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> I think the point was to simplify the JS Prototype syntax to be more "normal-looking" and less confusing to devs

So they bolted on an incompatible thing that hides prototypes and is confusing to devs:

class C {
y = 10;

// this fine. "methods" defined as class properties
// have access to proper `this` due to how class properties work
// and scoping rules
x = () => if(this.y > 10) this.y = 10;

constructor() {
// if you don't bind `this`, `method()` will not have access
// to `this`
this.method = this.method.bind(this)
}

method() {
// will refer to a wrong `y` if `this` isn't bound
// in the constructor
this.y++;
}
}
Buying a home isn't universally difficult across the entire country.

This article wasn't about housing in the US, it was about housing in the UK.

I believe the US is one of the few OECD countries where housing is actually affordable, 3-4 times median income across the whole country IIRC.
I've just tried to unsteg one of my real games to find out if I had anything smart to say, but got "chess-steg.js:139 Uncaught URIError: URI malformed"
I have lived in FL my whole life and believe me when I say that the tech jobs were the ONLY thing I have ever felt like I was missing. And after having built a career over the last decade or so on this coast and having learned a bit more about who I am and what I really want, I don’t miss the FAANG jobs either. It’s fantastic here, and I’d recommend it to anyone.
Yes, but I think what is being argued above is "my authority is more qualified than your authority"
Developers are a big problem in large cities. They buy up properties in bulk, build larger townhouses and condos; and turn a huge profit by charging higher prices for less land. The phenomenon of immigrant families packing into houses is significantly less impactful than developers packing dozens of families into land that previously held a few smaller dwellings.

Stop the focus on poor immigrants -- they aren't stealing your money and land. That's what rich developers do, and much more effectively than immigrants could ever muster
Interesting. Have you done any write-ups or have any more information out there? As a developer with a degree in finance, this kind of stuff interests me.
As I mentioned below, the ifs were due to short-circuiting. Just replace || with |.

Actually, I just tried that on MSVC, and to my surprise it became slower a little bit.

See remove_scalar_2 here: https://godbolt.org/z/taCqw9
In mobile, you have to click the text --- a href the whole button
You could, though I've found analog jungle logic to do things like this tends to end in sorrow. With a watchdog uP you can also force the host to verify it's actually functioning. Bonus is that cures 'failed to boot properly' Which happens.

We do that to avoid having to send out a tech. Amusingly a friend maintains a similar system on satellite hardware.
> since San Fran is cold,

Cold compared to where? (Maybe your reference is Honolulu and Miami?) What part of SF are you talking about?

The lowest low temperatures of the year where I live in SF are among the highest anywhere in the country. We use a heater around this time of year, but it would be reasonably comfortable to go without.

It is sunny most of the time, I would say at least 250 days/year. The typical day throughout most of the year is “warm”: the kind of weather for wearing jeans and a long sleeved shirt (so the sleeves can be rolled up or down), but no sweater.

It is seldom “hot” (occasionally temperatures in the 90°F range), and average high temperatures in the summer are cooler than most of the continental US. We don’t use AC at all.
Unless you have major insider information, the market will usually correct before you can cash out. If you have the cash available, you can jump on a good deal the second it becomes available, especially in a downturn when others are having trouble coming up with the cash. It all depends on how risk-free you want to be of course, good luck!
At Fidelity at least, you can auto-roll direct buys from the Treasury. So it's pretty set and forget.
Glad we have a reasonable person here.

Ive done the math for Food as well, the prices arent 'going up' like people claim.

The only thing that has went up, is inflation.
I had the same experience of forgetting musical ideas when I had no means to record them. It was incredibly frustrating. Now I just use Voice Memos on my phone for that purpose (hum if I’m away from home, otherwise piano).
We should not neglect Josiah Willard Gibbs's notational contribution, either.

