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Another subtle is about asking not just "Would you use it" but "Do you already use something like this?". I bet if his friend is already interesting in fonts they already use something else.

Also friends are not reliable product testers. They might feel guilty saying "this sucks" or "there is better stuff than this". They just don't want to hurt you feelings. Even if it is someone you just met at a conference or even on the street if you talk with them long enough, you've already formed a rapport and they probably wouldn't want to upset you.
I think this article is missing the next step: collaborative filtering. I only care about the ratings it received from people that rate thing like I do.
Speaking as an eng for MSFT, across multiple orgs, GDPR is certainly taken very seriously here.(Probably safe for me to say given [1]) I would expect the big players will all follow through as a CYA because they'd be the first to be made an example of. I think a sister post's comment on lack of sales was probably accurate, since my above reasoning likely doesn't apply to "most small companies" and the effort to comply properly is certainly not negligible, even if you've already assessed the changes that need to be made (frankly that seems like it might be the easy part if you can leverage someone with background on the nitty gritty of the legislation). It will be "interesting" to see how this pans out.

[1]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Privacy/gdpr/def...
I'm not sure why this study from 7 years ago is being dug up because it's not a particularly good, interesting, or definitive study. Some problems with it:

1. Small sample sizes.

2. Significance was only found in one subset of the population. Given enough ways to divide up groups of people, you will almost always get false positives.

3. Not an experimental design.

4. The study did not control for simple factors like income or the health of the parent.
It certainly would. The reach of .NET was artificially restricted in many respects by making it a component of Windows. Mono provided the ability to just ship the runtime alongside the app, but Mono was also not "enterprise grade"; and of course there were always the missing bits and pieces, especially on the desktop front where such deployment made most sense.

It took a Microsoft that understood open source and non-Windows platforms, and was serious about it, to ultimately get us to the point where .NET Core could be a thing.
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Since you seem familiar with Monero, I would like to ask what you think of it? I ask from the perspective of one who thinks the anonymous function of cash is a key factor bitcoin doesn't provide, and I've heard monero is one of a few options that does.
I got to say I am always astonished at astronomical discoveries. Finding a wrecked ship in ocean is really really difficult, but correlate and finding what is out there in the open space, hundreds or even more light years away is like finding a dust particle in the open sea. Let's pause for a moment and appreicate these discoveries....
Infocom's games handled compass directions strangely -- they were treated like omnipresent objects. In some versions of Zork, you could give a direction (like "east") to a hungry troll, who would proceed to eat it.

This, among many other bizarre bugs, is documented at: http://graeme.50webs.com/infobugs/zork1.htm
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> What's that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Heh. Sorry, don't follow the reference / joke. Mind giving a hint?
NGen is more like a cached result of the JIT output. It was never particularly fast, and in some cases actually worse than normal JIT. The main benefit you gained from it was assembly load times.

And it most certainly didn't do anything about the dependencies on the runtime (VM, GC etc).
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The NSA will collect it on the wire anyway. They have drilled in and tapped underground fibre optic cables on private networks behind HTTPS load balancers before, and simply captured what they want.
True, but the spectrum and intensity a fire is much lower than today's incandescent light bulbs, fluorescences, LEDs, and screens.
2. Is explained in the abstract, all other issues are legitimate, though.
> When they bid countries or states against each other

I have nothing to say specific to this case, but there is a market for governments (very distorted since options are very practically limited for most people, although corporations have an advantage here), and we should encourage competition in this market, as well as political markets. Competition results in better products. Washington already won me over [partially] due to not having a state income tax and yet having infrastructure comparable to my previous high-tax state, although Seattle is working hard to change that. I think the US being a federation of states that compete at some level (since it's relatively easy to move between states) is a large reason that the country has been so successful.
Would you please not routinely create throwaway accounts here? It's fine if you have sensitive information, but not as a default.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Amazing! All those times I went adventuring carrying too little... I should have just tried 'take x' again! There is a type of ironic zen lesson in all of this somewhere...
Harris County Flood Control District claims three 500 year floods the past three years. That this is by far the worst of the three, doesn't make 500 year floods in Houston "black swan" events. Their own web site makes it sound worse than I am.
https://www.hcfcd.org/flooding-floodplains/harris-countys-fl...
There are plenty of issues with the stdlib. Part of it don't respect the PEP8, there are inconsistencies with argument types and orders, some of it is even unusable for real life usages (ex: csv in python 2.7) and we keep it for legacy reasons.

