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> Sometimes we can even give a direction to the bank. But if we then close our eyes, we have no way of telling that we are sitting at an angle. I know from experience how difficult it is to convince people of this.

> [...]

> He had found here in the spinning chair the proof that instinct is worse than useless in the clouds.

I had a similar experience that absolutely proved this while flying recently. I was sitting near the middle of the airplane (it had a 2-4-2 seat configuration), and all the window shutters near me were closed.

We were approaching our destination, and the pilot had started manoeuvring to get into the approach pattern. I sensed some rotational acceleration and guessed (correctly) that we had started a long and wide bank turn, and I was convinced that it was a bank towards the right.

I waited until some passenger near the right-side windows opened the shutter to peek into the ground outside, ant to my utter astonishment and surprise, all to be seen from that window was a sheet of sky blue (we were banking to the left). I cannot even begin to explain how disconnected from reality I felt for a good 2 or 3 seconds.
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This is fascinating. What other things fall into this intriguing category, where doing a Very Bad Thing is ok, but observing that someone seems to be in favor of a Very Bad Thing is downright terrible?

And how is a society to defend itself against Very Bad Things, when it's worse to talk about than to actually do?

The only reason I can think of why someone might hold such a logically contorted position, actually, is if they actually think Very Bad Thing isn't that bad a thing at all, but won't come right out and say so.
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Oh, yes, ambient/white noise has changed my life. I even use white noise for sleeping (via sleep headband), much better than ear plugs
Or even another way.

Let's say instead of seeing statues, each prisoner was given a piece of paper that had an integer on it (ranging from -infinity to +infinity) and on your paper was written 12.

Would the problem be unsolvable? If so, what has materially changed?
Fun fact: both books have precisely 1082 pages.
Ask HN: Low-level programming besides C and Rust
I've been thinking about porting / rewriting a Minix-like operating system to a new CPU.

I've been programming in C (and to a lesser extent C++) for a long time, so there's always that.

I've looked briefly at Rust here and there. I have previously tried to wrap my brain around Haskell, with limited success, and never really got comfortable with it. It seems like really grokking Rust will be a similar effort.

Is there anything else in the low-level embedded space that might be suitable?

I'm mostly concerned about simplicity and safety. I'm willing to trade some verbosity for tight and efficient generated code.

Edit: I also also add I'm thinking I should stay away from garbage-collected languages, since this is intended for low level operating system development. I don't know if adding in real-time requirements is a good idea, but I wouldn't want to close off that possibility either.
Good. The case of Brendan Eich, ousted from Mozilla over his $1,000 contribution to support of a 2008 gay-marriage ban in California, shows that SJWs wish to punish people for their views, as expressed through their donations.
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That's called a story board. As far as I'm aware all movies and a fair few TV shows do this because it's cheaper to sketch your idea out before you hire expensive camera crew, lighting, etc
As I mentioned in the other comment thread, you'll enjoy the culture and the relationships if you manage your political ambition. Travel gives its best taste when you focus on the moment that you are.
If my Lemma 1 is wrong, then the solution proposed by the article is also incorrect, because it also assumes this.
without judging the original situation, misleading investors is bad. Customers know what they are getting and can accordingly choose to extend or cancel the existing business relationship. That's easy. Investors rely on management's communications to understand how their money is being used - If management is misrepresenting, how are the investors supposed to know if they should invest further in this company? Shit like this is the entire reason the SEC was founded.
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Sorry for being off-topic, but I can't resist asking why on Earth would you want to port iTunes and AppleScript? Everyone I know (except the HN user actsasbuffoon) loathes iTunes, while AppleScript is just... silly, compared to other scripting languages.
Thanks for finding those pictures! Hopefully it's now easier to see for those who don't care too much about art why hyper-realism is so much easier to achieve than, for example, any of the portraits here: http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2017/01/yes-its-real-thing-museu...

That sketch of a live girl shows his real skills and I found it to be much more interesting than his photocopying, even if it looks like a real 11-year-old's drawing. Thanks!
We know that it's has taken many a battering over the last 10 thousand years, but it's still a city.
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To be fair, instances of lasting change through episodes were rare, usually necessitated by staffing/pay disputes (e.g. Maggie Roswell, who voiced Maude, leaving after wanting money for travel and not getting it, thus Maude being killed off) or death of the voice actor (e.g. Marcia Wallace, who played Edna Krabappel, among others).
I don't because I don't actually use it ever
The court need only point to the fact you downloaded an app specifically meant to wipe your phone via an "oh crap" code.

