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I would say how interesting this topic is from the point of view how much it resembles literary classics like Catch-22 and Kafka's writings, overrides the 'no politics' rule.

I.e. first rule is to submit something interesting, the second is to avoid politics, but, apparently if the topic is interesting enough politics can be included.

The examples you list are the regular kind of political turmoil. This drone thing, given how far spread it is, on the other hand chips away at the fundamentals of why western societies managed to generate so much added value in the past centuries.

Consistent rule of law and functioning judicial system were one of them.

Having some black ops teams on ground violating basic human rights is not as bad as having an automated kill system that picks of targets based on metadata and then forwards that to drone targeting team as a daily standard policy.

To add to that, there is the generic humanistic cry for basic human rights.

After this auto-kill thing with the drones the ground on which to argument for any sort of generic human rights quickly becomes really fragile, getting all sorts of exceptions like, well, geneva convention was written when thinking about white people only and besides, the old school democratic process gave equal rights only if you were a male and ranked among the landed gentry or higher.

To be blunt: it appears as if brown people in far away countries still in 21st century are not considered as important as people of... other complexion... so it's ok to kill them every which way is more convenient.
How Has the Average House Size Changed?
Apple has had years to do this. Years to plan for this. This is their product. They are the one putting their brand on it.

Sorry, but they've already demonstrated they had the time to build out a 32GB machine that could do this. They had the time. They just chose to invest it in a touch bar and a thinner design.

They've had the time.
From the Article

>>> A top U.S. Justice Department official, Makan Delrahim, praised the deal as being carefully sculpted to avoid antitrust concerns, signaling federal regulators were unlikely to block it. That stance is all the more notable given his continued efforts to kill on antitrust grounds the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner, a combination of a telecoms giant and an entertainment powerhouse that have little overlapping commerce. The Justice Department is appealing a judge's ruling that swept aside all objections to the AT&T/Time Warner merger.
The article's sub-headings are fascinating reading by themselves.

---

• The Russians Got Caught Because They Didn’t Compartmentalize Enough

• Russian Hackers May Have Leased Infrastructure From U.S. Providers Who Talked to Investigators

• Several Other Companies Must Also Have Talked to Investigators

• The U.S. (or a Partner) Likely Compromised At Least Two GRU Officers’ Computers

• The U.S. Government Is Very Good at Tracking Bitcoin

• The Government Captured DMs and Emails Between WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0; WikiLeaks Encouraged Misinformation About Source

• Whistleblower Reality Winner Is in Prison for Leaking Essentially the Same Information Now Being Used as Evidence Against Russian Officers

---

# 5 should be very interesting to the HN community ...
> There will always be demand for interest bearing risk free government debt.

This is really naive. Question is always at what price? I could argue there is always a demand for the common stock of a company in bankruptcy, just at a really poor price :-). More pertinent, Late 70s US bond market saw a huge decline in the value of government bonds... Though they were never defaulted upon, holding them was not exactly risk free. Fluctuations in price of "risk free" govt bonds can bankrupt traders/investors, eg, LTCM.
I'll attempt to possibly convert the grandparent comment into something more constructive. I'd note that your tool is probably the appropriate complexity level compared to utilities of the same sort (ie: sed, awk, dd, etc).

But let's say we want to improve the UX of the tool for new users. As a strawman, you could offer longhand forms of the mode switching flags for them. For example:

bo -n oh1l2 Pc if4b 1.5 1.25 ii2b 1000 2000 3000 ih1 ff fe 7a ib1 10001011

Could be written long-form as:

bo -n --output=type=hex,width=1,endian=l,width=2 --preset=c --input=type=float,width=4,endian=b 1.5 1.25 --input=type=int,width=2,endian=b 1000 ....

Each of your commands could have an advanced (oh1l2), medium (-o h1l2 or --output h1l2) or beginner (--output=type=hex,width=1,endian=l,width=2) syntax.

