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You have no more need to use a mobile phone today than the Romans did. What you have is the opportunity to use a powerful tool that can save you a lot of time and provides unprecedented access to people and information.

The needs these devices satisfy have always existed.

If having a mobile device is worth more to you than it costs, you GAIN by having one. It's not a net loss to you.
It really depends on where the people lived. Iceland survived for 1000 years on a diet of some root vegetables, fish, milk and mammals. I would not wish their existence on anyone today. People in warmer climates would have a better diet but it's clear that agriculture and husbandry were historically more desirable over pure hunting and gathering, even in warmer regions like Egypt.
Funny thing is that udev is in the hands of the systemd devs, operating under the Freedesktop banner, so one would have thought they had the desktop in focus.

But i guess pampering devops is so much more lucrative in the kudos department...
What percentage of their revenue, would you guess, is generated by traditional sales operations?

Anecdotal, but everyone I know who uses Dropbox is an engineer or engineering organization who has a healthy distrust of salesdrones.
Something a bit more mellow, it called too much attention to itself.
I have a mediabox which decided it was time to install PulseAudio for kodi. Which, that perceeded to complexly screw over audio over HDMI. (No idea why it was refusing to play audio until I disabled pulseaudio).
"the leasing company actually has limited leverage"

This can be true even at the SMB level. My employer sees only a couple of million in revenue yearly, we lease our warehouse/office space and we have more or less free reign to make any non-structural changes. If we decide to clear out a corner of the warehouse to put in more office space, we can (and we have). We just have to pay for the materials and labor. We've actually had our lease renewed on better terms over the years for being good tenants.
Not sure you saved anything since they charged you 105% of the sale price ;)
Hmm... this article points to a lot of good outcomes but I don't see any data to back up the claims. They also say the marriages are stronger, but don't indicate the metrics they're using?
I hope their conclusions are correct but doubt the methods used to come to those conclusions.
It's almost like there's not a single good answer like saying "all ya gotta do is go out there and buck up and excercise!!".

Like any sickness, you talk to a health professional and figure out what treatments work. Going your own sucks and is a bad time regardless of how highly-functioning you are.
There isn't a blanket reason why it wouldn't be. In a particular case it's up to the judge, and the judge's decision probably depends on the quality of the experts that can be found to explain it.
Planning on using OpenCV to look for the "rare" items on the next go-round and not have to actually scan over all the game pieces manually. The most I can expect is to have some fun writing the code because I'm quite unlikely to win any cash or prizes.
> But your parents have $1M house, and you have a six figure job. Are you not the definition of a rich trust-fund kid? (To be fair, I don't know your age)

No. And here's why: I grew up dirt poor. I never was able to attend computer club chess club, or what have you. My parents, when I was in high school, were constantly working (often under the table and at odd hours). They could also never afford to give me any money for school. Attending college was also a nightmare. We moved across the US after my dad lost his job on the East Coast (I was 19, after my freshman year at GSU), so I had to start working as I couldn't afford out-of-state tuition. I finally finished school when I was 27 (I'm 31 now). At UCLA, I had a full academic scholarship and graduated with an almost-perfect GPA. I was able to pay for housing with the money I had saved up from FAFSA while attending community college.

I earned my salary and I resent anyone that would argue otherwise. I've contributed to Google Go, have two technical books under my belt (one as editor, the other as co-author), and dozens of open source projects. I've started a handful of startups and have taken my fair share of risk.

Finally, my parents got their house in 2011 (at one of the lowest points after the housing crash) and it was kind of a fluke. They never expected such a nice house at such a low price point (around 700k at that time), but hey, God is good. My post was mainly about my parents and the risks they took, but I've had to suffer many of the consequences of those risks and I still criticize my parents for some of their decisions. But c'est la vie, I'm making do.
Last I checked everyone running Linux on the Server has skipped ahead to containers so now very little of these syscall filtering games even apply anymore.

Too late for servers, too early for desktops. That always felt like a succinct summary of SELinux.
My point is if 50.01% of the population makes 50+k then that's where the median is. You completely miss out on if the bottom 10% making 10k or 30k which has huge social implications.

For an extreme version southern slaves made ~0 income but because they made up less than 50% of the population they disappeared from that statistic.
I saw on a reddit discussion that this has already become a service some courts use. I can't remember the name and it might not have been even mentioned ("PM me") but it exists already.
I remember when I was on SSRIs I felt pretty "numb" and sluggish, but that's a small trade off for remaining alive.
You can export your friends birthdays to a calendar from the bottom right of the Events page, if that's what you're looking for. It stays updated from there.

https://www.facebook.com/events/
i read it as "might be good enough", which is entirely closer to the meaning that parent was trying to get at, I think.
First, turn the volume down. Then music that is quieter, more ambient, and unnoticed, or none at all.

