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Never liked it. Omni's apps are generally cluttered, over-complicated and full of bad UX. No iCloud support, clunky iOS app, everything feels like it's 2006 again.

I like Things — both Mac and iOS apps have good UX — but it lacks some essential features, the most critical of which is the ability to add files to tasks. It's an absolutely must-have for development tasks. Its limited notational support (just a tiny, cramped text field) also makes it less useful for anything except basic personal reminders.

The lack of file support also makes Things less useful for other things, such as doing research into things to buy (new sofa, that kind of thing) or places to go. I use Evernote for this, but it's also a terrible app.
Go back to High School Civics. Oh. Your High School dropped Civics (and Citizenship) from curriculae? How unfortunate that you didn't learn of the 3 branches of government, the 4th estate (media) and the Power of the People(tm). That's very unfortunate it was skipped in your High School Civics class.

It's a wonder that any High Schools still even _have_ civics classes (or U.S. Government), as that would certainly be detrimental to the involvement of the general populace in their own self-government.

I wonder why The Government decided it was better to not have the Public Education System teach Civics to Potentially Concerned Citizens. Certainly much easier to get people excited about attacks on Net Neutrality (if they care) or just slowly accept that the voice of any one person of literally millions thinking the same thing is just another tweet-stream to drown out with internal or external propaganda.

Let me know if it's not clear, or if you'd like further unsourced opinions on the topic.

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Yep, muon tomography is a thing. Scientists also use them to visualise this interiors of volcanos (for example).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography
You made a decision to focus on GPU rendering for now. Do you think that architectural decision will impede high performance software rendering as a fallback?

Hardware rendering routinely breaks in Ubuntu (and probably other distros) because NVIDIA's driver still isn't packaged well enough to survive a kernel update, and doesn't work over ssh or on an many embedded systems anyway.
No that is what a meritocracy is as we have it, and it is broken.

Meritocracy rewards those who do the most. But those who can do the most are those who are the most well endowed.

This is separate from an even more perverse system where those who don't do the most are rewarded the most.
So if you can retire early, complaining about your employer makes you a jerk?
Well that's embarrassing...but it was late here ;)
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Why disappointed?
At the moment it seems to be a choice in the developed world for high unemployment or high ratio of poor part-time workers , there's not enough work for everybody anyway so I'm not sure which one is the worst.
Would you please not post flamebait to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
React + Redux + GraphQL Lumines game
Exactly, we're going to need a replacement for Google's vanilla Android soon. You can't even take off the Google Now bar - which takes up significant space on all workspaces!
My friend made lumines with react redux.

Any suggestions and comments are welcome!
This is the point of view taught in Polish schools, so it's unthinkable for a Pole to think otherwise. However, Lithuanians, Belorussians and Ukrainians would beg to disagree.

For me the most fascinating is the case of Lithuania. Polish children are taught about the Commonwealth, common history, fighting together... So when they hear about anti-Polish sentiment there, it makes no sense to them. People are surprised and can't understand it. That's the fault of presenting a one-sided version of history and completely ignoring the POV of your neighbors.
Shutterfly to buy photography company Lifetouch for $825 mln
I can relate with you, I have similar passions/issues.

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@chakrachi to connect ^~^
Not at all.

First of all, banks do have to balance their books. The 'fractional reserve' model taught in school is actually not how banks work in reality, and violates accounting rules.

Every single deposit in the bank does need to be backed by something - if banks just stored deposits then they would have to either have the full reserve backing, or other assets (cash, investments, etc.) backing every dollar. Lending seems different, but is really the same. Lending creates new money, by creating a new asset on the bank's balance sheet (the loan), and creating a matching liability of the bank (the deposit). But it is still backed by an asset - the debt to the person they lent to. (Central bank reserves don't actually come into lending, until the banks need to transfer money to other banks. Reserves are used for this, and the bank requires enough in their asset mix to maintain liquidity of their interbank transfers. They can just borrow reserves, for pretty close to the headline interest rate from other banks if they need some extra though).

So, Tether could be operating like the banking system, but, if they don't have full backing they would have to be creating matching debt for the remainder, with the intention of it being repaid. Otherwise their liabilities (the Tether) don't match their assets and it's just fraud.

