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Agreed. It's the opposite of the fashionable mechanical keys--tactile yet requires minimal muscle contraction. It's almost a breeze to type on. I find my Macbook's keyboard very satisfying to use, with only one caveat: the up/down arrow keys can be indistinguishable to the fingertip. Making them like the F and J keys would be perfect.
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted; that's exactly the point. We get people to stake money and reputation, which makes them very careful about making clear, specific claims. There is a whole lot of mouth around the future, but very few testable predictions. We could have tried creating an apparatus for rigorous predictions, but everybody understands a bet.
It's a very long game, though. The end results of the British Empire seem to be a net positive, although in most cases it took several hundred years and numerous wars.

On the other hand, the Spanish empire doesn't seem to have been so beneficial.
One driver is popular software that depends on the .htaccess construct.

WordPress, for example. It can run on other servers, but their own docs call out the issue..."Since Nginx does not have .htaccess-type capability and WordPress cannot automatically modify the server configuration for you, it cannot generate the rewrite rules for you"
It's probably because the first 80% is really easy to learn so you get all the gratification of "being smart", without ever having to do anything difficult.
The idea that Amazon uses a different / secret AWS region is false.

However, not all of Amazon.com has migrated to AWS.
That works, if you trust the user not to lie when they have every incentive to lie.
Slack takes 10 minutes to start up on my iPad 2.

Granted that it's an older model, but why does an IRC chat program need 10 minutes to run? What is it doing?
The quantity of bugs popping up and code quality haven't got what I'd call a well-understood relationship. How do you reconcile that?
Good transportation becomes Amazon bid focus
There are some guys working on a new k8s module for NixOS.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25426
> Google doesn't give one shit about me. Amazon gives the impression that it does.

And yet, both companies, under the veneer of PR, does not give any shits about anyone except their own bottom line. Amazon just has better PR than google.
To start with you have to go to an ATM to get currency and the ATM starts charging after you do N transactions a month.
Show HN: CLI tool to populate your ledger-cli transactions using headless Chrome
Not trying to be confrontational but is there any evidence that that NSA is engaged in industrial espionage?
I have exactly the T470s with Win10 as a work notebook and can't really recommend it. The good parts seem to be the keyboards which feels quite good and the display (I have the hidpi model).

However most other things feel worse compared to my 2015 13" MBP.

The touchpad at least supports Win10 multitouch gestures, but otherwise is not very good - I use the MBP always without a mouse, and the T470s mostly with one.

The T470s feels slower (haven't exactly compared compilation times, but I'm pretty sure it is quite a bit slower).

And maybe the worst thing: It's just not stable. I guess I had a frozen machine or bluescreen at least every two weeks. Errors partly look like memory errors, but memtest says everything is fine.

The docking station also makes problems, docking/undocking sometimes fails and my external hidpiscreen (dell 4k 27") often flickers like crazy on the docking stations displayport connector.
> Pfft. A man-hour of labor is a man-hour of labor

> I'm expected to bill at least 8 hrs/day

I bet you're capable of far deeper, more intellectually stimulating and rewarding work than you're doing now.
tccboot is beyond insane
> a failure that causes one interface to fail, but not the other seems really unlikely.

Go follow that link in my original post. Its a fairly common water damage issue for Macbooks where the SPI bus will be damaged, but the USB connection will be fine.

> come up with some logic that determines if one has failed and use the other instead.

Once again, go follow that link. Apple already built the logic, just instead of switching to USB, it begs you to pair a bluetooth keyboard!
The Surprising Morality of Opioid Distributers
The point is not to choose between praising for effort or praising for results. It is to praise for effort instead of results when the results are good.
Light Has Been Stored as Sound for the First Time
For me it was the other way around.

Avoiding mechanical keyboards all my life and never got one of these typical programmer health issues.
good thing I refuse to update, still on 5.25 :D
But here is a counter question: why would I pay a journalist in the first place?

