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Am I the only one not so very enthuastic about organ donation ? Except for cornea, it means a life long of heavy immunosuppressive treatments (which are not free afaik), leading to higher cancer rates and many other side effects. Things are rarely a pure win, there are downsides (even though they are suspiciously rarely mentioned). I don't think we have such a shortage of people that we have to save every and each one no matter the cost.

So yes, I for one am not interested at all by donating my organs (here it is an opt out). I'd rather be dissected, as I learned a lot on (in my case animal) cadavers.
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There is 0% chance FB can buy coinbase.

Coinbase won't sell. They've built an all time level team and are absolutely raking in $$$.

This is dumb.
Honestly, if your #1 goal is sustainable, reliable income, I would become a contractor. Like, go back to school, take some courses, get an apprenticeship and go become an electrician/plumber. Those are some of the most in-demand professions in the country, in almost every region, with very good and reliable income.

Or get into kitchen/bathroom remodeling!
iOS, Mac vulnerabilities allow remote code execution through a single image
Imaginary numbers were useful as soon as they were invented. They are algebraically closed, unlike the real numbers, and are required for the fundamental theorem of algebra.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_algeb...

The first use of negative roots was to find the (real) roots of certain polynomials. They were considered a mathemathical hack: useful, but specious on their own. And then it turned out that if you take them on their own terms, they're fantastically useful.
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Still a dongle on every desk of my office, how many years has this thing been USB-C only now...
It will prevent objects from shedding heat through radiation, but it does not seem that it will in any way prevent them from shedding heat through conduction, convection, or evaporation. If the film were on the outer layer of a garment, as long as the inner layers still allowed the soldier's sweat to evaporate they would still be able to keep cool.
My new favourite thing.
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Touchbar should never have happened in the first place, not now, not ever. It such an obviously bad idea.
I'm a big fan of USB-C—I try to avoid purchasing any devices without it. But I use the non-USB-C ports on my ThinkPad T480—HDMI, USB-A, Ethernet—on a regular basis. It also has a hot-swappable battery, superb typing experience, and is easily serviced.

And it weighs about the same as a MBP (right in between the 13" and 15" MBP, which makes sense since it's a 14" laptop).
LOL - yes, I suppose it could be louder. But when’s the last time you saw somebody using a mechanical keyboard in a business meeting?
No, not entirely. According to the e-mail I got; the breech affected logins happening between February and 23 June of this year. GDPR kicked in on the 25th of May.

But I'm no lawyer, so I'm not sure how it plays when stuff hits the fan before the law comes into effect.

Let's get some popcorn.
C is great language specially if you learn programming as a hobby
I suspect it will be most useful when you have a reasonable suspicion of where the camera will be, deploy this between you and said camera.
> I'd argue devs should at least learn and understand SQL, indices, etc.

This was all dev 101 when I was coming up (yikes, almost 20 years ago now).
While I applaud your DIY ethics - theres no warranty if parts fail. It also is more effort than most will go though.
I know a physicist, who now works for the world-leading saw-mill manufacturer applying machine learning to this problem...
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Are you saying "the Rule of Law doesn't hold the same weight as in America or Europe" is your misconception? Or rather that you assume the rule of law would hold the same weight, it does not, and therefore "rule of law holds the same weight" is your misconception?
An observation that comes from studying foreign languages: you learn “and”, “or” and “not” a long time before “if”.
i always take the approach of get it functionally complete first then optimize for performance. It's easier to track optimization bugs (which can be nasty) and you always have something to revert to that at least works.

I agree that 99% of all projects never push beyond what relational databases are capable of. I've seen developers who were tasked with writing basically a todo list say that they're going with a nosql database because RDBMs don't scale.
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That just means an acquisition would be expensive.

FB has a history of expensive acquisitions.
For "low participation", do you mean that the majoritiy of population actively opted out?

How is the decision to opt out made?
>>"Someone having to choose between selling a kidney or starving is terrible. But the solution shouldn't be to deny the first option"

If in the XXI century we have not eliminated those dilemmas is that we are doing something wrong.

Also, it seems that you would be creating an incentive to make people hungry.
Satellite dishes point south in the northern hemisphere, right? Since they orbit over the equator.

