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Life on other planets may rely on plate tectonics (2014)
>I myself learned to program on node.js 6 years ago, when everything required piles of callbacks (the least ergonomic form of async/await style concurrency). It's strange to see a bunch of experienced programmers saying that nobody could possibly use this style, as it is too hard, while millions of beginning programmers master it easily.

It's easy for beginners in the way GOTO spaghetti comes easy to beginners. That's all they know, after all. It however leads to bad designs and complex program flow.
But what if the nuclear missile is being carried by a bipedal walking tank?
When I bought a used truck out of PA I was alarmed by the quantity of rust on the frame, with chunks flaking off here and there. My mechanic assures me it's holding up fine, with below-average rust for its age.
Devils advocate: glass 3D printing is a thing too. I'm skeptical though that it'll be a viable alternative to blown glass soon, especially not in-house.
Scientists find pre-earthquake activity in central Alaska
Custom work is expensive--one can't just hand-wave it away and hold out for a polymath glassblower, no?
Really nice outline of part of the scientific method, much nicer than I was ever taught in science or physics classes. Physics has done well here! Hmm, borrow this method for some other parts of science ....
The Peace Symbol
The word "colossal" appears a surprisingly large number of times, as I just posted elsewhere in this thread. And "rupture" is used even more. You would think such important words would have some introduction, unless they are standard terms of art.
It's just cargo cult knee jerk reactions: "title is click-baity = bad".

Half of great books, movies, articles etc titles pre-internet and pre-clicks would also have been censored under such thinking.
I'm surprised by the lack of choices that are free non-self hosted
A fact not noted by the article

"USSD messages are up to 182 alphanumeric characters long. Unlike Short Message Service (SMS) messages, USSD messages create a real-time connection during a USSD session. The connection remains open, allowing a two-way exchange of a sequence of data. This makes USSD more responsive than services that use SMS.[1]"

Sounds like there are many great use-cases for this.
Thunderhead – Understand Intent-Driven Customer Journeys
It's rank 726 on Alexa ranks. Somehow I find it hard to believe that of the 725 more popular websites than AskFM, only 9 are social networks.
You missed my subtext. If you look at the map for West Point, I think you'll find that there is absolutely no way the US military knows everyone who lives within a couple miles of the US Military Academy.
> Let's not blame the (l)users.

I don't think stating that "people get confused" is placing blame on one party or the other. That they get confused is a fact. I said nothing about whose fault that is.

> For example, by merely selecting the text you want to replace you may override the paste buffer content

It's a trade-off. Having the mere act of selecting text copy it to the primary selection is extremely convenient. There isn't any way to have that convenience without the downside that overwriting it is also easy. If you want to copy something and not have further selections overwrite it, you use the clipboard. This is like the trade-off of having a confirmation dialog or not.

I wouldn't say "this is a blatant POLA violation". What surprises one person might seem obvious to another. There is only one intuitive user interface, everything else is learned.

The confusion starts with the fact that people typically aren't told that the primary selection and the clipboard are two separate things (and by using the term "paste buffer" to ambiguously refer to one of them you're perpetuating this). Much of this misconception comes from the fact that more popular systems (Windows and Mac) only have the one clipboard, and people assume that whatever they learned first is universally true.

Not knowing about the primary selection actually isn't a problem on its own, though. After all, if one only knows about the clipboard operations, but doesn't ever trigger pasting from the primary selection, then the fact that the primary selection even exists would be invisible to them. The clipboard selection on X works pretty much the same as the clipboard on other systems.

The real problems start when people who believe there is only one "paste buffer" are then told, or discover, that they can "paste" using operations that actually paste from the primary selection rather than the clipboard. The worst part is that this doesn't fail outright, but instead seems to work, but inconsistently. Now they're confused, because there is no way to reconcile this behavior with their mental model that "this is another way to paste from the one and only clipboard".
Ask HN: Two options for Pivoting my growing/dying startup
I'll try and keep it as short as possible, I would really appreciate any advice or feedback.

