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Slightly OT, but I hope you’ll indulge: The main thing keeping me from trying i3 and by extension Sway, is that I got used to a mostly default set of Xmonad keybinding and I’ve been too lazy to figure out how to configure i3/Sway to work like Xmonad.

Has anyone here gotten their i3 to behave like Xmonad? How is it? Care to share your config / tips for getting it rolling?
I have 1-on-1s with my supervisor scheduled for once every two weeks; we miss some of those so I'd say on average it's once every 3. I realize this is unusual, but we have good slack communication-dynamics, we both hate meetings and we both write quickly.

A data engineer friend at a platform for small stores sees her manager twice a week in half hour increments.
OBA, Transit, Apple Maps, and King County Trip Planner all use the same back end data sources (though Transit adds users who are volunteering their location with the Go feature in its app) so they should all be similar to each other.

Ever since the major overhaul of data in mid-2015 that tried to fix the "ghost bus" problem (a bus would show as being on the wrong trip pair) and the "never-ending terminal" problem (arrival times for stops very near a route's terminal would show as many minutes delayed or early until the bus actually started moving), I've been quite pleased with the quality of real-time data.

There are always going to be inaccuracies, though. At peak, Sound Transit / OneBusAway are trying to track a couple thousand vehicles across many miles in unpredictable traffic and weather. That it works at all is a minor miracle in my eyes.
They don't, but since the writer posted stuff in his blog that shows he's not a leftist, we have to shit on all his strips now. They might contain wrongthink secret messages, you know?

Of course, no shitting on that guy who writes xkcd and made a strip telling us to vote Hillary. Because Hillary is cool and all of that. https://xkcd.com/1756/
I agree with you. But that is not what the parent stated, he said that "United States used to at least credibly pretend that it cared about human rights". I don't think the US ever credibly pretended it cared.

Yes, as far as empires go, the US is not that bad. I actually wonder what's going to happen if China becomes the next superpower/empire, given that they are a dictatorship. And they may even use that fact to say they are more efficient, because a dictator can swiftly take decisions while parliaments are quite messy.

Will China achieve 100% renewable energy before Europe/US? It definitely can, and they'd sell their dictatorship pretty easily on that achievement.
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The lengthy Wikipedia bio you link to suggests that Liu was far from forgotten. Numerous Kuomintang officials were sent to prison, including a life sentence for the head of intelligence. It also appears to have played a factor in the Chiang family not pursuing the presidency. What other consequences do you think Taiwan should be facing 30 years after the fact?
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How about before they get elected?
That is more a matter of competence than morals. Asia and Africa had no better moral instincts, any look at what they did within shows that, they just lacked the competence to conquer beyond their geography.
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To those who worry about AI taking over everything, I present them with Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant. Some of the brightest folks are working on them. They still can't make sense of often trivial questions, let alone complex ones.
I'm not so sure it's as much about etiquette than deniability.

If he was killed in some "accident" then the other countries or corporations can easily buy the lie, avoid the confrontation and keep the money/relationship (even if they think it is likely to be state-sanctioned). Because it was such a screw up (fiance waiting outside was a kind of solid witness as well as the recording etc.), it is much harder for others to accept the "accident", which becomes toxic PR and therefore something to distance yourselves from.
I think that actual people interested in some topic and having some expertise in it filter out misinformation better than Facebook and Twitter will ever do. Persons repost news from less trusted sources such as news sites with their opinion about it.

On the other hand, social media platforms inject content that is popular, according to the number of "likes" and "reposts" into your newsfeed. It means the content has gone viral and it has already spread to several clusters around you, most of them centered around some other topic and, therefore, unable to properly evaluate it.

To answer your question, I don't think it will completely filter misinformation, but I think this strategy is better than anything Facebook and Twitter can come up with.
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The information is still there. The axis of rotation is the eigenvector with eigenvalue 1. (That vector doesn't move when you apply the rotation)
“2/3rds of the world's population enslaved and their countries occupied”

At this point, even Howard Zinn would be placing a hand on your shoulder and warning, “Bring it down a notch, kid.”
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15g protein. Only 4g sugar.
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Does anyone else still get phone books? I've never had a landline but still get one dropped off at my door annually in Denver. It goes straight to the recycling bin.
I'm sure with falling prices the market will correct itself.

I was going to make a snarky comment about US dairy subsidies, but aside from a billion dollar giveaway in 2009, those are almost nothing today. $370,000 in 2017.
I'm a sysadmin who works with Linux on the servers and does not have the interest or know-how with window managers. Is there a easy way to try Sway? Like a pre-built OS distribution or VM?

I'm imagining something like Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu - Sway edition..