In other words, there must be an objective I am seeking and I somehow find this jouranlist or this group of jouranlist align with my objectives and beliefs. So how does a micropayment system can help promote free and honest journalism?

I wouldn't pay journalist working for Breitbart (Steve Bannon's news outlet) because I don't agree with them.
I actually like the Macbook keys more than the Pro's. The new ones lost the firmness of the Macbook's--more wobbly under light touch, without much more travel than the Macbook's.
May be an unpopular take on this, but maybe something to think about. There are many things in school that amount to being "busy work" or pointless excercises. Is it possible that intellegent kids see through the bs and want to short cut what they perceive to be a waste of their time? Now the article is light on details about the kinds of cheating that occurs, so I dont know that fully explains it. I could see receiving praise and validation akin to a drug and wanting to continue receiving that.
Paper by Chinese Economists on Big Data and Planned Economy [pdf]
Everything's normal, Metal musicians can sometimes die twice.
Oh, wait...
The free version does load itself into the background these days to pop up messages reminding you to clean your PC.
>> But aren't you just trading the location of work for the most part? I get that experience from within my firm on projects I'm working on while others still work on their skills just outside their employment? It is still "work" in a sense.

Not really because it doesn't feel like work. You don't have to code in your free time, you can go out with family / gf / friends and do some fun social activity, you can do sports to maintain healthy and fit body, you can travel, read a good book etc... so you get the choice how to spend your free time.

For example with sports, if you are working 80 hours per week it is not possible to do any sport seriously. You need at least 5-6 hours per week if you want to really get good at any sport. It is also incredibly unhealthy to work 16 hours per day. You are literally destroying your body.

And if you decide to write code or do something technical in your free time you are in charge of defining the project you will work on, interesting in AI/machine learning, big data, distributed systems, specific algorithms or problems? You can work on the exact problem that intrigues you. Can't do that for a company as your work is not decided by you.

>> I realize many don't get the same intellectual benefit from employment that i enjoy but trashing people who do and take advantage of it doesn't seem appropriate.

I am not trashing anybody. Just saying that you don't need to work 80 hours per week to get promoted and progress in your career. Quality and productivity matters, not hours you spend sitting in the office.
So obviously the Hedgefund didn't beat the market enough to have a better return for the investors....

But is there anyway to compare the (Returns + Extracted Money Through Fees) vs S&P500 to see the potential return of the Hedgefund before the fees were extracted?
It's not that weird or even interesting. I could work on that machine, as well.

Put briefly, I work in a terminal all day. Sometimes locally, but oftentimes I ssh to a machine in the cloud.

Virtually any machine would work well for me. I do like nice machines still, but I would give up a lot just to have a nice keyboard.
Richard Stallman has been way undervalued, as a whole, in the last couple of decades. He has predicted this and other similar situations and worked his entire career to try to prevent the "tyranny of software companies", or however he phrases it.

If you don't know who he is, or haven't read up on him recently, please check him out.

He gave a talk at my college back in 2007/2008 that I went to, talking about quants and investment algorithms, and how they had directly contributed to the economic collapse. He made the point that, because all of the algorithms were closed source and not open to public review, they were dependent on the market understanding of the individuals who wrote the algorithms. Given the nature of humanity, many of those individuals likely had faulty or incomplete understanding of the markets, and therefore the algorithms also misunderstood the markets. Free (open sourced) code could have prevented that.

Well, i'm not sure I agree with his conclusions about that. I asked him about his thoughts on the recursive effect the algorithms would have on the market (the algorithms were so prevalent that they basically were the market makers, thus changing the market itself to reflect their faulty assumptions about the market before their existence).

He said it was an excellent question, didn't have an answer, and offered me an internship to work on that problem under his direction. I declined for various reasons.

anyways, he was correct about a lot of things.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman) (https://stallman.org/)
When you can't defeat someone in a debate, silence them.
Cool stuff! GCC works - I thought it was broken, but it just takes a long time.

