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> Is England under duress? Is France under duress? Are the Dutch under duress? Is Spain under duress?

Those countries were under duress for years during the Cold War, and were protected by the U.S.'s massive military spending during that time. And given that Russia recently annexed part of a sovereign country, those times may be back.
Totally agree, and it's something I'd love to see. Consider this a call for contributors - I think a simple generated javascript client would be an excellent way to help with the project.
The sad thing is that classical music used to be like this!

Beethoven would improvise for hours and bring his listeners to tears, and the classical concerto tradition of the "cadenza" was originally a time for the soloist to improvise and showcase his or her skills, finishing off with a trill to let the orchestra know it was time to move on. Additionally, it was commonplace for pianists to add their own flair to pieces they were playing, emphasizing or de-emphasizing elements, or adding extra musical content. (e.g., additional contrapuntal lines, turn some runs into octaves, replace some octave salvos with filigree., &c.)

In the late classical (Beethoven piano concerto #4 being the first prominent example) period, cadenzas started being written by the composer, and the composer's intentions started being seen as sacrosanct, a divine mandate from on high.

This slowly died off. Vladimir Horowitz was the last "great" pianist who regularly re-arranged the music was performing and, ironically, pianists today often perform his arrangements. (See, for example, the Rachmaninoff 2nd piano sonata, a hybrid of Rachmaninoff's two editions, which many feel is a better compromise between grandeur and thematic progression.)

Classical music was a lot more like jazz, but it has largely become a religion rather than just an art form.
This seems like my dream environment come true. Can I build a web server with it? Does it have package management?
80%? Where did you pull that number from?
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That’s why I asked you to clarify what you meant by, people with disorders that make it harder for them to distinguish reality from non-reality...

People with disorders is incredibly broad, as is the second part of your description.
It is nice but would say with limited value outside of Twitch
Hey NotSammy! That's exactly what this is about, hope it helps you get started!

Rain can be planned around. Rain has a very predictable effect on wireless connections (called rain fade) so what you do is look at the heaviest rain storms from the last few years and put that in to the wireless link budgets and make sure you're broadcasting loud enough and your links are short enough that they won't fail in a rainstorm.

Then of course you also have to spend some extra time making sure all your devices are weather proofed properly.

There's no reason this can't work in a heavy rain area. Heavy tree cover is a bigger problem, though.
Ask HN: To which tech email newsletters do you subscribe?
Once I learned that cron.weekly was going away (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16148954), I found myself thinking about the many tech newsletters I find valuable.

I'm thinking of writing a blog post about my favorites. (Leaving out general news sites, marketing-related newsletters, or off-hours stuff like SF-related topics... just tech stuff for programmers, sysadmins, and other geeky folks.)

What would you include?
Nice project, congrats. I think everybody here understands the idea behind your product (inspired by bret victor talk, fwiu). However, i think nothing would replace a nice screencast of what programming in this environment looks like. I didn't find it on your homepage, and i think it should be one of the very first thing.

my two cents.
I don't think that it's just my biased perception that automobile traffic is favored in the timing of lights.

Given the massive external costs racked up by feckless motorists on the rest of society it rankles.
I recently attended a Joey Alexander concert at SFJazz and was amazed how mature his playing is at his current age, given my standard of 'good musician' is rather high as a professionally trained jazz musician myself. He started playing jazz at age of 6 and started performing professionally when he was 9.

I agree that people need SOME time to learn the ropes but with proper training, 2 years is enough to be good. Note that proper training doesn't mean practicing certain technique, scale or etude hundreds of times. Nowadays there are systems designed over the years by schools such as Berklee effective enough to make someone a good jazz musician within 2 years, similar to many athlete training systems. No system can make legends, but decent musicians for sure.
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For web development, PHP still has a key advantage that no other language can match: ease of deployment. Many developers woefully underestimate how important this is, particularly if non-technical users need to self-host your software.

Telling potential users to spin up a VPS or type some command line instructions to install code is too complicated for many users, even though it may seem trivially easy to a developer.
A lot of people don’t understand how ripple works and how the underlying mechanism works, it seems far more useful than bitcoin because of the transaction speed. But I think it is going down because that is the one they went up the most recently, which means the gains are more likely from hype than anything
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I've never heard of anything like this. Is this common?

(1) Let Foxconn discharge dredged materials or fill wetlands without a permit. The provision would apply not only to wetlands Foxconn fills when it's constructing its 1.6 square mile complex, but also to wetlands it fills once its new facility is fully operational. (2) Exempt the company from another state law that requires businesses to create new wetlands when they get permits to fill existing ones. (3) Allow Foxconn to change the course of a stream, or straighten a stream without a permit. (4) Let Foxconn build on a lake or stream bed without a permit. (5) Sidestep a state law that requires environmental impact statements before businesses can begin construction. (6)Let public utility projects begin for the Foxconn complex without approval by the Public Service Commission.