The desktop side of Linux makes me feel like I'm lost in the city where I live. Am I missing easy instructions to try this somewhere?

(No snark of any kind intended. Based on comments, I think this must be an amazing open source project. I'm just wondering how I can get myself started to see what it really is...)
Can someone fill me in on why nationalism is being equated with a loss of cross-pollination, when the opposite end of the political spectrum is so strongly associated with the anti-cultural-appropriation movement?

It occurs to me that many of the most interesting cultures today exist almost exclusively because of they were nationalist and were not afraid to appropriate parts of other cultures into their own national identity.
It was about turn-by-turn directions. Google had them, Apple wanted them, and Google knew that keeping it exclusive to Google Maps was a big competitive advantage.

https://daringfireball.net/2012/09/timing_of_apples_map_swit...

I've read other more recent accounts that also claim Google wanted to collect more location data from iOS users in order to license their scalable vector map tiles to Apple, but couldn't find the link.
The big question for me is: why now?

You can have your own list of equivalent or worse actions by several allies.

So what triggered the recent reaction?

The Washington Post suggests that it’s because it humanized the action. A lone journalist — a writer whom we may have read — attacked in a brutal fashion.

But what no one mentions is that his uncle was a famous billionaire and his cousin was Dodi al Fayed.

Surely he has powerful family members who are outraged and connected.

The only problem with this theory is that the same might have been said of Bin Talal and nobody blinked at his arrest.
The first graph, "New York's Shrinking Dairy Herd Starts To Grow Again", has a Y-axis starting at 610,000 and a maximum of about 627,000. I expect Bloomberg to represent a 2.5% change more honestly.
DOM crawling can be a challenge without XPATH. Nice work. The flow looks smooth. Any chance of an el-get?
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An issue that comes up is the without detailed specs, communication and project management skills, any development project will fall off the rails.

Many horror stories are caused by prematurely trying to go fast and making a bigger mess, not knowing how to design, specify, or oversee the building of software.

Overseas is as good as the garbage you can buy locally, but the problems get worse with the distance, time zone, and other things.
I think you read that wrong. It doesn’t have 15g of sugar.

Greek yogurt is regular yogurt that has been strained— the whey that they discard has a lot of the sugar content. Its closer to a soft cheese than a traditional yogurt.
Excess milk? Make cheese curds and sell poutine. Never understood why it hasn’t caught on much in the USA.
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I don't understand how this works, so maybe someone can enlighten me. You pay 50 euro in exchange for some banners/logos to start a repair cafe, but they don't help you repair? I would have thought the starter kit would have supplies or something. What would you do when someone comes in with a toaster to repair? Do you just go on Youtube to figure it out together?
And the news industry, hollywood and politics... Isn't the US awash in saudi money everywhere? Would anyone be shocked if next to israel, saudi arabia owned the second largest stable of lobbyists and politicians in DC. I wouldn't.

Also, what about the british, canadian, qatari, chinese and israeli money in silicon valley, news, hollywood and politics?

The only reason tech companies, news companies, hollywood and politicians are pushing the russian interference and influence narrative is because the russians are too poor to buy influence and interfere in the US.

I'm glad some light is being shed on the saudis but for how long? Until they can get the saudis to write some big checks to hush them up? And more importantly, will the british, chinese and israeli money and influence get any scrutiny?

Or is sinclair correct? "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not knowing the right answer."
you are right, bad case of a Layer 8 issue.
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Most successful SaaS companies operate on a payback period of less than 1 year. Aka spend $100 today, and you'll get $100 from the customer within 10-12 months. After that, it's all profit, which works out really well if your churn is low and users stick around for 48 months.
China is a massive consumer of dried milk powder. I wonder if the trump tariffs have anything to do with the changing demand for US milk.
LMAO it's just a rip-off of Kotlin. Talk about Apple fanboy piece
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It may have been about money, or because Apple no longer felt comfortable sharing all of their customers' location data with Google anytime they used the built-in maps app. I don't believe the option of displaying ads was ever considered.

Honi soit qui mal y pense...
And in my experience Killer ethernet NICs, though maybe they have gone the way of the dodo by now (I hope so).
You can serve specific suggestions without violation of privacy.
I find it bizarre that it’s not required by code for a pressure regulation station to have a sensor in that station.

I also wonder if the utiliy’s connection between the sensor and controller is on the internet.
> the fact it’s likely already cached on the browser from a common CDN makes it seem quite silly to go out of your way to remove it.

This is a missconception. The problem of multiple CDN's and various patch releases of shared libaries means the hit rate is only likely to be in the 2% region.

https://www.root777.com/appdev/does-using-google-libraries-a...

