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I'm in agreement with most of the anti-consumerism argument. And having spent my adult life living in tiny apartments in NYC and London and moving internationally a few times, I certainly understand how possessions can be a burden.

But still, whenever I read about "minimalism", and people bragging about how they can fit everything they own into a single carry on bag, I can't help think that these are really boring people. It just doesn't seem like a lifestyle that would make any sense for all but a small number of people that fit some very narrow conditions ("pure" knowledge worker, no pets or children, no interest in whole swaths of hobbies and activities).

Eg, I'm a professional software developer to pay the bills. RSI is a potential career ender for me, so I have an ergonomic setup a good chair, desk, monitors, keyboard and trackball. I can't just work on a macbook air in a cafe all the time without risking my livelihood. When I'm not working, I like to do oil painting (which requires an easel, paints, brushes, cleaning supplies, sketchbooks, etc.), I play and record music (so I've got a bass, a couple guitars, a couple amps, pedals, mics, etc), and I like hiking and camping (so backpack, tent, etc. etc.). My partner teaches electronics and builds hardware games and art installations, so our flat is full of soldering irons, heat guns, reflow stations, and stockpiles of components. She's also a musician so she has a small collection of synths and music gear of her own and she likes to do woodworking and build furniture (we don't have room for large power tools in our flat, so she has a membership at a maker space for that) and she likes gardening so we have a ton of plants.

When I think about all the most interesting, creative people that I know, none of them could do the "minimalism" thing either. They do things like arc welding, hardware reverse engineering, homebrewing and distilling, electroplating, restoring vintage motorcycles, sewing, 3d printing, quilting, farming, baking, cosplay, etc. All of which require having a bunch of stuff.

Minimalism is fine and if it works for you and your lifestyle, fine. But I really don't like how it always seems to come along with an implicit disdain for physicality and interests that aren't completely in line with that knowledge worker on a macbook on an empty desk aesthetic.
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I went to KeepassXC, so far, it looks better but it starts much slower...
> I don't see how crypto-currency dogma is on the same level with evolution.

That's not a claim I have any interest in. I'm just drawing the parallel of an article "debunking" someone while actually agreeing with their central thesis.
No, the landfilled earth will turn into a liquid, briefly, during a big earthquake and the buildings will sink into them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction
We were just talking about the potential dangers of these third-party analytics scripts the other day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15442636
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Does this mean we can sell our parks to the Chinese now?
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By and large, that's exactly what it was doing, getting ad revenue. The second part also sounds plausible, but it would need to use this as the user agent during the actual clicks.
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English walnut differs from black walnut in that the juglones -- the protective gas emitted by walnut trees -- are emitted less. Furthermore, it is easy to confuse water stress with juglone gas stress, so sometimes these symptoms can be remedied with more water.

Given what the parent commenter has said about having to experiment with different plants, it stands to reason that they have a healthy black walnut tree in their garden rather than a regia.
The current US administration believes that Israel is more important to their geopolitical strategy than UNESCO. Insinuating that it's Israel that runs US politics is anti-semitic. You clearly don't have to jump to that conclusion to figure out why the US is taking this action.
> Unless realcasinoslots.com is a creative new revenue stream for Equifax...

I'm not sure if that'd increase or decrease their sleaze factor.
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I'm out, fuck this.
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Bear in mind that Israel is still a member and hasn't announced any intention to leave.
I'm not crazy about Facebook as a company either, but is it fair to assume that they'll keep the same business model forever?
Seems like it might even be better if yes was rate limited to a couple of lines per second or less. It would be more than enough for its intended use and when users inevitably run it in a shell to see what it does it wouldn't generate tons of output.

It seems like a violation of "do one thing well" to use it for generating data for testing, isn't dd and /dev/zero a better way to do that?
> but they're harder to extract than normal walnuts

Heh no joke! Had to use a knife. Got lots cuts on my fingers from it.

One year my mom decided to make green walnut jam. It was delicious, but a lot of work. And then after helping her prepare the walnuts my hands were a dark brown color for about a week. Got made fun in school, though for good measure too, I looked ridiculous.
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> Possibly because the investment is much bigger than software - they mention building a whole new factory for an untested product - that made me shiver.