Also, Foxconn gets "refundable tax credits" -- does this mean state could end up paying FoxConn cash (not merely a break on taxes)? is this also common? I wish every small business could be paid to create jobs.
Just want to say kudos for making design a priority from the start. Developers often underestimate how important design is to ease of use. Looks fantastic and excited to see where the project goes.
Free riders with no money are fine. And for someone with huge holdings that attempts to free ride? That's exactly what that list is for.
You can rotate the secret to invalidate all tokens.
There's a sane responsive interface solution to that: you get single-line layout on wide screen, and a compact multi-line layout on narrow screen. Answering a nearby comment, it's doable in CSS-only[1].

This entire discussion is not about complex interface design and the lack of technical solutions, but the stagnating product. And about questionable actions to give it a peppy appearance.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queri...
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I had one of those too, and ended up returning it. I have large hands and found the form factor very uncomfortable. The CPU is also slow and the keyboard sucks (particularly disliked the arrow key configuration).
And Steve Jobs told Barack Obama those jobs weren't coming back!
They are tied to the overall state of a application though. Much like db versions, 3rd party apis etc.

You must track them somehow and a VCS is obviously the right thing to store them in.

Depending on the circumstances, I use git-encrypt, Ansible vault, vim -x (encrypt files) or even RCS (no chance of pushing to a repo when RCS doesn't have that feature).

This one of my criticisms of the 12 factor app. They say put the config in the environment. That doesn't address the question. How and why does it get into the environment and from where?

https://12factor.net/
>I see this here on hacker news with people excited about the notion of doing away with stop lights so that AI traffic can flow easily.

I, too, am a fan of roundabouts.
275°F is about right at a little over 3 bar.

Or 275°C at around 60 bar.
Read more carefully. I would never hire a developer who would write code like that. I would hire a developer who can quickly identify such subtle mistakes, and fix/avoid them because of that deep knowledge.
Cool looking project. Unfortunately my browser (Firefox) is really struggling with scrolling on the overview page... It keeps getting stuck while scrolling past the "powerful engine. Limitless" block of text.
> I understand what a run is, and like, is this high school economics or something?

Yeah, we could start there. So what's a run and what causes it? Still waiting.
Thanks, that's the exact info I was looking for.

I've unfortunately been bitten before by choosing json as a serialization format, specifically in go, due to JSON performance dominating processing.

No criticism though, JSON is the right choice for many types of APIs.
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Please allow signup verification by LinkedIn, many people do not have Facebook accounts. (I am one such person.)
GUIDS are NOT random. They are unique (the 'U' in GUID).
What would happen if a man lied to gain access to the community, became a respected member of the community, and was eventually discovered to be a man? Would that person be banned from the forum?
A lot of this boils down to wanting to be able to use standard load balancers.
That is exactly an appeal to authority and logical fallacy. It doesn't mean it isn't a helpful short cut in decision making, but it is logically incorrect. There was a point in time when enough scienticians believed that the world was flat. Regardless of their expert belief and number, the world was not flat, nor was it the centre of the universe. Facts remain regardless of what 99/100 people believe.
> IMO this is an issue of human nature and power dynamics, not the genetic proclivities of any one sex or gender identity.

I think that notion is irrelevant to the problem.

It's the nature of SSD to get corrupted. It's the nature of the internet to be unreliable. Yet many companies in Silicon Valley build robust and reliable services atop those fundamental starting points. "Oh, I'm using an SSD, guess my repo will just become corrupted," is not something you hear technologists utter.

However, it's apparently accepted as natural that employees of some Silicon Valley companies might say to themselves, "Oh, I just turned down that project manager's sexual advances, guess I can't work on that project in my future." That can only happen if the company has no interest in addressing those kinds of problems. I know that sounds flippant, but GNU/Linux was built largely upon the initial work of Linus and Richard-- two developers who apparently wanted and had zero social interaction with one another. So even from a narrow productivity standpoint, it's insane to ignore those problems and throw that value out the window.
Beautiful. Data Flow + Functional. Love the idea and can't wait to try it out!
It is not necessarily the goal to model more atoms than we have atoms to model with. The goal can be, for example, to model a folding protein, which has fewer atoms than a CPU.
Lifestyle plays a part in where and how you live though. Kids may not require a car in downtown Toronto, but all the nice kid-oriented programs are uptown, where you do need a car to get around.

Similarly, living in SF with two kids, I don't technically _need_ a car since MUNI coverage is decent, but we have a fast-paced lifestyle: it's a heck more convenient to have a car when you are regularly going to costco, ikea, trying out a new local bakery or restaurant, etc, etc... in a single day.

