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They still stop running after seven days.
Yep, I'd nearly bet on it. That SoC alone is what, $40? Screen closer to (or even over) $100, given how high-end it is. That leaves very little room for RAM, flash, controller, etc.
Awesome app man.

150-300MB seems more than acceptable for a local email client. A pedantic, vocal minority may be over-represented in this thread (it IS HN after all).

IMO Electron apps present significant advantages that justify its negligible cost, eg skinnable with CSS, inspected live with a web inspector, cross platform etc.
The thing with the VA isn't that it's all bad. It's that the percentage of completely inept people seems higher than in a normal hospital.

Normal hospitals don't have multiple scandals of reusing insulin pens on different people, reusing colonoscopy bags, killing people, paralyzing people and periodically losing all of our records.

A lot of veterans who are covered by the VA are like me. Technically covered because of service connected disabilities, but I will never use it.
> If web developers don't already all know this then what knowledge do they have nowadays?

Read the article's title. This article is clearly aimed at people who are starting to learn web development. It is not aimed at experienced web developers.

> ...these were all skills I had mastered before even attempting to define what type of development I wanted to do

Many people learn how to program by working on projects they want to work on, and a lot of people want to build web applications.
In the Washington DC area, we have some on ramps that are metered (I-66 inside the beltway, and I-395) come to mind.
That very well may be, but I have not seen any research suggesting this.
Maybe, it was a bit off the cuff, and I'd need to think more about it and look at some actually employment and pay data to have a better sense of the validity of the claim. However, I think in general looking for a exploitable niche is a solid plan.
I occasionally loose sleep, wondering what products were lost due to Jobs' early death.

Edit: Ok, fine. I loose sleep wondering what ideas were out there that languished because Jobs wasn't around to see their potential and capitalize on them. The argument "he wasn't that important because he didn't actually invent X" is played out, and it fundamentally misses the point.
>> No, the medical professionals, i.e. doctors do.

The UK doctors punted, agreed. But Italian doctors believed different treatments were warranted. The Italian government gave the boy citizenship.

In a private healthcare system, the parents would be free to pursue that. But in the state-run system of the UK, there was no such freedom. Alfie Evans died last Monday.
Please explain: why would Ooma service, in and of itself, reduce spam calls?
The way you talk sounds like you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself. If you do that, it will manifest with unhealthy ways - stimulants, breakdowns, etc.

My first year of undergrad was by far the hardest. Weed-out classes are a real thing. It will get easier after year 1.

Taking adderall a few times is hardly abuse, but taking it when you don't need it is definitely a bad habit to begin during university.
Yes, while the books she described are good, the overall package as 5 books to learn CS is odd.
If its rationed then some people are going to be left out, and the moral argument crumbles, as people that need it don't get it.
https://www.welookups.com/android/Android_ImageView.html

new web tutorial
Okay, but what about people in other countries? Why don't we have an obligation to help them, to?
I had a similar experience with an authorised repair place - my keyboard went on the blink (as has been reportedly recently with all the touchbar MBPs. Upon opening it they found a coffee stain from where I had spilt coffee on it months before. Their response "we can't fix it sorry, Apple wouldn't allow it"...
Not really, it still seems like the CIA was searching for him in the 00's, and CIA connections wouldn't make him any less of a terrorist.
Why not Deeo Learning?
Those are all relatively low level though.

I think the boom has been in pay and employment of hospital CEO, CFO, CTO, nurse directors, nurse compliance officers, legal, billing departments and supervisors of supervisors.

The people who actually deliver care, ie doctors and nurses, are being perpetually marginalized.
Linode user for the last 10+ years here, I'm migrating some sites to DO after checking it out recently(again), the UI is better and it seems DO innovates faster these days, and the stability might have improved too(need more time to verify this).

Linode has been solid for me, only one bad hardware crash in the last 10+ years, but DO has more functions, good UI, larger disk,etc. I am trying it again.
> The VA is far from perfect and is really noticeably worse than many other country's nationalized health systems. But it's not obviously worse than private health insurance in the US and generally veterans are as happy with their health care as other people

If you want to convince people to support a single-payer system, this is quite possibly the worst argument you could use. Any veteran or anybody who has had any experience whatsoever with the VA will instantly assume you don't know what you're talking about.