You could even print the shorthand version to stderr whenever one of the simpler syntaxes was used.
Is Entrepreneurship and Business Ownership Risky?
That is true. I would like to add, however, that first and foremost we don't know what anything of this actually is, which I find most awe-inspiring.
Launch HN: Anima  App (YC S18) – Sketch to Code Toolkit
Hi HN,

We are Avishay, Michal and Or, founders of Anima App (https://www.animaapp.com).
We let designers create UIs in Sketch and then export HTML and CSS.

One the biggest pain points that we’ve experienced working in the software development industry, like so many before us, is the process of taking design to production. Designers today use tools like Sketch to design websites, web apps, or mobile apps, but these tools are limited and static. After experiencing the pain first-hand for over a decade, we resigned ourselves to try to make any kind of improvement we could.

We started by building our own fully-featured design studio software that allowed users to design iOS apps and export Swift code. But we quickly learned that although people were excited about it and tried it out, after about a week they went back to using Sketch. We realized that while writing algorithms for a layout engine is hard, getting adoption for your new product is harder!

Luckily one of our users pointed us in the right direction when they said that out of everything we’ve built, they were only really excited about our Auto-Layout engine. And so we decided to yank out our Auto-Layout solution and release it as a Sketch plugin. That was the turning point for us. Auto-Layout became very popular (100k users) and to this day is a main engine of growth for us.

In the past year and a half we shipped three products:

• Auto-Layout - Responsive Design for Sketch[1]
• Launchpad - Export Sketch to HTML[2]
• Timeline - Interaction Design for Sketch[3]

The team consists of Michal, our co-founder/designer and 2 technical founders, myself (Avishay) and Or (previously founded the Yo app).

Of course we are dogfooding our products and have built our websites using our own tools.

We’re sure that Hacker News readers will have a ton of experience in this space, and would love to hear about your experiences and ideas!

[1] https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/introducing-auto-layou...

[2] https://launchpad.animaapp.com

[3] https://timeline.animaapp.com
> Oddly, those same single family home owners would become rich if they could subdivide their properties for intensive development. I have never understood this paradox.

Because there's no insurance for drops in property values and most home owners have the vast majority of their wealth tied up in a single asset they are rationally terrified of any change which might increase the variance of property values, even if it means a higher expected value.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/00-04.PDF is a good read
You don't have to use anything other than `fetch` to consume a graphql API.
We buy a support package and receive excellent support for our GCP services.
Believe it or not there are smart people outside of the Bay area, even out in the Midwest. Over the last few years there’s been a big increase in startups out here the last few years, partially driven by the high cost of living in the traditional tech regions.
Move Mirror
Probably to help align the hips and lumbar spine, otherwise the top leg would twist your pelvis and spine with the downward pressure.
Perhaps insulating the new keyboard with a thin layer of rubber wasn't such a good idea after all.
From the movie The Negotiator:

A Marine and a sailor are taking a piss. The Marine goes to leave without washing up. The sailor says, 'In the Navy they teach us to wash our hands.' The Marine turns to him and says 'in the Marines they teach us not to piss on our hands'.

BTW it's not true that Google has almost nil customer support. There's extensive support for paying customers (for ads, GCP, GSuite etc.).

But it's amazing to me how reliable things like Gmail are, and how in so many years I've never felt the need to seek support.
Service – Creative Website Service in Competitive Price
>Who is making money off this scheme?

The outside of SF, the Bay Area is composed of two groups of people:
-People who rent
-People who vote in every election/attend city council meetings at 7pm/attend city planning meetings at noon on week days
If you like it quieter, with vastly fewer people around you, no vagrants, and you enjoy your own little bit of green space, then by those metrics a single-family dwelling is certainly better.