I've never found this practically useful, because the one city where I've wandered a lot and saw a lot of satellite dishes is Philadelphia, which has a grid layout. But I do recall noticing it.
Like cigarette bans?
Ask HN: How long does the process take to sell a startup?
We are in a competitive process, with an M&A advisory company guiding us. We are a startup with a technical (software) value, with several companies (10) in different levels of interest. We are now 9 months involved in this process, and we wonder how long could we expect to arrive to an end. We don't have any term sheet yet.
What's your experience?
Ask HN: What's the best approach when localizing large scale systems?
I work at a bank in a country where english isn't the first language. As interest has historically been low all our products are only available in our first language.

We're now seeing raised interest from customers who doesn't know our language and we're looking into how we should go about localizing eveything.

Are there any well known strategies or systems for moving a large number repos from scattered strings and messy templates to some kind of localization engine? What should we think about when planning for this?
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SCA Tunadal does 200 meters logs per minute. With multiple laser/xray scanners for optimal cuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y81eWz2YqZM
I routinely walk home from work—3 miles, which takes about an hour. Even with a high-quality shoulder strap, I can notice a half-pound difference in laptop weight.

My T480 is lighter than a 15" MBP, and is user-serviceable. It's also one of the less svelte models in the ThinkPad line—if I wanted to sacrifice a bit of repairability (nothing as bad as Apple) for some weight savings, I could have gone with a T480s or X1 Carbon.
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In this space everyone has a price. And I can see the advantages of wanting an exit from a volatile space to nice safe $$$ before the next catastrophe (although cryptocurrency prices are surprisingly catastrophe-resistant).
In addition to the other points, imaginary numbers immediately added to the representation of things we could represent. Simply rewriting existing numbers in other ways isn't all that interesting; it doesn't add anything. We already knew there's an infinite number of ways to serialize numbers to symbols. Negative base numbers don't behave differently than positive base numbers, because "negative base numbers" and "positive base numbers" are artifacts of English and don't actually exist mathematically. There are numbers, which are written in different representations, but are not actually different entities.

So there's no possible way this could be useful for "higher dimensional math" or anything, because there's no entity being added here. Higher dimensional math already uses numbers. At most there might be one or two concepts that might in some manner if you squint hard enough could be better represented by negative base numbers, but even then the positive base representation would probably still be how people actually understood it.
The difference is that the antenna & bending issues were grossly exaggerated by clickbait reporting and lawyers angling for a class action win. As the wikipedia articles note, neither affected a significant number of users – the iPhone 4's antenna was still more sensitive than the 3GS it replaced – whereas the keyboard issues affect a lot of people. It's not the urban legend-style “my third cousin has a friend who held his phone hard enough to drop a call” reports which characterized those earlier flaps but real named people who are directly affected and getting hardware replacements because Apple techs agreed with the problem.
Oddly enough it has gone completely away on my 2017 model. I can only guess a firmware upgrade fixed it, which is probably unlikely. Or getting jossled around in my backpack got it aligned?
You lack imagination. If Facebook offers Coinbase tomorrow 100 billion dollars, they won't sell?
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I just don't understand what the purpose of Bitcoin is. Everyone seems to be treating it as an investment, but its use as a currency doesn't seem to have obvious advantages over cash. Its value fluctuates wildly, transaction processing takes forever, every purchase you make is public record, the price is easily manipulated, and it takes a ton of electricity to operate.

What's the end goal of Bitcoin? What makes it worth investing in?
> Which is your favorite ORM?

jOOQ. Not really an ORM, but handles the tedium of mapping results to an object while letting me write type checked SQL. IMO, it is the best solution for dealing with an RDBMS. I wish every language had a jOOQ equivalent.
I said they would.
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> That's not what's expected of a full stack engineer.

That is highly variable. In a world where a lot of middle management considers "tech people" fungible, this is EXACTLY what is expected from a full stack engineer.

And, you get to do the work of front end, back end, and database developers all at once for the price of 1 person. What's not to love?

Only partially "/s", because although I'm not in that kind of position at the moment, I've seen it.
This looks really neat and well designed. Looks like they only cover HTML and CSS at the moment. I'm curious if they will add some (basic) modern Javascript in the future.
I wonder what motivates creation of this as there are so many materials out there already?
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>My preferred answer: Put a gay baker and a Christian baker in a room. Tell them to come up with the rules. The rules will apply to both of them. Give them two hours. You'll get a reasonable proposal.

