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> D vs rust - D is 100% more familiar to anyone with C or C++ background

I had the opposite experience. I have a long history of C and C++ development, yet I found D pretty impenetrable (my team inherited some D code to maintain). Rust, however, was easy to use out of the box.
Actually, as an immutable datastore, the blockchain is the perfect place to store ownership certificates. That's literally what crypto-currency is, a long auditable log of ownership certificates (unless you're complicating things with segwit).
OK. Can you give some examples of jobs with good pay that you think should be turned down? Even if you have a family to provide for?
I bought a Google Home, and now I can't listen to music at work
> Also, to the writer, I think you want to turn off swap?

Using kernel panics as an alerting mechanism is a brutal solution.

Why not track page faults? Most orgs that I interact with track paging across the whole fleet.
U.S. economy could slip from top spot in 2020 and keep slipping, analysts say
Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns
Maybe. I installed on a Ubuntu machine (PC, not raspberry pi). My steps:

1. git clone the pihole repo.

2. run automated install/basic install.

3. configure router's DHCP to assign a static IP to the pihole server, and distribute its IP for DNS.

4. release/renew some other device's IP.

5. browse to a site, then check the pihole console to see if it worked!
You keep implying that Facebook and Google are making these micro-optimizations with no support. I don't think you can support them, which means your premise is flawed and your conclusions are wrong.

They have ridiculous numbers of servers. Rather than fiddling to reduce server count, they're improving their ability to scale out. It's cheaper and it's repeatable. Doing crazy things like building custom hardware and power distribution buses (Facebook) to reduce heat in the data centers.
I thought so too, it's similar on how BigTable also supports the HBase APIs.
At least in Notion's case, it's a proper enterprise SaaS product with a trial tier, rather than a free consumer product attempting to go enterprise.
I understand now. The company I used to work for was in manufacturing. Luckily my current employer is all services and software.
Presumably, "intelligence agencies".
According to KRuler, it is.
Guilty until proven innocent...

"Welcome to America"
Good points, and I may not have said this well, (and here's the obligatory but ) but...
- I am not proposing to "protect OSS companies over the freedom of ...". Rather I am attempting to explore a way to provide a boundary between the entire OSS community (users/developers, etc) and those companies that attempt to exploit that community. As others have pointed out, there are many companies that make a contribution to open source on a generous basis - Microsoft, even FaceBook by golly.
- I don't think the distinction there is "Big Bad Cloud", it is between those who help build and maintain open source and those who exploit it.

The goal to me is that the people who have created the incredible thing we call OSS should have a reasonable expectation of sharing in the benefits.
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You're pointing out that there seems to be this unmet demand for a self-hosted markdown based product. Rather than wonder why people keep asking for that, maybe you should include those features in whatever it is that you are building.
According to things I discovered on their privacy pages here:

https://www.notion.so/willchatham/Terms-and-Privacy-28ffdd08...

They encrypt your data at rest, have their stuff audited by a third party quarterly, and give the employees some amount of security training.

The thing I am curious about is that to log in, you don't have a password. Rather, then send a temporary login code to your email address. Not sure how I feel about that.
I remember my first digital camera. I think it was a somewhat pricey ($200) point and shoot. It was around 2002 or 2003. It was so awesome to get "scans" off the camera with just an SD card... but, it had it's drawbacks. It was 3.1MP which was fine for most stuff at the time, but it had this awful way of rendering colors and a few months after I got it some kind of hardware broke in it making video and preview mode "broken" in some way. Basically what you saw was NOT what you got in preview mode, typically with way less exposure on preview.. and movie mode always looked weird, as if it had lost half of the bits of color info or something.

Anyway, I kept it and ended up digging it up in 2010 from a box of old stuff to crack it open and make it an IR camera. Something went wrong, so now it's fixed focus at ~3ft, and with a few bits of dust permanently on the sensor... but, it worked! The focus issue prevents it from being very useful, but it's really cool as it is VERY sensitive to both IR and UV light. Using a very deep 920nm IR filter with it, I have to decrease exposure on a bright day or it's blown out... and it can very easily see UV patterns on things inside when the sun is out. I have a faded shirt that looks just black, but with the camera it can see the original lettering etc as if it were new... but also it looks magenta rather than black. Even with tungsten lights, the IR sensitivity is stronger than normal light and can end up with some crazy pictures that have "color" but not true color.

