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> Except it's really easy to accidentally destroy or lose a phone.

In 20 years of owning different mobile phones, I've never accidentally destroyed or lost one. Maybe you are just clumsy or careless.
You should go down there and help them out.
This is so sad. I found the quote "one way to destroy a culture, with lots of white paint" very poignant. Institutions everywhere increasingly seem to want to just make everything bland and safe.
As an American, I find it odd, that someone (in this case a corporation) can collect private information on me, and make money of of me, without so much as a share of the profits.

Where have I seen this model before??
I only rarely have to use Windows but every time I'm just so annoyed at how terrible the file browser (Explorer) is. Why the heck are folders sorted on top of files? It makes no sense and means you can't just jump to filenames with the keyboard. No QuickLook (this is a huge one. browsing through files is made 10x faster with QuickLook). No column browser.
That we know of.

More seriously, the danger is that we move beyond nuclear fission power and eventually forget it was ever used.
My point was that there are other factors than price which influences whether or not someone will buy something if you look at the entire world. I just gave two example of such factors. And I'm surprised this was not obvious.
I did not say that you have to implement it. You just have to know which tool to use. And in most cases you only need a `Map` or a `TreeMap` or stuff like that.
http://web.archive.org/ now provides full-text search, mostly of website titles.

Try it out. You'll find that it's... it feels like a trip back to 1998.
I found a topic on how fast we could potentially bring back a functional OS from scratch but I unfortunately cannot find it back.. it was a good read :(
Also cheers to the mod who updated the title - I didn't want to editorialise it myself - though not sure if either the original or new encapsulates what is on offer here:

"the “exceptionally low” results of a government auction on Monday for subsidy contracts show two offshore windfarms will be built for £57.50 per MWh, way below even the most extreme predictions. The price is half of what new offshore windfarms were being awarded just two years ago."

This is really something considering where the figures came in 5 or 10 years ago, and amazing to compare against the number from 2015:

Estimated UK LCE for projects starting in 2015, £/MWh
Power generating technology	(Lowest 2015 figures in £)

Nuclear PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor)(a)	82

Solar Large-scale PV (Photovoltaic)	71

Wind
Onshore	47

Offshore	90

Biomass	85

Natural Gas	Combined Cycle Gas Turbine	65

CCGT with CCS (Carbon capture and storage)	102

Open-Cycle Gas Turbine	157

Coal	Advanced Supercritical Coal with Oxy-comb. CCS	124

IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) with CCS	137

(a) new nuclear power: guaranteed strike price of £92.50/MWh for Hinkley Point C in 2023[49][50])
(from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source )

Also love this line towards the end of the article:
"The lower the price, the more electricity generating capacity can be built. The government had allocated £240m-a-year for the subsidies but the competitive prices mean it now expects them to hit £176m-a-year at most."
Show HN: An easy, reliable Java library for asynchronous messaging in Redis
You're comparing cordova with RN, and then you're saying xamarin is totaly different. It's not. RN are native components.
In NativeScript it's the same + you get easy access to native apis
How Hertz Became the №1 Car Rental Brand for Customer Service on Twitter
Welcome to Spain, my friend. Wait until you see what we do to animals.
Equality in Common Lisp
I am pretty familiar with the idea and conceptually I am a proponent for it but the question becomes who pays for the hosting of your data, what's the incentives to get me to store it and for others to use only the data that I have?

I am also sceptic with regards to corporations having the data but government owning it doesn't make it much better.

In Denmark you mostly need to get access to one place in the system and you potentially have access to the data across the different verticals, Danish system is also SSN based.

The biggest problem though is what is the alternative to a credit bureau system?
Yes, not the first time for this style from Mozilla regarding copyright.

Makes it hard to swallow their opinion as credible, when so obviously biased and non factual.
The point with having a good heuristic is to avoid having to walk the vast majority of the search space, so I wouldn't have thought the exponential growth was that big of a problem. But I guess it's harder than I thought.
That sounds dreamy. 40+ hrs a week of required butt-in-seat time is bizarre and depressing.
Ask HN: Ideas for virtual gifts for developers?
I am looking for ideas on virtual gifts for developers.

Maybe "virtual gifts" is not the proper term.
I mean by this things that can be bought online and there is no need to ship something physical.

The budget per person is around 80USD.
How UK Government Supports Young Entrepreneurs and Tech Startups
How old are your friends? Now that there is a central issuer, rather than regional, the probability of generating duplicate numbers is quite low.
This is not a counter-point. This is what I have said:

> You just can't do well in some contexts

This means that your project is either simple enough that you don't need to know advanced CS or someone on your project actually has that knowledge.

I've also said:

> I think it all boils down to having at least a decent ability in all areas involved in order to be able to be productive in all environments.

