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Just being passionate is never enough for anything. You can have all the passion in the world, but if you take no action, nothing will change. Even with passion and action, luck can play a huge factor.

Even with passion, action, and luck, things can STILL not go right (though I guess theoretically enough luck means everything will go right no matter what you do).

All in all this is a pretty bad question IMO because there's little to no context, and basically what I just stated above was like a platitude/life-fact that everyone knows probably.
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"Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch is an excellent read that has a lot of twists and turns. It's quite dark in places.

"We Are Legion" by Dennis Taylor is a very light hearted and easy to read.

"The Collapsing Empire" by John Scalzi is a space opera that I quite enjoyed.
PGConf US:
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In general people expect the laws of a country to apply to them only while are actually inside that country. In the UK you have to drive on the left side of the road, would you expect to be arrested on arrival for having driven on the right side of the road while in another country? Being refused entry is understandable, but being arrested? Isn't a country's jurisdiction supposed to be restricted to its borders?
Comments are copyright of the author (by law, not by any policy on HN). HN has an implicit license to display them.

c.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641312 (by George Grellas, who is actually a lawyer)
My comment is no more speculative than those blaming the new microcode for causing reboots. The real bad quality, bad update process and unjustified binary nature of OEM firmware is too often overlooked.
I strongly suspect that it won't.
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I agree with your smoothness example, but with consistency both "has" and "is" are common. Usage seems to vary by specific object and context.

One example where almost all authors go with "is": there are thousands of recipes saying to heat butter until it "is" a particular consistency, versus only a handful saying to heat it until it "has" a particular consistency. Compare https://www.google.com/search?q=%22until+the+butter+is+the+c... vs. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22until+the+butter+has+the+....
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I can't help but feel less stressed about my own job after reading this status page.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every interstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker”.
Neptune’s Brood also by Charles Stross has slow money transferred between two star systems requiring authentication from a third system. The plot is what happens when a transaction has not been completed. Also robots. And pirates.
Such articles show how useful cloud solutions for storage can be : the data is disconnected from the underlying hardware.

When hardware progress occurs, files are transferred to new hardware and you could expect that 30 years from now, your files will still be there.
Makes sense and sounds absolutely fine. Graphite is the colour of a dark and stormy night.
And that, of course, is how you get Spectre.
You’re right. I should have written “contemporary financial institutions”.
Couldn't agree more. Wandering earth (short stories) again by Liu Cixin is also amazing.

Blindsight is also worth a shot!
Great, but for context, if your net worth were $300,000, this would be the same as donating a dollar.

Edit: my math is wrong as hell and I was being way too cynical. Sorry folks.
Interesting that you say Natrium (as opposed to Sodium), but Potassium, not Kalium. I thought use of the two variant names for those elements was 100% correlated. Are there regions of the world where that is not the case?
I'm pretty sure you can send a request to an IP address with the host name in the request.
Hieroglyphic society....
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I’ve been moving towards this for a couple of years. Right now a minimal Linux with Firefox and an RDP client will do 90% of what I need, and I would run the whole thing off a Raspberry Pi 3 if it supported dual monitors.

Ironically, Windows Home also qualifies, and new low-end fanless PCs can drive 4K displays, so I’ll likely be running a setup like that by Summer, with zero local data except remote connection settings.
Except you cannot calculate the price of the mined coins predictably.

So renting out mining gear can either be a bet that you think crypto will decline or just a way to reduce risk. (I'm assuming up front payments. )
As an illustration of a related inclination, the FCC, pushed by the big telcos—who also tend to be big ISPs—under Ajit Pai killed the use of resellers (non-facilities-based providers) in the Lifeline program, despite the fact that 70% of Lifeline customers used them, often because the facilities-based providers aren't offering them service directly. This got overlooked by a lot of people, because what attention was on the FCC was all about net neutrality.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/107855

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-fiction-...
I liked how it drilled deep into themes that were important to the cultures in the story, which were very human cultures but not any specific Earth cultures. It was a glimpse into a small part of a large, coherent world.

But you have to like the characters or you can't get anywhere. People have described Stephen Baxter novels in similar ways, but I can't stand any of the characters.
It's also not uncommon to not use the default DNS settings of a network.

Doing this sounds like a good way to increase the noise to signal ratio in your support calls....
Dichronauts, biggest mindfuck of 2017 for sure! (it's highly recommended, just keep pen and paper ready to grok all the non-euclidian shenanigans)
Programmers that are only doing the job because these days it pays, not because they love what they do, are shit programmers.
For anyone interested in rekindling a passion for pencils, I would highly recommend checking out the Erasable podcast [0]. A podcast about pencils sounds impossibly dull but somehow it works.

