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> async/await are a step ahead to give you the best of both worlds here: You can write your programs as if your requests block

Are you thinking of “green”/M:N threading (as found e.g. in Go)?

Async/await (as found e.g. in Python) is precisely what hinders the style you describe: If your brand new I/O routine is “async colored” to take advantage of non-blocking syscalls, you can’t easily call it from your regular “sync colored” code without “spilling the color” all around, i.e. considerable refactoring.
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As someone from the south, tools sold for the removal of ticks just makes me giggle.

Just use your fingernail, scratch it off carefully. I can't imagine trying to use this or one of the crazier, "heat a needle" or "spread vasaline on them methods" when trying to remove the sometimes hundreds of ticks and chiggars you might have after working in the wrong field for a day.
This is a very inward-looking article. All of its seven points add to the conversation, but they seem overly focused on mechanics, rather than vision.

The best editors have a uniquely good understanding of readers' aspirations, anxieties, interests, etc. Such editors are equivalent to startup CEOs who can sense what a new product needs to be -- and how it will electrify the world.

Some editors communicate this very clearly, with maxims that everyone quotes. Others make it come to life in opaque ways that are both brilliant and frustrating. And OP is quite right that this is often a team exercise. But one way or another, the best editors get the vision right. I've heard it said that a successful magazine isn't just a collection of articles; it's a thrilling club that invites the reader in, to become part of an almost-magical grouping of like-minded people.

What's not covered -- but should be -- is the question of how long a visionary can stay ahead of everyone else. The longest-serving editors often have a period of decline near the end, when they become quite cranky and rule by fear. Staff turnover becomes high. The old vision starts to feel stale or brittle. People keep waiting for the boss to have another flash of inspiration that will get it all on track again, but such hopes are satisfied only intermittently, if at all.

It's hard to be brilliant. It's even harder to be brilliant for more than a decade.
I choose direct flights whenever I can. I don’t really care about the time, I care about the hassle, the interruption and the waiting that comes with having to change flights.

A lot of the time, I would gladly spend the same amount of hours—sleeping, reading, watching stuff-in the same plane.
LibreOffice is a nice thing until you get really serious and your day depends on a good office suite.

MS Office is complex, full of bugs... but it has all the things in place that a power user needs. They gave a big though about the things people need. The CTRL+Y after a CTRL+X on excel is a great example of that.

I have a love/hate relationship with MS Office. I would lave to have something better... but we're still far away.
Yeah, this struck me as the kind of article that suffers from the rush to press. Then again if they had waited a few months -- for autopsy results to come in, for effects of his death on the community to be clear, etc -- then maybe there wouldn't have been enough meat for an article at all.
That is an interesting post. it relates to the KISS philosophy, which apparently originated in the US military (at least, that name for it).

Also the reformers of the 70s and 80s, the group around John Boyd, Pierre Sprey etc., really pushed for simpler equipment, in opposition to high-tech complexity. It's a recurring theme, and it's definitely a kind of conservatism since it always keeps a (more or less) skilled man in the loop. In a way it creates the conditions for human excellence in the old sense, which automation does away with.

This 2010 book on cultural differences in military innovation may also be relevant:

The Culture of Military Innovation
The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel.
DIMA ADAMSKY

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=18104
Volta Tensor Core GPU Achieves New AI Performance Milestones
Adding inheritance and generic typing to GraphQL schemas
Location: New York, NY
Remote: Open to it.

Willing to relocate: Cannot at this time.

Technologies: React, Redux, MobX, JavaScript (2+ years), Ruby, Rails (1+ years), Jest, Enzyme, AWS.

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gsnigq3m76obvbi/Jonathan%20Silvest....

Email: silvestrijonathan@gmail.com

Looking for a mid-level dev job in small to mid-sized organizations. Priorities include having input on product roadmap, exploring more full stack (I'm 80% client side these days), and mentoring more junior engineers, if possible.
I'm an information security consultant. I don't make $500/hr, that's just what my company bills clients for my time. I make a small fraction of that :)
Beware the Big Errors of 'Big Data'
I think the fairest way is to have a serious conversation with him and offer him a tiny stake based on his contribution which should involve contributions planning the startup. But with an option to buy back his stake after a few years. That way your friendship is still good and your friend feels like he at least got something.

The easiest way is to just remove his contribution and go on your way. I think you said he never committed code so I don't think he has a strong foundation to stand on if he wants to sue. But this also opens up the possibility of legal fees later.

Figure out how much the stake will cost you and compare it to the legal cost if he tries to sue you. Then pick the cheaper of the two.
Grid-based displays are fun. You can cut the strips and re-arrange them in a "zig-zag" pattern if you don't mind soldering a few wires.

