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I'm struggling to find genuinely fun content since the death of Flash. I truly miss sites like z0r.de.

In general, I completely agree with the article.
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If you're convinced your productivity may change by ditching bash, I'm not sure what kind of counterargument the sysadmin will bring.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17003244
> Dongle hell: heck, I have to get a dongle to connect the latest iPhone X.

They have thunderbolt 3 lightning cables available.
I've just owned the 'evil step parent' moniker, it's taken all the power out of the negative perspective, and I can be more authoritative when I need to be and when when you get called names... it reminds them how totally not evil you are. :)
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Would this article be of general interest if it wasn’t about Feynman? (I don’t believe so)

The work Feynman did in Biology that’s discussed here doesn’t seem to be particularly ground breaking, or interesting. It feels like it’s only being treated as such because Feynman did interesting work in other areas and is somewhat idolized for this.
> For the last two years, the Firefox Sync team has been hard at work improving bookmarks on all our platforms

If they only would improve the actual bookmark manager. It's been a thorn in my eyes for quite some time now.

- you can't find duplicates

- it takes 0.5-3sec/bookmark to delete bookmarks (on my devices at least)

- you can't cut found bookmarks out of a search (it copies it)

- the bookmark search sucks

And there are multiple other minor annoyances that bug me or features I would wish for (searchable offline bookmarks anyone? [I know that's going more in the direction search engine, but it sure as hell would be nice])

I'm kind of a horder when it comes to open tabs and bookmarks, so it is a pain in the butt to manage those. Last time I cleaned all my bookmarks I exported them and managed them with buku[0]. "Lost" my directory structure through this but it was worth it.

[0] https://github.com/jarun/Buku
Same caveat as above: the existing studies are deeply flawed. So far, the evidence for this kind of trans-generational inheritance is very week, and there’s no plausible mechanism to explain it, either.
What's Show-worthy about making a mess with a novelty repo?
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“It’s pretty shocking,” said Dr. Todd Sacktor, and giggled internally
Internet data connection might be mainstream, but Internet, as in websites, blogs, genuine, independent content, is really not.

There are places where the internet is Facebook. I remember times when the internet was a blue E on the desktop, but at least that really did take people to the internet, and not a walled garden.
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But, I suppose the point is that work on Biology and Physics is as far removed as his work on Physics and picking up women in bars...

The work discussed in the paper, is not particularly interesting in isolation.
They are not dead, but their numbers certainly diminished. There are still UT99, Jedi Knight II servers out there.
In my opinion, shame on any professor who joins an organization which has shown such disregard for their users without at least demanding reform.
I once accidentally deleted some of my bookmarks because I thought I had disabled sync (which I hadn't). To my surprise, I found out that Firefox maintains a (local) bookmarks history, so I was able to fully restore them. This was really a lifesaver.
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Let's not forget that it's also perfectly possible to have multiple mechanisms for remembering things; there seems to be a false dichotomy being presented here, either RNA or synaptic strength or synaptic topology. There are different modes of memory too: the way you remember something as muscle memory, vs short term memory, vs associative memory, etc.
'bad laptops for their price' - market says they are OK for the price :)) Look in 5 years, you'll resell your macbook for half the price. Dell laptop? You'd have it in trash bin 2 years ago.

I careful with my stuff. Whats the price of changing keyboard by apple?
Indeed, and even pretty weak vs Wikipedia.

I'm on the lookout for some obscure stuff. Older versions of OS/400, AIX, MP-RAS etc. Not even sure where to look.
Yes but you have way less waste to dispose of. In America, the Uranium and Plutonium that makes up the vast majority of spent nuclear fuel is not separated out from the fission products, we just get rid of it all. IIRC reprocessing is actually slightly more expensive than just mining fresh Uranium as now you need to re-enrich the fuel anyways and Uranium is plentiful enough at least for now. By separating out the spent fuel you isolate the most radioactive components and now you can avoid having to store the majority of the fuel for extremely long periods of time.

Reprocessing does not eliminate all nuclear waste, it just minimizes it to only storing the highly radioactive portions instead of the inert components. It also is a prerequisite for any of the proposals that I know about for actually eliminating the nuclear waste instead of just burying it. The long lived radioactive waste could be used as a blanket around a fusion reactor that is used as a neutron source to fission the waste and generate more energy from it.
I may be wrong on this, but lately I find the Reddit hivemind has gone into overdrive. On any given sub, you're either "with us" or "against us".

