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>Since then I've felt increasingly uncomfortable with the heavy-handed, paternalistic direction Apple has been taking their OS; it just doesn't feel like home anymore

I have exactly the same feeling, I also had some fake nostalgic experience with Mac OS Classic / System6 etc (of which my age gives me no right to be). Everything up to and including 10.6.8 for any quirks they may have had, all felt like an OS that the user was truly in charge of, while still having a friendly, slick and minimal UI...

But now, instead of using an OS it feels like using a website shop or an iPhone, it feels like the OS is in charge of the user, and users are expected to need to be told what to do. I suppose it's inevitable, Apple aren't really a computer company any more.
You might want to double-think that filter thing.

Water filters can build up bacteria (listeria is not a fun thing - there are others, too - some pretty bad); this can cause everything from a "funky smell" to "go to emergency room or die". That said, tap water in most municipalities is pretty damn clean, and you can run without a filter; but if you don't want to change the filter, then do just that - remove the filter, so that you don't give the bacteria a nice growth area. If you do change the filter, don't go more than a year between changes at most. Most filters are cheap enough, usually less than $50 USD.

As far as the air filter - well, I've never heard of one on a fridge - but if you have one, it's probably to filter the air before it gets to the fan that cools the compressor. If you let it get super dirty, it won't move the air, and your compressor will be overheated/overworked, and it's life will be shortened, or it will fail - or the breaker on the fridge (know where your's is?) will trip. And don't take the filter off and just run filterless - because now the cooling coils will act as the filter, and they are anything but easy to clean (because if you don't, again failures will eventually occur - nbtw, that they sell a special fridge coil cleaning brush that looks like a very narrow bottle brush).

If you're talking about other filters in your house (HVAC) - then you want to change those too, fairly regularly. If you don't, again, you'll be overworking your A/C unit, plus the air won't be moved around effectively (making the unit run longer to cool/heat - increasing your bill). Plus, those filters get pretty nasty too - and that stuff doesn't stay on the filter.

They make reusable filters - you cut them with scissors to match the filter opening, then when you are ready to clean them, you take them outside and run a water from a sprayer hose "backwards" thru the filter, then let 'em air dry. That can be a cheaper and easier alternative to holding on to a box or two of filters (though such filters are pretty cheap).

Finally - note that on many cars (not all!) there is a "cabin air filter". Check your manual on how to replace it; most people don't know about that filter, but it isn't difficult to change out. Costs of course are variable, depending on the car. Again, though, if you don't replace it regularly, your cabin heating/cooling will suffer, air flow will be reduced, the fan motor will have to work harder, etc.

Basically - for air filter, check them now and then. When they look like they are getting overly fuzzy, or you can't see thru 'em - change them out.
Why don't we just compile the kernel to machine code, and distribute that instead?

This would completely eliminate waiting for kernel compilation.
Yet that language died, go figure..
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It has a sort of Fortran-esque feel. Almost like the classic "DOI=[etc]" parsing puzzler.
I'm fairly sure that there's almost no serious kernel developer answering here. Kernel contributions don't go through github PRs but through mailing lists. The "tough crowd" you see here are trolls - not the actual community, which is inclusive and quite nice to work with.
Which is surprising. There's DoCoMo in Japan, but they're a phone company. WeChat didn't have that edge. Facebook could go that way if they wanted, but they haven't.
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because there's only so many sane ways to do those problems

Indeed, that's been my experience too; if you assign something "Hello world" level, you're going to get a bunch of 100% correct solutions that look almost the same, and then the other... odd ones which are almost certainly incorrect in some way.

It's only when you assign something far more nontrivial, and with many correct ways to do it, that you will get more diverse solutions; and even then, the chances of the correct solutions being very similar are high.
I love how they invent an idealized scenario to come up with the 800% number. Good marketing, I guess.
Machine code varies depending on the platform, and Linux is meant to be distributed to a _ton_ of platforms.
Not really. Generally, ALL CAPS and italic are preferred over bold (as both are specially cut for that, and keep the contrast roughly the same), but bold is not bad either (and for sans serif, always choose bold over italic). Compare with: http://practicaltypography.com/bold-or-italic.html

What you definitely shouldn’t do is underlining, though: http://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html
It varies a lot; I've met SWEs that tripled their pay by switching jobs.

