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> But Bash is spectacularly unintuitive. [...] Can you even remember how hard it was to learn?

From what I recall, it was easy. Other than a few small differences ("mkdir" instead of "md", needs a space between the "cd" and the "..", and so on), it was similar to what I used every day. The rest I learned gradually, by reading shell scripts written by other people, and the man and info pages.

As for XF86Config, I always used the XF86Config generators which came with the distributions, so it was never much of a problem for me.
I really don't think this is a new / Internet phenomenon, by any means.

I've been re-reading John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua, published in 1864, describing the author's conversion from the Church of England (where he was one of the most visible clergymen of the time) to Roman Catholicism. It was written in response to another clergyman making accusations that, not only was Newman being dishonest, that dishonesty was an inherent characteristic of Catholics, and that (based on an uncharitable reading of Alphonsus Liguori) it was Catholic doctrine that Catholics could lie about anything to preserve their faith, and therefore Newman had been a Catholic sleeper agent his whole life, tricking his fellow conservative Anglicans into adopting papist positions until he was ready to reveal himself as a Catholic to convince others to jump ship.

He sets out his response in the introduction, and in it he introduces the term "poisoning the well" to name a logical fallacy: he asserts that his ideological opponent has made it impossible for him to say anything in self-defense, and hopes his readers will recognize it.

This all strikes me as extremely reminiscent of Internet arguments. The uncharitable clergyman is very tribal, and defecting from the Anglican tribe to the Roman Catholic one is an unforgivable offense. And Newman responds by saying, look, you have used a logical fallacy against me. They'd fit so well on Slashdot! But it was over 100 years before the Internet.

(On a side note, the phrase "imaginary Internet points" to describe upvotes strikes me as a thought-killing meme jab itself. The descriptor "imaginary" makes no sense: what would real Internet points look like?)
Nah. Given you've already devolved into misquoting and misrepresentation, I'm pretty sure we're done here.
In the west, whether a sex act is consentual or not depends on the whims of the prosecutor and the courts.

It is the go-to method of imprisoning problematic males, because the burden of proof is so negligible.

If the female at any point decides that she felt like she was raped, then the male will go to prison. Very convenient, as it allows a sword of Damocles to be held over the head of any man who dares have sexual relations in a western country. Of course, this is just the beginning [1], and the law is working tirelessly to incarcerate males for the impudent act of heterosexual intercourse.

Of course, these matters are well outside the scope of discussion on HN, so I will leave it at that. We wouldn't want our young entrepreneurs asking the wrong sort of questions now would we?

1. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-e...
Regulations are important to keep people safe (it's pretty easy to build quadcopters that go 80-100mph), but I don't see what registration accomplishes. More accountability?
> Regarding dwindling population, that was sarcastic too; while human population growth has subsided in some areas, there's still a net explosion of humans on this planet.

A declining growth rate (as we've had since the peak in the 1960s) is not a "net explosion".
Both operating systems have there idiosyncrasies, but that should be expected. Both work exceptionally well for development and leisure use. Personally, I prefer a macbook pro, but I've been developing on a windows machine for the last year and have come to enjoy my time with it quite a bit. These higher level issues not relating to the core processes can generally be handled by your own skill as an administrator.
Wouldn't this suggest that they aren't subsidizing rides to compete with Lyft except when Lyft subsidizes rides as well?

I always see people saying that Uber subsidizes rides now and that rates will rise later if they win a market, but the evidence doesn't support those claims. If they just want to gouge people as everyone speculates they would already do so in markets where there is no "competition".

Instead, it looks like even absent a direct competitor, that they still have competition in the form of car ownership. We should be celebrating their ability to keep driving costs down until it's cheaper to use Uber than to own and operate a car.
This was a given from the moment the ink dried on the regulation - it's a clear violation of the actual law that gives the FCC it's powers and authority.

It may or may not be a good idea for the legislature to change those laws so that the FCC (or another agency) can regulate hobby drones and model aircraft, but unless and until that happens this is dead in the water.
Unless you have like 64 cores, I don't think you will be a GPU. And yes, you can use multiple GPUs in parallel to train.
Kill Google AMP before it KILLS the web
If you try zc.buildout, your python code start time will drop significantly. It will insert gazillion sys.path.
uh it seems i brain farted, final place was 30% down...im not sure how i managed to type something conflicting twice in there.
He did actually set off.
What I find interesting is that subtle differences in load time have a great impact on the first impression. Furthermore loading animations seem to have an influence how one perceives performance - for me the non-loading animation pages seemed much faster (although the given latency numbers did not suggest such a big difference).
Doesn't every major CDN do DSA-like stuff now? What does it offer you that Cloudflare's basic plans don't?
Yes yes, #notalltechies - but as stated above, best thing you can do is to take your wildly disproportionate capacity for earning, do the due diligence and find a group worth sponsoring.

edit:

Let me explain why donations like these are particularly valuable for orgs that survive on donations. Every bit of grant money comes with a huge amount of donor service attached to it, from the initial grant writing, to metric collection, to reporting and presentation - then the hassle of having to do it all again next year and hoping you still have the donor's attention. Of course all of these things take away from your core mission, and sooner or later you are wasting huge amounts of time doing fundraising and donor service.

