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Almost every time I have to edit text over SSH, it is to change configuration files that aren't writable for my SSH user.

Can you sudo over sshfs somehow without logging as root?
Three20 was made obsolete by the useful parts of it getting built into the platform SDK, and yet it was still maintained and kept in a working state for longer than it was ever actually useful.
When I am getting friends into the terminal or I don't feel like copying my vim configs to a server I use micro now: https://micro-editor.github.io/

It uses ctrl+s ctrl+c type shortcuts and has mouse support, it really is slick.
OT question:
I am merging (calculating the mean of) 16 short exposures of a night photo with high ISO in order to remove noise and get wonderful night shots.

Now I'm just averaging
pixelvalue = (photo1.pixelvalue + photo2.pixelvalue) / numPhotos

Is there a way to make this smarter with a bayesian approach? I'm thinking it couldmake a smarter guess what the actual pixelvalue should be rather than just the average.

Any ideas would be appreciated!
> to work for free essentially

I don't understand this. If you are an academic, or in industry R&D, then it's part of your job to take part in the community - you are being paid for it.
> also transitioning web developers from writing giant HTML pages to thinking about smaller components is a difficult, without dedicated react designer.

Can you elaborate? I naturally gravitate towards separating code into components in a framework-agnostic sense - React was very intuitive to me and devs I've talked to seem to feel the same way. Writing huge atomic pieces of HTML is nothing but a huge headache; it's awful to maintain as it results in copious amounts of redundancy / tech debt.
Sure there is. The concept is that if you allow the richest to keep all their riches, they will spend it on things which will stimulate the rest of the economy. Of course, this has proven to be a seriously misguided theory, with the actual results being a lack of consumer spending and concentration of wealth to the wealthy. Is that succinct enough for you? Now, whether a bonafide economist came up with this, or RR just pulled it out of his butt is another question...
It's not magic indeed:

——

Looking up and down the aisles at Lowes and not finding a raised garden bed that met my needs, I inquired with a staff member:

“Sorry, we don’t carry anything like that.”

“Darn. Ok, I’ll try another store then,” I sighed with resignation.

“You know,” he said to me, “it’s just wood.”

It took me a moment to realize how liberating this statement was. To him, woodworking held no mystery at all - it was just a thing you did. If he wanted a garden bed, there’d be no question in his mind that he’d make it himself. Why spend more on something suboptimal when you can build exactly what you want?

— Bryan Kennedy (http://plusbryan.com/its-just-wood)
> upon loading COM file got one full preallocated 64kB segment

IIRC, COM files got all available memory up to the 640K boundary and if you wanted to load additional programs, you had to shrink the preallocated region first.
Look up nuxt.js. It is like react starter kit for Vue, comes with SSR and webpack configured, etc.
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> all state is incidental complexity

This is an example of the "Whorfian syndrome" of functional programming. Program state is not the same as the problem of "global mutable state" often cited as a cause of programming bugs. When it comes to program analysis, I see no reason why reasoning about state would be any different, let alone more complicated, than reasoning "trasnformationally". It's exactly like the difference between:

h(g(f(x)))

and

let a = f(x)
b = g(a)
c = h(b)

Reasoning about the two is exactly the same, and the program state in both cases is also identical: you have three states.

I also disagree that there is no interest in time or space in purely trasformative systems. First, A trasnformative algorithm that is, say, doubly exponential in time or space is just as wrong as a database that fails to give an answer. Second -- and more importantly -- reasoning about a recursive algorithm is exactly like reasoning about state. There is no way to show that Quicksort works without reasoning about state. You may not mention it explicitly in your chosen formalism or you may call it by a different name, but it's there, and you're taking it into consideration.

Also, TLA+ is a universal formalism, and, as you'll see in part 2, there's nothing stopping you from representing everything as functions without any passage of time. The reasoning is identical -- there is no added complexity at all, incidental or otherwise -- but may be a matter of personal aesthetic preference. Because TLA+ is a mathematical notation, substitution and "equational reasoning" works just as well even though time can be expressed.

I would say that the main difference between TLA+ and the functional approaches, is that in TLA+ you reason purely mathematically, while in the functional approaches you reason within a (complex) programming language.