[0]: http://www.erasable.us/
On the lease terms offers (often 2yrs+) the profit is baked in.
Tisane probably comes from French, where it is relatively common (at least understood, and a stickler for tea would correct your usage) and perhaps one would use it in English like other French culinary terms like “à la mode”
For an entry level position? Nah
In modern Haskell, we are more likely to use the Applicative instance for Maybe, e.g.

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One model, such a great idea! We could introduce a revolutionary concept for that... like, an Object! Which can be converted to lots of different "formats"! Like an image, or text (e.g. JSON and XML, really a revolution)!!! Why no one has thought about that?! /s
Haiku OS now boots on modern hardware (like my 2015 ThinkPad), and aside from the usual niggles like trackpad support and some browser weirdness it “works”.

Of course, it’s nowhere near polished enough for day-to-day use as macOS or Windows.
It would still be better than doing nothing with that money.
Well, no. XPS 15 has NVidia Optimus :(
It might have a better chance these days, with UEFI becoming the default.
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I'm puzzled that he sees websockets as a privacy hazard. From what I understand, WS connections are CORS protected (though the model is slightly different than standard CORS for historical reasons) and were designed somwhat friendly to proxies. So what is the problem?

(Though browsers don't seem to honor proxy settings for WS in practice. I guess, this coughs be corrected. Does anyone know the reasons for that?)

WebRTC is more understandable: Connection setup is different for each application, the connection itself is encrypted and browsers don't seem to offer any way to inspect or manage WebRTC flows.

It's sad that a technology which offers so many interesting applications is implemented in such a problematic way for privacy. This should really be improved.

(Warning: rant follows)

Generally, I think we should have a general discussion about the ability of inspecting the network traffic of your own machines. Current practice seems to be that this ability is sacrificed in favor of an "encryption-first" doctrine: Browser vendors are aggressively pushing HTTPS everywhere and it's almost a requirement that new network protocols have built-in encryption. There are still some escape hatches by installing custom root CAs, but programs are starting to circumvent that without much consequences (or even encouragement by OS vendors - e.g. on Android)

For example, right now it's impossible to inspect traffic from the Dropbox client on windows (short of patching the program) because the client ignores custom root CAs. Trying to inspect traffic from a smartphone is already pretty hopeless.

As traffic inspection would be a powerful tool in finding privacy leaks, we should lobby more for it.
I even had clueless managers who demanded I explained the technically complex problem to them, because "maybe our insights could shed new light on the problem". They just don't get that best thing to do is leave us alone and let us do our job. They are just nervous because they are totally powerless in such situation.

In a factory, a manager might be smarter than the one doing manual labour. In tech, it's the other way around.
Yep. I’m on 9fans, and agree wholeheartedly. Porting a browser would be the _one_ thing to do to be able to run Plan9 as a personal desktop, but it’s a monumental task that will never happen.
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Well, how about a provably secure hardware description language then?
Just to give you another use for the word:

The metal bit that holds paintbrush bristles to the handle holds the same name.
Well, no, because an organization can do a lot more with 33 million dollars than they can with just one of them.
Well the ide interface has been there for quite a long time.
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You're confusing an excuse with a reason.
Can't someone make a simulation in algodoo or something? That'd be useful for a proper illustration of how it works.
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I am sure people are willing to help you if you give them a way to donate - have you thought about setting something like that up? HN is a big enough community that even a small donation by a few users could cover the 3-4k expenses you will have to pay for your exams.
Some standardized tests don't allow mechanical pencils.
Also in yhe case of the dozens of countries with incredible inflation, Venezuela, African countries?
Yes. You should make sure the pig enjoys it too.

But seriously.. this question, on HN?!
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A human can come up with a system to help them record hidden pine seed locations or random numbers fairly easily though - marks in the ground or paper and pencil, for example.

I would suggest that the evidence indicates otherwise. Written language seems to have taken humans tens of thousands of years to work out, so coming up with that system is clearly not fairly easy. Keeping track of 50000 locations over a 15 mile radius such that they can be found again six months later in winter under a foot of snow using marks in the ground made with a stick, without a written language? That seems... difficult.
Women can also be great scientists.
(This is one of the few YouTube channels I subscribe to, pity this presenter left to concentrate on her doctoral thesis.)

I suppose the “eight-dimensional“ reference in the title comes from there being “up to” eight-dimensional directed simplexes detected in the reconstructed neural networks?
33 million dollars buys more tuition than one dollar.