Lately, I was also thinking it could be fun to try 3d-printing some little spherical diffusers for individual 5050 LEDs and arranging individual ones of those in a larger area like a window.
*raises
How Amazon Scale Alexa's Natural Language Understanding Capabilities Faster
The fact that something called Core wasn't the part that's common to all flavors is a big sin.
Microsoft Build is this week as well (the keynote is going on as we speak). Facebook F8 was last week. I guess this is developer conference season?
That's because the late fee wasn't set high enough.

Set it to something really high like $600 [0] and parents' behavior will change, problem solved :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15753206
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Agreed, there are serious problems of distribution and opportunity, as I said in my last paragraph in the GP.

> economists have been selling globalization to the US voter with that idea for a long time

And politicians have too. The argument long has been, as I understand it: There's a big aggregate benefit and the rising tide will lift all boats. Obviously that hasn't worked out, which shouldn't be surprising, raising a few issues:

1. People need opportunity to participate in the globalized economy. Opportunity and social mobility have decreased in the U.S. for decades, IIUC. Just consider access to quality K-12 and higher education, the latter probably being important for getting into the globalization game, much less the necessities for survival such as health care.

2. If people are to vote and work for the country's and world's aggregate benefit, rather than their particular benefit, then the 'aggregate' needs to support them in return through social benefits such as unemployment insurance and guarantees of basic needs such as healthcare, shelter, food, and education, and through opportunity (see #1). As it is, the beneficiaries are arguing for aggregate benefit, and then putting the benefits in their particular pockets and walking away with it.

3. My hypothesis for the cause is that working people simply didn't have a seat at the table when these deals were negotiated. Big business insisted that the particulars of their needs were explicitly addressed in great detail; consider the global intellectual property regime, for example. Working people were told that it would just work out somehow, 'a rising tide lifts all boats'. Strange that wasn't the response to Wall Street's and Hollywood's demands. Assuming things would just magically sort themselves out for everyone else was lazy and careless governance.
Well, with the right chemistry you could expose an image directly onto a piece of paper and embed the exposure fixing chemicals on the edge such that a roller would automatically apply them to the paper...
Party Tricks (from RNGs)
> From December through March the book has sold 1337 copies.

That's a pretty 'leet number :)
> What governments should do is spend appropriately to maximize the welfare of their people

Are you suggesting that people aren't capable of spending appropriately to maximize their own welfare, and that the government would do a better job of it (after taking a cut of the money)?

> What governments should do is ... borrowing and spending during economic slumps

Even if this were true, and I think global economic malaise since the financial crisis is evidence it's not, it omits the corollary that governments should then repay debt and save during economic booms. You can't responsibly have one without the other, can you?

> balanced budgets [are a bad idea]

So debt is a good idea? We should finance current spending at the cost of future spending? That's a pretty radical statement. The burden of proof is on you.
Google working on improved address bar, linux app support and more for Chrome OS
I wonder how many companies have had their firehose dry up but then just generated data to get a bit of extra cash before closing down. Seems like you could train an AI model to do that if you have enough historical data saved.
What does the death of a someone barreling down a hill in a prototype horseless carriage mean for the future of automobiles? Perhaps the need for regulations, safety features, caution, etc.
If you're not already convinced that the term "social justice warrior" is now devoid of meaning, note this comment. I don't want to support a theocratic regime where homosexuality is punishable by death and criticizing the government or Islam is a criminal offense enforced by secret police, so I'm one of the SJWs now?
Doing it without a tool risks leaving the mouthparts embedded in your skin, leaving you prone to infection even after the tick was removed.
Could you please be more specific as to your offense? I am not sure of the nature of your criticism.
It could not be as good looking as it should, but it surely was accessible for most people, something that Windows 3.11 was not. That's what made the difference.
I noticed that the you made a config front-end using a web page and claimed that you're not up to date with web development. Indeed, I do find that it's unsatisfying to configure IoT devices over the web, although the web is one of the most compatible solutions. The drawbacks include the fact that if you want to configure it you always have to be on the same LAN and figure out its IP or port-forward, but if you port-forward, it will be not very secure due to the attack surface of the mini web server. Moreover, it's not very elegant for you or others to programmatically control it.