It's very hard to talk about popularity, because, as far as I know, there are no "functional" tools that are used in the industry at all (certainly not without help from academics). Part of the reason may be due to the fact that so far, software companies that require verification usually write reactive realtime software rather than compilers, so they use tools like B-Method, SCADE, SPIN and TLA+. Another reason is that with the exception of the very good, but rather limited Why3, there are simply no industrial-strength verification tools out there aimed at industrial use rather than research.
Thats case for gymnasiums, right? How about other type of schools? Are they still popular? Here in Czech rep. those vocational only schools are kind of dyin.
The Web Centipede: Understanding How Web Communities Influence Each Other
You've repeatedly been uncivil in this thread. We ban accounts that engage in flamewars, so please don't do that again, regardless of how poorly understood you may be.
Dont you think that in your above scenario the possible aquisition of your fingerprints are by far the most trivial aspect.
Just honestly make a list of things you get out of FB that you did not have before and actually enrich your life.
Oklahoma schools have been laying off teachers and increasing class sizes for many, many years. Typical class sizes there now are already 30-40% larger than the legal (state law, which has itself been adjusted upwards several times) limit.
In most of these places, there are 3-5 class groups in a cohort (that is, there are 3-5 4th grade teachers).
Even aside from the terrible impact on teacher attention, these classrooms have already run out of space to hold students -- students are already sharing desks that are explicitly designed for one student. Laying off a teacher and redistributing their 26+ students to the remaining 2-4 classrooms doesn't work any more.
First of all, you have to adjust this for the cost of living and the fact that employers have to pay about half of the health insurance and retirement savings cost on top of the salary as well as three or four weeks of payed holidays etc. 55k Euros in Munich is easily worth more than $100k in the US.

Second, a CS graduate can certainly get 60k in Munich and a PhD will likely have 70k or more. At BMW this may be 80k or more.
This is not a description of a formalized theory, but thanks for playing.
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It's difficult to convert a React web app into a React Native app, but you can use many React Native components on the web (via react-native-web. [1]) In other words, you can't run a web app on mobile, but you can run a mobile app on the web.

I just launched a little game that I built with React Native [2], where I have a single codebase that supports iOS, Android, Windows, and web.

[1] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web

[2] https://sudoblock.com
For some extra twists, contemplate one-time-pad encryption.

You can claim that some random set of data on someone's machine is an encrypted child porno video, and provide a "key" that would decrypt it.

Try explaining why that's not real to a clueless judge.

Anyway, i hope the legal system would recognize the difference between having intent to store cp and not having such intent. Otherwise anyone can be made or proven to have stored it.
No, it's not admissible to see arguments you disagree with and make posts "wondering" if state actors are astroturfing HN. That's just another variation of the same insinuation, so please don't do it here.
OK, but that doesn't seem to refute the comment made earlier: "Teacher salaries in Oklahoma are accordingly higher. They're going to have to spend quite a bit more than Italy and Spain."

Even when you account for the cheaper cost of living in Italy, you need to pay people more money in Oklahoma. This is as true in education as in any other industry.
I use tmux. It works extremely well with vi. It's no problem at all to arrange 3 panes side by side in tmux. You're not even restricted to that, of course. You could be tailing a log file in one of the panes, reading a man page in another, and coding in the middle one.
> which doesn't involve expending enormous amounts of energy

That is a fallacy. The traditional banking system uses much more electrical power to keep running than Bitcoin does.
Child porn possession, unlike most crimes, is intentless.

Even if someone has no knowledge of, or intent related to, the possession of child porn, it's still illegal.

A person who downloads that video unknowingly via the blockchain is probably morally in the clear, however they're very much not in the clear with the law.
> it remains a fantastic tool for keeping in touch with friends
... that is exactly what I question about FB. Their notion of friendship is merely on a level of "people you met at least once".
The claim wasn't that he committed plagiarism, it was that he lazily "repackaged" a blog post: http://cafehayek.com/2016/02/40405.html

It's not plagiarism, but it's also not something a moderately talented high-schooler couldn't have done. I mean he even used the same food examples, the same real-estate examples, the same travel examples, the same home appliance examples...all he did is add some BLS stats.
Violation of orthogonality of design. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch04s02.html#ort...
The hashing power creates trust in settlement. Much of the financial industry is also about trusted settlement through other means. They are in fact quite comparable in that sense.
Too many VueJS repos I see on Github have Chinese only readme
Why Electron, you could ditch it and just use Go. Works fine on ARM and has all the tools for web apps, APIs, etc.
"Going on about downvotes" means complaining about them or otherwise making them a topic of discussion here, which is always tedious and always off-topic.

Comments that break the site guidelines in this way cross into offtopicness regardless of how relevantly they began.
Did you bother clicking the link? No.
So you're saying it this is not an example against inheritance tax because the family could've used loopholes in the legislation to circumvent paying the tax?
What's the difference between emacs-nox and "emacs -nw"?
It's part of an official course [0], so hopefully they did their due diligence.

[0] http://www.aem.umn.edu/~aem3100/spring2013/
It appears that the link provided in the post is - wait for it - a splash page.

Immediately below the image, the link to the actual article is to be found in "mavericks & heretics of science"
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This is true insofar that bugs resulting from an incomplete understanding of the system have far more significant implications in kernel development (kernel panics, seg faults, OOM killer) than in web dev, where you might get an Exception that's handled by your framework.
I'm just looking to display a browser window in fullscreen (no interaction).

