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Don't agree. Mentality is important but it will not automatically lead to success. Look at how well Windows Phone did. Microsoft put everything they had to make that product but ultimately failed.

Both Mac and Windows is successful because retail. People do not want to troubleshoot issues themselves.. They also want something they know. Apple is good at marketing and Windows is something we all know. Linux has just a bunch of small shops and does not have the same brand recognition. It takes much longer for Linux desktop to reach that level of trust. Especially when Microsoft uses their considerable capital to lobby against Linux adoption. Linux adoption is continually rising though.. It is at about 3% right now.

ActivityPub is like the Linux kernel. It is the foundation that other software can use. It took a long time but eventually the idealism behind Linux made it work. It became an important infrastructure that saved money and thus an edge. ActivityPub have the same possibility. It could become the infrastructure of social media.
Another church in Spain falls victim to a well-intentioned restorer
Happy Tau Day, the true circle constant
In NHibernate and Entity Framework you just say .Include("Region").Include("Vendor") to eagerly load the associated entities. I imagine other ORM's have similar facilities.
Tau > Pi?

But what will we eat on Tau day? Tau-cos have my vote. A tortilla is still a circle we can describe mathematically with tau.
"How do rich people making more money affect the "average" American"
Because we live in a world where some things are effectively finite. So the relative wealth of other people does indeed have an affect on what you can afford. This is like an econ 101 idea.
I remember knackering the pause function on my video recorder trying to read the "blipvert" style items at the end of each programme.
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Knowing a little of everything is good, knowing a lot of everything is unreasonable. Sure there are those amazing people but expecting everyone to be them is crazy.
Additionally, SEC can't bring criminal charges. That has to be done via the FBI.
> That said, too many books also teach C as if it was the reader's first language.

I feel that's quite a general problem with programming languages. Many languages could actually profit from books that assume that the reader knows a couple of mainstream languages and explain the respective language's intricacies from that perspective -- also in a much smaller format.

I'd buy a small book (say the size of K&R or "the AWK programming language") for many interesting languages in a heartbeat.
I found the visual programming provided by the BBC micro:bit very approachable. Try it in the online simulator, then get a board for $10.

This provides a drag and drop interface for loops and variables and makes LEDs blink nicely.

Also makes it super easy to switch to the js or python representation of the visual program.

Tried it with a 7 year old. She got it I think.
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What's the vision exactly? The focus on privacy? What exactly are they doing about that? Their "take on the cloud" is what? 'Do it badly'?

> Apple is looking to position itself to exist intimately in our lives. The only way to get there is to have the same level of trust that you do with family or even a lawyer.

Bleh. That is just awful marketing speak. Why would anyone trust them to "existing intimately" in 'their life' if they can't even reliably produce reliable computers (regularly)?

My iPhone 5 (ha) is fine, but I'm hanging onto it for as long as I can because I expect to be disappointed by upgrading.

People express that Tim Cook has no vision because he's failed to deliver like Steve Jobs did (in a way they care about).
Yes, although sorry I wasn't very clear - I was wondering what you had in mind saying 'modern and safe'.
Yes, it is cannabis.
It's also dishonest to claim that inflation is rampant and that the unemployment numbers are fudged.
Dude moving to Python3 is easy. It is an order of magnitude easier than moving over to a new language.
No, they expect developers to know everything, apparently. At least to know everything that doesn't give them a dopamine hit when two result sets match, validating their theories/beliefs.

This is what developers deal with all the time, so this is obvious. Code should work this way, but it doesn't always. Yes, we can all make heroes of ourselves by thinking of ourselves as saviors for those edge cases of catastrophic failure, but we don't, because we are aware, that bugs happen - they are a mathematical certainty assuming one doesn't have access to all information, including every single use case of a program in the future.
OK, make sense, just found out on the SEC website. So there won't be a criminal record before DOJ or local AGs place charges.
Tesla lagging on Model 3 production, workers say
Pre-auto LA was a series of towns connected by a trolley network. Seemed to work pretty well.
That's the whole point: git data is highly relational. Retrieving a commit alone is completely useless to you, just as retrieving any of the core objects alone is. Every operation you do requires retrieving multiple, interconnected objects... which SQL excels at.
Imagine becoming a major hub for crypto trading - and charging commissions/fees for nothing more than an accounting entry, with the only real costs being the fees for transfer of incoming and outgoing crypto, which the customer also pays for.