[root@localhost tmp]# time gcc hello.c -o hello

real 0m 24.43s

user 0m 2.63s

sys 0m 2.17s

[root@localhost tmp]# ./hello

Hello, World!
Some thinking-intensive work can bring you at the edge in just 3 hours a day. After that, you generate more problems than solutions. Especially mathematicians are prone to this. Similar cases in software development need to be respected.
According to Netcraft, 21% of the sites on the public Internet run Apache:

https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2017/07/20/july-2017-web-...

There are lots of legit reasons to run Apache:

- it works like a champ

- it's widely known

- it's got a big ecosystem (plugins, etc.)

- it has a fairly complete WebDAV implementation

- it's widely supported

TL;DR "legacy" sometimes means "good" and not just "old."
> I think the music industry transitioned to streaming so well, because the recording companies were already dicking over the artists from the get-go.

I'm sure that didn't hurt, but it was also helped by the fact that each song retains it's value long after creation - that's less true with news.
NPCI is a private company majorly owned by Banks. This is why nobody except Banks is allowed to become a payment service provider - even though the protocol allows it. GP is right.
Open source software needs to find a way to fund designers. There's not nearly as many "hobbyist UX designers" as there are programmers, unfortunately.
I still run it occasionally on my windows 10 laptop which has a small ssd for the main drive.
I don't like these so much. I have an E7240 for a year now, and while it's great compared to most other laptops, I still prefer the keyboard of my ThinkPad X61s. When I tried the X230 keyboard, it also felt somewhat better than that of my Latitude.

That said, when I used Lenovo Yoga for a while, I was just surprised how bad a keyboard could be. I love my Latitude.

EDIT: and I miss the TrackPoint, although with a touchscreen it doesn't matter so much.
Usually one has to have some sort of 'check writing account' setup for this with the store or present a valid state-issued identification at the very least; When the store doesn't trust the purchaser they will often manually verify the purchase by calling the bank issuing the check, etc.
Yes, we agree on that. If and only if they're transparent about the requirements, they can demand whatever they want. They're also free to back those requirements up with tech to get rid of the users who, as you called it, feel entitled anyway.
It doesn't look like emscripten to me
I don’t think so? Those are closer to lightboxes, they’re not really that “inline”
"For one thing, it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "correct" amount of hours to work to maximize productivity."

Maybe the gov't set the standard informed by our biology?

Actually 40 hours isn't "exact". It's close though. Why?

First weekends. Weekends mean that a 7 day week has 5 work days. Typically weekends are still off (bros' gotta climb El Capitan). If instead of 2 days off every 7 we had 1 every 10 (a failed metric innovation pushed during the French Revolution) we would work 26% more, or 50 hours/week @ 8 hours a day. I don't know that 2 of 7 gives us much more needed reset than 1 of 10, but that would be a sucky weekend.

To test, at an interview try to hire someone with "we work 11.1 hour days, 9 days in a row". 11.1 hour days 9/10 days = 70 hour 5/7 weeks. You'd hire no one.

So 2-7 weekends are the first restraint.

Then we have our biology. 8 hours of sleep (give or take an hour or two), leaving 16 hours.

Not doing the same activity for 16 hours straight is necessary for all humans except the most severe case of autism. 8 hours to bath, eat, greet your spouse, play with your kids, ect. These are things we're evolutionarily wired to do btw (we're social beings whose parents both contribute, typically, to child rearing).

So why 40h? Could be 30 (B. Russell argued 100 years ago that we need half that). Could be 50. Having a balanced life @ 60hr weeks (12 hr work days) is already impossible.

Finally, I want to point out two things:

1. I really doubt any of these 70hr. proponents will out-produce a 70 year old Carthusian monk who make their hipster beers. And they spend most of their days praying. Why? These monks are focused. We're all dibbling about on Facebook. 70 hrs? @ 100% yeah right! More like 70 hrs @ 30%!