Developers tend to focus on their use-case too much.
You're looking at Saudi Arabia from the point of view of a strategic ally. They're a threat, and what they do is not something we need to support.

I'm not usually the person to bring up past comments, but I do think your opinion on what I extrapolate to be cancelling the arms deal:

"> and when countries can’t rely on Western political, technological and military support, it is very likely they will attempt to pursue WMDs to make up for it (as done by all three)"

It's a commonly brought up argument, but North Korea never pursued WMDs because of fear of a Western threat, or to defend themselves from anyone. They did it because they want to use it as leverage to get the US to pull out of South Korea (which is also why they want the peace treaty declared so badly). This is working quite well so far.

Again, I only bring that comment up because I think it's relevant here, and the North Korea statement as a counter-example. I'm more concerned by what Saudi Arabia is going to do with those arms we sell them.

It's possible that a moderate Western democracy could eventually work if you didn't kill members of a free press, which would be the first step.
Traditional? You must realise that Greek yoghurt is the closest you can get to the historical origins of it.
Principally: start punishing the corrupt vendors; don't assume that reputation mechanisms will ensure that non-corrupt ones will eventually outcompete the corrupt ones.

Just as you have to build software for the users you have not the users you feel you deserve, we need a service industry that works for the service-commissioning agents we have.
Yeah, one imagines the perf/W is better, the R Pi is low power but not massively efficient.
Yes. However in law there is really specific definition for GMO and that falls out of it.

Therefore for marketing and legal reasons one may want to still use really inefficient form of genetic modification just to avoid those additional loopholes users of the more efficient method must jump trough.
I'm a developer and completely disagree with your advice.
Paying more doesn't guarantee this. Lots of new developers want those top rates and deliver the same sub standard quality. On the other end, expensive consultants can be highly ineffective.

An HR manager once said each hire is a compromise in some way because no two candidates are alike.

One key in hiring remote is to take some extra time to get to know the candidates via video calls to create a connection and better determine what their strengths and weaknesses are, and get the conversation to a point where the compromise is acknowledged and you can talk about their ability to learn what they don't know and examples of that.

How effectively a developer can learn and apply new knowledge is they main thing I look for. Learning while you work is the new norm, but hiring is not always setup that way.
We just opened up the Canadian market.
This is bullshit. The difference is that this guy was a blue check mark with a column in the Washington Post. He was a journalist, one of them.

If a human rights activist had been killed in the same way the story would have blown over already. It is not news to anyone that Saudi Arabia is the personal fief of the Saud family, who are brutish medieval thugs. Everyone knows perfectly well that they cut off people’s hands and crucify people and if there’s a government on the Arabian peninsula that doesn’t use torture according to Amnesty or Human Rights Watch I’ll be very much surprised.

The denial was not meant to be credible, it was meant to be nakedly obvious that he was killed in the consulate and they were meant to get away with it s it free as a warning to any other dissidents.

And the next time they will. It’s the combination of being a guy who goes to inside Beltway cocktail parties, the Turkish government having the consulate bugged and the Saudis’ gross incompetence that did it. The absence of any one would have had them getting off Scot free.
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The author mentions that the recursive way is harder to code in .net, but I wonder if this were reimplemented in F# which supports tail-recursion if that caveat would disappear. Also be interesting to see how this implementation compares/contrasts with data structures over in https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharpx.Collections
Lots of great advice here. One thing that I also do is give a chance for the employee to review me and what I can do to better serve them and make them effective.
The article is a bit weird in general, I would say both Calgary and Vancouver have "businesses" from financial to tech companies. But Calgary usually has a lot more energy and mining companies headquartered there so I guess in general it would have more corporations? Basically none of these cities are near the scale of Toronto.

Never thought of Calgary as the de facto business capital of Western Canada (it could also be Edmonton) but could be because I'm mainly in Vancouver.
Western Canada is most known for it's energy sector and most energy companies are based out of Calgary, AB.
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I'm curious, why have you gone with SmartOS. I have tinkered with FreeNAS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Alpine and even briefly Hyper-V server on my Gen 8 Microserver though I'm now running NixOS. What does SmartOS give you that FreeBSD or a Linux distro doesn't?
Ask HN: Best way to do heavy csv processing?
I got a couple of big csv files (~5-10GB with millions of rows) that needs to be processed (linked to older files and updating the data etc) and then exported to new csv files.

The data follows the relation model but just updating one field after dumping it into postgresql takes quite some time (doing a update on join) and I'm not sure this is the most effective tool/way for this kind of work. The only queries that will be run is to update or doing inserts/append new data to existing tables (eg older files).

Do you have any suggestions to look into for a workload like this?
This must be why the US wants to force Canada to get rid of it's milk supply management system.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1254398531823
What gives, imo, is that the "international community" [whatever that means to you ..] has decided that MbS can not be the next King of SA.