The VA is, on the whole, atrocitous. There are a couple of regions which do relatively well, because the system is federated, but on the whole, it's almost universally considered to be a disaster, even by people who are supportive of the program's existence.

If you want to convince people that a single-payer system wouldn't end up like the VA, start by acknowledging the problems with the VA, not denying them.
HN is a tough crowd.
For a trivial issue like the one the article covers, sure. But often decisions have larger impact. The cost of a bad decision can be higher than the cost of fighting for the right decision. If Kara weren’t just designing a single new icon but electing to, say, replace nearly the entire suite of icons with flat iconography, that’s a pretty impactful decision. This significantly impacts the design choices that other designers will have to make.

Domain expertise is not always unique to the other person, either. When negotiating with a coworker on a design or feature request, it’s entirely possible that the person asking for the change has more domain expertise than the person empowered to make the choice.
Inbox seems to use about 200mb right now. However this is within Chrome and runs several additional plugins.

When I use mutt I doubt it goes over 20mb.
It's foolish to believe the state is more efficient that private actors, that is just contrary to real life experience.
There's a lot in here that might boil down to how you asked the questions/gave the feedback, but there are also certainly cases where you just aren't getting through to someone.

Something I often do there is sanity check my approach with my manager and some trusted coworkers. Did you talk to anyone else about where the two of your coworkers communication was breaking down? Sometimes others have additional perspective on why you aren't getting through to someone since they have a different vantage point.

I've also had cases where my manager basically tells me "no, I don't think you're doing anything wrong, let me do some investigation myself" - and if other people have had the same experience as me, that's occasionally led to positive organizational changes such as shifting people around onto different projects where their skills fit better.
Daphne Koller new machine learning venture to rethink drug design process
CVE-2018-8781: 8-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Discovered
> This is a nice sentiment, but would you quantitatively argue that this is a good investment?

Yes. You learn about your behavior, the reasons you act like you do and learn tools to avoid the traps in the future.

Effectiveness might depend on the problem but this is probably studied - it's a powerful toolbox to combat problems and most countries use it successfully to replace the initial medication for issues like depression.
I'm very fond of Apple's business stance; my concern is not with it, but with their technological stance. Apple products are built on lock-in; they are proprietary and closed, not open. Frankly, at this point they're not even really all that good (in fact, sometimes embarrassingly bad — something not limited to Apple!).

I want the freedom to tinker, the freedom to review, the freedom to extend. That's why I use Linux.
I used CLRS at my university, but I've since found Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani far better. It's a much smaller book for one, so more people will actually read it, and while it is mathematically rigorous, the proofs and explanations are well motivated so you actually understand how the algorithm works and how someone could have come up with it in the first place.

I agree though that her recommendations are poor. I feel that way about most of these five books recommendations. It's seems that people usually pick their books to be controversial or to show off how clever they are, rather than to actually help someone understand their field. I've read half of that type theory book for example, and it is utterly impractical for any practicing programmer. You would only find it interesting if you're interested in implementing functional programming languages, and even then it's quite theory heavy and not very practical.
Hello there, author of the article here. You bring up a great point: This is a case in which the stakes are high and some things I said in the article don't apply.

In this case I would suggest that there should have been a lead or senior overseeing your coworker who was responsible for the quality of their code. This person should have already demonstrated good judgment in code quality, should have some people skill and backbone in dealing with folks who take code reviews personally and have the authority of the team to make the final decision on whether code gets integrated into your mainline branch.

If you're not that person then there's not much that you can do about a coworker's bad code other than push the team towards a stronger structure and process to protect it from bad code.
I have an iPhone, but it is soooo painful to me that my awesome as hell MacBook Pro for work has USB C for everything, including power, and yet my phone does not. Meanwhile my team lead, sitting directly across from me, has an android phone that charges with USB C.
If you feel you need it, proceed with caution. Make a pledge to take care of yourself and ensure you don't become dependent/you develop healthy usage patterns. I've been taking prescription stimulants (prescribed to me) for a decade and half and there are certainly times when the benefits outweighed the side effects - other times that wasn't the case and the drugs were causing more harm.

