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As someone who has a PhD in biochemistry and has been coding since age 5, I find the headline rediculous. You won't be computing in biology. Consider, a transistor is about 50-100 atoms wide. A protein, which cannot itself even be a minimal unit of compute, (maybe a molecular transistor like NiFe hydrogenase has a shot) is already bigger than that.

The things described in the article are not biology used for computation, but principles from CS applied to biology which has some validity. In one case I achieved strides in protein design by reducing the engineering cycle from months to days. Imagine hitting "compile" and having to wait a 72 hours to know your result. That's biology, even with a fast organism like yeast or e coli.
Because people use Windows and might ask for you to support their platform?
Very interesting!
And you should have a look at https://eelo.io because they are industrializing your ideas :-)
He called a dictator short and fat and it lead to total denuclearization, likely peace and unification between a region in conflict for over 60 years.
They used to work on a mobile OS called FirefoxOS, but they gave up on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS
Given that most Android developers are on Windows, as per Android Studio telemetry (mentioned at one ADB Podcast), I wonder if Google will bother to improve the experience on Windows or just advice everyone to get a Linux VM.
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> "Google’s ecosystem"

Off topic. Using F-Droid, you don't need to touch Google's ecosystem.
Electronics has gotten cheaper though. I bought my first PDA more than 15 years ago. It was second hand and still cost me something like £200. Last year I bought my son a Kindle Fire to play with on long drives and that cost me something like £40 in the Black Friday sales and frankly it does a lot more than my PDA ever could - not just technical capability but also software availability. Plus finding cheap or free software for the PDA would mean turning to less legal avenues where as tablets these days are full of cheap and free software.

Even the ZX Spectrum, for those unfamiliar: it is a 30 year old British micro computer designed around being _cheap_, was £125 of "old" money. Now compare that to a Raspberry Pi. Heck you can even get a wide choice of budget laptops for the same price as what the Spectrum was (if you take inflation into account).

So I wouldn't say people are financially better of now than we were 30 or 40 years ago. I just think the financial barrier for entry into electronics has been lowered.
Greetings from Sydney, where it's definitely a problem here too.
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It would mean that they could eat less to get the same number of calories?
> Old versions use UCS-2. New versions use UTF-16. (correctness not enforced) This is also how Java and OS X were updated.

I usually call that ucs2-plus-surrogates, to make it clear that you may encounter unpaired surrogates, and thus invalid paths if you assume proper UTF-16.
If this is a head spin, then go take a stroll on a Debian package mirror for what kinds of awesome ^W bizarre file extension combos they've come up with. This one is my favorite: https://twitter.com/stefanmajewsky/status/928983817825665025
Try it. Once you have TWRP on your phone, you can backup your whole phone (including ROM) to SD card and later revert it back if it doesn't work.

I can't tell without installing and I have strict policy of no google / facebook (actually anything related with social media) apps on my phone. Or try to find OSS alternative
I know it's irrational but I really dislike Yoda notation. Every time I encounter one while reading code I have to take a small pause to understand them, I don't know why. My brain just doesn't like them. I don't think I'm the only one either, I've seen a few coding styles in the wild that explicitly disallow them.

Furthermore any decent modern compiler will warn you and ask to add an extra set of parens around assignments in conditions so I don't really think it's worth it anymore. And of course it won't save you if you're comparing two variables (while the warning will).
Why doesnt EU instead implement a continent wide firewall and allow access to only GDPR compliant sites
I kind of suspect the Korean heads of state decided to make peace before Trump had a chance to mess it up.

Still, judged by the outcome, it's kind of impressive. ;-)
The problem with that is many sites have password requirements which requires password to be of a certain length and some arbitrary requirements.
> Unlike the Nobel laureates in literature and sciences the peace prize is not awarded by the Swedish Academy (in Stockholm).

Note that the Swedish Academy only awards the Literature prize. Nobels in Physics and Chemistry are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel in Physiology or Medicine. Thus, only the Literature prize is impacted by this.
they probably discovered it because were working towards being GDPR compliant.
Life doesn't solve "problems" though - it just creates random order from chaos.

What kind of problems do you even have in mind? What would you even solve if we could somehow understand or control these bigger forces of organization?

I agree with the OP, we are not replacing silicon with DNA or anything - this article is just another "tech" article that shouldn't exist.
Is one still required to submit all their personal information (ID card details, proof of address, etc.) before the servers can be useful? Previously you had to do it, or SMTP ports (etc.) would be blocked until you did.