I mean, I get LE and the justice system is given a lot of crap for being behind the times, but cmon now. This is slam dunk tier legal argumentation here.

I'm not even a lawyer and I'm pretty sure I could convince a judge on that point. If they issue a warrant for something, and you do something to what the warrant was issued for, you tampered with evidence. This is heavily frowned upon. Especially in the middle of a court room, right in front of a judge.

If you want to send a message via civil disobedience, all power to you.Just understand, you're still going to have to deal with the consequences.

I don't like it any more hand anyone else here, bit until you can sell a legislature on changing a bunch of this, in court is the absolute LAST place you want to make a stand on it. Judges are going to go with the least amount of reinterpretation to keep the system and Law Enforcement trucking.

Law is made by legislatures. It's just the way it is.
This is will be catalyst.

When anyone has access to the securities and derivatives markers, that is what will end society, that will be the bubble everyone has been saying Bitcoin was, that will be "the last bubble".
FYI, especially those who took this the wrong way: GP said he's practising German, so I simply offered how I (native German) would've translated it a bit differently. I never said and certainly did not mean to imply that "mine is right" and "his is wrong".
I strongly prefer the quality plastic exterior with fiberglass and carbon fiber construction of my ThinkPad. It feels far sturdier than a MacBook Pro which flexes quite a bit (yes, I've had one before), it doesn't heat up like the MacBook and warm my lap, and it's far more resistant to scratches and general wear and tear in my experience. The build quality of the MacBook hinges really throws me off as well. They're actually sturdy-feeling metal on my laptop, while Apple seems to cheap out where metal is actually useful. Just some thoughts to consider. :)
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I mostly agree with you until the healthcare part. It's more about regulation problems than actual health care. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08061...
Hmm. I was pretty convinced that my method would work, then I got convinced it couldn't work, now I'm confused again.

A few notes: You can see 12, your friend can see 8. So your friend knows you have either 12 or 10. You know your friend has either 8 or 6.

Step 1: you pass, friend knows you have >=1. Friend passes, you know they have >=1.

Step 2: you pass, friend knows you have >=2. Friend passes, you know they have >=2.

[...]

Step 7: you pass, friend knows you have >=7. Friend passes, you know they have >=7; you have 12, so there must be 20, you win.

I'm actually pretty convinced that it would work now... anyone want to poke a hole in it?
They were popular, and it’s not that they are not that common nowadays...they are now illegal in all US states (and I believe every country too).
Flying cars are a bad idea, but that hasn't stopped a lot of people wanting them. The vast majority don't give it any thought beyond 'that would be cool', but a few are putting a lot of time and money into trying to make one. It's my opinion that the hardest of all the hard problems is noise, because there aren't many things that can be changed in how lift is generated, and rotors/propellers are intrinsically noise-generating.

I think you may be misinterpreting my last sentence. What I mean is that, just because medical science has not delivered immortality, it doesn't mean that there aren't lots of people who would prefer not to die. You could substitute specific causes of death, such as cancer or alzheimer's, into that argument, if you think that most people have come to terms with their mortality.
This is false in Dropbox's case:

While on a GAAP basis, Dropbox is losing money, the company generated $0.18 of non-GAAP earnings per share in 2017, an incredible feat for a software business of their size and growth.

Their GAAP operating margin was (10)% in 2017, but the non-GAAP margin was 5%. Their free cash flow margin has been improving dramatically over the past few years, and was at 28% in 2017, up from 16% in 2016 and (11)% in 2015. [1]

I wouldn't say the same thing about Uber, because they seem to have a negative operating margin, unlike Dropbox.

This is the whole point. Anyone can look at the final result and sneer "unprofitable", but it's meaningless without actually looking at the figures and understanding what their cashflows are.

[1] https://medium.com/@alexfclayton/dropbox-ipo-s-1-breakdown-3...
Good synopsis. Have been thinking about boredom a lot lately. And how much it shapes everyday motivation. We now live in a time when slipping into an alternate reality or culture is easier than it's ever been before.

Boredom is probably essential to creativity. Yet it's easy to envision a future that provides a clinical cure in the form of a side-effect free "soma" ;)
> he has a great eye and fantastic mechanical abilities - but 'once in a lifetime genius' may be overselling it just a bit.

Hyperrealism is just being able to exactly copy impressions or photos. If he would now start to copy images he first make using Photoshop (with weird-looking watches all over it and other stuff), it would be certainly considered ingenious art.

