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If Nintendo's policies haven't changed since SmileBASIC on 3DS/WiiU, the Fuze IDE will be the only way to modify your code. Editing on PC or even emailing it to yourself is right out.
Having once worked with the "machine-readable" formats the realty industry produces, I'd rather scrape.
The assumption is that a Foxconn plant will destroy the local ecosystem. Any evidence, or just plain anti-business nimby-ism at work here?
That is some next level late 90's / early aught's action
Now you too can make web pages straight out of the 90's!
> I do wonder what kept Vancouver off the list though.

Housing crisis.
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While this is generally true, the situation with SPAs is a bit more complicated. Each popular approach early on had a lot of serious issues and pitfalls. IMO React was the first thing to really break through this and while it’s not perfect it addressed the biggest issues Angular and Ember had quite well.

However, at this point, once you’ve adopted React, NG2, Ember 2.x, or Vue, there’s not much to be gained by switching between them. They’ve all sort of gotten past the initial immaturities of the SPA approach.

This is really something you ought to carefully evaluate once and be done with it.
PVA is polyvinyl alcohol. Pretty stinky stuff- it’s used as a mold release for composite lay-ups, and is the active ingredient in certain prescription eye drops.
No Laredo, Brownsville, or El Paso.

I really wished they considered a majority Hispanic community that has the capacity to grow. This is just going to increase in-quality. Sad really.

Let's hope for Miami.

Or maybe let's not turn every corporate decision into a race war.
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By 2020, renewable electricity will be consistently cheaper than fossil-fuel
I think you're conflating "kind" with "moral" here. I've never heard of a religious person justifying censure of a sinner based on kindness
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Ask HN: What do you look for when choosing a conference?
A few days ago I put together a simple site with a list of DevOps conferences and some sorting buttons http://www.gotodevops.org/. I've overwhelmed by the positive feedback I received and contribution on GitHub from many people.

Now, I'd like to improve the website and make it even more useful for people who are searching for conferences. Current list of features to add:

- searchable list of speakers and presentations

- indicate if the conference will record / stream the presentations

- what weather can you expect during the conference

- rating / experience from the past visitors

What else do you look for when choosing which conference to attend?
Have you looked at Maria Montessori's pedagogy? my daughters both learned to write cursive, starting at age 2 with tracing activities (geometrical inset/outset, sandpaper letters, etc.). Having watched them interact with apps on the iPad, I think the sensorial and perceptual presence of the learning materials is very important -- apps are not a sufficient substitute.
Spoken like someone who has a job.

There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country who could use the work. Why limit their opportunities?
Blame fuel efficiency requirements[0]. They are based on footprint of the vehicle, and there wasn't a cost effective way of getting the Ranger efficient enough without it costing as much as an F150. Nevermind the fact that the Ranger was already more fuel efficient than the F150, and many people would buy the smaller vehicle if it suited their needs. Instead, efficiency standards made it not practical to build the Ranger.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/bigger-pi...
Waymo is already partnered with Fiat-Chysler -- the current test platform is the Chrysler Pacifica. Waymo also opened an office in Livonia, MI to be near the University of Michigan MCity testing grounds and the Auburn Hills, MI headquarters of their partner manufacturer.
Worth noting, I believe: the word "block" doesn't appear in the article, and seems to have been editorialized in the poster's title.
"The usual educational hardware" consisted typically of Apple IIs and overhead (transparency) projectors -- even in the mid-90s when the Lightspan stuff came out. Today might be a different story.
That gets me thinking of how things seems to have creeped up the stack, so to speak.

First one have hardware conferences, as the hardware is the platform. Then one get OS conferences. And now one have language conferences, because languages, thanks to the net, have adopted things like package managers that used to be the responsibility of the OS.

It is almost frustrating to install a python based program these days, as the documentation will rarely list any dependencies. Instead the install step will just pull in a pile of packages via pypi or similar, with little chance of review or control.
Yeah there is a lot of money in New York. It is all dead money sitting in accounts and low risk investments. There is no new money being generated. Amazon feeds off of growth, not having wealth. Growth wise, those areas are doing...what exactly? Trying to get their politicians to get Amazon to put an HQ there. Having money is not a business.
So... increasing the housing density in urban areas solves a lot of housing-related problems?

It's almost like this is a workaround to city government bodies routinely preventing the construction of more efficient housing solutions, using a loophole in the NIMBY rules.

The solution is almost always to build more housing units, and then to stack them on top of each other whenever you run out of open land. You can call it "densification", but that's not a particularly cromulent word.
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Amazing. It looks identical. However, can’t save images on iPhone.
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Inventor Claims to Have Solved Floating Point Error Problem
My point is that the problem is largely one of perception.

