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> The downside of this decision would mean that I would sacrifice having syntax highlighting for 6510 assembly language, and I would be stuck starting at black text on a white background. Not exactly consistent with the “right tool” statement I just made.

Perhaps this is a "get off my lawn" moment for me, but really? You can't deal with a text editor sans syntax highlighting? For 6510 assembly language? It's nothing more than four columns of

label opcode operand comment
label opcode operand comment

Kids today (now I have to adjust the onion in my belt).
For literary fiction, literary friends and book reviews. Also, anytime you see a name come up again and again, look into getting a something they have written. I bought Dostoyevsky because I kept seeing him come up (worth it).

Find small/independent presses that do cool things; even independent presses as large as New Directions will have a certain culture you can base opinions off of and figure out if its worth your time. Note that if its an imprint of one of the Big 5 theres no way to know if the book is gonna be worth it based on that.

And read books in translation. By virtue of being translated you already know its worth somebody's time, bad books arent often translated. And often they are hella good.
Unchecked algorithms at scale have already had a significant and often detrimental impact on society.

A solution is to break up and/or regulate FAANG sufficiently such that algorithmic regulations do not impede David’s from reasonably competing.

Or, such regulations could also be targeted at bigger players past a certain size, and not apply as strictly to smaller scale applications. It is the broad scale application of an algorithm that often facilitates its ability to be effective, after all.
To what extent does simply enjoying life exacerbate the problems you point out?

If enjoying life is the popular thing to do, the well connected, high IQ and high-grit people will succeed even more dramatically, assuming that such people are often less affected by cultural norms than the modal person.
The majority opinion thoroughly rebuts the arguments in the dissent. Have you read it as well? It's a good read if you've become interested in the subject.

Official link (PDF) for those who don't like Google: https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/06F8BFD0...
The C-Notes are still a bargain at that price!

There's about $80 worth of drivers in there, which is bonkers for a $100 kit that also includes crossover parts and MDF cabinets.

For comparison, the $130 Overnight Sensations kit contains about $55 worth of drivers. That's a good deal, and consistent with other DIY kits... and it illustrates what an outlier the C-Notes are.

(The reason why the C-Notes are so affordable is because Parts Express and Dayton share corporate ownership, so presumably they're about to source those Dayton drivers for next to nothing)

FYI there's an MTM (two woofers, one tweeter) version of the C-Notes coming in ~45 days for $100/speaker ($200/pair)
> There is some nuance. For example, a $5k tax credit might help me level the playing field today, but that $5k difference still exists for social security calculation.

Sure, so identify the problems and fix them. The way social security works is illogical. It's supposed to be a safety net, so why do we pay in proportion to past income rather than giving everyone the same amount? Do the affluent somehow need a larger safety net? If anything they should be expected to have more of their own savings.
Either they're being price gouged or they're saving $50 on a hotel room. You can't have it both ways.
You could find out if interested (Department of Finance and Administrative Services contact info on that page, who regulates short term [ie AirBnB] accommodations).

http://www.seattle.gov/business-regulations/short-term-renta...
"The words appear to be patriotic but on further examination and with the right education the poem can be understood"

I think it is both patriotic and also your thesis. That is the British Way.
""This assumes everyone values personal health over financial health."

Very easy to solve this one - the elected official doesn't eat the fish and drink the water, their children do."

Even that doesn't seem to work in a very large number of cases. Look at how many people choose to locate their families in polluted cities for the financial benefits when the deleterious effects on health are so well studied and documented. There's just not enough immediacy of the effects of breathing polluted air or eating a fish contaminated with carcinogens.
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Science is even newer and arguably an even more enormous innovation. The capability of structured, logical thought and falsifiable theories is a giant leap forward in terms of cognition. I too cannot help but wonder what lies beyond the currently known thinking tools.
This must be that whataboutism I've been hearing about. My greater point was that political extremists all across the spectrum have the bad habit of rejecting science when it conflicts with their dogma. The problem is amplified the more they are emotionally invested in an issue. A lot of people think its just "the other guys" that are guilty of it, partly due to selection bias, and partially due to just over-scrutinizing the other side in general.
WorkSpaces are popular for big companies that use VDI to manage their workstations.
That's actually not at all what happened here. The Supreme Court decided not to hear challenges to the FCC policies under the Obama administration. In other words, Trump and Pai did not get their way this time.
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Not improving ourselves to death is another option. The consistent part is death.
So they’ve figured out how to turn water (and ethanol and some reagents) into wine. Neat!