It's really not an easy issue. It seems like objectively there are benefits to high density. But it's more expensive (to individuals, if not society as a whole), louder, more polluted, etc. It's easy to understand why plenty of people want to live in their own little castle, and it's also easy to understand why they would vote to preserve the status quo.
Galvanize to acquire Hack Reactor
It is absolutely against the law for a civil servant to accept a gift like that. We can accept very small gifts; the value changes, but it's something like $20 per year. And even then, if it's a company that's trying to sell you some new product, it's frowned upon. It looks bad. So most people would turn down a gift larger than, say, a company branded ball-point pen.

I don't let contractors buy me bottled water, and I don't accept rides from them except in dire circumstances. I insist on driving.
Thanks for posting this. I have some vintage synths I've been hanging onto for 10 years precisely because I didn't know how or where to sell them.
Exactly. It incentivizes corporations to focus on the richer market segment, where the profit margins can be high enough to compensate the relatively low volume, and leave the lower end of the market to be dominated by cheaper alternatives. A product dominating a very low revenue segment may come to be seen as not worthwhile. Not saying such a strategy should be the goal or will be easy, but that seems the natural direction large corporations may want to take.
Silence is incredibly powerful. This would grab my attention.
I’ve read that it was San Mateo county pulling out that made it economically unviable to include Marin (as well as disagreements between BART and the GG bridge district about the engineering viability of going across the bridge).
An adapter by any other name is still an adapter. The chips are simply smaller than they were in the past.

Of course, if you look back in the past by only a few years, you would have been in a time where none of those adapters were even necessary with a MacBook Pro. And there are other models of computer (of comparable capabilities) where they're not even necessary today.

It's also probably good that you don't try and carry a USB-C to USB-C cable, since it would probably be out of spec for some use of USB-C.
The paradox you talk about is well-known. Property owners often don't sell their property even when it seems advantageous to do so, both for them and for the economy in general.

This reminds me of an episode of EconTalk, interviewing the author of the book Radical Markets, which includes new and radical ideas for how an economy could be run. One of the ideas is to allow anyone to buy a property at its set value at any time (giving a reasonable notice period, I presume). The property owner is the one who sets the value of the property. To stop property owners from gaming the system and pricing the property too high, all property owners would be required to pay a tax periodically on the value of their property. (Of course, the lower the price set, the more likely it is that the property will get bought, so the property owner can't set the price too low either.) The goal of this idea is to allow land to be used the most efficiently, the way the market is supposed to work for most goods. Of course, this idea has a lot of obvious drawbacks, but I thought it was an interesting thought to discuss.

- Podcast episode: http://www.econtalk.org/glen-weyl-on-radical-markets/

- Article from website of the book: http://radicalmarkets.com/chapters/property-is-monopoly/
I once walked into a supermarket and really started to look at what was available, every item, how I could buy fresh oranges in the middle of january, trying to imagine the insane number of persons who had to a involved in all the globe spanning supply lines.

It doesn't compare to brain surgery, but the experience was so profound it came close to breaking my mind (if such a thing is possible), I had to give up and leave, because I just couldn't take it.
Others are as well (e.g [1], [2] -- similarly you'll find for Lenovo and others).

It's just that Apple gets preferential negative reporting (who would click on an Asus link?)

Plus, those with clunky "gamer" / "desktop replacement" style cases are not.

(1) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-Surface-Pro-series-f...

(2) https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/7wqzhg/dell_not_solvi...
For what a reasonable spec Macbook Pro costs you can get a high spec T480 or T580 w/4k display.

They run Linux well if you want that *nix goodness.
I use bookfinder.com to reach other places. There are cases where I have been able to find cheaper or out of print books
this is pretty close to understanding a marxist criticism of the alienation of people from the fruits of their labor under capitalism - which most people can’t opt out of
Who's using GraphQL in 2018?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAI1N96t8Vk
> an additional USB-C to female HDMI

which is called an adapter

(edit to fit terminology in this thread)
Prior art like Wirth's or Modula-3 language added a minimal amount of features like exceptions or some OOP on top of simple, efficient, systems languages. Usually have a GC but many prefer ref counting for efficiency. This seems like that kind of thinking in an interpreted language.

