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> Again you are talking about the law, I am talking about ethics, surely you to not believe all thing that are illegal are unethical and that all thing that are legal are ethical? If you do believe that I return to my original statement in that you have a completely screwed set of ethics and morality

> The fact that you seem to get your ethics and morality from the law says a lot. I don't, I personally find large segments of the law to be highly immoral and unethical.

As much as you'd like, the judicial system doesn't work on ethics as judged by you. I hope you understand the functionality of the judicial system before making such broad statements about it.

> The fact that you seem to get your ethics and morality from the law says a lot.

I don't, but I also don't let my own feelings affect my interpretation of law.

> Ok that may be a factual statement, that has nothing to do with the fact it should not have been a criminal matter in the first place, but a civil matter where only monetary damages would be punishment

Do you know what the difference is between civil and criminal law? It doesn't appear so.

> I believe prison should be reserved for people that are a physical danger to other, not as punishment for harming a corporations profits

So do I to a certain degree, but you must first understand that the corporations comprise of people like you and me and not some evil mind CEO who eats all the profits.

> They would for $25 per computer, That is MS double dipping method for recyclers to force them to purchase a new license for a computer that was already licensed by the OEM at the time of manufacturer

You're making presumptuous statements here (and I know because A - your statement is false, $25 is only necessary if the device does not have a recovery disk already; B - your statement is in no way related to my quoted response of approaching Microsoft if they'd be interested in partnering in a recycling program). I'm not going to engage with your prejudice against a corporation of your dislike.

> Again you are talking about the law, I am talking about ethics, surely you to not believe all thing that are illegal are unethical and that all thing that are legal are ethical? If you do believe that I return to my original statement in that you have a completely screwed set of ethics and morality

When all else fails, paint the other person in black?

You believe software should be free to distribute and copy because it is a never ending source and can be created out of thin air once someone has developed it?

How about you try counterfeiting US Dollars which are also created out of thin air?

Software is the currency of the tech companies that develop it and they like to protect is just like our Govt. likes to protect their own economic interest. If you don't like a company you have the choice of not using their products but don't go around saying they're a bunch of evil morons for protecting their interest.
I found this 1982 documentary about malls fascinating, describing them as the future of shopping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2BlyvN6EeI

On the one hand, the confident forecasting seems silly in hindsight. You had malls for a hot moment and you decided they would last forever?

On the other hand, that hindsight is humbling. Things change. What do we know even now? Society changes. Maybe malls will make a stunning comeback in a few decades. I can't imagine how. Vastly cheaper land or package shipping becoming somehow unsustainable, or just the industry cleans house and survives through attrition.

Or maybe online retail will be forever. Or maybe it will be displaced by something unthinkable in thirty years. For all I know some AI concierge service will be a strict dictator over all my finances and purchases, and I'll never touch money, I'll just receive a box of things the machine thinks I need each week. Who knows.

We had a thirty year trend that some people thought was forever. It ended, now we all feel smug, think we learned some deeper truth about society.

StrongTowns is convinced we should (albeit modestly) reinvest in downtowns.

I don't know, that's a lot of conviction for me. Sure, maybe? Am I the only one who feels like I know less now than when this all started?
it's not only your decision. straight honest talk with your investors, listen to what they want, what risk they want to take and decide together ... but listen you should be able to start a company on $50 ... if not your wasting people's money
Could you go into this more? I've never been to BM but have always been curious what people have gotten out of it.
Mac secure boot is currently only supported on the iMac Pro, not any MacBook as far as I am aware.

Rather less likely to be lugging that through customs :)
Because that only works for a small subset of attackers. If it's a state actor that's hacked your computer they're unlikely to be interested in any reasonable sum of money.
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That's one hell of a bug to find. That's kind of hilarious. That does suck about how difficult to fix though.
Stay fit.

Prepare to start experiencing age discrimination. Over the next ten years you'll notice it. Especially if you don't stay fit. It's subtle, but you're going to become less relevant, less respected, and gradually fade into the background.

Professionally, you'll see the subtle pressure to become a manager. If you're not already. Decide if you're OK with this. If you are, start a part-time MBA (the stuff on leadership in an MBA course is going to be useful). If you're not, then you need to develop a strategy for not becoming a manager. Get known as a specialist in some niche, join a company that has separate grades for managers and techs.

At some point you'll probably have your mid-life crisis. This can take many forms, but it's basically an assertion of your vitality. You're still strong, fit (did I mention staying fit?) and capable, but your mortality is approaching and you suddenly realise time is limited. But there's time left to get all those things you wanted to do done, if you start right now!

