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> France is highly supportive of its independent booksellers: it has fixed book prices, and caps discounts at 5%, passing a bill in 2013 to stop retailers such as Amazon from combining the 5% discount with free delivery.

> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/france-online-...
Well, outside of Oakeshott (Rationalism in Politics) I've not heard a conservative talk like that, but great comment.

A story from Chesterton's Heretics (1905):

Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, “Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good–” At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their unmediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes. So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark.
You can’t rewrite something and “entirely” preserve meaning. The original written document doesn’t even entirely preserve the author’s intended meaning.

But more to the point, being shorter doesn’t inherently lead to better communication. Math papers are extremely short, but are inscrutable to anyone who hasn’t had a decade of intense training. You could make them more accessible to a wider audience by expanding them, even though the expanded bits wouldn’t technically add any “meaning”.

I agree that it’s a useful and somewhat interesting exercise to try to condense writing as much as possible. But this shouldn’t be a primary focus of a writing class, IMO.
Regular diving suits operate at ambient pressure so they're useless in a vacuum: you wouldn't be able to breathe and would lose consciousness in seconds. Pressure suits like what astronauts and high-altitude pilots wear are so bulky and stiff that cycling would be nearly impossible.
Now if we could just get something like this with a full complement of ports, and the famous Thinkpad durability, that would run native MacOS without playing with hacked bootloaders and hardware incompatibility. Imagine if Apple actually tried to make a pro macbook, not the current whatever-the-hell-that-thing-is they call a Macbook Pro.
+1 for Bear. I used Evernote for years but it finally became too slow and bloated with several thousand notes and tons of features I never use. I need a lightweight note app, if it takes more than a second or two to fire up the app and jot down a note then that’s a fail.

Bear is working well for me. The only thing I don’t like is no audio notes and weird formatting which makes copy pasting bulleted notes into other editors somewhat painful. Still my default note app and likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future (or until I have thousands of notes again causing performance to degrade...)
Are you looking for hardware engineers?
The seeet spots are actually pretty small. I use a Samsung horizontal charger with my iPhone, and even though the circular charging surface is significantly smaller than the footprint of the phone, there is a fairly small range of resting spots that will engage the charging.
> You know, like most Canadian buildings.

Not sure where you got that idea from, but as a structural engineer in Vancouver I generally see the exact opposite. Once construction starts, it's an all out scramble to finish as quickly as possible.

Also, zoning problems occur at the building permit stage, which is well before construction starts.
Four.

It’s about having a story to tell and yes you do have to be able to have a good explanation without sounding negative. It also helps that I have the CTO of the first company as a reference and the hiring manager of the third company as a reference who had the same issues I had.

1. The company went out of business - that was an easy one.

2. Large company hired fast to develop a new .net project but two years in all of the business was on their legacy PHP product, no one wanted to do PHP. There is no money in saying “I developed a PHP app”

3. Cant go into details without doxing myself but it was highly political and we working in a remote office away from the seats of power.

4. It was a contract to perm and when they gave me a permanent offer they told me up front that they didn’t want to be a software development shop but they wanted me to lead two initiatives. I saw the writing on the wall.

There were other reasons for leaving the 2-4 one but that’s the story I tell which are all true.
Just another multithreaded port-scanner
Google Drive. The mobile app does scanning & OCRing (and then you're on your own to create a content organization structure).
> spend half of their budget on a demographic objectively clicks through at a drastically lower rate, they will have to spend 2X more money

This reasoning pre-supposes that only CPM-style ads are available, to the exclusion of CPC or CPA, but that seems unlikely on a platform as modern as FB.
The problem is that you have to determine the employer’s intent, which is hard.
> But then enough shorting can cause them to fail, because it makes it more difficult to raise money by selling new shares or using shares as collateral.

That's one of those ideas that looks kinda of plausible on paper, but doesn't really work in the real world. There's just no real evidence that this is a thing that actually happens, and the people who complain the loudest about it are invariably not victims of it.

The current standard-bearer for the "shorts are evil and make people fail!" camp seems to be Musk right now, and there is absolutely zero evidence to support this in the case of Tesla. None of Tesla's issues (with funding or anything else) can be traced back to people shorting the stock.

(Well, Musk's strange "taking Tesla private" tweet may have hurt Tesla's ability to raise funding, and perhaps that was part of some sort of incredibly ill-advised response to shorts, but even if so, the cause of Tesla's issue there is Musk, not short-selling per se.)

> It's not exactly a moderating influence.

