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I think (not 100% sure, I don’t work actively on iOS apps anymore) that Apple’s current policy is to allow code downloads if they are executed on an OS-provided runtime. That means JavaScriptCore in practice, and React Native passes that bar.
I just use my Apple Mail client and never open gmail. Not sure if the attraction of checking email in a web browser.
That's fair--MacOS is still the king of "it just works", most of the time. But hardware lasts a very long time these days, even if it sometimes seems like developers are trying their hardest to ruin that for us.
This is puzzling, as Google pushed Inbox pretty hard. I was under the impression that the Gmail interface would be decommissioned, and Inbox would be the future.
But that whole view is still based on perpetual growth ideas, which imho are quite risky.

They have their place to drive expansion, and as you say innovation, but I fear we are giving it too much weight. It's a bit like the "super long-term view", we just assume that we will be constantly able to expand and grow.

What lacks in this perspective are the resource restrictions of physical reality. By insisting on constant growth, with barely any considerations for sustainability, it's very likely that at some point in the future we will end up in a resource dead end with no escape.

Case in point: Many of us realize Earth only has finite resources, the common counter-argument to that is that we need to innovate and expand into space, to get at these resources.

By just assuming "We will get there anyway, so let's keep using up Earth resources at increasing rates" we are acting rather irresponsibly because there are no guarantees we will be able to be a sustainable space-faring species.
AMC Is Beating MoviePass at Its Own Game
There is an argument that all famine is political, and has been for several centuries. It seems crazy on the surface, but it's hard to find counterexamples.
The pressures produced by even a .22lr are a bit intense. I wouldn’t fire any of these
Then explain Material Design? When I have to hunt around and try to figure out what an icon actually means, that isn’t demonstrating an understanding of UX. Google UX is “great” if you already know how to use it. Apple UX by comparison is friendly even to complete rookies. The only Google UX I actually like is their search page.
I'll miss reminders the most because I use my mail client as my ToDo lost as well. I switched to Gmail preemptively and I'm back to writing emails to myself again...
There Is a “Highly Habitable” Planet Just 4 Light Years from Us, Study Suggests
Chauvinistic farts...

The common link between Rick and jbp is that they speak to young men in a way that nobody else does. Rick is careless, extremely independent and a risk taker. Peterson, maybe over stepping his boundaries, gives concrete individualistic direction and life "rules" that young men happily buy into and find success with.

I was thinking the other day about how similar Wolf of Wall Street and Fight Club are. One is sadistic and anarchists, the other is hedonistic and capitalist. Yet I think they inspire men in the same way. They describe figures who defy social norms, who are impulsive and independent. It's interesting that both of these movies are considered the pinnacle of toxic masculinity, but in some way speak to men in a way that inspires. If the concept of toxic masculinity seeks to eliminate these character types and these themes, it makes me wonder what would replace it and if the inspiration that a young man finds for these lawless models will persist or if out culture can instill new ideals that make men more docile and better socialized.
Seems like the left hand and the right hand are fighting.
As a side note, a few years ago (~10 to 15 yrs) there was an article / op-ed in the NYT Sunday Magazine. In it the author's "theory" was the growing obesity crisis was due to farm subsidies. In short, cheap corn means cheap high fructose corn syrup.

Hard to argue against that logic.