2. Most developers live in our own filth (kinda hard to clean @ 70 hr weeks). That's literally[x] unbecoming.

[x] to be human is to, among other things, have a sense of aesthetic beauty and to be an animal is to have some basic sense of self-care. Even high order animals take care of/decorate where they live. Therefore, to live in our own filth, to neglect our hygiene, is to reject or very nature. Therefore, we are literally unbecoming.
CCleaner is also essential for cleaning up poorly uninstalled apps leaving registry keys lingering around. It's also great for when you need to fully reset and reinstall a misbehaving app, such as Symantec Endpoint Protection, which fails to clean up several critical registry keys that it checks during installation, and then refuses to re-install if they exist. Sure, you could hunt them down and write a script for Symantec, but CCleaner does it for all apps. I've fixed so many terrible apps and installs using CCleaner, it's an absolute necessity.

That and RevoUinstaller. You run RevoUinstaller then CCleaner, and maybe a reboot in between, and you've really removed an app. (The paid version of Revo is even cooler, as it will let you log the files generated during an install, and then on uninstall, it'll make sure to remove all the files and directories you had previously logged.)
Not related but : This is why twitter is failing : poor UX that a lone guy could fix with an extension.
Can you say more about why this is important to you?

I mean, more stuff encrypted without provider escrow keys is a generally good thing, but are your contacts specifically more important than, say, you calendar events?

What threat model are you worried about with your personal, curated contacts?
Exactly, the real game runs on the host, the clients only send user input and Sync positions of the in-game objects, you can't use software like cheatengine clientside because it will always sync on what the host sees, but if you use it on the host all the changes will be shared with the clients connected.
Running apache in front of tomcat is still a very common pattern. Mostly due to connection handling and configuration around it.
You can't; hence you should back it up with tech checking if the user is complying with your requirements.
Yeah, right. It's also still prone to slowloris and you can take down a shared hosting server with a laptop in a coffee store.

In this case legacy is either "I don't know anything else", "well it worked so far" or "meh".
If you mute the channel and then configure slack to only show starred rooms and rooms with new messages, you can achieve this effect. The room will stay hidden unless someone says something, at which point it shows up in the list, unbolded. This lets you know to check on it at your convenience without triggering any of the notifications.
>...whether he has a hand is irrelevant

This is probably a reach. At a bare minimum, decoding EMG won't work if you never had a hand. If you had an amputation, the means by which your hand was removed will greatly impact the efficacy of this sytem.
The full email address is stored, there are a couple videos where Louis Rossman nabs the email address (occasionally with an SPI programmer) and contacts the original owner, finds out the laptop is stolen and returns it.
I suppose it depends what you're buying. I've also had places who use Square tack on another 3% to cover their Credit Card fees each order as well :/
Oh wow! I thought this project had died; I'm so excited. I type this on a five-year-old Thinkpad. Every year I look at the Lenovo site, see what fresh horrors the keyboard contains, and sigh.
Is it using WebAssembly?
But also to point out usage is in massive decline - most people pay bills online, and purchase either with debit/credit or cash in person.

But yes, we never really got on the 'pay via bank' train like was done in much of europe in the postwar period, this has impact of how things transitioned to digital payments..

Conversely, we have much more established credit issuing infrastructure, it is not uncommon for even teenagers to have a credit card (not just debit)..
I don't think anyone here is seriously calling it 'the year of the linux desktop'. They're more calling out the hypocrisy that this is what Jim was actually saying at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x1r3Osu1Kg&t=3m26s
> I think you're putting the cart before the horse here.

I'd argue that you are the one doing this. You're labeling something as what you'd like it to be and what it's intended to be, not what it is.