But I’ll believe that it’s good only after hearing about how it fares in blind taste tests.
Many users aren't going to be equipped to make a good decision when presented with that alert. Just explaining what the alert is saying is probably going to involve more text that most people are going to read. Doing a full block isn't suspicious - it's a perfectly reasonable default.
Rather than putting restrictions on what private people can do with their property, I'm starting to think the city should consider bulldozing some of the GG park to put up affordable housing or renting it out for cheap to those who need it where the city of San Francisco would be the landlord.
It says you can remain anonymous, so what's to stop men from joining? Is it moderated?... Just seems like a sexist forum...
There would be no need to staff researchers and scientists if the true purpose is to monitor atmospheric scattering of satellite communications.
Pardon my snark, but this sounds like eminent domain wearing a velvet glove.
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Yeah what a great idea to destroy one of the city's great landmark.
Discussed in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118597.
> and gives each site a privacy grade.

What's this based on?

I'm more included to use Privacy Badger (from the EFF), why should I use the DDG extension instead?
How about this formulation:

a) There has been a lot of progress over the millennia (in many ways, from higher life expectancy to less violence)

b) Many people have sacrificed a lot to bring that progress about

c) We ought to be grateful and c2) struggle on.

I think a), b), and c) are uncontroversial, c2) needs to be argued for.
Ask HN: What do you love about your shell?
What are your favorite features of your preferred command-line shell?
You can see my comment about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18201035
This is a pretty short-sighted view, in my opinion.

Regulation also means working fire alarms, access for disabled persons, and a whole lot of other things that are far from guaranteed with unscrupulous building owners in a booming housing market.

The right solution is in the middle somewhere, but it's insufficient to simply call this a case of regulatory oversight.
I run a tiling WM full-time, so it's rather hilarious when I see any dialog error/warning box since literally nothing I run generates them. A virus on my C: drive, you say? Nope.
Amazon isn't a resident.
Different article about the same posted here earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18378332
Presumably you would write the code to do it...
This actually sounds like it could make for a really interesting endeavor in open records requesting for anyone who geeks off on that sort of thing (looks around...oh wait I guess that's me).
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It's actually a good idea if viewed as a coercion tactic.
Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA
> The Sysinternals collection currently includes tens of tools that can be used debugging CPU and memory performance, analyzing local processes, formatting hard drives, log analysis, network debugging, verifying file integrity, and many other more.

There is literally nothing in that list which is not already covered by some existing tools. If microsoft really did 'love open source', they would be contributing to these existing tools rather than trying to extinguish^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H replace them.
or companies that are already 100% Microsoft based
Ask HN: Alternatives to Cloud9 as a development environment for teaching coding?
For context, we're teaching an 8-week introduction to programming course, and our students are business professionals who don't have a technical background and don't plan on becoming full-time programmers. The most important consideration for us is a user-friendly setup where the important components (terminal/CLI, text editor, a 1-click button for starting up a server, etc.) are all in one place. This way students don't have to spend time installing anything on their computers, and instructors don't have to worry about students using Mac vs Windows.

Since Amazon recently fully integrated Cloud9 into their AWS service, the interface has become quite unfriendly for students just starting out. There no longer even seems to be an option to create a new workspace with a particular template. Considering that we're teaching Ruby on Rails, the option of generating a barebones app with GUI interface was very appealing.

I've seen some alternatives out there but haven't tried them yet:

- Koding
- Replit
- Plunker
- Visual Studio Code with LiveShare

I'd love to know if there's a good alternative that comes close to the old version of Cloud9?
In Belgium, I see way more roles for Azure than for AWS.
Perhaps some bias for both of us, speaking to industry experts aren't numbers
Building housing isn't the solution to solving the problem created by airbnb, as most airbnb units would be competing for tenants towards the bottom of the market, and would likely be rent controlled, when compared to new housing that competes for tenants at the top of the market.
So you also support Facebook giving up names and addresses to law enforcement?
You may want to look into Taltz. It has really helped me, and practically no side effects aside from some injection site reactions.