The hundreds of thousands of people in the area with technical educations aren't working at McDonald's.
Starting with version 5, VB allowed the creation of COM components natively, and could generate pure native code, not like the previous versions that just embedded the p-code inside a binary with a VM.

I have seen several enterprise level applications, with distributed objects (DCOM) and transactions, written purely in VB.

Including my first sight of an "Electron" app, exposing several COM libraries, written in VB, into a MSHTML container, using those objects from JScript in the page!

Regarding Borland, when Java came into picture, the company was still doing alright, and their Java development environment was designed similarly to the Delphi and C++ ones.

Their problems and change of focus came afterwards, when they lost a few people to Microsoft, including Anders, whose first project was to design Microsoft's Java implementation, J++.
A fresh installation of Windows 10 Professional has advertisements for Candy Crush in the start menu. I don't think anyone's overreacting.
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See also Cloudflare Warp https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-warp/ which enables you to hide completely and connect to Cloudflare and also the use of this to expose k8s to Cloudflare natively: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-ingress-controller/
I deal with this personally by arguing that artistic merit is effectively objective - that whether a work of art is "good" or "bad" is independent of personal tastes. There are lots of good works of art that I simply don't like (and frankly, lots of bad art that I love).

This is mostly as a counter to the common-as-dirt conceit of "I don't like this, therefore it sucks" that is many people's loud response to stuff that happens outside their own culture.
> Also, the ability to see people in person, and discuss ideas with them directly is a very different experience from watching a YouTube channel.

It may also help to sooth some hot tempers, and one reason the Linux kernel conferences got started.
That doesn't seem right. Toyota Tacomas, Nissans, Ford Rangers, Chevy S10s, etc have been popular throughout that period.

The only thing I can think of is emissions mandates that have made the full-size pickups roughly equivalent to the mpg advantage that light trucks used to have.
You can disagree with it, but it's not misused.
> I don’t know how to fix conferences, but the first place I’d start on that whiteboard is by getting rid of all of the talks, then trying to find different ways to bring people together — and far more of them than before.

It’s called Burning Man
But if that rotor/engine/system goes out what keeps you in the air?
Would love to see OSes based on KDE Mobile or whatever it is called these days. Qt is a solid framework.

Fairphone Open [1] for FP2 is based on Android but completely open source. You can run it with GCM (which isn't open source) or without. You can run LineageOS (with or without microG), and there are unofficial ports of Ubuntu Touch and SailfishOS. The phone is also modular though the hardware is slightly out of date for 2018 standards.

[1] https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fairphone-2-official-rel...
Amazing. It looks identical. Unfortunately, can’t save images from safari on iPhone.
I thought so too at one point. However, airports need tens of thousands of employees, so middle of nowhere, nope. Doesn't work. Everything from "drag this box here" employees, waiters/waitresses to highly specialized engineers to accountants. Also, it is a big advantage for hubs to have a steady flow of traffic to the hub. Thirdly, most carriers don't just get a hub from the government, the government cheats further. So in practice most carriers have tax advantages in their hub, as well as preferential treatment.

Although getting governments to approve middle of nowhere airports also doesn't seem to work too well. Why ? No idea. Perhaps issue is that they too would need to get personnel into the middle of nowhere.

But the current situation means a number of things. One, aircraft carriers will buy lots of little planes and won't do well. Second, they won't be matching Emirates or Etihad on pricing or customer conditions any time soon. Emirates and Etihad and a few others will do well.
It makes sense for the companies involved. If someone is attending primarily just to go to sessions, then no. (Although if you're just going for the sessions, I'm not sure most conferences really make sense.)
I don't have favorite corporations. I don't think HN should have any content from companies about their own products (exceptions for things like mea culpa articles).

While you may push back on some, almost daily I see content from Google taking up one of their products where if It wss on a Microsoft or Oracle site for example submission would never see the light of day.

Google just hides their press releases in blog posts.
It's a perfectly cromulent word to describe the act of embiggening the number of houses per unit area.
It’s definitely not about frameworks or build tools. It’s just about applying whatever you’re using well. It certainly doesn’t have to be perfect, but it should at least be clear that an effort was made.
>PVA is polyvinyl alcohol.