But if businesses are not willing to take on risks in the world of atoms/hardware, not just in the world of software, things stagnate. This is why the world of software moves so quickly and is much more exciting than the world of atoms in general. It's also why someone like Elon Musk is so remarkable - he is willing to take enormous risks in the world of atoms (Tesla, Solar City and especially SpaceX). Almost nobody is innovating like this in the western world at least, and of course Wall Street (or at least some parts) hate him for it. More examples of the lack of innovation in the world of atoms - sectors like construction have been really anti-innovation for a long time, at least until the proverbial wrecking ball in the form of software-powered bricklaying robots come along and disrupt everything. I was at a motor show recently, and I was struck by how unremarkable all the new models from the premium manufacturers are. A button that closes the boot lid automatically is not innovation, neither are interior panels that the customer can customise with their own design. Again, no wonder they are nervous about Tesla.

> but what led them to believing into the new drink - were they acting just on a hunch and feeling it tasted good?

Sometimes you just have to go with your gut. Focus groups and customer acceptance testing won't give you a full picture. There's a reason why by 'design by committee' and 'analysis paralysis' are considered negatives, not positives. 1970s Ireland was a totally different business climate to the quarter to quarter, Wall-Street driven thinking today which kills any long term horizons for taking on new ideas or projects. Having a clubby business environment where "everyone knew everyone" probably allowed for more breathing space to run with a new idea.
I think the UN is inept at most things but UNESCO I I think is worth staying on for. As an American I am so dissatisfied and ashamed of our current president — a pumpkin of a man.
The most important executives at both companies live and work around Seattle, so maybe that has something to do with it. There are some nice golf courses in Bellevue!
I could see investors wanting to fund this simply for the PR benefits; whether or not such a system is actually viable.

Or, perhaps they'll spin a few technologies out of it.

Or, perhaps they want to grow a network of related companies+technologies that they can re-purpose to another venture in the future.
That's unfortunate. Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft does stuff like this on purpose. A simple google search would should who is using what name.
I do wonder why they don't just use a VPN or something.
When are we going to address the elephants in the room?

Just the tube alone:

- largest pressure vessel in the world. How do you keep it at near vacuum?
- Thermal expansion over such a large distance, especially if the top of the tube is warmer than the bottom.
- Safety, how does an evacuation look like if the tubes are sealed?.

There are many more. Some how I feel like this is a "pipe" dream. Lots of marketing, very little engineering.
Hope it fares better than Virgin Galactic which is at least eight years behind schedule (first commercial flights proposed for 2010).
The Ethereum "ice age" is a mechanism to ensure smooth transition to future planned hard forks. By tweaking the difficulty adjustment formula to artificially increase block times after some time (the so called "difficulty bomb") it makes mining on the old chain unprofitable, and incentivizes everyone to move to the/a new one. The general idea is to prevent extreme conservatism and stagnation w.r.t. hard forks, as we are seeing in Bitcoin.
> Guess it shows who is really running the US politics?

Could you be more explicit about what you mean please?
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I hate that in US saying anything remotely socialistic gets you branded as a communist, and saying anything against Israel gets you branded as antisemite.
Cantor showed that these sets have the same cardinality. You can represent a complex (in the form of two reals) by interleaving digits or using a space-filling curve for example.
Or use the @property decorator
This is a really important topic, but the Internet is full of other forums for it. Can we keep hacker news for things at least a little more closely related to its traditional discussion domain? I flagged this item, something I have done with things that make the front page maybe twice over the last several years.
The most interesting features are:

- Printable Emergency Sheet
- a function to search for similar passwords
Interesting. Now how long until I can upload my rips?
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> Guess it shows who is really running the US politics?

American evangelicals, who've made over-the-top performative support for the state of Israel part of their "bring on the End Times" religion? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_the_Jews)

It's certainly not Israel, given that they're still in UNESCO.
As far as I understand there's a build in ice age/difficulty bomb every year so that clients that don't follow the hard fork will essentially stop working. This incentivizes/forces clients to update and also effectively minimizes the chance of a chain split where some group would just keep running on the old chain. If someone wants to make a chain split, they will have to fork too
Strongly discouraged, IIRC
Are they planning on using .NET Core? With no UI?
Breaking News: JBReefer to leave HackerNews after one comment about America's strange relationship with Israel.
Ask HN: Safe alternatives to GDAX/Kraken, with less abysmal support
Let this question serve two purposes:

One to surface that GDAX support is possibly the worst I've experienced on any site. After finding a bug in their login functionality which prevented me from accessing my account almost 3 weeks ago, they've gone entirely non-responsive in my support chain, despite weekly followup.

Kraken unfortunately doesn't allow use in my state.

Is Gemini a safe alternative? I've heard it mentioned but not from sources I really trust.

