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I am confused. Everything I read on the website is very vague.

What exactly is their issue with Apple? Apple is already privacy focused. I can imagine what it could be (mistrust of closed source, big corporations) but they never say so. What exactly are they building? Are they just a distro or are they building their own software?

EDIT: All the replies focus on Apple. But my point is not that Apple is privacy-friendly. When I say Apple is privacy-focused, I just mean Apple claims they focus on privacy. They can disagree, but should provide some arguments.
Don't we deal with the variability of natural products in lots of places by grading? This example is not structural, but every piece of beef has a USDA grade.

I think it is a matter of coming up with a standard (maybe it is imaging each piece of bamboo) means of categorizing the qualities of concern, and then selling in grades. Each grade would indicate a minimum quality or set of qualities.
I’ve been told by Indonesians their style is to dive head first into the water, then check for rocks. Yes safety is a big issue there and causes a huge amount of needless suffering.
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> 2008 wiped out a good portion of home builders / construction workers.

In the US/Ireland/Spain maybe, in most countries house prices didn't fall - they rose with the low interest rates.
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Moving a git repo is easy, but have you found any "not entirely hard" way to export Issues from GitHub? All I've found so far is essentially "here's an API, build it yourself".
It is not emitted in similar quantities to CO2. It is remarkable that practically all of the charts of greenhouse gases show methane as a fraction already multiplied by its Global Warming Potential factor. Its sensible to present the gases already weighted, but when its not explicit enough and raw figures by weight are hard to come by - its pretty natural to do the math again and re-multiply by the GWP factor - resulting in a shocking discovery that methane is widely misunderstood or misreported.

However, global anthropogenic emission of methane is about 300 Tera-grams per year [1]. Anthropogenic emission of CO2 is about 35 Giga-tonnes per year.

300 Tera-grams is 0.3 Giga-tonnes

300 Tera-grams of CH4 degrades in about 10 years into about 0.5 Gigatonnes of CO2. About 1.5%, one sixtieth of the CO2 problem which can last hundreds of years. Methane emissions present 10-15% of the immediate and near term problem - thats less than half, less than a quarter... seriously, its about an eighth. After 10-15 years the elimination of methane, eliminates about a sixtieth of the global warming emissions problem. This will be why the IPCC presents CO2 as the major issue, because they do find and show that it is.

[1] (Table 1) http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roypta/369/19...
Why on earth would you target only female mosquitos!? The males are rare and required to make more females. Seems like you would want to blast away with indifference.

Yes, I am aware the females bite. Males are much more rare, is the goal individual death or is it population control?
I avoid nautilus, and find it sad to see them on the front of hn so often. They are really bending the definition of scientific journalism out of shape. I try to avoid metaphysics in my information intake thank you.
Linkedin. There are some options that you can enable that will put you on the recruiting radar, and depending on your profile, you should see an uptick in linkedin messages from recruiters.
It's very similar to the work of Shigeru Ban who has done a lot of work with paper tubes and timber. Some of his work is visually spectacular. There are some photos on his wikipedia profile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Ban
That wasn't consistent at my school, but classes that did derive everything from first principles were consistently the best ones.
> ...London, Dresden, Leningrad, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc -- not to mention the Holocaust itself...

Don't forget the deaths in China and the rest of Asia. The estimate of 17-22 million civilians dead is around double even that of the Holocaust.
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Why would it cause breadlines? Are people going to stop baking bread?
This is true for type 2, one of my cousins was able to lose enough weight with a more proper diet and exercise, got his body functioning more normally without the need of insulin shots any longer. Obviously it takes effort, time and a lot of dedication to keep yourself in a good diet and exercise routine.
I don't understand how the bank can afford to pay out a 21% interest rate.
Counterpoint: you’re probably not causing more work.

Maybe your app is that simple, and maybe moving a lot of it to JS/AJAX would make it more complicated and less accessible to the end user.
what's the tl;dr? I only read the primae facie rights section and 1) this is reasoning by analogy, 2) the analogies don't make sense..
Medicare and Medicaid together are the federal government’s biggest expense. That’s not counting other federal health care spending, like VA or ACA related items, nor does it count state contributions to Medicaid. Or CHIP for that matter.

About 20% of Americans have Medicaid, and about 20% have Medicare. There is some, but not much, overlap, so the total percentage doesn’t hit 40%. Health care needs to be better in the US, but it’s misleading to suggest that huge amounts (trillions of dollars) of government money aren’t already being spent on it.
However, the problem is that loans are an extrapolation of 30 years of income. So in a boom portion of the cycle, we over project an unsustainable income but in the bust portion, we under project. There is an inherit recency bias in the loan approval process.

