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I'm a big fan of both Robert Greene's Mastery and Leonardo da Vinci, but I think using da Vinci as an example of patience is fairly misleading. After having read numerous biographies on the man, my conclusion is that it's remarkable that he managed to get as much done as he did. He was the ultimate dabbler, interested in and curious about virtually everything. His works took a long time to complete because he generally was distracted by some minor detail for years on end. If the ideal is productivity, then surely Michelangelo is a far better role model.

Of course, the real question here is whether productivity is what one should be ultimately aiming at. Doing very few things very well (alternatively, creating a small number of high-quality things) is a better ideal, to my mind.

'It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.' - Friedrich Nietzsche
Ditto on the SwiftKey recommendation: I have German, English and French always at my disposal.
The conspiracy-minded part of me thinks the GM/BMW electric cars are styled so differently to make them unappealing to “normal” (non-early adopters) to either deliberately sabotage the project or at least to avoid making the cars too popular. They really seem bent on squeezing the most from their century-old investment in ICE.
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The direction is most important, everything else is secondary. I can develop better code if I know what is coming in following months. I can optimize where it is needed or hack quick solution when I know technical debt cost.

Being a team cheerleader is nice but leading in the right direction is critical. And yes, you need to be technically sharp if you want to make any assessments on individual performance. Code reviews, architecture design, post-mortem and sprint reviews should be EM main thing.
Cool... Two questions:

1) How easy is it to host this in your own infra, and can you do so 100% without proprietary bits?

2) It seems there is a "call a phone feature" built-in. Neat. Does that have any restrictions or can I use it worldwide to call my friends in other countries.

Thanks!
Are most DApps silos? Is there a market for a direct clone of ethereum that is just less congested?

Lots of apps just don't make sense at $3 per transaction. It's quite discouraging.
mods changed the title, having realised my perplexity.
Even when the story broke, experts agreed that a sonic attack as described originally was pretty much impossible with known technology or even the known properties of sound waves. Microwaves don't penetrate walls like this. And poisoning isn't so well localized if they didn't deliberately poison some of the people.

Something strange is afoot.
But probably not Google. The google crawler is very careful and stops as soon as they encounter higher error rates. Bing appears to do the same.
I don't know where that's famous (I've never heard it before) but I think the name Bolshevik simply derives from an internal party vote which Lenin's faction won (against what became known as the Mensheviks (minority)).
Shameless or not, this is the first time I’ve seen a hazmat[1] handler I understood by the end of the first page and the price is low enough I’m just signing up now to use it for all my personal projects. Thank you for sharing it here.

1 - encryption keys and secrets are “hazardous material”, shortened to just “hazmat”. While necessary and arguably crucial in our work, they deserve the same care and respect a chemist would have for a beaker full of particularly dangerous chemicals.
What is the range on that?
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I'm interested in why Blackrock thinks it has the right to use my retirement funds to do anything other than maximize my gains.

You want to drive social responsibility from corporations, fine -- but do it on your own dime. As every honest banker is taught fairly early on in his or her career, OPM is sacred.
Did you really intend to call her "rackless Ruth" or was the slur an accidental misspelling of reckless? Because pointless and crude name-calling like that really detracts from any valid points you might have brought up.
Uh, not that this guy doesn't deserve to be charged, but what about the cop who shot an innocent, unarmed man?
I assume you talk about the Jitsi desktop client. TBH I don't know. I cannot find it on the UI either, sorry!

Something you can do is use Jitsi Meet (the WebRTC client) and have the monitored device permanently connected to a meeting room (protected by a password if you are using our public infra) and join the call whenever you want to see the other side.
I hope he gets the maximum sentence. Then I hope they dig up as much as possible of his past dirt and then lock him up forever. Then I hope they round up more SWATters and give them the same treatment.

I won't go into to details of what will happen to this wimp behind bars, he doesn't look so tough.

But it cannot be that some stupid "kid" somewhere murders people for fun.

(no use to discuss police and use of arms in the USA)
> it's hard to understand how 2k LoC are probably 50 LoC done wrong

I challenge you to reimplement the shell script that grandparent linked in 50 LOC. In fact, shell script has the chance to be a lot more succinct than other languages for a lot of administrative tasks since the invocation of other programs is a first-class citizen. For example, compare this Go snippet:

cmd := exec.Command("apt", append([]string{"install"}, dependencies...))
cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
err := cmd.Run()
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err.Error())
os.Exit(1)
}

to its equivalent in shell script:

if ! apt install ${DEPENDENCIES[@]}; then
echo "exit status: $!" >&2
exit 1
fi

Or even just "apt install ${DEPENDENCIES[@]}" with "set -e".