Most parts of art are mechanical in their core and can be automated. I don't think there's any reason to assume that he isn't a gifted artist while people who do nearly the same but just use other source material e.g. draw realistic images of dragons are considered as creative or those that just put some blots on a canvas - just look at images like "Violet, Green and Red". What's considered as genius in the arts is ridiculous compared to other fields. And because of that, I don't see why it's necessary to criticize this boy for lacking artistic genius; this stuff is so extremely subjective that it says more about you than anything else.

The next step - mixing interesting ideas and concepts to create creative new art - can also be automated IMO.

> Artistic genius is about synthesizing multiple styles and histories and creating something novel, or re-presenting something old and tired in a new way.

Many modern (and also classic) artists who get the recognition of being "geniuses" are not doing something novel or insanely creative IMO. There are not many who I would consider to be geniuses in the field.

And something like this [1] is more creative IMO than many of technically demanding works or those blots on a canvas.

I would say that the commercialisation of arts destroyed the appeal of it. It's ok if a work is "just nice" or creates a small feeling and nothing more. The expectations are too high if an image costs $168 million - those prices communicate that those images are somehow "more genius" than something a 13y/o can draw. They're not and this is why art (without all that money) is beautiful. It can be a beautiful place of creativity and egality.

[1]: https://www.boredpanda.com/bad-celebrity-portraits-tw1tterpi...
> These were obtained by a government hostile to Qatar and passed to the BBC.

Israel?
These two sentences don’t seem connected or related. Are you trying to say that all miserly people are controlling? Or that as a general rule you choose to stay away from miserly people because there is a greater chance they are controlling?

My whole comment was about how outwardly miserly behavior can still manifest from someone who really is a good, interesting, worthwhile person. So I don’t understand your “asshole” comment. That seems like you’re jumping straight for the nuclear option instead of allowing the possibility that among the population of generally good people, some are nice and warm, some are crabby and prefer to skip social pleasantries or otherwise come off as cold.

Maybe if you unpack the connection between your first sentence and your conclusion more it would help me understand.
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Sam Harris. The way he thinks and talks brings me some kind of tranquillity at the end of the day. A "be at home" feeling.
The Eureka moment for me was learning that a parser isn't a single entity. It's reading tokens, making an abstract syntax tree, etc. One I learned how to break the problems down I found writing parsers very easy.

As for it only being a small part of making your own language, that is so true too. However I do think it's a rewarding project to tackle.
Thank you for your comment. I too have that pet peeve, and I'm glad you voiced it. Just to give you some personal context, I'm a dual citizen between the UK and America, so I've had an interesting relationship to various understandings of the "default accent". I've been told that my pronunciations and word choices are too American or too British in different contexts. I think the important thing to realize is that there is a barrier to understanding that needs to be overcome, and I'm not saying that one side is more responsible than the other for overcoming that barrier. All I was trying to give voice to was my genuine inner process for better or worse. I'm not saying it's right, just that I've gotten by in this way for the reasons stated.
Same, but #joyofcoding. And apparently, Jon Skeet agrees[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/jonskeet/status/1005458230401748992
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Yes, I only brought up the odd-number cases because lucraft did.
Ahhh, then that's a cool approach to take parser generation.
Depends how you measure it.

A long time ago I benchmarked it, and Lwan came out on top, performance-wise. However, performance isn't the only thing that matters in a piece of software like this.

H2O is a great project; in fact, the authors were tightly involved in the definition of HTTP/2.0, and it is one of the first servers to support this version of the protocol. It is well written, and easy to grok the code. Some of its byproducts include a nice (and reusable) HTTP parser library, and clever tool named qrintf (that pre-parses the format string passed to printf()-family functions and generates optimal code for that).

Also, there's a company behind it -- Lwan is just a toy I work on the weekends when I feel like it.
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I miss the old iTunes 10 interface, which I use as a database manager (I like smart playlists, playlist folders, and Genre > Artist > Album columns).

AppleScript because it has so many APIs. BetterTouchTool makes heavy use of it. I taught myself how to code in it when I was 13, and I still use it now.
Impressive comeback for sure. When you say 'Got contracts', how do you go about finding these contracts? Am in a similar place to where you were where I've little interest in 'improving the old'; Would rather just deliver value to a bunch of people but don't know how to find the people to deliver value to!
Trams with regular tires work just as well as trams on tracks, and can follow electrical wires above ground. Many electric city buses and trams operate this way.

There are quite a few methods that could be employed to guide vehicles, from overhead lines, to hip-level rails, to infrared, electrical and magnetic buried lines, and so on.