The fact is, the use cases you are showing are wrong, and the one I'm talking about are the proper ones. It's ok to make mistakes, we all do a lot of them. And we will have to pay for those.

If you are interested in the subject, last month we had a huge debate on the Python mailing list about a way to have a proper official immutable but non interable structured record to replace named tuple and avoid those abuses. And also to maybe include something like attrs in the stdlib.
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First, this kind of post will get you banned from HN if you do it repeatedly, so please don't.

Second, would you please not use HN for political or ideological battle? You appear to have been doing that repeatedly and it's not what this site is for.

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Not sure what is making everyone upset Paypal is doing 1.7 billion transaction per quarter (100 billion + in volume).
80%+ of breaches at companies are via email as a vector.
Honestly, this is actually kind of neat. I mean, if I'm carrying too many things in real life, I will probably not be able to pick something else up. But if I try again a few times I may be able to fit it or grasp it somehow. The probability of this working decreases depending on the number of items over my "easy to carry" limit. That's a cool detail.
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I love this concept. Anyone know of software (other than Dragon) that does this with voice recognition? I could see myself using context aware voice commands in my day to day! I remember seeing some talks a few years back about a guy who used the Dragon API and Python to exclusively do programming due to his carpel tunnel's being very bad.

EDIT: programmer's name is Tavis Rudd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
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Will GDPR allow me to delete my Apple-ID?
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Also, afaik Yoshinoya doesn't carry anything that can compete with Family Mart Milk Cocoa. Japanese convenience store drinks are so good.
Costura[0] embeds assemblies within a .NET executable. I have used it successfully for several projects at work.

[0] https://github.com/Fody/Costura
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Ask HN: Apple maps vs. Google maps today?
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I don't mean that. I mean that you could setup a watcher on the PYTHON PATH DIRS. Then crawl all the PYTHON PATH dirs for available resources, then list that and dump in a in cache file. Then unless you have watchers telling you something changed, you pull out data from the cache, and don't have to crawl the whole thing every time you load some entry point or pkg_resource.
We've banned this account. Using HN primarily for political or ideological battle is an abuse of HN and we ban accounts that do this.

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The nice thing about C# is that, unlike Java, you actually get all the low-level things. They're just tucked away, out of sight of your average coder who's more likely to shoot themselves in the foot with them. But if you know how to use them, it's all there. Let me enumerate.

C# has value types, which follow the same memory model as in C (i.e. stack-allocated for locals, embedded directly into the outer object as fields). You can request explicit layout mode, whereby you can set an offset for every field manually - if you set them all to zero, you get a C union. Alternatively, you can request automatic layout mode, where the JIT is allowed to reorder the fields in arbitrary ways to optimize memory and/or access, which is something you don't even get in C.

It has raw pointers. Unlike object references, these have the usual C semantics - there's no GC involved there, and you're responsible for keeping the objects alive, so you can have dangling pointers etc. No boundary or null checks, either - it's zero overhead. You can do pointer arithmetic on them, including indexing with []. If you P/Invoke malloc or equivalent, this gives you C-style heap allocated arrays.

It has stackalloc, which is a language operator that's equivalent to the non-standard alloca() function in C - allocate a chunk of memory on the stack, and return a pointer. This immediately gives you stack-allocated arrays as flexible as C99 VLAs.

With generics, if a generic type parameter is a value type, the specialization for that type is separately JIT-compiled and optimized. This can be used in a way very similar to C++ templates, for zero-overhead inlined callbacks and similar shenanigans.

All in all, if you want to write high-perf code in C#, you certainly can. You'll hit the limits of the JIT optimizer soon enough - it can't be as good as a full-fledged AOT C++ compiler, say - but you can certainly shed most of the overhead associated with a managed language.
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From the article:

... the Homeland Security official said. "I think [bitcoin]'s a lot more legitimate than people give it credit for."
But the cash is a refund of employee payroll taxes and other benefits derived from Foxconn's investment isn't it? It's a sweet deal for Foxconn but I still don't see where the rest of the state actually pays out. I could be reading it wrong of course, but that was the impression of the EITM zone I had.
> Does POSIX have anything to say about graphics interfaces?

Not at all. Writing 100% compliant POSIX code means sticking to the PDP-11 model of what an application is supposed to be, meaning either a terminal text application or a daemon.

