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I don't have a problem with future-proofing. I do have a problem with half-solutions (which is mainly what I see in the industry). E.g. if you need to run some code before or after a transaction, make a generic way to make this happen.

The problem is that devs do not create enough leverage in their solutions, so they're never that useful in the future. And, devs tend to over estimate what is actually re-usable. The second point may be the most important. Too often, I see solutions that are half-way reusable, which means they're not re-usable at all.

In the end, building out a solid foundation is key. The problem is, this is pretty hard and takes a lot of experience to know how to do well.
I believe GP was using "market failure" in the sense that the market is not allocating resources in a (Pareto) efficient manner, because of said externalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
I bought my first MBP in 2017. Love the machine. Hate the keyboard. It is just very bad.

I only wished Apple acknowledged this and offered something as an apology. After all, this is what any car / phone / anything else company would do.

It's fine to make mistakes, just embrace them and send love back to your users.
Maybe using BetterTouchTool you could hack it to do mostly nothing:

http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/
Now it is ruled by a firebrand hindu priest who was on stage while one of his associates exhorted the crowd to dig up corpses of Muslim women and rape them.
The reason I'm comfortable calling BSDScheme in particular a compiler is because ultimately you get a small binary you can bring to another machine without a runtime. Javac may get you bytecode, but you're still dependent on a JVM. This is the most useful distinction for most users, not if it compiles straight to assembly or not.

In the case of JSC, a binary is produced currently but it must be launched by a Node app. So it doesn't exactly meet my criteria. But being able to produce embedded V8 code will not be significantly more difficult for these examples. (Recreating Node's stdlib would of course be difficult but that's separate.) I'm hoping to have a Node-independent target soon.
Does it accurately capture the environmental costs? I'd expect counting in emissions would make the tax more like 200% on everything.
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My favourite example of this was when one company tried to issue all the devs with new contracts with the "standard" IP clauses claiming ownership of everything we did. Since there were a number of Free Software devs on the team, this was unacceptable ... so, while asking for clarification and a change, we simply didn't sign the new contracts. There was no way the company could have taken action against us without completely wrecking their ability to ship, so it stalemated until they backed down.
Could one say, a Linux PC....for ants!?
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You like the trackpad? I find it excessively large. I was typing on someone else's MBP today and I kept making unintentional clicks because of the trackpad. Of course, the typing experience was awful as well. Extremely stupid move by apple. Wonder if they thought about UX for programmers at all.
Can we replicate this experience on modern PCs using VMs?
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Does it work without a mobile data connection? Regardless this is a great idea and I would love to know what it would take to convince other banks to do the same.
I read a study last year, that at least in the US actual STEM graduates are more and more balanced between male and female with females having better degrees. When they looked at the jobs the graduates got it was not at all representing of the quota that graduated. E.g. 30% of graduates were female but only 3% of accepted job applicants (nmumbers are made up, just to demonstrate the point of the study).
If you’re hoping to become a >100-person company I would recommend against Close.io. The reality is that Salesforce is what is what everyone is familiar with, and sooner or later you’ll be glad it’s as extensible as it is.

I’ve worked with two startups that started with Close.io and pretty much outgrew it by the time they had 3 salespeople. It’s made for very small and simple sales operations.

I ended up migrating them to Salesforce. The migration is a mess because of Close.io’s unconventional way of handling account and lead records, which is unlike any other CMS.
for 3K you could look at most of the premium brands and from a hardware point of view, I'd say you have a good chance of finding something that suits your needs.

Dell XPS 13 are popular and can be shipped and supported with Linux out of the box as well as Windows. XPS 15 can be an option if you're ok with some added weight and want more power.

Lenovo T-Series have been around for ages and generally have quite robust hardware. There's also the Carbon X1 if you want something lighter, or the Thinkpad P1 if you want more power.

HP Elitebooks - Similar to the other two these have a good range of options and good hardware build generally.

On the Microsoft side there's the Surface Pro's and also the surface book, which is very pricey but again has some nice hardware.

