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> They want to use their PCs to watch movies, browse internet, play the occasional game, edit some simple documents, use a spreadsheet, and get some stuff done.

Except for the getting stuff done part, those are tablet users (I mean, they really only need a browser and may as well be using a tablet or ChromeOS). This sort of strawman "average" user, and the obsession with catering to them while at the same time insisting on your own superiority, is what has doomed the Linux Desktop to what it is today. You can tell yourself all you want that it's everyone else's fault Linux Desktop has a market share south of 4%, but it won't make it true.

Also digging the "works fine for me!", straight out of the Linux Evangelist playbook from 1995.
Yeah, although that itself is implemented internally using an ES6 class:

https://github.com/acdlite/recompose/blob/8c4ac2e4a4cd8d60c8...
My testing philosophy – don't use code coverage tools, more
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The Tufts site is good, but I wanted a better mobile view. So I made PlinyPedia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15668314
He may have sent an actor along to represent him for the interview / photoshoot.
Another thread of people telling us their anecdotes...
That ~30 line component should be reduced to something resembling this:

const PlanetView = ({planet}) => <div>{planet ? planet.stuff : 'Loading...'}</div>
I can't decide if that is awful in the sociopath sense or amazing in the "cult movie" sense. So why choose? It's both. Definitely both.
Other than the prevalence of drunk driving, then you're right Europe has much more of a drinking problem.
It was a bit of a mess. Took 4 weeks from ordering to delivery, arrived defective. Called them, they said we'll pick it up, repair it and return in 1 week, I said ok. After 3 weeks I called them, they say they are waiting for a spare part, will take ~2 months. I say I want a new one, they tell me ok but that they need to send me the broken one and then I need to restart everything, so ~5 weeks more. Definitely the worst thing about Lenovo is CS.
If anyone of you reading this comment from Tokyo and want a buddy to work from cafes/co-working, hit me up :)

same username on twitter
But it does make sense as an analogy? In this case the contents of the safe correspond to the plaintext, the key that opens the safe is the private key, and having the safe without the key is like having the ciphertext without the private key
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>--Wants to fix it with a hardfork

That does not explain why He still won't adopt Segwit (the network upgrade that recently took place) on his sites coinbase.com and Gdax, which allows for 4MB blocks and cheaper transactions for his customers, in a backwards-compatible way (a Soft fork). Instead pushes for a second fork, a "hard fork", which would require every user in the ecosystem to switch to a new software (who's author is pushing an ICO coin sale of his own!). A fork which every single bitcoin developer (except the ICO-guy who hasn't contributed in 2 years) strongly opposes.

Yes, not surprising that he blogs about Ether and owns more Ether and profits when people trade their Bitcoin into Ether on his sites. Same with the other big "2x" pusher who runs "Shapeshift" a site that turns your bitcoin into other coins and takes a cut%. These guys don't want to help bitcoin, they want to make money off the cryptocurrency space.
This is great. TIL notifications are my favorite thing about the Reddit app (right behind /r/explainlikeimfive). So my only suggestion is to add notifications for new, trending ones.
Your Lambda function might execute twice. Deal with it
Ideally, you need to validate your product on whatever channel you intend to use.

So if you expect to get signups mainly through your website, you need to test that channel as early as possible.

Eventually you'll be getting hundreds (millions?) of signups through your website. So getting just a dozen for your beta list should be easy. If it's not, then you need to either pivot or find a better channel.

But if your website isn't the way you expect to gain users, then try a different channel.

And I don't think Slack is a good example since Campfire and Hipchat were already in use many years earlier.
I loved the Reddit AMA app. I don't know why they decided to kill it. I would've liked your app on my Android device!
I'm currently working on an RL project based on an OpenAI Gym environment and have been reviewing the different frameworks available. So far I’ve come across:

- OpenAI Baselines (more a collection of algorithms than a framework)

- Keras-RL (looked ideal but has been abandoned)

- Tensorflow Agents (An 'official'? Tensorflow library, but very basic- only one algo at present)

- rllab (Developed by OpenAI people but seems to be abandoned)

- OpenAI Lab (?)

- TensorForce

My main concerns are: 1. Soundness of the algo implementations. 2. Modularity, ease-of-use, compatibility.

I first looked at Baselines as it seemed to best address the first concern but ran into frustrations when for example the DeepQ implementation didn’t work if my Gym’s action_space was a Tuple space. I am working with a team unfamiliar with RL so want something that is as plug-n-play as possible, like Keras. So far TensorForce looks promising. Can anyone add anything more? Thanks
To consider oneself smart.
The 1969 photos are from the smaller American Falls.