On balance, overall, it is. There's extensive evidence of this. For example, China has a list of stocks which you can't short, and when stocks are placed on this list, their volatility increases, even controlling for other factors.
Exactly. Facebook can solve this problem, but they don't. Same as political ads. "If we don't know about it, you can't sue". Unfortunately I think governments are getting tired of that excuse.
Too bad Steam VR's desktop is awful. I have 3 monitors side by side, and Steam shows your desktop at a constant width, which means my display is super super tiny. Can't even zoom in, and to left click, you have to keep the controller super constant or it registers as a drag.
I still remember it. I have the first few years of issues stashed away somewhere.

With it being so reviled, how does it even survive? last resort airplane reading?
Which shows that happiness is not contingent on employment, but on bank account balance, which is not the philosophy a lot of people push when they say lack of work will ruin people.
People tend to cluster into four distinct personality “types”
> I've seen promising things about Qt/QML.

For simple GUIs, the problem I always ran into was 1) spooky licensing vs 2) Tkinter vs 3) can this be forced into a browser?

> in particular helps avoid having to deal with lots of C++ interop.

I agree there is significant demand here. But I also feel a second (smaller) group wants access to GPUs for high-performance visualizations and/or games, since that's usually built in C or C++.

> "terrible, like other languages"

This made me laugh. I want to move out of the browser and back to the metal.
The contract was like $350,000 for a bridge in rural Saskatchewan! Of course it's going to be ugly.
Not everyone is concise. I was not when I was 18 or 19.
Go-Jek Raises Another $2B to Own Ridesharing in Southeast Asia
I don't even understand what you mean. I have read quite a few government papers (mainly federal) and they usually were well researched. I don't know how things are on a local level but the politicians in Congress have a lot of well researched data available if they want to listen (which they often don't).
Did you notice that you picked the one point you thought you could snipe at, but ignored the rest? Because I sure did. That's the sign of a bad interlocutor.
What if you spend the same amount of money but create separate ads targeted at men and women?

What if you are trying to get more female engineers at your company, and want to target women?
I recall reading a story about IBM systems programmers writing code for zSeries mainframes. A thing that stuck with me was a discussion about code at the core of this work; virtual memory, IO subsystems, etc. The engineer reflected on how the code he was writing would still be in production when he died. It would survive evolution of the hardware for many generations; they designed it to do this and provide permanent APIs to relying code.

I wish I had a copy (..link) to that article. Byte, Computer Shopper... something like that.

There are a few pieces of code I wrote in the 90's (in C) that I know are still in use and may survive a few more decades; as long and the companies that I worked for at the time are still in operation anyhow.
>but, for not entirely transparent reasons, iOS might intelligently decide not to in some cases.

This would perhaps be better worded as "for reasons the article's author didn't understand, but people who familiarized themselves with information released months ago at WWDC did…".

I'm going to reiterate the advice to read the MacStories review instead of the one at Ars. It has much more depth and insight.
Always knew the FBI was pitching for the other team...
I mean, couldn't someone just skydive while holding a bike and make a similar claim?
As with most laws, because the government will send some lawyer to hurt you if you don't.
A 7% drop in GDP in China would be a disaster - rememberer than in our “Great Recession” that the gdp only dropped -2.8%
Install Kafka on Windows in Windows Subsystem for Linux
You’ll see more of that over the next few months. The roadmap process for rust kicks off with an end-of-the-year call for blog posts about what you want to see in Rust the next year. That invariably brings up areas where Rust could be improved, that’s kind of the point! We’re beta testing the last improvements for the year now, so looking at last year’s posts isn’t going to give you an accurate picture; a lot has happened in the last year!

That said, I can give you at least one thing where Rust needs to, and will be, improving over the next months: the async story is finally settling into place, but hasn’t settled yet. Async/await is coming and will improve things so so much. Right now things are a bit boiler-platey, and you can’t always write what would be equivalently idiomatic to the sync code. See here: http://aturon.github.io/2018/04/24/async-borrowing/
This seems like a good deal to me. The US sends China paper with funny pictures printed on it, and gets back real goods. And as far as I can see, they have the ability to print infinite amounts of the funny paper.
> The first question is: which specific time? This time will differ based on the timezone and geography.

That's not what it's about. The specific time is irrelevant - that's just an arbitrary number. The reasoning in the blog posts you link to is just based around making comparisons to another arbitrary number (7 AM).

Rather, the point is shape of the curve. DST makes the sunrise time approximate a constant line.

