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Thanks for your feedback + thoughts. (As well as to the OP & everyone else who makes HN great) It's the unique questions & introspective input - so native to this site - that make it worth participating in this community.

From your talk with the artist, it sounds he's essentially content with working on a portfolio as great & grand as he can to the end.

I think that's what we're all working on, albeit in our own way, whether it's through building a portfolio of Coding Languages to implement, or gathering a palette of experience to fuel our creativity. We all want those lightning-thoughts & Eureka Moments & to keep learning around the clock.

The "risk and resilience" elements may strike one's interest initially because they're at once, the most readily accessible to the imagination.

Without knowing any details or story-moments, the volatility element is obvious, and does sustain that thread of: 'What's next?"

However, imo, the most stellar instances so far have come from interactions with people along the way. (From mutually reaching out)

Talk to people - at random. If you wish to say something or participate, go for it. Be frank. Don't even think twice - just speak. That's what I'm really working on these days. It seems a default that we're all so guarded or shy or just don't want to enter 'uncharted territory of exchange'. But I sense there's worlds (multiverses;) of character in individuals that remain unexplored because we get stuck in the default for a lifetime.

On tough days, no matter what I'm going through, it helps me to remember: (1) To supersede my drama-rama (hence meditation) & (2) Be extra-open and curious about what I'm seeing take place around me - all happening newly and changing & miraculous all the time.

And when it comes to the grind, code or writing, get your kicks line X line ;)
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If the government were to start taxing people on the value of their assets you can be quite sure that within a year or so most rich people would have their assets in a form that makes it much harder to value them.

But there's a problem also for ordinary people, who have most of their assets in the form of their house. In the UK land isn't valued annually.* Unless your house is very similar to a nearby one that was sold recently, nobody really knows what it's worth. Speculation concerning what development might be permitted in the future can have a big influence on the value. It would be scary if some bureaucrat's guess were to significantly affect one's annual tax bill. And it would be expensive for everyone if that resulted in disputes going to court.

* Local taxation is based on the "rateable value" of property, but this is inaccurate, banded, often out-of-date, and only a small part of a typical family's total outgoings.
They went from a terrible font to a bad font. There are so many nice ones [e.g. have a look at https://wesbos.com/programming-fonts/], why not pick one of these? Inconsolata or Menlo would be a big improvement over what they chose now. Missed opportunity, IMHO.
A real journaling app, for the hackernews crowd, must have syncing between any kind of device (imo), including the terminal. My solution is just nextcloud syncing text files, though that may be overkill. Anyone have a good or even elegant solution for web/phone/terminal text file syncing?
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The Mote in God's Eye had an interesting description of a star like that, including a starship going fairly deep into it and mentioning that the transition was barely noticable.
I don't think there's any privacy advantage of using a VPN over Tor.

Tor is basically a free VPN that's more anonymous.
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It says so in the article too.
Capital gains tax might also be a tax deduction due to a loss of capital. With a wealth/asset tax it doesn't matter if you actually gain or lose.
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Yes, it is right. You can read more about the concept of consensus here: https://medium.com/remme/proof-of-service-consensus-algorith...
It is still under development, hope I can share tech docs about its implementation soon. 2 stages are important for raising the speed of certificate generation that is critical for that sphere.
When do you see evidence that there are civilian family members present? Was there an opening ceremony going on or something?
Also in the article:

> To the best of our knowledge, all systemd-based Linux distributions are vulnerable, but SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, openSUSE Leap 15.0, and Fedora 28 and 29 are not exploitable because their user space is compiled with GCC's -fstack-clash-protection.
This is not true. systemd did standard multiple interfaces in Linux ecosystem. It is much easier to get things working nowadays than it used to be. systemd became standard thanks to meritocracy (important people in most distros decided to adopt systemd, it was not a "political power play").

It is complex, and there are bugs like any other kind of software[1], however like any other software it is improving.

[1]: For example, I used to hit multiple concurrency bugs in sysVinit used by Arch Linux. The only way to fix them was to find the correct order that system worked. No more problems of this kind thanks to systemd dependency resolving.
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I had to think about it too but I think they mean that a bad product with great marketing will get lots of hits and zero traction.
Ah, OK. So it is truly horrifying that it's in heavy use in journald, where users inevitably have that sort of power.
It definitely sounds like it sucks from the perspective of an internal AWS developer or SRE, but if the AWS systems are architected such that these internal failures aren't seen by end users then AWS's reliability reputation remains fully intact.

