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i agree that 5 is much better. ever since my kde fanboy coworker upgraded to 5, the amount of cursing about different things (mostly akonadi and kmail) was greatly reduced, but akonadi still seems to be a troubled child.
Yes, and that physical exhaustion is what we were made for. Not sitting in a chair 10 hours a day. Your body is far healthier doing a few hours of demanding physical activity every day. It follows that our minds are adapted to that rhythm as well.
It's not so much that there's a single killer feature, but that it's able to pull from everything that emacs already does well, and interoperate between them. A common use-case for me is using one language to process some data then passing the result to another tool (e.g. gnuplot, graphviz) visualize the results.
Yep, the problem with LEDs is it's such a tiny point source. Lights like Busch & Müller's are better - the LED isn't directly visible out the front, it shines off a reflector. Problems solved by German regulation (StVZO)!
Thanks for beating me to saying all of that. It's been my experience, too.

Void Linux has made me say a good "wow" more than any other Linux.

I love that I can use many of my favorite bits of OpenBSD, even doas.

xbps takes just a minute to learn, and is surprisingly ("wow") fast and robust.

Who knows why it's not more popular, but it doesn't matter. It's awesome.
C++? Unless you're talking about the very first compiler ever or some toy project, you're wrong, and I'd actually guess the same is true for obj-c.
Shouldn't towing increase the light angle upwards? So adjustment should only allow you to drop the headlights from their safe level? Seems a manufacturer error or lack of regulation that people can choose to angle them past a standard safe level.
I studied at Cambridge, and I have _never_ heard "Master's in X" used to describe the MA (Cantab.). It's simply wrong - the MA is not a subject specific qualifications - and can be trivially checked by employers - neither degree certificate (the BA or MA) states subject[1], and the degree transcript will indict you only took undergraduate level courses. As a result, the phasing is typically "I have an undergraduate degree in X"/"I did my undergrad. at Cambridge".

If people are using it to be misleading, that isn't really Cambridge's problem -- anywhere it matters, people can ask for proof (the transcript), and there is a fair chance the person is being misleading in other ways as well.

[1] Example BA certificate: https://i.stack.imgur.com/VTWUb.png All undergraduate degrees are the Bachelor of Arts, regardless of subject (except Law, which is the LL.B.).
Oh wow, does this mean that we have all of usenet texts? What stops people from providing a better interface than Google's then?
But I would still have the energy/resource investment that is the car. As underutilised car is a problem too.
Well I sure do appreciate you going out of your way to explain your perspective to me.

Just a couple more responses:

1. The use of blockchain is not for buzzword compliance. Julian (CEO) is a longtime Ethereum supporter/developer. This project has really been in development since 2014 or so, long before blockchain was "buzzy." So the use of blockchain here is not for grabbing cash. They actually think it's a better (perhaps harder) way forward.

2. Not only does the token allow investors to directly invest in the project, it also allows developers to "print" tokens that can be locked behind smart contracts. That way developers can be rewarded for reaching project goals with bowls of their own dog food. Not bad to eat when it's pretty much "real" money.

3. The decentralized and distributed nature of the project will allow the Golem Network to achieve goals and execute code that no centralized competitor could achieve/run. I'll leave it as a thought exercise for you to speculate what those goals/codes might look like.

Thanks for the engagement. It's great to test my beliefs through debate. Time will be the true arbitrator here though. Best wishes.
Yeah, and at the top! I saw it after commenting. Amazing project, totally worth supporting. Please let's get off separate memory-hogging Electron apps for every god damn IM service.
Can you give examples on how KDE is in your Most of the time there are options to configure things so make the KDE as you like.

As an example a feature I like but you may not like(and you could disable it) is plugging a photo camera, I get a prompt and I can chose to import the latest pictures, in a simpler setup with just a WM I would have to use the file manager, find the right subfolder in the camera SD card, find the recent images or select all, navigate to my image library,then copy paste them . I like this feature because it saves me time, but since is KDE is configurable.

Other must have feature for me is the zoom feature (I have bad eyes), the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts(in Windows I can't change the zoom app shortcuts), the ability to move the panel and notification to my preferred side or corner (is important if you have a bad eye to put notifications to the side of your better eye though some designers think they know better and not let you move them)
GNOME 2. Although I started with a lovely KDE with Open SUSE 10.1, GNOME (with Ubuntu) was my tool of choice.

I mostly use headless Linux these days, but when I have a GUI at hand, I always miss the old GNOME. I heard there are some continuation project, haven’t looked into them yet, though.
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There's a registry key you can change to enable it in other locales, I can't remember it nor find it again though.
Let's just hope the next Ubuntu LTS version doesn't pack up a "doomed to be buggy and perpetually outdated except security fixes" version of KDE :| ...

