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Chatting on IRC with other developers, reading technical documentations, and watching series in English (first with subtitles, then without).

I also started reading fiction in English recently. I have an e-reader with a builtin dictionary, that's very helpful.

It gave me the necessary skills in my everyday life (reading, writing, listening), but I have an horrible French accent when speaking.
I can think of 250,000 people in the United States alone who died last year because they sought proper medical care but died because of medical mistakes and bad prescriptions. In addition there were those that were harmed, but not fatally (of whom I know several).

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
Thanks for the link - looks cool!
Great question, I'm also Canadian but have European citizenship, maybe I'll be able to use this to get information from my municipal government that I can't get as a Canadian.
Strangely enough, even in cities such as mine, which aren't so packed, cycling is still faster. Busses are faster than cars because they don't need to park, but still take 30-35 minutes. I can cycle in in 20 minutes. Note there is no train in my direction.

I think this is partially because bicycles are not that popular here, but there are provisions for bikes that go above and beyond cars. Having seen Bruges in Belgium, The bike queue can be comparable to a car queue (narrower, but none the less). I imagine other cycling heavy countries are similar.
I had a poor high school experience and barely graduated without an SAT score. To eat I had to go to work immediately. I didn't realize for several years that I could get into the local CC without an SAT score.

When I did, I started taking remedial classes, trying to rebuild what I should have learned in high school. After a couple years I entered a real major, graduated with a couple A.S. degrees and an almost 4.0. It cost something like $50/credit hour when I went. I think the entire program cost me under $5k. Today, it's about $12k. I think I still could have swung it by just adding another year.

This got me immediate entrance in the local state school where I entered as a Junior and finished up my undergraduate degree -- again while working full time. It was paid for almost entirely by grants. I think it was a little over $10 for those final two years. Today it's about double again. Harder, but again, doable.

I had to work full-time the entire time, got married in the middle, it took me almost 7 years, but at every increment I was able to use my advancing education to get radically better jobs.

Later I went back, got an M.S., but this time I had a few years of high paying tech jobs and I just wrote a check every semester. It also wasn't terribly expensive.

The CC covered all of the core courses I could have possibly wanted, and the instructors were pretty much as good as what I encountered at state school. In fact, of my professors, most of the ones who were the most dedicated to educating their students were my CC professors. When I entered University, I was incredibly prepared for the academic life there and had no problem making it through the program with another near 4.0 GPA.

If I had a second chance, I would follow this route again, even if I had money and better opportunity growing up. I also found many life-long friends at CC who were on a similar life-path and it's been enjoyable watching each other as we progress in our careers.

The stigma about CC's have to stop and the place it needs to die is in the high schools. Many kids come out of college counseling classes at high school thinking that if they don't go to an Ivy that they're basically going to fail out of life and end up dead from a cheap drug overdose. For most people, it matters approximately zero percent in their day to day work lives. I and my old CC friends routinely work with people who went to far better and more expensive schools than I did and have found plenty of workforce success.
Putting aside the idea that this is a bit creepy by western standards; it might also be a bad idea more generally.

I'm reminded of Alan Turing; there was a really nice quote by some Briton to the tune of "If we had known he was gay we might have lost the war". There are a lot of social norms that simply haven't withstood the test of time. I look at the 10 Commandments and I think about half of them still hold for me.

Linking social norms, which are significantly arbitrary, to a powerful surveillance state and enforcement? Ignoring the personal risk the citizens would face, this might have economic and military consequences to China's detriment.
So NYC has 7x the number of stations for 5x the number of riders?
We've only done some quick tests outdoors for now, as our device will only operate indoors. But it works well, even when pointed into the sun. Email in profile, send me a message if you want some sample video.
Category theory is basically a language. If one wanted to formulate an explicit conjecture corresponding to the original Langlands program, it could possibly be phrased as some kind of equivalence of a category of automorphic representations and a category of motives. Precisely defining those two categories is the hard part.

So even with this language, one still has to do the work of actually proving these things. It's like having a nice programming language; you still have to write the code to do the thing!
I did a similar thing in Texas (Austin Community College -> Texas State University), albeit later in life. I'm on a 4-person engineering team where the other three when to Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Princeton.

I guess I worked at a moderately "prestigious" consultancy for a while that is a large factor in me having this particular job, but it seems like top universities aren't all that important beyond your first few years in the industry.
I don't mean this in a mean way, but you do seem to care a little too intensely (about both fb/apple/etc. and the effects of that on your karma and whatnot). Wouldn't a good alternative be to just tone it down a bit, if possible? Because honestly I don't think you're wrong probably most of the time, so your contributions could be valuable.