Finally, what is it with sysadmins maintaining large scripts while at the same time quipping that they are not programmers? A script is very much a program, and a scripting language is very much a programming language.
"Police responding to the alert surrounded the home at the address Barriss provided and shot 28-year old Andrew Finch as he emerged from the doorway of his mother’s home. Finch, a father of two, was unarmed, and died shortly after being shot by police."

I'm sorry but this whole article is ridiculous. Yes, calling the police on someone for jokes is absolutely not okay, and he deserves punishment for it. But it seems very farfetched, and honestly pretty insane, that the police murdering an unarmed man is something you should consider happening when you call the police.

The police have the guns, they are responsible for using them. Whether the call is a hoax or not, the police should not kill anyone unless they absolutely have no other choice. If someone is unarmed this is obviously not the case.

It is ridiculous that this article tries to frame some idiot for murder / manslaughter. The police killed the guy. No one else.
Yes, Alpine's APKBUILD seems to be very much modelled after PKGBUILD, and "abuild" sounds analogous to "makepkg". It's also 100% shell, but it uses busybox ash rather than bash.

I prefer pure hand-written shell to an unholy mix of auto-generated shell and Make. The latter is what I remember Debian's build system to be, although admittedly I haven't looked at it in awhile.
The worse is when it gives you results containing synonyms of your query words (and even highlights them in the little description under the link). Like, dude, I used this word for a reason
They exist becaude the government has created rules to try to force health insurance to be a national health system: companies are encouraged or forced to buy insurance for employees, the healthy are forced to subsidize the sick and elderly, and insurance must cover most treatments.

There are other non-insurance interventions like forcing hospitals to provide emergency care.
Side note: It isn’t clear why Jana went after Apple, considering that it has better tools to manage the use of its products by children than anyone else in the industry; but the general idea of technology companies paying more attention to children’s health is a good one

That is rather the key point, I think. Why Apple indeed?

The phrase "virtue signalling" is rather widely used and abused, but if it has any definition at all it would have to mean something like this: the very public and noisy display of moral purity through mounting public attacks on those claimed to be less morally pure, specifically for the purpose of boosting your own credentials.

If this firm Jana Partners and Calstrs actually cared about the topic of children and electronics, and was pursuing some well thought out logical agenda to increase child safety in industry, it would make more sense to publicly request down-tier phone vendors whose child-related feature set was not as good as Apple's to rise to their level. They would use Apple as an example for everyone else, not attack Apple and imply that they don't care enough. Objectively they seem to care more than most manufacturers do, even if it's only a small amount (I guess Android has some similar features too these days).

But if this firm is merely posturing and engaged in "virtue signalling", and doesn't actually care much about numerically significant outcomes on children, then it makes perfect sense to attack Apple because the goal is to be as noisy and attention grabbing as possible and Apple has more brand recognition than most firms do.

If major investment funds are being taken over by social activism, this doesn't seem like good news for anyone. What makes us think that Fink in particular has such great wisdom or insight into how society should be remodelled. What if his idea of "contributing to society" looks rather different to most other people's? And what will the people who put money in his funds think, when they discover that he's using their money to advance his own pet political causes?

When I was younger I used to think that faceless financial types like Fink were bad, a part of The System and activism was wonderful. Now I'm older I think the world could use a bit less naive activism and a bit more understanding of how it got the way it is before people go and throw wrenches into it. Fink should get back to delivering returns and let society itself decide what "contributing to society" means.
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I believe that the article mentions that this is being handled. Let's see what will happen in 3-6-12 months.
I think they push localisation because it makes sense for the user. In Europe, queries for at least 10 countries will usually be answered by the same data center and are still localised. The main reason why I still often use Google instead of DDG is to find localised content where you can't localise by language (e.g. finding UK specific issues).
I don't know if a clone would solve anything.

My humble opinion is that the Ethereum design is just fundamentally flawed. It doesn't do any specific thing very well at all, but it looks enough like Bitcoin to encourage speculators. As a product, it's like: "The gold coin that also works as toothpaste!"
"Despite Mr. Fink’s insistence that companies benefit society, it’s worth noting he’s not playing down the importance of profits and, while it’s a subtle point, he believes that having social purpose is inextricably linked to a company’s ability to maintain its profits."

Perhaps capitalism is realizing what thinking long term actually means then? The future for humanity is bleak if we continue down the path of unsustainable business practices. At this point we really do know better. We can't allow our only natural habitat to be exhausted for the sake a few luxurious generations.