Choosing to use Ubuntu 16 LTS, I gave up considering KDE as an option after trying hard to put up either with the official repo one or a newer unofficial one (both were buggy and unstable, and lacked essential features to me like Win+<number> task switching shortcut that is available in latest KDE, and especially combining this with drag-and-drop freely reorderable taskbar entries to actually enable my "standard" worflow that I can use fine in Windows 10, Unity, or Xfce+custom dock).

Hope the Kubuntu guys take care not to shit the bed with the LTS release (because their non-LTS one were always fine, like in not just up to date as expected, but waay more stable too!)...
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I have been using KDE for ~eight years in one capacity or another and it almost continually improved with every update. Regressions were quite rare, even during the KDE4->5 move.

I like that KDE applications are at least somewhat consistent in their UX and in the way they organize basics. For example, the way settings and shortcuts are handled is identical across all apps. Kparts makes embedded viewers consistent and good across apps. Support for GTK theming reduces the visual annoyance of the rare GTK app. KWin works very well, has a broad selection of useful shortcuts and has been the most stable compositor I've ever used (AMD/open source).

On the other hand, KDEPIM/Akonadi seems like it is quite powerful, but for some reason I kinda didn't became comfortable with it. Not sure why, exactly. I used KMail and KOrganizer for quite a while, though. Decent tools, but some rough edges when it comes to first-time setup, e.g. the wizards could really use some polishing.

There is a surprising number of useful and powerful utilities in KDE.
It shouldn't really matter so much if we all had a a baseline truth to rely on.

For example:

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Compiling to C is actually an advantage. It seems to me that for most people the aversion to it is mostly a feeling, with very little objective reason for it. Have you tried a language that compiles to C? If not then don't knock it before you try it.

If you have experiences that prove why its a disadvantage then please do share.
Yes, by "them" I meant that they removed the collection limits.
If the government implemented Pigovian taxes on pollution and carbon emissions then you wouldn't have to worry about this. The decision about whether it was environmentally sound would be baked into your decision about which option had better value for money.
I also used to use void-linux for many of these reasons(after arch for a few years). But i have now moved to nixos. It offers me the benefits of replicating system setup(i don't backup my system folders anymore, just my homedir and the nixos configuration files), cleanly removing system-wide packages(no more stale config hanging around) and of course the benefits of using nix for isolated/reproducible builds.
seems like we are in the age of bearded grunge kids wearing flannel holding expensive "PDA" equivalents
What do you do in the case where the driver and the computer disagree? Say there is an object directly in front of the car - driver turns left to avoid, computer turns right to avoid. You have to take SOME action -- you can't do nothing otherwise you hit the obstacle. If you go with the driver, what is the point of the computer if it can't overrule bad decisions? That's equivalent to just letting the driver drive. If you go with the computer, what is the point of the driver? Only taking actions due to an AND of driver and computer inputs seems to only work if there is one correct course of action, which I doubt is the case in many situations.

Maybe you could have a system where the computer only takes actions to deliberately prevent unsafe situations, and is conservative in doing so (i.e. it doesn't drive, per se, but brings the car to a safe stop or enforces a maximum speed), but that's a huge step down from the current goals.
You can not use akonadi or kmail, I did not had a good experience with them either on older KDE so I do not used them, I use Thunderbird for mail and akonadi is off.
Yawn! We knew this was happening for years. FB scraped data for one purpose only: To figure out who your close friends were offline. And they wanted all sorts of information that could indicate closeness. From location data that would show how often you meet up together and how long you hang out. To phone call and sms data.

Now a lot of that data is dead data. Like it has no use after a couple of years. But just like Google cookie having an expiration date of 20 years, FB just does not know when that data becomes irrelevant.

FB and zuck have this manifest dream of figuring out connections and then figuring out the strength of those connections. Then they want to figure out social relevance. Then they want to use that info to bind people together on their platform. It is not a bad idea overall, until you add in government and corporate entities.

And by that time you know how evil of a thing you signed up for.
Speaking from the reality of the Portuguese industry in the mid-90's, majority of companies where using PCs, Amigas, Ataris and such.

Only companies at Fortune XXXX level would even think about renting UNIX/VAX systems.

Then the OS SDKs only contained the systems language compilers, C, BLISS, Macro32, CLI tools and such. Every other additional language was an extra purchase.
There's also the folks who end up having to use Ubuntu LTS (16.x) for various reasons, and if they ever try KDE on it will be doomed to inevitably hate it... Hope the story doesn't repeat with their next LTS version.