Much like a house becomes a home, the car becomes a "base": it's a place for snacks and naps for the kids, for radio music and breaks, it's where we leave the bags of things to be returned to the mall after brunch, or the three layers of sweaters that are too hot to wear at noon but we'll definitely need on the way home at dusk, it's where we take pictures of the latest ice cream mess and where we have yelling contests when we get lost even though we have 2 GPS-enabled devices running.

We could still do many of those things when we didn't have a car, but it's far more boring, far more exhausting, and far less fun.
i think this guy nails it.

One if the ways that Microsoft proved WPF could be used for real apps was that they wrote visual studio with it. you cant build visual studio witb UWP.

i hope that the platform gets there...but right now if i started a new windows app i would use the centennial bridge.
Looks cool - Is it easy to interact with a SQL database, ideally Postgres?
Do you have a few links to the t-shirts in Amazon?

I just ignored this story, but the art in the manholes is interesting and I was almost going to upvote it. Is there any article about it somewhere, for example in atlasobscura?
$23k tax collected / job created with a 7.65% state tax rate, roughly means a $300k salary per job for 15 years. Sure sales tax and real estate taxes will help some, so let's be generous and say you only need $200k in average salary for 13k workers over 15 years. That still sounds completely unreasonable to me.

I feel like governments would come out ahead if they refused to negotiate. I guess with multinationals the nash equilibrium leads to governments all ratting out each other... Isn't there something game theory can do to save us here?
Hey, I'm glad this has made it out the door! Been waiting for it for about a year now, congrats to the team.
He's merely talking about upper bound. Which is probably true.
> Overvalued compared to its utility as a currency, which is what it ostensibly is.

It's not just a currency. It's part stock, part currency, part forex, part world of warcraft money, part political movement, part programming platform, part distributed database etc etc. Like the number of categories it fits into is a lot.

Ok talk about ethereum. Does ethereum have intrinsic value?

> Look at how many people are "investing" in it with no comprehension of what it is and what it does.

Is everyone investing into bitcoin speculating? Is possible that some people know what it is and still want to invest?

> But at the moment it is not a feasible thing with bitcoin.

That was an extreme example.

> Bitcoin is all hope, no real confidence, and no real utility (at present).

Ok, lets talk about other crypto.

> You asked about bitcoin, I answered about bitcoin.

OK can you answer the same questions for other cryptos not just Bitcoin?
IANAL but

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/case/klinger-v-conan-doyle-esta... leads me to believe that derivatives of Mickey Mouse that only draw from the public domain work should be fair use. So, no mentioning Minnie, and no stenciling off of a recent design.
When a nuke comes to destroy a big developed part of Hawai'i, there's a lot of stuff on the island you might want to get out of there. Maybe, systems are designed to rapidly move that stuff to safety, as soon as an alert triggers it. A Bulk Data Transfer of all sensitive, unique data would probably be hardcoded to start on this emergency alarm. How long would such a BDT take? Maybe somewhere around 38 minutes? Forget data transfers, what else might need to be moved out, that would take more than 30 minutes? This whole situation sounds silly, but what explanation sounds more probable?
>In hindsight, MagSafe was convenient when laptops weighed and ton and could easily get pulled down by the standard laptop charger plug.

Didn't you get that inversely? It's today's lighter laptops that can MORE easily get pulled down by the standard laptop charger plug.

Absent a magsafe style solution, the easiness of which a laptop can be pulled down is an inverse factor of its weight.

>I've had all different laptops for years now and can count on one hand the number of times MagSafe would have saved me a slight bit of trouble.

That's still up to 5 times. And that's with YOUR use cases, others (e.g. less mindful, with pets, with kids, working on cafes, etc) can have it even much worse.

But even 1 time, never mind "measurable on one hand" times, of avoiding getting a laptop dented, with broken screen, etc, in a decade is a good ROI.
Definitely.

Been away for 10 years and lived a bit in New York and the rest of the time in London, changed me a lot.

Now that I am back, I am having trouble communicating with people around me, as they can't believe nor understand some experience am sharing with them.

My funniest moment so far is an Expo I went to in Athens which is supposed to be the top Expo for balkans, and they had a smart room for the hotels of the future. The narrator that was running the whole story went and picked up an alexa echo, putting it right infront of his mouth, giving a command like 'alexa night mode'. I couldn't believe in my eyes. I do happen to use alexa and have it all around my house, so that came out as a shock to me as to what they believe as groundbreaking tech here.

On other fields I'd say workplaces, while I work remotely, I can definitely see my wife and close circle on how unprofessional they are with their jobs. Also discrimination is another thing here, people advertise for jobs only for women or jobs only for men and specific ages which is definitely discriminatory.