What the world knows as the Niagara Falls, is the Horseshoe Falls. Horseshoe Falls, also known as Canadian Falls, is the largest of the three waterfalls which collectively form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada-US Border. Approximately 90% of the Niagara River, after diversions for hydropower generation, flows over Horseshoe Falls. The remaining 10% flows over American Falls and Bridal Veil falls. It is located between Terrapin Point on Goat Island in the US state of New York, and Table Rock in the Canadian province of Ontario. [source Wikipedia page]
I have read these studies before, and they’ve compelled me to drop my beer drinking down to about 1.2 standard drinks a day. Works for me: still get to drink, still get to pop a bomber of the heavy stuff once a week, and have more incentive to explore low-ABV styles like gueuze and lager. I haven’t found any studies at all that describe the risks of alcohol consumption for men at 1 standard drink per day — which isn’t to say that the risks don’t exist, but they’re probably pretty low.

However, the article implies that the size of a standard drink as 10g, whereas almost everywhere else I’ve heard it as 14g. So which is it?
I switched to chrome pretty early on. Firefox was pretty unusable then. Typically with more than 8 tabs or so, some damn ad in some damn tab would call flash, and the whole thing would hang.

Chrome used a different CPU per tab and put flash in it's own process so it wouldn't hang the entire browser. I was quite impressed and told everyone I know how much better it was. Pretty quickly I switched.

Even today I get the occasional query from a windows or mac user who wants the "good" browser installed instead of IE or Safari. Yes, novices still can't install their own browser no matter how easy it is.
The Mississippi Bubble of 1720 and the European Debt Crisis (2014)
What do they call it when a market increases demand for a resource in response to increased efficiency of exploitation?
> My doc does not want me taking acetaminophen because she thinks it causes me to get elevated liver enzymes

An uncle and some other older physicians who are on long-term measured acetaminophen usage reported supplementing their regimen with n-acetyl cysteine (NAC) with no apparent diminution in analgesic effect. WebMD has a description of the chemical mechanism:

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-10...

As an aside it's also the primary antitoxin for the treatment of acetaminophen poisoning in veterinary medicine:

http://orrongpharmacy.com/content/s_vet/vet_poisoning.htm

So it might be useful to bring this possibility up with your personal physician.
- Where is the original text?

- There is no “J” in Latin.
click here to more about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiVkFDSPqfs&t=337s
He meant "how long before technology advances, due to Moore's Law or whatever, to the point where it's really cheap to brute force the key space". Not "how long it takes from the moment you attack it to the moment you break it"
you start out using git, then can migrate to a better product once money comes - and the money comes - the stated complaint wasn't "doing version control right" it was "using version control" which to me means, no version control or version controlled.
click here for more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiVkFDSPqfs&t=337s
Standard Ebooks has a nice PD edition of those: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/philip-k-dick/short-fictio...
I never argued the Linux Desktop was superior to anything else, just that I liked it better, and that I found Windows (circa version 7) less useful, buggier and harder to use. I concede that it has probably gotten better in later versions (certainly, it used to be that a graphics crash crashed the whole system!), but I've had enough of Windows and no reason to use it. You make a good point about tablets, but that's a good argument against general purpose PCs, be it Windows, OS X or Linux.

The average user obviously doesn't use Linux. I'm just saying that they could, because Linux excels at the kinds of tasks they usually need to do (including, but not limited to, casual gaming, installing apps, using a spreadsheet, etc). The reasons why they don't have nothing to do with multi-gpu multi-monitor setups, which the average user doesn't own. It probably has more to do with familiarity, with the relative marketshares of Windows vs Linux, with the lack of good enough Office-like suites, etc -- but I'm not even arguing this is the complete list of reasons, and the issue certainly merits more exploration.

I'm not trying to "blame" anything on anyone, either. I'm just disagreeing with you and saying you're (in my opinion) not making any good arguments for your assertions, for example about package managers.

> Also digging the "works fine for me!", straight out of the Linux Evangelist playbook from 1995.

This is not even an argument. It seems you're trying to pick a fight for reasons I don't understand.

PS: though I would say "owning hundreds of AAA games for Linux" is an actual argument on my part, and not a "play" from any "playbook".
I don't really think the timeline is meaningful in this case. Having a rule where people cannot be made to decrypt files is just legalizing document shredding with an extra step.

To avoid cases where people legitimately forgot their passwords just assume that the police have video evidence of you unlocking the files just before you were arrested. You know the passphrase and the police could prove it beyond reasonable doubt in court.

You just start with your files encrypted with a strong passphrase and refuse to provide it when you get caught. This is different than routine shredding because the moment when they become inaccessible is when you refuse, not the moment you encrypted them.