Like this[0] or any electronic genre (without lyrics preferable).

I also did not like the music. Seems trivial and unnecessary to point out, but that's the point: if people can't help but "notice" the music and view it as a distraction, it was a bad choice.

More generally: the cloying, "chipper" stock music of many youtube videos is always irritating to me, and never a good choice for any videos in my opinion.

[0] https://youtu.be/85bkCmaOh4o?t=109
What was effectively a handgun ban came into enforcement in the UK [0] in 1996. One exception was for sporting clubs.

Of course we're pretty short of bears.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_policy_in_the_Unite...
Bloomberg used to have (maybe they still have it) a data center at 525 Market Street, a skyscraper in the heart of the Financial District. Sometimes cost effectiveness isn't the sole option companies use, maybe it made sense for Bloomberg to have servers close to their customers.
Wrote a program that tracks Australian movie release dates for movies I'm interested in. Sends a daily email if a release date moves, or there a new movies for me to flag my interest in.

Interfaces with themoviedb.org for plot summary, cast and crew info and such. Interfaces with Google Calendar for writing entries for each movie I'm tracking.

Source is available at https://github.com/evmcl/movieschedule
The questions are just lagniappe.

Try OkCupid with the "nice boy" pic for a while, then switch to one with visible abs, then let us know if you still believe their slogan.

edit: p.s. if you're online dating and don't have abs, get some.
I have an app called Sweet Home (free) on my Android phone and my wife's Android phone to backup photos videos to our NAS. From there they get backed up off-site to Backblaze so we will always have a copy of our photos each day.
Yep. Also, online dating lets users filter potential partners to a much greater extent than they realistically can irl. Seem like this might actually narrow the socioeconomic spectrum that they date within...
Not just for children! For some serious treatment, see:

The Dots and Boxes Game: Sophisticated Child's Play
by Elwyn R. Berlekamp [1].

[1]. https://www.amazon.com/Dots-Boxes-Game-Sophisticated-Childs/...
Thoughtful and brilliant... on many levels.
I agree with you on a scientific level, for example, that men have more testosterone and thus are more likely to be aggressive in their pursuits, which is often critical to success. At the same time, however, there are many men who are less aggressive and women who are more aggressive; broad averages aren't the perfect solution.

Couldn't we promote this 'aggressive' ideology as genderless? As long as we're clear about the Boy Scouts' ideal member (aggressive), nothing will be disrupted, as only boys and girls who fit and enjoy that environment will choose to join.
The GP's point was that without taking that risk their family would not be there. The opportunities he has now are the result of the risk his family took while they were underprivileged.

The GP is not a "the definition of a rich trust-fund kid", he is the definition of a self-made American.

Arguing that no one can overcome adversity with hard work is just as irresponsible as saying that everyone can overcome adversity with hard work.
>I'll tackle this.

tackle is a very exclusive term, consider the language you use on tech sites and how it can exclude others from tech.
IMHO That is the whole point..

(speaking from webhosting experience, same deal applies)

You are paying "more" for "1TB" that you won't actually use to fund the cost of people who actually do use it..

If the price was 1/10 of the TB price for 100GB, all the physical storage would be full and they wouldn't make any money since they couldn't ride the float from the overprovisioning..
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Not at all, have you ever used VR in a social setting? Every time I've used it has been in large groups full of people trying it for the first time. The first-time reactions are usually funny.

As for the eye contact thing, I dunno, but I envision these things as being more solitary devices, more like playing a game at home alone on your console. I always thought that was the market that would keep the industry alive.
(1) It is likely to be very very different from our own intelligence in nature and (2) if through self-play it manages to achieve our level of intelligence it would be extremely surprising if it didn't continue to evolve at a rapid rate beyond our capacities, possibly orders of magnitude more intelligent.

something we don't understand + something inhuman in nature + something incredibly smart = a very very bad idea.
Obligatory link to the "show hn" that kicked things off. I'd quote some of the comments, if I wouldn't feel bad about singling someone out. It's come a long way :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
There are many traditional board games that can be played with pencil and paper as well. See the following list compiled by the board game geeks:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/74684/non-obvious-pap...
Something similar is described in Ted Chiang's Lifecycle of Software Objects

https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the...

"...We could run a society of them at hothouse speeds without any risk of them going feral, and see what they produce"

I'm curious to see if there's a collection of similar works that go down this trope, or if it is indeed something that's only recently emerged.
Number one missing package so far is django-haystack. With how important search is, having an easy django-like plugable search engine ready to go quickly is a god send.