Finally, this is off topic, but I have say that the drugs are really life changing for someone with ADD, and I feel like more people should have access to them in a safe manner. There has to be millions of people in the general population that are not diagnosed and should be receiving some kind of treatment. Unequal access to mental health services without a doubt results in some people being less effective in the workforce, which leads to further inequality.
It's way easier to downvote and move on than to make solid arguments and change minds. Maybe they fear that their libertarian world view will crumble when confronted with some evidence.
You're operating under the assumption that insurance companies would continue acting as they do now, even if there is much more competition.

Insurance companies shouldn't want to deny you coverage just because you have a pre-existing condition. They most likely would just charge you more, because you're at a higher risk of costing them money.
New Google Integrated Kubernetes Ops Managment Released
Answer the phone when they call and conference in the Jolly Roger telephone bot http://www.jollyrogertelco.com

The bot will waste the telemarketers time, which is the most expensive thing that these companies are paying for. Do this enough times and the calls drop off rapidly.
What a strange article. He spent most of the time saying, "I could criticize Apple for .." which seems like a criticism shrouded in something else or backhanded compliment (if that). Also, what's this infatuation between good and evil? Why does that even belong in a tech conversation?
Ubuntu phone? (I had one, but it wasn't very good, as it just didn't have the apps).
> The goal of government, in my opinion, is to focus on long-term objectives: ensuring a sustainable healthy and educated population.

You can't ensure health unless you have wealth in the first place. You can see that things moved in that order in the past 300 years: the more wealthy a country was, the longer people lived and the better they could face different conditions. The greatest strides against mortality were accomplished long before the welfare state as an expression ever existed.
Came here looking for the first “hello world!” Program, ended up learning something.
I'd say the recommended books are not for learning per se, but for consolidating your programming experience.
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> We are in agreement that the American government can and does provide a health insurance program that covers lots of people and has the property that people don’t seek to leave it.

People literally are leaving it, to the fullest extent that they legally can.

It's not a small number, either. About 40% of Medicare patients aren't on the government-run system at all, and that number has consistently grown over the years.
I think it is a possibility, the wealthy are building doomsday bunkers. There is writing on the wall, they just need to outlast the uprising and then come out and buy up everything really cheap.
I only wish the author hadn't forgotten to mention the quintessential non-Apple company: SNAP[0]

Many say the current game of musical chairs is overdue for a pause. My money (not literally) is on Tech stocks taking the biggest hit. But as the article put it, Apple isn't a Tech company -- it's a manufacturer (and superb retailer!) of products that are observably differentiated, as they clearly command higher prices for virtually the same functionality as their competitors.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/snap-s-sl...
I don't think we should tax the wealthy into equality, I believe in income and wealth inequality -- its the incentive and reward structure an economy should have. However, it's only moral and right when coupled with a meaningful quality of life for the lowest end, and only when coupled with social mobility. Socialized medicine and the safety net allows for risk taking, allows the poor to build businesses without the fear of death in the event of failure.

Cost of care goes down when you stop wasting money on advertisement, CEO bonuses, and people whose job it is to deny claims. Cost of care goes down when you provide preventative care that's necessary and affordable. When you dont have people without insurance wandering into the ER at the last possible second who could have been treated for pennies on the dollar earlier on. All the data we have on Medicare backs this up, even though its an awful example for reasons I cited above.

Further if you claim that we can't afford to cover everyone, you're going to need to back up your claims because every other country in the OECD would disagree with you.

tl;dr: Income/wealth inequality is a good incentive, when the poor don't die, starve and can live well, and have the opportunity to move up. Socialized medicine enables this.
The Bad Old Days of Untargeted Advertising
Wow. I had no idea. Thank you!
Regarding "violent coersion of the state", by this, I assume you mean.. taxes.

At this point in the world's history, we are not individuals who can wander off into the wilderness on our own, to live and die as God might have intended. We are members of a vast, global social fabric. We benefit from it. We pay into it. There's no way to avoid the coersion/evils or really deny the benefits/goods that this society provides. We can only discuss things relatively speaking, on a whole, in balance.