If you find under resourced people doing effective work for a cause you believe in, a no strings attached gift at the right time can be a huge relief.
Did you mean South Asia? China has gotten to the point where they are able to lift the one child per family policy, after seeing that it made very little difference when they previously relaxed the policy in cases where both parents were only children. Meanwhile, Japan has to resort to advertising and public service announcements to encourage young people to date due to their low birth rates and declining population.
Wait, you want to arm every airport in the country with anti-aircraft weaponry? Who exactly is going to man and operate these weapons?
For some topics it feels that HN just replaces it with a "who can post a popular rant the fastest" competition.
What is your COBOL?
Real internet points? Amazon gift cards, Google gift cards, anything similar easily convertible into recognized value.
From what I read, I also understood it to be based on the route (start location and end location).
but did they read the Terms of Service...
"We want to make sure our users are protected from malicious links so we proxy them when clicked"

Very unlikely, most feasible thing I could think of
Work out own arrangements indeed. That's what the infuriating "Right-to-Know" laws are for. You have as an employee the right to know about the hazards of the chemicals you are working with. But you do not have a right to proper safety equipment or training. It's enshrining a race to the bottom that does nothing to improve workplace safety.
Pi hiding in prime regularities
No, I'm not talking about Intellisense. Just highlighting the code correctly. The C++ editors that don't integrate a compiler front end tend to get confused when you do tricks with macros, backslash line splicing, and trigraphs, for example. They'll also have trouble with the >> thing and templates, and preprocessor metaprogramming stuff like:

#define BEGIN {
#define END }

They do work fine with conventional code, but if one knows the darker corners of the Standard, they can be broken.

One could argue "don't write code like that", but as a tool developer there is always someone that does. When designing a language, though, one can design out all those problems.
Surprised no one said http://www.theawesomer.com
> This was a given from the moment the ink dried on the regulation - it's a clear violation of the actual law that gives the FCC it's powers and authority.

Had the FCC been the agency involved, I'd agree that this would be a clear and obvious violation.
How do you define gross negligence? This guy seems anything but.

Unless the argument is that wanting to cross the atlantic itself is gross negligence, but that's slippery slope to "anything but staying home and watching TV like a good citizen is gross negligence".
Are you implying it would be a good policy to start shooting down drones in domestic airspace? What problems would that solve? How would you know which drones to shoot down.
Surely it depends on where someone spends the money they earn doing their job?

If I earn a good salary but I buy nothing but fast food or the cheapest (factory farmed) meat, cheap clothes made in sweatshops, expensive gadgets from companies that exploit workers, own 3 gas guzzling cars, have 5 children, vote for politicians who enjoy waging war on on other countries, how am I making the world better?
It's simple!! There's over 500 options to choose from
I think consistency is very overrated by the go community. I read and work on a lot of C code, and styles vary considerably. It's just not hard to read code in different styles. And my main problem is not that `go fmt` enforces a specific style, but that it enforces a specific style that actively harms readability. Defaults are good as long as they are sane, but `go fmt` made some really stupid decisions.
I just don't understand the thinking here.

Teams that work in office already have productivity deltas between employees. This isn't communism-people are paid different amounts, they don't all work 100% and get paid the same. You reward the high performers, like you'd do anyway. Regardless of if it's WFH or not.
Amazon Cloud Drive's shitty sync application still works...
Almost the entire point of this lawsuit is that Uber payed the better part of a billion for his company because they wanted the technology he stole from Google. And further that Levandowski was in on the plan from the start.

That is almost a perfect parody of the whole bro-programmer shtick.
> They live until no one is interested in them anymore and they are abandoned.

Sometimes they don't even wait until no one is interested!
It's interesting because I live in a country where being rescued is free as a rule[1]. And I find it nice: I know that if shit happens in the mountains, the helicopter will come, no need to be rich to hike or sail. And I'm happy to be paying other people's rescue when they are in need. A couple friend of mine had to call a rescue team when their rope got tangled when repealing down a cliff, no need to feel bad.

[1]doesn't apply to ski resorts
Where in the TOS is rclone's behavior prohibited?

EDIT: "You may not use the Service to store, transfer or distribute content of or on behalf of third parties, to operate your own file storage application or service, to operate a photography business or other commercial service, or to resell any part of the Service." I imagine "your own file storage application" is at issue here.

But if customers should only use the (reportedly awful) official app to sync files, why offer an API at all?