If that's still the case, is it at least made known that the servers are crippled, prior to starting your account creation process (previously it wasn't, which I found shady)?

My experience so far is that the servers are okay, but the website's UI could be clunky-ish, support to be unresponsive and the aforementioned shady business with requesting personal-information to enable services.
And no headphone jack.

I would have switched to iPhone if it weren't for that.
It's great what their trying to do. But if we can't talk about the fact that sometimes we don't even need technology around us is worrying. E.g. Sometimes you don't have to be on facebook, you shouldn't be on facebook, it's detrimental for you to be on facebook.

Good, human centric design is part of the solution, but sometimes technology just needs to get out of the way completely.
Imagine you are designing a software system. One use case requires you to model a fact as best as you can, so you write a fact-class for it. Your software system runs fine, but you notice the class doesn't accurately model the fact in some other use cases. You now know the class is insufficiently accurate. Do you still trust the result of your software?

Replace software with language, class with concept we use to refer to facts and you have to claim that any further thought into the design of your class is wasted, because you hold that to be the case for concepts, language and reality.
"Google's ecosystem" is Android, not just their overpriced pixel phones, so Google get hate in some quarters for losing the headphone socket but it's not an Android thing. You can pay a few hundred pounds for a perfectly good Android phone and run as-is or replace with a true open source alternative, with headphone sockets (so no need to turn your lossless files into a streamed lossy mess courtesy of Bluetooth). I pay £9 for 4 gigs of data. In no way is Apple anything like at parity with Android here. With Android you choose what you pay and what you get. I'm bored of phones and apps now, so I'm out of the "spend a grand every two years/£50+ a month for an average camera and the ability to choose to install about 15 of the 17 million apps out there" game but if that's your thing there's a phone for you. With a headphone socket.
I remember the leads doing promo videos before the launch and they looked like zombies.
NewPipe lets me play audio of YouTube videos in the background, allowing me to turn off my display. While Google's official YouTube app stops the video entirely when turn off the display, and pesters me to upgrade to "YouTube Red" so that I can pay money to do what NewPipe already does for free.
tldr; "In short, the effort to humanise computing produced the very situation that the tech humanists now consider dehumanising: a wilderness of screens where digital devices chase every last instant of our attention. To guide us out of that wilderness, tech humanists say we need more humanising. They believe we can use better design to make technology serve human nature rather than exploit and corrupt it. But this idea is drawn from the same tradition that created the world that tech humanists believe is distracting and damaging us."
> 40+ years of service out of a piece of gear... most of the junk sold today would be lucky to last 1/3 that long

Recognizing the reel-to-reel was refurbished from the junk yard, in the context of a picture of an entire corner of a teenager's bedroom dedicated to (at the time, relatively) expensive equipment for playing music and communicating with people, this may be a bit tone deaf. Maybe the "junk" sold today would indeed last 1/3 the life span of some of this stuff, but it would cost an inflation-adjusted fraction of the price and fit into a low-to-middle income teenager's pocket. Other than the speakers, of course.
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So basically you write a script instead of a notebook? If you save data on disc, are they still displayed with the rich formating of Jupyter?
I used to use this system but moved away from it. The reason is twofold. First, if it's a simple enough algorithm there will be enough 'hash collisions' that if someone gets their hands on one of your passwords and your email address, there's a non-negligible possibility that they will be able to find another domain that has the same password.

Second, sometimes sites mandate that you change your password. Or have rules that are incompatible with that algorithm. And then you need to start remembering exceptions to your algorithm, at which point you're back where you started.
An expression is that a hobo travels and works. A vagabond or tramp travels but doesn't work. A bum neither travels nor works. In reality the terms were quite fluid. A hobo might have been "on the bum" meaning he couldn't find work and was begging.
De-Googled smartphones for Mom and Dad :)
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Careful — nothing has yet been done towards denuclearization except a non-committing promise by Kim to halt further tests for now. The regime has made similar promises several times over the past 25 years.
Assuming I agree with you, what's the reason for not telling me about updates when I run the app? What's the advantage of the decision they've taken which is to not announce this?
That's not accurate: the Swedish Academy only selects the Literature prize. The medicine prize is selected by the Karolinska Institute and the physics/chemistry/economics prizes are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (which is an entirely different organization from "the Swedish Academy").

