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How about this for a cold close?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKmnW6NWPZY

The song even opens harsh too.

It was supposed to be sandwiched between "Mean Mr Mustard" and "Polythene Pam" but Paul asked the engineer to throw the bit of tape containing the song away.

The engineer was under direction to never throw anything the Beatles recorded away, so he tacked it on to the end of the Abbey Road master.

When the Band had a listen through, they liked the effect and decided to keep it there.
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I think it's not just that, which would be problematic on it's own, it's that China is also subsidizing local delivery, so the only (or almost only) delivery fee for Chinese shippers is the portion they pay to USPS for local delivery, which is artificially very low. So not only are they taking advantage of the difference in trade flows, they are also encouraging it even more.

I think this was covered in an Planet money podcast from NPR.[1] It's also possible I'm not remembering portions of it correctly, but I think they did an interesting treatment of the subject.

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
The PyPA team has done a lot over the past five years. The changelog for pip (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/) contains quite a bit, PyPI was migrated to Warehouse, and there have been several PEPs focused on improving the packaging situation. A lot of these ideas come from various people in the community and get formalized as official recommendations or tools, but these things take time, especially accounting for backward compatibility in an ecosystem as large and mature as Python's.

The short answer to "why isn't this solved?" is "it's hard, and there's a lot to do". Development practices change over time, and the tooling continues to evolve with them. It's easy to see a broad survey like this and think that there's too much going on, but taken at a high level, the space is definitely trending in the right direction.

(Note: I'm not part of the PyPA, but I'm interested in this area and try to follow along from the outside.)
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Fantastic! I love the design of this site: the way it greets you immediately with big thumbnails of actual paper airplanes.

I was flying some "Basic Dart" and "Square" planes (those are the only two designs I know by heart) with my kids the other day and I was thinking, "I bet there are a bunch of great designs online somewhere..." And here we are!
This was also discussed on the Sonic Talk podcast #543, Cliff Drop Ending. They start at 12:57, but I thought the best bit was at 20:23:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bkJpKtZMl4&t=20m23s

They make some interesting points about how fade outs were a manual skill before digital audio, something you had to do with your hands on a mixing desk. So if your hand twitched during the fade - especially if you were fading the individual instrument channels at once, and not just the stereo master channel - then you would have to start all over again & try re-recording your fade out until it was just right.

They also discussed some of the more creative approaches to a fade out - maybe you fade out the instruments faster than the vocal, so that the vocal at the end is left floating on its own. And rather than just decrease the vocal, you also increase the reverb at the same time, leaving a ghostly sound of just the echoes of vocals that remain through the fade out.

I usually think of fade-outs as a cop-out, but that made me consider there can be more craft & artistry to it than I'd considered.
Its far more complicated than that. Most of the owners of these properties are institutional, not individuals or small groups. They are far more concerned about the valuation of the real estate than it's cash flow. The cashflow side has issues too, but from a valuation perspective, once you sign a rent at a lower rate, then that will trigger a shift from the inflated, unrealized rent in the valuation model, to the actual rent in the lease. It's entirely likely that the dip in value from the signed lease is more impactful than the actual cashflow from that lease. It doesn't matter that you couldn't get the rent in the model today, since pushing out the assumption results in less of a hit in value than signing an actual lease would. This all gets billed as "the market will bounce back".

Remember there are a lot of upfront costs for the land lord as well. They put in a lot of money upfront for buildouts/base building work, and it may be 2-3 years before they actually break even on the money they put into the space. If you're not sure that the business model is going to last that long then it absolutely makes sense to sit on the vacancy.

Source: worked at a nationally invested REIT that had a good number of properties that have this same issue.
It also indicates that the conclusion is based on controlling for the major social confounding factors that are typically also viewed as key intermediary mechanisms by which genetic factors influence the outcomes of interest, including both own occupation and educational attainment and parental educational attainment.

Even if the underlying reality is that growing up around books is an effect of a shared hidden (genetic or otherwise) cause, the fact that it is a predictor even after for controlling for the identified alternative factors is quite a significant result.

(Though, as other comments point out, self-reporting may be a problem, though “people that are more successful than expected for their occupation, education, and parental education tend to overreport the number of books they grew up with compared to less successful individuals” would be an interesting result in its own way.)
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I have a vivid memory of how excited I was by the 60-minutes episode about this paper airplane, and I grabbed a copy of this book when I saw it in my college bookstore.