If (a big If) the crypto market gets very huge, that strategy alone could easily make a few million dollars per day, or billions of dollars per year.
It's all in the Interconnects. The hard part of supercomputing is moving data, not computing.
Given the outcome of things, it seems very disingenuous to pretend that it wasn't a part of his election.
Usually when people complain about the magic in Django it means that they're trying to work with things that are complete antipatterns. Django usually has one, really good, solid way to do each task and going against the grain is always going to hurt.
From the_gastropod below:

> Cars are not the only solution here. Transporting a single disabled person does not require a 100+ horsepower 2-ton vehicle.
Interesting that although Republicans are more likely to think that social media platforms are biased against them, they are less likely to think that such platforms should be subject to increased government regulation.

As a cynic, I was expecting that Republicans might want more regulation here (in contravention of their general desire for less regulation) because it would be in their own interests.

Note: I'm not saying I expect Republicans to be more self-interested/hypocritical than Democrats. I would expect it of both parties, based on my experience in the field.
It's great to hear that you found the Masters invaluable! I personally didn't do any formal education myself beyond reading, finding mentors, workshops, some coaching, and experience along the way.
That's a very hypothetical question. I think the architecture of a communal website shapes its community (after all, it exists before the community). The design decisions of HN are distinct from say, Reddit: the are no subreddits, comment karma isn't visible, stricter rules, etc. The less-is-more rationale attracts a certain kind of personality.
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Yes, in particular in the poorest areas. The mafia offers very good pays for criminals jobs in areas where basically there are literally no industries and everyone else is living by welfare support.
Writing anything is fast. It's maintaining it that becomes a problem.
The alternative is allowing everything to crash. The rich bankers wouldn't have had a problem, but millions more everyday workers would have paid a far higher price in terms of unemployment.
I would say they do. For instance, if I got a Google Home it would be the only non-Apple device with a microphone in my apartment, making gov access significantly easier.
I did not intend to start a flame war, just wanted to highligh the fact that the page uses language that is deeply offensive to me. I think I have a right to do that especially that the authors were seeking an opinion. If you think I did break any rules I am happy for you or the moderator to delete my comment.
> you also aren't recording a history of the merge conflicts you saw in the rebase

This is a good point. Mistakes are made during merge conflict resolution. But if you are tracking your upstream when you develop a long-lived feature branch, and rebasing when there are changes to the base, and actually comparing your rebased feature branches to the version that you had before you force push over the old remote version, then the only thing you really need to track is "does my diff still look like the change I intended to make."

The most valuable skill we are learning from Git is how to avoid merge conflicts altogether, and it tends to be more a human problem than a technological issue. (You don't avoid merge conflicts with some special commit strategy, you do it by ensuring that two people are not actively changing the same part of the codebase unless it's absolutely necessary.)
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Are housing, healthcare and education costs included in the inflation numbers?
Faith is like a blueprint, codifying rules in an effort to maintain a stable society.

Some of these rules, IMHO, are absurd, but many you'd come to the same conclusion without faith as with it.
That is nice.
I disagree with the notion that the penalty for white-collar crime should be strictly proportional to how good you are at that brand of crime.

In a world where people occasionally steal $100m, that implies a maximum sentence of ~1 year for stealing $1m.
Good point, just took a look at the picture of a 2014 mbp which I had previously. Something about the older up/down arrows was much better, and I can’t put my finger on it (literally, since I do not have the 2014 anymore).
Apple didn't extend the warranty four years; the keyboard already has a one year warranty. They extended it an additional 3 years.
Ask HN: How are black hat groups formed?
Think the traditional groups that claim attacks, publishes paper together, etc. They seemed more common a decade ago but can still be seen. Is there a common story behind them?
I try not to judge. If it's a company worth working for their contrived question usually has a point to it.

A good example: a few years ago I was given a take-home assignment for a language I had zero familiarity with it. I asked the recruiter about it, assuming it was a mistake, and she assured me it was intentional. Turns out the team had decided to optimize for people who can dive into complicated, unfamiliar domains and figure out a reasonably clean solution. In particular, this language had a feature explicitly for making problems of this sort easier and they were selecting for engineers who would be able figure that out.