Of course all this depends on what you're looking for from a laptop, what is "worthwhile" is a personal judgement :)
Why do we start counting from zero?
It seems moneylender is an even older one, if the book "Debt: the first 5000 years" has accurate enough information.
I could have lived with all its faults if the arrow keys were remotely usable. They are not. I challenge you to blindly find the up arrow without pressing the down arrow.
I think it might be worth considering that there might be some value to be gained by sharing space, rather than just the blind hoarding of power. Which, as you say, most certainly encourages people to accumulate more.
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The Three Body Problem Trilogy (officially named the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy) by Cixin Liu goes into space elevators a good bit. The Three Body Problem sets up the technology involved, while the other books develop the subject further.
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In case this version gets more traction than the one I submitted earlier today, I'll leave a link to my comment below. It's a really sad day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902140
> There is only 2 good reasons to buy a mac. Applications you use are Mac dependent, you need crazy long battery life.

how about compiling valid ( apple store's compatible ) iOS apps ?... Xcode falls into the first category, i reckon.
Is there any viable alternatives ? My trials with hackintoshed VMs ( host is running Linux ) is not good at all. Frustrating, actually.
US and UK governments call for mandatory backdoors in encrypted chat
the obvious question: what hurdles remain before we can outsource this service to low-wage countries?
Hacked Prius Running on the MUNI Powerlines (2014)
But in that case it's nothing more than a strictly worse set of F-keys, as you lose the tactility.
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PIN does not protect you from skimmers... Everything you need is on the magnetic stripe, PIN is only needed if you use the chip - which an attacker obviously wouldn't.

The whole concept of chip+pin is pretty pathetic considering that the magnetic stripe is still there for backwards compatibility.

And now with wireless cards it is even less secure than a magnetic stripe.
Interesting that this seems to be very liberally licensed under Apache v2.
It doesn't - but usually everyone has a mobile data plan here and coverage is great, so it's not a concern. In the rare event you can use the card as backup. I wish this was some sort of standard between banks. But thankfully this is the biggest bank in the country, so their ATM is usually very close to you (there is no special hardware, it's an ordinary ATM - with just a menu option of entering the one-time code).
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That's what I'm most afraid of if apple doesn't veer from its current path. I can't go back to windows. I've used windows, Mac OS, and Ubuntu, and windows was the worst OS for me.

Almost every single tool/technology that I've come across in the last couple years has separate laborious and annoying installation instructions for windows. Many don't even support windows at the start.

Unless Microsoft rewrites windows as a *nix OS from scratch (not gonna happen), I don't see myself being willing to go back to it.
I still think it would have been much clearer had the title stated that transpilation was its mechanism.

I don’t know D enough to know whether GC is enabled in this project, which is a major weakness in many dynamic languages that one might imagine aot compilation could eliminate.
Please go through community guidelines, especially "In Comments" section.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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RBI: Loan defaults by small businesses double in a year.

Here's another example of stress in the economy.This is what Demonetization did to small businesses

https://t.co/PTRqqTgYR8
Yes, please don't do it, for no primitive intel-based system has ever come close to any SGI hardware in terms of elegance. It would be a sacrilege.
I don't think it's a technology issue. Remote work has been possible for years. Many people just don't want to work from home, for a whole myriad of reasons. Likewise, if I am feeling lonely the last thing I want is to confront a dystopian reality of telecommunications being my best option because I live in the sticks and society has forgotten about me.

I know it may be a bit tropey but Ready Player One book did a great job of portraying how something like that could destroy what it is to feel part of a community in the real world. Even if you step outside of your little comms den for the day, no one else has and there is no one to talk to.

It happens now with social media. People spend all day clicking about, then they stop and take a moment to realise none of it actually happened, it's just text and daydreams, and they are alone in their house again.
Not necessarily, you can use Oauth2 tokens extension on gmail; that way you don't need to hand over your password(s).

Mind you it does nothing to protect you against the token bearer fooling with your mailbox.
A combination of donations, affiliate links, and enterprise subscriptions.

>How much does NovelRank cost?[0]

>It's completely free! The site is supported by author donations, Amazon bounties, and affiliate income when book purchases occur from Amazon click-throughs on NovelRank.

>NovelRank also introduced NovelRank Enterprise Edition and the BuyBox Research Tool, which offers a private sales rank and price tracker for any product on any Amazon domain.[1]

[0] https://www.novelrank.com/faq

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/novelrank
The things that concern me about this are:
1. The amplifying impact that the global financial system will have on climate change. When banks feel agricultural loans are too risky, they will pull farmer credit lines, resulting in a halving of yields. This might already be happening in some places.
2. The organizations which have a mandate for resolving this problem are not fit-for-purpose. Big bloated and corrupt beaurocracies - breaking up in disarray: see the Green Climate Fund.
3. Active attempts to frustrate solutions. And I simply don’t understand why people would want to do so. Even if your livelihood is dependent on a petrol company, or similar, your families’ ultimate livelihood will be dependent on a stable climate.

For reference, I don’t think life on earth is threatened (that’s just hyperbole) but there is a high probability that the population will readjust down to 3-4 billion and this readjustment will be a rather painful down-sizing.
> The director's statement that everything has been lost seems rather pessimistic.

I'm not sure a some random commenter on HN can pretend to have a better perspective on the situation than the director of the museum himself.
> Do you miss 70s hardware?