Any other recommendations would be welcome.

(my use case is "toy money" trading of the common altcoins. My frustration is out of having lost a decent chunk of change in being unable to execute trades over a very interesting time window.)
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A hard fork with no replay protection, which means that legacy systems which do not upgrade will be vulnerable to sending too much money to third parties. The ethereum devs have chosen to introduce a vulnerability that forces people to upgrade their systems.

4 days! This announcement was made 4 days before the fork is introduced??? Everyone in the whole ecosystem has 4 days to upgrade it be exposed to a vulnerability. If you are running special code or your own client, you have to adjust it for a new block reward, a new script primitive, a difficulty algorithm, and stuff they are literally calling mathemagic.

I don't see how this is responsible development.
Do you think that "Guess it shows who is really running the US politics?" counts as merely "something" against Israel?
The pressure tube doesn't need to be at near-vacuum. By the drag equation, air resistance is proportional to pressure; merely cutting pressure by 90% would reduce air resistance by the same amount, and that's trivial with perfectly ordinary pumps.

Serious vacuum pumps are not required. This is not to say that keeping it airtight won't still be a major engineering problem, it just isn't as near-impossible as near-vacuum would be.

To cope with expansion, you'd need to use sliding plates--which, yes, will make it harder to keep the air out. That's going to be an interesting challenge.
Thanks, I think it does. I did a quick search to see if or how Dask handles streams. It seems trivial to add queues to dask.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfmwXSeM8pk

I've never actually played with Dask at all for even batch processing let alone stream. If I ever get some free time I'll try to implement Word Count in Dask and see how the two codes compare.
I actually went to regular headphones and a stand mic (like the Blue Snowball). I get more use out of the headphones and the mic works great.
Qing dynasty tried to slap a modern sticker on its culture by importing western tech. It failed miserably. It seems this is something innate to Chinese mind in the frame of its historic culture - the tech aberration was tolerated since 80s, now the old way of thinking is taking over again.
It’s helpful to be able to correlate the metrics that you’re monitoring with your logs. Once you can connect them, you can really see where the issues are and drill down into the logs to figure out what’s going on. We use Loggly and we’ve found that it saves us significant time.
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Agreed, UNESCO is one part of UN I hear about in a positive context. Granted I heard more about its activities outside the US, but still I think this is unfortunate.
I see the Keepass website has finally started to use HTTPS.
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What about the use of Pony? I did not hear about it before but I do like some of the ideas of the language I read on their website. However, they also state "Pony is pre-1.0. We regularly have releases that involve breaking changes. This lack of stability is plenty of reason for many projects to avoid using Pony."
How are you going to deal with that?
Maybe it is not responsible, but it is certainly agile. :)
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Same here, kind of defeats the purpose of many libraries in my opinion if all of them are released for Python and look exactly the same. Think: front-end frameworks in javascript.
If you have trouble overcoming barriers, questions and uncertainties then I don't think you have, what I would consider, good social skills. Good social skills includes tactfully and gracefully dealing with barriers, questions and uncertainties.

The exact same thing applies for different types of social interaction with strangers, not just looking for dates: meeting friends, professional networking, etc; There is still plenty of barriers, questions and uncertainties to overcome.

It's actually easy to get a date in social situations if you have good social skills, have good hygiene, and aren't unattractive (that doesn't necessarily mean you have to be attractive, just not unattractive). It has the added bonus of knowing beforehand that you have a base level of chemistry with someone as you aren't going to walk up to people asking for a date, you're going to chat them up first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=800796341&oldid=79...
Isn't that what HoverZoom is made for?
seriously? it took me 1 second to google and confirm its truth. or is 1995 too long ago for kids these days?

also, refuting one argument does not shoot down unrelated arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1995
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FWIW this has been a long while in the making and not a surprise to anyone
Pardon me if I'm being pedantic. But I think the commenter was saying that the Jews ostensibly control certain aspects of American foreign policy.
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Do you need to do anything if you own ETH?
>we - as users - don't desire these crazy amount of ads on every single fucking website.

If intentional, the attributes you gave to the website are particularly appropriate, the combination of "single" with the other adjective is absolutely on target.
The CERN LHC tube is a 27km circle of vacuum and near-zero temperature, and they don't seem to have a problem with that (granted, they had some but it's solved now).

