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I mostly use Pixelmator for that sort of thing on OS X. It's like $20, but I also bought it about five years ago, so it's a sunk cost!
I tried something similar. I just started subverting it. Turning it off is the only way .
Amazing post, thanks. I was recommended this youtube video today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnitLNObR7c

where Pinker shows a graph with a very strong decline in global war deaths. Along with many of the other graphs in his talk, I was very skeptical of it and believed that it must have been made using highly cherry-picked data, probably justified with a convenient definition of war.

This post makes it clear that such an analysis is really very difficult to make and depends on so many things, even without asking some tricky questions: What about terrorism? What about the war on drugs? Are deaths in the Israel-Palestine conflict counted? How about union-busting mercenaries in the Congo? What about the war on black people in the US where over 1000 were killed last year?
Where can I get one of these for Terraform?
I use both garlic and onion juice in my hash browns.
I don't understand the purpose of the pictured "Universal Wheel" and "Omni Wheel" configurations.

In those modes it appears the neat new thing -- the big-folding-wheel -- isn't participating in a meaningful way. It's just being "stored" in a odd spot... and perhaps being used as an over-complicated weak axle that'll be very expensive when it eventually warps or breaks.
So you smoked weed?
I'm curious about the linear lines of code growth -- has anybody acually experienced that? What is causing it?
I regularly use http://www.pixlr.com/editor/
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We’re nowhere near the point where that would be even vaguely feasible on one crucial point: accessibility.

If you’re talking about rendering everything on a canvas, well, there’s been the occasional discussion about making it a11y-friendly, exposing content in it to screen readers and so forth, but nothing has really happened with it.

Your WebAssembly GUI toolkit is going to be completely invisible to screen readers.
n=1 feels pretty valid when that 1 is you.
I find it hard to believe U.S. unions and insurance are more expensive than their equivalents in other countries, but maybe - seeing as health insurance is universal everywhere except in the U.S.
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> how many days of use until they fall apart?

it's cardboard, it doesn't matter

but yeah, the killer move will be software support to make your own, and it might take over the damn world (says the father of several small human children)
Megabus, if you're not too cool for coach? Incredibly cheap (cheaper than gas), really pleasant ride, great views if you grab a seat in the top deck. 7-8 hours.
Because then you’d need a (inefficient) fork/execing webserver, or some convoluted (error-prone) way of multiplexing multiple connections over one stream. The OS file descriptor model already handles this for you with listen() and accept().

CGI only works if you’re willing to take the hit of launching an entire process (good luck using any interpreted language, and even go needs some runtime initialization at startup) for every single web request.
Your first point is dead on but your second point is way off and I would actually say the harder point is SEO. My clojurescript app is excellent at keeping front end and back end perfectly synchronized across many clients. However, my ability to generate pages that can be SEO'd is not as easy.
As far as #3 goes: congratulations, you've invented Nintendo.
Cape Town could become first major city to run out of water in 90 days
Its indecision lately with regards to direction is probably a massive factor in this.
Or… it's $80 for a game and $0 for the controller, and then (admittedly still over-priced) price point matches their other mini-games titles (1-2 Switch, Arms)
This test isn't very informative because both .png and .jpg are already compressed formats, with "better than gzip" strength so gzip/deflate isn't going to be able to compress the underlying data.

You only see some compression because gzip is just backing out some of the redundancy added by the hex or base64 encoding, and the way the huffman coding works favors base64 slightly.

Try with uncompressed data and you'll get a different result.

Your speed comparison seems disingenuous: you are benchmarking "xxd", a generalized hex dump tool, against base64, a dedicated base-64 library. I wouldn't expect their speeds to have any interesting relationship with best possible speed of a tuned algorithm.

There is little doubt that base-16 encoding is going to be very fast, and trivially vectorizable (in a much simpler way than base-64).
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It's interesting to see the dynamic of new ethnic food. Immigrants come and discover that their best hope of owning their own business is a restaurant where they work themselves to death to offer cheap interesting food. I'd love to see a history of ethnic food in America: Jewish, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, Mexican. There's a Somali restaurant near where I work, next door to a mosque, but the only thing I've been brave enough to try there is the Gyros which is quite generic. It's good food at a great value if you don't mind waiting forever while they prepare it.
University of Montreal also has an autonomous robotics class called Duckietown (formerly at MIT). Having taken it last Fall, I can say it's pretty comprehensive. We covered a bunch of related topics from computer vision, deep learning, filtering, SLAM, with guest lectures from industry researchers and roboticists: http://duckietown.org

If you're in Montreal, we're having a public demo day next week. http://diro.umontreal.ca/departement/evenements/une-nouvelle...
Tap water comes to mind as being considerably cheaper than that. I'm pretty sure that gravel and sand are, too.
The problem with air travel is throughput. There are 6+ million trips between SF and LA per year, and any significant increase either replaces other flights or requires another two airports in SF/LA, which ain't cheap.

http://cahsr.blogspot.com/2009/10/la-sf-nations-second-busie...