When coupled with an interest rates that are far below the historical median, there is an implication that a buyer can take out more debt than in any other economic conditions.

This is a great resource to understand macroeconomic debt cycles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

However in a place like Toronto, I imagine there could be a lots of regional factor that would be more significant than interest rates:
- Gentrification
- Zoning Restrictions
- Increase in Population
- Geographic constraints (like bridges, freeways, school districts)

Personally, I suspect you'll do quite well in Toronto but every housing market faces headwinds at some point.
I honestly don’t understand why you’re getting down voted when all you’re doing is explaining the design decisions behind your own utility.
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But cities provide you with a means to find a community if you really want one. It's a lot harder and/or less convenient to find groups that do what you like to do if you live in a suburb.
Same here. Additionally it's pretty dumb to use special characters in an actual name, especially one that short. Search for "/e/" on Google and you should get results for everything about the letter e. What does it even mean?
I think your understanding is correct, but what /e/ is trying to provide is a more consistent, unified experience. Lacking Google services, you're sort of on your own trying to get what many people consider "basic" smartphone features: email, maps, cloud backups, etc.

I don't know if they'll succeed, but I fully endorse the idea of some umbrella project trying to put together a pleasantly integrated smartphone experience that doesn't rely on the tech giants.

Maybe /e/ will become the Gnome project of smartphones.
It’s Indonesia, engineer doesn’t really mean what we think in the west. It’s more that someone is passionate about something, not that they have a civil engineering degree and are building to some code. There are engineers like we’d think in Indonesia of course, but they’re unlikely to work on a western lady’s pet project and are going to be a lot more expensive.
How much of this loneliness is caused by romantic longing? Marriage is increasingly devalued, the age of virginity loss is rising[1], maybe romantic partners just recently had a greater role in keeping these feelings at bay?

1.https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0614-yrbs.html
The author of the other project did challenge them though. Hence this entire thread ;)
There's also substantial evidence that Huawei was involved in the murder of a US citizen to cover up attempts to acquire classified US military technology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Shane_Todd

Financial Times story about the case:

http://ig-legacy.ft.com/content/afbddb44-7640-11e2-8eb6-0014...

Discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230585
No. Bamboo is genetically programmed to grow quickly; you cause it to halt by cutting it down.

;-)
Houses in the US are usually built with wood beams that are very variable in structural characteristics. Whole bamboo is probably more variable, but this isn't an insurmountable problem.
The Higgs boson was predicted in 1967 whereas the article talks about physics in the last 40 years, which excludes that prediction. 40 years is not a particularly cherry-picked number. If HEP hadn't produced a confirmed prediction in 30 years that still would be worth calling stagnation.

Your understanding of the scientific method is flawed. I can come up with thousands of HEP predictions that would be easily falsified, causing a proliferation of null results and all of them absolutely worthless.

A null result is useful when it points you in a better direction.
What do you recommend as an alternative? I prefer the phrasing, “what matters to you” or “what are you currently excited about”, but it’s the same basic thing.

I like being asked such questions because they let me guide the conversation and decide how much I want to disclose, which is the reverse of how many people here interpret these questions. Beats getting stuck in a shallow conversation that neither party really cares about. You have to actually be interested though and open for any response. I’ve had great conversations about everything from Warcraft to politics to medical school just by being interested in what the other person is saying
Structural engineers are weird. They want to be able to guarantee that a structure can withstand a certain load. Eg. They'll calculate the maximum load the floors will take (eg. if its an office and filled with filing cabinets) and then multiply that by a safety factor of 10 and design the structure to support that, at the very least. They'll probably make it even stronger so the structure never even flexes (which is not unsafe but it can just unsettle people)

The goal is, it is impossible for this structure to fail under any likely conditions, so eg. any kind of wind load thats been experienced in so many decades.
Not the parent commenter, but in my experience, lots. When we had block parties, the whole block, non-children-having folks and kids alike, was involved. In fact, the parents in particular seemed to really enjoy these BBQ times because they got to have conversations with other adults while the collective kids of the neighborhood ran around doing their own thing. It was fun!
Typically our view of the outer world is a reflection of our view of the inner world, and usually that state is obscured and perpetuated by fear/clinging to an idea of security.
Why does everyone keep repeating this idea that Apple is the privacy company? They are just less bad than Google, but that isn't saying much. It's a marketing point for apple, but they still collect hoards of data and work directly with governments and agencies.
> I’m getting trolled

In other words you have no rational or thoughtful response and have for the second time decided to use ad hominem attacks, this time the highly sophisticated one known as name calling.
Apple costs a fortune and only runs on specialized hardware.