If your insurance won't cover it (mine wouldn't without trying older ones with way worse potential side effects) the drug company offers a program that only requires a $25 copay.
Get a grip, or get off HN
I look forward to your results!
I live in one of the highly contaminated municipalities-- almost everyone here is doing GAC (granular activated carbon) on all water entering the home, and Reverse Osmosis at point-of-use. Idea being that the GAC gets a good amount of the problem filtered out for water you might use topically, and GAC+RO for drinking, cooking, etc. ideally gets almost everything for water you ingest. RO is not good at providing high flow rates without giant reserve tanks, so it's a reasonable trade off. The cost is not bad, each system is a couple hundred bucks, and simple enough to DIY install if you're so inclined.
Zoning regulations are over a century old.
Which would inevitably lead to a continuous stream of unprovable, yet also undisapprovable, allegations against every subsequent candidate. We saw the beginnings of that in the clearly fabricated follow up accusations.
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+1. FlyerTalk is excellent. There are some seriously experienced travelers on that site, and reading comments from 2000 is always fun.
This leaves me with so many follow up questions:

+ Are there practical problems using this in the real world?

+ Are there implementations of fountain codes?

+ Why haven't we replaced our traditional file transfer processes with fountain codes?

Could someone familiar with the topic please answer?
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Hi,

I'm creating a bot on the Telegram platform to access live voter results for the midterm elections tomorrow. I was wondering does anyone have or know of an API that will provide live information tomorrow?

Thanks,
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> As part of city law, San Francisco requires property owners renting out units for less than 30 days to register with the city’s office of short-term rentals, as well as be a permanent resident of that unit.

As far as I can tell, AirBnb is blatantly complicit in allowing renters to violate this law. When I moved to SF I stayed in an AirBnb for a few weeks. It didn't occur to me when I booked that it could have been an illegal operation. Once I became aware, I looked up the public records and, lo and behold, there was no short term rental permit.
There is a difference between giving money to corporations and not taking away money from corporations. I realize a lot of people have the opinion that not taking something they already have is equal to giving them a handout but it really isn't.
Considering that the legalities of web scraping are nebulous, at what point does a tutorial describing something questionable become immoral.

- Torrenting 101

- Idiots Guide to Making Fake Accounts

- Phishing: For Beginners

- DDOS and Other Neat Tricks!
One never has absolute dominion over their property in the way you’re framing it, nor should they. The city has a right put restrictions on how land (which really ought to be a common resource anyway!) is used.
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If you'd like an example for how better to treat others on this site, look no further than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18382766.
Not OP, couple rando suggestions:

High concept sci-fi:. Three body problem by Liu cixin, or A deepness in the sky by Vernor vinge

Character drama: 11/22/63 Stephen king, or really almost anything by him

Don't underestimate lit-trash -- it's worlds better than Twitter -- Lee child jack reacher novels are fun, so were the original Tom Clancy run. Altered carbon on the cuberpunk front.

And of course the classics if you're willing to invest -- most of them are worth it, otherwise they wouldn't be classics
Strangely, you also can't turn your apartment building into a sweatshop.
Whales. People with huge amounts of disposable income. People who spend a lot. People who have a giant size portfolio. Etc. It's a term I've seen used in a number of different context but always eluding to someone with a ton of money.
The hw drives absolutely perform better if you have a raid.
I predict Amazon will acquire Lyft in the next 18 months
He called IT with the same complaint multiple times a week.

The IT team realized that they just had to do something to make him happy when in reality they did nothing at all.
I'll bite:

The two precedents cited both involved Turner Broadcasting, a cable company. Searching both opinions, the term "internet" does not appear once. Gorsuch's assertion that these precedents decided that "the First Amendment bars the Government from restricting the editorial discretion of Internet service providers" is therefore wrong, bordering on dishonest.

The idea that "Congress did not clearly authorise the FCC to issue the net neutrality rule." is some new far-right legal theory. The whole idea of agencies like the FCC is to implement the specifics of relevant laws. Rule-making is half of what agencies do, the other half being the enforcement of these laws and rules. This task of specification is delegated to agencies because they are better set up to react to changing circumstances. Almost by definition the rules and regulations they establish are not "clearly authorised by congress", at least not by what Gorsuch seems to be alluding to with "clear authorisation", i. e. the rule itself already being specified in the authorising legislation. Instead, congress tasks agencies with a set of subjects and/or industries, a set of principles, and a best-effort set of initial rules they can think of. The agencies then operate within that framework.

Indeed, there is even a second meaning of the very word AGENCY: the capacity to act independently and to make free choices.

I'll do the rest as just quoting the most preposterous ideas:

* "[net neutrality] fundamentally transforms the Internet by prohibiting Internet service providers from choosing the content they want to transmit to consumers and from fully responding to their customers' preferences. The rule therefore wrests control of the Internet from the people and private Internet service providers and gives control to the Government."*

Jesus fucking christ.