So it seems that you are barking up the wrong tree. My point is that you need to have decent knowledge of all related areas to your project in order to be able to meaningfully contribute and this statement still stands. If you write an useful CRUD application you don't have to know how a hashtable works.
Just wanted to say that I've been using svelte a bit at work to create widgets that our clients can embed on their websites, and I absolutely love it. Creating svelte components is super easy and consuming them is even easier.

Thank you for having the vision, thank you for making it, and thank you for continuing to improve it.
You can do this on Github. It's even called the same. Go to your repo -> settings -> branches and it's the 2nd item (Protected branched).

I use this feature at work so I can confirm it behaves as expected.
You can see the map of this phenomenon on google maps:
https://goo.gl/rLP3Cn
I can't take it seriously, it listed NoSQL as a language.
awesome stuff.
I took a look at the code and I was marvelling on how clever the solution is. In particular in creating the 'mock' code.

//> const $$STx89 = Iroh.stages["$$STx89"];
//> var $$frameValue = void 0;
//> $$STx89.$45(27)
//> $$STx89.$44($$frameValue = i = $$STx89.$35(25, 0, "i", null, $$STx89.$30(26, 23)));
//> $$STx89.$46(27, $$frameValue)
//>

Well done.

https://sequential.js.org/live.html#DYewhgJgFA5AFgFwQBwM4C4D...
Yes, I question every story I hear. This is known as skepticism and is a critical thinking skill in a world filled with people writing articles with agendas.
I sometimes upvote crap articles, because I'm interested in what HN has to say about the topic.
https://github.com/muhammadmuzzammil1998/OctoCSS/commit/246c...

Its fixed :) Thank you for noticing that.
America’s Worst World War II Fighter Was the Star of the Russian Air Force
There are bluray players for $70 that can stream netflix over wifi.
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> have head a theory that the BSD licence has an implicit patent grant

Even the experts admit that it's untested, and every law student knows that anything up to an actual test in an actual court is little better than a guess. Also, beware of "experts" who aren't even talking about copyright law. For example, consider the three cases mentioned in the "US" section here.

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence

The Hewlett Packard quote is clearly about products, which I know for sure are not legally the same as licenses. The Bottom Line quote's mention of purchases casts a similar shadow. Only the De Forest quote passes even a rudimentary sniff test. The case for this implicit license is weak indeed.

But fine, let's say there is such an implicit license. I have good news for you: it would apply to the Facebook code as well. The same principle used to argue for the existence of an implicit patent-license grant under plain BSD - i.e. that trying to bring a patent action would interfere with the still-operative copyright permission given in the LICENSE file - would still apply. Nothing in the PATENTS file would change that.

Belt and suspenders still beats belt alone, no matter how strong or weak the "implicit license" belt might be.
Your comment reminds me of Harari's Sapiens. If you follow him in his unusually broad definition of what is a religion, political and religious power is no less concentrated anywhere than it is Redemption Camp.
Most of those using Code Sponsor are very new. I can tell you that so far this month (Sept 11) we are payout out $511 USD to developers. Last month we paid one developer over $130. It's not life changing, but it's excellent supplemental income.
Ask HN: What are some cool self-hosted tools like Sendy?
Amid the ever-growing number of subscription SaaS companies, I love that there are still awesome self-hosted tools like Sendy (bulk emails using AWS SES for delivery) out there. What are some other one-time-fee self-hosted products that rock?

I'm not affiliated with Sendy, I'm just using it as an example of a tool that is still actively developed and that has resisted the temptation to switch to a subscription model.
It only worked so well because they rigged the tests. The suspension was tuned for exactly each demonstration, it wouldn't work under normal mixed conditions. The system was also extremely heavy and used a boatload of power for the actuators.

A well-setup conventional suspension system works nearly as well for anything you would encounter in the real world, and it's a lot less expensive. Even Citroën (the kings of hydropneumatic active suspension) will be going with traditional suspension only from their next generation C5, despite being stalwarts of active suspension tech since the 1950s.

Having driven a C3 through southern Germany on vacation recently, I see their point. That silly little car was significantly more comfortable than my older, larger Peugeot sedan, and more comfortable than even the 1st-gen C5 my parents drive.

Conventional suspension tech has come a long, long way.
And the normal vandel everywhere else.
Firstly, a matter of terminology: my use of 'natural period' may be wrong here, if it implies a cyclical process; I am not sure what might be the correct term, so I shall use 'characteristic period'.

You are confusing two different but related issues, and may have misunderstood your professor. The timing of large effects (speciation, for example) is unpredictable, and there are long periods in the history of any given line of descent during which no speciation-level evolution occurred (note that the article is about evolution at a much smaller scale than speciation. These events are unpredictable in detail, but occur much more frequently.)

