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You never really learn javascript, you learn frameworks. I was a js developer about 7-8 years ago and dabbled with jQuery , dojo and the likes and then moved over to backend and mobile development. I tried getting back into javascript again and realized that I just could not get in and start coding. There are a lot more frameworks now that I have to learn to get started and I'm sure that a few years down the line, these will become obsolete too.
Vulgar trademark will be subject of Supreme Court case
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829691

I'm on mobile, short of sleep, yadda. My comment in that discussion links to a useful list of freelance platforms.
This problem didn't start in 2017, it started with the Reagan presidency.
I think this is an easy and satisfying absolute to declare, but absolutes are often poison.
Sidestep it. There is VALIDITY to their concerns - vaccines may in some small amount of cases have serious side effects!

Ask about statistics, though. Have them show you the stats. Then ask this:

Would you not wear a seatbelt because in some rare cases the seatbelt can actually bring about a negative outcome?

Herd Immunity doesn’t apply to seatbelts but they are freeriding on others’ herd immunity.
I've architected Web Application that runs as in a) connected as in b) occasionally disconnected mode (LocalStorage + sync when online).

For #b SPA is the only option.
as a brown guy, i will never have the balls big enough to make comments like this.
It's just anecdotal but everyone I know who play Pokémon Go has disabled AR. I used it for a few minutes until I realized that playing the game is much easier with AR disabled. Pokémon Go isn't really an "AR game". It is a mobile game which has an optional AR feature.

More anecdotes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/9ic3pq/survey...
But it's only tangentially related to the article posted.
If it helps. Github is currently in beta for their own CI/CD platform: https://github.com/features/actions
That is going to be the least of the issues.
Even with a 100ms lag, conversation s still feel real time.
There's been a smear campaign for ages. The HB Gary/Palantir stuff was just the tip of the iceburg it seems.
Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic After Blockchain History Rewrites
I think you missed the <irony> tag in the OP.
Recently I tried to install Windows on some HP Elitebook, a few weeks back.

It didn't have drivers for the graphics card, nor both network interfaces (and several other internal devices). How am I supposed to download the network drivers without a working NIC?? (same machine, like many others, have no troubles with Ubuntu, out-the-box)

It was only so my wife (honest) could play The Sims 4. Fortunately, thanks to the hard work of the WINE developers, it runs flawlessly on Linux (small amount of trickery required for Origin).
Sometimes you end up freezing anyway - I remember one time on a field op we settled down for the night, and there was freezing rain out. We put a tarp in the dark over where we slept, and got greeted a few hours later with a flood of rain over all of us. It rained so much that our tarp gave way to the rain.
Power Delivery which is a recent part of the USB spec.
> AR is like a HUD for your life. It didn't take off with Google Glass

Google Glass isn't AR. AR is not a limited look-up display, it’s 3-D overlay on your field of vision with awareness of location and, ideally, recognition of and interaction with objects in your field of vision. In the limit case it subsumes VR, since the generated imagery can replace as much or as little of the real imagery as needed for the application.
Isn't that AR?
This doesn't work for things that are dynamically loaded into other applications (as VSTs are). In general, you need to be using the same version of the libraries as the rest of the application.
It does get better with practice. Many small sessions are better than one long session. Take it off right when you feel sick and don't try to push through. Try these exercises to increase your tolerance: http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/
Except this exact thing was accomplished and published a few months ago [1, 2]. The Baker lab at the University of Washington designed a synthetic fluorescent protein, de novo.

[1] Meta-Meta-Article: https://www.bakerlab.org/index.php/2019/01/02/nature-article...

[2] Actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0509-0
Why? I wish my parents would have been a little more hands on with a lot of this type of stuff.
That would have been cool before I moved all my private stuff to gitlab.com. Ah well, too late.
(2007)

Most successful prior posting; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598581
Appreciating this lays out the boundaries for the the more borderline stuff. An example of this, IMO, is things like unit testing and mocking frameworks. Most are pretty similar, and offer similar functionality, but perhaps with slight differences in capability or approach to solving common corner cases.

You might have some highly-specific need which demands a particular tool, but it's likely that you're best accepting whatever is most popular in your chosen ecosystem (gtest for C++, nose/tox for Python, etc).
Good timing. I switched over to GitLab this morning to host my dotfiles because I have no other use for private repos on my personal GitHub account.
It’s currently the de facto solution, and it’s on the way of becoming a monopoly.

9 out of 10 companies I’ve applied to asked for my GitHub profile explicitly; I presume they would be equally happy with a link to Bitbucket or GitLab but it just shows that GitHub has already won the mindshare by far -which comes as no surprise-.