My interest recently has been on the mqtt protocol, it's like microservices for IoT. You will need to connect to a middleman mqtt server and hold that connection. When you want to change something you push the changes to the middleman mqtt server. It can be local or on the internet, but since the mqtt server is maintained and updated, it's much easier to secure the mqtt server. Or you can use someone else's mqtt server as a commodity. The app called "mqtt dashboard" acts as a client and allows you to draw a number of controls to the client if you answer a specific request. I think it's suitable for applications like this. Hackaday has a detailed article about it. I think mqtt is a great example of a great protocol for the purpose of controlling/configuring IoT devices.

https://hackaday.com/2016/05/27/minimal-mqtt-control-and-cli...
LibreOffice is absolutely awful from an UX point of view. That’s enough to put me off personally.

If you’re an office expert you’d probably figure out how to use it, but for me I’ve only used an office suite maybe a dozen times in my life so I’m very new to it, and latest Office 2016 allows me to get started easily (the much-hated Ribbon UI works for me and is intuitive), where as I find myself Googling all the time to do even the basic stuff in LibreOffice.
Nokia Acquires SpaceTime Insight, an AI and IoT Company
> Because to do something consistently over a long period of time requires letting go of opportunities that most ambitious people cannot resist.

Oh! I get it now, thanks. Also, this reminds me of a FS article I read: https://www.fs.blog/2018/03/speed-velocity/

Note: FS is an excellent blog!
I bet you'd get a similar answer from psychologists mostly because well adjusted people tend to not visit them.

You're also making a selection bias, assuming people that see a psychologist are not well adjusted. It's equally possible that only well adjusted people seek psychological consult, while others are sublimating their problems.

I don't necessarily agree with that conclusion either, but I think it's worth pointing out. Especially when discussing emotional maturity.
re: "idiots at Twitter" - It's always nice to encounter someone smart on internet.
What's a good alternative you would suggest?

I often have a similar problem and the fact is that most users hang out on platforms that suck like Twitter, Facebook, etc.

If I build my business on a decentralized platform like blockchain etc. I immediately lose 90% or even more of my target audience.

If I build my business on my own datacenter the cost and maintenance involved is staggeringly high.

Do you have a reasonable alternative that would allow small players like us to host large volumes of data (say about 1 TB to 2 TB) while completely controlling the ownership of the data?
That sucks it is a climate change linked issue...

I already know I will find that more sensitive tests for tick borne diseases have been developed so essentially the definition of these diseases has changed, funding for surveillance has increased, the methods of counting ticks have become more sensitive, etc.

EDIT:

Yep, this looks like a good starting point if anyone is interesting in trying to figure out what is really going on. I'm not sure if I will bother:

"A later surge in interest in ticks and tick-borne pathogens has been inspired by recent claims about the impact of forecasted climate change on the spatial distribution of ticks and associated pathogens (Brownstein et al., 2003; Ostfeld et al., 2005; Diuk-Wasser et al., 2006; Ogden et al., 2008; Jaenson et al., 2009). However, this research has been fraught with difficulty from the outset because of insufficient knowledge about the nature of many tick-pathogen associations (Randolph, 2009; Franke et al., 2013; Medlock et al., 2013). A proper understanding of how abiotic factors shape the transmission cycles of tick-transmitted disease agents awaits a more rigorous analysis that is often limited by the current availability of data and the many indirect mechanisms that bear on them (Kahl et al., 2002; Eisen, 2008).

We assume that the many procedural and analytical errors in current tick and tick-borne zoonotic disease research are often a consequence of a lack of knowledge or of suitable training.

[...]

Typical problems include errors in tick identification (especially of immature instars), premature or erroneous reporting of ticks as new vectors and hosts as reservoirs, superficial data on the abundance and seasonal activity of ticks, inappropriate use of statistical methodology, and uncontrolled laboratory diagnostic procedures. The very ready accessibility of research publications online, at least in abstract form, tends to exacerbate the situation in that, as a result of superficial reading and subsequent citing, an erroneous conclusion can quickly become embedded in the literature. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737478/
GCE (Global Commands Execution), which is a desktop application that provides a single context to manage and run multiple scripts.

https://github.com/Dewep/GCE

Why?

As web applications are being split in micro services and independant entities, it becomes harder and harder to setup a local dev environment and you have to handle dozen of shell terminals.

GCE aims to take that pain away by offering you the ability to configure the setup of your projects once and run it in the blink of an eye.
> Then you graduate. Now you must: spend time to cook, work to pay bills, and if you have an SO/kids, the rest of your time goes there. That's literally it.

Unfortunately, it's even worse than that. Even when _I_ did have the time, say when I've taken a year or two off jobs just to enjoy life, other people usually didn't. So I've spent a lot of that time being alone. That's actually one of the major positives of having a job - it provides you with collegues you can hang around and have fun with (assuming the workplace is not toxic and there are people there whose company you enjoy).
I would assume Twitter suspended the account due to the rate of posts. Granted, you are allowed 2400 tweets per day, [1] so the account should not have had any issues....