As for the process by which it happens - variation and natural selection - the generation is, to a first approximation, a characteristic unit of time. A mutation occurs at a point in time, but it is only subject to being selected by natural selection if and when it is passed in the next generation, and natural selection works by creating more of the next generation on account of it.

This is somewhat complicated by the appearance of neutral mutations, which do not have effects that are selected for or against. These take the genome on a continual but evolutionarily directionless random walk, for which the characteristic time period is the generation. There is the possibility that, as a consequence of these random walks, any given allele's frequency in the population will drop to zero, after which it will not reappear unless it is recreated by another mutation.

While neutral mutations, by definition, have no evolutionary effect at their inception, they may become significant either as a consequence of a change in the environment or through the allele's interaction with, or modification by, a subsequent mutation. Whenever that happens, however, natural selection still works by changing the occurrence of the allele from one generation to the next.

On reflection, my phrase "meaningful change must occur over that sort of period, or it is not going to happen at all" is inaccurate; to express what I was thinking, I would now write that "when evolution occurs, it is manifest from one generation to the next."

I see that you are aware that evolution has a tendency to occur in spikes, so it seems odd that you would write, in your initial post, "Considering the extraordinary amount of time it takes for evolution to do anything at all..." There is no requirement for there to be long periods of stasis between events.
Any consideration given to a hardware security token? The Yubikey NFC edition (~$50?) can even work with your phone.

https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/multifactor-authentication-opt...

At the very least, consider securing Lastpass with U2F (fairly cheap) once they support it.

https://cognitionsecure.com/u2f-otp-google-lastpass/

Be sure to get at least two hardware tokens in case of failure.

--

PS. Some more exotic options even store actual passwords rather than encryption keys.

https://www.tindie.com/products/stephanelec/mooltipass-mini-...
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We have advocates at GitHub and are in discussions with their compliance team. Code Sponsor is not directly tied to GitHub for it to be successful. Many of our developers are making money through different channels such as npm or their own generated documentation website.
Nice and lit
I think you're preoccupied by the word "document". There are many ways that applications are catered for. WebSockets are of no use to documents, only applications, as one example.
I agree with the first, but the second doesn't qualify. If the person using the software (a friend) owns the computer where the software is installed (my friend's computer) he qualifies for the free license. I don't think it matters who actually did the installation.
Guide to choosing the right #IoTbutton
React Native actually does use native controls - when you say you want a ScrollView for example, you're getting a real native scroll view. That is one thing that makes it different from many other cross platform libraries.

It is true that not everything is wrapped, but if you run across something you need, it's not that bad to create the wrapping yourself; here's more details: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-componen...
That's potentially one way of doing it but Github does also have a specific feature for doing this literally called "Protected branches":

https://github.com/blog/2051-protected-branches-and-required...
Really liking and pushing for trialing of ATDD in my current role - Acceptance Test Driven Design:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_test%E2%80%93driven...
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I have no idea what people do with $800+ phones. I'm on Nexus 5X (<$180), and it's perfectly fine, the camera is great, apps run just fine.

I doubt most of these people are doing phone based VR and play high end phone games.
I'd say especially the average user profits from a search system that's somewhat clever and finds things even if they do not ask the exactly right query.

And searching for domains is only a tiny part of it, especially now where a lot of information is stuck in general sites with a lot of content (wikis, Q&A sites, social media sites) and not on special-interest sites. And for many generic searches the special-interest domains are various levels of spam/affiliate marketing.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to compare directly to VAT, but many credit cards extend a product's existing warranty (90 days to two years, depending on the card), and some offer things like 90-day purchase protection (if the price changes or if merchant/manufacturer won't accept a return, the credit card will).

Purchase protection took care of a theft I had in my house last month. They just needed a receipt and a police report, and the purchase price was refunded a few days later.
Even though GitHub may say we cannot do this on their website, it does not prevent developers from generate a healthy side income building OSS.

Here's a blog post we just released which includes links to different developer repos and sites (aside from GitHub) https://medium.com/@codesponsor/fighting-for-open-source-sus...
> So if they infringe on your patents you shouldn't sue them because they let you use some of their code?

No, if it's really just "some code" to you, then you should simply not use it if you're really afraid that Facebook is infringing on your patents and that you will gain harm from that. However, if:

- you're profiting a lot from either React, or other Facebook patents

- you're not afraid that Facebook is infringing on your patents, or

- Facebook infringing on your patents doesn't really harm you, just like you using Facebook's React patents doesn't really harm Facebook

...then you can just use React. And I believe one of the above holds for almost every React user.