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/TxRNQX3SWVLUYC/Amazo...
Can a nautical someone explain why the crossing is estimated to take 3–4 months? I thought a crossing from the Canaries to the Caribbean was just a few weeks under good downwind sail.
More specifically, it's already cooked.
Getting off topic, but while I'm not a fan of any of those philosophies, I'd be wary of conflating too quickly these different varieties of free-market supporters. Rand fans who got into the whole Objectivism thing via her books, parts of the SF scene, etc., vs hereditary billionaires who are attracted to Heritage-Foundation-style free-market economics (whose political expression in the U.S. is mainly as "business Republicans", though sometimes as "corporate Democrats"), are fairly different groups of people. There's the occasional overlap, but it's mostly different people with different motivations.
Use it, then profile later?
My COBOL is actionscript (flash plugins). I got started programming with ActionScript 2, writing games and doing some freelance projects building things like image carousels and navigation. Not nearly as lucrative as $350/hr quoted here but I doubt a lot of new projects consider flash unless there are no alternatives.
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It's every company's goal to be the "last man standing". In this case though, the other "men" on the playing field includes car ownership. Even absent Lyft, taxis and other competitors, the big prize isn't winning the current market for livery services. No, the big prize is winning the market for transportation. To win that market, Uber needs to be faster, cheaper and better than Lyft, taxis, public transportation, car rentals and car ownership. If they succeed, consumers win.
They didn't, they're written by different people.
Does Stackoverflow count or is that a Google-like given?
Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Databases
Context-free rageclick post is pretty much always lousy, whatever the current status of Amazon Cloud Drive.
I know it's the original headline but this kind thing irks me. The creator of the boat is hoping to cross the Atlantic. The boat is a thing and doesn't have hopes.

Pretty cool project, though.
So if this spreads across a network, do they all share the same key? Can you use the XP key on a 10 machine?
5 reasons the D programming language is a great choice for development
Federal appeals court says hobbyist drones don't need to be registered
Driver testing is run at the state level. The US hates federal organization.
There is no "concrete" AST that's not a "serialization format". A binary AST is also a serialization of AST.

Lisp source is pretty much as close to AST as you can get while still staying in text-land. That said, experienced Lisp developers often use tools like Paredit mode that let them navigate and edit the code in terms of tree nodes, not characters.
If you're out of the house during the day, you can sell those kWh to the grid at peak prices, then buy them back at night when they're cheap and you're home charging the EV.
It looks (from the outside) like Etsy's core eng team, early, had its culture come from all of the ex-Flickr people working there.

Flickr's other direct descendant, culturally, is Slack. Those are nerdy, charming, funny cultures. "Code as Craft" is a cute pun. Taking it entirely literally is a really big point-miss.
To be clear for those that might miss it. It's the FAA that was regulating drones over 0.55 pounds, not the FCC.
The rclone api access key was revoked.

A few months ago, I was doing extensive research on personal cloud backups (Backblaze, Amazon Cloud Drive, etc). My requirement was to have client-side encryption synced to the cloud. A modicum of googling led me to rclone. After reading about how rclone works, I immediately made a mental comparison to Amazon's "official" client GUI sync program and thought, "there's no way Amazon has blessed rclone." It would be very risky to invest hours into building custom backup scripts built on top of rclone if Amazon blocks it. Well, it turns out that's exactly what has happened.
This is probably primarily because there's been many decades of work by governments and private companies on the packaging and design of these meals to make them lighter, less hassle, more practical, etc. If you watch an unboxing of a modern meal from some of the YouTube channels linked, they're actually impressively compact, easy to deal with, and thoughtfully engineered. (Even examples from some developing nations seem pretty respectable. A lot of countries even put contact information on the packaging to solicit user comments!) Much of the food is put into small bags, meant to be thrown in a pocket or pouch to snack on later. It's even common in Europe to just put snack foods in pretty standard branded packets, which is a well-tested solution.

Military personnel tend to cheerfully gripe about anything that was annoying about their service—it's an almost universal bonding thing across cultures. When it comes to packaged meals, the griping seems to focus on 1) how it tastes and 2) whether it gave them digestive problems. I think, admittedly as a layman on military packaged food, that the state of the art of packaging design/engineering is pretty solid.
Yeah, that was annoying to read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

Root cause: a fault with one of the plane's three "Air Data Inertial Reference Units":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_data_inertial_reference_un...

This error condition then exposed a bug in the aircraft's software which caused the dives.
Replace some proprietary stuff with FOSS. That's a social good.
Similarly, Captain Sullenberger said that in respect of US Airways Flight 1549, computer-imposed limits prevented him from achieving the optimum landing flare for the ditching, which would have softened the impact.
Accounting breakdown for the 2017 election is not yet available, apparently. This page list accounting breakdown for the 2012 and 2007 presidential elections: http://www.cnccfp.fr/index.php?art=720

I also would be curious to know the production and operating costs for a website of this kind.
In what universe can you possibly explain to an anxious, confined whale that their non-ideal living conditions (read: conditions which kill them) is at least beneficial to their species?