At the current rate our businesses are exploiting the environment and people, it's honestly hard to say what's bound to happen first, the planet reaching its limit or the poor eating the rich. Either way, change gon' come. Hopefully we avoid all of that and start thinking about more than just our own immediate futures.

In this way, I think the real long term strategy is to inject some compassion and empathy into business.
1) Add our repo, apt-get install jitsi-meet and you're done! We have 0 proprietary bits.

2) That feature requires that you deploy a service of your own to facilitate this. At this time, meet.jit.si provides this for free for 2 minutes, but if you deploy the service to your own infra you'll need to deploy jigasi and configure a VoIP provider yourself.

Cheers!
This whole thread feels like I'm reading r/outside, the HN version. I like it.
I guess I'm confused as to how the support of one compiled language differs from any other compiled language; couldn't you just replace "Go" with "Rust" at this point? I understand how Lambda would have to support scripting languages (NodeJS, Python, etc.) with built-in runtimes and such, but if you are going to compile down to a binary object anyway, why does it matter what language the binary object was written in?

Does it have to do with supporting libraries being pre-installed on the Lambda image or something? Couldn't they build a Lambda image that handles any language that can interface to common "C" headers?
> The same reason Chrome took away the ability to stop video autoplay

You have a flag for that:
chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy
We just know he is on temporary leave.
I start feeling like the web is being de-optimized for nerds & super-users
https://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-06-05/real-reason...

Blackrock got easy terms under NDA for buying up rental housing, getting sweetheart deals not available to individual home buyers. Now they have the arrogance to engage in moral posturing?

How about they disclose the terms under which they bought those rentals? Something tells me the current administration won't mind...
This looks exciting. As much as I dislike WordPress, it's here to stay and clients ask for it by name.

This sounds like a nice compromise for those that want a GUI to make content changes but also want the security and performance advantages of a static site.
I love this project, and I really, really thought this would be the answer to give when people throw me a bewildered "what, you don't use skype?!"

Sadly, even just clicking a link seems to be too far out of many people's comfort zone, which is something that I find it very hard to wrap my head around...
My ancient T68 have modified Eink-versions of Coolreader and Oreader builtin. It can show whole-page pdf-scans of regular books without scrolling. T68 has many shades of grey so most android apps work very well. Eink suitable for static games, like GOroid and Sudoku. Best housekeeping program is the "Total Commander", with access to Gdrive, Dropbox and FTP.
Most comments about the A380 here are US-centered.

1. The A380 can be upgraded and can be made more fuel efficient. But this is an investment Airbus would have to made.

2. The hub model is not dead. There are major hubs that are dying (Singapore and Hongkong), there are current major hubs UAE, Moscow (Asia<>EU), Istanbul and there are coming major hubs (Addis Abbeba (EU, Asia <>Afica), potentially Tehran (geostrategic location, cheap oil, huge inner market, if they open up). At least if I look at it from China.

Especially from huge markets with price sensitive customers like India and China, I predict that the A380 could have a future. I think the Airbus CEO once said "This plane come 10 years too early".
If your retirement fund isn't leaving money on the table, then it is probably not going to be there when you retire.
FWIW, the app does not depend on any Google Play services, so you could grab the apk from any of those mirrors and manually install it, and if you really want to, you could build it yourself, instructions are here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/android/READ...
I understand where you're coming from, but I think it's less reasonable because the caller and the victim (and the SWAT team) are American.
It's not difficult to raise a seed round for crypto startup even if the product is stupidly boring and useless. It's called an ICO.
> but know that you could repeat the experiment if you wanted or needed to

The point is that at this rate, quite quickly you won't be able to, the costs would just be too high.
> Of course, the real question here is whether productivity is what one should be ultimately aiming at.

This is a very good question also for the society as a whole. We are technically able to sustain the whole population with a fewer and fewer percentage of people working on holding up our living conditions (food, water, heat, housing, network communication, etc.).

On top of that we (as a society) create lots of bullshit work which we again try to perform as efficiently as possible. And as soon as productivity increases, we work hard to create more demand for more of the same nonsense, and if that doesn't work anymore, we invent a new type of bullshit.

Why are we doing that? (Well, I'm aware of the typical cynical answer: reducing violence and crime, but there must be a better way to achieve this.)

What if we concentrate on improving our living conditions, and on top of that, everyone who wants to work just picks their favourite problem and tries to find a solution for it, valuing quality over being the first, valuing long-term solutions over short-term minded crap?
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Fink should get back to delivering returns and let society itself decide what "contributing to society" means.

Fink isn't part of society? Blackrock isn't part of society? Who counts as "society"? If Fink and Blackrock are excluded, do you have a guideline for who is allowed to decide these things on behalf of society?
Kudos! Amazing response.