And I'm afraid I don't really care how patents are "supposed" to work - we've known for a long time already they don't work like they're supposed to....
All the brilliant weirdos I know are independent. Lampworkers, machinists, turbine engineers, fabricators, inventors. None affiliated with any educational system, no degrees. None making burgers either. All 'shop rats,' in garages, sheds, and machine shops.
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Closer in time, you have the outsized role still played by the Catholic Church in countries like Italy and Spain, where it runs not just churches and monasteries but social housing, preschools, and savings & loans associations.

Turning to the really bizarre, we have "The Transhumanist Wager", a supposedly best-selling recent rehash of "Atlas Shrugged" (complete with "A is A") featuring as the main villain a religious movement which builds churches with attached housing where the faithful can live at low or no cost. Not recommended, unless you are meta enough to enjoy atrociously bad writing for the giggles.
Hmm OK, so I guess you just make sure you buy a phone with an easily replaceable battery then? Or is it that cheap when you have it done too?
React doesn't do layout so it can't do occlusion.
Oh it's Nigeria, sounded like something that would happen in USA
This makes my heart ache so much that I can hardly bear to read it. I also feel like I detect a note of insecurity in many of the comments - it's as if the idea that our modern lifestyle and its impacts may be problematic and or in some aspects inferior to pre-modern ways of living is somehow threatening, and must therefore be rejected. I think it's massively ignorant and brutish to view earlier civilisations with such contempt, and collectively suicidal for humanity for us to carry on regardless when the Earth seems to be giving us plenty of signs that we are heading for disaster unless we change.
I was chatting with a guy on the plane the other day who was bemoaning the disappearance of old-school BBSes and rise of homogeneous social media sites. I think my answer to his concern and yours are the same:

There are still places for clever weirdos. Particularly online. I know of at least two hacking communities, for instance, which only let in people who can hack the invite process. At that point, you can assume with some degree of safety that you're with like-minded individuals. Even if people cheat the system, that at least means they cared enough to cheat and it also means they probably won't get very far with the additional tests once they get in (or they do, which requires they learn something, so everyone benefits).

Okay, but all that's online. What about actual physical places? Hackerspaces/makerspaces are probably the place to start. Places where what you're passionate about making is more important than who you are.
Fighting climate change in a red state
Bare minimum: regularly scheduled 'take out' backups.

https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

There are lots of open source utilities to work with the data, but most are one-offs. Here's one that didn't appear to be:

https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki
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If you think it's likely that we have great minds flipping burgers now, it stands to reason there were minds greater than Jobs, Gates, etc (RMS? really?) flipping burgers then, too.

I've seen this sentiment expressed before and it always struck me as the intellectual equivalent of "kids these days!" without much merit.

Some people will waste their talent. Some people won't.
> “Ha-lleluuuu-jah,” booms the distinctive voice of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, also known as the general overseer.

Ooooooh boy, this is gonna be a fun read isn't it.

Am I the only one who thinks it's fucking tragic that in so many parts of the world, the safest place to live is under the thumb of some religious leader who seems to be deliberately blurring the line between religion and cult, or under some insane warlord who only keeps you safe because you and everyone else are fucking terrified of them?
Building a movie app interface with Vue.js
I wasn't making an excuse. I think $1 per day is quite a lot, especially when comparing it to a $200 phone. They are almost identical.
Hi everyone, I have written a C++ library for creating native GUI apps, it also has language bindings for Lua and JavaScript (V8).

In the past I have written the Electron framework, which is a popular project for creating desktop apps with Chrome web engine and Node.js, while this library allows you to create native desktop apps.

If you want to see some screenshots and example code, check out the sample apps repo: https://github.com/yue/yue-sample-apps.

If you are wondering how this library is different from other GUI toolkits, check out the FAQ: https://github.com/yue/help#faq.

If you want to learn this library quickly, there is a detailed tutorial on using Yue with Node.js: http://libyue.com/docs/v0.2.0/js/guides/getting_started.html.
And the interface is usually complete crap. I'm sure you can find counterexamples, but I've been burned so many times. Even the Xbox one had several second load times for pretty much every menu page.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/30/from-book-to-...
> I don't know if Roku supports that

It does through Plex
It's not about this particular dorm, it's about a broader social trend towards greater conformity and fewer second chances.

Woz and Jobs started out in business selling blue boxes to illegal bookmakers. Imagine a world in which they had been subject to the modern surveillance panopticon and the sort of prosecutorial malice that was levelled against Aaron Swartz. RMS slept under his desk in the AI lab for many years and is notoriously bad at politicking, political correctness and basic etiquette. Would a young RMS survive the administrative culture of modern academia?

Steve Jobs graduated high school with 2.65 GPA. How many opportunities are there today for someone with a 2.65 GPA?
> Most maintainers err on the side of controlling too much.

Burnout can happen by working too much. It can also happen by too many discussions/politics if you give out commit rights like cookies.