It's gotten to the point that making a perfectly benign comment that couldn't possibly be seen as taking a side or disagreeing with anyone's opinion is insta-downvoted or attacked, assuming it's not parroting whatever the sub's current talking points are.

I'm not even referring to the political/news subreddits, which would be understandably partisan. Other subs that used to be about the topic at hand have started coalescing into us/them teams.
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Signal is also effectively limited to smartphones due to the phone number requirement, making it even less free.
And that's why I'd start making it clearer on the side of the vessel you are literally putting that recycling into. That's not too difficult and it's a start. Where I live we have some info but it's vague and doesn't mention, for example. food stained paper (which I happen to know you cannot recycle here). We don't even have compost available in my current flat, where as down the road in my old place (the same council) it was! There's no excuse for that kind of difference in waste management program and that's another thing they could easily improve on. It doesn't need to be too difficult.
To play devils advocate and give him the benefit of the doubt... wasn’t the 1950’s a much different time in terms of respect for women?

Reading that excerpt, I got the sense he was writing from the perspective of his past-self, in an almost self-deprecating way. He’s citing that incident of an extreme example of how literally he would follow instructions. By choosing it as an extreme example, he’s effectively acknowledging that the attitude was disrespectful / wrong.

Granted I haven’t read the whole book, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some crucial context missing from those excerpts.

Feynman did, after all, write the words himself.
Nice and minimalist solution, I like it.
> I took a quick look at the google on this topic and found this:
> https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-total-rubbish-w....

You wouldn't nothing close to Tel Aviv garbage piles in Givatayim, Raanana, Herzliya or Netanya, but at the same time Yaffo, but somehow, Jaffa, Acre and Jerusalem have it much worse. (And before I get accused of racism, Bnei Brak and Mea Shearim are just as bad, with Tiberias getting worse every year.)

Israel is a very heterogenous country, with different communities having radically different lifestyles and ideals - reality that this Haaretz piece completely ignores.
Just like in the real world: You don't go out on the street to meet people, you use the street to get to the place where the people you're likely to enjoy meeting are likely to be. IRC might be one such place, but there are many others - HN is one, even if not directly social in nature.
Mobile website strikes again :-(
Not sure how good this would be, deviations in learning creates further developments in the fields. A child prodigy's idea of some odd physics occurrence might one day grow into some completely new field of science.

I suppose I'm a memory conservative, I think I'll prefer the good old way, no matter how cool that scene from the Matrix is
Interestingly, L. Ron Hubbard put forth the notion of cellular memory a long time ago -- it is part of the premise of Dianetics. I think Gene Roddenberry may have believed this too. I recall an early Star Trek NG episode where Data told Geordi that's how human memory works, contrasting it to how his positronic brain worked.
Or just let this hype driven company finally die so we can get on with things...
So this is for home IoT only, but not for say a neighborhood Wi-Fi meshnet?
I'm wondering if I don't get your point because I'm too dumb or too smart.

I may be too dumb[1] because I'm unable to infer for myself all the reasons Docker is bad that you haven't bothered to include in your article.

Or I may be too smart[2], because I found setting up Docker for Windows incredibly easy (I downloaded an installer and ran it), I find Dockerfiles easy to write (most fit on one screen), and I find running Kubernetes in production (on Azure AKS) to be straightforward (write YAML files, Google stuff occasionally).

I honestly had to scroll back to the top of your post from halfway down because I thought maybe it was written three years ago.

[1]I'm not.

[2]I'm not this either.
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Good moderation feels like a better solution than invites or elitism here. Have the forum open to anyone, but be ruthless when it comes to removing low quality content or marketing spam in any form. Maybe even set things like signature links or certain aspects of the post formatting to be only accessible to those with 5 or more posts, and have any first post with a link in sent for moderator approval.

Human moderation always wins out over technical solutions and elitism.
> First of all "racism" is about superiority, not about differentiation per-se.

In this case, the IA would disclose its nature and its lack of independent agency. It'd disclose the fact it's not considered a living being and not afforded any rights. The human, then, could engage in all sorts of abuse (and Microsoft had a lovely chatbot that had its "brain" damaged by trolls) that could leave lasting effects on its persisted state.