So after two PH launches and 2k+ Users in two months, I've realised that a platform to share articles and connect them with sources doesn't drive enough engagement to achieve the goal of Readory being the go-to place to find interesting articles sourced by a community. Rather it's now become a platform for marketers to promote stuff...

www.readory.com will be completely overhauled into one of two things based on what the HN community and our Users think.

Here are the two options for Readory:

Option 1 - Readory becomes a centralised publishing platform for writers who wish to earn $$$. Currently, there are no platforms similar to youtube for creators where a writer can earn proper $$$ moolah for their content. As a bootstrapped business the idea would be to go head to hips with Medium allowing bloggers to publish their content and earn some money from it. Basically, I would connect advertisements to a Users article (if they wish to monetise) and dish out 95% of the total that article makes. (Adsense Host perhaps)

Option 2 - The original model of sharing articles stand-put but rather than one link being shared many links would be collated into an "edition/collection" in order to have more original and shareable content. The idea is that a User can collate some articles from around the web, leave a commentary and turn it into a sort of shareable magazine. An example would be "Interviews with Developers turned Founders" a small commentary I've left and perhaps 5 of my favourite articles related to that subject. This would hopefully increase the quality and engagement issue.

Would really appreciate any feedback.
He had a neuroendocrine islet tumor, not pancreatic adenocarcinoma. It has a much higher survival rate... as long as you don't try to treat it with acupuncture.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-j...
ELI5 : Can someone tell me what these people actually do?
No, you can't see it because of poor business practices at the LA Times. Huge difference.
I'm not here to judge the LA Times' determination that they make more money blocking the EU than they do allowing it with reduced data collection; nor am I making a value judgement of the GDPR. What I'd like to say is that if you don't actively oppose the GDPR, and you are a voter in the EU, then complaining about the LA Times not bothering to service your jurisdiction is kinda weak.

Evidently the GDPR, all things considered, is preventing this person from reading the LA Times, in the same way that California's temporary ban on foie gras prevented Californians from enjoying foie gras.

Regulations on the duties of business affect the rights of individuals.
I said the same thing to myself when I wrote it... I was thinking back a few companies ago and wishing I understood this stuff. Glad you liked it!
I agree that a more flat landscape in teams is best. I like "Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek"
:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmyZMtPVodo

Good management is really about good leadership - and that does have a point person to look to. they inspire and motivate everyone else on the team. This is a much more bottom up / equitable than most mainstream practices promote.
Not to mention you can’t adjust your hours at all to avoid rush hour or cooperate with a spouse in day care management. 9-5 is necessary for banks, but not for software developers. Having a few core hours is necessary, but if it’s 8, you can no longer call them “core”.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Most of the people looking at this picture aren't qualified to understand WHY it's so expensive.

That gash has torn through single-piece sheet metal and likely into the subframe. There's probably subframe damage to some degree. You can't just replace rear quarter panels.

If they were to do it the cheap way and give him his car back, he'd complain that it was driving sideways and blame Tesla for that, too.

So many uneducated people out there thinking their opinions are as valuable as facts. This is what happens when that concept clashes with reality.
Jesus, what a weak argument. So, you can't raise complaints unless you own and develop your own GitHub?
gitlab is on fire https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer?orgI...
You can mix & match preemtibles with normal VMs in a cluster. Aka 10% of your cluster's nodes can be preemtible, and 90% normal VMs.

This is great cost cutting measure for services where loosing some percentage of compute only induces lag vs taking down the whole service.
Or maybe it shows that the LA Times still tries to be, ya know, a paper for people in LA so they are happy to wait for a one click GDPR solution from upstream or whatever, and prioritize the technology investment for something else.