My starting pay was more than double that of someone of similar talent to myself who ended up at a different company.

My lowest offer coming out of college was a $30k 1 year contract in 2005. Needless to say I didn't accept that one.
This is quite cool. How do you get this to work with FB? Are these streams you run via their Live API?
We're only raising a Series A right now. To globally expand, we're going to need to blockchain IPO, aimed at January when the first city is running. We are holding back a chunk of stock for secondary offerings because we may need a future raise. We want to grow fast and big, and that's not cheap. It's a highly profitable business so we won't need billions but still.

We're investigating how we can enforce some of the rules via smart contracts, but there's still likely to be loopholes.
"something about the overall tone of the docs and Cozens' web presence would discourage me from making an investment of time in one of his projects."

I'm not sure I understand that assumption. He's been around the OSS community for decades (wrote some O'Reilly books about Perl, and wrote quite a few Perl modules, though that was more than a decade ago, and I dunno what he's been up to since). I do find the github a little sparse, but there is a website for SILE, which is better: http://sile-typesetter.org/what-is/

It looks like a personal project, rather than a "take over the world" attack on TeX. Seems like if it's an area that's interesting for someone, they might want to have a look. It does have some novel ideas over TeX, and is maybe more modern in some of its implementation details, even if it is nowhere near as complete or mature as LaTeX.
The subtle scroll hijacking on this web page makes it almost unreadable.
Oh, don't get me started on hotels.com. It's seems to be quite common for hotels.com to sell you the room with breakfast (in countries where breakfast typically is included) but when you get the confirmation, there's no mention of any breakfast and the booking code is for a room without breakfast. So when you arrive at the hotel and they say: "Nope, breakfast is not included" you have nothing to prove that you booked with breakfast, in fact, to the hotel your reservation is the very definition of a no-breakfast reservation.

This happened to me and we had to run through a lot of hoops to eventually get hotels.com to reimburse us. It helped that we had called them for parts of our reservation because all calls are recorded and the operator clearly stated that breakfast was included.

The same thing happened to my father who was a bit more alert and noted the missing breakfast from the confirmation. He then had to call them something like five times for a confirmation that actually said breakfast was included. Each time they sent him a new reservation but it wasn't until the last call it did say breakfast was included.
apples and oranges. With Key exchange algorithms you can get away with this kind of reinforcement. If you start combining encryption algorithms however, you may accidentally reduce the overall entropy of your crypto system by combining algorithms.
They could just kidnap them too. Extraordinary Rendition is possible if unlikely but given the New Zealand GCSB's behaviour they have to assume the local security service/secret police will be out to get them too.
The diff itself is pretty funny. But yeah I have no idea how serious this is meant to be.
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And if I promote myself as a Star Trek fan to bring attention to my engineering work, nerd-shaming is also in scope. Or a body-builder programmer shamed for being a "bro" by us nerds. Why do we need to shame each other about our quirks? (as long as those quirks do no harm, but as far as I know, Sexy Cyborg does not flaunt herself around kindergartens)
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I’ve been a professional software developer for the last 4-5 years, but never took security serious until iot took off. Get some raspberry pis, install kali Linux on a VM or spare computer, and go to work! It’s just so easy and cheap to setup a pen test lab. I’d recommend every dev have a few attack machines for fun. That’s how I got started.

It’s also a huge field. Try checking out security in your current discipline. I was a web developer in 2013, so it was natural that I was inclined to look at SQL injections, XSS, packet sniffing, Etc. I already understood the domain. That is easier than jumping into reverse engineering firm ware if you have no xp.

Now after a couple years of practice, I’m recommitted to security. Huge issue in our current tech ecosystem. I was just approved to take CEH and will be taking it next month. To make it official. If you need some structure to your learning and want to make a career move, check out getting an industry base cert like the CEH or offensive arc cert. most security jobs prefer candidates to have at least one, and they’re not incredibly difficult.