Now that they are acquired by Microsoft, they have more resources than any of its competitors.
Currently "AR" and "VR" are used to differentiate to separate (but mostly decoupled) distinctions:

- Hardware: VR means full eye buffer coverage of both eyes with no transparent glass, AR means partial eye coverage with all pixels sharing visual field with incoming world photons.

- UX: VR typically means full environmental replacement with basic room and body tracking and AR means real world augmentation with virtual entities.

In the long run these are separate concerns. We are either wearing headsets with transparent surfaces or we aren't in the long run. This seems clear will have a 0/1 resolution. For the UX side, it seems unrelated -- presumably you should be able to move up and down the spectrum of full environmental override at any moment.

In the hardware sense, I expect VR style opaque hardware to win (with passthrough cameras to enable them to simulate transparent glass perfectly.) In the software sense the distinction becomes irrelevant. Through the lens of hardware full eye-covering visors seem to be likely to beat glass on the capability/cost curve readily over the next 5 years so my bet is on Jordi-like visors not glasses for daily drivers.
Why learning more isn’t always better
"Our mission is to serve people who are underserved because of their financial needs. We feel like we have to recoup what we're able to from people who are insured because we're supporting people who don’t have insurance."

Notice how they say "recoup what we're able to from people who are insured" -- not "from insurance companies." This comment is infuriating not because it's tone deaf, but because it's literally exactly what they're doing. They're asking insurance companies to pay $2,000, and Joe Policyholder to pay $20,000.

Does anybody actually think it's good policy to fund healthcare for the underserved by extorting tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident from the savings accounts of random injured people who have health insurance? The point of health insurance, and the reason it was deemed necessary for everybody to have, is that it's supposed to avoid exactly this scenario. What the fuck are we doing back here again?

There was comment on here a few weeks ago [1]:

> The reason that an advil at the hospital costs $200 is because they were afraid if they made it cost $20000 people would burn down the hospital.

I think these guys overshot.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719644
Two weeks later: "Marc Andreesen Launches VR Startup _____"

Personally, I hope VR doesn't catch on. Reminds me of the humans in WALL-E. Like others in this thread have said, VR at that scale would almost certainly be founded on addiction. No thanks..
CAELinux 2018, Open Source Engineering
I doubt it. If this was true, we'd already be there. We have teleconferencing and long distance communications already, and this doesn't really happen.

You would have to go beyond mere conferencing, and create specialized tools that can be interacted with in VR so people can produce something together that they couldn't before. There is little value in just having everyone pretend they're in an office.
I heard of them through some twitch streamers and it looked pretty good. I bought some of their lounge pants and they are really nice, easily one of the most comfortable items of clothing I own.
I personally think that VR will go the way of 3D television...
Azure Pipelines is already in the GitHub Marketplace and seems to be Microsoft's path they are paving.
Yes, Launch MSRPs were $400 and $500 for vega 56 and 64 respectively, and it seems like those cards are just now beginning to sell for around those prices.*

I suppose Nvidia and partners have no reason to compete with their last-gen inventory backlog at a similar price. However, it's nice to see some downward pricing pressure to the high-mid-range. I don't care all that much about gaming, but the chip famine made AMD Vega hardware (and everything else of course) a terrible value, which is sad because it seemed like nice hardware for compute. I also really like how recent AMD hardware Just Works on linux. Who'd have thunk it?

I have been buying used rx480/70 on ebay for $80-100, which is great if you don't mind flashing an original bios back on to a mining card (is the rom I downloaded from that Albanian carding forum really the right one? Grits teeth and hits enter). It would also be great though to just be able to buy a card the normal way, for a fair price.

Anyway, it's hard to imagine AMD doing the same trick they did with the rx590 to vega, like where they release the Vega Turbo OC'd flavor-blasted Thermopile edition. It's already too hot. So maybe they will just have to finally lower the price to less than, or equal to, the price of RTX2060.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processin...
> Poor people don't move because they lack funds to do so.

They do when they get evicted.

Uninsured rates are down, but a lot of Boomers are now in the decade before retirement where abused bodies tend to break down more and more.
Borges is probably no good in this context; the original Spanish might've been published in 1923, but the English translations will be more recent.
Had never heard of "ultrasonic welding" [0]. Also had no idea the wide range of applications, even many shoes use this process for bonding the materials together [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_welding

[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/ultrasonic-welding.htm/pri...
The Vega 56 was barely competitive when it was released in 2017, it's overpriced simply because AMD can't compete (let's hope for interesting CES news though).

The fact that the clear market and product leader releases a new product barely competitive with an old mediocre competitor product is troubling. The only reason they are allowed to increase the price of the *60 series by $100 this generation is since they don't have any real competition, something they're taking advantage of to the detriment of the GPU market.
Rust is still miles away from providing any useful COM/UWP tooling.
It sounds like Britain's best days are behind it, but it hasn't come to terms with it yet. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results" ought to be plastered in parliament and at Number 10.
In fact, there have been some HN posts lately talking about having a backup CA, since LE is not the only free CA that allows automation of cert creation.