[1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-limit...
Two people to remove a tick? And I thought these little removal tools were crazy.

You'll feel it itching after it digs in. Just be vigilant in the shower and use a loofa or other abraisive scrubber. Fingernails work perfectly fine as well.

Of the literally thousands of ticks I have had to remove over the years, probably less than 5 were ever left on for up to 48 hours. Most people will scratch them loose accidentally.
No. What someone else will pay for something is extrinsic value.
It all makes sense when you realize that they're lying and their "automated system" is a bunch of low level contractors.
And that the funding came from members of the House of Saud.
>a small band of highly educated technocratic leaders, which always ended in genocide.

Exactly how many historical examples of that form of government are there? 1? 2? 0? If you're talking about Nazi Germany, I don't remember the Nazis being "highly educated", and in fact, they were known to throw the intellectuals in the gas chambers. Over in China, Mao was some kind of farmer, and not at all an intellectual. The Soviets were all about the "proletariat" (the workers), not the intellectuals. I seriously can't think of any real-world historical examples of a government of "highly educated technocratic leaders". Such people usually tend to shy away from government. The closest I can think of is probably modern-day China, and they haven't committed any actual genocide that I know of (maybe some oppression of certain groups, but that's not genocide, and almost every government is guilty of this to some extent).
I'd also add that VSCode and Atom don't support the conventions used in text editors on the native OS. There are several keyboard shortcuts that "just work" in Sublime Text – which I'm used to from Mac OS in general – that don't work at all in the Electron-based applications.
As long as you don’t get any in any water as it will kill fish.
Veganism is not by definition healthy.

Eating meat is not by definition unhealthy.

Dietary cholesterol is not directly linked to blood levels of cholesterol. Most recent science suggest high carbohydrate consumption (typically in a vegan diet) is heavily linked to high cholesterol.
OP and yourself are perhaps engaging in what could be termed as "semantic trolling"

Fortunately it isn't working because as others pointed out, "penalize himself" and "donate to charity" concepts aren't directly tied together. Where the donation actually goes is immaterial, so it's not possible to argue that "punish himself" implies "donate to charity" is punishment.
Is it? You can see from the picture you posted that the glyphs of the digits from Gwalior have as strong resemblance to contemporary 1, 2, 3, 4/5, 7, 9, and 0 (the 4/5 relation is similar to the evolution of English letters like J, G and Y from the Phoenician/Greek letters) while the current Arabic digits, the east Arabic of that chart, are mostly quite different.
An "open data project" that stores all of its data on Twitter? Not that Twitter's in the right here, but this seems like a bad move...
An hour long one-way commute is certainly not the norm. Working for free beyond 8 hours is certainly not the norm. I work at a client site, and bill 40.0 hours a week. I work approximately 41.5 hours a week, including my commute.

The average commute will be somewhere in the middle, sure. But just tossing out that work takes half of most people's day is disingenuous - it only does that if you let it, and if you choose not to live close to your office. I understand that's not always an option, especially in SF/NYC, but if you're willing to base your housing choices in part on where you're working, it's generally not difficult to have a sub-30 minute one-way commute.

And letting work keep you up at night is 100% a choice.
I really wish more first time founders took some time to understand these points.
Right (I upvoted you actually) but by another way of comparison, it appears BA itself ended up having 19 747-100 altogether.

Which is 5 more than the whole Concorde fleet.

167 747-100 were built says wiki... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747#Model_summary

Think about economy of scales for parts, training, maintenance, ...
I assume this is sarcasm, so I’d like to point out that I don’t consider myself smarter than anyone else or anything - I say idiots simply because there’s no excuse where blatantly obvious spam (for example the crypto currency scam replies in response to famous accounts like Elon Musk) isn’t deleted automatically.
> on a bimetallic standard

Sort of, but the point is it was not fiat money. There was no net inflation from 1800-1914.

> No, it doesn't.

Since the government at the time did pay off the national debt, that means balanced budgets.
You left out parking and taking a shuttle into the airport. Same for returning. That’s at least thirty minutes.

And don’t forget deboarding which seems to take a least 20 minutes. And waiting for your luggage.
So what's the current feeling on HN towards stories like this one?

They seem fairly repetitive and uninteresting: users use something with no customer service, automated system goes haywire and bans/blocks/disables/inconveniences their account, the only way they have to get it resolved is to make some noise about it, they then return to using the service, nothing changes.

At this point I'm tempted to flag stories like this one that don't have some kind of new angle or widespread interest, but thought I'd see how others are feeling about it first.
Next time, just use your fingernail. Never fails. Much better than any tool.