I'd imagine this is a context-dependent acronym. Certainly, in public in the UK PVA refers to acetate, because it's a shorthand for glue.
More likely the same thing that kept Portland off - they want more distance between HQs.
Programmers who only code at work
One quick note, they did not get the google analytics right on their download page. You can see the JS tracking code under their black head banner at https://www.fuze.co.uk/download-fuze.html.
Well, to put it bluntly, I can tell you all the Real Programmers at national labs, universities, government agencies etc who buy processors by the tens of thousands for running big simulations of Important Things (as opposed to running bucketfuls of Mongo instances for sharing streaksnaps and cat pictures) are very interested in any effect on these synthetic benchmarks.
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Amazon names 20 “finalist” cities in its new headquarters beauty pageant
So...are you running an open SMTP relay, or are you refusing to relay mail for your own users? Because I'm pretty sure that with an unpatched qmail, you've got to be doing one or the other.

Also, how are you dealing with backscatter?
I like how the big quotes that separate up the paragraph aren't repeated elsewhere in the text like many similar sites seem to do!
I just wanted to say thank you, as a senior sysadmin this looks like a really good course to uptrain t1/2's with, and it does seem to be more concise and relevant than other similar courses.

I rip on google a lot, but I can appreciate good work when I see it.
I just wish it would support resume
Apple will give users the option to control their own battery's destiny
Blockchain is to crypto what AOL was to the early web.

We've had hashing, dencentralisation, public key cryptography etc for years, but all of it was kind of academic, kind of out of reach.

Similarly AOL brought email, the web, IM together into a nice package that people could get behind and use even though there wasn't obvious inherent value to those who were using the internet beforehand.

AOL brought the news homepage, Ethereum has brought crypto-cats. AOL gave 8-year-old me an interest in dial-up connection sounds, bitcoin gave me an interest in staring at financial graphs.
Do you know why is housing in Denver so expensive ?

It seems to have good density. Even small towns in Colorado look expensive.
I referred you, but just wanted to add that the reputation of your university doesn't matter. good luck.
Many of those contributions get backported, it's certainly been a net benefit.
In 1998, it was probably reasonable to run qmail without patches. By 2000 or 2001, it definitely wasn't.
Lol, the terminal is for plebs. REAL programmers read it straight from the framebuffer.
Could have sworn that HN had an article a while back about Japanese icecream that had similar additives, for the purpose to slow the melting.
Yup. I've been a renter my entire adult life, and have lived in both owner-occupied and corporate-managed buildings. (Here we don't have granny flats, just the other rooms or floors of a townhouse that's been divided into apartments.)

The former care a lot about keeping their properties in good condition (after all, they live there, and typically the home is part of their nest egg). I've never known an occupant landlord to ignore a leak. Keeping the building pest-free is as important to them as to you. They want to maintain friendly relationships with the people they share walls and floors and ceilings with, and put time and effort into selecting tenants (your neighbors) who will be considerate.

I've ended up becoming good friends with most of those landlords as well as with the other tenants in those buildings. One elder landlord has become like an uncle to me. I've always been reluctant to move from those apartments until forced to by unrelated circumstances

The latter care about upkeep and maintenance only to the degree that it will keep the apartment rentable. Between tenants, they'll patch over any visible issues. When selecting tenants, they care only about the likelihood they'll pay rent on time, won't smash the walls with sledgehammers, and won't cause frequent law enforcement visits. You'll get neighbors who are loud or rude or steal your packages from the mail room. They pay lip service to pest control, and if you're lucky they'll cover the cost of sending an exterminator out once a month (better hope you're home to let them in). I've never wanted to stay in such an apartment once my lease was up.
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Vancouver is de facto their current HQ2, no? Mostly used to funnel hires to Seattle through L-1 visas, but still.

Keep in mind Amazon is constantly looking for and hiring tons of tech workers. I live in Europe and I'd have a hard time taking their hiring events seriously if I could end up in Winnipeg (no offense). But the same is true for quite a few US cities on the list, though, and it makes me believe they probably aren't considering half of those locations seriously, like other people pointed out.
With regards to your first point - it's not really costing taxpayers in Wisconsin $4.5B . At least for the tax credits portion, those are taxes that would not have been paid in Wisconsin otherwise.
Yes, the guys are great, the guests always interesting and is a good way to keep up with C++, even for those of us that spend most of our times in other language eco-systems.
I feel your pain. I was a Deadhead back in the day, and a lot of, well, shallow Deadheads couldn't wrap their heads around the idea that some shows were better than others, and some eras were better than others. Mid-late 1980s Grateful Dead performances could be mighty disappointing. (Although lately, I'm coming to appreciate the good ones.)
From Paul Sagar's bio (the author of this article):

"i am lecturer in political theory in the department of political economy, king’s college london

i completed my doctorate at the university of cambridge (2014), after receiving an ma in intellectual history and the history of political thought from the university of london (2010), and a ba in politics, philosophy, and economics from the university of oxford (2008). from 2014-17 i was junior research fellow at king’s college, cambridge.
my doctoral thesis centred upon the political thought of david hume in the context of british debates over the nature of human sociability and moral psychology. i extended this research in my recently completed book, the opinion of mankind: sociability and the state from hobbes to smith, published with princeton university press. alongside my work in the history of political thought i also research contemporary political theory. i am in the early stages of researching a second monograph, which will explore adam smith’s political thought as grounded in his views of history and commercial society."