Cheap food is great for votes. Unfortunately, it also seem to often have ill health consequences.
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Elixir and Phoenix are getting there from a developer ergonomics perspective, with massive gains in performance over Rails. Phoenix is much younger, obviously, but many rubyists are taking notice.
I used to be a Google fan boy but am starting to dislike them more and more. This, they killed off reader and the creepy data collection they do is why I've started to look into alternatives for their products - anyone have any good suggestions?
Is this one of those purposeful sorts of policies where the government decided artificially ensuring too much food being produced is better than letting the amount of food produced naturally bounce between too much and too little, preferring the comfort of waste to the possibility of occasional famine?
SIMPLE PLANT-BASED LENTIL BOLOGNESE
I hate their “new” tabs that tries to categorize emails. It’s just extra clicks to get to the emails I want. It’s forced me to go back to a dedicated email app.
It's not hard to conceive of an algorithm that, when using the smallest possible unit of energy per step, requires more energy than exists in the known universe.
Probably the most effective of these if you have 12ga ammo available is a “bang stick”. It’s basically a 12ga shell in a tube, with a spring that will force it into a firing pin when it’s pressed against something and trips a small lever holding back the spring. They’re used in shark hunting and for self-defense by divers against sharks.

Here’s a commercial one, which has a safety pin that must be removed before it will fire: http://www.billsbangsticks.com/12-Gauge-Powerhead_p_17.html

In an insurgency situation, devices like this are best used to obtain something better. Only being usable for a single shot isn’t necessarily a huge disadvantage, especially if there are multiple people using them at the same time. Pressed against heavy clothing, they also make surprising little noise. The “Liberator” .45 pistol was made by the US with the intention of airdropping the, to the French Resistance in WW2. In reality, almost all of them ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic. The Sten 9mm SMG didn’t cost much more to make and was much more effective.
We are totally dependent on others to feel good. It is how we are wired as social creatures. Every single person, without exception, begins their life needy of another's approval and attention. The attention of others is how we construct ourselves.

Over time, we lose part but not all of that need, in different ways, depending on the interpersonal dynamic with our parents. A healthy person's end result is a healthy balance of dependence: too much can be limiting to a person's own agency, while too little means a miserable, lonely existence.

It's not weak to be dependent on others. On the contrary, it requires emotional strength — a strength which is built. Typically by families, but sometimes by close friends, caregivers, or significant others.
The Blockchain and Transparency for Regenerative Enterprise (podcast)
Hardbacon is partnering up with Desjardins Online Brokerage
There already are more options than C on embedded devices. You can run C++, Lua, Python, Ada, Lisp, Java, Forth, Rust, and dozens of others. The reason C dominates is that it's by far the most flexible, portable, and economical of these, despite its safety issues.
The feature/lab "Multiple Inboxes" overrides this. That's why I have been using and continue to use through Inbox and all the latest Gmail changes.
There are ways to reinforce the chamber and barrel to make them much safer, and low powered .22 rounds that make testing a lot easier. I’ve built a few smoothbore .22 rifles for fun, and have had no issues with them. They’re accurate enough for small game out to 25 feet or so.
I'm not aware of these instruments. What are some examples of hedges to farm borrowing so I can look them up?
I’m pretty sure the new Gmail has a todo list built into it called Tasks. Could be only with Gsuite though.
I deteste Apple. I have a few good reasons for that, that's why I'm stuck deep in the Google Ecosystem.

But boy do I have become resentful of that aswell. It's at a point where I would love to sink deeper into Microsofts fangs...

There's just no alternative for the productivity focused person than to submit your soul to one of the big devils. I could spend time on going FOSS on my whole digital life, but once I'm done with that I would have mostly become someone that is "hard to deal with" for most people, the opposite someone in my position wants to be.

I wonder where everything went so wrong.
The weapon of choice for the GLA
The iPod got the first mover advantage when it comes to large MP3 players.
Keys get stuck for me too. Windows, Chrome 68.0.3440.106.
The USSR achieved more than just the same thing. When you say more hostile environment, I'm assuming you mean they were in an essentially autarkic condition, unlike contemporary China. But beyond that, the Soviets produced far greater, actually novel results in sciences, mathematics, and technology while having only one-fifth of China's population.
I read and read quickly, so perhaps I missed it. But all the examples seem to be farmers of commodities.

If you're producing something that's consistently being over-produced, what do they expect to happen?