It bit me too but it's their fundamental right.
Came looking for this reply... satisfied.
Amazon's Grand Challenge – a secretive lab working on cancer research and more
Out of topic, but how often do you have the ear of CEO: sytse, one specific wish for Gitlab that I have: please enable 'one-click' automatic LetsEncryptNow certificate creation for GitLab Pages with custom domain names (just like GitHub is doing it today) instead of me having to go out of my way to go get a X.509 from a CA for my TLS/SSL enabled site[1].

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/getting_starte...

EDIT: typos
Well, after the introduction, the article is a detailed explanation of how his work was actually a satire of a specific culture of misogyny.

Was Jonathan Swift an advocate for cannibalism in your eyes as well?
My problem is that I don't know how to make it accept spaces in the command to be run. This works:

ipython3 --InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines='["print(2)"]'

This does not work:

ipython3 --InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines='["from math import *"]'

The latter command results in the following error:

[TerminalIPythonApp] CRITICAL | The 'exec_lines' trait of a TerminalIPythonApp instance must be a list, but a value of class 'str' (i.e. '["from') was specified.
Very cool. What kind of compression algorithms support this?
There is also Gitea: https://gitea.io
> public renewable energy footprint

When electricity is the sole marginal cost of keeping a node powered up from your pool of available machines that can be powered on and off on-demand, these particular words actually mean a lot.

I think the point is that GCP can afford to keep some nodes online even when they don't belong to anyone and just eat the cost. (Eg. those renewable resources like wind and the sun just don't cost anything, so why not spend the energy that is generated from them.)

I'm sure I'm not giving AWS enough credit. Seeing that Google pretty much invented Kubernetes, their cost to come 'up to speed' enough to provide a managed version of it is effectively nil. Their renewable energy is not the only source of so-called "extra capacity," either... they honestly should have had no trouble staffing a team to build out and promote GKE without siphoning off much more than a nominal amount of developer capacity from other offerings that may need it as well.

If it's true that when AWS announced they'd be offering EKS last November, they only had a team of 5 allocated to it, then I guess they deserve a lot of credit for the progress they've made in about 8 months.

That cost to AWS is non-zero (I'm also pretty sure the team has grown and is larger than 5 devs now) and they have every reasonable basis to attempt to recoup it. I don't think many AWS customers will disagree. The adopters who have known they need it for a year or more, many who are happily locked into the ecosystem already, will certainly be lining up to pay for this now.
It's not Open Source according to the most widely accepted definition of the term (https://opensource.org/osd) and components under it wouldn't be useable by actually Open Source projects according to that definition.

I'd suggest not to use the term when promoting your idea, it's kind of misleading and will provoke such discussion every time.
That level of engineering isn't economically feasible for a one-off piece of something, unless you're NASA and have enormous amounts of money to spend on a one-off.

If universities were willing to spend that much money on glassware, they'd just pay glassmakers $750k or so, and wouldn't have any trouble hiring them.
People pay for internet access

Isn't it like saying "I paid for the car, why do I have to pay for gas"? Somebody has to pay for engineers, infrastructure etc. If not the end users, then the advertisers.

I guess it is the mindset/understanding. The same person who won't pay $1 for email (for example) will pay for Netflix, because somehow in their mind, it takes money to make movies but it doesn't take money to write software or run servers.
Not to knock running Linux on your laptop, but...

It is still fairly common to have the WiFi on a small mini-PCIe card slot, so it is usually possible to open up the laptop and replace it with one which has a better driver.

I don't know how common it is now, but some laptop manufacturers would also put in firmware checks, so that only the WiFi that was factory installed would be recognized. So even if you can physically replace the WiFi, it might not work.

All I'm saying is that it may be worth investigating if you or anyone else runs into that sort of problem.
The whole point of K-12 education is to produce obidient factory workers. It isn’t a coincidence that some office cultures might evolve in similar ways.
FYI typo: mlflow.log_atrifact("roc.png")
Gitlab it is then!