In other words, if you plotted the time difference between sunrise and "x o'clock" (for any x) for every day across the year, DST reduces the standard deviation of those values.

The argument is that circadian rhythm causes humans to naturally wake up near sunrise. Most people also wake up at some fixed time in order to start their workday (because businesses generally have fixed hours, and people wake up just before going to work). DST makes it so that the difference between this fixed time and 'sunrise' can be minimized over the year. Without DST, you will not be able to have a fixed wake-up time and also minimize the difference between that time and sunrise.
> Other languages are not cross-platform or have immature/buggy cross platform support. How's ObjC on Windows? C# on Mac? They exist, but nobody uses them.

What's wrong with C# on Mac? It's basically bindings to the native API via Xamarin.Mac.

You can build a cross-platform app with Xamarin on iOS / Android / Mac, UWP on Windows, and Gtk# on Linux. Using something like MvvmCross will allow to share most of the business logic between platforms.
A look at how we can run Kafka on Windows
"to protect the cyclist from the wind"

No, it's to eliminate aerodynamic drag, since nobody is strong enough to pedal against that anywhere near 180. It's awful hard to get a car to push against that. Nevertheless, going 180 mph on a bike is extremely dangerous. If you had any failure of the bike/tires, brushed against the slipstream, the towing vehicle suddenly speed up or slow down, you'd be dead.

I also expect the drag racer would need modification. They're heavily optimized for a few seconds at full power, not a controlled cruise at moderate power. You'd likely need an automatic cruise control setting for precise speeds, a much more effective cooling system, and a clutch that doesn't engage with a huge jerk.
> the original dividend is paid to the person the short seller sold the share to

It is not. Whatever side bets people may have with each other may result in money changing hands, but it's not the "original dividend".

There are still 1000 shares, 1000 votes, 1000 dividends paid, 1000 dividends collected, 1000 ownership claims on residual assets. The bookkeeping can be confusing, but there's no shares being generated.

> for questions of exposure to price fluctuations and that sort of thing, it's effectively creating a share.

If you and I agree that if Apple goes up at least 10% by this time next week, I'll pay you $500, otherwise you'll pay me $300, then we both now have exposure to price fluctuations. How many shares, exactly, do you think we've created? I'd love to see your math. :)

Just because you have exposure to X doesn't mean you own X, and it certainly doesn't mean you've created X out of thin air.
You can solve the waste issue by rationing. But more to the point, prioritizing rich people is every bit as arbitrary as prioritizing those who live near water stockpiles.
For those interested here is a link to The Code of Federal Regulations: Title 29 (Labor): Part 1604 “Guidelines On Discrimination Because of Sex” which describes the relevant legal requirements/interpretations pertaining to employer sex discrimination.

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2011-title29-vol4/xml/CFR-...
Self taught programming while making a web service that I thought was ace while in university but never made any money after overstaying in university and finally quit and I had to get a job.

Joined some startup who was struggling to get their services right as they didn't have any proper programmer. I just kept fixing stuff left and right with my 10 years experience and it was apparent even from their clients who the guy was that kept fixing stuff.

I was planning to quit the place in a year (without planning anything ahead) but as I quit, everyone started asking me for work, even from the company I left.
In Swift you can still bury that `try` in the middle of the expression

sanitize(try getFile(getName()).contents)
Your second sentence does not follow from your first. Just because Y's do X, doesn't mean everyone who does X is a Y.
You mean like https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ ?

> This book digs into all the awful details that are necessary to understand in order to write correct Unsafe Rust programs. Due to the nature of this problem, it may lead to unleashing untold horrors that shatter your psyche into a billion infinitesimal fragments of despair.

It's surprising how many things in that book don't have anything to do with unsafe per se. It's just that, when you can't rely on the inference system to "do the right thing", you now have to actually think about subtype variance and the order that destructors run in, instead of letting the compiler worry about all that bookkeeping.
Women tend to be lighter than men, which likely makes a difference.
I think most conservatives defer to and value tradition and customs because they feel this, even though they may not articulate it in the same way. Roger Scruton gives a nice summary, in his book on conservatism:
https://www.amazon.com/Conservatism-Invitation-Tradition-Rog...

Similarly liberals who say things like "all men are created equal and have the same rights and can institute whatever practices seem right to them" may not know anything about Rousseau and blank slates, but they are expressing these views.