Happy pwning!
Benefit for Google, locking people (making it easy to return) into their "platform" thanks to AMP bar and carousel and control over AMP and by extensions large portion of the web.

Twitter, I can't see benefits, other than what you mention i.e. tests show users preferring it. My premise is that there is a large enough group of people who would prefer to opt out. I have no idea how large or small this group is.
Is this your blog or is it a coincidence that your hn username is the same as the 'chinese 3d-printing expert' from the article?
It's not really that unbelievable that there's a woman who's capable of using tools and building the things that she wears...
Whoever wrote this blog is either really close to the subject or has a very unhealthy obsession.
I kinda do. Not is a professional sense but with teens/preteens mostly. Some years ago I was linled to a chat described as filled with skiddies (I do vuln research and dev). What i found was some lids who had taught themselves Visual Basic in order to male cheats and trainers for flash games.

I stuck around helped them learn more about programming, reverse engineering, and eventually exploit development.

Over the years the group has changed but I established myself as one willing to take questions and help people learn. It took sometime to establish myself especially among that age group but I just stuck it out because I saw people willing and tryimg to learn.
This happened to me last month, in the US. We were in a popular tourist hotel, so I figured we would take a cab that's already here rather than trying to hook up with a Lyft driver. It was the worst! "Broken" credit card machine, charging extra for bags, etc. It's like instead of trying to compete with better service, the taxi driver wants to get his before the industry implodes.
> It is probably because I can go to the store right now and buy pretty great Odwalla stuff that tastes good and is healthy.

Contrary to popular belief none of that stuff is healthy. It doesn't matter whether it comes from a juicero or from a bottle, it just all contains far too much sugar.
Well, it's also 700% in their specific scenario (2x speedup = 100% etc) so not even an accurate invented story...
I don't know many STEM type people apart from me who are into such things honestly, so your claim is very interesting to me. Do you know someone with an online presence (blog for instance) who would fit into the category?
I was going to ask about that, if these were in any way core contributors. I figured most of those serious enough to make helpful commits wouldn't take the bait.
That's the joke. The kernel is already distributed as compiled machine code.
Most sites that end up peacking my interest are credible sites with regular ads. I only see benefits of AMP when I end up on crappy gossip type sites etc.
Hmm, I was skeptical after reading the article, but after your white-knight butt hurt comment, I am inclined to believe it was truth.

What an asshole.
Hopefully it won't be "powered by Watson". God I can already imagine the commercials.
I'm not sure what to think of that attitude. I understand the motivation, but I find this statement particularly odd:

> donation relies on the compassion of individuals, not on laws.

It would be odd to expect laws to be more compassionate on average than all the individuals under the laws, particularly in an ostensibly democratic society. Yet I can think of several plausible reasons to expect laws to be less compassionate on average than individuals.
I am not making light of the situation AT ALL - but it's sort of weirdly ironic that the link goes to a 404 page in their "Social Responsibility" section.
Ah, someone must have mistaken this for the Gentoo repository. This sort of patch should be maintained by downstream distributions where concerns like speed are overriding concerns.

Me, personally? I found that compiling was a lot faster if I ran "rm -rf ." first.
Nomachine. It's licensing is somewhat confusing; it is free for "personal use" but clarifies that you as an individual accessing a non-shared machine dedicated to you is under that umbrella; what they don't want you doing is setting up shared terminal servers &c. without paying them money.

I have no idea if the above would be covered under that, but it is so much better than any remote setup I've used that I would pay for it in an instant.

Link: https://www.nomachine.com/
I thought corporations have the same liability protections as LLCs and that the difference was more in the way of taxation, ownership, and administration requirements.
Basically exactly this. I looked at Oshkosh WI for the middle of October next year. Middle of the week, in fact, a Wed night, 1 night, 1 person stay:

"Only 1 room left!"