Don't get me wrong. Obviously, the food supply is important. It's also difficult (i.e., weather). None the less, running full force into producing a commodity can't be the best option they have. Is it?
I'm utterly disappointed in the lack of screencast GUI content or 2D pixel games. In a playlist designed to be representative of popular Youtube content, this serves to show how video codecs are purposefully neglecting 2D pixel content.

Maybe they just don't want to publicize how poorly DCT-based codecs perform when given sharp edges in brightness and color.
The Zune was too late. It was launched 6 months before the iPhone was announced. The MP3 player market peaked shortly after as iPhone and Android took off. It's hard to launch a new product into a shrinking market.
I feel the same way. I used to like most all of their offerings and I considered them [as a company] pretty benign. But over time I am less impressed by both their product offerings and their ethos.
Was just talking about the Zune the other day. I really with Microsoft would release a new one or a phone or something. I’d love to just have a dedicated music player when traveling so I don’t use up my phones battery.
It's not unsupervised learning.
Yes, in Py3.7 which everyone uses by now, although it is very annoying to have to then type "interact" after hitting a breakpoint to actually get to the interactive shell.

This appears to just be a macro for

code.interact(local=dict(globals(), **locals()))

And it doesn't pretend to be otherwise. But this lib is still a fantastic idea, because that code.interact line is obnoxious as hell to type when you need it and breakpoint doesn't actually get you to the shell.
Scientific software has strong dependencies on the specific versions of software used. The debian package needs to play nice with a couple of hundred packages which are not the ones sage is building against upstream.

In sage 5.x the source code was quite small compared to today and could be patched with some effort. Today the project is huge and this would be impossible for one person to do.

It's vastly easier to just install sage using their own scripts from source and have some libraries duplicated. The sage source code build script is one of the simplest to use.
There's a variety of “de-googlifying” services provided by https://www.framasoft.org you might be interested in
Oh yeah, it's possible. At certain levels of skill you basically are just gunsmithing a new firearm.

That being said, I'd bet that most Zipguns are made by the desperate who lack proper materials and relevant experience.
The death of reader wasn't as bad as this for me. Soon after reader died, alternatives popped up left and right, and some of them are better than reader ever was.

What alternative is there to gmail/inbox? Unlike an RSS reader, I think it's much more difficult to make an email service that's close to being as good as gmail/inbox while having the same level of features, especially across platforms.
Just a side note but if you dig around, you'll realize that a lot of Googlers left the Inbox team around 2016.

There isn't much competition to email. It's likely that other products were prioritized (like ARCore) due to competition from Apple, etc.
Yes, I think part of the change is likely to be to negotiate yearly fees for no APCs to keep more reliable revenue. It's a big change.

> DS appeared pretty clearly to be Macmillan-at-the-time's hedge against OA blowing up the conventional journal business, though, from an outside perspective)

Yes, I don't know if I'd put it as OA focussed though, rather it's been a hedge about something changing and altering the business model. Never been in the high level meetings that would have seen this discussion though so it's all anyone's guess.
As a side note - it’s more difficult in the US to make a legal zip gun than an illegal one. Smoothbores must have a 16” barrel or longer (18” for shotguns), and an overall length of 26”.

If you’re making a semi-auto, it must be a closed bolt design, and the sear must be designed to not reset until the trigger travels forward. It’s much easier to make an open-bolt SMG than a semi-auto pistol.
The latest UI changes(all the rounded corners and soft shadows, for example) in Chrome and elsewhere seem to show that they're even moving away from Material Design too,after years of hyping it
tl;dr When the North British Station Hotel opened in 1902,
the railway company wanted to give passengers 3 extra minutes
to catch their trains.

Related: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/27000/why-does-e...
> I suspect that WindowsPhone 8.1, the nicest phone software ever, was descended from that design effort.

Windows Phone 7 was a direct decedent. WP 8.1 was an iteration on that design language.
I use Fastmail (paid) for email with my domain name.