> If you don't believe that BTC will ever be used as a currency, then you don't believe in the success of the bitcoin experiment in general, and since that's its only purpose, then of course you would have to conclude its in a bubble

This is irrelevant to me. If I can profit off something, I don't need to form conclusions as to whether or not it's a bubble or whether or not it will succeed. I worked as an equities trader for half a decade. I didn't need to know the 5 year plan of AMZN before I bought it, nor did I need to know the 5 minute plan of a company stock that dropped 50% in a minute because of one large seller. All I needed was some clue that other people are willing to buy it for more than I did at some point in the future. At this moment in time, that's exactly what BTC is to me. I think it would be neat if it succeeded, but that isn't why I own it at this moment in time.
... and this is why WP has it's own rewrite engine, which works perfectly with nginx.
Well many managers and execs might respond with "well then, give 'em more work! We obviously aren't giving them enough to do!"

Salary exempt is usually a losing game for developers. Crappy places will say "we pay you a salary to get the work done" and under staff and/or overwork. If it takes you 60 hours then you have to work 60 hours. But if it only took someone 30 hours they can't leave early because a) deadlines will be tightened to ensure 40+ hours or b) more work and assignments will be given.
Are you interested in working remotely?
> This is why I've been buying every well priced Thinkpad on Craigslist. From a couple T420's to the occasional T440 (for $70 to $100), with a few librebootable T400's and T60's thrown in for $10 to $20, I seem to hold these laptops for a short duration before friends or family buy them off me for $5 to $15 more.

Over here in Germany you unfortunately pay 100 euro for a T61 and 100-300 euro for a T420. If I could get a T440 for just 100 euro I would buy it in an instant.
But without hindsight doesn't expecting to see all the movies you want for ~$10 a month seem just as unlikely?
Grothendieck worked twelve hours per day every day of the week for a decade.

Source: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/874290/161054
I should stop reading HN comments.
Python on ESP32 for IoT developement
What's anti-microbial about bumps?

In my experience it just creates more hard to clean grooves for bacteria and dirt. Not exactly a challenge for microbes.
Well said. I share your suspicions about 40 turning out to be the magic number. I also notice that these articles never seem to allow for differences between people, which flies in the face of my 25 years of experience. I've always felt most comfortable working seven days a week, at a manageable pace each day. Other people need those weekends, and are happy to put in long hours in the week. One of the most productive people I ever worked with seemed to work literally all the time.

As for whether or not it's "exploitive", I'm sure it is, under some circumstances. Some poor dev, trapped by an H1-B, getting ground up with hours upon hours of billable work, for example. But a lot of us are paid through equity. In such a case it's perfectly reasonable to sacrifice for the good of the company in which you have a stake.
McGinn on mind and space
Next you're in SF, definitely look me up. A couple years back the Long Now opened a cafe and bar, so we even have a good place to meet for the fist bump:

https://theinterval.org/
What do you think is the difference between a salary and a guaranteed number of hours?
Petrov's Defence
No other server implements complete support for server side includes.
Ah, sorry, I wasn't somewhere I could watch the video. If that's the case, I take back what I said, it could probably make sense to include both drivers then.
Venmo has basically no protections, its much sketchier than PayPal. If the person who sent you money wants to reverse the transaction, there is nothing stopping them if its a person to person transaction.
Wow, that's impressive! I tried FreeDOS and it booted very quickly. Nice to play around with DOS again - it's even got tab completion on the command line these days - fancy!

p.s. By the way archive.org were doing something very similar. You could load up a DOS box from their web site and have the old disk mags and demos running in your browser. All very cool stuff!
Uber Sorry for 'Wife Appreciation Day' Promotion
> I bet you, if you were to ask my boss if I've proven a valuable asset to the company he would sing you a song of praise for my work.

Because you work for him and he does not work for you. People rise to one level above their competency.

You are a worker-bee. He is a queen. Him singing praises for your work is irrelevant. The only metric that is relevant in this discussion is who is the boss.
This Ubuntu user here is driving a 27" 4k Dell with an AMD RX460 that doesn't even have a fan. Works okay.