We otherwise hear of Gibbs mainly when we mention Gibbs free energy.
No-

static isDog (animal) {
return Object.getPrototypeOf(animal).constructor.name === this.name;
}

Yes-

static isDog (animal) {
return animal instanceof Dog;
}
Your position isn't unique.

I own my home, but if the market drops I will purchase another property and rent it out. Also will probably gift my kids a downpayment so they can get in the market too.

My point is, because there are a lot of people ready to jump in, I don't see a significant pullback coming
Mint does this for some banks and uses proper APIs for others (Wealthsimple, for example).
By the time I was mid 30's (I'm in my mid-40s now) I had 2 bachelor degrees, a masters degree, was married, had a bunch of kids, was in our second house, was at my second company, was working on saving for retirement, etc. But all of my millennial coworkers in their mid 30s are single with no kids, none own a home (they are all in apartments), usually don't stay at a salaried job for more than a few years, they tend to move around a lot (apartment to apartment, state to state, company to company), etc. They are basically where I was when I was in my early 20s. I'll be interested to see what happens over the next 15 years. Will they be where I am now when they reach their early 50s? Or are they forging an entirely new path that doesn't include a spouse, kids, a house, a salaried job, a 401k/roth account, etc.?
What? That goes against all Boomer logic.

They'd vote to reclassify their house as a crypt to permanently take it off the market, die surrounded by their possessions and ensure their children and children's children inherit nothing.
> I wish all programs that rely heavily in shortcuts also had a search bar for users still not proficient with the program.

Maybe, this feature request[0] would be implemented very soon ;-)

UPD: Added few mockups into description of feature request![0]

P.S.: Issue with saving customized shortcuts in Olive just fixed![1]

[0] https://github.com/olive-editor/olive/issues/259

[1] https://github.com/olive-editor/olive/issues/250
Signal does at least allow you to require a pin which must be known in order to re-register your phone number. Does this mitigate your concern about phone numbers being stolen?

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Re...
This would be a perfect application built on top of sandstorm.io (which has the model of individual user run apps where there is no possibility of leakage between users).
Sounds reasonable. But there also are other thing to do like developing infrastructure, adjusting zoning and developing public transport so all the jobs won't tend to concentrate in big city centers and there would be more land suitable for housing.
If you are currently using an Instant Messenger like WhatsApp, Viber, LINE, Telegram or Threema, you should pick an alternative here.

src=https://www.privacytools.io/#im
Or because it was already taxed identically to other assets but for some reason people are mad that it wasn't spent fast enough.
My thoughts exactly, this whole story is textbook spook shit. Any of the involved parties may have any number of hidden motivations for lying to everybody. Normal analysis of news stories assumes that at least some of the involved parties are relatively neutral and at least aren't intentionally lying, and that conspiracies rarely happen. That all goes out the window when you're dealing with intelligence agencies.

Take Roswell for instance. The government said it was a weather balloon. Conspiracy theorists said it was aliens. "Rational skeptics" said it was an experimental aircraft that the government covered up with the weather balloon story. Paranoid "rational skeptics" said it was an experimental aircraft and that the government had seeded the aliens conspiracy theory to distract anybody skeptical of the official weather balloon story.

The reality? It seems clear now that it was a balloon, but not a weather balloon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul Everybody got misdirected.
Plain text in Simplenote, synced across my devices (optionally share notes with my wife).
I tried it and my (albeit 2 year old) Synology ds416j didn't have the horsepower for the app.

Please forgive the self-plug, but if you have the time and inclination, I'd love to get your feedback by trying a beta build of PhotoStructure, which currently has ports for Mac, Linux, and Windows, but I've designed it to also be runnable on headless boxes, like on your NAS (I just haven't had the time to build installers and updaters for those platforms yet, and frankly I have no idea what the demand would be for those ports).