It's alright, the app works well enough on iOS. No complaints so far really.

Then DuckDuckGo for search. You can use !g to switch to google search but I rarely do anymore.

Then Weblock and uBlock origin as ad blockers for phone and desktop respectively to prevent some data harvesting.

And I only browse in incognito, I just log in everytime I need to use something.

Then Apple Maps to replace maps.

I do still have a gmail account so no quite totally off google. And Apple Maps has gotten a lot better over time but is undeniably the worse product of the two.

But it works well enough.
I use Inbox for all my mail. I'm fine with Inbox being EOL'ed because the migration is effortless and only relatively minor features remain in limbo.

My least favorite thing about Inbox was the low-density UI. I want side-bars. I want to be able to have a high-density list view. Inbox never integrated my hangouts transcripts. I'm fine with going back to a much-evolved GMail.
There are “traditional” designs that have been handed down through the generations in both poorer areas of the US and in cities like NYC where legal guns have been hard to obtain for a long time.

Someday I plan to collect some of them and publish a book :)
>Most math quants use is at the undergrad level, the finance industry in general is pretty backwards

Do you have any idea what a quant is? I have a PhD in math, and am decently well versed in the math quants use, and it's nothing like undergrad math. Many of the people I got PhD's with became quants, and we've had plenty of discussions on the math they use.

Quants build models using math far beyond what an undergrad learns, including tools such as martingales, stochastic calculus, Black-Scholes (and vast generalizations), Brownian motion, Stochastic differential Equations, numerical methods (usually much more advanced than an undergrad will see), and more.

Quant jobs usually want a PhD in math or related field. If an undergrad math degree covered what they needed they'd not require a PhD for most positions.

What do you think a quant does?

Here's a site [1] for quant jobs. Probably none for someone with only an undergrad math degree.

[1] http://www.quantfinancejobs.com/
don't forget Peter Watts.
Fastmail and DuckDuckGo is what I use. I've been meaning to install LineageOS on my phone, too. Anyone have suggestions of alternatives for YouTube? Would be cool to see a list of software and services organized by the Google product they're alternatives of.
Who would win - zip gun or zip bomb?
I think it's complete crap, that's my diplomatic opinion of it (NSFW to post what I really think of vindictive, incompetent, user hostile garbage like this). Slow, high CPU usage, laptop gets hot and fans go to full while loading it, and stay rather high once loaded. My biggest complaint? No opt out apparently.
http://fortune.com/2018/06/05/g-suite-gmail-update-opt-out/

Edit: Aha! This might be a reason to try Thunderbird 60 out.
Supported? Yes. Usable and not excruciatingly slow? Not so sure.
All the commodities mentioned in the article have had active futures markets for decades. A farmer will typically sell contracts to deliver their crop as a hedge against the price moving against them during the season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_contract
ProtonMail has been the best (free) gmail alternative I can find. Has the necessary mobile apps and encrypts all email.
Possible, but one could accomplish that without adding rBST into the equation. Letting farmers purposefully jack up production and then paying them to destroy the excess product is just incoherent policy.
It is legacy like many things in zoology like taxonomy. They were thought to be more like giant lizards than birds for a long while even if they couldn't ignore the most obvious convergences. It isn't limited just to ones we know about only through paleontology. There is even a civet genus labeled 'paradoxus' that eats mostly berries and fruit despite being under the carnivora family.

The Aristotelian taxonomy was even worse with things like considering beaver a type of fish and poultry as distinct from meat because meat is land animals.

Common names are even worse for it which is why the current lineial system exists in the first place like all of the different names for mountain lion. Taxonomy isn't objective science in itself (although it should be based off of it to be of any use) but it is very useful to science.

Technically we can reindex the taxonomy and rename any time but it would be such a pain to keep track with multiple systems old and new and all of the controversies that it probably wouldn't be worth it until our understand diverges enough that it loses all meaningfulness.