Making the various models was a lot of fun, although I don't think I ever obtained the specific weight of paper they mention in the book. That's still on my bucket list.
This is pretty damn far-fetched. There's many lower hanging fruit that havne't been picked yet and will be picked before stuff like this happens.
I travel frequently through all sorts of parts of Asia for work and am always so jealous of the subways over there. I speak all of 4 words of mandarin, but have never gotten lost or had difficulty navigating. I wish I could say the same for Bart, which I'm embarrassed to admit still frequently gets the better of me.
Thanks ! That is a good pro tip. Did not think about supplemental papers and resources.
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Yes, I did ask myself that.

Google has an Analytics product so that website owners can see how much money they make from AdWords, thus encouraging them to spend more money on AdWords. GA is a strategic complement to Google's advertising services, and that is how they derive value from it.

Google does not dip into GA data for their own uses. Post-GDPR this is extra-explicit because they take pains to clarify how much they are not a Controller and only a Processor, but this has always been in their TOS. Frankly, most people's GA implementations are dumpster fires and trying to make use of that data would be more cost and less benefit than punching themselves in the dick.

Google does look at GA data on occasion, but only for the purposes of debugging and for ensuring compliance with the TOS (e.g. they will flag accounts that contain PII).
Hi HN,

My name is Amir, and I'm the creator of UI Recipes.

I've created this product to solve the time consuming problem of trying to find the top UI patterns and latest design trends for solving a specific user task (eCommerce, search, lists, sign-ups, etc.).

I've also decided to take it one step further, and analyze those patterns and trends from a usability standpoint, then provide actionable guidelines in forms of if-then questions.

I send out a new UI recipe every Wednesday at 10 am.

My goal is to provide non-designers with weekly educational bits to learn design in 15 minutes or less, and to provide designers and product managers with a repository of validated UI design guidelines that they can use in their work.

We are also working on creating a searchable online repository of all those patterns and trends, downloadable UI kits with various design "ingredients", and a Sketch plugin to access those assets directly within the app.

Would love to hear your feedback, ideas and requests. You can also tweet us @uirecipes
> Worse perhaps is we're graudally losing that sense of history, of courage and sacrifice. I wouldn't want to be jingoistic about it, but I think people are unaware of what the wartime generations went through.

While it pains me as a ww2 buff to say this, I do think that as a society we have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with WW2.

And, it's not like it ever made sense to turn East Anglia into some kind of WW2 air war museum. After the war, people wanted their farmlands back, and wanted to continue their lives, and they had every right to do that.
Well, that's only a problem if the employer decides to go after you. And in the vast majority of cases they won't. They likely won't even know where your new workplace is.

Yes, they could file a frivolous lawsuit against you, but this is true no matter what is or isn't in your contract.
He also thumbed his nose at PTSD. Basically mocking any advancements in understanding it and it's treatment, because "back in WWI they called it shell shock"
Couldn't we just skip the technology part and have podcasters send money directly to scammers in exchange for the scammers not listening to their podcasts?
Also, if the FR system performs poorly, it will be offering false positives (the wrong person) and false negatives (it missed the guy) and that just causes the organization using it to disregard it, then abandon using it, and discontinue the contract. It's an expensive waste of time.
Huh?

epacketEMS is a class of mail with tracking. How is it unrelated?
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I noticed that as well. I have always thought there might be a correlation between self-taught and self selection for success in a topic.

Anecdotally, I was self-taught, and many of the highest performing engineers I know where also. Most of the average performing engineers I know were traditionally educated in CS.
Who would benefit from it? Foreign entities trying to wage a silent chemical war? How would take make sure that their own country is getting hit by microplastics in the international oceans ?
I think plenty of people in the Python community will earnestly say that while acknowledging that there isn't universal agreement on what that one good way is. It's an ideal to strive for, not a statement of fact.
Although this is a good move, small US Postal shipments from China to US households are a drop in the bucket compared to DHL deliveries from China to US companies.

And that cost is being massively subsidized by the Chinese government. I think the money goes directly from the Chinese government to the Chinese companies, who then pay DHL - so I doubt there is much the US can do to stop that.
Pictures of the original electronics: http://eecue.com/a/1421/TriforiumControlCenter.html
Changing the putative elected "leader" of a large organization isn't guaranteed to change the organization. Often the new elected public servant finds she/he is powerless without kowtowing to those in the organization (or externally who pull the strings).

I also disagree that we should limit this discussion to political. Companies (esp the size of Amazon) are hardly affected by politics, they are often judged more harshly by the court of public opinion.