Customers are paying AWS so that their SREs don't get called, they don't care if the AWS SREs do as long as the system keeps running.

Based on the supporting quotes at launch from Capital One, Dow Jones and WaPo it sound like enough customers are ok with vertical write scalability and (pretty awesome) horizontal read scalability for now because it fits their use case and is better than what they had before.

Also consider that since the cluster management overhead has been removed from the customer, they can essentially "shard" by using a separate cluster for each sufficiently large service/org/dept, which might actually work out better for them in some respects.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough, the architecture might be laughable to you, but it is probably miles ahead of what the customer was using before.
Over 600 years, that's still a surprising result!
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Han also mentions "passing through a star" as a danger of hyperspace travel, he doesn't specify that danger as not applying within hyperspace itself. It's not like they put a lot of thought into the way hyperspace actually worked in the OT.

Also I'm not aware of anything in established canon that says the transition is instantaneous. It's not impossible that there might be a window when entering or exiting hyperspace during which the mass shadow of the craft (possibly increased exponentially by being accelerated to near light-speed) or the ship itself can interact with normal matter.
Woah, that’s a huge difference. For those reading, the study claims that participants on a low-carb diet (20% carbs) burned 250 calories more per day than those on a high carb diet (60% carbs), while eating the same amount of calories as the high-carb dieters.

To be fair to me, though, the study doesn’t say that specific foods make you gain or lose weight. It says that an overall trend in one’s diet does.

I was thinking more in terms of how the general public seems to think “if I eat salad, I will lose weight” and “if I eat fried chicken, I will gain weight”, which I still don’t think is correct. Sorry if I wasn’t very clear about hat.
I’m confused. Any family from the 1400s would have millions of descendants by now.
The console font is required to be a bitmapped font.
> Elm was trying to make it very hard to use JS in Elm which is always a bad idea when you are a transpiled language.

Your code will produce runtime errors which will be rendered into console with ReasonML runtime guts in it. I would disagree that this is in any way superior to Elm's promise of no runtime errors, and JS via ports having no runtime in its errors.
> Unless I missed something in the appeals, the result of Oracle v Google was that APIs are copyrightable, but that an implementation of that API for compatibility purposes is fair use.

The result (so far) of Oracle v. Google is that Googler use was not fair use as a matter of law; that, however, was the result of an interlocutory appeal to the CAFC, and we still have further action at the district court for a judgement, and probably at least one more appeal up the chain, potentially the whole way to the Supreme Court, before we know the final outcome.
This is a great idea for a project, the 'users who also posted' metric seems to have worked really well.

The site seems to fail to load the 'hot' items for the subreddits when I click on them but that's not a big deal for me. On closer inspection, it doesn't seem to be making any requests. Just says `Failed to download https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/hot.json` etc
QA jobs are getting outsourced to cheaper markets outside the U.S.
Important people choosing to use instead of letting the community decide is the definition of political and not merit
I think your company is doing standups and sprints wrong.
It looks interesting, but there's no info on pricing available without first signing up...
It's always a fun moment when you realize he's at the same university and might be sitting next to you right now. Especially because it's a rare occurence to see the KIT here. It makes you appreciate your education more (and also a bit humble...).
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I think the biggest feedback item for me would be that most of the servers I access are on an internal network and firewalled off from external access. Which is not uncommon when you get into an enterprise setting (where this is useful)

So, my suggestion is to-do one of two things:

1. Create a gateway service which makes an effective reverse proxy into the network. Wouldn't fully recommend this option as many enterprises will see this a a huge hole in their networks.

2. Create a version of this which can be deployed to the internal network, and not have any connection to the cloud instance. Business models for this would probably be per-user licenses, and probably the best idea if you want to bring in the big bucks™️.
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Well, no - not if everyone's raving on about how great the code is. Code quality is objective, not dependant on experience.

I don't get to write crap code at my work if I'm inexperienced, I have to learn to write good code.
Well, great marketing gets a lot of people interested in your product. Create a high expectations + bad experience combo for a lot of potential customers, and now you got into a very bad position where even if you improve the product, you can't get people to try it out (because all/ most potential customers already did, and were sorely disappointed).
I said $300/mo for the car payment. It got up to $500/mo with gas, insurance, and maintenance. If you're referring to where I actually said $500/mo, I was saying she's spending that much per month on hiring Uber/Lyft rides to get to and from work.