Yes; IBM System 360/370, for example, was a marvel of engineering and design, with a remarkable history [1]; so were the first microprocessors, such as MOS Technology's 6502 [2]. The best part was, you could know all of it, if you wanted, down to the transistor level - the geek's Holy Grail. With modern chips/systems you cannot any longer, not even with the Raspberry Pi.

I wish IBM's revolutionary architecture lived on in our PCs; good engineering pays off, and today's software could be more sane, as people would be learning from the giants rather than wasting time on a massive scale trying to reinvent the wheel.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/IBMs-Early-Systems-History-Computing/...

[2] http://visual6502.org/
Useful stuff, but some of it is rather... unstartupy?

The suggested ad text for a "superstar" employee (what kind of advice is that anyway? "Hire smart people"? Eh thanks!) reads like the most generic job ad ever.

And having "How much would you pay to save your own life?” as a health insurance advertisement? That's some /r/LateStageCapitalism material
Because, in the opinion of some, nothing beats macOS, or ever has.
I get really excited about this technology, yet the not-made-here-syndrome force is strong in this one. I wonder if theres an EU equivalent?
Ok, I didn't know that. But I have never used the magnetic strip in Europe, I don't think anyone accepts it here. My previous bank would even issue standard debit cards without the magnetic strip. So how would you use the card without the PIN? Can you read the whole card number + expiration + CVV code and then buy something online?
Wow, what a throwback - this was me, but I had already cut my "basic" teeth on the Commodore VIC-20, quickly upgrading to the C-64 as soon as I could get someone to drive me to the nearest city to buy one with my meagre earnings. I'm still fumbling my way through "programming" today...
I assume it's not mentioned because everyone knows it. It's very old news.
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I've read about this psychological theory somewhere - that there is so much danger around human that human brain has to ignore everything that doesn't impact him directly, othervise everyone would be paralized by fear all the time. Without this mechanism, one would be unable to leave his apartment - there are hundreds of potentialy dangerous individuals you'll meet every day, moving in things that would kill you instantly if someone just made a small mistake. And if you decide to use this thing, you depend on tens of people you've never met that they did their job correctly, othervise you may be killed even though you haven't made any mistake. Public transportation is even worse in this regard.

It would also explain how anyone is able to do things that are unhealthy - smoke, drink alcohol, eat sugar. Even though we all know that it's really unhealthy, it doesn't affect us directly, so it's hard to take it as serious threat.

I'm not sure if this theory is true, but it keeps explaining a lot of human behaviour to me.
VR isn't decent yet and won't be until it's comfortable enough to slap a VR headset on and watch a movie.

That's comfortable both in terms of literal headset weight but also latency, resolution, sound, etc.

When I sit down in front of a 48" TV I'm absorbed into a different world and forget where I am. When VR is good enough you can spend hours inside the virtual world, that's when it can be called good enough.

It's not there yet, but sure we might be there in a generation or two.
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Externalities must be accounted for individually. If the tax is flat then products that pollute more get effectively subsidized by those who pollute less.
A few points of my own experience:

1. A practitioner gave me black seed oil to cure non-allergic rhinitis. Safe to say, it made things worse.

2. All the "alternative medicine" experts I know spend time criticizing the medical profession and malpractice more than peddling their own remedies. Similarly most experts in this area that I have met lack proper education in chemistry, biology, bio-chemistry etc. Even the qualified doctors I have met who practice "alternative medicine" were academically B players who lack knowledge about basic sciences but somehow made it through the system. I would like someone to corroborate me on this.

3. I have met a lot of people who claim their pain (back, joint etc) went away after cupping, acupuncture and the more modern varieties that use electric voltage. There seems to be enough anecdotal evidence for a serious scientific investigation in this area. The existing "theory" that practitioners give for its efficacy including "restoring energy balance in body via critical points" is obviously a pile of crap.

4. A lot of herbal supplements are nowadays labeled "homeopathic", even though the traditional "homeopathy" is based on a dilution principle which is hilariously in-effective. I am guessing that some of those herbal supplements tucked in the homeopathy shops might actually do cure a few minor ailments and that has accidentally given homeopathy a lease of life in the 21st century. Even though the authentic homeopathy drugs which employ dilution are practically useless.
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Poe's law in action, not sure what this says about Medium content in general.
It all depends on what you want in a laptop. At work I have the largest (size, processing power, memory) MBP and I find the keyboard to be so-so; not to bad, but don’t love it. This laptop is a clunker to carry around, so optimizing for a thin keyboard doesn’t make sense to me.