Just going by what's on the front page: didn't dig deep into it or anything. Interesting project.
Interesting! Were you doing a server-to-github integration, or were you using the GraphQL API directly from the frontend?
it's "brew install coreutils" these days :)
Mommy Newborn
We also could probably use some adjustments on the other end too: when should a large moon be considered a second planet in the same orbit around their sun as its larger neighbor instead of a moon of that neighbor?

I've seen a couple fairly decent arguments that Earth/Moon should be considered a double planet.

One is that for every moon we know of except for Earth's, the force on that moon from the planet's gravity is more than the force on that moon from the Sun's gravity.

That's not the case for the Moon. The gravitational force on the Moon from the Sun is about twice as much as the gravitation force on it from the Earth.

I could accept a requirement for moon status being that the thing you are a moon of is the thing that has the strongest gravitational hold on you. For the Moon, that is the Sun.

Another argument is based on the shape of the paths of the bodies as seen from the Sun. Planets follow convex paths. Their moons swing them in and out as the moons go around them, but that just reduces the curvature of the planet's orbit. The Moon, for example, turns the Earth's path as seen from the Sun from essentially a circle (the eccentricity of the ellipse is low enough we can ignore it for this discussion) into a regular 12-gon with broadly rounded corners.

Same goes for other planets with moons, except their convex shape is more complicated because they have multiple moons.

When you look at those other moons from the Sun's viewpoint, they are not following convex paths. They are more like something you might have made when you first played with a Spirograph as a kid.

Except for the Moon. The Moon's path as seen from the Sun has the same basic shape as Earth's, a rounded 12-gon. In other words, it looks like a planet path, not a moon path.

(I'm not sure if that is actually another argument. It may follow from the first argument, the relative gravity strength one...I've not tried to do the math to see).

I find both these arguments pretty good, with one caveat. What happens with even bigger moons relative to their planet than the Moon?

Imagine if Earth had a moon that was much closer to Earth's mass, say 70 or 80%, and much closer to Earth?

Going by either the tug-of-war with the Sun criteria, or the convexity of orbit as seen from the Sun criteria, I think we could get a situation where each body would be classified as a moon of the other! I don't think we want to allow a system that is all moons, so we'll need some fiddling so that in this case they are both planets.

(Credits: I'm reasonably convinced I got both of the above arguments from one of Isaac Asimov's books that collected the monthly science columns he wrote for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
Crapware == Crippleware where the OEM bundles third party trial software with the intended purpose of getting you to purchase the full version.

Notepad, the regular old command prompt, or IE is not generally considered "crapware". No matter how bad they are.
Big, gigantic tornadoes. I live in florida and we can see our big nasty storms coming for weeks. The "alley" doesn't come with that feature.
Also: WebDRM.
I can imagine the art world rejecting a newly produced work by Picasso. In fact, it’s already happened: many forgeries have been made and disclaimed over the years. The difference is just that a truly new “Picasso,” marketed for what it is would not land anyone in prison.
It could be as my father always said decades ago of BART- support was high, but ridership was low- because everyone was thinking:

other people will ride BART, which will reduce traffic for me so I can drive

In other words your friend wants development so other people will live in apartments, so he can then afford to live in a nice ranch.

(I do hear BART has better ridership now)
>Sorry, but they've already demonstrated they had the time to build out a 32GB machine that could do this. They had the time.

That's the same 2016 design as the new model. So it definitely doesn't prove that "they had the time" -- and even less that they wasted it in "a touch bar and a thinner design". The touch bar and thinner design came at the time of the Intel promises, and matched OK with the performance seen at the time.

On 2016, when they presented it, Intel was still promising lowered TDP cpus in the pipeline.
Pagination is better that scrolling on mobile devices. I often prefer it on a desktop screen as well.