As technologists, I think we should stand against the notion that personal privacy is a luxury feature for those wealthy enough to afford it.
Probably because local currency. Different currencies have different inflation rates.
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Why doesn't nnn remember where you are in a directory? It seems natural to me that "hl" should preserve your state, e.g. "hhll" should take you back to the same place you were in.

Was it an intentional design choice to make "l" put you back on the first entry in the directory? Why?
What about construction costs? In the US costs have gone up due to:

- Tariffs which affect steel and timber

- higher wage costs due to low unemployment (perhaps the most benevolent of the list)

- a construction boom in certain areas (Brooklyn comes to mind) leading to a scarcity of construction professionals being available

I'm sure 'new construction' costs being high affects the prices of second-hand properties, which scale up. Even more so if they're renovations.
The particular style of the house in the video is just one many possible designs. I’m sure there’s nothing to stop one from using bamboo in a more calculated design.
> I wonder if there are similar courses on CS algorithms for people who didn't study CS in college.

This might be a bit more challenging and less hand holding than the nand2tetris course but if you are up for it, why not go with the best? Sedgewick Algorithm book has been one of the standard algorithm books in universities for a long time.

https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/

https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1

https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part2
Unless they’re your customers, worry not about the nerd-crew. They’re (we’re?) often an anti-signal if anything.
And it's (so far) not discontinued.
Everyone spends their time on many different things. If you ask the question in such a way that it doesn't require the work/school/unemployed answer, then the question in effect becomes: "Of all the different activities on which you consistently spend time, which is the one you most want to talk about?" That might be a pretty decent way to get people to start talking about something they're genuinely interested in.
The process of open-sourcing BuzzFeed’s single sign-on experience
A little web proof of concept for Stegano
Reproducing my comment from this video: Regarding the short cure time of the epoxy, why not put it in the vacuum with only the resin, and add the hardener only after the ethanol is evaporated?
I partially agree with your point. It's not "big business" in the sense of involving lots of people and large sums of money (a few inventions do end up being big, say blue lasers, but the research end of that work is rarely big on any business scale). The actual sums of any grant are typically shockingly low and even the sum of all government research grants is a pretty small number world wide.

However what has materially changed is that general publicity of research objectives and even some goals has been found valuable by the various research institutes (for helping get grants and donations) so that has really become important. Which, as a onetime scientist, I find a bummer.

(I felt it worth responding because the meme "research is big business" has itself been used as fake news fodder for attacking results (e.g. climate change) that some people don't like. I didn't interpret your comment that way, BTW, but still felt it needed pointing out).
This is a valid critique of the design of that particular building, but not of bamboo as a building material.
I'm building a gift for someone else that uses a RasPi internally, and thus needed a user friendly way for them to configure its WiFi connection. It's been ... quite the adventure (mostly because I'm dumb).

My first idea was to put an OLED and a rotary encoder on the box. That way they can do a special dance on the button to enter setup mode, scroll through a list of wifi networks, and then tediously scroll through letters to enter the wifi password. I found a 1" OLED for cheap, and already needed a button for other things, so this was a cheap, effective solution.

But having to tediously type out a password with a knob sounded very user unfriendly.

Then I realized I could bring out a USB port, and they could plug in a USB keyboard! So I worked on that for bit. It's a lot easier to use. And the whole keyboard + tiny OLED idea was kinda fun.

But then I remembered the idea of doing a WiFi AP dance. That's where the device broadcasts as an AP, you connect with your phone, browse to a webpage to tell the device your Wifi network's info, and done! It's a solution that doesn't require an OLED or for me to bring out a USB connection. Cheaper and less mechanical engineering.

To that end I found Mozilla's IoT project which, conveniently, has RasPi compatible code for doing just that dance: https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway-wifi-setup (By the way, Mozilla's IoT project is neat and worth checking out).

That setup is quite similar to OP, except it doesn't require a separate app. Its downside is requiring the user to mess with the wifi settings on their phone. Not a huge deal (for my target audience) but can be annoying. (Hence why OP's project uses the Bluetooth connection; Smart!)

I've been tinkering with this on and off for about two weeks. While I wasn't thrilled with the solution, it was at least usable, cheap, and easy. ... then I realized I was dumb.

I have a camera on the device. I could just have them go to a website, punch in their wifi info, encode that as a QR code, and have them show it to the camera... (It'd be a secure website I set up, so no security hygiene problems). Same benefits of being cheap and easy, while being easier to use. Using `pyzbar` to do real-time QR detection I had something working within an hour. Just hold your phone in front of the camera and it'll automatically detect, decode, and setup the wifi settings.

The only downside to this approach is that I can't conveniently display a list of nearby wifi networks; so they have to type their SSID manually.