(the original is in all caps, hence the lack of capitalisation)

From you:
"Nothing in the article is really wrong"

Well, thanks for that. I'm going to take a wild guess that the author knows a hell of a lot more about Adam Smith than you do, even if you have been "interested in these for many years".

And I think that applies doubly to the other critics above.
Yeah I agree it's an incredibly clunky and slow user experience that seems to have limited application. Gambling I think is another decent use.
Amazon could only benefit from having multiple state and municipal governments in competition within any general metro area that they are seriously considering. I think it's a bit telling that Washington, D.C., Montgomery County in Maryland and "Northern Virginia" are all on the list, as well as both Newark and New York City.
And probably the fact that it's so close to Seattle. Geography matters to a company like Amazon and putting up a large hub right next to the first one isn't the best choice.
The long taxi is really only from the Polderbaan, the far away runway to the NW of the terminal.
effectively duplicate to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16168067
Or the fact that their employees would need to sell their organs in order to afford single-bedroom apartments.

But I'm curious, have they actually publicly stated that they want a lot of geographical distance between the old and new HQ? It's an assumption that informs a lot of what's being said here.
Any chance of support for KAYAK or AwardWallet? Both offer a TripIt style forward booking email to add to an itinerary - I think AwardWallet offers an API for access to account data.
That's unavoidable with a big hub. Some runways are going to be further away from the terminal. In Frankfurt, I've actually had a bus take us from the terminal to the plane.

And for short trips, most time is wasted by having to check in two hours in advance. High speed trains are better for short trips in my opinion. But as far as I understand, the point of a hub is to concentrate traffic for the long trips. Those 20 minutes suddenly don't matter all that much anymore.
> Have 10 choices which are all bad is not better than having 1 bad option.

But having 10 good choices is clearly better than having 1 good choice, and that's closer to what my experience with FOSS has been.
Moreover, it's less than 150 miles away from Seattle
The most natural follow-up to currencies on a blockchain are assets, like a ticket to a concert, shares in a company, or a deed to a car.

Once more assets are represented this way, many kinds of applications would be valuable. One simple and powerful example is escrow.

Enabling one-shot, instant escrow with strangers on the Internet has real-world benefits. For example, the current safest way to exchange Burning Man tickets is to meet someone in person, inspect the tickets and cash, and trade them by hand. If they were a blockchain asset, they could be traded nearly instantly and safely across the world. With a stable dollar asset, the official escrow service could even make it more difficult to sell above face value.
Hey, but we've got some deal in the works for nonstops to Iceland! (tongue-in-cheek). [1]

I really didn't intend to get high and mighty on my Midwest horse.

Also, I don't know how well you know the airport situation, but they're really, really trying to work on it. [2] Honestly I'm not sure where they're at in the process though, there's been some hiccups.

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2018/01/09/kansa...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/...
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Both you and madez are correct, although I still agree with the principle behind the original statement. IME (and the AMD and ARM equivalents) are a gaping security hole in all modern processors and that should terrify everyone who cares about security at all. Think about things like Meltdown and Spectre and that's in parts of the processor we can actually audit, now consider all the exploitable flaws that are lurking in things like IME that we (although presumably nation states can) can't audit.
Thank you for actually engaging! Let me preface this by saying I'm usually the first to deride Bitcoin as a payments platform. However, using energy to mine Bitcoin does provide value to the user - profits over and above what the power bill and ASICs/GPUs cost. And you're right - for a payments platform, it is a regression in terms of energy consumption.

That, however, does not change the fundamental issue - the severe underpricing of emissions-heavy power generation. The externalities that the author is so worried about (in the form of climate change) are not priced into the going rate for electricity. Blaming bitcoin miners is silly - if I pay for my power, I should be able to use it however I see fit. The alternative leads to absurdity, such as a law that states your aircon may be set no lower than 22C in summer, as anything more would be "a waste". I pay for it, I use it, bugger off.

The external social cost of electricity generation needs to be internalised into the private end-cost - a carbon tax or an ETS. Pick one, follow through, and stop blaming rational agents for acting rationally.

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... As opposed to all those non-text-based programming languages?
Misleading? The material is made from coal and limestone.
I seem to remember that Thatcher was all for society when it came to fighting wars (NB I am from the UK and old enough to vividly remember the war in question).