Hopefully everyone has documented all the systems that auto-generate certs, what certs they request and put that in a manifest so that they can have a contingency plan, in the even that LE is knocked offline or shut down for whatever reason. It can certainly happen.
Profit is a function of materials, land, labor, margin, and very much regulatory cost.

When town laws limit the height you can build, that means you have fewer units to distribute total costs across. Building 10 stories might be 70% the cost of 20 stories… so if you have double the units to spread things across, price per unit WILL be lower.

Now extrapolate for things like

1. Minimum square footage

2. Parking requirements

3. "low income housing" units or other terms the local housing authority might put on top of any deal

4. Getting approval for the design (and the cycle of going back and forth to the drawing board)

5. Buying out surrounding rights holders like that old church you have to move across the street, or in SF's case the derelict gas station that is now a landmark if it means "preserving the character of the neighborhood"

6…etc

Building is anything but easy or cheap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4

All this adds up. Public housing is important in the interim given its usually easier to get around existing regulations, but the government is one of the shittiest landlords around. The goal should be 100% private housing supply.

Market based solutions will absolutely build homes for the homeless as long as the cost to build them do not exceed the value that whatever entity like the government or charity can pay. Markets deliver $8 Waffle House steak, and $60 Ruth's Chris steak. Cities/regulations only allow Ruth's Chris.

You get luxury housing b/c it's too expensive to build anything else. Fortunately even new luxury stock is good, as it frees up formerly luxury housing stock and stabilizes pricing for less-nice housing elsewhere.

It's pretty basic Econ 101.
Great suggestion. For those comparing Everything and Wizfile (which I just installed), it looks like Wizfile doesn't support regex whereas Everything does.
Are you speaking to any particular aspect of government control when it comes to raising a child?

I believe it is the government's place to ensure a bare minimum of responsibility and accountability when it comes to parenting and the welfare of children as it helps provide a benefit to others in society who will undoubtedly interact with this person you're raising as well a protection to the child themselves.
Why SRE documents matter
I am pretty sure, bitbucket is going to get hurt with this move, and a little hurt for gitlab too I suspect. But a very smart move specially for individual developers looking to work on small side projects.
If all collaborators have their one copy of the repo, you no longer need GitHub, because there's no longer a centralized repo. Just use git.
Hem, no perhaps is my poor English but you do not understand: I know what a git remote is. My point is what kind of "other remote" a typical FOSS project have these days?

In the past we have tons of hosters so we can easily spread our code in many "mirror", now there is GitHub and few others, mostly on the very same "cloud".

I mean you have no damn viable remote. Single devs can share code P2P but nothing that can work instantly out of the box.
I don't know how to ask this question, but how useful is a cookbook from the 18th century (or even the early 20th century)? The ingredients are likely called something else, or may be unavailable.
Seems like you've been out of the loop. They've been experiencing massive computer problems since August.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-marriott-starwood-lo...
Counterpoint: There's definitely an argument for letting kids figure some things out on their own. Giving them autonomy helps them mature faster in a number of ways.

If your life is micro managed down to the minute you won't learn the self discipline to do things without an authority figure looming over you.

Learning to solve disputes amicably between each other without requiring an authority figure is very important and helps kids make friends.

Learning to test your own limits and push your own abilities in unsupervised activities will improve their confidence more than in a structured sanitized program where everyone gets participation trophies.

Helicopter parents won't be around forever. I've seen many young adults completely melt down and go off the rails when they leave their home and go to college because they never learned real self discipline. They simply can't handle the vacuum that opens up in their lives without the micromanagement.

Every kid is different though, some need more structure and some need more autonomy to mature into responsible adults.
(disclaimer, I work for Google, opinions are my own)

Depends on the product you are using and what kind of data you're talking about. For Google, GSuite (the old Google Apps and GCP) are more business focused and don't really capture data about you. Free-tier products will gather more data to better target ads to you or to provide useful features.

For Microsoft, they do try to sell you products... but you have to look at other products where they do gather data on you. I'm not sure what kind of data they get out of Bing and outlook.com/Hotmail. Then you have LinkedIn, which is all kinds of data gathering (though more Facebook style).

It's sort of hard to give blanket statements about many of the large tech companies, as they have multiple divisions and products that operate differently depending on the target markets.
Delphi, JavaScript, Python and C++ Builder as well.
oss.fund is also apparently a thing.

I think it could be pretty cool to have a donation aggregator, though I'm not sure what it would do differently than what existing places I don't donate to do. Perhaps more transparency?