"Booked 14 times in the last 24 hours!" - Oh yeah? This hotel in Appleton WI, with 80 rooms, had FOURTEEN rooms booked for a random Wednesday in September 2018 through booking.com ALONE in the last 24 hours.

Screw dark patterns, that's outright deception, if not fraud.

(edited, I originally said October 2018, when in fact my example was for Wed September 19, 2018).
'timaz answers this elsewhere in this thread:

> I'm not the owner of that blog.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15152905
Isn't Arabic an official UN language?
> very different and it has a bunch of interesting non-QuickCheck features.

I'm only familar with QuickCheck, but what are those differences / features? Couldn't tell from a quick look at the website of Hypothesis.
I think it was interesting how it was talking about getting different things from the same book at different points in your life.

That's certainly how it went for me with the Silmarillion. I read it at 16 just after I had come off of reading Lord of the Rings and it was extremely boring. I read it again at 30 and I found it to be quite interesting. The book hadn't changed, but I had.
Yes, except it's not so easy to do in Safari on iOS.
I don't know why you think that Hackaday is blocked in China, since I read the article just fine on a filtered connection. (As opposed to the Blogspot post, which I won't bother firing up a VPN for.)

Of course the blocks don't always stay the same, and sometimes they depend on your internet provider, but from my point of view, it seems like you haven't stirred the ire of the regime yet.
I really love Ken Burns's film style, the pictures, sounds and voice overs.
> substitute that into the squared distance function

How the heck did "" get in there?

> 5. solve the roots of the cubic numerically in the range 0 to 1: either Newton's or clipping or some other hybrid numerical method.

Is there a reason not to use the cubic formula in this situation?
Missed opportunity to put in some zero-width unicode spaces just to add that extra bit of uncertainty for whether gcc would respect it...
Uber also made getting a ride while black a significantly easier experience. And their drivers will actually take you where you ask to go whereas regulations be damned if the taxi driver doesn't want to go there he won't.
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Whoops haha didn't catch that :)
So glad POTUS did this. It is a huge waste of money to find out what the general public already know. The health effects are very, very bad! The worst!
True, but we can just use the subset of machine code that works on all of them.

Us web developers figured this out with JS, when IE supported different methods than WebKit and Mozilla. If we can do it, I’m sure you can assemble something that’s universal as well.
> Because for a restaurant, if you can effectively replace a human costing >$40k/yr with a change in supply chain and a fancy machine,

Ever heard of a TurboChef oven? Because that's almost exactly what you're describing. Think of it as a combination oven that uses microwaves, thermal, and convection to cook stuff extremely fast, and generally of a pretty decent quality.

If you've eaten at just about any restaurant, you have likely had something prepared in one (if not the whole meal).

They are actually pretty nice machines; if I had the counter room at home I'd have one. But they aren't cheap...
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The reverse being that with a ton of people that watch your free content you will probably make less than what the author currently makes.
> It would be odd to expect laws to be more compassionate on average than all the individuals under the laws, particularly in an ostensibly democratic society.

Not if you assume that compassion isn't complete selflessness, and at least some of the population understands on some level the adverse incentives associated with things that are game-theoretically similar to tragedy of the commons.
Modern Java OpenGL examples
"Dark patterns" are one thing.

They tell me that they booked 14 rooms at the Red Roof Inn in Appleton WI for Wed September 19, 2018, in the last 24 hours.

I'd love to call the Red Roof Inn and ask them if that's the case.

Other than that, that sounds like outright deceptive practices, fraud in marketing.
Given the state of affairs with online reservations, going to your local travel agency is is undeniably the future. Oh the irony.
Interesting to see the _very_ strong parallels to Japanese culture here.

For everyone arguing about whether this is true of all Chinese culture, of course there is innovative thinking in China, Wu is simply pointing out that in places where people aren't getting paid to innovate but rather are there to do a 9-5 job, there is little (and, in many cases, negative) incentive culturally to think outside the box and push the envelope. Don't expect that your contractor is going to go the extra mile for you. Getting specifications right and driving the production process are on you.