The server is remote
The article you link to is not so unequivocal:

"While the money in Camden, N.J., has led to relatively little academic progress, our stories from North Carolina, Indiana and Massachusetts offer a compelling counterpoint to the idea that money doesn't really matter.

So, too, do a pair of recent studies that look not at one state but at many where parents, activists and school leaders from low-income districts sued and won increases in school funding."
The military tech is actually useful - many of the things we use today as ubiquitous was an artifact of military. It's definitely not the same thing as digging down holes.

However, what i do not know is how much of US military spending is on R&D
There is at least one enormous falsehood in the article, and in another, a large political assertion made as though everyone agrees with it.

Of course I'm holding the author to a higher standard. Mine is a comment on HN, the other is an article by a purported expert on a specific topic.

Information isn't partisan, but it inevitably ends up used for partisan purposes.
The first hack is to only work 20hrs/week. If you are convinced that you only have half of the time to do the same amount of work you will stop wasting time, and ruthlessly prioritize.

The second hack is to be able to maintain that work ethic/productivity for as long as you want: 40hrs, 50hrs, etc.
> I realize on HN "defense spending" is the prime evil

Please don't make up generalizations about the community as a rhetorical device in arguments. HN is divided on most issues—people just tend to notice the comments they disagree with or dislike.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14434569 and marked it off-topic.
Isn't the same true of React however?
I have an old MSDOS 2.0 manual.

~ is listed as an acceptable character for filenames.

Here are some photos of various pages:

http://imgur.com/a/E952T
Must-read for everyone who starts a startup: Blue Ocean Strategy
It's been known to be shaky for at least 20 years, but that have not stopped various government health organisations campaigning for a reduced salt intake.

I can give them that it's a complex issue, there are probably no adverse effects and that reducing the risk for stroke even on the margin could be beneficial - such as for those that have a generic invariant that makes them very sensitive to salt levels.
This is not really true, the react-native-web project provides compatibility for all of the fundamental components that you need, such as View, Image, ScrollView, TouchableOpacity, etc.

There are still some missing components [1], but nothing I really needed (or couldn't work around).

[1] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web/issues/91
So, how do we fix it?
No PoS system has emerged that can both remain perfectly distributed while also preventing double spend chain forks. If the cost to participate in multiple conflicting histories is effectively 0 (as it isn't with PoW, but is with PoS) then you can prioritize a history most beneficial to you instead of the reality.

Honestly, if you are going "big leagues" in cryptocurrency, I don't think having a central authority is bad as long as procedures are in place to contest flawed histories. Peercoin does its PoS through the developers signing key locking history - as long as people trust the devs, they trust the blockchain. If someone can prove the Peercoin blockchain is manipulated, the chain and project can be forked and someone else can be given confidence by whatever measure the community wants to use.
Yet even tor is fairly compromised in that the evidence presents that it has already been tapped by the NSA, and even using it puts you on a watchlist irregardless of your actions.
Convirt your promo video to sales machine :)
I'm a little surprised I haven't seen more discussion about Gridcoin. I'd much rather use a digital currency if I knew it was contributing to curing cancer, mapping the shapes and orbits of asteroids, discovering new pulsars, understanding the genome, and so on.

https://gridcoin.us/Guides/whitelist.htm
I think the "worse is better" [1] theory explains this much better. Although Javascript had the additional benefit of not having any competition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Well my home internet isn't much better than that in the first place, so it's not a bottleneck. The same would likely hold for everyone on an ADSL connection.
>I think a 4 year college degree does not make sense for a lot of jobs. It just puts students with more debt, and sometimes skills that don't lead to a job.

Well, the thing is that college and university don't cost as much and there are various government and private funds you can take advantage off. Counting from personal anecdotes, I think only 1 student in my current semester group is actually on a credit debt and that not entirely related to university spending either.
> It is infinitely abundant

It's not. One immediate limit is ground space.
The thing is that the conditions have changed considerably. In earlier times there were 3-4 people working for every retired person and the average retirement span was ~5 years. Now it's 2:1 and ~15 years in retirement. Something has to give, sadly...
Without that it would be impossible to debug it (from wrong signs in operators, through mistakes with simulation to typical programming bugs).

Some day I want to make it visually appealing and actually make it a part of UI.
Look at david.li webgl demos
> Lots of people think they have fantastic products.

Google didn't think they had a fantastic product. They _had_ one, it was pretty self-evident that the search engine was a great deal better than any competitor, and they had empirical evidence that many other people agreed (as they were using the engine).

> Lots of products take off without being fantastic.