How does this make the practice any less cruel?

Reading through the comments on this thread I'm actually flabbergasted.
Somehow they govern mobile phone use aboard airplanes, however...
I felt the opposite. All the examples seemed fast and the differences seemed negligible. I wonder if our internet connections / platforms were different. I was using chrome on a 2015 MBP with ~decentish wifi.
The crickets in that audience must have been deafening. What was the correct course of action for the conference organizers? Does registering require you to submit your gender/ethnicity? How do you know when you need to course correct for inclusion? Is that responsibility on the organizers?
Amazon and other retailers do this too.

Uber doesn't appear to be doing anything here that isn't already par for the course.
What's a hub and spoke office style?
No system, human or mechanical or computer, is perfect. Human pilots have crashed more airplanes and are more likely to crash airplanes than automated systems. Human pilots have also saved airplanes when the systems fail. For the foreseeable future, it's probably best to have both, but nothing in life can ever be perfectly safe.
How does rclone work and/or what made it susceptible to this?
This got downvoted, but IMO it's a legitimate question. Just because it's possible to attempt something, doesn't mean that it should be done or that it's a good idea.

Does anyone have any better answer than "to set a record", or "just because"?

I do give the guy props for taking it seriously. Given the constraints he has imposed on himself he seems very well prepared. But, together with the parent poster, I just can't see the point.
Best? No. All they needed to get what they wanted? Absolutely. Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough.
Its keel has an emergency water tank slung off the bottom -- clever. Keeps the center of gravity low as possible.

Good thing he has experience with meditation and living along, it's going to be a miserable trip. If a storm rolls through he might be holed up in the tiny cabin for days.
We solve a variety of problems, but one example is physician burnout, especially in primary care. We've implemented technology enabled behavior change initiatives that help primary care practices implement and maintain evidence-based habits like team based care and ensuring staff operate at the top of their license meaning more time with patients and less time with paperwork for physicians and creating a more sustainable environment. There are other areas we address in primary care like patient access to care, quality care gaps and more that we break into smaller chunks. Our overall focus is on dramatically improving the performance (quality of care, cost) of the healthcare system piece by piece at an increasing pace, starting with primary care and eventually moving to different focus areas like high need patients.
> A windows application can't steal the focus unless it is the the top window already.

Or unless it decides to throw up a modal dialog, AFAIR. Unless they changed that at some point.

Also, Windows Update "rebooting in 5 minutes, do you want to reboot now instead?" popups in pre-Win8.
Same thought here! I thought "4 foot robotic boat, I guess you need to be long enough for stability". I really enjoyed the read in any case.
He's unlikely to see it here, but he'd probably appreciate your information if you commented on the video. (Assuming someone hasn't corrected him already—it's a small internet, sometimes.)
By your logic I can make the world a better place by selling heroin to schoolchildren.
Yeah PWAs (progressive web apps) are really not aimed at us devs with fancy MPBs and good connections. You should probably open devtools and throttle your connection to 3g or worse to get a feel for the problem area they're trying to hit.
No nautical experience -- but small boat, small sail with limited capabilities might explain it.
I'm with you on this. I'd love to have such a configuration too.

RE your edit: I feel your pain, had that happen to me many times. Ubuntu does this too with "hey, there are updates ready to be installed!", but at least this doesn't cause a reboot.
Go is a language with at least two compilers. One of them is gcc (yes, gcc, since version 4.6). I doubt Go code compiled with gcc is much slower than C, and can't think of a reason why Java would be faster.

"faster than Go" could mean any compiler
Former manual Fit owner here. I dearly loved that car. Fun to drive, transmission felt great, and there was never a time I couldn't find some way to fit whatever I needed hauling inside of it, and maintenance is on par with the lowest of any car. If I ever go back to driving, I sincerely hope they're still making them.
To take this to a less absolutist neoliberal place - find a for-profit job where you are actually creating value. A service that saves low-income people money when they use it, that helps small (like, actually small) businesses become profitable, etc.
Thank you. Is it a must-have, or VCs don't really care?
My first introduction to creating languages was encountering lex/yacc. I tried that and quickly run away in disgust.
What's the point of doing anything on the internet if governments can come at any time and destroy everything with a single click?

I feel depressed.
Interesting. Maybe hashicorp should release an etcd compatible layer for Consul. Or CockroachDB even. Both have one thing etcd does not...inbuilt WAN support.
Use the network simulator in Chrome or the system Network Link Conditioner and it's much easier to see how much of a difference it makes when the network isn't so good
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