If they were instead physical documents buried somewhere hidden where the police could not possibly find them without your help the court still has the ability to hold you in contempt if you don't produce them. What makes the secret knowledge of their location any different than the secret knowledge of the password?
This concept has been explored in many sci-fi shows and movies. Example: "Be Right Back" (Black Mirror Season 2, Episode 1), "Dollhouse", "Robot", etc.
> It's not like one crowds the other out, like a coffee shop with a shared physical space might. Everybody has their own little view of the world from inside FB, curated to their own preferences and propagated by AI similarity recommendations.

This statement is incorrect. Twitter has a huge harassment problem, that users have been begging the company to fix for years, to no avail. There are users openly associating with nazi ideology (not exaggerating here - we are talking about users with swastikas as their avatars, nazi references in their bios, etc.[0]) harassing others on the platform. In no way is this people in their little bubble, being perfectly isolated from others who don't share their ideology.

As far as left-wing vs right-wing or whatever, I don't really care. I chose nazis as the main example because this is a very clear ideological group that has been unequivocally responsible for crimes against humanity in the past, against which Twitter chooses to do absolutely nothing (even if this contradicts their own TOS). Well, they choose to do one thing: make those accounts invisible in countries where they would be breaking the law if they didn't. So they literally have a `isNazi` flag in their database, but they only choose to use it to not get in trouble with German/Austrian/etc. law instead of, you know, just banning people who are calling for ethnic cleansing. Great job, Jack Dorsey.

If there are other similar ideologies (left wing, right wing, or other) you would like to put in the same bucket, please do - I have no issues with that. The only fundamental issue is that Twitter is choosing to let extremist, well defined, communities such as nazi ideologues thrive on their platform because growth or something.

[0]: if you really need proof: https://twitter.com/anp14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiVkFDSPqfs&t=337s
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Are you thinking of the War of 1912 instead? If not, then hundreds is kinda correct.
A few thoughts:

I understand the theories, but the real world doesn't operate that way; the market isn't free. Income depends to a significant degree on the ability to write the rules of the marketplace and labor law in your favor, and the resources to utilize those rules and laws (e.g., money and lawyers); workers don't have such influence and resources. Consider Uber and its non-employee employees, for example. It also depends to a great degree on who you know and who your parents were.

Also, I'll point out that a backup offensive lineman in the NFL, junior attorneys and investment bankers in NY, and many similarly situated people in Silicon Valley make more than the U.S. military officer in command of the entire Asia-Pacific region, many Nobel Prize winners, many doctors saving lives right now, not to mention social workers, teachers, diplomats, almost all scientists in academia, etc.

People are paid based on supply and demand for whatever they offer (with supply and demand being determined by everything I discussed above).

Starting a business isn't the only way to participate or take risks in the market. You also can try to sell your skills to another employer.
Sort of like when a company splits and the two parts are more valuable than the whole. Not common, but I believe Ebay and PayPal were more valuable post split. It idea floated at the time was PayPal growth was being held back by Ebay management.
It's not correct to say that America isn't a welfare state, and if you're a Democrat (which it sounds like you are), then you should not be offended by that term.

This is the distribution of federal spending:
https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/images/pubs...

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid consist of almost 50% of the federal budget. If you include "Other," which includes other welfare programs such as veterans benefits, federal food stamps, as well as "Non-defense," which includes additional veterans benefits/housing/health, you can see that a very large percentage of the federal budget is on welfare programs.

Military budget in the US is obviously absolutely atrociously massive, but it is only about 15% of the budget.

If you look at the federal debt, you can see that the trajectory doesn't look great:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Total_US...

So I don't think it is at all fair to say that the US is not a welfare state, particularly when compared to the foundation of the country being rooted in laissez-faire classical liberalism. I am all for the discussion of mitigating attempts on economic distribution of wealth, but what we have in place even now already far surpasses what the budget is capable of facilitating (in terms of cost, not strategy or outcome).
I think your example is too simplistic. There are more dimensions to equality than just wealth or money. People could be socially rewarded but still be on very similar wealth levels. There are some people actually persuing this as a life goal, it‘s called earning to give and comes from the effective altruism movement. They try to get into a really well paying position but give most of the earnings (like 50%+) to effective charities. It‘s not always about money for yourself but being able to work for something you believe in and a recognition of your efforts. How else would you explain suicide bombers and soldiers giving their life in unprofitable ways?
I hope one of these links are Rush.
Apple owns the CUPS source code. They can already do whatever they want and are not bound by the GPL.

In fact, the current GPL licensed CUPS already comes with an exception clause to make sure macOS printer drivers don’t have to be released under the GPL even if they link against CUPS: https://sources.debian.net/src/cups/2.2.1-8/debian/copyright...
You've got it backwards. Try to name someone who shouldn't be on it. Being overconfident because you lack understanding/experience is just another word for "young".
Researchers find computer with an Intel Skylake and above can be owned via USB
I’m just glad Apple still uses CUPS. The CUPS web interface provides a bit more power over System Preferences
Occam's razor applied by neglecting evidence is just bad reasoning.
Gotta love the fact that the EU seems to think the exact opposite

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/19/eu-outlaw...
This argument for the GPL only wins in a fantasy land where all software has to be released under GPL or not at all. In reality, companies reject the GPL and just write their own code or adopt and contribute to permissively licensed projects, and that is what ends up "making it to the user".