Thanks for the Chesterton quote. Chesterton is awesome. A bit of a lunatic, but also insightful and fun to read.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/

Not as much discussion, but probably fits the bill for other parts.
Agreed. Even in the author's use-case, just hashing the string itself would be much better.
Cloud Stocks Keep Rising
It would be far from the first HN article (or comment) that failed to make a distinction between "poorly designed object-oriented systems" and the very idea of OOP, design patterns, etc
If the author's assertion is true, and this novel, unlike his others, was passed over due to antisemitism, then those publishers likely still won't publish.

Additionally, if the author believes that, why should he give them a cut now?
The Raspberry Pi 3+ might do what you want.

But you would have to put it in a case, and load the OS on a flash card.

Doesn't Intel have a small system? I'm not sure if it is fanless or not.
Vermont first state to pass data broker law
Not at my gym.
You successfully read half the sentence in which the term "Ed25519" appeared.
Hmm, these definitely seem more exciting than my case, which is usually more "feeling uninspired and feel that others at work don't care about the product".
In my case, staying up all night playing SimCity in the computer lab was actually good preparation for a career in simulation game programming.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/designing-user-interfaces-to-...
I think the previous question was about the institution. In this case, Facebook has people of all genders, not just one.

It only be an apt analogy to the Universities if Facebook were some single-gender social network. Or if an all-gender University let you only recruit one gender.
> I wish there was a more modern set of tools that implemented web of trust.

What would you use it for?
If BMI is the measure, then that isn’t a good measure. Dwayne The Rock Johnson is “overweight.”
Google Search Engine Optimization Tools
The power of scratching your own itch
You do realize every web apps that you use have a consistent look among all platforms and none of the native looks and I think we're used to that approach of using apps that seeing a 'web like' app on desktop doesn't feel odd anymore.
Is anyone on gigster or upwork ? I've taken a few months off work and I want to do some freelancing to make money on the side and also stay up to date but I'm unable to find quality work out there.
Ask HN: How do I re-value myself as a contractor?
I've worked exclusively for the same company as a contractor for the last 5 years, and have gotten to know the ins-and-outs of their business/development processes/data better than most people actually hired in the company, and recently was presented with an opportunity to start building an internal platform to replace their current system they're paying for.

The problem is that (as a rough estimate) I would be saving them nearly $3M per year by building out this system, but I'm currently only making about $250k. It would take roughly a year to build. I'm making above market value for my skills at the moment, but I have very specialized knowledge with their systems that definitely add extra value.

Knowing that, how do I realistically value myself in this situation? If I take this on, would I be drastically underpaid at my current rate?
In addition to Steve's comment, I'll add one more thing.

Try writing some Rust, it will surprise you in a few ways. These are not warts (though there are some), but more features of the language. For some these features, move-by-default, single-mutable-reference, strongly-typed-errors, they will be struggles to deal with initially.

It's a language that restricts you in many ways, and this is startling for many. It was for me for sure.
Majority of Developers Oppose Linux’s New Code of Conduct
Twitter's Return to a Chronological Feed Won't Fix the Platform
Containers maybe?
I understand most of the switches, but unfortunately any gmail address you correspond with will eventually tag and index you. Its difficult to fully separate your email history from Google when the whole market has been colonized.

What I'm trying to say is your data will be accessible by Google servers regardless of which email service you use -- so why the paid switch?
How about posting a job ad, disgusted as some other product ad?
Should Facebook review each and every ad manually?

This would put an end to self-service ad posting.
I was horrified at the business tax cuts that we recently passed, and I was sure they wouldn't result in any real benefits for investment.

But, to me, that's more of an example of money in politics and money having a big loudspeaker rather than "more science needed".

Moreover, I don't think that people who voted for Trump, voted for him because they favored corporate tax cuts, but I think it was more of a protest vote.

Of course, I could be wrong, but the problem is the outsized influence of lobbyists and the wealthy in our political system -- that was a Koch brothers job. I don't think conservatives love the Koch brothers, to be honest.

Let's remember "science" was how the economists pushed through all the banking de-regulation and liberalization of international capital flows which I am so opposed to, as well as other disastrous reforms. For example, the sadism against Greece in the EU was led by PhDs, and many PhDs pushed for more austerity.

So, for me, "more science" isn't the solution, but something like public financing of campaigns might be a better solution. I think the skepticism of technocrats is quite healthy.
Recruiting only from Barnard doesn't mean that job is only for one gender either.

You're missing their point about using limits on the market supply to discriminate for a job - i.e. even if that job is "open to all", but you've limited applicants to one gender.
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