I often struggle with my own conduct in social settings, and I've been called 'too intense' more than once, among other things. I don't know your particular story, or if there is a 'story', but I'd really hate the idea that you'd leave entirely instead of finding a way to be you and still fall within the acceptable range of HN commenters. And not get too addicted, of course :). I've been so unsuccessful at the latter that I decided to 'use it for good' and build my own little plugins so at least I'm learning something while being here.
You usually have a choice of between 1 and 3 ISPs but you can choose from hundreds of VPN services or setup your own on any cloud server. So there is a very good chance you could find someone more trustworthy. Your VPN can exist outside of your legal jurisdiction which could make a huge difference legally.
> I know how much effort goes into trust, security, privacy and compliance

Yahoo had a security team that was completely bypassed by NSA by installing a kernel module [1] to get access to emails. With Condi in the board I wouldn't trust them that much.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/08/reuters-yahoo-email-scan...
Yes that seems quite nice (if you want to go that far). It also works well with the Dropbox (and others) sync engine because it encrypts individual files as opposed to making a large sparse bundle/volume file.

Don’t think it allows you to take advantage of delta-byte syncing though because while compression algorithms can now cater for the rsync-like delta sync functionality you find in some cloud storage clients my guess is that wouldn’t be optimal for secure encryption (but I don’t know it’s just a guess) - but if you aren’t changing the files a lot the speed degradation may be outweighed by your desired outcome.

It also works well for Dropbox shared folders in case you have the need to share folders with other people but still want this additional layer of encryption.

And of course since it’s open source it may make you feel more comfortable about the encryption.
I'm a big fan of SQL Notebook [1]. It is open source and has a great UI to quickly work with a number of importable formats (CSV, Excel, JSON) as well as server-based DBs.

[1] https://sqlnotebook.com/
Why can't they find these illegal stingrays with the following technique:

Install a small network node at each legitimate tower that can only be seen on that tower but is always accessed the same way in secret. Only a receiver on that tower can connect to that network segment (similar to how I can connect to computers on my lan, but the firewall prevents others from doing the same outside of it. This will identify positives. We can ignore that in the site survey. Then after a dc wide survey has been complete we can identify all the towers that don't have this official network identifier, triangulate them using known techniques and then shut them down or prosecute?
Right. Was responding to "But recursive-descent, if you're going to use it, seems to cry out for tooling"
Exactly. The generations don't HAVE to have different dimensions. There's no worldwide metro standard across all dimensions leading to "common" models, every subway system requires custom made. Of course they can work them in, like they do in Montreal (where I see them working harmoniously)
The thin blue smoke from a properly tended hardwood fire is more flavorful and contains fewer carcinogens

Do you have any references for that? In the automotive world, blue smoke is worse than white smoke.
>Can I just say that what I really want is a mirrorless that is shaped more like a pistol than a traditional camera?

I can see how that would be great for taking pictures at airports and major crowded events -- especially if one is black or middle-eastern...

Seriously, what would the improvement be? It would be tedious to hold pistol-like, and more shaky than current designs. And it's not like it hasn't been tried (e.g. old 8mm film cameras were like that).

>As has been cited elsewhere in this thread, smaller glass with higher density sensors is not a long term solution.

It has already eclipsed bigger glass. And not just smaller glass, but the tiny kind of glass in mobile phones (sub 1").

For most people, that's it, and bigger glass is only for specialists and enthusiasts (trucks vs cars -- for most people the mobile camera is their car, and pro cameras are trucks for limited people).

And of course it's only gonna get better -- an major mobile phone with like 1" sensors (plus all the processing advancements inside due to the crazily better than even a pro DSLR/mirroless processor) gonna wipe out what's remaining from the compact market too.
Perhaps a more apt analogy is that mental arithmetic tricks are to math what stenography is to writing.
The day Big Pharma finds a way to profit from patients not consuming anything but water for 10 to 40 days and getting rid of diseases that used to require lifelong drug regimen, the research flood gates will open. But ain't gonna happen in my lifetime. There's no money in fasting, and no one can patent it.
Moscow metro has 250 stations on 3 times as much area (why did NY get to 750 stations?) and annual ridership of 2.4 billion. Train delays are rare, in my experience maybe one delay of 10 minutes a week (not counting the late night-time when intervals can get to 10 mins).
Interesting. I was told this by a former P51 pilot. He also said sometimes lone Ju-88s would sneak in at low altitude and pick off B-17s taking off or landing when they thought they were safe.
I don’t think ownership structure is the key factor. More important is robustness of institutions that protect freedom of expression and freedom of the press. The Nazi government had little patience for critical private media either.
This is not the only research regarding microbiome and autoimmune disease. While this article states that their findings seem most promising for Lupus Nephritis, there are recent articles that point to other microbes which are relevant to rheumatoid arthritis: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711151315.h... and https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gut-mic... among many others with the search "rheumatoid arthritis and gut microbes". See this for MS https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-germs-appear-... This is my all time favorite that just came out in Nature which shows that anti-inflammatories may contribute to slow growth of beneficial gut microbes. I have identified at least two first line DMARD's used in rheumatoid arthritis that are mentioned in this article. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02780-x?utm_sourc... So, while autoimmune diseases amy not stem from gut bacteria, there is definitely some relationship about which we need to learn more.
Seems unrelated. White smoke is usually antifreeze (head gasket blowout) and blue smoke is burning oil (more serious engine damage).
So is that going to be another parcel of life under the state control?
It is easy to predict such tools are going to be abused (for example excluding products from a producer that has opposite political views to the currently ruling people)
What does that even mean anyways. I mean I can write down the p value it reports. But that's useless to me without the associated statistic and whatever model I eventually build that was motivated by the spurious correlations I found in the first place.
HP 8770w