I disagree. A racist white shopkeeper and a black shopkeeper set to the same task in the 1960s would not come up with the Civil Rights Act; they would come up with something that segregated people further. I think the same would occur here.
I think they changed the switches in the M570 for better ones in 2015, sadly I'm stuck with a unit that has developed double-click syndrome, and my current OS of choice has no support for Bluetooth anyway.
mine works just fine for me, i would say i even like it. :shrug:
Your argument seems to be that surviving an otherwise incurable illness has .. downsides?
who said CB was on sale? They are not even letting any more VC investment.
It's certainly the closest of all XMPP clients I've used, since it has a very friendly interface. Their related Openfire XMPP server is also targeted at internal deployments and is very easy to configure with a web UI.
I love SQLite, and Fossil is very cool, but I don't see the fundamental difference between Git adding another file in the .git directory, and Fossil adding another table or index in the SQLite database.
The statement was:
If you fall with the device, the device thinks it's falling.

I'd like to know which laws of "advanced mechanics" this invalidates.
You cant tell until it comes to it I had a kidney transplant last year and only one kidney was usable. I was the better match - so the guy on the bed next to me had to be told sorry and had to go home

Also some kidneys can be problematic I passed on one where the donor might have been HIV+ - I had gone on the list prior to needing diyalsis so it wasn't like I needed one immediately.
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> DigitalOcean is also working on a managed kubernetes service, which should be less expensive than AWS,GCP,etc

What makes you say this? A 4 GB RAM VPS on DigitalOcean seems to have a very similar price to the corresponding GCP VPS. The load balancer offerings show similar prices too.
> There's no typing information or even syntax checking.

Intellij is pretty good at highlighting and pointing out typo errors. The code will still compile though.

> no typing information

Given the popularity of javascript, I thought this would now be considered a feature ;)
> Keyboard lacked home, end

^A, ^E, just like on a terminal or Emacs. ^K deletes to the end of the line.
Hold on. How has Facebook had a ban on cryptocurrency adverts since January? Every day I see another false advert, with a fake Dragon's Den investment scenario, linking to a site mocked up to look like BBC news.
"Its not even that you'll hit Google scale, its that you'll hit popular scale and still serve the whole thing out of your Digital Ocean droplet."

Are you saying that model inference is slower or less efficient for a model built and trained in Keras, than the same model architecture built directly in tensorflow?
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> Ethically speaking - if you have a buddy inside the company, they'll tell you how to prep with information the company wouldn't want you to know anyways.

I feel there are two views on this: From the candidate's perspective, his/her buddy might "owe" it to them to provide additional info which will give them a leg up in the application/interviewing process.

From the buddy's perspective, if they (company/hiring manager) have already decided on one candidate, it _might_ be fruitful to help them get the job, otherwise it would amount to unethical behavior by not giving all the candidates an equal footing.
yet still uses unencrypted hosting of their website
It's impossible to provide decent battery life in a laptop with normal DDR4, it uses 80% more battery in standby:

https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/
Greater fool theory; "I'm buying this thing early, so that when it hits the mainstream a load of naive people will buy it and boost my value". That has probably largely passed now, though; I see train station ads to buy bitcoin all the time.

I'd be somewhat surprised if it ever goes back to its beginning-of-year heights.
Everyone starts somewhere. Take into account that you are just studying it from time to time. At work you will be actively doing things 5-8 hours a day, almost every day. Take your time, people generally expect even experienced programmers to take a month to catch up to speed on a new job. After month or two of such intensive training you will learn a lot too. Make sure that your learning is directed i.e. don't just solve problems, but figure out how and why they occurred etc. What approaches people took before you etc. In general, read a lot of relevant literature, especially articles and books. And after a year or two you will start hitting point of diminishing returns. There is really only so much that people need to know to do day to day work.

Then there is elusive experience, but that will come with time as you will observe first hand how silver bullets turn into legacy ;).
So in your mind people are just coming up with these things for no reason, is that it?
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It's the reason I end up always looking at gaming laptops. I don't really need a GPU at all, it's nice but not needed. However yeah, Cores & RAM that's what I need.
Yeah, but I think in this case there's an issue where the choosing party lacks the ability to make an informed decision. The risk-weighted long-term medical costs of removing a kidney (in less-than-ideal operating conditions!) and living with just one (probably in an environment where kidneys work overtime due to low-quality resources!) make it a rather expensive proposition. It would've been easier to scrap/work/beg for food than for the potential medical after-care they'll need over time, in terms of the total long-term cost of maintaining their life and/or health levels. But those that understand this are withholding that level of understanding and forcing it to look like a rational Hobson's choice to the donor.
There were two statements, this was the other one:

> From the look of the speed that it opens, yes it would probably hurt if it opened in your pocket.