What, he's worth billions so he's gotta give a cool bil or it's pocket change?

33 million dollars is a shitload of cash for a donation, I'm pretty sure MSF wouldn't mind a 33 million dollar donation. They basically cry every GDQ event and thank people for 10 minutes straight. That's for ~1 mil.

33 million dollars buys a lot of books, a lot of stupid TI calculators, etc.
Why do you want to blame anyone? The point is that they fixed it.
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Because as we all know: the important thing with charity is how much you suffer, not how much they benefit.
what purpose does this comment have? You think society shouldn't praise these acts because relative to the donors' worth they're not that "grand"? how does this perspective help anyone?
What papers on the subject I found with a quick search suggests that moving the markers a little leads to the bird not finding the stash, but then searching again nearby. This would suggest to me that they do not simply try places that they might have hidden seeds, without remembering if they did or did not hide seeds there, because the number of places that they did not hide seeds so massively outweigh the places they did hide seeds and if they just thoroughly searched every possible area, they'd spend all their time searching and no time eating. Unless, of course, they're got some really strict criteria that limits the number of places - which would itself be a pretty intelligent thing to do. If I, as a human, needed to hide and remember tens of thousands of objects in a 15 mile radius, that's exactly how I would do it. These creatures are at least as smart as me.

I understand that human memory champions do the same in terms of using locations as a crutch for memory, with their memory palaces and so on. They build themselves spatial pictures and clues. So this bird has a memory as good as human memory champions? As for keeping track of where they hid things by noting where they were in relation to other things; isn't that what humans do? If you removed all landmarks, buildings and everything from my city and replaced it with a flat, featureless plain, I would not be able to identify the location of my house. I find my house by looking at other things to work out which way to walk.

Anyway, I'll stop here because we're both using unprovable axioms as our basis. I suggest that human intelligence is very specialised and that we struggle to even see other specialised intelligence, so limited are we in our thinking. You suggest that humans have a wide ranging general intelligence (poorly defined as that concept is), superior to all others? Neither of us can disprove an axiom, although we can both spend all day suggesting things that creature A can do that creature B cannot.

The test you suggest does strike me as very human focussed; reminds me of tests showing that some creatures can't remember faces based on showing them human faces. Turns out that humans are really good at human faces, and some other animals are really good at other kinds of faces.

I do appreciate your civil tone, though. You did come across as a sealion at the start (which is why I ignored you), but that turned out to be a misread on my part.
It's not an upgrade, it's a bugfix. Probably an important bug, they don't want to risk tens/hundreds of millions of dollars.
I get a figure of $3000 instead of what you wrote. But I think you wanted to make the amount seem pathetic. Not sure why.
I've learned a ton from https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-dee...
I think it can be assumed OP isn't asking whether committing a felony is profitable.
For some additional context, $33M will fund 1,000 college scholarships. That's 1,000 lives changed for the better - I would love to have that impact on the world.
Fair point. I don’t have a strong argument but this seems to be another in a series of puff pieces about Bezos following on the stories about Amazon employees living on food stamps.

I don’t think this is newsworthy or meaningful.

With that said, I appreciate the downvotes and will try to appreciate the positive effects of this despite my obvious cynicism.
What is FDO? A quick google search doesn't result in anything meaningful.
> A crash log doesn't violate your privacy

Says who?

If that's the case then ask the user to email you the log. Instead, we get covert eavesdropping.
This type of reference is used in recipes as well - mix the dough until is the consistency of x
How's your appetite?

"I know I need to see a psychiatrist or a therapist to help me get over these irrational fears, but you guessed it: I can't afford to."

I happen to have fear for needles just like you. It makes me light headed that I almost faint, I literally cringe, I can't see such scenes in movies, etc.

A good year ago I was due for a dentist treatment (my last wisdom tooth (I'm in mid 30s), and removing an abscess which was there for about 7 years). So I went for an intake, and the dental surgeon suggested oxazepam (4x 10 mg, 1 before sleep, 1 when waking up, then 2 right before the medical procedure which has to occur in the morning), and was quite reassuring that we would succeed. I had to go twice, once for each issue however it went great both times. I slept like a rose! I was jolly. No fear whatsoever. While on the drug I was actually excited to get the treatment! I could also barely walk, so if you follow this route I recommend a driver or taxi. I don't know how expensive it is in the USA but my insurance didn't cover it here in NL. I think the drug cost like 30 EUR, but I forgot the exact amount. That's quite doable compared to a psychologist, right? And these positive experiences also give me more hope that I can do it without the drug. Just to put it in perspective: the treatment before that cost 600 EUR for full sedation (via a mask) which was partly covered by insurance because of a letter from my psychiatrist. I did get two complications from the oxazepam treatment treatment: due to Iboprofen usage I got ulcers (took 2 months till I got rid of it, took meds after 2 weeks), and the other problem is that the scars from the operation seem to cause a little white pus every other day but its stable and nothing near the level it used to be. I was disappointed that the post treatment _only_ looked at the place the abscess was and not its surroundings even though I did report the problem. All in all, I'm happy I went this route though.