(Maybe the KDE foundation should dedicate manpower/resources to the Kubuntu project before their LTS releases or something, as they'd massively increase their usage base this way...)
Ask HN: How do you contact experts when you are not “in the loop”?
Hello HN,

I am part of a group of graduated students in Economics. The topic of our Master's Thesis is an experimental analysis on Enterprise Resource Planning software, similar to the one that has been developed by a paper from 2008 [1].

The fundamental piece of data for the analysis has to be collected from experts, so we followed the same protocol outlined in the paper and prepared a survey [2].

Unfortunately, since we don't know any ERP expert directly, we are struggling to find them. We tried on LinkedIn, but almost no one responded. Finding their email addresses seem nearly impossible, and contacting the ERP vendors wouldn't give us meaningful data as they would tend to undervalue costs and overvalue the advantages of their own solutions. We even tried on multiple "ERP Consultants" groups on Facebook, without any feedback.

We feel like we are at a dead end, but I wanted to ask here as perhaps we are missing some possible way to get in contact with the people that can answer the survey.

What do you do to contact experts? Is it only possible for people "in the sector", and outsiders are excluded?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give us!

[1] https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle/10072/53451/86716_1.pdf
[2] https://goo.gl/forms/9R7lJzRunzWkG71J2
There are a number of factors that can affect the beam angle. If you're not towing and you've only got passengers in the front and nothing in the boot or in the back, the headlights will point lower than normal and you'll need to adjust them up.
At my old company we moved from AWS to GCP mid-2017 - and I honestly can't remember a single major bad thing about it, just two minor ones[0][1].

It was cheaper, the VMs performed better, the GUI was better (we heavily used Terraform, but as we just started on GCP, we still used the cloud console quite heavily, to doublecheck, etc)

But! there's surely a bit of bias involved, as we did this as greenfield migration project where we did everything the correct[tm] way with instance groups for scaling etc, whereas the old AWS setup was organically grown. Neither setups had auto-scaling, but on GCP it was really low-friction to scale manually.

[0]: pro: live migrations work / contra: there's NTP clock skew when migrating, this alerted us a few times when we noticed

[1]: terraform and some other tooling didn't yet support 100% of stuff, so we had to file a few bugs/PRs (iirc)
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I think there would be space for a middle ground solution where you could define a sheet "type" to something like "datatable" that would enforce data types on columns, only allow data entered a row at a time and if calculated columns were there, would enforce same formula in each row.
Bug reports are mostly handled on GitHub.

For the live system probably here: https://github.com/voidlinux/void-mklive/issues
And issues related to packages https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/issues
I've been reading the Mostly Adequate guide. It's helped me. The explanations for functors and what not really helped things click after going through other articles.
Of course I am speaking about CFront.

C++ first compiler that actually generated native code without going through C was written by Walter Bright sold by Zortech, which then sparked the race from all other compiler vendors.

Objective-C started as a macro processor for C, hence the [ ] syntax and @ prefixes, to make it easier to find them.

Nowadays the macro processor is gone, but at assembly level Objective-C code still gets translated into a bunch of objc_msgSend() and similar calls.
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Ironically, considering the current kerfuffle, I remember my biggest frustration being The Guardian, as they'd spam my feed with 'friend X read article Y on The Guardian'.
I'm in the UK not US so I'm n to totally sure what sort of fake news US electors get.

However during Brexit and UK elections I get political ads and memes via FB. Google don't push that stuff at me.

Google if it (rarely) pushes politics at me pushes links from political parties or identifiable campaign groups. So if it is lies or fake then I and others can hold them to account.

FB often seems to be pushing fake stories - sometime started by fake users - actually started by who knows who. So Propaganda can't be held to account.

Actually I think Twitter problems are more similar to FB - except they maybe lack the deep profiling of social networks that FB have.
I imagine they have some extra data that gives the algorithm an extra push. How many files in this folder are flagged as porn? Which percentage of the user's files are flagged as such? Do these files match any of our hashes of known illegal content?

In other cases, I can imagine an employee reviewing borderline cases. I can also imagine that the person in charge, rather than jacking off to those pictures, might be drinking whisky from the bottle to forget what he sees every day. But I imagine that Google would rather delete the data and shrug - they are not known for their love of human reviewers (see You tube's strike system).
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Re: Lambda

I thought aws integrated Lambda with X Ray. Is that enough for your use cases along with Cloudwatch?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-servic...

Re: No overhead

I think it implies little overhead and no overhead if your servers is busy performing actual requests. Think UDP based communication and temporarily disabling or batching traces when the network or server is busy. That said, I don't know how Thundra does it.