That's not to say every company does it well -- I'm sure there are many cargo-cult interviewers out there -- but I certainly wouldn't say it's "fucked".
Via climate controlled aircraft, distribution facilities, and relatively well ventilated delivery trucks?

No step in the retail pharmacy supply chain involves routinely putting it in a small black box sitting out in the sun until you get home from work in the evening.
Yet not everybody uses mac os so i guess there is nothing wrong with writing a portable gpl clone of a proprietary mac os program.
> Rust is beginning to understand that they need more stability

i though rust has been stable since 1.0. am i wrong?
I tried doing a limited google search for any news about that story that occurred since November of last year and got 0 hits. Did the case die or is it that the media just doesn't care enough for there to be a single update to the story?
Agreed, it's hard to write nice, immutable, functional code in Go. For one, you have to put considerable design effort into make your functions chainable while at the same time support error propagation, which tends to necessitate the use of interfaces (e.g. "Iterator"), which without generics leads to interface{} all over the place.

I think Go works best for applications that don't need any "internal plumbing". For example, one of my projects is a query engine. It takes an AST and plans a pipeline of operators that compose together (map, filter, join etc.). It's pretty damn awkward to write in Go, and type safety often goes out the window. It's something that in other languages (Haskell, OCaml, Rust, Scala and Swift would all qualify) could be expressed with an elegant smattering of union types, generic functions and monadic chaining.

But that awkwardness is because the app is 99% framework (various types and functions being used to compose stuff together), most of which is a big, generic factory to produce a small engine. If your app is all imperative "meat", with little framework, then Go is a much better fit.
> But Y does not really explain X. That is core point. Saying Y explains X is just igoring the question. It is just Dennett claiming "Y explains X" with a flawed argument.

We have no reason to believe that Y cannot explain X, and ample reason to believe it can. Every previous circumstance of special pleading of this sort has eventually fallen to scientific inquiry.

Furthermore, various observations and theorems in physics, like the conservation of energy and the Bekenstein Bound, suggest strongly that the mind is a fully encapsulated, bounded physical system.

The only way to escape this inevitability is to posit that consciousness is some extra-physical quantity that has no impact on physical matter whatsoever. And what problem does adding this to our axiomatic basis solve exactly? None that I can see except yet another instance of special pleading.

If anything, such a step actually introduces more problems, because how would you explain the fact that we, beings of physical matter, are talking about consciousness if consciousness cannot influence matter?
interestingly, taco shape looks like half pie...
This book is really amazing in its level of detail and specificity and incredible how it's still relevant.
To give you an idea: I have a 3 grocers within walking distance, and I will usually just go buy what I need for whatever I am going to make the same day. One bag is usually fine. I have never purchased that much fertilizer, but I have purchased a 50lb bag of sand at the hardware store on the corner. It is so close, I would be surprised if my walk home was not shorter than your wife's walk back to her car. Living in the dense city requires many sacrifices, but one of the best upsides is being able to walk places.
How is this different from a, for example, chase business credit card (or debit card for that matter)? If you have funding but no credit history you can get one. I was 19 when I got mine. I don't understand how connecting to my bank account provides 10-20x more credit if you're already verifying my startup's funding.
> we'll probably manage (hide) our social networks well, and make some good offline-only friends

Or don't insider trade. In the financial crime universe, insider trading is on the stupid end of the spectrum. It's tough to do right, hard to scale and easy to get caught.
Yes insider trading can be charged criminally, but there's no actual statute prohibiting it, surprisingly:

"For example, Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires the disgorgement of short-swing profits by named insiders—directors, officers, and 10% shareholders. The 1934 Act’s general antifraud provision, Section 10(b), is frequently used in the prosecution of insider traders. Although the statute does not specifically mention insider trading but, instead, forbids the use of “manipulative or deceptive” means in buying or selling securities, case law has made clear that insider trading is the type of fraud that is prohibited by Section 10(b)" (https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21127.pdf, emphasis added)

In other words, everybody has just basically decided that insider trading is wrong and people should go to jail for doing it, and caselaw reflects that, but there's no actual statute in place anywhere.
> To accomplish this, I decided to fly to New York to hole up in a hotel room for three days to read a few highly-recommended management books.