The body is going to do strange things. There's all sorts of odd ailments that hit in the 40's because evolution. Your hair will do things you don't expect. Your libido will drop, and finally you can get five minutes of peace and quiet without thinking about sex all the time. Your wife, assuming she's a similar age, will have the reverse. She'll get horny all the time. Just when you don't want it any more, you can get it whenever you want. Still, it helps with the cardio.

Keep learning. You can cheerfully sink into your comfort zone and let your opinions ossify into grumpy-old-man syndrome. Don't do that, it's not pleasant for anyone. Take up a new hobby, switch technologies, learn something new all the time. Keep stepping outside your comfort zone. It's like staying fit for the brain.

Watch out for your mental health. Depression and anxiety especially hit hard around this time. Exercise really helps with this.

It's fun, though. There's a lot of benefits to it all, too. But I'll let you discover them for yourself.
You’re right that it’s an issue of typing, but lots of type systems handle this just fine. Even Go’s type system—which everyone loves to hate—let’s you create new types from existing ones (such as a UserID type based on int). This feature is frequently referred to as newtype, and its even present in Python via typing.NewType! This is a bit nicer than the wrapper approach you describe for performance reasons (in practice, wrapping an int in a class will create unnecessary overhead for many languages).
We also need better education. Dare preached to me that basically all drugs were terrible and extremely addictive. Turns out, after I did more research and tried some, the effects very greatly. Marijuana is way less addictive and harmful than heroin and meth. However, lots of people don't do that extra research and so once they realize the information about marijuana was largely BS, they incorrectly assume drugs like heroin and meth are no big deal either.
I have an idea. Try dissociatives.
What's in a name? That which we call a mall
By any other word would sell as well

The "downtown" is essentially a mall, but exposed to the elements. No normal mall manager has ever thought "What I really need here is snow, mosquitoes, panhandlers, diesel smoke, traffic jams, or 90-degree weather with 90% humidity."

A mall is like downtown, but without those problems. Malls are dying for reasons that are also hurting downtown areas. Online shopping has been mentioned. Another issue is that malls have lost their value as a social meeting place. People used to go to the mall to meet each other. Teens especially did this, causing them to buy things and to bring in parents with the serious money. Now people spend time at home poking at their cell phones; this is how people connect.
That plot is deceiving, just because the x-axis representing the ratio goes so large so quickly. I'd say roughly 95% of normally encountered triangles have edge ratios of less than 1:20, which represents 2% of the x axis.

Glancing at that graph you might wrongly conclude "no point cutting corners unless the triangle is reaaaally close to 1:1".
CMake is stringly typed, and that’s only part of the reason it’s such an atrocity.
Show HN: Get an SMS when someone leaves a voicemail on your Twilio number
As an electrical engineer with a traditional work-ethic, I always felt cursed that my only brother was a Bohemian/artist. Then my brother asked me to join him on a trip to Burning Man and I reluctantly agreed.

Not knowing what to expect, my brother privately took care of everything. He created several costumes so we could wear something different every day. He decorated our bicycles and designed elaborate canopies. He made drug laced snacks for barter and created games we could play in darkness of the desert night. Upon my arrival, he made me feel welcome despite my immediate realization that I was not worthy of attending this event. For I had contributed nothing. I had, for the first time in my life, felt like dead-weight to society. But instead of judging me, my brother made me feel loved.

Going to Burning Man is truly a humbling experience. The unimaginable massive spectacles of creativity are beyond my ability to describe. As much as we would like to return we both agreed we wouldn't unless we had an installation to exhibit. A fitting mission a for sibling artist-engineering team who feel obliged to give back to an event that gave them so much.

RIP Larry. I hope somehow in death you feel all the love and beauty that Burning Man inspired.
Personally, since I'm less interested in MS-DOS modes and fixed-length 8bit charset modes, I switched to the redesigned NetHack 4, which works fine with modern UTF-8 terminals.

NetHack 4 is geared towards progression of the game and staying up to date with the changing world rather than mothballing the old game. It's a separate project from NetHack 3.x, with different goals and development teams.

http://nethack4.org
Burning Man has been one of the 3 most important events in my life ! I never met Larry Harvey but he seemed like an amazing man. I learned so much about myself, life and everything in between going to it. I've gone almost 7 times, but havent gone in the last 5 years.

I really loved some of the snippets from this article about Larry. The bit about someone waking him up at 4am with a chainsaw to work on an ice sculpture made me laugh outloud. Definitely par for course at Burning Man, and his reaction says alot about him. RIP

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/larry-harvey-founder-and-le...
It's proven:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/15/british-math...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27s_...
Really thinking Jetsons here, but won't we simply be able to print most items either at home or at the neighborhood print shop at some point in the next 100 years? I recall efforts in the food, metal, and body part space. Shipping and warehouses become irrelevant, you just buy recipes that can be created in a very short time. Or maybe I'm living on Cloud 9?
The problem here is what loophole a big company like Oracle can find, if they don't like you. They can't prevent you from doing a fork, but can easily sue you for not keeping copyright visible enough in project page README file.