My mother also had narcolepsy. Turned out she had sleep apnea. Her basic insurance covered a mask she has to wear during the night. I forgot the name.
Linux works exactly like this. Most people who use Linux never directly interact with the kernel. They interact with applications.

The graphical shell is an application - KDE(plasmashell) Gnome(gnome-shell) etc.
the console shell is an application - bash,zsh,fish etc.
The WM is an application - (KWin, Mutter, i3, xmonad etc.)
The file manager is an application - (nautilus,dolphin,ranger, etc.)
The package manager is an application - (apt,portage,pacman,nix etc.)

You can choose not use any one of these(or replace them with alternatives). They exist because they do something essential - and the kernel exists because it provides them with a coherent view of the users computer. It is their interface with the hardware.
I don’t think it is. This comes across as a fickle gesture from someone to improve their public image with almost no effort or commitment due to the absolute contribution seeming so grand but in relative terms it is not. But as I said in another comment I appreciate that I am probably being way too cynical.
"If he has x billions of dollars he should give x billions of dollars" is what I get out of the comment.

33 million dollars is going to buy a truckload of TI calculators and other mandatory essentials.
Why do we need a quarterly article to remind us about the obvious?
Or change input. If you have another option, why would you ever choose commercial radio? I don't see what the point of it is.
Fantasy, but you’re missing out if you don’t read City of Stairs. Great thriller.
You are right and I am being very grumpy for no good reason. Thanks for correcting me.
Read books and actively read them by making sure you understand what you've read and be aware of the author's sentence and paragraph structure. Copy(write) what you read by putting it in your own words. Do it over and over again and eventually, you'll improve your verbal skills. It's a slow process but that's what it takes.

Taking classes is not enough. It comes down to practice, practice and practice.

Also, keep a diary, it forces you to summarise your thoughts.
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I think maybe many places in Europe has addresses now. When I grew up, I grew up on a gravel road not very far from a capital city.

That road did maybe have a name at that time. I don't know. But our house had a name. So we wrote our addresses like this:
My Name
Our house name
Zip Code Region name

Then some years later EU forced us to get an address, so the gravel road became a street (according to the name) with numbers that are totally messed up and make no sense since the houses are so spread out. But I guess it somehow made something better?

I've tried to map up the house numbers on OpenStreetMap but I honestly don't know more houses than the one I grew up in and the closest neighbor.

This is like 15-20 years ago that this change happened. But if I want to be retro, I can still send snailmail to the house name. The postalservice manage to sort that out.
You and the other commenters are correct. I’m feeling quite guilty of being as cynical as I often accuse others on HN of being.
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Not quite what I was going for but your point is taken and I accept that I was out of line.
Sorry to hear that. Your story just made it more real how bad the health care system is in the US. It's hard to believe that the most powerful nation in the world has this kind of exploitative and greedy health care system.

Did you follow up on the advise in the other thread[1], i.e. going to ER to at least get a diagnosis? Or speak to a social worker?

Did they reject you?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889552
I think you're minimizing just how cynical you're being.

33 million dollars is not a fickle gesture, hand that money to MSF or EFF and watch things happen. Think of all the bullshit you have to buy to attend college, nevermind tuition. That'd buy you a truckload of books and calculators.

Just because he has x billions of dollars doesn't mean x millions of dollars is worth any less to others, especially charitable causes.

You're probably right though, but why not use the money to improve your public image after being crowned richest man on Earth? I can't think of a single good reason.

sincerely signed,

a cold, hardened cynic.
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If you assume potential malice (ie a lazy dev just not handling the bug at all) then a manager is required to ask about the bug, if only to try to verify that you've put real effort into the problem (based on say, confidence in whatever you spew). The worst possible scenario is that five months later, it turns out no one actually looked into properly: they just claimed to.
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It'd be nice to use terminology that distinguishes between infrastructure that is provided and maintained voluntarily, and infrastructure that is compulsorily funded by taxpayers.

The difference is relevant from economic, moral and design perspectives.
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Yes :-) I was trying really hard not to say something negative. But the guy's calculations appear to be out by a factor of 100, was my point.