For my personal laptop I have an 18 month old 12 inch MacBook and I love it. The keyboard is fine because I want my personal laptop to be small and light, with a good display.
I got the first model with the new butterfly keyboard and the touchbar in April 2017 and I still hate it. I appreciate the idea of adding a touchbar for regular users. After all, it might be nicer for them to just press "Next Song" when using Spotify than fiddling around with Fn+F*.
But for power users/developers, why do the most powerful MBP models come with these useless gimmicks? I'm using Dongles on 3/4 of the USB-C ports right now and that's not going to change anytime soon.

I wish Apple listened to developer's voices a bit more. To me, it's not a matter of price, either. I'd gladly pay more for a MBP with more/different ports and without a touchbar than I would for this model.
strongtowns.org isn't a website about tech - don't get confused by the title, it's not really talking about the Internet of Things.

The article is talking about cities and community as most of the good articles on that site also cover (but in different ways).
It’s kind of amazing to me that despite the sheer insecurity of US consumer financial products like credit cards that the rate of credit card fraud isn’t even higher than it is. Maybe there’s an incentive somewhere we’re unaware of to allow such fraud to occur.
> But also because it makes you look cool, attractive to members of the opposite sex, and earns the jealousy of yours.

You really think a laptop has that effect on people? I do not.
I don't see what's stopping a male board member from identifying as a woman. In Canada, a man identified as a woman to save $1100 per year on car insurance. He did have to change his gender on his birth certificate.

https://debatereport.com/canada/alberta-man-identifies-as-wo...
Yeah, feels like I don't know enough about how Novelrank worked to begin with to understand why it's somehow completely dependent on Amazon and cannot operate otherwise.
A HN commenter could be more objective, however.
To answer you questions directly - no.

With more detail, the 2 variables I feel impact this and makes it hard to compare doing this in other countries are;

1) Norway has a strong culture of being reasonable and non-conflicting. My theory on that is it comes from being stuck indoors so much with each other...but for whatever reason, it is the case.

2) Norway has had this system a long time. So when you take a job this information is available to you, not suddenly after years at a company. The latter could more easily cause issues I feel.

So while this does not create issues from what I saw in Norway, I dont think its fair to lift and shift that view to other countries.
They lost their source of revenue. But they can get the data easily by scraping or paying for a 3rd party API like the keepa API.

Plenty of other sales estimation tools, viral launch’s market intelligence, jungle scout, etc
Ya, I love getting flat earth suggestions because I watch the PBS Spacetime channel. YT promotes tons of absolute crap. Of course there is tons of crap, since making crap is low effort. Seems to go hand in hand with click bait titles, which are decisive in and of themselves.
In Sweden it is not that uncommon (majority of readers take both chip+magnetic stripe). Also, ATMs swallow the whole card so a skimmer would work there even if the ATM itself only uses the chip. And now with wireless you could probably trivially skim people that used the chip (or wireless) functionality as well.

I have never seen a card without magnetic stripe, that is awesome. I even have some trouble getting a card without wireless...

At least whole card number + expiration is on the magnetic stripe. You don't need CVV as it is optional. Everything is written in clear-text and by definition that text must contain everything needed to perform a purchase.
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Great idea for recruitment. Also, didn't knew it is mostly Scala with server-side templates, though their comment system must be something like React or plain JS.
Did you actually just cite point 6 as a defence of Demonetisation?

Shows how desperate the search for a justification of a horrible and rash public policy decision which costed lives, time and money has become.
Rarely it is the case that showing relevant performance characteristics and APIs really exposes anything. AMD is perfectly fine with exposing the programming manual and most of setup code - it is not where the real important secrets lie...

It takes time to produce useful documentation though.
Credit card decaping doesn't seem to be ceasing due to that
You quote a Quora answer as a reference and expect your answer on HN to be taken seriously?
It's not so much what from where, but if you don't know the context, how are you going to be sure that you're not unintentionally libeling your client.

I'm aware that meanings change, and culture has its own uses for expressions. But the source is there for you to examine, there's no real excuse to use it wrong. We're not (yet) at the point where we have an oral culture tradition, but we're getting damn close.
Bhakt mental gymnastics are on full swing.
Securing and protecting many small facilities is going to cost more than doing so for one facility and impinges on the reasons for gathering artefacts - study, education, etc..
Not sure what lead certain sites to take that path, but the real issue IMHO wasn't really a legal one but rather that the site owner was indeed a teapot.
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> Luckily I can usually figure out what I want to know without help of a teacher

That's probably one of the most valuable things I learned at university.
> What goes on in peoples minds to believe in these things?

Nothing. It's just blind faith in Dear Leader and in everything he says or does.
Could the offering the subscription service be the cause of what Amazon claimed as a violation of their ToS? It doesn't really lead traffic straight to Amazon website, rather it feels like a resale/repackaging of Amazon's data.