be a matter of just copying a file.

With an HSM, it would have to be marked as exportable (bad for security), or to happen via some proprietary HSM to HSM cloning method endorsed by the vendor.

That said, I don't see that much HSM usage outside of the government or their contractors.
A roller also needs something to press the contents towards it without grip for traction of it's own, so I imagine you need two separate mechanisms.
I'm not in the field, but I think the cool thing about this is that it's accomplishable with passive components created with straightforward tech (one filter was off-the-shelf). Most hyperspectral/extraspectral visualization tools require complicated active displays.

That said, it's pretty similar technology to those color-blindness correction glasses [1] -- just filters that accentuate the distinctions between colors you could already see. From a philosophical perspective, it's probably not going to be emergently perceived as a whole new color "dimension", but rather just an augmentation to your preexisting experience.

I do think these kinds of small tools will be a key, but subtle part of AR in the future. I would certainly take a pair myself. I always like wearing polarized sunglasses because you can perceive the extra information of which materials are polarizing or dichroic.
So where can I buy one?
It's not weird at all. It looks pretty obviously like a pump and dump scheme. This behavior is fraud, and i bet the juiciest stuff is yet to come.

I'm sure the criminal complaint coming from some US Attorney will reveal that somebody was cashing out in private markets. This is no different than a boiler room.
People have their phones with them in a lot of cases where they just can't or won't bring any accessories: at a nightclub, in the toilet, etc. If this is the majority of time when you'd want to kill time on your phone, controller-requiring games would be pointless for you.

Mind you, if you can force people to bring the accessory wherever they bring the phone, the calculus shifts. The Switch essentially is a Pro Controller duct-taped to an Android tablet; and it's a lot easier to convince people to buy one. :)
Also, apl j k have low interpretation cost, so you're pushing the metal close to its limits.
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It doesn't explain or justify the price. It only explains the need for using such devices.
While it's not a 'spoiler', I do think it's a bit crass to bring it up. You'll note that the NPR obituary does not mention his son's death.