Add in the fact that it abstracts over different engines, means you can develop locally with Whoosh (all pure python and virtualenv friendly) and deploy to ElasticSearch without changing your code.
I wonder if this move forebodes the end of products (& companies) like Chef, Puppet & Salt. Why would one want to pay for their enterprise products if AWX is readily available for free?
> 1) managing an office building is a lot of hassle.

Well yeah, but you can still pay someone else to do it, even if you own the property.
The sable fur for Giovanni's vest is expensive, of course, as is the silk cloth, and there is the fit and the tailoring, just look at the pleats. And for a really nice straw hat you can expect to pay several hundreds. The wife's outfit is three times as elaborate as his.

There was a priest whom I used to know. His vestments were of exceptional taste and quality - it was his mother who made them; she knew how to sew and embroider, and where to get the proper brocade from. I never asked him about the amount of labour that went into this, but it must have been a lot.
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writing DSLs with Free monads is an example of this. Recursion schemes are another example - see kmett’s library in Haskell, or Matryoshka in Scala.
Right, step one is to leave the bay area.
I have an ultrasonic sensor on top of my monitor to tell the computer when I'm in front of it or not. If music is playing when I walk away from my computer, it pauses the music player. When I return, it starts playing again. It will also wake the monitors from power saving mode when I return, too.

https://www.michevan.id.au/content/are-you-there/
If authentication is cookie-based, you can use a Session object in python requests: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#ses....

If it uses http basic auth, it's even easier: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/authenticatio...

Requests is a fantastic library.
Your parents' story is very impressive, but I think it highlights some aspects of privilege I have also encountered:

- The people who are able to emigrate from a poor/devastated country are generally the educated and former middle class

- Airfare is expensive, and in real terms was more expensive in the past; two tickets across the Atlantic probably represent more than most humans will ever make in their lives

- Some people are being rounded up/denied the right to enter the country on their visas. Even having the chance to roll the dice on life in the US is a huge advantage

I could go on.

I think it's uncomfortable to think of ourselves as anything but eminently worthy/self-reliant but this doesn't hold up to close scrutiny. I say this as the child of immigrants who now are worth millions but used to work security, after arriving with $100 in their pockets.
I setup a "photobooth": A couple Canon Selphy printers, a dual-homed wireless RaspberyPi and wrote a Python script that polls a gmail account for a jpeg attachment and round robins it to the printers using CUPS. The script also has gchat support to send the server commands (like blocking your friends' email addresses if they figure out how to spam you) and receive print alerts.

Attaching a picture to an email, hitting send and getting a nice glossy a minute later is pretty cool. Somehow feels a bit more automated and seamless than the usual printing process.
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If you have a failed website / startup, I'd be happy to buy it
Just PM me details about your startup, the domain, if you have a mailing list, traffic before you shut down, facebook page, etc. Happy to connect you with an investor I know who buys failed websites.
I don't think it's likely that this would remain true if Amazon was there.
I'm glad to see Sprouts getting some attention, but disappointed I cannot play it online. Has there ever been a soft implementation of the game? Either AI or human?
Very useful! I'd love to get a copy of this script if it still exists.
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I've had this exact discussion with my friends a several times recently. We regularly go hiking and backpacking in the mountains of upstate NY and New England, and have independently noticed the trend of people 'peak bagging' instagram hotspots over the past couple of years.

It's tough because I'm a big fan of getting people outside, and this renewed interest in visiting national parks could in theory drive more funding and interest in wildlands preservation, but in the meantime has drawn hordes of people who don't always respect the place they're visiting.

There are microcosms of the instagram top spots phenomenon you've listed all over the place as well. This past summer I went to visit a backcountry waterfall in my hometown where locals used to cool off, and could not believe how many people there were there, some clearly from far away, taking pictures of themselves in front of it. The instagram location tag for it has thousands of posts, for a place that is pretty but not really spectacular.

Here's a story about a similar location that blew up on the internet and suffered for it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/nyregion/blue-hole-swimmi...
Not a sufferer myself but I really enjoyed the book Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.[1] Very funny but also touches on his severe, near-fatal depression and alcoholism in an enlightened manner. Talks about medication, how he talked himself into getting help, the unfathomable experience of clinical depression itself, lots of the things Holman mentions. Now he's the "funniest guy on Twitter" and has a brilliant show on the BBC / Amazon (Catastrophe).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Rob-Delaney-Warrior-Yardstick-Cabbage...
I agree it was phrased poorly. What I took him to mean is:

If you have depression, and regular exercise and good diet doesn't help you, look for other solutions.