Folks who want to prevent what they see as disaster should use all the legal mechanisms possible to enable discourse and change the course of events.
> The vast majority of comments on this article are complaining about a single thing: a bluetooth API behind permissions check,

A HackerNews staffer wrote, some time ago:

> We've reverted the title from “Chrome 70 supports Web Bluetooth on Windows 10”, which breaks the guidelines by editorializing.

So that's your proximate cause. Somebody editorialized the article and the initial responses are to that editorialized title.
A huge problem in organizations I've worked with is the dehumanization of software development into a speed/efficiency equation. This drives me nuts because sometimes tools like our own (Jira) are used in ways that just don't respect the value of exploration, iteration, hypothesis testing, and evolution that makes great products. "Just Ship It" is a disease, not a rally cry. That brings me to words. Do words like sprint matter?
Its fun being naive and overly optimistic isnt it
1975-ish was the very beginning of PCs and was therefore difficult to even have access to a computer.

Outside of specific corporate/academic/military facilities they basically would have been unable to "experiment" at all.

It's pretty remarkable they came up with anything that functioned at all considering the barriers to entry of the time.
I don't think it's that exaggerated. The author is totally correct on West Village, for example. I don't live in NYC anymore but each time I visit it the mix of store noticeably changes (so yes, a lot of turnover) and at least 1 in 4 storefronts are closed/for lease.

Ironically the ones with staying power are those sketchy cheap jewelry stores that are of course not money laundering operations.
Yep, it's honestly the epitome of release early and release often applied to something mission critical like a DB. By the time it's in a release, even the minimal version of a feature is pretty good quality, but just not necessarily the full-feature yet, so people can still test it and rely on it like it's a full stable feature missing minor features.
For better or worse, defense of the homeland is not accomplished by literally standing at the US border waiting for someone to step over the line, but by working to neutralize threats and prevent their emergence abroad.
This means nothing to me. Can you be more specific why /Linux has become a chaotic place to be/.
You have a lot of respect from me and all men who appreciate honesty! There's a lot of us out there, trust me -- and we are able to handle ourselves and aging parents quite adequately as well.

I was also very open with my wife when we sat and discussed whether we should live together (4-5 months into a very successful and passionate relationship where absolutely nothing was ever wrong -- that was 4 years ago). I told her in very plain terms that since she is yet to invent herself -- she is still very young -- and since only I provide the money, then I am not willing to increase the stress and responsibilities on myself just because. I was very upfront and told her outright that if her plans include kids then we should just remain casual passtionate lovers and not seek a deeper relationship.

She agreed with me on the no-kids policy -- and we started living together -- because she feels that where we live (Eastern Europe) life is way too hard and economically unstable to bring a kid into. She is quite a bit younger than myself but already suffered a lot and our relationship naturally evolved into this sacred island where we both find comfort, love, passion, friendship and time for ourselves. We feel ZERO desire to have kids even 4.5 years into the relationship.

My wife, like your partner, is also a brilliant and loving person but I don't know how much more years I can provide for both of us (and my widowed mother) before I collapse. We are both well aware that the modern civilization is as unnatural and hostile to the human soul as it can get and that many people simply cannot adapt and end up being an endless drag on somebody else... but she knows that she eventually has to adapt. I take a lot of bullets for her in the hopes of her repaying the favor one day but if it doesn't happen then we could eventually part ways.

...I am way too chatty these days. Sorry.

What I am getting at is this: IMO your partner should have some direction and goal. It's a very good strategy against depression and is recommended in many therapies. Receiving a soft ultimatum from your loved one -- "I am giving you 5 years to reinvent yourself and start participating in the family's finances" -- might sound harsh but definitely lands people right back in reality. Money does not grow on trees. Depression is a b1tch but you need a strong partner standing right beside you and not always behind you. Your partner must be aware of that.

Don't take this as an unsolicited advice. I am mostly saying that I strongly relate with you and I am sharing my thoughts on the topic. Keep going!
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> We simply have a drive to have sex.

People want kids, not just sex. Among the 14% of Americans over 45 who never had children, 47% would have preferred to have two or more children, and only 44% would have preferred to not have had children. Among the 86% of adults over 45 who do have children, just 7% would have preferred not to have children. Put differently 12% either didn't have kids and are happy with it, or had kids and regret it. 85% are either happy they had kids, or regret not having them.

People want to have a certain number of kids. It may be aspirational--like the weight they want to be or how often they want to go to the gym--but it's a real desire, quite independent of sex.
I've used Upcase extensively over the years to learn things like TDD and VIM. It's one of the few resources out there for people who already know programming fundamentals and want to get to the next level. I happily paid for it for a long time so it's exciting that now it's free!
I had to go back and look after looking at your comment. It does seem to track pretty consistently.