Taking into account amount of resources they have, this will be enough to shut you down ;)
> Neutral: if you disagree, commit and fail it becomes a very public failure.

I don't understand this part - if you publicly disagree with a decision, and then that decision results in failure, weren't you just proved right? Or does it just get assumed that the failure was your fault due to you not committing sufficiently?
I graduated with a major in Business at Haas and a minor in Computer Science from the College of Engineering. And I tacked on an extra semester to get it done.

Yeah you're right to think doing double major w/ EECS would have been quite a tall order. Probably logistically impossible.
Startup stagnant – earns $30k/month, raised $1m, shut down?
I raised $1m for a startup I founded. This startup now makes about $30k every month, which all goes to paying salaries and various expenses. In the last 24 months, we have not grown at all - and the revenue is now constant. I cannot cut expenses without reducing revenue.

What is the right thing to do in this situation? Shut it down and search for more lucrative opportunities?

I don't expect it to decline in revenue quickly, but it's clear that adding new revenue is not working well.
The alternative lifestyle for them is not frolicking on a green grass, but non-existence. We are the cause that they exists. They don't know about "no chance of escape", you do. I'm all for labgrown meat, but mixing your own feelings and objective information about their assessment of quality of their own life (which you don't have) is not helping your cause.
It's really not that hard for me.

Health - I use to be a part time fitness instructor up until my mid 30s when I got married. I saw first hand the difference between people who let their bodies get in disrepair from years of neglect and people who were running and teaching dynamic classes in their mid 50s and people who are still running in their mid 60s. I turned one of our spare bedrooms into a gym that I use regularly.

Family. My wife and I are both on our second marriages. We both know how emotional devastating divorce is. In some cases it happens because only one person is willing to put in the work, in others it's because the couple doesn't make a conscientious effort to put each other first. We both make an effort to raise a red flag when outside obligations are interfering with our time and keep us from investing in our relationship.

Career. I've also seen first hand older developers who got comfortable, got blindsided by a layoff and had trouble getting a job because they didn't keep themselves marketable. That happened to me at 34. I stayed at a job for 9 years, stop learning after two and my skill set was woefully out of date. I studied for six months, took what was an entry level job after being in the industry for 12 years and aggressively learned and job hopped for the next nine.
The lack of alien contact suggests to me that technological civilizations don't appear very frequently. So I'm afraid that we're somewhat of an evolutionary aberration and if we'd go extinct a replacement wouldn't arise.
Haha, went through the same. Shut it down in like 08 after having used it for like three months but people were getting weirded out. I used to tell them that the service is too expensive as I couldn't afford to waste my personal data like this. They didn’t quite get it.
Just imagine if basically anybody could finance terrorism without much fear of being discovered. I doubt very much there would be less terrorism then.
Or if you buy into social drug stigmas, then research dissociatives.
TL;DR "After studying more than 4,000 children at Sydney primary and secondary schools for three years, they found that children who spent less time outside were at greater risk of developing myopia."
LOL. let me give you some advice, never stop asking for advice. You see further when you stand on the shoulders of giants.

What can I say I am a quick learner.

;)
Just Like Faces, Buildings Have Features That Algorithms Can Recognize
Convert your age to hexadecimal, you are just 0x28 years old, your live is just beginning! (I got 0x30 the other day and still feel that way ;-)

Well, its a joke, but every joke has a bit of truth in it...
> I really like the concept of “pleasantly surprising” our users.

Except that when users complained about the WiiU not being fun or remotely interesting, nobody listened at Nintendo and they kept marching to release it as is.

It's nice to have narratives, but when facts don't match it, it's just a nice PR story and nothing more.
The Black Market for Weed Is Still Thriving in California
How to make a fast fuzzy search
We should experiment on ourselves instead of animals if we expect to reap all the benefit. We do have an idea. Try dissociatives. Or at least read about them.
Hello, Colaboratory
Image Completion with Deep Learning in TensorFlow (2016)
> if you disagree, commit and fail it becomes a very public failure

Not quite sure what you mean, there. Can you give an example, please? How does your disagreement make the failure more public?
This is a cute story, but for folks considering attending bartering of any kind at the burn is not a thing.
> obsessive customer focus is by far the most protective of Day 1 vitality.

It's a nice way to look at it, but then it's hard to explain why they force-feed Amazon Fire TV Sticks as a poor man's alternative to Chromecasts and prevent Chromecasts from being sold on Amazon at the same time. Costumer focus much?
I won 14 times, back in high school when I had way too much free time. Once with every class, plus an illiterate barbarian.