I think a productive use of our time is thinking about (and experimenting with) how information technology could better support our emerging social fabric so that we could make the best collective decisions: that is, enable even more personal freedom.
On the other hand, taking potential health concerns out of the equation makes working for a startup inherently less risky.

Before the ACA removed restrictions of pre-existing conditions, merely switching employers carried the risk of losing access to necessary healthcare.
> They don't burn cash on new ideas just because they can

How much was spent on Project Titan (The car)?
> The stock vests in increments until late 2018, with 1.9 million shares due to vest in mid-May and mid-August, plus a final tranche of 2.1 million set to be issued in November.

The guy could have collected $336M, if he had just stayed for 2 more weeks. If it were me, I would have just grinded out those 2 weeks, and given the extra $300M to my favorite charity. I guess he must have really hated being at FB...
Works fine for me on Firefox 59 on Windows.
I think the memory management issue can be addressed by using reference counting semantics in the language (wrt aliasing, scoping and weak vs strong references). That maps well to both manual management and garbage collection.

Some more searching the web lead me to Haxe. I'll have a look at how they handle these issues.
Apple's main endeavor is to develop an actual product. They design and engineer something in the hopes that people buy it.

The honesty - and arguably, quaintness - of that consumer relationship separates Apple from the rest of the valley.
A bit off topic, but why is it a trend these days to use "cancer" for things that have nothing to do with the disease? It sounds a bit insensitive.
I have Ooma and I still get the local number(spoofed?) spam calls. What am I doing wrong?
I'd settle for iMessage and FaceTime being open...
21% of Apple's quarterly revenue was from China. China is not well-known as one of the richest parts of the planet.
Law is violent coercion. This isn’t libertarian philosophy class, it’s the real world.

In many places in the real world, universal government insurance is already in place. This isn’t some hypothetical.
Again, this is not true. Read the studies comparing VA care to private care. You're actually better off going to a VA hospital than most private hospitals.
We don't need academia to do this. Those of us old enough to remember know that Infoseek was once a far, far better search engine than Google, but sadly, it was borged by Disney, emasculated as Go.com, and eventually, killed. (It's also worth remembering that Excite turned down Brin and Page's offer to sell Google for $750K!) Bing is the only real competition to Google today, and to its credit, it is approaching parity with Google...
In US, you could register your phone in Do Not call list from Federal Trade Commission - https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0133-cell-phones-and-d...
Control Systems, DSP, RF design
No they're not. An innocent person can't succumb to an ICO the way anyone can get Cancer.

This is just a very old story: "A fool and his money."
Tentative Thoughts on the Use of Genealogy Sites to Solve Crimes
On the other end of the stick from the other explanations here, I've worked in at least one team where there were no Karas. Our boss would come up to us and say "this is totally wrong", and we would discuss it without missing a beat.

I think there are benefits to being forthright, but you absolutely have to make sure there aren't any Karas first. And be ready to take the article's suggestions to heart if there are, without grumbling.
Simple software can cost lives
Does aanyone here work with consuming (not just passing it kn) these amounts of traffic? How do you manage to get anything meaningful out of it?
Steve Jobs did not single-handedly invent the iPhone.
Looks to be quite a huge release
>This perspective of public vs private interest is rather puzzling to me -- it's more a matter of short-term vs long-term thinking.

I actually think a long-term vs short-term view is insufficient. Let's step away from firms and take the case of the rich and the poor individual. For the poor individual it is in their interest in the short and long-term interest to have universal healthcare. For the rich individual, it is in their short and long-term interest to prevent universal healthcare. According to the investment theory of party competition [1] this rich vs poor divide becomes reflected in our politics as both parties vie for the donations of the wealthy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_theory_of_party_com...
Ah, I admit I didn't read far enough into the write-up.
It's not about anonymizing, it's about hiding under the mask of some other entity, without their(other entity's) permission. AWS's other customers and various governments won't be happy about aws allowing Signal to do so.

While they could white list Signal, I don't see why they would want to go through this trouble. It's not like any of these public companies care any more about supporting people under oppressive rules, than profit.
Jamie from DigitalOcean here. It will be an option as to whether you want automatic upgrades (including what times of day you’d like us to do upgrades), and we’ll go through our own internal process and testing to minimize any backwards compatibility issues.