Anything graphical related is a separate standard.

http://www.opengroup.org/standards/unix
You violated the HN guidelines badly by perpetuating this hellish and tedious flamewar. Please don't do that again.

Moreover, your comment history has many cases of being uncivil to others, as well as using HN for political battle. We ban accounts that do these things, so would you please stop doing them? They destroy the things that this site is supposed to be for.

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There is also the apparent complexity of the system and the discourse from people talking about it that you don't know what you are talking about. Then a lot of jargon to cover it all.

But the reality is, while it's true the internals of the finance system is complex, the big picture is not. You have a bunch of people trying to make money no matter the cost, and some other people helping them not paying the cost when it fails. And they are faster and more powerful than the people trying to prevent them.

They are not genius mastermind. They are not evil people neither. Just regular humans wanting more and caring less.
Word. The Book of Life, never heard of it; but we could use some emotional intelligence in this mess. Comparing the kind of code I write when I'm free to follow passion and intuition to the kind of software I used to be paid to write tells the same story. I could barely force myself to cobble working websites together when employed, but cut me some slack and magic comes out the other end:

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis
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Your WeChat macOS client on laptop is conflict with this wechat client. And you can only login in a single client.
Please don't engage in flamewars on Hacker News, please don't uncivilly attack others, and please don't use HN for political or ideological battle: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, and yours has. Moreover we've warned you before.
This gets me thinking, if you were to design the perfect calculator, what would it look like?

(The best calculator that I've seen is running Mathematica on a standard pc, but is there really no way to improve on that interface, assuming that you're making a special purpose device?)
Not the government, but the WeChat team.
Great link, you should submit it to HN.
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Darn, I don't want to discover the aliens now! We're much closer to meeting AGI which is kind-of like an alien intelligence for us.
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South Dakota too! Camped at the Badlands a few weeks ago and other than a little light pollution from nearby Wall, you could see everything. It was spectacular.
Yes completely different. This how the graphics stack look like on Android, a mix of Java, C and C++ code.

https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/

https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/architecture
The onus of who actually automates the browser is moving from Selenium (the open source project) to the browser vendors. This will help with reliability and is also exactly what you're asking for:

https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/
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Too funny. “Via air transportation. Only queen honey bees may be shipped via air transportation. Each queen honeybee shipped via air transportation may be accompanied by up to eight attendant honeybees.”

Seems appropriate for the queen.
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JavaScript is fractally bad: you can find mistakes at every levels, as you zoom in or out.

On the zoomed-in scale we see things like tricky semantics for regexp or Math.round(), which major implementations still get wrong.

On the zoomed-out scale, we see things like property iteration order. This touches on array semantics and hidden classes. Why does v8 permit two objects to have the same properties but different hidden classes? Because JS requires that properties be enumerated in their definitional order - something no other language requires, and which puts serious constraints on implementations.

TypeScript can layer types on top, but can't make arrays sane or fix the other deep language issues.
And because we are in a Rechtsstaat, the courts will take care of that.
Well it's 2017 now and FontForge still doesn't behave like a Mac app (it uses X11 still) so the friend seems to have an excellent justification.
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Considering how terrible USPS is, why would anyone ever trust them with anything, never mind a live animal.
VAT adds up to a very low percentage of what a typical family spends, as firstly, most people only spends a small proportion of their salary on things that VAT are due on. E.g. if you pay 25% in tax + national insurance, then your net salary is 75% of your gross. If you spend 1/3 of that on mortage/rent, you're left with half of your gross salary. This leaves you with VAT adding a theoretical maximum of 10 percentage points to your taxes.

But of course, in reality you have a bunch of other costs that VAT aren't charged on, and a number of essential goods such as most food are zero rated, and a number of additional goods are charged at reduced rates.

Last time I did the maths for myself (earning well beyond average), despite the headline VAT rate for the UK of 20%, I paid less than 4% of my salary towards VAT.

Overall my tax level was comparable to e.g. California (and if factoring in health insurance etc., California would have been much more expensive if I wanted to ensure equivalent coverage). Your mileage will vary depending on what you spend your money on.

Now, if you spend a lot of your income on gasoline, you have a point - it will drive up the taxes you pay a lot. And also, there certainly are US states that would be cheaper.

But a comparison like that is pretty meaningless without factoring in cost of living and salary levels as well.
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Try to buy from them. 1 month+ response times!
This was inevitable, they made themselves the enemy of every single corrupt state.
I am suggesting that the laws are unjust because they cripple a superior service to allow vastly inferior (local) competitors to compete, thus contradicting basic decency.