Technically, non of these organizations "award" the prizes, the prizes are awarded by the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish National Bank, the Riksbank (only the economics prize). They just select the winners.
So now you can autoconvert all cups to deciliters for usage in other countries? :-)

I have a recipe collection since I bought my first Atari 30+ years ago. I always tried to stick to text-files written with a certain style in mind for later processing into a database but haven't gotten around to actually do it yet. Did a half-hearted start on in last week again while I was sick but since the textfiles work already as they are, I stopped again.

Usually the ingredients are written "1 dl water", nothing fancy like their problems so would be very easy to parse with just some php.
I love Pocket Casts! Here are my top feature requests (I’m on iOS so some of these features may exist already on other platforms)

- Let me search within a podcast (search titles as well as descriptions). I just found out about Planet Money but it has nearly 1000 episodes. The internet can help be find highly recommended episodes, but there’s no easy way to jump to these in the app.

- please let me set playback speed.

I also have a faint hope that this acquisition would allow Pocket Casts to go open source.
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I agree with you, but we have to be aware that by this definition two diametrically opposed "knowledges" can be equally valid if they have disjoint justification frameworks.

And that leads to relativism, which we don't want.
> So what can the salad eater do to be safe?

Carry on as you are? You're more likely to get hit by a bus than catch E. Coli from a salad.
America is obsessed with competitive narcissism.

No one makes movies or TV shows about people who are heroically kind, empathic, or generous.
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Yep. I don't see how legislation will stop smuggling of drugs with drones. It's illegal to start with.
I had the same thought: the problem seems to be the English word "know". In ordinary use the word does seem to imply "with justification", but it's unclear what should count as "justification", seeing as ordinary (non-philosophical) thought involves so much intuition and analogy. So perhaps it's a word philosophers should avoid rather than waste time worrying about. But who am I to advise philosophers how to spend their time?
> Life doesn't solve "problems" though

Wait, what? Biological systems are not solving problems? It does so all the time! Seriously?

> it just creates random order from chaos.

You get that with just physics, on a large scale for example the formation of galaxies and stars, or when things self-sort by weight in a gravity field (heavy stuff goes to bottom of a solution, lighter stuff goes to the top).
It was a concern because of the availability of ressources, not because of ecological concerns.
Can I ask what such city you found?
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I built an internal wiki replacement: nurtch.com

It provides ability to create documents with markdown text, images, executable code and output all within single document. Although it's optimized for infrastructure runbooks, it can be used for any internal documentation. Reports, metrics, onboarding guides, design documents etc.

If you don't foresee any need for executable code then it's probably not for you. I have seen teams use Dropbox paper, Media wiki, and sometimes Gdocs for static internal documentation.
> My good friends, for the second time in our history, an American President has returned from Korea bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
They should try to force this CoC into Linux kernel :-D
There's something hilarious and wonderful about the phrase "compatible with the FIGlet font specification".
For example, andOTP allows to back up your codes. FreeOTP doesn't.
You must meet very different teenagers than I do. Every store that has trash work to do here (for which they want to pay as little as possible) has teenagers working for them. The service industry employs them where they can get away with it too.
Tor, freenet, i2p.
A more interesting use case though it would have its dangers is them showing a message to AT&T users that their ISP is doing things to damage the internet and that they should call and complain. People got mad at the idea of CloudFlare slowing down network requests by FCC members in protest of their shenanigans.
Sounds like Netrek (which is 8vs8) and in space (but 2d).
I'm loving this whole debate. People have eaten unwashed food for millennia. Now all of a sudden our food is only safe to eat if it's been sterilised with radiation!?
As to those wondering why this is significant:
- Eating burgers and fries that turn out to be poison... "told you so"
- Eating salad and veggies that turn out to be poison... wtf.

A silly comparison, but it does raise the concern that even those that watch what they eat and try to be healthy can't escape the widespread bacterial problems in food in modern industrial food processing.
Do you know the game netrek? It's a 8vs8 game that heavily relies on teamplay. It was one of the first real-time games to be played over the internet. It also has this imperfect information aspect (fog of war, inaccurate display of cloaked ships, need to scout planets). Free and open source. http://netrek.org
We also do log reviews, but 99% of the time they simply complain about the volume rather than the contents.

Do you enable debug logging in production? In our setup we log at info and above by default, but then have a config setting that lets us switch to debug logging on the fly (without a service restart).

This keeps our log volume down, while letting us troubleshoot when we need it. This also gives us an isolated time of increased logging that can be specifically audited for sensitive information.
Ask HN: Is there a market for an open-source, privacy-focused social network?
Hello,

So there are many great privacy-focuses instant messaging clients (Signal, Telegram etc) but not many privacy-focused social networks.