> I am pretty sure you are referring to "Minds" from "The Culture" series

You are completely wrong. Google's "Robocall 2.0" is nowhere near close a sci-fi worthy AI.
Only if you upgrade from 16.04. If it's a fresh OS install, then you have to install unity separately.
The media became incensed that Zuckerberg, till-then held as a paragon of progressivism, (indirectly) provided the same service to Trump that he did to Obama during the two previous election cycles.
Suddenly the supposed idealist turned out to be a profit-first capitalist, willing to equally trade with left, right, and center. Of course it doesn't help that Facebook has been long known for playing shady tricks with things like user privacy.
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...care to elaborate?
Even if: neurotransmitters are extremely short-lived, and almost completely unspecific: they’re either generally excitatory or inhibitory, they don’t encode complex messages. They experimental setup sufficiently controls for that due to the duration of the wait between the RNA injection and the stimulus exposure.
> When I read the initial %G post - I couldn't see how you could/would even test for it - unless you'd heard about such a scenario previously.

Interestingly, because IIRC the Gregorian calendar has a 400 years "full" cycle (hence the "Doomsday Rule") depending on the "expense" of your processes you could just use exhaustive testing: there are less than 150k days in 400 gregorian years. Considering exhaustive testing is feasible across 32b ranges (https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...), ~17 bits isn't much of an issue.

You would still need to define properties which hold across the board, but then you could just check literally every date of the cycle.

This get significantly less feasible if you need to check full calendaring (datetime x timezones).
Yeah, totally with you on that. I knew lots of pre-Med majors in college and I could never wrap my head around how someone could enjoy such a masochistic form of learning. But the common thread of successful pre-Med majors is that they get straight A’s and are very successful memorizing everything.

Medicine is basically all rote memorization, from pre-Med to the MCAT. It makes sense to select for doctors who are good at it, because they need to have a quickly queryable, but wide breadth of knowledge in their head at all times.

Personally I’m happy to know that my doctor is able to memorize and collate so much information. But I do worry that the way he learns may also restrict his creativity and problem solving.

Perhaps as AI moves into medicine, doctors won’t need to rely so much on their own memorization, and can focus their efforts on problem solving.
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From Wikipedia: "Wi-Fi Direct allows two devices to establish a direct Wi-Fi connection". That's not mesh networking though. You could build a mesh on top of it, but the main purpose seems to be very single-peer-2-single-peer.
> macOS has regressed quite a bit in the last few year

Curious what was the regression, honestly
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> "This is how one can tell a rookie just learning to program in shell: usage of $() syntax is limited to Bourne family of shells which implement that particular POSIX specification aspect. Backticks, on the other hand, although they incur a performance penalty since they spawn a subshell, make one's code instantly portable across all UNIX-like operating systems and even across disparate shell families, as they work exactly the same in C-shells."

The '$()' notation is a standard shell feature de facto. The fraction of people who care about their script working on all UNIX-like operating systems' default shells is very close to 0. The recommendation is fine - this notation is more readable and nestable.

> "Always test your shell code on a traditional UNIX like HP-UX or a Solaris derivative like SmartOS if possible, with a real Bourne shell."

Only if your script needs to be "original Bourne shell" compatibile. Which is almost never for most script writers.
The new regulation isn't just about opt-in and data deletion. Those are just the aspects consumers typically will be aware of. In addition to that a company also needs to:

- have data processing agreements with every 3rd party that processes personal data for them

- document technical and organisational measures with regard to privacy and security

- have records of data processing activities

While these are useful - GDPR or not - many aspects of those are left intentionally vague. In the past few months, data protection experts and company owners alike have been racking their brains as to how to implement the details entailed by those requirements.

A government spokesperson only just recently has been quoted that although there's "some uncertainty" regarding the implementation of the new regulation the government doesn't intend to do anything about that right now but rather wants to wait and see how civil servants and courts are going to interpret the new law. In my opinion, that's a recipe for disaster waiting to happen.

On top of that, Germany is particularly notorious for its 'liberal' regulation regarding cease-and-desist letters. There's a whole industry of shady lawyers that make a living by sending these out en masse to small companies that supposedly don't comply with regulations such as the equally notorious legal notice requirement for websites. They're perhaps already waiting with bated breath because GDPR opens a whole new 'market' for them.

Many of my fellow entrepreneurs are worried about this right now and these are people who are both well-prepared and normally not easily spooked by bureaucracy.
You can use Signal desktop - all you need is a phone to receive a confirmation text message, but that needn't be a smartphone.
> we also don't know much at all about the mechanism behind RNA

Wait wait wait. We know a tremendous amount about “the mechanism behind RNA”. Without being more specific it’s hard to say what you mean but we’ve certainly done a lot more than “mapped some genes”. We know pretty precisely how protein-coding genes get transcribed and translated, and how they effect changes in the cell (in general, if not in particular). There are open questions about specific catalytic functions of RNA but it’s certainly not a blank slate.
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Holding a stack that can handle losses (TCP/IP) to the same standards as bluetooth audio is silly.
Zigbee requires master/listener channel subscriptions for devices, I'm not clear how you could do that without fixed masters.
Please don't let this badly introduced blog post scare you away, because Fuse is actually surprisingly great tech for something so little known. In short, it's a React Native competitor. You can write cross platform apps using reactive-style JavaScript code. It ships with its own UI toolkit which is all (compiled down to) native machine code (mostly GPU code, actually), which makes apps perform fast because nothing that takes serious CPU/battery is done in JavaScript.