And all that ex post facto, too. Laws that only applies to one player are by definition unjust.
> I'm pretty sure that currencies have a value in a deeper sense then just "What people pay for it".

You should share your ideas.
Sometimes car head units have an undocumented bass and treble boost, so flat per the settings on the unit is far from flat. The kinds of compensations you are making get the unit closer to flat when it is a unit of configured with undocumented tuning. You could measure your head unit to find out.
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Well, http://wikileaks.fdn.fr/ is up with apparently authentic content.

From https://www.iplocation.net/ I get 181.215.237.148 for wikileaks.org, and then from https://ipinfo.io/181.215.237.148 I see Secured Servers LLC in Oklahoma City. I'm guessing that's new.

Maybe it's that the wikileaks.org domain has been hijacked. Or maybe it's just DNS poisoning.
There are already ongoing efforts to port JVM and .NET environments into WASM, although currently it is more of a proof of concept.

When WASM gets mature, expect the return of the plugins, maybe even a Flash to WASM compiler.
> seems reasonable to me

your own black box idea of "Reasonable" is basically the justification for everything you're saying. I can't really communicate with you when you are setting the criteria for every point on which you and I seem to disagree.
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> You keep saying "not something that free societies do" as though that phrase in itself has meaning, but fail to explain why.

Uh... no offense intended, that's a failure of your comprehension abilities, and not my responsibility to satisfy. Your confusion amounts to "why is the sky blue?"

Because it's blue, Billy. Because it's blue.
There's more than one kind of power. Democracy has one power available to it - the ability to make people submit to the laws they pass and enforce.

There's another type: the ability to do things and reshape the environment in the ways you want. Call it "agency" instead. Democracy isn't necessarily conducive to fostering agency.
I've often wished I could use my HP50g as a keypad for entering mathematical expressions on my PC. The calculator on its own is great for short to intermediate length problems, but a Mathematica/Jupyter style notebook interface running on a PC is far better when plotting is involved or when the problem gets too complex or the data set too large. But a standard PC keyboard is pretty inefficient for math input beyond what the number pad can handle, and I'd prefer to build expressions in the calculator's RPN environment and then send them over the USB port.
What's amazing is that people even feel the need to study whether breastmilk is superior to processed alternatives -- would a zoologist ever recommend baby mammals receive any food other than their mother's milk to facilitate optimal development? Why do humans think they're any different?
I feel that recognisable and consistent tactile feedback is so important for developing and executing muscle memory. Today on most devices this element is largely overlooked (eg. compare a walkman with physical buttons to an music application on a flat screen surface).

Touch screen devices with vibration hardware have not really addressed the haptic positioning and behaviour of tactile feedback.

All of this to me is a loss of opportunity to exercise an additional "input method".

In the future I expect to see somewhat of a non-flat screen that's able to reposition the height or texture of its area to facilitate the do-not-have-to-look precision requirements of today's on-screen buttons. Somewhat of a 3D holographic surface which you can touch or otherwise feel.
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> Regulation, e.g. of utilities, in the in U.S. is sort of a form of nationalization.

That's the example I had in mind when writing my comment. The utilities WERE nationalized, however they were de-regulated in recent years, and the market has not really recovered from when they were handed government endorsed monopolies.
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> Why not? I guess it also has to provide some important infrastructure for other companies.

there are so many reasons it would literally fill hours of political philosophy and economics debate.

and has. These debates have been had. At length, and for many years.
Android can use Mesa, so that's not convincing.
Just out of curiosity ... how often do you look up transit routes via a third-party map service instead of the Transit Authority's website?
Maybe they do, maybe they don't use it. Point is, there is no guarantee they will never use it for wrong.

How about data breach? Can they also guarantee that the data is stored safely?
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Tell me more. So interesting. How does it work. What an insightful observation
For those who don't know, it's common (and essential) to ship honeybees around the country to where they're needed. Honeybees are shipped around different parts of the country all the time depending on the season and what kind of agriculture needs to be produced. There was a Planet Money episode on it I think... yup, here it is:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/24/517076055/episo...
Depends entirely on your local area.

Hub to hub nearly all services are reliable, it's the 'last mile' service that has such extreme variability from area to area. That's why when I mail a package to someone else I try to ask them about which services are more reliable /in their area/ (since I attempt to drop off at fixed, staffed, locations, USPS offices and the like).