The signup is on the home page, https://photostructure.com/. Feel free to send me an email at hello (at) photostructure.com if you have any other questions.
So explain what's the tangible difference between receiving benefits while the parent is alive and after they're dead? Either way the child is inheriting economic wealth they didn't produce, which shines a light on the horrendousness of your argument.
The Mother of All Demos.

I'm tired of talks. I would much rather most hackers organize their thoughts and set them down for posterity in the form of essays, white papers, and the like, rather than succumb to the temptation of listening to oneself speak. If one must present, either set it down in written form also (slides don't count), or have something so mindblowing to present that no writing can do it justice (as Engelbart did). Otherwise, making me sit through a video instead of reading what you're trying to say is simply wasting my time.

The curse of "documentation by talk" -- which I hope more Hackernews will join me in excoriating -- has become particularly pernicious, especially among millennial and younger programmers.
My point on the tax incentives were that current homeowners are grandfathered into their mortgages (assuming they bought before Dec. 2017).

Regarding state property taxes, I think they are treated as a local tax - so it wouldn't affect NY or SF given that their state income tax is likely to be higher. Your point is true in other geos though.
I just opened this CIT bank 2.45% savings account (biggest nationally available one I've seen by far): https://www.doctorofcredit.com/new-leader-cit-bank-2-45-savi...
If this dispersed collection of ideas from so many minds ticking away over time holds potential to improve the world, can we tap it?

Is there some way to make visible and actionable this potentially vast resource?

An open source model for ideation?

A marketplace for ideas, insights, observations?
Yes have fun working your FAANG job, paying a giant chunk of your gross earnings to the state, and then sitting in traffic driving past homeless people IN THE SMOG for hours on the way to your tiny house each evening. Is it worth it? To me, unless my family was from the area I would never entertain going to such a place.
Interesting. Came across this recently on David Lynch / Angelo Badalamenti's free-jazz record's album cover.

https://thoughtgang.bandcamp.com/
Well I knock off a more than one. You do realize that length of a queue may be totally orthogonal to throughput.

And oh I sure have looked at them, but havent grokked them. Once I do that or I come back to them again and again then they get bumped to a bookmark. Lets say they are part of my job and leisure, sometimes I lose track which is which.

Think generational garbage collection. Tabs and bookmarks are the different generations. I still like tabs better as they preserve more context.

Btw some jobs require more researching than others. Regarding "madness" yes I agree.
They very much do, the UK is becoming a nation of renters where we were previously a nation of home owners.
Show HN: Git Admin. A CLI for Remotely Managing GitHub Repositories (Beta)
Why Your Ice Cream Will Ride in a Self-Driving Car Before You Do
FWIW, roughly 12% of US households have a net worth of 1M or greater.
Lovely post, but I now realize that I am rather ignorant of the interplay between processes and the kernel with regards to memory allocation.

Any ideas on cool stuff to read to remedy this?
> Also, I have to say that elixir developers are generally not very experienced with it and seem to be generally less desirable than the people who are working with scala.

Scala has been around for 14 years and is built on top of a much more used VM compared to Elixir. Given Scala's growth, it is expected that Scala developers are more experienced as they have been around for longer. Scala also had more time to spread to comp-sci fields, especially as it is taught by many universities. All thanks to Scala's merits, of course!

So while I agree that experience is a factor, I wouldn't draw conclusions that those are intrinsic to Elixir or to its users. I also have heard of companies that had no trouble to hire Elixir developers (some have 80 Elixir devs and growing) and some that had many difficulties. As with any other technology, YMMV.
>A $150k loan in 1999 at 7.6% would cost you $1,059/mo in mortgage payment. A $300k loan at 4% today will cost you $1,432/mo - a 35% increase over the original price, not the 100% you'd expect. Meanwhile, you aren't paying 2x per square foot - you're getting roughly twice as much house as you did before for that price, for only a 35% increase in payment!