Heads of state are routinely dispatching people by various violent means, including "bloody dismemberment" by remote controlled Drones. Normally, this is "OK" by the "international community", unless the head of state in question has crossed the said "community" or violated unspoken "international" protocols not disclosed to us peons.

Another view is that Western leaders never err -- how can they? -- in violently dismembering people (and their families) and only brown (or otherwise shaded) leaders commit such sins. In other words, no Nobel Prize for you, MbS.

I remember chuckling reading in Vanity Fair how the CEOs of the "international" criminal banking guild were all huddled up and worried about the ethical issue of should they go to MbS's upcoming gathering or not. Besides chuckling, I was impressed by the amazing discipline of those who control MSM to line up the bipartisan ducks when the order is issued from on high.

But seriously, in the early 70s the United States of America and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reached a secret strategic agreement. And the USA no longer wishes to hold up their end of that grand agreement.

Naturaly, HN, this is my opinion.
Siri can set an alarm for me, add reminder and narrate all my WhatsApp messages. And there goes 85% of my phone usage.
Wow, that was idiotic of me. I misread the sentence in a weird way and failed to notice the normative interpretation; and yes, if I'd cared about the subject matter to read the article, I'd have noticed my error.

Unfortunately, it appears that we can't downvote our own comments here.
Stop breeding milk cows...
Everything you mention as alternatives don’t actually solve the authentication issue. They do make joining the DNS network harder.

Those technologies authenticate the DNS servers, and encrypt the channels, but they do not authenticate the records.

We should have techniques for both privacy, DNSCrypt/DoT/DoH, and authenticity, DNSSEC. I won’t offer an opinion on the root key management in DNS, but the underlying technologies for authenticating and signing records in DNSSEC are good.
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And you must realise that different regions have different traditional concepts of food products.
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I’m actually surprised as well. Totally a match for the American diet. Meanwhile in Alphabet City, NYC a restaurant sells it for $20 a pop.

It might have more to do with the image of poutine. It’s gravy, cheese, and fries, it looks messy and unhealthy. I’m not sure about the messy part (forks maybe), but sprinkle some chives on top (mostly for color) and most people will be fooled.
There indeed is a data set for this purpose. The data is drawn from the VizWiz app, which came out in 2010.

http://vizwiz.org/data/
How is this anything but unnessary branding? Am I missing something, the website is all marketing, no message, no repair tech.
Oh yeah, black Friday is crazy. For us, we've always been seeing that our annual big spike load ends up being our sustained daily peak in a few months, so we will need those nodes anyway.
The United States foreign policy has never been about human rights, it's always been realpolitik, we give it lip service when it suits the end result (which is not credible except to credulous Americans.)

The main exception was Jimmy Carter - https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/ca...

The international good guy theory of the United States foreign policy is a fiction fostered by history books in American K-12 public education - it's not supported by the evidence of a century of interventions in foreign countries for monied interests.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Other alleged government-ordered assassinations have enough plausible deniability that they may indeed be the work of rogue elements. For example, at around the same time that Khashoggi's death became known, Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova was found raped and murdered after she had gone out for a jog. It was immediately suspected to be politically-motivated, as she had recently anchored a news program that looked at EU corruption. A few days ago, a 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of Marinova's rape and murder, and prosecutors do not believe that she was killed for her work [0].

Of course, that doesn't mean she wasn't killed as part of a state plot. But there's not much reason to suspect that over the possibility that she was a random murder victim. For her death to be as scandalous and controversial as Khashoggi's, it would have to have the same evidence of suspicious circumstances. For example, the 21-year-old suspect being an employee of Bulgaria's intelligence agency or military covert forces, and being caught and identified right after her death, but taking 1+ weeks to come up with the confession that he randomly murdered her, despite purported audio recordings that suggest that he murdered with political intent.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/viktoria-marinova-mur...
Switzerland has had the exact same problem due to heavy dairy subsidies. Besides scaling back on subsidies, Fondue and Raclette was pushed heavily in marketing, which is probably why these are staples of Swiss food nowadays. I'm sometimes asking myself whether tabletop style Raclette couldn't be popular in the US. How strong is America's distaste for cooking food at the table (I'm just going by Lost in Translation here)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raclette
Unlike Google, Samsung, Microsoft or Amazon who have never rushed a product to market before it was really ready.... er.

The thing is, Apple Maps was a screwup yes, but it's never been a paid feature and you could just install Google maps if you wanted to. I would agree that we do generally expect more from Apple, but as an iPhone owner that just stuck with other better free options anyway, I have difficulty working up any strong emotions about it.