Also,

“ Studying music, and learning that nothing is objectively difficult, just relatively unfamiliar. Learning that any skill is attainable through the right kind of practice.”

The Growth Mindset!!
I don't see how this affects their message, other than making it a bit less effectively transmittable due to the veneer of hypocrisy. We don't let factors like these confound each other when considering complex systems, though, do we?
"Modern Information Retrieval" by Baeza-Yates / Ribeireo Neto a few years ago used to be a good standard work.

I'm not sure though how well it's kept up in terms of aspects like real-time search and graph search, both of which are fairly recent developments.
And they can't even fix a simple typo like this after years of usage - "th8s 8s example tex6". Come on Google, you made that UI, you know that i and 8 are next to each other, you have a database of correct words and probably of typical errors and typos, wtf?! (you even know how to correct "wft" to "wtf" and can correct simple word with number typo).
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In news that will shock only Americans..
After regulations imposed by govt at all different levels (state, fed, municipal), it turns out the only ones capable of competing in such an environment are the ones who restricted and closed the market to competition in the first place..

ftfy
>The police killed the guy. No one else.

It honestly feels like we're stuck in some bad Nash Equilibrium. If criminals wouldn't have guns then the police would not have to engage with guns, but they do, so their best response is to engage with guns out and ready to fire.

The amount of force used by the American police is literally mind-boggling to read about for a European (Netherlands, in particular). The whole gun culture is so insane.

On the other hand, police got word from an armed hostage (!) situation, so it does make sense in a way. The police can't really say "Oh well it's probably a fake call, let's not engage with our guns."

I'm so on the fence on this one, it's really sad and stupid that we have to have this conversation.
Hard to call it a flaw... it's definitely problematic, but it's seen legitimate uses in many web apps (Spotify, Discord to think of two) as a way to communicate with their own desktop client from the web.

The other related issue is that communicating with localhost over https is very hard for an app. I wonder if there is a potential way to kill two birds with one stone here with some browser changes.
Are you implying that if you call the police in the U.S. you just need to accept that there is a chance that you get shot? Even if you are unarmed?

A 28 year old person was shot dead when he opened his door. In what universe is anyone responsible for this except for the fucking police, shooting the UNARMED guy who simply opens the door at his mothers house?

Honestly we live on the same planet, but in different worlds.
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Man you guys have to be busy beavers for this. Cheers frome europe.
Thunderbird (and I'm guessing most of the offline, true email clients) has this built-in.
Yes, and Facebook a $bazillion. But at that point, "fiat" will already be a forgotten relic of the past, so, who cares?
Your code is wrapped so you do not have to deal with networking and serialization. Your code must only satisfy the interface and feels native to the language of choice.
Fuck em. Move on. #yolo
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I was thinking: maybe it could be a good idea to create a software like Ripley as a service to insure all computers shut down in a certain location if a robbery is ongoing.

Do you guys think there would be any interest from the businesses for such a service ?

Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16154058
> Does anyone really think Bill Gates is a superior moral person with no ulterior motive at all? And if you think so, can you provide proof, or just assumption?

> History almost universally shows that the rich and powerful manipulate both the people and their image for their own good, not for the well being of the peasants.

I never have any heroes, because they can all fall from grace. In Bills case I'm sure he did some unsavory things in the name of making that money at Microsoft, both in terms of industry and business.

However, "morals" is a construct. I don't mean that in a nihilist way, but merely in a "how do we even measure that?".

What we can do is judge him from his actions. Actions are proof of what he's doing. If that is our metric, then he is morally superior to a whole lot of especially rich people.

There are a lot of very rich people in the world. Some are sitting on their money. Some are using their money for lobbying and propaganda in order to accrue more money. Some are using their money for public good.

Bill Gates currently falls very much into the latter. If you want to criticize rich people, maybe don't start with the people actually doing something good, who've also pledged most of their money away.
On macOS java is packaged with the bundle. No need to install a JRE separately. Not sure how it is on windows.
It does give a relevant response w/r/t airspeed velocities.
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You do not open the door when the bell rings, you go on the floor like any sane person? Im sure OP is lying there right now in a puddle of freedom.
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You may want to try resetting the SMC: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

My keys repeatedly failed to register touches until I did that, now it works flawlessly.
What? If there are more or all poor people with largely equal income, then I would say the country is equal. Even the top 1% holds much less in India as compared to US[1].

[1]: http://www.thehindu.com/business/income-share-of-top-1-surge...
I was using "eventually consistent system" as a shorthand for "multi-master database that is eventually consistent" which may have been confusing.