I read PDFs all the time on my iPad Pro. They fit the form factor perfectly.
The second you use this ID to tag data you're sending over to the servers, that ID could easily lose any claim to anonymity for the purpose of the GDPR because the anti-cheat system vacuums up a vast trove of information. All it takes is one email "Re: Claim for Your Local Psychiatrist Bob" or a document named "John Doe Jr - First Grade Book Report.docx" showing up in the titles of your open windows (that many anticheat systems send to a remote server) and boom, that ID and all of the data attached to it are now a radioactive liability.
Most european cities are not high rises but they seem to find ways to pack more people in. Amsterdam, for example, has loads of 5 story buildings. There is a big difference between a 2 story single family home and a 4 story duplex or apartment as far as how many people.
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Alternatively, I hate filling out a whole form that requires for a bunch of info and then asks for way too much personal info at the end. I'd rather know what they need upfront so I can decide on whether to fill out the form at all.
SF's "character" is long dead for everyone but the extremely wealthy. Why should we preserve something that only exists to benefit the elite at the detriment of everybody else?
> I've never heard of them firing their customers.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/banned-from-amazon-the-shoppers...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amaz...

As for terrible customer service, see the below for my reasons for cutting off Prime:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937290

In particular:

• Prime shipping is no longer certain to be two days.

• Those which are assured to arrive within two days don't always do so, but I never get a credit for that delay against my prime membership for a failure to meet their SLA even though I'm supposedly covered with some sort of guarantee.

• Prime shipping is no longer certain to source from Amazon warehouses.

• And worst of all: Amazon commingles Amazon-sourced with FBA merchandise. I've had numerous issues with counterfeits from "sold by Amazon" listings in the last two years because of this.
Voters (property owners and landlords) would instantly pressure the city to ban it for being blight.

The resistance to adding more housing is amazingly strong. Can't stop the gravy train!
Opinion: Apple’s dangerous new nanny app
The joke in that scene always baffled me, because the Marines are born of the Navy and still carry a lot of the Navy's epistemology-why would they be taught something so fundamental so differently?

(Yes it's a joke but sometimes I overthink things, heh)
Siri Co-Founder Tom Gruber Leaves Apple
I mentioned the other day on here that my T470P doesn't throttle under load and someone who didn't own one told me it did based on an online review.

I mean I only own one and have watched it's clock speed while under load from a chess engine..what do I know.
How do you show that it's "thermal throttling" at idle? Intel processors (at least, when managed under macOS) always downclock themselves when idle, regardless of how much headroom's available. You'll rarely (if ever) actually see the processor running at its quoted base frequency, even when plugged in.
I learned how to speak in public by giving classes to auditoriums full of Marines. I absolutely attest to the "start with an attention grabber" method.
> The problem with "just build more" is that eventually you run out of space the same as now

This argument misses the point. In the process of building more, you have made a lot of people richer/happier/commuting less, because now they can live within the city walls. Making a lot of people richer/happier/commuting less should be done everywhere where it's possible to do so.

> The problem with "just build more" is that eventually you run out of space the same as now, only you get to do it with a worse quality of light / space / light / traffic / noise / etc.

By admitting that you will eventually run out of space again, you acknowledge that demand will always keep increasing until saturation even if you build more, _because people are even more interested in denser city lives and its work/leisure/community opportunities than they are interested in suburban-type light/space/traffic/noise_. If people were interested at all in suburban-type light/space/traffic/noise, dense cities would not be in such high demand.
I’ve played with it a little, and I may resort to creating a proxy node app that reads through to the python app exclusively so I can get better monitoring.
I'm not saying it works. I said it operates as a protective constraint. The current system undeniably prevents some cases of medical malpractice. You're talking about repairing harm done, and I'm talking about preventing harm.

For the record, I agree that there are many things that could be improved in the current medical system.
Obligatory xkcd (chart only, not a comic): https://xkcd.com/radiation/