I'm not sure that's true. I can't think of any examples of terrible products that have been hugely successful. I can think of examples of products that _became_ terrible after success or monopoly had been achieved.

> Lots of products can be really fantastic but never manage to take off.

It took me less than a minute using Google to see that it would conquer the world. Same for my colleagues. I think really you mean "good". _Fantastic_ products are by definition super-useful, popular, have instant appeal.
If Google is developing Flutter so they can be more productive at developing their own flagship iOS/Android Apps than the chances it will be discontinued is quite low.

So whilst it's reasonable to hold off until they adopt it themselves and use it in their own deployed Apps, but once they do I'd be more confident in a commercially-sponsored Google project than an Indie OSS community led project. You just don't hear about the thousands of OSS projects being abandoned because they're from multiple Indie authors.

But I wouldn't trust a project with this large a scope without mega corporate backing. But I'd agree that if Google stops committing resources to Flutter than it will die despite being OSS'ed since it's too big to maintain without a well-resourced team.

Not all Google projects should be considered equal, if adoption is low and they don't have flagship Apps, high-profile initiatives or cost center's backing/funding the project then the project's future would be at risk if it doesn't become successful, but any project that is successful, has adoption or paying customers are very unlikely to discontinued, e.g. Angular, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform or any of their popular platforms, i.e. Chrome, Android, YouTube, etc have zero chance of being abandoned.
The computations are not useless. They enable a decentralized currency which is a very valuable thing.
I doubt the effect of denomination would be very big, so not taking into account much stronger factors (e.g. West vs East), this map doesn't say anything.
> This problem was fixed in Windows 8 as a side-effect of a re-write of the way the shell copy engine copies files. The shell now uses the Copy­File2 function to copy files, relying on the kernel function to do the heavy lifting, and using the callback function to monitor progress and possibly cancel the operation. The kernel function doesn't know about these mysterious shell item IDs. All it knows how to do is copy files, and it obtains the attributes directly from the source file, which as we recall is marked hidden but not system.
> This is the broken window fallacy.

No, it's not. With investment in military R&D, there's no "broken window." Claiming that destruction in one place (aka war) spurs growth is the broken window fallacy.

It's possible that investment "directly into the economy" might be more effective except for the fact that you have to take the money out of the economy and put it into a few peoples' hands to direct. The fewer hands means the easier it is to corrupt or hijack the process. I'd rather for "the economy" to invest on its own.

As Hayek said, I want "plans by the many not by the few."
And his actual website: http://jn.cx/
A VPN doesn't help against a Global adversary like the NSA... it depends what you are trying to do.
I think this puts into light the fact that the article doesn't cite sources for its affirmations, thus making it worth as much as an opinion piece, and allowing other people to interject and oppose their own view points. I know this piece comes from HBR, and the author probably has done his share of research before writing, but still.
I use ne for a terminal-based CUA editor right now, though this slap project looks promising.

sudo apt install ne

In the past I've used nano with some sane key bindings, but they would often be missing on remote machines. Ten+ years ago I built a turbovision work-alike from setedit.

I'm afraid that the node requirement and lack of Debian repo would rule it out in many situations, like remote editing. Too much work to get it installed on ephemeral boxes. Could someone start a project like this with C and Python plugins? I'd like to contribute.

Guess I'll stick with ne or sshfs and main editor for now.
Samsung Says It's Serious About Foundry, Creates Business Unit
I believe he means it would rewrite

Line one

Line two

As:

Line one

owt eniL

To save your eyes the travel distance to the line origin in order to read the next line.
@discodave Billions of dollars moved around is actual wealth that has impact on the "world outside the blockchain". A lot of cryptocurrency is being exchanged for goods and services outside of the blockchain. Considering the amount of wealth being exchanged with cryptocurrency it has more impact on the real world than 99% of businesses or startups have or will ever have.
I have started to use museUI. A material UI library based on vuejs. It is also mostly in Chinese. I was reluctant initially but made the jump.

Then one day I had an issue. Posted it. Interestingly some other guy posted a PR to solve that. And it got merged the next day. So it ended well for me. But can't say that for other repos. Just my experience.
I'm not very well versed in the world of banking and finance. What would banks use a blockchain for?

All I can think of is a trustless clearing house. That would make sense on one hand, but it would also divulge a lot of possibly sensitive information to the public.

Other that that I know there have been a lot of hackathons about Bitcoin organised by banks but I never heard anything coming out of them.
Like Linux, still not ready for the desktop?

And... on to the next analogy.
Why not just post that study and be done? I think you've missed the point of my comment, which is that making these vague economic arguments is completely pointless. They tell us nothing about what's actually happening. If you want to point out that the wage gap isn't very big then say it's been measured and isn't very big.

I don't mind that you're strident about it, I mind that you're strident about pushing a bad argument.