But I don't want twice the floor space in an exurb. I want a modest apartment or condo near transit.
If you use modules with opaque pointers, the types are incomplete and therefore their size is not known outside of the module. You can either make the type visible (against the idea of opaque pointers), modify the module to allocate a fixed set of instances (somewhat against the open/closed principle), or you let the module use malloc to allocate memory for new instances.
probably never, tbh. It isn't even that prevalent in the software industry which arguably is one the industry that it works best for.
Sadly can't help since I'm using Windows at home, didn't have any installation issues. Only gotcha so far is that one has to download a separate binary for the paid version of the app, there's no "activation" in the free version.
for people who got a lot of money once, you might say this
for people who display repeated success, you begin to realize that passion and perseverance are much more important than luck
We don't have a ton out there because we're still mostly pre-investment, but we have about 9k people signed up for the landing page we built - https://launch.trycrux.com and we should be able to start opening real accounts in the next few weeks
Traffic deaths in New York dropped to 200 in 2018, the lowest level in a century
I would expect better from the creator of Vue.js
Last I heard Threema was kind of third-place option behind Signal and WhatsApp, at least in terms of use in English-speaking countries. I had the impression it was significantly more popular in Germany, but I don't know anyone in my circles using it.

On the upside, I like that they have a business model ("Threema Work") and features that can make it viable for business use, though being European I don't know if they've bothered with anything related to HIPAA and I wouldn't expect them to support BAAs if required.
It was buried at the end of the article, but this is the creator’s Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/olivevideoeditor

I’d love to see Patreon grow as a viable way to fund open source projects.
My personal experience with Threema seems to differ from the general view on it: We use Threema for private communication within my team at work. I am the group admin. When my iPhone broke two years ago I had to do a full backup, because there is no other way on iOS to move to another phone with Threema. This has not changed since then, because I had the same issue when I upgraded to a new phone 2 months ago. It was not even possible to assign an additional admin nor to pass my permissions. A colleague had to clone the group (at least there is a function for that). Of course I still get push notifications for the old group- even though there is no way to join it from my new phone. The only thing that I like about it is the integrated poll feature.
Elixir is pretty fast, but far from the fastest or efficient. IMO if all you need is CRUD server that operates efficiently then elixir is probably the wrong choice unless you already know it. It does have some nice features within distribution and real-time stuff, but if you don't need that and don't know erlang or elixir I wouldn't use it.
??? Food is not an appreciating asset. An increase in food prices, as part of the CPI, is by definition, inflation. Home prices, in contrast, have for a long time risen much faster than inflation, at least in many areas.
I know, but I like to keep it simple and stupid for most people who aren't interested in the field. Marcus and others offer 2.25%. On a $100k downpayment, we're only talking about hundreds of dollars.
I wonder if anyone might have a hint on how I could create a certain behavior for TST.

Generally, I want the TST sidebar to be full width (~250 px) so I can read all the open tabs at once. But when I have several windows open on my screen, the TST bar can take up too much of the window and reduces usability. I'd like to have the TST sidebar to auto-collapse (so it expands on mouse-over) when the firefox window is less than (say) 500 px wide/50% of the screen width.
I think this is a case of don't feed the troll.

It's well established that the only British age group whose hostility to immigration approaches that of the troll's is the 65+ cohort he claims are "supporting measures to import" immigrants.
I think part of an overlooked view is many millennial aren't interested in owning a property and more than happy to rent for life.

I know that in some countries renting is the default mindset and it seems like within the UK priorities are shifting among that age bracket. I'd assume that's partly due to them not seeing property ownership as a realistic goal thanks to the price of them.

As a Guardian opinion piece [0] points out:
"Abandoning the hope of home ownership represents freedom for many millennials: it frees up cash that would otherwise go towards buying an asset into living in the present. That can mean renting a more comfortable room (or flat) in a nicer area, it can mean the difference between having enough money to go out or not, and it can even mean hiring a cleaner to make the overpriced rented flat a good deal nicer.