HSR between LA and SF would be able to handle 15+ million people per year, on top of providing routes between other cities in CA, some of which don't have anything except for bus/car routes, and it would also free up capacity for more long distance domestic and international flights.
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dang, why a double standard? If this was a story about Google, HN would have changed links to the official Google PR.
I think the non-web app that comes closest to MS Paint in functionality is GrafX2. Only other paint program I've seen that has selection-as-a-brush. http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2

The interface is a bit different than MS Paint but it has these absolutely wild features, like colour cycling, where the colours can change while you're painting, which can be fairly psychedelic. GrafX2 is more of a clone of DeluxePaint for Amiga.

I'm no fan of mtPaint either.
This sounds like "I walked to the north pole - and nobody noticed."
It is not a bug with Google but instead a problem with "B" as they choose to ignore the "aud" part of the token.

You can't say password based authentication is bad because some developers choose to store password in plain text. The blame squarely lies with the developer.

People implementing auth without willing to go a little deeper may hurt themselves.
The interesting part though is how the established companies limited the number of licenses that could be issued. That kind of regulatory capture is why "more regulation" vs "less regulation" is an overly simplistic lens through which to view situations. The nature of the regulation can be very important in protecting incumbents, although there is probably a certain quantity of regulation where the inherent complexity of compliance becomes a similar barrier.
In my local area the credit unions have fees equal to or worse than the big banks. If you're in the same boat I highly recommend an internet-only bank. I've personally chosen Fidelity and it's been wonderful, but I'm sure others like Schwab, etc. are just as good. There's no minimum balance and reimbursed ATM fees just like some credit unions.
There are upsides and down-sides to this approach vs a local credit union.

Upsides are traditional banks usually have insane fees for investment accounts, but with Fidelity (and probably Schwab) you can have it all under one roof. You generally get more options, too. For example, when I opened a 529 I could choose to "open it" in one of several states. My previous big chain bank only allowed me to open an account with the investment options in my state.

There are only two downsides I've seen so far. The first is that Fidelity does not offer personal Health Savings Accounts. This may not be a problem if you have one through your employer, or don't use one. The second is for rare instances when you might need large amounts of cash, larger than you could reasonably withdraw from an ATM. For example, purchasing a car from a private owner. Doing this might require some finagling. In my case, my employer has my 401k at a national chain bank, so I am confident I could cut a check there if I needed to, but it is a concern.
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Speaking as somebody who's had to make builds for pc/mac/linux and bundle them up into each special back-end for each store and then test each one for every single patch, multiplying the process by adding more platforms is a hard sell. Why bother with Desura or whatever when 95% of your sales are gonna come through Steam?

Especially for the model of early access & building community gradually instead of risking it all on a big release --- since you're sometimes putting out new builds weekly the update pipeline becomes a real time factor.

3.
If it was a numerically advantageous proposition to scout & invest in indies, we'd see more people doing that. Try for a month going through new releases on Steam and predicting which ones are gonna be successes. It's a near-impossible game, much less if each bet cost you tens of thousands of dollars.

Plus, if somebody offered me such a contract, I'd be deeply skeptical that 100% of their revenue share (plus a straight-up cash bonus even) would beat out what I could get by going with established avenues --- especially if I had something I had good reason to believe was the next Cuphead.
Cool! I built something similar a while back. A bit more structured (creating accounts and such), but with a bigger variety of drawing tools, and some social features like following, project collaboration, upvotes/downvotes, and chat. https://www.formgraph.com
Pinta comes close to that, and is free software, unlike Paint.NET. https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/
What's good for America is good for General Motors.
> and have yet to find a suitable replacement

There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [2]. There is also Gnome Paint [3], but hasn't seen any update in years. I suppose the closest would be Pinta [4], although that is slightly above MS Paint on the complexity level (probably more comparable to Paint.NET than MS Paint).

> I'm not sure how I feel about it being web-based

Personally i find it amusing and impressive that this implements a Win95-like GUI (i love Win95's GUI :-P) but at the same time the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P.

It is also nice that it has implemented the select+shift+drag brush feature that is ignored by almost every other clone i've seen over the years.

[1] https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/

[2] https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/

[3] https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint

[4] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/
It's a two way street though, you can't leave.