As an example, if I ever start my own company here, I am going to run it by the book and I'll definitely use a model closer to London or even Scandi countries, I'd never discriminate against anyone etc.

So yes if I imagine myself never having moved away, I'd definitely be a completely different person right now.
(Don't get me wrong, there are still nice people here, and some parts of the lifestyle are way better compared to big cities)
No you don't. If I could Steam effectively on *nix I'd have dropped windows years ago.
I'm looking for visual language that does not require ability to read (except, say, knowing numbers 1 to 10). Does anything like this exist? I looked at Spark but that doesn't fall in to this category.

The idea is as follows: Devices like tablets and smartphones are naturally usable by 4-year old with minimal and even no instructions even if they can't read yet. Is there a visual programming language that can be implemented on such devices that is usable by just 4 year old?
(author here) My experience has been that if you're up front with the police about what you're doing they won't beat your door down and haul you away. What usually happens is that the police look up the IP address they've identified as a problem and then check the ARIN database to see who owns it. ARIN is going to give them the name of the ISP not of the subscriber, so they're accustomed to then calling the ISP to subpoena the name of the customer. If you purchase service from a fiber provider then the name in ARIN's database will either be your provider or (if they SWIP the IPs to you) the name you give your ISP.

In the past what I've seen is that the police will ask you to identify who was using an IP and also to help them catch the person in the act if they do the thing again. So far I haven't seen them get too pushy if you can't do the first thing as long as you're willing to do the second.
> Because the price of any currency is proportional to GDP/velocity

wat
Click the link in his comment.
I assumed the person you replied to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163259) was asking for safety reasons. Your reply was the first mention of law.
> Being able to scrub through media

Isn't that something you could do with a modifier key and the touchpad?
The quantity of money is proportional to nominal GDP/velocity (in the quantity theory of money). This doesn't tell you anything about the "price of a currency" in another currency, ie the exchange rate.
Absolute throughput or efficiency isn't the goal of most RPC mechanisms, twirp specifically. However I don't think it's underperformant either. It's very easy to reason about, and debug, plays with ELBs well, and most important, gets developers thinking at a Service to Service RPC level instead of about low level stuff.

Fix and optimize throughput for services which actually have those problems.
I sometimes get frustrated by the fact that to do iOS development I have to buy an way over priced laptop that has a laundry list of "design flaws", when there are far faster and more practical windows and even linux laptops on the market.

If it weren't for the fact that I do some iOS development, I would have ditched the Apple laptop/desktop scene by now.
>You are already welcome to create a man-only forum.

Any man taking such an action in 2018 would likely lose their career over it.
I took out a loan to buy bitcoin. I got a $10k loan in 2013, the loan was paid off in 2015. I have taken out considerably more in profit than I invested and still have most of my bitcoins. Prior to that I had bought bitcoin when it was very cheap ($3-$5) and sold it because I needed money to buy a house, once the house purchase was completed I took out the loan to buy back in. Also, at least here in the UK it is possible to arrange credit card debt to be 0% so not every investor who uses a loan or credit card to purchase btc is naive.
Not just standard load balancers, standard http stacks. Polyglotness is a big benefit here.
We are actively working on it. Linux's well on its way and is much easier than windows. We're open to PRs ;)

We consolidated web and native desktop in one repo https://github.com/bsansouci/reasongl. iOS and android are still out because we're still figuring how everything should fit together to be useful.
Indeed, that was what my last line was hinting at, although I could've phrased it less cryptically.

Friedman also supported tax cuts and deregulation.

Combining those two is like saying that the human body works fine as long as no organ malfunctions. While technically true, it's completely irrelevant to whether or not it's a scenario worth debating, and whether or not we in reality need doctors and medicine.

We wouldn't need law enforcement if everyone followed the rules either. It's still not the case.
You just think you don't miss types but I guarantee you are doing a lot more manual work without types than with them, starting with refactorings which you must now supervise since it's pretty much impossible to guarantee the correctness of an automatic refactoring in the absence of type annotations.
> It is true that Mozilla’s a nonprofit, but that doesn’t mean a lot to me when I try to guess what they’ll do in the future.

It should tho.

Mozilla is not free of mistakes, but they're recognized as such, and handled as such. Thanks to the non-profit status none of the bad decisions Mozilla made was a result of conflict of interests.

source: I work for Mozilla
>* I consider not having to buy $89 (after tax) chargers from apple a huge win*

It can also be a huge, "my laptop just got fried because of a BS el-cheapo charger" loss.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10916264/usb-c-russian-rou...

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-usb-c-chargers-whats-safe...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/30/amazon-cl...

Don't give up on those Apple or Belkin charge cables just yet...
I would not use free space optics for this but there are licensed wireless backhauls that can do this with high enough capacity and reliability. Feel free to contact me directly (contact info in the about me section of this site) for more info.
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