Secondly, banking systems have a lender of last resort. If a bank faces a liquidity problem, they can still borrow reserves from the central bank. If Tether faces a liquidity problem, it's likely that nobody will lend them money, their business will collapse and all tethers will be rendered worthless.
Would you please not use uppercase for emphasis? It's basically yelling and there's a site guideline that specifically asks you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Existing social media reward mechanisms are bad enough, they need to be weakened, not strengthened. Imagine you could use hn karma to pay at Wal-Mart - would you expect the quality of discussions here to go up or to go down? I think it would be disastrous.
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But what value does "blockchain" add here? What is so special about photo watermarking that makes a traditional database unsuitable to the purpose?

If anything, the transaction rate limits of current blockchain technology seem like they'd be hugely limiting for this application...
This is another point rarely mentioned in Polish schools when teaching about the origins of WWII.
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People are used to how their phones work, it's a form of lock-in. I can't figure out how a Mac works, never mind an iPhone. I just get annoyed in the first 10 seconds and give up. If iPhone could be made to work more like Android, I'd switch to the superior Apple privacy story. As it stands I really hate using Apple UIs.
And importantly, you can control updates across a whole cluster by limiting how many machines are allowed to update simultaneously.
It's not so early. People have been developing apps on top of Bitcoin Blockchain for years now. Ethereum has been almost 2 and half years ago. I am not expecting any unicorns like Google/Facebook but at least couple of dapps with actual customers (e.g. not couple hundred crypto fanatics that sign up to every dapp just to pump the price) that are growing revenue and customer base and seem like a legitimate business.

I've been following crypto space for a long time but can't think of any blockchain app like that. Only money making companies are exchanges which make money from fees because of the mania and all the people trying to flip tokens to make big bucks and quickly sell to other noobs, but exchanges are old fashioned companies with centralised databases and Java/.NET codebase, they are not actual dapps.
Please don't post snarkily on divisive topics. It degrades discussion and leads to worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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This I find disagreeable. I love C++ but I've never considered it more than a love hate relationship. Like I believe Bjarne has said, there's an elegant language hiding inside of C++; the problem is, though, that this elegant language is Not C++.

Most C++ code I've ever written has at least had some issues with memory or threading, even with the best discipline I've had with C++. I think this is an experience many people share and probably a reason why a lot of folks are so excited for memory-safe alternatives like Rust.
Still around, still works that way.

I mine eth and/or zcash in small quantities. If I want to buy a small quantity of something else I use shapeshift. This way I hold no accounts anywhere.

'course I have no way to cash out, but then my holdings total less than 1 ETH so it's no big thing...
The long list of iOS 11 bugs and performance issues probably has something to do with it. I mean, it's just getting ridiculous now[1].

[1]https://youtu.be/61XqTT6xea4?t=45s
oh for sure man, NLRB in the age of trump is a guaranteed win. Not to mention the pain and struggle of being unemployed in the meantime. Quality addition to the discussion here.
Please don't respond to a bad comment with a worse one, such as a personal attack. That takes the site in just the wrong direction. That's why the HN guidelines explicitly ask you not to do this, but instead to flag egregious comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Happy to see this here! Seam carving is one of those neat little algorithms that hit a sweet spot, being a sum of a few moderately complex algorithms, comes from a readable paper, and gives very satisfying result. I had a lot of fun implementing it in undergrad.

One thing that I always wondered is how Photoshop managed to make it so fast that you can resize in real-time. If n is the width or height of the image, then the dynamic programming part is O(n^2) and needs to be recomputed after every seam removed. Since every seam is a single pixel wide, resizing the image by a non-trivial amount (say half) is O(n^3). There are other papers that remove multiple seams at a time but the quality isn't as good. GPU acceleration perhaps?

Another thing I learned while testing seam carving extensively is that it works nicely in certain scenes/situations, but tends to break down most of the time. The two most common scenarios are: 1) lines that are off by the horizontal by more than a few degrees get cutoff 2) objects loose their proportions and even when the manipulation is not directly obvious, it tends to feel off (in the uncanny valley sense).

I expect some interesting work to use deep learning for content-aware resizing, since neural nets could theoretically be more semantically and holistically aware of objects in the image.
Chromium: Use of Untrusted Data
The article is idiotic. Bill Nye is crossing into enemy territory to build bridges so that everyone will be better off, and they have the gall to attack him for that.