I've always speculated that a part of the pay gap might be explained by willingness to negotiate. I wonder if recruiters being more normal in this industry helps. In my own experience the recruiter I've worked with has helped a lot in salary negotiations.
We codify against pointless discrimination against protected classes of people for a reason. Some things are no longer worth debating and serve no purpose but to actively harm people. So no, they shouldn't be allowed to do that.

Can you explain how discriminating against minority members of society is somehow logically relatable to selling a technological product that immediately expands the governments surface area of an easily abusable power? Because I don't know where bakeries not selling doughnuts to gay people, purely based on personal perspectives, really comes into play with not selling a technological platform that enables governments and its officials to more easily abuse and greatly expand the power they currently have.

From the article:

>On stage, he acknowledged that big tech’s products might be misused, even exploited, by autocrats. But rather than meaningfully explain how Amazon will act to prevent the bad uses of its own technology, Bezos suggested we wait for society’s “immune response.”

>Law enforcement has already started using facial recognition with virtually no public oversight or debate or restrictions on use from Amazon.
Great site, going to try and interest my kids, but - no videos of the planes actually flying? I want to know what "acrobatic" actually means.
It's possible to configure git so that git ush becomes git push; for example, this .gitconfig correct many common misspellings: https://github.com/AgalmicVentures/Environment/blob/master/c...

Obviously such corrections should be used judiciously.
Maybe you can find a live version that doesn't fade out?
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Sounds like someone needs to just Do it.
I did the same in elementary school, I made my own plane design after many iterations of a/b testing. It won pretty much every airplane contest. No tape, pennies, or paperclips needed, they actually reduced the overall distance if the center of mass was too close to the tip.

When thrown you had to keep the wings folded down unlike a traditional plane. Basically I made a dart. You didn't have to be good at throwing either, guaranteed to work in any weather condition since it didn't rely much on aerodynamics.

Unlike regular origami planes, the harder you threw it the further it went. So I always had the biggest guy in class throw it.

Suprisingly I never came across the design in any origimai books/sites I've found either, even years later. Its probably out there somewhere but I still remember how to make it.
> And now, random websites can grab control of my radios? With JavaScript?

No. Only the user allows it.

>FFS. This is like the battery api. Too much time spent on "can we", too little time spent on "should we".

The battery API can be tremendously useful on mobile if used effectively. For example, disabling certain animations and high end GPU intensive effects if the battery is less.
Would you complain that web browsers have access to your keyboard and mouse without explicitly asking? If not, then why complain about access to DeviceMotionEvent?
> Given the decay of time and the risk of turning it on, the team is using custom-built LED triangles that sit atop each hand-blown glass prism to light it up.

I think they've inadvertently created an interesting new dimension to the artwork here. Software developers especially should be able to appreciate the feeling of being unable to properly reengineer a flawed system due to expense or expedience, and just slapping another layer on top instead. Sort of like a celebration of path dependence. I'd like to see more examples of long-form artworks that gradually evolve through different artists and eras.
Standardizing commands and making PG more user-friendly isn't frivolous. Usability is one of the most important qualities of a good program or library.
This seems 2060 type stuff. We cant even get potholes fixed in my city.

Why not have smart traffic lights as a starting point? Realtime traffic patterns using google maps and cameras with sensors. Data is stored for historical patterns and for new models to be tested against.
Or "by the time we play this live, we will figure it out; just fade it out for now".
This is exactly what happens to the historic centres of some European cities. But the life of the city just moves to the outskirts for the most part.
You mean economic growth is a mirage?
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Perhaps fawning over the latest piece of technology and APIs has become unpalatable as more people have woken up to the idea that technology is neither politically nor morally neutral.

That's a sign of the industry growing up: those working in it are starting to think about the consequences of what they are doing and are speaking up against misbehaving companies like Google.

Who cares about some silly web authentication API when Google will engineer the thing to its maximal data collection potential anyway?
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Yeah I felt positive about this result as well!

I believe that pay discrimination does happen and I don't want to invalidate anyone experience if that has happened to them, but I've been pleased to work with very competent men and women over my career who I believe were all compensated fairly from my observations.
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That is so far from the point that joke was making. I recommend you listen again. Not only does he not "thumb his nose" at PTSD, he says if we used language that better communicates meaning, such as shell shock instead of 4 letters, people would actually care for vets.

He was a smart man. The world could use another Carlin.