The key selling points of Fuse over React Native are, I think:

* Fully "write once, run everywhere" (both a plus and a minus)
* Excellent support for all kinds of animated UX patterns
* High level included components for many common use cases
* Declarative XAML/JSX-like UI language easy for designers
* Fast, highly GPU-optimized.

The dev tools are pretty amazing too, with instantaneous app reloads when you make changes in your favourite editor, both when using a simulator and on a connected device. It's like editing in the browser devtools and immediately seeing your changes, but then on mobile. I know that React Native does this well too, but many others don't and you might not expect stuff like this from something you've never heard of before.

They are a VC-funded startup from Norway that lost the hype race to React Native. I'm sad to read that they're going to mostly stop developing this because I doubt anybody's ready to suddenly take over the cost of doing so. Still, great that they're open sourcing it all instead of just effectively discontinuing it and keeping it closed and unmaintained, which is what many pivoting VC funded companies do.

I've never used Fuse in anger (only tinkered) and I'm sure it has its share of downsides but it's a world-class contender in the world of mobile app development toolkits, and deserves to be treated as such.
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I remember when PearPC was made and people started to get excited about making a Hackintosh. I didn't have a fast enough internet connexion back then to download the required software to try it, but I heard that it was generally not a good experience. But I certainly had dreams of running OSX on my PC hardware.

These days I use GNU/Linux and have no desire whatsoever to try MacOS.
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Great book. I'd also recommend his free video course on Egghead. It's rather quirky, which is something that I very much enjoyed: https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-compo...
Ask HN: Handling of credentials between automated systems
I work in a large company where we are automating our internal IT services. We are looking for a solution that would allow a secure way to handle authentication between different systems, for example a two-factor authentication in the form of IP+user token.
What is the current best thinking in this area? Are there any recommended ways to handle this or any open source products that solve this problem? Authentication with private/public keys only is not possible since some systems only accept username / password method of authentication.
Ahh, very good, appreciate that.
How much latency improvement should we expect by moving from US-central (default) to Singapore?
This wave of hate starts looking funny already. Facebook pays researchers decent salaries? Let's say it "pressures local universities".
It's not possible to orphan blocks that are already in the chain you confirmed, as that's a contradictory vote. So at best one generator could orphan a few blocks, but then, what if the next block generator doesn't ignore them? Anything longer than a few blocks would require cooperation among majority and that's a failure mode in PoW too.
I'd like to self host my bookmarks and sync them myself across devices, seems impossible and I might end up using cronjobs.
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Would this article be of general interest if it wasn’t about Feynman?

Probably not, but I don't think being interested in an individual necessarily means idolizing them. In fact, sometimes the actions that we consider abhorrent is what makes them interesting. That's not the case here, but still, I think there's potential value in studying how a very good physicist approached a foreign subject matter.
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And yet Ace and Tate can sell specs for €99.
You are getting your concepts confused. Pipes are one thing, but the concept at hand is in fact filters, programs that primarily read data from their standard inputs and write other (processed) data to their standard outputs. What pipes involve is a red herring, because filters do not necessitate pipes. Filters have no requirements that they write output whilst there is still input to be read, and several well-known filter programs indeed do not do that.
Just make the start. When a modern shell becomes reliable and popular enough, it'll slowly replace the old ones.
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Founder interview with Louis from Showpad
I tried watching a Star Wars movie the other day. The play time on TV was 7-10:30pm, 3.5 hours. The actual play time of the movie is 2.25 hours. And they cram most of the commercials towards the end. They do it so much so that I got sick of them cutting to commercial every 5 minutes and pulled out the blu ray and finished watching it. There was still 40 minutes left on the TV after I'd finished watching the blu ray.

Here I am, willing to pay for cable and watch it, and they ruin it by trying to milk every last cent out of it.
Anyone else get reminded of Oxygen Not Included while reading this thread? A big part of the game is about germs, temperatures and how to manage heat or use gases like chlorine to kill germs.
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