When "Scientific American" is being written by idiots you know you're spending too little on education.
We should all be thankful that the Java and C# communities have offered a welcoming home to all the architecture astronauts :)
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This has come up many times before, and it hasn't bit Amazon yet, but I still believe it will, eventually. At some point, either because of consumer outrage or government intervention or both, Amazon is going to have to stop selling counterfeit goods.
What Apple or Google or any other company comes across as is mostly in the eye of the beholder and can be influenced by many, sometimes trivial things. As an example my perception of Google has changed in recent years, not so much due to them shedding projects but more due to the intense politicisation of the place and the censorship which followed. I don't use the search engine directly, preferring to go through a third party to gain a semblance of anonymity. The Android project still gets my vote as long as AOSP remains viable, as soon as that road is cut off I'll jump ship to something else. To me Apple seems to be more in the business of herding their flock of users, trying to extract as much profit from them as feasible. They know which strings to pull to make keep most users from leaving the flock but recently more and more have strayed to the edge and beyond.
I think you're confusing Rusians with Germans. The most radical calculations mention 20 million as the collective number of people killed under the Stalinist rule, mainly Russians. Polish deaths were at most half million:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_repressions_of_Polish_c...
Modula-3
6 Reasons Why Migrating to Odoo 11 Is a Good Idea
RSVP, you say? I have never heard of this technology. I just did a demo app and it looks really interesting. I'll check it out. (I'm super annoyed when people name things using overlapping namespaces... I have a long rant about ip for iproute, too.)

And you say that it's compatible with the jock monocular displays? This is actually... pretty exciting.
I keep hearing the foreign money story, but I can't really find much evidence of it. (I'm currently in SV; touring properties and talking to RE agents nearly every weekend.) I'm not saying it's 0% of the transactions, but I'd be really surprised if it were even 5%.

I'm going to temporarily ignore the "superexpensive" properties, which I'll arbitrarily define as over $4M in SV. That's a different market... for the "global jet-set." Or the people who were the first X employees at a startup with a real liquidity event (and their founders treated them fairly).

Down on the valley floor, $1-3M is within reach of a lot of people in tech, especially double techies. (If you've been here since before the last 2 booms, you've got even more going for you.) Most big tech companies (FANG) stock is way up... Take that as a downpayment... multiple it 2,3, or 4 times and voila.

Markets that have really been hit by foreign money are Vancouver [1] and certain neighborhoods in Los Angeles [2].

Having been to those places (for extended periods of time), I can say SV doesn't feel like those to me.

One last bit of anecdata: I know of one house in SV that received at least 7 offers in the past month. Only 1 of those 7 was all cash foreign money... but they weren't the high bid. 5 other "locals" with loans had higher offers.

[1] https://betterdwelling.com/city/vancouver/foreign-buyers-45-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-15/chinese-h...
>This website is so clearly a scam created for this antitrust case.

What makes you think so? It starts with "We at Kelkoo have been helping our customers find the best products at the most affordable prices for the past 18 years." I clicked on the merchant sign up page, seemed fine.
Looks like I've got a new special alternative to "for a good time" to use in the memo field of all the checks I don't write anymore.
I've built a new version of HTTP that lets you build apps from multiple websites, linking their internal state together as easily as we link pages together today.

I think this solves much of the difficulty in building the decentralized web vision described in this article. I'd love to get critique and feedback.

https://stateb.us
Have you tried Terminal.app recently? A lot of people seem to rush immediately to iTerm2... And I used to be one of those, a few years back. But eventually I gave the built-in Terminal.app a serious chance and found it met all my requirements. Although I also stopped customizing my theme, and I keep as many defaults as possible. SF Mono is a great font!
HTC has been losing money each quarter and needed an infusion of cash to sustain their operations.
> not overwork us,

This stuck out to me. More than a few companies require developers to put in a lot of unpaid overtime in order to finish a project close to the original schedule. There's even a lovely name for it.... crunch time. It is endemic in the game industry, and pretty common in regular IT organizations.

And don't a lot of startups, especially in the very early founding days, expect devs to put in long hours without additional compensation?