Figured I'd share my comedy of errors in case someone is looking for ideas for wifi setup solutions. Obviously if you're just setting up a RasPi yourself it's easier to just pop a wpa_supplicant.conf on the SD card. (Though I wish Raspbian also had a way to configure hostname, authorized_keys, and disable ssh password authentication through boot files. Only way to do that today is by mounting the root filesystem which isn't convenient on, e.g., a Mac)
How do I clear my Internet browser history?
I'm a recent anglophone immigrant to Québec, currently midway through my francisation program. We spend a huge amount of time learning to converse with others about our daily routine, meals, etc. I wondered if the emphasis on these subjects was simply because everyone eats, or if there was a deeper cultural reason.
I think that's the point. They want to offer the same things as Google (search engine, apps, ...) but in a way that respects privacy.

So a logo with the same shape as the Google logo but with a different orientation makes a lot of sense.
"Clean code" is not some objective quality though. Does say the open/closed principle lead to clean code or to overly complex code? It depends on the use cases for the code which in turn depends on the business goals.
Source? Everything we've seen in terms of technical publication about the design of their software and hardware says the opposite. They're intentionally baking privacy into their services where others have done the exact opposite.
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Already being done to prevent explosions and to generate electricity in larger farms.
Your components are like Enyo's "Kinds". It packages DOM into the component in a similar way and you can run transform's from within the component. You can bind in a single line of code.
Yes, and he has received pointers on how he can reduce memory usage in his program (an issue he mentioned exists).
>Then what is its root cause?

I can only guess. I'll be thinking about it.

I will say that fear -- useful fear, wielded as a whip of control in various ways -- is central to any process of de-socialization.

And I know who surely has the greatest interest in de-socialization: the persons at the top of our economy.
In all seriousness, is it really worth the effort and added complexity, when HTML is going to be compressed on the wire? What are you going to save, maybe a few bytes?
It's doable without extra precision. SSE2 have some instructions operating on saturated integers, i.e. numbers stick to min/max instead of wrapping.
The interesting part to me was:

"investigations indicated that over 90 percent of mutual funds used inflated post-money valuations. For instance, funds holding different classes of stock in the same company, which clearly should have different prices, would show the same figure."

Using VC round "valuation" for your pricing? Wow.
Nobody is saying they shouldn’t, I have done exactly this, buying a house by taking the maximum mortgage I could afford to get the nices house I could get. We are just discussing the mechanism and forces at play and the role of interest rates.
I have a very different take. As someone who grew up in the 90s I draw the line at 9/11. That event ended the brief post cold war era of peace, prosperity, and optimism. We still have not recovered culturally from 9/11. The optimism of the 90s is literally unthinkable today. The terrorists won.
Bamboo is already incredibly strong as it is. The main concerns seem not to be about bamboo’s strength, but rather it’s susceptibility to insect attacks.
This is good fodder for a case that a public utility should produce these drugs. Of course that would freak various interests out so won't happen, at least in the US or EU.

A hybrid approach in the US has been fairly useful for orphan indications and, somewhat differently for vaccines, but of course jerks found ways to exploit that too. Still it points to a possibility.

But I favor a single utility making some small-molecule and biologic underserved drugs because of the economy of scale it could bring. A small NIH facility in some otherwise underserved part of the country could make a big difference at a relatively low cost.
Or questions are equally bad because it boxes someone into a binary choice. And that form you gave is far too long and still fairly specific. It is kind of open ended. But open ended questions should be incredibly targeted yet give a lot of leeway. "Oh you lived in Chicago? How did you like it?". "have you been on any trips lately".

You are dead on about dialing questions in after you get some responses though. But being incredibly vague and simple helps to open the conversation up. They have the ability to run any direction with the response. It works for personal relationships and professional interviews. Let the person talk and follow up from there.
Not at all. I, someone that too has lived in the US my entire life, have never seen any such competition.
are you sure about that? with hive mind mentality both are essentially a single entity working against you.
> nnn is probably the fastest and most resource-sensitive file manager you have ever used.

Volkov Commander is written in assembler, binary has 32KB with zero deps, memory requirements far bellow 1MB. It has better UI and more features.
My hassle is usually: Where do I dig up that keyboard and spare HDMI video source to bootstrap the Pi. Currently the MAME cabinet does that well, but not everyone has a MAME cabinet.
I expected this was true for the same reasoning when buying a home, but when I sampled the historical numbers, there was no strong relationship.

Bankrate came to similar conclusions:
https://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/rising-rates-lowe...

I think your reasoning is valid, so best I can figure it's because home prices and interest rates are both directly correlated with economic activity. So if the economy is heating up, that might drive up wages and interest rates and inflation, and you see interest rates and home prices go up in parallel.

The model of two simple variables tugging on each other breaks down when you add other factors, hence the weak relationship.