One of the big thing is knowing enough to recognize when you're in danger, before you're in danger. Stuff like "That q is too tough for me to take right now", or "I'd be screwed if that n steals X", or "I don't have poison resistance yet, so I better not fight those o at range," or "It's dangerous to be in the mines with this AC and no source of light." This comes with experience.

Another big part of it is understanding the sequencing, and how to build an ascension kit. Do you want to try to get to minetown early to grab a magic lamp? When is it safe to go to mines end, and do you need magic resistance to do it? What's the earliest you can take on a unicorn?

There are lots of other tricks (identifying wands, potions, etc), clearing the big room safely, finding the portals on the elemental planes, stealing from shops, what gives resistances, maximizing wishes, etc.

Ultimately, Nethack got boring for me because the late game is too long, and doesn't differ much between different classes. Ascension kits tend to be very similar (GDSM + silver shield or SDSM + CoMR?). I really liked what Derek Ray did with Sporkhack, and I never managed to win that, although I died on astral a couple times.
Sourdough Starters, Recipes, and Baker's Handbook
Hint: it CAN be extremely terrifying.
I was in classes with these kids. Many of them were smug AF and wanted to start tech companies, but didn't know a thing about software engineering. I just felt they wanted to manage/direct the people and make the money.

Since I had been coding since a young age, building web apps in my spare time, when I was in classes with these people I started to actually realize I had this superpower they valued.

But truth was I didn't want to work with any of them. I didn't see the value in someone whose studies were about learning how to harness my value.
I'm not sure why they needed to add incorrect/unfounded ideas to the otherwise ok article.

> Because transactions can be anonymous — law enforcement cannot easily trace who buys and sells — its use is dominated by illegal endeavors.

That's a no, no, and [citation needed]. Especially since later they write:

> The IRS recently ordered one major exchange to produce records of every significant transaction.
I don’t believe any of Harry Potter really happened either, but that doesn’t mean I can arbitrarily claim the story is different from what it is.
At this point, I'll only use an Apple product if my work pays for it.
Please research drugs before you take them. Cocaine is a hell of a lot different than meth from the research I have done.
umm isn't that exactly the opposite of what you always hear?
This makes sense. If you still believe in problem, why not hit refresh. Start a solution that feels right this time. A pivot that doesn't cost a lot of .
I was at a startup in edu tech. Half way through I realised the product wasn't the solution but a major change in our approach could have worked out. Sadly no one let me near this idea. The company is still burning cash.
Ask HN: Why is Python struggling to rasie funding?
Hi,

I just came to know about a funding drive by Python Software Foundation. But it was disappointing to know that they are struggling to raise the required funding even though the target amount is just $20,000! I know a lot of large companies which are getting immense value by using Python and can easily make regular donations. But I am not sure why this is not the case.

Is it because we developers are not actively advocating to management to contribute funds to OSS projects? Is it because we are not aware that many of the OSS projects that we use are in need of funding? Will a website with the links to all OSS projects accepting donations help? I can build and lunch such a website. Please provide suggestions on how we can help amazing OSS projects like Python get well funded.

Please Donate: https://www.python.org/psf/donations/2018-q2-drive/
Can you elaborate on the set up? How are they syncing with one another?
> I'll add to this that each degree at each university has a pre-published entry score. If you achieve this score, you are automatically accepted.

With the funding cap on commonwealth supported places announced in the MYEFO this will eventually change back to a capped entry system.
Thanks for the cool project!

On a side note, working on this made me realize that case-insensitive comparison in Go is pretty inefficient, made a CL to improve it: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/110018
That lecture was exactly what I needed right now - thank you.
This is true without perfect observation. In math you have perfect observation (sometimes), so you can do something like Fermat's Last Theorem. Once you enter the physical world, not so much.
Actually, I remember in my business classes we were taught to project confidence independent of if we had the knowledge/experience to back it up. As if confidence were an attribute in itself (unrelated to actually having the skills and experience to do a job).

I think this teaching bred that pride of which you speak.
Just turned 40. One thing my old landlord taught me about ten years ago is that as you get older, it's valuable to have a default known-good method for things. Always put your keys in a bowl next to the door. Shit, shower, then shave. This goes double as a manager and a developer. Have a process for starting a new project, hiring a new employee, spinning up a new bank of servers, etc. Some of these can be shell scripts, but lots are documents that are regularly updated.
Whilst I personally prefer succinct code, the proposal looks to be unpythonic. Why is this any better than ‘—i’?
Arguably the same thing could be said for list & map comprehension.
Or how about “If you are’t paying with money, you’re paying with time or attention”
People are supposed to be gentle in Show HN postings, but often they’re a bit mean.
Nanoscale printing
Why there cannot be small scale semiconductor fab model?