It'd be kind of neat to have 'OSS Index Funds' (misnomer to convey the idea) that a donation aggregator could provide. I could offer a fund for 'Rust' that might support 30% compiler team, 30% core team, 20% something else, 10% docs (I obviously don't know what the percentages should look like, just demonstrating). A different fund could be 'Programming Language Development' which might invest 20% in the Rust fund, 20% in Zig, and so on. A fund for Graphics like GIMP, Krita, Blender, etc.

Discovery of who to support is, maybe, one of the big problems preventing direct support. If you eliminate that problem without making people feel like they don't have a say and don't overwhelm them with information.... then maybe it could catch on?
How so, if iPhone XS is faster than iMac Pro on Speedometer 2.0? https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449
true === true
Same here. This information is only for investors and other "important" people. Most of us are not part of that group.
indeed, your reply did not get notified to me :(
I’m struggling to see how your comment relates to the article, which is showing financial support to open source projects. Funding is a serious issue with OSS.

Suggesting all code should be OSS is orthogonal.
As a 20 something without kids, my parenting idea would be to just not give them any trauma and let them be their own people
Yeah, monitoring told us it was down and eventually we figured it was an AWS issue we could do nothing about until they patched it. My main point there is actually that for many use cases, this doesn't have to be a distributed computing problem and thus the non-distributed version is superior to the distributed version.
> The DNC does not function as a popular vote

You could have stopped there. The major disconnect between public perception of the political parties and actual party function is the party ultimately nominates who it chooses. Votes are cast because it's assumed Americans wouldn't support a party that simply nominated a candidate via authoritarianism or autocracy, not because either party believes in the wisdom of the mob structurally. If anything, "wisdom of the mob" voting is more reflective of the Republican party's process (and with the nomination of Trump, it kind of showed).

You claim there was illegal redirection of funds. Was it actually illegal? Or merely in apparent violation of the party's charter (which could make the party less trustworthy but is not otherwise automatically illegal)? The best I can dig up is that there is a lawsuit alleging the DNC violated campaign finance law.
Yeah, that's my impression of it too. I included it because it's very well known and given a lot of people have read it, if it's the only book of that nature that they have read I want to understand what their mental models or their intuitions are regarding how this stuff works.
This is a really interesting perspective, another HNer said something similar. I’ll spend some time noodling on this.
Not surprising considering for the past 2-3 generations we've been seeing kids often worse-off than their parents.

Crippling student debt, insane healthcare costs, soaring housing prices in major cities. People are anxious and things are more competitive. All while worker productivity continues to increase with stagnant wages.

If you look at adjusted median household income over the past 20 years its either stayed roughly the same or declined. Median home prices dipped during the recession, but have already outpaced median wage growth again.

We don't want our kids to be subject to this, so we push them to be better than their competition. Being the top 50% isn't often a comfortable life anymore so we're pushing them to squeeze into the top 10-20%.

The wealth gap in this country is squeezing all the joy out of life for every penny its worth.
Meson is hardly used outside GNU/Linux.
Haha, ding ding ding we have a winner.
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Anyone willing to compare and contrast with the iPad Pro's diminutive USB-C charger?
iPhone XS is faster than iMac Pro on Speedometer 2.0 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449

What makes you say it's closer to Intel U?
> The goal of Signal is to make text messaging secure

For whom is that messaging more “secure“ if the phone numbers are the (technically completely unneeded) requirement on which is insisted by the producers of Signal?
>does this make you consider switching back at all? If so, why?

Complete opposite. I'm going to stop using it as much as I can.

This is quite annoying. I'd much rather they take my pittance than monetize me any other way.
I never got the idea of nodejs or javascript for backend, tried it a few times and eventually returned to python and java. It's much easier for python/java to add event-loop and/or restful framework than making javascript looks like python/java one day
as far as backend goes.

In 2019 I still have 0 interest in javascript/TS for backend, the thousands of modules under node_modules alone is enough for me, and not all real world product need async/promise/callback/SPA, javascript is over-heated too much, not fun at all.
You're touching on something I can relate to. Being proud doesnt make me happy. But the sense of progression that comes along with learning or mastering something does. I enjoy nothing more than taking a skill I am okay at to something that I am great at.

The issue is this is hard and takes a lot of dedicated work to do.
I can't remember - Did Skype have ads before or after Microsoft acquired it?
Oh, yeah. Compare him to most other public figures. When's the last time you saw Obama or some other public figure release a 100+ long list of items people should not say about you, including that you smell?

This is beyond ridiculous, it is sad and pathetic...
I imagine they are making predictions of enterprise business influx through new users who will take their personal private repos and possibly business (back) to github.
People that don't care about this just use WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc. They are well served, so not sure what exactly are you complaining about.