Not sure what to do with all my Github tshirts now :)
No, tell the LA Times to stop being shitty.
I can't speak for parent, but for instance inserting ads into Windows 10:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956540/microsoft-window...
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The user specifically asked about stackfull coroutines, which is not the direction we're going. But I think the pain point the user talked about (futures right now are difficult to deal with) will be resolved by our stackless coroutine approach, and more in line with Rust's values around "zero cost abstractions."
If I'm not already convinced Tesla is being unfairly attacked, I'm not amenable to changing my position? I find that line hard to understand.
What about Magento? :)
Interesting you mention Israel, I feel like they might be the prime example for your theory. They are small and not wealthier than say France or Germany. However they do have enormous IT talent and even more importantly their IT talent is motivated to help the military. In stark contrast to e.g. Germany where both bureaucratic rules (payment is fixed and terrible), the militaries reputation and the relative stability mean hardly any IT professional would be motivated to work on this. Also no first world military gets even close to the amount of real world use the IDF gets. No other nation can test their anti-missile systems straight from the backyard of its manufacturer using real enemy missiles. And we are already seeing this, Israel's Iron Dome is basically the only missile defense system we know actually and definitely works.
TubeBuddy is the 500 pound gorilla

https://www.tubebuddy.com

On Twitch check out Streamlabs:

https://streamlabs.com/
Before reading I was sure gitea would be mentioned right after gitlab.
Da Vinci designed siege machines and other weapons of war for his patrons. I suppose you'd consider him an idiot for doing so?

I'm as anti-war as they come but of course you have to recognize there are smart people who nevertheless decide to work with the military.
There's also ChiselApp which is Free, and able to be Self-Hosted (Flint is the upstream repository -- ChiselApp is a styled Flint, without the rights to redistribute the theme).
I understand the value of guerrilla marketing, but at the same time it makes them seem less credible.

Imagine if they offered a 75% discount for defending them or praising them on Hacker News! That would make any comment in support of GitLab suspect.
For as long as I have seen your account you are in every github/gitlab thread pushing github and bashing gitlab.

Care to disclose something?
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Have you been in contact with any of the independent publications that were dumped by Medium last month (see https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/medium-publication.php)? They really harmed a lot of indie publishers doing good work. Your product might be a good fit.
This is how I built mark II of my startup. As long as you are willing to work hard for a few years it is the best way. Three years of doing nothing but working and sleeping and I was able to resign from my job and still owned 100% of my startup.
Yes. Every day I get home from my Node.js CRUD-app drudgery and learn something new.

Sometimes I work on my machine learning skills (CuDNN/caffe).

Sometimes I design high-performance FPGA boards that meet tight EMC tolerances.

Sometimes I build game engines in C++ with Vulkan.

I'd hate to do any of these things as a day job, that would take all the fun out of it.
How does a preindustrial society put a 13-ton hat on a statue?
Why are people jumping ship to lower quality services ? And I'm talking about unrecognizable brand names, because at least migrating to Gitlab or Bitbucket may be understandable in a way, but still an exageration in my opinion.
I am not sure whether we share that publicly or not, so I'm going to be conservative and not share it here. But we are hiring! We'd love to talk.

Here is our web site: https://pilotfiber.com/

Here is our Who is Hiring post (contains my email):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17209386
They're not, though. They're just making a value judgement, and they've concluded that they don't get enough out of serving a customized version of the LA Times online to EU persons at this moment, to justify the associated legal exposure. The EU is basically saying "if you do business here, and you screw this up, we are going to sue you before seeking other remedies", which to me seems like an excellent con to the pro of whatever revenue the LA Times can expect to extract from less-targeted advertising in the EU.
That's fair. This space is quite complex, with so so many options. I guess we'll know if and when the OP elaborates with more :) I very well could be wrong.
Hmm.. I think many programmers do not have enough email savvy to know this exists.
CEO has removed all of their comments except one. Here are two archived states that should hopefully help future readers to understand the discussion:

https://yegortimoshenko.gitlab.io/copperhead-takeover/hacker...

https://yegortimoshenko.gitlab.io/copperhead-takeover/hacker...
Balmer times were the strange times. We're in good times now.
Nice.