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Design-17-3-FHD-HP-8770W-i7-3940...
It is a pretty nice trick, and I use the same i3 config between my laptop & Windows desktop so everything comes up the same.

The filesystem is slow though, for e.g. Rails work you will feel the difference between WSL & normal Linux.
Ask HN: Best window manager for macOS?
Since making the switch to Mac four years ago, I have always missed the basic Windows shortcuts for resizing windows (e.g., Win + left arrow). To overcome this, I have been using BetterTouchTool with a few custom shortcuts. This is no longer enough since I have upgraded to a 34-inch ultrawide monitor.

There are quite a few window management apps out there. I just want something that works, no need for a scripting language. Which one has worked best for you?

Spectacle, Divvy, Mosaic, Slate, SizeUp, and Magnet seem to be popular.
You need to be willing to take up arms against a government if the need arises but there's a line in how much harm you are willing to inflict now to make that happen. For an absurd example chemical weapons would help to fight an oppressive government but even if they weren't against international law it would be a little silly if they were legal for normal citizens to own.
I'm going to second this. Monitor real estate is one of the most important machine productivity metrics in my experience (the other being build/test turnaround time). Its seems there are always trade-offs when trying to drive a lot of pixels even on the most displayport/MST devices.

Besides that, building large projects is one of the areas where multicore systems really shine. The projects I work on have hour plus build times on the 2-4 core class machine one generally finds in a laptop. Those times can be shrunk to <5 minutes with a fairly inexpensive desktop machine these days.

Basically, I would reverse it, get the best desktop class machine possible, and a fairly low end laptop with a decent screen. Put the desktop wherever you do the most work, and then remote into it with the laptop. If your stuck on a plane/etc, work on a presentation or whatever..
The Complexity of Songs
I have a collection of old ThinkPads going back to the R31. I loved ThinkPad -- Linux compatible, nice keyboard, trackpoint, the well thought out work light you could activate in the dark. But Lenovo lost my trust and have done nothing to regain it. I'm not buying another ThinkPad.
> It's a sad brag, because it's conceding entirely the ability to become good at making original things.

That's a non sequitur. Being good at dubbing/tracing doesn't concede originality any more than Hollywood studios making remakes concedes them from originals. The dubbing/tracing/remakes are just work for money, but probably actually increase your ability to make good original content of the same nature.
The system is a century old with original electromechanical controllers.
And in fact Steve Jobs used a ThinkPad running OpenStep when he first returned to Apple at the very end of 1996. http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2209
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Capitalism is the most free of all, from there the more you turn left the more authoritarian it gets.
none of those things preclude it from being the world's most rapidly improving country, nor being the world's biggest economy.
Is this close sourced? I'm not using a statistics package I don't trust or that I can take apart to see what's wrong when it's returning weird results.
oh. just buy blank sheets of card and cut it down with a knife. fold it over on the long side (~5cm by 12cm for carrying around). that way you can make whatever size you feel like. and having lots of card on hand means you can make little maquettes, little drawer labels, or print out tags on a laser printer. i buy reams of 8 1/2 x 11 130lb.
Isn't this also Miyamoto's/Nintendo's approach? Get the basic gameplay mechanics right by and play around tirelessly with basically nothing as far as 'production' work goes, and move on only when that's been achieved.

I only did some level design back in the day, so I don't have much experience with games, but I find this 'prototyping' thing to be hugely valuable in web development and design work I've done. I often just try all sorts of shit (whether front-end or back-end or design), focusing on quick feedback and iteration, and once things coalesce/work/'click', I might just scrap the whole thing and start with a more 'formal' version.

Especially with design stuff I've found that just getting something and then playing around with it works so much better than trying to go for a more formal approach from the start. And making a clear distinction between the 'playground' and 'formal' phase has also helped a bunch.