Too many people assume that getting the right balance of both will solve the problem, so they keep tweaking and tweaking the wrong solution.
Sure, lost of hardware supports jumbo frames which are 9K bytes in length. Ethernet however uses a 32 bit CRC to detect bit inversion and this CRC is only reliable up to around 12K bytes.
“Software without AI will be unthinkable.”
It's unfortunate that you don't even want to consider if it might solve anything. That's why we can't have nice things, and we're forced to live in a broken society with broken homes spanning generations.
Yeah, it surprises me how often even tech people don't understand the compounding complexity that comes with scale. Just consider the engineering involved in this story:

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...

That is just a portion of their infrastructure engineering activity. They also have product engineering - frontends, backends, mobile clients, integrations, etc.

It's not just a server under some college kid's desk.
Of course. Because in clear ways you are more sovereign individual within Bitcoin's politics than government politics. You can opt out, you can choose your politics, switching costs are much lower, therefore incentives to align with you are higher.
I think it depends of the organization. Most companies still use something similar to a DW/DL that speaks SQL, so Metabase/Redash still cover this.

Tableau is awesome, but I believe that most of its features are not used soo often. A simpler tool can provide almost the same or more value than Tableau in some cases. Well, a tool that you don't need to pay expensive licenses for each user makes it more democratic, everyone on the organization can visualize and create new analysis.
Try running tcpdump to see what servers your computer connects to. Lets open chrome, and type something into the address bar ... erm, sorry, the search bar ...
do you also do chmod -R 777 /?
One of the best life hacks I found is to buy those stackable laundry baskets and sort them as you wear them instead of dumping them all in one and sorting right before doing laundry.
The article explains what is wrong with high school debate today. But if it is going to be made better, we need to have a good idea of what better would be. And for that we need to understand what it is that debate should accomplish.

I say the function of debate in a democracy is to inform members of the public so that they can make intelligent political decisions.

That being the case, debaters should be thought of as being educators who inform the public about the arguments on each side of an issue, and should be so evaluated. Having a winner and a loser doesn't make, sense. If they both do a poor job of informing, that should be noted, and ditto if they both do well. Perhaps there should be a few prizes in a tournament for the teams that do the best job of informing.

Let me add that positions on policy or ethical matters invariably rest at least in part on deeper assumptions about things like human psychology and history. For that reason, these should be addressed in debate.

As for learning how to think logically and evaluate evidence, that is all part of what it takes to be a good educator.

If anyone disagrees, then they should present their own idea of what is the proper function of debate.
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Given Google's stock price floating close to all time high, this worrying might be a pretty narrowly impacting activity.
Missing the important piece of a sound dampening room. Record in a closet with a bunch of clothes and the audio quality will be noticeably better than in your living room.
Of course I tried -vvv and -vvvv. That did not tell me anything for this issue. I also tried the option where you get a bunch of python scripts. That told me a lot more than I wanted to know. The obvious option of seeing which commands it has run and their in and output just does not seem to be in there.
There's some kind of bind here between "putting burden on end-users" and "putting burden on application developers."
Either you (a) ship $LSM with some defaults that are necessarily general (so as to avoid breaking applications) and let the user fit filters to their circumstances, or; (b) push for developers to write/maintain filters baked into their applications (ie. using some kernel features like `seccomp` and what-have-you).
If wonder if the way most Linux "apps" work right now is what's keeping Linux from adopting more advanced security measures by default, such as Grsec, AppArmor, SELinux, or even ASLR...

Instead of having one self-contained app that either works on it doesn't on your AppArmor-enabled OS, you have "dependencies".

If a media-player you download doesn't support AppArmor, you can just use one that does. I think it's harder to avoid dependencies like that, if a library used by a whole bunch of programs doesn't support AppArmor.
try "without the hot air" by Prof Mackay. From
memory the estimate in his book was measured by 3,000 calories / person per day of output, and so that average brit consumes around 30 "slaves" worth of transport, heating and other energy services.

now imagine how many people in Romans era could have 30 slaves.

# https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._C._MacKay
You're right in the sense that we're all privileged in comparison to, say, rural Kenyans. But that's not what the original article was arguing. I feel that you're attacking a straw man here.
> Last I checked everyone running Linux on the Server has skipped ahead to containers so now very little of these syscall filtering games even apply anymore.

That's a big jump. Any stats on the so called container usage by "everyone"? Even here in the HN-bubble everyone isn't running containers
It says the price for development was a bit over $500 million, so for a 10-year return, $50 million/year is about right.
So which one are you - depression or paranoia? ;-)
It's easy to become dependent on exercising, push too hard, get injured, and struggle while you can't exercise. Moderation can be difficult for some of us even with something like running.
> On a related note, I have gnucash set up to autocreate a ton of transactions 90 days in advance. Rent, salary, typical bills, student loan repayment, etc.

Why do you need to do the transactions? In Germany, I can simply create a recurring transaction for rent and loan repayment, and utility/phone bills are directly debited from my bank account.