And thanks for the link.
"A couple of years ago Microsoft was anti-open-source." The quote is from 2001 as is Ballmer's quote. Closing the article due to its lack of objectivity.
Also, when you order PCBs from China, you're doing all the CAD work yourself, and they're building those parts exactly according to the engineering drawings (called "gerbers").

With glassware, the chemist isn't using AutoCAD to create detailed engineering drawings of what he wants. The glassblower is taking on much of the design role. I suppose you could just get the university to hire a mechanical engineer to do the CAD work, and send CAD drawings to China to manufacture the glassware according to spec, but that's not going to be cheap.
Reading through this thread is some entertaining stuff. It's interesting how diverse opinions are on forced diversity.
Do you know if projects that use the patreon style? Successfully or not?
All these years being the 2 years since it was released ?
I'd recommend Gumroad for something like this. One of the fastest, easiest ways to get a small shop going. The interface is very intuitive, but what makes Gumroad stand out is that e-commerce couple with basic CRM. A sound approach to sell craftwork while building an audience. Your friend can start with the free plan. You don't get full control yet—although an open-source version is planned. But as others have said it, it is not worth the pain when starting out.
Well, at least they copied the meaningful part of "Silicon Valley". In Korea we have Pangyo Valley and Teheran Valley. (And no, they aren't valleys.)
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And the far right and far left.
It is worth noting that they also provide Web Push encryption as an alternative, which I guess you might like more. Of course having people choose between two options is not great either, so there's that.
Look at the tokio chat example: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-core/blob/master/examples/...

let line = io::read_until(reader, b'\n', Vec::new());
let line = line.and_then(|(reader, vec)| {
if vec.len() == 0 {
Err(Error::new(ErrorKind::BrokenPipe, "broken pipe"))
} else {
Ok((reader, vec))
}
});

// Convert the bytes we read into a string, and then send that
// string to all other connected clients.
let line = line.map(|(reader, vec)| {
(reader, String::from_utf8(vec))
});
...

With monads we end up with much boilerplate that has nothing to do with the actual "business" logic.

Maybe you prefer that, but I prefer the code to describe just the business logic.
Social Security taps into trust fund for first time in 36 years
Can a professor give me a gold access?
Well Xbox One and Playstation are holding up pretty well and there are millions of units to try stuff on and they need low per-unit cost so can't even use more expensive anti-tempering stuff
> I'd have some sign language for anybody who tried enforcing "sign language ground rules." Are you working with school children or professionals?

For example the Executive Director was deaf, a significant number of client staff were hard of hearing, and there were 100K school students, including special needs students, and many recent immigrants who were starting to learn English.

All online materials were provided in accessible formats, and all public presentations had a sign language interpreter. A typical classroom meeting, district meeting, or videoconference, could have 20-80 participants.

I can point you to the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) which is an excellent advocacy group. NAD works to improve accessibility, equal access, and equal opportunities. Sign language in the workplace can be a big help to some people.

https://www.nad.org/resources/civil-rights-laws/
If you pay for multiple glass blowers at a University, then you can have a Master and an Apprentice. But you are paying for more blowing than you strictly need.

If you pay for the exact amount of glass blowing you need, you will only have 1 glass blower per institution and there isn't room for apprenticeship.

Seems like an easy fix would be a "Glass Blowers of Southern California" shop, where a few glass blowers could service USC, UCLA, and a couple other schools at the same time.

That way you could still easily meet with the blower locally, but it wouldn't be on campus.

Northern California wouldn't need a shop because Stanford, and Berkeley already have a bevy of glass blowing experts.
git init --bare