Frankly, yes, there may be issues, but I'm confident that the Human race will be able to overcome those.
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You know, it's funny. Because I'm very critical of Israel's occupation of Palestine (for example, I believe they're occupying Palestine with their military), and I support BDS. These positions are strong enough that they have seen retaliation from several institutions, including state governments. And yet, somehow, I can tell that insinuating that Israel controls the US government is anti-semitic.

Weird.
Functors are functors, natural transformations are natural transformations; neither has much in common with classes, methods or interfaces. Functors are being used to achieve composition here, but the use of functors is an essential part of the pattern; talking about "composition-oriented programming" would be vague to the point of meaninglessness (every programmer believes they're being compositional), and there simply isn't an OO equivalent of open recursive types as far as I know.
I wasn't talking about the author of the experiment. I was talking about the people who are "solving a problem" together. They're not solving a problem, because there is no problem. They're participating in a social experiment.
We have known about this Hard Fork has been coming for months now. It has been discussed all over the place. This isn't a Hard Fork like the Bitcoin / Bitcoin Cash fork (or Ether Classic). This is the expected change to the network to release new features and another step towards PoS.
> What you have is the opportunity to use a powerful tool that can save you a lot of time

Big emphasis on "can", because usually they don't. Instead we get social media and smartphone addiction.
No. Node owners will upgrade, including exchanges.
Correction: online dating srted in the 1980s with usenet and dialup bboards.
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Despite the fact there are more billionaires than ever, it's funny how small the group of bold innovators are. It always seems to be the same few people.
From an earlier response in the same thread:

> These codes never worked on user machine. They were used for patching plugin bugs.

Uh huh. If it was such a benign use, why wasn't it in the repository, or mentioned in the marketplace page?
In terms of "trust factor", which is probably among the main concern in choosing a password manager, they seem equivalent, as far as I can see. But KeepassX or KeepassXC is visually better integrated on non-Windows systems. But it's a deal breaker for me until KDBX4 format support is completed for KeepassXC.
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>Insinuating that it's Israel that runs US politics is anti-semitic

And so continues the saga of "The Lowest Bar in the World" an anti-semitism story.
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It shouldn't be hard to add windows support with colorama[1].

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama
They can always sublease the space. Dropbox used to sublease their space from Coverity iirc.
This is a pretty cool tool but I would recommend using a more eye-friendly color scheme on the website. How was your experience in working with the new Firestore DB?
Something I wrote a while ago.... w/ back of the napkin calculations.......

Why I wouldn’t invest a money into Hyperloop

- Stabilizing a single fault line risk pylon is more than $250K.

- How many million are needed for vacuum pumps to evacuate 100+ million cubic feet of of pipe to 100 Pa?

- Hot air discharge needs to go somewhere. For every 1 bar pressure, you need ~200 to ~400 cubic meters of volume which is larger

- This seems very much like one of those Andy Grove Fallacies.

- The hyperloop is a mega engineering project on the ground. Nobody on their team is a civil engineer. Looking at their team objectively, there seems to be a mismatch of competency.

- At its core, the science i good, the cost-economics do not work. Das ist nicht gute.
My reaction was the same as yours initially -- weird thing for congressional staff to be spending their time on, but yeah that is a notable alumni (and actually kind of interesting).

But the same user added Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash to the List of University of Missouri alumni article.

All of that could of course could be a coincidence. But it'll be interesting to see whether any of Missouri's representatives start pushing a "universities create evil villains" narrative in the next cycle ;-)
Is saying that crony capitalists control the government communist?

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Update your wallet (if you use Mist or Wallet) before making any transactions.

It is an expected fork, basically an upgrade to the network that isn't going to result in a new coin (in practice - technicalities excluded.)
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Would that not simply be your specific allotted disk space, and bandwidth?
The LHC's vacuum pipes are 6.3 cm in diameter..
I believe the hard fork was a known thing in the community for a while now.

I had wanted to jump on the ETH hype train and almost bought a bunch but these planned forks make the platform seem very “centralized.”
Oh come on. Stop FUDing.

1. The fact that there is a hard fork coming has been known for months if not years.

2. Developers have notified the community well in advance and content of the hardfork has been discussed with all key players (ex: reward and difficulty bomb).

3. The development decisions are public as is the process - try searching for live streams of developer meetings where Vitalik and others discuss direction in very democratic fashion. I'm not even interested in those and I came across - funny that you're not aware of the existence.

There is a stark contrast between Eth and BTC where constant bickering is the norm.
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And indeed some of the edits are very reasonable -- e.g., removing errant commas from the names of subcommittees.