As a side-project, I'm working on a FB alternative that is private by default. It's shaping up really nicely, so I'm considering turning it into a real product.

There are some concessions (to make it commercial), but overall is much better at respecting data than current platforms. It would be open-source, to prove the claims about data management.

Note: I'm not talking about decentralized alternatives -- they can be unintuitive for non-technical users, and can have problems with illegal content (I.e. cannot remove certain posts). (This isn't universal, but a common theme).

Do you think there'd be a market here? Something with great, modern UI, and super usable to a non-technical end-user.
True, but a millennia ago, you'd be lucky to make it to 30. I think we have higher standards by now.
How do eastward lunches work from Vandenberg?
No, they don't solve problems, it's just natural selection in an environment with lots of randomness.

Life didn't even start out by solving problems, as I said: random order from chaos. Life doesn't care about solving problems, it's just collection of random matter.

Given enough random matter, you are destined to get some with odd properties in right conditions that can also spiral out of control to create something like a human.
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so them blocking a port that can be used for sending Spam mail, without you identifying yourself, is shady?
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The partial answer to this is to dump detailed logs after a few days or weeks. That way, even if disaster strikes like this, it can be somewhat contained.
iPhone SE is a nice phone, and it ships with a headphone jack.
I'm guessing it's in Europe.
Falsifiability, mh? Popper identified that in 1934. Before popper no scientist ever said "your claim is not falsifiable". So science before that was mere philosophy?
Has a salad ever killed you? No?

Well then carry on as you are...
Mozilla has done the best they can, given the restrictions imposed on them by Apple.

This effectively means that Firefox on iOS has no support for extensions or addons like on Android... Because Apple and Safari doesn't allow that.

It's definitely not what people have come to expect from Firefox over the years, but at least I get to seamlessly sync my bookmarks, history and passwords with my desktop browser of choice.
What's nice is that simply turning the server on and off allows you to move the faster machines :-)
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Ask HN: What's It Like to Live Behind China's Firewall?
China blocks Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, NY Times, and hundreds of other sites. Is life more difficult to navigate as a result? Sure, you can get a VPN, but it's technically illegal, is there any concern that China could kick up enforcement?
That is true, but I don't think cturner was unaware that source code can be perused where available.
> No, they don't solve problems,

Of course they do. Being alive presents all kinds of problems. I mean, seriously man... I don't understand the things you write, really strange stuff, I'm at a loss.
Alleged sexual harassment, in keeping with the facts reported in the article.
> Off topic. Using F-Droid, you don't need to touch Google's ecosystem.

Absolutely. I still don't get why I can't compile and deploy my own apps on my own devices without paying Apple $99 a year.

I thought it was really cool that you can deploy apps you compile yourself on your device out of the app store without paying the $99 yearly fee but apparently that's not the case.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=free%20provisioning&sort=byPop...

> There are three levels: $300/yr for "enterprise" allows you to deploy your app on a large number of devices within your organization (and the terms of service are very explicit that the devices must be under your control: not even for testing by a customer at an off-site location unless you are overseeing), $100/yr for an individual or company normal developer license that lets you install your app for testing purposes on up to 100 of your devices for one year (after which point the apps expire and you have to reinstall them), or $0 for truly "free" provisioning (no yearly fee) which lets you install up to three apps (total; not per account: across all free accounts any device can have only three such apps) on a device using a slightly limited set of APIs (for example: no VPN support) which expire every seven days.

> Clearly the free tier is pretty worthless in the grand scheme of things, and being able to write software for you but not being able to legitimately give it to anyone else not also paying the $100/yr "please let me own the piece of hardware you sold me instead of renting it" tax is not really acceptable for people trying to learn to write software as a big part of software is being able to give it to other people. In practice, though, a lot of people are seriously only learning to develop so that one day they can pay the full Apple developer tax and deploy their apps to the App Store under the Apple software approval process, and so it works out: like, to them, software development is all about writing software for Apple hardware under Apple's rules, and that's what Apple wants anyway. The entire scenario makes me feel a little sick: this shouldn't even be legal as far as I'm concerned.
It doesn't say when this happened, so since Facebook owns Instagram I don't see anything wrong with using publicly available photos to train a ML mod.

Kinda clickbait title.

"Facebook trains AI with pictures from Instagram" would have been better.

Also, "Facebook technology could now recognise the content of images with 85.4 per cent accuracy, compared to Google’s 79.2 per cent" kudos for that!
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