You're telling authors to take away freedoms of its own users now, to prevent a potential bogeyman from taking away freedoms of other users in the future.

You can use permissively licensed code now and forever, because that can't be taken away once released. You're refusing to use it now on the off chance that in the future, someone modifies that code to do something else and give it to other users without the code. Your initial use still hasn't changed, and your right to use that initial code hasn't changed. You are not a user of the new, modified code, so your rights have not been impacted whatsoever.
Did not read the paper linked to by sibling but there are diminishing returns to wealth for a person. So unequality might be perceived as more severe in low income countries than richer countries when the basic needs are met.
No lengthy comment needed here. This is disgusting. You are now essentially humiliating the victim, especially women, all over again.

If you are a Facebook employee, shame on you. I can't believe you work there.
It is a lie. You don't become the ex post facto creator of a thing by choosing to employ the party that originally created cups.

Apple developed cups is a different statement from apple now employs the party that created cups.
> why convert HTTP into an HTTP-like protocol which is neither as well-standardised nor as well-documented?

I have these same feelings every time I see uWSGI being used.
Encryption of the file should be treated as a separate step from deletion of the plain text. The latter is destruction of evidence in the case of a crime.
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Hey Hacker News, I'm looking for some advice. I'm not entirely sure this is the right place to ask, but here goes anyway.

I feel like I've been doing a whole lot of learning about entrepreneurship, yet I never take the plunge and actually act, and I really don't know how to get started.

A little bit about me: I graduated with a CS degree from a very strong engineering university in May, and I'm now a software engineer at a major tech company. I took lots of elective classes in school about entrepreneurship, from idea generation, to funding, to legal aspects of startups. I've been to plenty of talks and ask questions whenever I can at them, from people like Max Levchin (PayPal), Roger Dickey (Gigster), and Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital). At times I feel like I'm being quite proactive towards my goal of one day starting a startup...

And then I realize that I don't output anything. I know backend and frontend web dev, infrastructure, some machine learning, and other odds and ends, but the most I find myself actually doing is writing little scripts to save myself a couple minutes here or there. I find myself so enthralled by consumer tech, and I have plenty of ideas, but I find it very hard to actually act on them. Any time I start to work on a project, I end up getting caught up trying to brainstorm how to build the perfect application, or I'll start programming it but I'll just keep adding more and more complexity before I even get an MVP. And the result is probably 15-20 projects that are all only between 5 and 30% done.

Some of you guys have experience taking a vision you have, and making it a reality. You juggle creating a product, marketing and selling it, iterating, coming up with a decent business model, and a hundred other things. Can you offer me any advice on what I should do first? Because I can't keep sitting on my couch reading Paul Graham essays.

A huge thank you to anybody who's willing to give me some pointers.
Or you could hold your own bitcoin in your own wallet.
Both Brian & Jeff are still both heavily invested in businesses that rely on Bitcoin, they are not just speculators who simply buy and hold.

Their business plans are ruined if Bitcoin fees get too high. Note that 'extremely low fees' was the original selling point of Bitcoin which now has been ruined. So they were simply defending their businesses.
> Fiat currencies don't fork

Another situation: in Brazil 90's, inflation was rampant and a new currency was being planned. But, until BRL was printed as the final currency, a few "forks"/new money were introduced, like URV (for one year), which set the market value for the new BRL, something like 2500:1 old-money:URV then 1:1 URV:BRL.
So, the analogy: a fiat fork did happen and a two-currency system was put in play, until the "miners" decided to ultimately put the hash power into just one fork.
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Jackson Palmer (Dogecoin founder) talks all about the Bitcoin fork at the last local Hack Days meetup[0]. It's actually a really great talk.

[0](Skip to 30m) https://www.facebook.com/hackdays4all/videos/549774142034920...
Great read! The see also links have a lot of other peculiar sentences that I've come across frequently but never considered they were constructed deliberately nor that there were actual terms describing the oddities.
I meant thinking in systems instead of just doing things, esp when it comes to business. There are two very good books that have a lot of stuff about this: the emyth and work the system. I'm on a mobile phone right now but if you want me to elaborate please let me know.
Interesting.

The thing that is most toxic about long-term survival in small towns is the lack of many jobs. No jobs, no mortgage payment, no point.

Although if I was up for relocation right now, I'd look at Colorado (Denver/Boulder) or Baltimore...
So do the engineers work on finishing the building too?