Keep in mind, that Uber cost effectively already prices in gas, maintenance, and insurance for the Uber driver, which are costs she'd have to make that she wasn't really considering when wanting to get her own car (or at least didn't realize how much it all costs).

I bought a used car and I'm paying a little under $300/mo in car payments (one more year and it's fully paid off). My girlfriend was looking to buy a much newer, but still used car (or lease a new car, she's still undecided), and was looking at roughly $300/mo for car payments either way.
I'm concerned about the HTTP requests that fire off every time I navigate to a new page. E.g. navigating to my "Thursday 10th Jan 2019" note triggers [1]. It even includes a cookie in the request. Not completely private, it would seem, as you're very clearly collecting metadata about my app usage habits, even though it's not strictly required for the app to function properly.

[1]:
POST https://trys-tiny-tracking.now.sh/
{"type":"hit","url":"/2019/01/10/"}

EDIT:
Looking through the src [2], it appears the site will respect the user's "do not track" browser preference [3], but that's not supported in all browsers

[2] https://github.com/trys/JournalBook/blob/master/src/utils/be...

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/d...
That doesn't necessarily follow. I don't know specifically what fingerprinting works against Blink, but as an extreme example consider that the chromium-based browser could easily enact the policy of only allowing first-party scripts to execute by default. I suspect that there's a lot more obvious API service to remove or protect that the browser can customize, as well.
How do you make these work in Ubuntu? Tried copying them to /usr/local/share/fonts and running "fc-cache -f -v" it seems to detect them but lxterminal, fontviewer were still unable to find and use them...
Why wouldn’t there be family members? Military bases have civilian areas for families.
Several of those have proprietary licenses. Menlo is a (afaik proprietary) Apple product derived from Bitstream’s Vera Sans Mono and included with all Macs, Consolas was done by Luc de Groot for Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007, etc.
Sounds like a question for Code Golf[1] :)

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com

Off-topic, take a look at "Add a language to Polyglot" which was concluded at 194 languages, but people kept adding more: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-la...
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I had typography as a subject in school and I would say this font is distinctive, but unlike many distinctive fonts it seems to reach it's distinctiveness not on the cost of readability.

I program myself and I know that terminal fonts have special requirements (e.g. certain characters like 1 and l or O and 0 should be visual distinctive) which this font certainly does reach.

Other than that it is a question of taste.
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I'm currently working on a Ruby project, and I love the language so much! It's elegant, fast enough for me, and the ecosystem rocks.

It seems that, after Ruby borrowed from many previous languages, a lot of rubyisms went into Rust (the nice functional-style enumerations, the awesome package manager inspired by Bundler). And I'm thrilled the best of the Ruby world found its way into other languages.

A future where the elegance of the Ruby language is available both as an interpreted-scriptable tool (Ruby) or a compiled-statically-typed language (Rust) looks like a nice place to me.
If it's not technically terrible, it's not technically terrible anymore.

All the initial "ooh and aah" factor of SystemD came from using the kernel's cgroups mechanism, which was a dumpster fire by itself--something dropped by google in the kernel for easier maintenance with the understanding that no one should be stupid enough to use it for something important...enter SystemD.

Apparently cgroups is in better nick these days (as is SystemD), but until the likes of Al Viro come around and give it a clean bill of health, I think I'll pass.
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It's not at all hard to have a license where something is free for noncommercial or limited commercial usage, and premium otherwise. This is an extremely typical model for many products today whose licenses you could use as inspiration. See for instance things like Microsoft's Visual Studio. And the nice thing is that contract law is really quite powerful and very much on your side when it comes to enforcement. You don't need Microsoft's legal department to enforce your rights.

In my opinion I feel like the real issue is that many in the open source community want to have their cake and eat it to. They want to put ideas out there ostensibly for free and be part of the social communal movement, but when those ideas are actually used to generate value - they want to see the checks roll in. That's just not how it works. Look at products that are funded by donations. There are some exceptions, but the general rule is that they end up grossly underfunded and have to be more and more aggressive with requests for donations just to stay afloat. If people want payment, then demand payment. If you want to give away something for free, don't ever expect to get paid for it.
On the other hand, I sometimes ponder if we are not going to run our 'civilization' into a wall by relentlessly keeping having children, so I am not sure at this point that the most rationale decision is to keep going like the last few millennia.
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this is exactly right. the modern surveillance state (both government and corporate) is opt-out but the economic incentives are tuned to make sure that only a very few people opt-out, which then makes it easy to target and focus all of the resources on those people.