> I decided to focus on growing Gusto’s engineering team, and not our code. The technical books on my desk starting getting replaced with books like Mindset, High Output Management, and The Score Takes Care of Itself — still three of my favorites today.

If the three books listed in the latter excerpt were not those three books you read in the hotel, can you please tell us what books they were?
That article makes claims that are just not true. "Trump supported a decent minimum wage from the start, wants free education in state universities, has supported universal health care, consistently opposed the Transpacific Partnership Agreement and wants more bank regulation."

He very clearly is not in favor of free education, he is very clearly not in favor of raising the minimum wage, he very clearly is not in favor of universal health care, and very clearly is not in favor of more bank regulation.

So I find the claims that Clinton was more to the right of Trump quite dubious.
Walmart? Would not have guessed they sold 80/20. Here's a more typical site that thousands of engineers will use today to purchase extrusion for all kinds of industrial projects:

https://www.mcmaster.com/#structural-framing/=1dhfwat

Or, if you're a makerspace in the market for larger quantities and want to standardize, find a local vendor of extrusion (80/20, Misumi, Futura, MB Kit, etc) that will have the oddball fittings you may need on hand locally.

It's true that 80/20 will not sell you their dies, but they are happy to give away free CAD libraries of all their parts. There are subtle differences between different manufacturers, but everyone makes parts that are compatible with it and you probably shouldn't depend on the tiny features that won't match. It looks like OpenGrid saw a proliferation of too many 'standards' that were not open-source, and thought "We'll make a new standard that will be better than the others because it's open", and ended up adding a worse (less strong, less adjustable) standard product with limited adoption.

On the electrical boxes, they seem to be proud of their homemade enclosures. What they probably don't realize is that you can buy an IP67, hinged, IEC-rated enclosure with continuously welded seams from Saginaw or Hoffman with built-in grounding lugs, backplane, and latches for $80.
An image search for mIRC shows that it is ugly as shit. It has a sidebar to list channels but the current channel window is still an undifferentiated mess of handles, commands, and actual conversation. Stored communication is mainly a server-side problem but I don't know if mIRC has an interface to show DMs you missed while offline or to indicate which part of a channel's conversation happened since you last looked.

Even if mIRC would suffice for Windows, you've not handled Macs, phones, etc. Who gives a shit if it runs on a 25 year old computer?

The US military has produced some specific examples of good design but isn't known highly valuing usability, let alone whether someone would enjoy using a tool. IRC is very functional and mIRC appears to add a little polish beyond a pure command-line interface, those are bare minimums and not good enough.
> If you have a city of single-family residences (and three quarters of Americans do live in single-family residences), it's really hard to not build for cars.

Yes, and how those cities are designed are a big part of the problem.
> at the same time, a bigger country is always better

Why so? And for whom, exactly?
Do you think the US would fare better overall if they joined with southern countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Colombia?

Also, Italy is inside the EU. I'm not sure that inside a supra-national entity as the EU the reasons for building bigger nation-states- reasons that were surely valid in the 19th century- still stand.
Yes but they could state those in the error message. They don't so people are left to their own conclusions on why things were blocked. Especially if you're not technically savvy, the reason why something isn't submitted is because someone physical human blocked you from submitting it. I can't count the number of times people hated on game servers being laggy simply blaming it as the company trying to save money by using cheap servers when the actual cause is likely any number of network congestion issues.

People will anthropomorphize any technical issue.
Because... they are?

I mean look, for the most part developers have optimized a happy path that is by far, one of the most productive ways to get anything done in the web dev world.

If you're purposely going to go against that path for whatever reason, you're going to have to do the heavy lifting that the framework is doing for you.

In the 9 years I've been using Django, I've rarely if ever come to a situation where there was any benefit to working against the framework's idioms. And the more I've grown to using the framework, the more you realize that people would rather create their own thing from scratch rather than learn existing methodologies.
But again, to claim that "The Bible said so" is a logical argument is absurd on it's face. Yet, that's what you see many conservatives leaning on
According to the article it seems like finding a buyer is the primary difficulty by a wide margin. I wonder if there's a website on the dark web that deals in these sorts of products. It seems like it would be a good opportunity to make a buck running an onion routed knockoff of eBay. If such a thing exists it seems like this should be a buyer's market.