For instance the classical elements of various systems were discarded completely as useless even as an additional layered category. Fire is a state of matter, earth is actually composed of many of the table of elements even more if we don't have metal separate, water is composed of two different elements that appear elsewhere in both air and earth. And the old associations like gold with fire and sun? Completely unfounded. Thus it is pretty much useless as a tool for improving our understanding and limited to a motif.

Meanwhile even if DNA testing shows that the line of descent doesn't match up at all reliably with parallel evolution the organization could still be good for rough body shape for instance. Even if to give a counterfactual and deliberately absurd example it later turns out that humans actually evolved directly from an extinct strain of whale filing humanity among apes is still informative in morphology and not wrong in that sense even if the descent aspect was shockingly discreditted.
Wat+is+een+ster?
As others have commented, there is a variety of alternatives to Google for the majority of their products, and the discussion has been had on HN a number of times . [0].

What really annoys me is how woven Google has now become to our working day processes. It's all very well having open-source alternatives for private use, but many (I included) used Inbox for work where we are obligated to use Gmail. This feels like a step backwards in many regards.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280558
They took a lot of the features from Inbox and added them to GMail, so I think it (kind of) is.
Rescued baby elephant beats the odds with the help of his canine companion
Had to look it up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...

As someone self taught in a lot of things, definitely don't know what you don't know.
Other than smaller farms suffering, what would be the dangers of farm consolidation?
I was looking for a section in the article that talks about it, but couldn't really find any.
It's a bit sad that you have to get in the last word when disparaging Node.js along with your "DAE hate node lol"-style posts.

Remembering your contributions to the "Cycling is key to healthier cities" submission, you are clearly capable of decent discussion. But let's try to exercise some maturity across all topics.
Finding a good tenured position is comically difficult now. I know an assistant professor of engineering at Princeton who just left for Renaissance Technologies because he couldn't secure a long-term professorship there.
Now put on Burial on your headphones and have the complete experience of a solitude in a big City.
While I don't deny that your problem with Exchange is a pain exacerbated by some restrictions in iOS (like default mail app is the one Apple provides), you have totally and utterly failed to provide anything on the updates part while scarface74 provided facts on that very point that can be verified independently. "I don't know. There are too many" and "Sure there are" aren't answers that can be fact checked and verified. This sounds dubious for someone who claims not to use biometrics for unlocking (which, I agree, is a better security practice than using biometrics).

Perhaps you always keep flashing your device with some random OS fork or build and that hasn't allowed you to observe what others who aren't as savvy as you have to put up with (I get that you could use this exact sentence back in pointing out what you see as deficiencies in iOS, but let's not move the goal posts).
Those raising corn and (soy)beans are at one end of the
grain commodities market, and can hedge against the
crops they have raised and stored for future delivery.

This is why TV and radio stations in the breadbasket
states air daily crop price reports around sunrise.
Opinions are hugely undervalued nowadays.
Bob still loves Alice, so something that hurts Alice hurts Bob.
Go to any of the major player's sites and they have programs for farmers such as https://www.cargillag.com/ - ProPricing is there marketing name https://www.cargillpropricing.com/

You can do it yourself if you learn hedging. Iowa State has https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/html/a2-60.html and University of Missouri https://extension2.missouri.edu/g602
wow, many times downvoted for redirecting people to an up to date situation so they can chose the plan best suited for they convenience. Gosh, HN is getting brutal. Btw, very nice job to the guys at CoCalc in general, as a collaboration tool, and specially at courses based on Jupyter Notebooks. EDIT: and now some guys going through my old posts in different threads giving me negative votes. Really?Wow.Just wow.
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I use and like inbox, mostly because I took straight away to using the snooze function - the best thing I've found in an email client, full stop. While this can apparently be done in Gmail now, I'd like to look for an alternative at this point - paid - to move from Google.

Any suggestions for an email client that has decent android support, and offers a snooze function?