Finally, I've all but stopped doing the 'Lorem Ipsum' and image placeholder work. If I'm going to 'prototype' a design, it can be a bit messy, but it has to be as real as possible.
Not all of us are brilliant enough to get into MIT.

Sadly, this is something I'm reminded of every day :(
How much are you willing to pay to use something like this? Would you still pay if it was open source?
Why is democracy not the most free of all? Let one person have one vote - not one dollar have one vote.
I some how cannot read these positive comments without believing that they are AstroTurf.
Thanks for getting my intent. I was more trying to acknowledge my privilege in being able to live within cycling distance of work; tech pays well enough to enable that but many other jobs don't. There's lots of people in NYC who can't afford to live even 40 minutes away from work by mass transit, and who suffer a lot when that mass transit starts getting unreliable.

And, no surprise, a lot of my coworkers who also bike to work similarly choose where they live in order to be within cycling range of work. A monthly bus/subway pass is $116.50, whereas Citi Bike is an annualized $14/month. So you can save $100/month by not needing to take transit, which isn't nothing.
>Citizens with low social credit would also be prohibited from enrolling their children at high-paying private schools

This is what leads to a sort of caste system, Because the children of people with bad social credit cannot go to good schools, they are stuck in a perpetual cycle of bad social circles which leads to bad social credit and poverty.

This just leads to a cycle of poverty and discrimination without any opportunity for people to redeem themselves.

Also reminds me of a Black mirror episode on social credit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_metro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway

Quick Wiki search indicates NYC has about 1,112 km of rail vs Stockholms 105.7 km. So about 8-9 times the distance
And we went to the moon literally 56 years after that (the years of development).
what do you use?
Just to put things in perspective.

https://www.moneycrashers.com/worst-us-cities-traffic-commut...

I've been commuting (by car) for 30-60 minutes one way depending on my job for 20+ years in Atlanta. I didn't realize that a 30 minute commute was considered "bad".

It really doesn't bother me. I put on a podcast and enjoy the downtime. I also don't have young kids.

When my 15 year old son has to stay late and I can't get to him,I just tell him to take Uber. My wife and I have agreed to "work hard, play hard". We cherish our weekends.

All that being said, I can understand the difference being stuck outside in the cold at the whims of public transportation and being in your own car.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, the Chinese national anthem still gets booed every football match [0]. This will be an interesting reunification to watch.

[0]: http://scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/1901082/hong-kong-fo...
For me it was playing a lot of text heavy RPG games, and watching a lot of TV in English. This was the best way to immerse myself without necessarily having someone to actually speak with.

I imagine variations of that today may include YouTube or podcasts.

Also, there will be plenty of times you come across a word you don’t recognize. Look it up. What’s that weird phrase? Type it up in google as close as you can. You’ll likely come across it.

It takes time, but you’ll get it. Also, don’t be afraid to speak it with others. You’ll get asked “what” here and there that’s fine.
It's actually a thing:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-https/clo...
Yes; left recursion. However in practice left recursion can usually be eliminated by adjusting the grammar. Other cases can be handled using various degrees of grammar action cleverness. And finally, recursive descent lends itself naturally to parsing a subset of the language using a different scheme; top down operator precedence for expressions to avoid lots of redundant recursion is a fine example.
Cash is still more anonymous than BTC, just not as mobile. Monero is more anonymous and more mobile. This is what real dealers use over distance.
We’re visiting some friends in Australia and almost everyone has an ipad per kid with unrestricted YouTube access.

They feel kids keep themselves entertained with iPads and games. Some of them have glasses at a young age since they look at the iPad so closely.

I’m legit worried for the next generation of kids who grow up on YouTube consuming endless amounts of ads and crappy entertainment.

Add that to the fact that an iPad is a very poor creative device and mostly a consuming device. I learnt programming at a young age because I had a proper keyboard and programming was mildly entertaining. Flash and actionscript were my canvas of endless creativity in holidays.

It’s almost impossible to program anything relatively complex on an iPad.

For the parents of HN, how do you ensure your kids use tech appropriately and don’t develop mindless addiction to it?
I graduated in 2012. I have acquaintances with over $60k loan debt for a bachelor's degree who graduated years before me from the UC system as well.
Maybe so, but these discussions are all the same and always turn uncivil, so they're off topic here. There are lots of other places on the internet to argue about them.
True, IMO it's not a euphemism if it doesn't make sense to say "if you know what I mean" after it.
I live in Palo Alto and this is frequently true even though biking is definitely an afterthought in most cases. By car, I can get to work in about 30 min (+/-10 with traffic) but can bike there in consistency less than 20.
In the context of DNS, "authoritative" refers to the servers which hold the actual records for a domain.

I think the term you are looking for is a recursive resolver (one that will perform a full name resolution for a client).