Which is definitely not supported by how that device has been constructed. It's not as if there are large torque servos operating those flippers, you can clearly see the mechanism is spring loaded and so the fabric will contain the device without any injury. Making the springs so strong that you could be injured is silly.
Should everyone learn C? Yes. Should it be taught as the first language? Nope.

First of all, the quality of C learning material is abysmal. Most of the literature has been written before the era of C99 and encourages bad practices such as useless casting, single-letter variables, variable declarations separate from assignment and so on. At least some of this bad literature will inevitably find its way into the hands of newcomers.

That said, too many books also teach C as if it was the reader's first language. Were we not looking for a book for newcomers? Great! Now our glorious ANSI C book will be mostly about basic programming concepts and language constructs. The last chapter is most probably named "Advanced features" and this is where pointers are first introduced. In reality C is all about pointers and they should be taught as soon as the programmer knows how to write and call functions.

Learning C is also hard and requires shaolin monk-like self discipline. The Zen of C is satisfying but the path there is paved with segmentation faults, bus errors and endless hours of watching Valgrind logs. If anyone claims they've never had similar problems, they haven't really grasped the essentials of the language - see the previous paragraph.
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edit: sorry, I hadn't read the article, I see it says more or less the same than my link

> Spain managed to solve the infrastructure and process related problems

That's correct, the Organizacion Nacional de Transplantes is the main culprit.

You can read about it here: http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/20/spain-has-become-world-le...

> Dr Matesanz rejects the idea of a Spanish miracle or a unique store of generosity in the hearts of his compatriots: “We have asked the same question in various surveys over the years and every time 56% or 57% say they would donate their organs after dying; roughly the EU average.” On the role of Spain’s transplant law, which presumes consent unless otherwise stated, Matesanz is also dismissive, pointing out that families always have the final say and that the only country in the world to enforce such a rule is Singapore. “Spain has not been a leader in surgery or research; we have hardly chalked up any firsts in transplant operations. What we have brought to this area is organisation. Following a philosophy that states that donors do not simply fall from the heavens, we have provided organisation and professionalisation.”
Probably would help if they freed up space and battery life by not having a totally unnecessary second screen taking up the top row of the keyboard.
Everything was invented in China. There is no Plato (for example) sharing knowlesged sourced from india.

Buddhism was absolutely sourced from India, and had a profound impact on Chinese culture, spirituality, and political thought. The Lieh tzu adopts a lot of Buddhist thought and adapts it into (already Confucian-influenced) Taoist thought.
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The zcat that comes with macOS works fine.

Learning how to use the BSD tools is not that hard.

Also, you mean GNU environment I guess, not Linux environment.
How is this different from networking in the US? don't most American companies hire e.g. account managers or business development folks with long lists of industry (and in specific industries, government) contacts? Is it just the case that the implied "guanxi" relationship has to be deeper than the circumstances in which an American would say "I know a guy who"?
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When I was part of an organization in college, part of the onboarding process was that each applicant had to have a conversation and (possibly) do a "quest" for each member. My standing quest was that I would write the first 12 or so numbers in negabinary on my whiteboard, and have them determine the next few numbers and explain what they meant. I had people sitting outside my room for hours trying to figure it out. A few did do it, and normally had some expletives for me afterward.
Joe Rogan (who obviously writes professionally) just went on a huge rant about Macbook keyboards in his podcast today. 9 minutes in: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/duncan-trussell-15
> Putting more than 10 minutes on the board would represent such a break from tradition that it might incite a riot.

It does, but it would be nice to know the average through history. It seems as though it's about 1min extra time for each 2min wasted. Which makes sense why players waste time now. If it was 1:1 time wasting would just be more of an opportunity to catch your breath and organize your formation.
So, current average fee is about a dollar. Plus you have to pay probably at least 1% to buy it, and the vendor has to pay similar to sell it again, and accept significant exchange risk. I struggle to see how this works out cheaper than, say, paying namecheap with a credit card...
I would prefer the incentive be that you can't be on a list for a transplant if you have previously opted out of donating.
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Would be a sly way of dropping the price of an acquisition target though.
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Apple also tried ads ( failed) and is a lot more expensive.
And as said in the comment, i don't use/care about osX. I do use Ubuntu a lot, that's why i compared it.