Home ownership is almost universally seen as a life goal, or a milestone of success. It needn’t be – not owning a home can be a real benefit for many younger adults. It gives us the freedom to move with work, and try to build savings for other purposes – insurance against getting laid off, for travel, or even for a 'fuck-off fund'."

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/20/millen...
One of my maths professors was a humorous guy and in his lectures would, as an ongoing joke, only explicitly credit Heaviside and Hungarians.
Errrr this type of stuff is the absolute bane of my Lichess rating
Here's a good community for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/

It avoids the rabid anti-feminism of way too many male-centric spaces, while also avoiding the de-centering of men that tends to happen in more moderate spaces (remember The Good Men Project?).
Energy, AI, Healthcare: none of these are problems. They are all ways to solve problems, or at best domains that constrain thinking.

Energy is a field/domain, there are problems you can solve here, but they could tend towards optimization or soln looking for problems

AI is overloaded, but again is more tool than problem. Healthcare the same, very wide, not often problem fixing.

an interesting observation is find where domains intersect. this allows you to focus on an area where few have/are venturing. giving you a rich seam to mine, and ROI on your time.

as always choose your own adventure, who are we to say what is 'right'. good luck!
This seems fairly pointless
If you’re going to be a landlord, better to own property well suited to that purpose. At least in my area it’s a lot more efficient to own many low-cost properties than a few middle-cost ones.
Honestly? It reminds me of Twitter, or what the platform enables. Like how the OP just sends themselves messages, it's easy to open up Twitter and send out a bite-sized idea to share across the world.

Mastodon could probably fill a similar niche
Ask HN: What is your favorite paid app on iphone?
Since I spent a lot of time on my phone, I figured it’s worthy to buy paid apps to improve experience/productivity. What’s your favorite paid app that you use daily?
The problem is, this is everyone's plan, for almost every type of investment. I am also throwing cash into a money market account instead of the market, as is everyone else.

I believe that any correction will be stabilized by this kind of behavior.
It is tragically funny how many people like and how many people dislike Ecto. :) I guess that's "ORM"s in a nutshell? Which is totally fine, of course!
Could you please review Shotcut a bit further?

I haven't tried it but have had success with OpenShot. I don't remember why I picked it over Shotcut, but it did what I needed and never crashed; just was slightly lacking in features, like reorganizing the timeline - I think I couldn't multi-select components.
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Hospitals
Someone else just suggested this on Twitter, but sadly the results are pretty much the same: https://twitter.com/Jonhoo/status/1082014596028715008
Reminder that Plaid doesn't know what their doing when it comes to security: https://github.com/plaid/link/issues/68
What if I get a new number whose previous owner had registered it with Signal?
Neat. Did you also make the music?
Hospital Prices Now Public. What Does It Mean?
All my banking sites are constantly wanting to send me a text to verify a code before I can login. Do you have that problem?
Threema is “big” in German speaking countries - they’re usually high up the paid app charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and may have reached a level where (social) network effects are working in their favor.

They got a significant boost in German press and downloads when Facebook bought WhatsApp which seems to have propelled them ever since.

What’s interesting about this is it shows that while the majority “don’t care about privacy” a significant minority do care - enough to allow a company to thrive.
Ah good point, especially in high CoL areas as well. I know a lot of well paid millennials who are ready to jump in at the sight of first blood.

We're not trying to time the market per se since we're on track to reach our target for a solid downpayment and enough reserve funds to avoid being "house poor". The market has never gone down while I've been invested so this is all new territory, we're just trying to get as much info as we can before pulling the trigger, also there is some uncertainty regarding our long term location so that has a chilling affect as well.
"Decent" school means full of kids who come from stable homes with parents who have stable, median+ incomes. Private schools in cities can accomplish this by charging $20k+ per year in tuition, and people who can't afford private schools can opt to live in suburban school districts where there are mostly homes therefore it's auto-selected mostly for kids whose parents are able to own homes.