if you are serious about security don't use digital devices at all. if you are willing to accept some security risk in exchange for using digital devices then you are best off using some obscure back channel, not some high tech "theoretically unbreakable" crypto.

security by obscurity is, ironically, the only thing that actually works (until you get caught), even though in theory it is the worst. every crypto scheme is trivially broken by state level actors.
This would have been gcc 5.4.0, as shipped by Ubuntu 16.04. Certainly it's possible that newer gcc do better, but from my point of view if they started out with something that breaks the debug illusion it indicates that their definition of the feature is wildly different from mine. Once bitten, twice shy.
The implicit assumption in the grandparent post is that it's good for society if the most gifted basketball players play in the NBA, the most attractive people act in the best movies, and the most talented engineers lead the top companies. Of course personal talent is a question of luck just as much as parental wealth - a meritocracy will not allocate the top places to those with the most worthy souls any more than a nepotocracy does - but more nepotistic societies are less efficient overall in a way that makes life worse for everyone there than more merit-based ones.
I'll look into the regulator. Thanks.
Any programmer at the time could have written in 8080 emulator. They didn't have to be a kid in school. The DEC-10 was a popular computer. MIT had computers available to students, too. Gates didn't invent BASIC - it was developed by others for use by students.

Edit: There were many thousands of computers at the time, and programmers to run them. The 8080 instruction set is trivial:

http://pastraiser.com/cpu/i8080/i8080_opcodes.html

and any semi-competent programmer can write an emulator for it in a few hours. The magic ingredient Gates and Allen had was Recognizing The Opportunity, and then Acting On It. There was no technical wizardry involved, and no resources that were not also available to thousands, and soon tens of thousands, of others.

The Jobs and Wozniak story makes this even clearer. Wozniak showed his designs to HP and offered it to them. HP's engineers were utterly uninterested in it. (And remember that the Apple 1 was built with off-the-shelf parts anyone could buy.)
Right, Shellvault isn't for everyone: we're aiming to provide a good service for anyone who wants more convenience than normal SSH can provide, and we've worked hard on transparently documenting security considerations and adding features that don't compromise on privacy.

We've done a lot to try and work on trust, but that won't truly come without a good record of contented customers. Hopefully we can work hard and impress you!
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I spoke to an older hunter in New Zealand once who said he initially started with a view like yours. He was into rifle marksmanship, and didn't see the point in shooting at a live target.

He had a friend who said it was harder than he thought, and invited him to come along sometime and see if he found it easy. Of course he went out, and even when lead in the direction of the deer couldn't manage to get one.

After that he was hooked. He had a similar story about eating the offal from the deer, and now thinks it's among the best bits.
A random though, but you could use a horizontal rule (`<hr/>`) to split sections instead of the making a paragraph and filtering. They're part of the markdown syntax (using 3 or more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores) and you probably wouldn't even have to filter them out. Just use CSS. I'm actually pretty sure it's the semantic use case for them anyways. That's assuming, of course, that you don't use them elsewhere for other reasons.

Other than the unsolicited advise, I really like the workflow. I did something similar for almost all of my papers in college.
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Yes. That's not what I'm saying. It's virtually impossible to learn a new script and have "fluency" (which I'll loosely define as being able to effortless read a page without processing individual letters) after a very young age. I read a study that described this recently that I'll try to find again.
I could not have said this better: "Spending half the page blabbering about empowerment of women and LBQTI+ only detracts from their argument. Their baseless claim of mysoginy and homophobia distracts from their reasons for why they should be included in the first place and should not have been included in this response. It makes the author of the piece look very unprofessional and desperate for help from some of those action groups that take to the streets the moment they see the word "discrimination". "
I can't believe that people are arguing that your economic background has no bearing on your chances for being wealthier then average. Thanks for your post.
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There is a great book that I read a while ago (fiction) which this article reminded me of. Called a trillion dollars:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22710315-one-trillion-do...
True, that's why I mentioned Inconsolata, which is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, which "is considered free by the Free Software Foundation" and the Debian Project. Not sure what OpenBSD's position on that license is though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License
I did state "native fluency" which is more descriptive.

Anyway, sure, here's a source I found quickly which actually makes stronger claims than I did: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/at-what-age-does-...