The reason we don't implement them is the public doesn't want to invest in public transit because they prefer driving their inefficient dangerous polluting cars.
I'd love to hear Lojban in a mainstream movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

Bonus points if it's sold as random fantasy language of a strange country and the main cast doesn't understand it either.
I believe Linux also has a headless/command-line-only client, which is pretty freakin sweet
If someone is disgusted or offended that I am not going to treat every interaction with equal importance, they really don't have to associate with me. That's plain and simple. Am I an asshole? Well, ask different people and you'll get varying responses; I know this because when I was becoming more aware of who I am, I wanted to find out how I was perceived. Sure, a lot of people will always be nice and not say an unkind word, but I also don't think some of those people would voluntarily befriend me on an extracurricular basis if they were that disgusted by me.

Yes, my last line was undoubtedly harsh. That's certainly not how I always feel, and probably not most of the time. But it can sometimes be "drivel" because they'll know that I'm particularly engrossed with something, and they should know that I prefer solitude in those cases, yet they try to get me to spend my time on things I don't have any real interest in. Usually, I'll try to schedule a time to make them happy, but I still do not appreciate interruption when I'm busy, and I'm often going to take my time in replying to requests.

Besides, if you lived my life, you might see things this way.
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Thanks so much for taking a look Alex.
saudis?
As I found it out the hard way, xinput is pretty bare and does not support the settings required to make the touchpad usable on an XPS 9343, for example. The settings for minimum and maximum acceleration are missing (and so these options are greyed out on the KDE GUI). They are defaulted to MIN and MAX respectively.

Solution: install Synaptics, open KDE panel, set both acceleration settings to a low value, enjoy.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "smart sync", but selective sync does work on Linux last I checked (a few months ago)
Emiratis ?
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Yes. http://verapdf.org/ At the Dutch publication office we use this for spot-check testing for PDF/A-1a compliance.
It is quite interesting how our brains tend to deny the role of the rest of our body in the process of thinking. After seeing Alan Kay's "Doing With Images Makes Symbols", and his TED Talk "a poweful idea about ideas", I realised how silly that line of thinking was[0].

Using the right things to fiddle with physical manifestations of an idea lets "my hands" think along the more "abstract" parts of my brain. And doing that kind of parallel work is actually very useful.

[0] https://archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2

[1] https://archive.org/details/AlanKay_2007
That obviously couldn't be taught by an adult, so the child would be able to specifically draw that one picture...
I don't use Mac, but the actual note taking app is not important. The important thing is the global hotkey, so you can make a new note trivially when this global hotkey activates your favorite note taking app.

My hotkey software can also send keypresses to running apps, so beside bringing the note app to the foreground it also starts creating a new note automatically.
The implication that people who complain about "negative energy" are making is that negative energy has no value or negative value; it doesn't. I'd be willing to say that skepticism has far more value than pats on the back. Children need pats on the back, not adults.
One might assume that is the case, but human beings assume a lot of things that are dead wrong. So while you might have an assumption, it's a pretty good practice to check and see if your assumptions align with reality.

There's quite a few things about our brains that might seem obvious, but are actually quite counter-intuitive in practice.
I find the idea quite funny.
That is what the article suggests; creating a driver that supports most popular devices within the last 3 years or so.

Personally, I'm on board with this. We shouldn't be as concerned about supporting a ThinkPad circa 1994 if it means poorer performance across the boards. Libinput can be the jack-of-all-trades with "good enough" performance for the outliers.
they may refer when both users are registered and agreed with this, but it's not easy to do
Right, and that's where they have a competitive disadvantage. They did launch Paper which is pretty neat, and they've done some partnering, but I could understand a business not using them for that reason.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/01/dropbox-to-add-native-g-su...
The novel part here is tacking on the map data to only generate malicious instructions that are plausible. Not a massive hurdle but not something you do in an afternoon either.
How about make your smartphone a smart touchpad? I will use it right aways, maybe even buy a dedicated cheap smartphone just for that
You get page-up / page-down behaviour with option+up / option+down shortcuts on Macbook keyboard.

Also important:

begin document = cmd+up

end document = cmd+down

begin of line = cmd+left

end of line = cmd+right
Given enough time, any person can create a wonderful work of art -- or even software. I learned this while working for a college art department and seeing the faculty evaluate portfolios for scholarships. Looking at a beautiful pencil sketch, they would point out telltale strokes that revealed the time spent on the piece but not mastered skill. That's OK, it was a beautiful accomplishment, and the college could give them the skills.

I think of this when I dream of software projects that I want to accomplish. If I just start now, and steadily work toward the goal, learning as I go, eventually it will come to be.
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