And I worry that this has knock on effects such that some folks are locked out of employment opportunities. Got a young family or starting a family? No need to apply. Older and wiser and not willing to trade quality of life so the company can meet a busted schedule? No need to apply.

At its core, unpaid overtime, is caused by management mistakes (unrealistic project schedule). And not often enough will managers face up to the consequences of their mistakes.
Scientists are leaving Amazon reviews of products used for science
Try "Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics" by Richard Hamming
Funny, I already kinda use partial application in Javascript, just by using curried functions a lot. I.e.

const add = x => y => x + y

This is definitely non-idiomatic, but the definition syntax itself doesn't look that bad, if you can stomach writing add(1)(2) to use it.

I do agree that using _ would probably be a better solution :-)
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Not even 650,000, it was 65,000,000!

Reference: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0kQ1V1Z...
So JPMorgan is helping to create a company "that is free from profit-making incentives and constraints."

I don't buy it.
Android has three buttons rather than one, reducing menu fatigue. System settings are more customizable and generally easier to and more intuitive to use. Launcher screen be replaced by 3rd party app. Keyboard can be replaced by 3rd party app. Browsers can run any engine they want. Apps can host code. Terminal is a first class citizen. Phones can have the bootloader unlocked legally. Supports launch screen widgets. Better integration with Google services.

Sorry if iPhone now supports any of these. It didn't when I switched over from a 4.
This was more of a acquihire while the Motorola deal was more about the patents.
How US spied anyone's computer? Apple and Microsoft.
Please don't break the HN guideline against name-calling in arguments. "Privileged neoliberal propaganda" is on the line but "shitty apathetic views like yours" is well over it, especially because it's a personal attack too.

You don't have to change your views to comment on HN, but please edit out the bits that don't make for thoughtful conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When we bought the company it was losing about -20% of revenues and had never made a profit. We are up to -10% after 6 months and I think we will get breakeven in 4-5 months. So, we are not profitable yet, but we will be!
I tried that URL out. It works.
Well it's also true that you can pick up cells from people you are genetically similar too and live in close proximity to. This might play a part in group cohesion?
Email me anytime about FightClub, have not organized one in a while, but they can be fun!
According to your profile you are doing a new ICO so obviously you would defend them.
Recommended watching: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments.

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Indeed, and Akhenatens was heneotheist also, since he elevated Aten to the primary god, but still allowed the other gods.
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Quick story for 10 years of friend's Doctor visits which did not diagnose a Lyme infection - insufficient CDC guidelines:

Friend has had increasingly difficult health problems - mistook for thyroid issues - neurological issues (difficulty standing), thinning, pain, very scary stuff. Lyme swelling around nerves in brain, I believe was the explanation. Could not work. Finally diagnosed and undergoing months of traumatic antibiotic treatments involving a "heart port" :P is improving now, back working.

Tick bite in New York.
I think Google being able to buy Oracle is a bit of a stretch at this point. Oracle is 1/4 the market cap of Google. So, it seems unlikely they would have the capital available.
Urql promises to simplify using GraphQL in React
Let me see...

I can either spend next 15 years, hoping that tech market doesn't crash again and using my SWE salary to pay off property taxes and mortgage on a crappy SV house, making rent-seekers of all sorts rich...

... or I can pocket the money, and be financially independent when I'm 35-45, and spend rest of my life with family and working on interesting open source/business projects of my choosing.

Tough one.
I care a lot about both of those things. But I care more about the comfort of my passengers. I had hoped that the X had both the performance and the comfort, but it failed so badly on the comfort that I had to forsake performance to get the comfort.
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Remembering Shawn Pierce, Prolific Git Contributor
That would only be true if the Aztek were a stellar car other than its look. But it isn't.
I recently switched from a pixel to the iPhone X since the pixel 2 seemed very underwhelming to me. I'm honestly surprised how easy the switch was and how much more I like the X/iOS than the pixel/android. The one thing iOS is sorely missing is the notification bundling.
I'm fairly sure the opioids are highly effective when taken as directed. It guarantees repeat business.
Have you given macOS a serious chance? When I first tried it out, almost 10 years ago, I HATED it. But eventually I was convinced by my brother to give it a genuine chance for a week. Since then, I haven't gone back. Whenever I setup a linux PC, the first thing I do is fix the hotkeys to match macOS.