Imagine a job where you're guaranteed a job, but you're also never allowed to resign on fear of injury and/or death.
I think it's fairly common with corporate relocations for the package to offer to put your cars on a car carrier and send you and the family via plane. I've had this opportunity a couple times and took advantage of it once.

If you see a car carrier unloading a car or two in or near a residential area or in a corporate parking lot, it's quite likely this is part of a relocation package.
> pagination

Even better is where you clearly separate your use-cases to avoid pagination except when you really need it. "If someone really needs to be able to visit 104th result, they need a different workflow anyway."

It's especially dangerous when you have some "Find Order" UI, and then some executive chimes in with: "My group could really use some totals about the result-set. Since this is already 90% done..."

Eventually you discover the "Find Customer" UI is abominably slow, having sacrificed the ability to find a customer for a bunch of quasi-reporting bells and whistles.
Having a distributed money supply makes it unstable, since you've tied an incentive to creating bitcoin.

Money supply would then be equal to how many miners there are without adding a difficulty, and the amount of bitcoins would go through the roof. Difficulty was clearly added as a solution after this to keep the money supply stable.

Note I didn't say it's necessary to waste electricity to have a stable money supply, only that the reason Bitcoin does is because it keeps it's money supply stable.
Unless the press release is from Google and disguised as a blog entry. Then HN loves it as gospel.
Cooks Illustrated was my favorite magazine, it was always interesting even when the recipes were a bit fiddly. I appreciated their ad-free format as well. Unfortunately I had to cancel my subscription when they went to auto-renewal, it just smacked too much of dark patterns to me.
> The repayment of the existing bonds will cost about $18 billion in principal and interest over the next 30 years, money that is coming out of the state highway improvement fund.

Great. Not only is this thing a waste of money, it's also sucking the air out of existing projects. Fuck this shit.
It passed, but there are parts of the bill that only last ten years (those applying to personal/small business taxes), and then those tax rules revert to the previous version after ten years unless they are passed again under non-Byrd rules in the Senate.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-14/how-the-b...
I'm constantly struck by how much we're willing to spend on military costs but not willing to shell out on infrastructure.
It would do many tech companies some good to have a larger percentage of their workforce in states with cultural values different from that of the bay area. That would be valuable diversity that would help them better understand their customers.
The after action report (AAR) can be found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_AAR
There are other forces in play. How likely do you think Apple is to give up their "Designed in California" tagline?
I really hope they don't, they have a crappy memory and cpu hog client which takes an age to start up, a very questionable privacy policy and monetization method, and their software just annoys me. I don't want my programs to spam memes at me.
not having your stuff run like garbage while you overpay out the ass?

I mean I know its not a concern for startups fueled by some one else's money, but it still matters.
Right, if open source is unmaintained you can still use it at the very least. And if you can't fix it yourself, you can pay someone else to.
My cousin is an elementary school girl who was very excited to get one for X-mas and plays it with her sister.
Of course, if a S3 region gets nuked, it can have repercussions in other zones too. Remember the S3 outage?
If only an Infrastructure Industrial Complex could be established...
Don't forget caching. A plugin such as w3 total cache or wp fastest cache (my current favourite) will greatly improve your load times.

In my experience the biggest issue with with slow load times are people uploading large unoptimized images. Things like multiple css/js files, unnessary plugins and framework are nothing compared to people using uncompressed large images. Use a plugin, ImageOptim or cloudinary.
Yes, I know of the reasons for keeping arbitrary credit accounts open, but the system is fucking stupid and I'd rather close accounts with banks/creditors that do stupid shit than give them an excuse for existing. Be the change you want to see, etc etc.
Good for you, you're an exception far removed from the rule.
>After all, I can't put them in the green recycling bin with my cans, jars, and plastic.

Depends, in SF you now can now put unfit fabrics in the blue bin[1]. For usable, they suggest place like USAgain.

[1]https://www.recology.com/recology_news/sf-accepts-new-recycl...
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Won't most people still assume that if they do supply the optional tip it will go to their waiter (with perhaps some also going to the busboy and/or cook)?

There needs to be a sign that explains how tips are actually distributed.
Why: https://elvish.io/learn/unique-semantics.html
> it puts out a tonne of horrible harmonics all over the radio spectrum

This is typically limited to a 50-100 foot radius without amplification, right?
I'm sure the bahn mi in Minnesota is great but I'd highly recommend going to the actual Saigon (HCMC) for reference before making a heavy claim like that. :)

PS this is why people think of Americans as insular.
> The real killer is that the $64B total project cost was the initial estimate. And costs are now up 77%! So we are likely north of $100B total cost.