Some of the same entities that provide cable television service — colloquially known as cable companies — provide Internet access over the very same wires. If those entities receive First Amendment protection when they transmit television stations and networks, they likewise receive First Amendment protection when they transmit Internet content. It would be entirely illogical to conclude otherwise

Jesus fucking christ.

the FCC has not shown that Internet service providers possess market power in a relevant geographic market.

Jesus fucking christ.
Personally, I see no problem with Airbnb and I think the government forcing you to be licensed is bad.

Airbnb has a review system for a reason. If it’s a shitty place, you write a review and other people will be less inclined to rent.

I’ve been in hotels that were shitty and licensed. I’ve been in airbnb rentals that were cheaper and better taken care of. I’ve also been in great hotels and shitty Airbnb’s.

How is suing two property owners a win for city licensed landlords? Are they getting the 2+million? No? Oh the city is getting it for “reasons” and calling it a win.

Stupid.
I am, but it is subtle.
BiggerPockets.com is great for real estate (but beware of the scammers).

bogleheads is great if you're into personal finance of all sorts

airliners.net is great if you're into airline operations; PPRuNe.org too
The hotels can gouge them harder, or the hotels can be worth the $50 price, etc
How does a user distinguish?

For instance say you want to go to example.com, and it says “you need to trust X CA”. Ignoring that a user doesn’t know what that even means, all of history demonstrates that a user’s goal when encountering a barrier in the way of something they want is to get rid of the barrier. Arguing for user education isnt the right response because technology needs to be designed to work with humans, not the other way round.

Instead we defer to groups like the various CARB orgs to ensure that the trust stores contain only robust CAs. Historically there have been few teeth as evicting CAs from the truststores is hard - look at how long the Symantec distrust is taking, and look at how many people (incl. HN commenters) have argued against it.

That said the addition of things like CT logs has finally given trust stores a view into what is being issued, so can finally detect poorly run CAs at the time that screw up, rather than maybe catching them months later, if at all. That then provides the evidence needed to justify distrusting a ca or auditor.

That is all a large amount of exceedingly technical work, that no regular user could hope to grasp and make a reasonable choice about.

Instead the market pressure is as it should be for CAs now: ensure you are following the rules, or risk distrust. That is pretty much the most effective market pressure you can have in the CA market.
Case in point: people pay for health services.
Check out sedutil it makes using opal drives easy.
Dude that’s eminent domain _prima facie_.
> along with hardware encryption

Why? Why not just use software encryption?
“Letting supply and demand decide” means deciding to give the housing to whoever will pay the most: which group do you think will pay more, the entire world of tourists who want to visit SF on vacation or people who live here?

Which of these groups do you think it is more important to serve?
Ask HN: How can I use my software development skills to help people with Cancer?
I am a childhood cancer survivor myself, and I have recently been trying to find ways that I can use my software engineering skills to help people currently going through the disease.

I am wondering if anyone knows of any companies, non-profits, or research groups that could use that kind of help.

Cancer treatment is obviously very uncomfortable, costly, and greatly reduces the quality of life for people. Especially children. If I could improve the process in any way using my trade I would like to do so.
If it's the names and addresses of advertisers who have been found to violate laws, yes
We already know that self proclaimed aficionados can’t tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine.

It’ll be interesting to see if they can tell the difference between authentic wine and lab-made.

I saw some vegan mince the other day that looked indistinguishable from the real thing.
What is the actual cost for Stripe Atlas?
Look I had to be sure, I've never seen anyone actually suggest eminent domain so casually before. The only times I've seen it have been in grainy, fuzzy news reports from the 80's.
Texas is aggressively pro-life. They strictly regulate abortion clinics in particular.
I agree that, subjectively, it seems like the popular discourse surrounding the nature of science is not exactly philosophically rigorous. And I agree that some people seem to hold quasi-religious views of science.

Maybe I totally misunderstood OP, but it seemed like they were conflating the state of popular discourse with the state of academic philosophy.

As an aside, I don’t think that people are likely to stop trusting in science or the scientific community because of the state of discourse surrounding science. I think that people are much likely to distrust science simply because they don’t like certain findings or it’s not politically aligned with them, imho. At least in America.
Turing machines can also provide "answers" to uncomputable problems; even regular automata can do that. It's very easy to convince yourself that a human given pen and paper can simulate Turing machines. It is completely unclear how you would convince yourself that Turing machines can't simulate humans. So until we have concrete evidence I really don't see the point of assuming that humans can compute uncomputable functions.