Also see:

opencensus.io

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html
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I am still on KDE4, my setup works fine for me so I don't dare to change it, the problem was in the begining with KDE4.0 and the next few years, the transition from KDE3.5 was rough.
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> I don’t really understand why people are so mad about their data privacy. If you publish your photos, list of friends, what you like, where you live and work, who are you merry to, then it shouldn’t be a surprise this data can be viewed by not only your neighbour but also a dodgy automated scripts.

I don't understand why I keep reading comments like this. One of the main issues is that your data could be leaked to an app developer even if just ONE of your friends installed said app. So even if you diligently made sure only your friends, or even particular friends, could see your stuff, it'd still be accessible to the app developer.

That is absolutely not something even a privacy conscious person would've expected, and absolutely enough to get mad about.
Robin_Message basically says a lot of what I was thinking, but you also need to consider what maximises profits in the long term (and self driving cars are a long term project) - is it doing the minimum now to reduce costs, or is it taking all reasonable precautions to avoid the public perception building that self-driving cars are unsafe?
I found that it the worst when the other car is a fairly new SUV. Headlights are higher than in a regular car. Even if calibrated, straight out of factory, part of the light is going the wrong direction(ie up)
> But, it kept them busy, and let them show off, and they can take that all the way to the bank by way of a performance review system that optimizes for Shiny New Things.

Yup. At least some of the generated heat can be captured in the form of bullet points on resumes, which can be used as leverage for promotions or new jobs.

Perhaps from a whole-system or whole-company perspective the result may be a net loss, but the endeavour may be quite postive for many of the people involved who are making or executing the decisions.
That’s why I said, for normal people this is insanity, but this is Hacker News - no one on this site has an excuse for using GMail. And even the photos part – every week we have another Show HN of someone building some new project with the pretrained tensorflow models.

But yes, my setup is something I don’t expect most people to build for themselves – instead I’d hope that NAS vendors would include similar functionality, and people would start using those instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitz%27s_law

Every decade, the cost per lumen (unit of useful light emitted) falls by a factor of 10, and the amount of light generated per LED package increases by a factor of 20, for a given wavelength (color) of light.
This is the whole basis of a confidence trick. It's harder to believe someone's duping you after they earn your trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
The name you're looking for is MATE desktop. I've been using it for many years because I never liked Gnome 3 (constant churn, breaking plugins, themes etc). I'm using it on Debian but there's also Ubuntu MATE and Fedora & Opensuse spins
Yeah I mean their API usage policy for many years was basically a gentleman's agreement to only fetch and keep what you needed.
Nice, my past distros of choice were slackware & archlinux. This feels like a successor to those. I'm sold.
> EDITS: spelling bear -> bare

Sure, but why?
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I have used tools like lexer or parser generators which generate C code. Debugging is a painful due to the indirection.

Writing a LLVM backend is not harder than generating C code in the long run. The only advantage of the C code option is portability, so if you target some crazy microcontrollers C is fine.
And even if it doesn't, and the system still concludes it's noise/an obstacle that isn't going to move etc., a low-speed collision is preferable to a high-speed one. Unless you can be completely confident you aren't going to hit something, slowing down is not a bad default action.
So even in your opinion it's in the same space and similar.

Don't work for them, don't have them send you anything remotely technical (specifications, code, documentation).
The crux is this: Granting your friends access to your data does not mean your friends' apps should also have access to this data. Your permission should be required by apps, not your friends'.
Great reply. The pro version looks great for serious startups or agencies. Our personal experience with manypixels ended in a refund. So I just wanted to get your take on the cheaper end.
Taxpayers money at work: one could just throw a bomb at them, once it is known where they are.

Can it be that this 'sonic weapons in Havana' scare was all about pushing the profits of some defence contractor? I guess that the real driving force for defence appropriations is fear of the mighty counterpart. Worked so well for the past 60 years.
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> So the moment another company becomes popular they have automatic rights to your existing family's business domain name? Is it only domain names they have to rescind ownership of, or should they also be forced to change their business name and dispose of any existing branding, signs and marketing materials they have?

None of that other stuff is relevant to domain name. The "Amazon" camping shop in Pikesville, Ky doesn't need to change its business name (though they probably should if they set up shop in Washington state).

> What's the family business then meant to do, cease operating their family business under their generations-old family name?

No, just take another domain name. Millions of people have probably landed on nissan.com while trying to research a car, and been confused and frustrated in disbelief. And this is because one guy with the name "Nissan" beat them to the punch in the early domain-name grab. He could have just as easily taken uzinissan.com and enjoyed his 11 hits a month on that domain.
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I would agree, but Plasma still using up to 400-500MB RAM for me with no obvious reason since I use pretty much default panel with 6 saved app launcher icons. While it's not problem on 32GB machine it's the part of KDE with most memory usage of all KDE apps that I use.