Actually, the initial estimate was close to $100B. But when the public reacted with shock, they handwaived and said the cost would now be $68B. Just like that: poof! $32B knocked off the budget. Of course we all know that the initial cost was more accurate; and the final cost will be a lot more than $100B.
Not speaking about S3 specifically but overall I disagree. Assuming there’s a business case that requires multi-AZ or multi-region redundancy of multiple services it’s hard to match AWS in terms of price and simplicity.
Canada has a culture that is much like the USA, but without the somewhat nonfunctional healthcare and much better merit-based immigration. They want you if you are peaceful and can contribute to their economy/culture. Victoria and Vancouver are both beautiful cities that have tech happening, but also have a decent climate. There are a decent amount of tech meet ups in both.

Salaries are decently lower than the USA though. Taxes can also be slightly higher, but with the new income tax budget that passed the United States taxes should be at about the level of California tech salary taxes.
Thanks. That's a good point.
But if you're making your own UI kit, couldn't you just eschew CSS and the like? I was under the impression that part of the reason browser rendering is such a gnarly process is because of the reflow issues that CSS and HTML layout quirks/changes can cause. I would assume that you can implement a couple of layouts that prevent those sort of pitfalls and thus speed up rendering...

Please correct me (you know a lot, and I'm betting some of my assumptions are wrong).
For small scale, managed services just makes too much sense. I can have a database with automatic backups, security patching, and failover to another region, within seconds in a click of a button. For less than $1/hr. If you know a sysadmin that can do better for cheaper I'm all ears. The ability to scale to Fortune 100 scale with another click of a button is just a cherry on top.

SLAs are nice PR finger pointing tools. No one cares about the pennies you get back. We broke our SLA because Google broke their SLA is a good enough excuse for most of your clients most of the time. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM still applies.

Also, once you're massive sized, at least AWS (though I'm sure GCP/Azure too) seems more than happy to negotiate below their listed pricing, especially for hardware.

Security and lock-in are definitely real concerns when considering cloud providers. But let's not pretend cloud providers aren't competitive on price and convenience.
I had a recipe for Pad Thai that called for Tamarind paste, and I couldn't even find it at at an Oriental grocery.
The MS version at least can be wined without issue.

However, there are tons of lightweight image editors that run as fast as MS paint and offer more features; have you tried Pinta ? or gnome-paint ?
Normal isn't defined by yourself alone. Rather, it's the average of other people. If you are significantly more creative than the average person, it should be fairly simple to demonstrate that that's the case.
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As someone who's been trying to find guitar hero controllers for less than $60/guitar for weeks now, I wish this were the case. :(
Those cuts are not permanent though. They taper off and end within 10 years and will need to be renewed through future legislation leading to even further deficit impact beyond the $1.5 trillion. Meanwhile, the corporate tax cut and I believe estate tax cut are permanent and will not require renewal.
The cost of games
And intercepting URLs meant for the API server
> If it was a numerically advantageous proposition to scout & invest in indies, we'd see more people doing that. Try for a month going through new releases on Steam and predicting which ones are gonna be successes. It's a near-impossible game, much less if each bet cost you tens of thousands of dollars.

I think you forget you're posting on YC's forum. YC literally does this (with much higher stakes, by the way). Obviously, the great majority of YC companies don't end up being unicorns, but every now and then you get a Dropbox.

And to address your first point, Steam's SDK (for anyone that's worked with it) obviously sucks. But Valve can afford to release a crappy SDK because they're the big player and they don't care. Obviously, if I made a game distribution platform, the back-end would be minimal and packaging would be programmatic. E.g.: upload your binary, we'll package it and deploy. You don't need half the crap Valve peddles anyway (Steam overlay, chat, etc.)
I work in payments too. I don't know how this happens using an ACID DB. Everything is done within a transaction and extra checks are done to make sure that payments/debits happen ONCE and all once.
Corned beef and cabbage is legit, let me assure you.
its normal in Canada for the supreme court to rule a law unconstitutional, and give the government a deadline to fix it.
And yet every successful high speed rail system out there has stops in small towns and cities, many of which are much smaller than Fresno or even Merced...like Verdun, Atami, or Montereau. They're successful because of these stops, not in spite of them.

The market size for SF to LA and back is not large enough to justify rail with no stops. Its not even close, even assuming monopolistic market shares. And airlines have shown extreme willingness to compete with rail on price grounds, and they could take half that market easily even with trains going top speed.

Sorry if that burns your dreams of fast rail to the ground, but it is objectively the most financially responsible way to build. It can actually pay for itself that way, whereas it would be America's biggest boondoggle if they took your advice.
Well you might not call converting USD to yen an investment, there are some people that do. That is some people's job. It isn't that much didn't than investing in the stock market