Here's some example pictures:

* https://i.imgur.com/5ZKmgFm.jpg reading text on a letter through an opaque black shirt (UV/IR illuminated through windows)
* https://i.imgur.com/IYzdhXP.jpg an out of focus look out of my house on a summer day (notice red leaves, brown grass)
* https://i.imgur.com/STSPbq5.jpg IR "enhanced" portrait in a car. Her hair is deep red and the coat she's wearing is black and white only.
* https://i.imgur.com/7gSzCTT.jpg looking partially through a deep IR filter

The only good UV-only photos I have tend to be flash pictures. The built in xenon flash appears to output enough UV that it will burn through IR filters. It definitely appears to be UV though because of different colors used and the way certain things will fluoresce

I've done some film B/W IR photography but with film it's so temperamental and I've never gotten good IR-only (though a deep red filter can be nice) pictures. There is Aerochrome, which is getting harder and harder to find for color IR pictures on film, but even it is hard to predict (though requires less filtration) and very expensive these days.
Wow this advice is spot on. Thanks for sharing it. What are your thoughts on outsourcing this if you don't have time to manage it? Is it worth it? Have you ever worked with any agencies that do a fantastic job or is it just really hard to find one?
Couldn't help it.

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
A proper family plan would be nice.
Now that is the idea terrorism needed - just load some cheap tomahawk knock offs into containers and bring it home.
Jira has a self hosted version at very reasonable price ($10 one time for small teams with a single server up to $500k per year for high availability setups with >50k users).

The same is true for all other Atlassian products.

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing?tab=self-man...
There's a reason nobody really does this: there's just no money in it. Nylas mail is a good example of this: it offered the ability to self-run it and pay them for the license, but nobody really did. I wonder what they would need to charge to make it feasible? $1000 a year? It makes me pretty sad, but it's just such a distraction for a company of Notion's size and stage.
Treadreaderapp homepage is a conspiracy theory tire fire
Exactly... I've started building something using Hugo that does all this. That way you can create a calendar section, and then use front-matter to define the calendar entries in that section. It even creates an ICS for each item and a calendar for the entire section.
I would never have guessed your gallery represented a 23 year-old camera. Thanks for the share.
The rarity of finding $20 bills on the ground, let alone smaller valued bills such as $1, proves my point.
> Mostly because of poor previous explanation via things like Venn diagrams- the wrong model lead me to think incorrectly and make mistakes.

To me the Venn diagrams made it quite clear to understands while this article diagram wouldn't have helped me at all.

The best way to learn is in a way that make you understands. Your friend found a way that make you understands, but do you believe his explanation would have been universally understood? We would live in a much better world if it was that simple.

For me, Venn worked to make me understands. For you, your friend explanation worked to make you understands.

Should we make your friend stop explaining because he can't help everyone? Or should we simply let both way coexist?
Naval ships are typically built to a much higher standard then civilian ships. Thicker plating, more fire resistance, heavier bearings etc. This makes them cost more. The navy has at times tried to relax these requirements, but so far it has not worked out. Designating a ship as civilian level hardness from the git-go may be a way around this.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUKN2017353120100121
The entire top surface of the Google Home is a button (capacitive). Those kinds of sensors are just as susceptible to physical defects as mechanical buttons.

As a side note, whataboutism adds nothing of value to this discussion about the Google Home and Amazon Echo.
looks good as an alternative to my github wiki https://github.com/hrnn/wiki/wiki
I wouldn’t call it worthless. Unless you’re a gamer or AI/ML-geek they are perfectly adequate for regular desktop needs like browsing the web or writing code.

I certainly don’t long for a descrete GPU.

In fact this is the only thing I miss going to Ryzen. Now I’ll have to buy a GPU.
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I honestly never use their Electron app, even though I have it installed. One thing about Electron apps is that they also usually work great in the browser :)
Bootsnote and Joplin works great for notes, but Joplin was less than ideal last time I checked. Hugo is really the tool I think will get me closest to what I'm looking for.
I can tell the author of this article comes from Google, because all those horrible things they list as being the woes of a startup are like dream scenario for those of us that work in normal startups.

Feature idea being backlogged for a quarter? Ha, I'm used to backlog dates in four digits and they all start with 20.
Everyone keeps linking to the Gwem.net website instead of using the primary source.

If Albert Einstein had a blog post about relativity, I would rather read that than someone’s interpretation....
Jetstack (Kubernetes development, consulting, support, training) is remote friendly across the UK and Europe and hiring across a variety of roles, including ones that match your specialisations pretty closely:

- Solutions Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Customer Reliability Engineer
- Engineering Manager

https://www.jetstack.io/careers/
After trying many different things over the years, I wrote this: http://onemodel.org (yes I plan to move to https sometime). You can think of it something like a personal wiki + emacs org-mode, very efficient, keyboard-oriented, using postgres, but with a much larger vision than today's features, including sharing (linking/copying securely) between instances, and computability of the info for things like anki-like features. Self-hosted now but open to hosting for others. The most current code is in github (AGPL). Comments/questions very welcome, preferably via the mailing list; be patient if my answers are slow. The lists are currently low-volume, and the announcements list should always be.

(It can store files, but isn't especially smooth about it yet. For personal notes of all kinds, it is the most efficient, effective, flexible thing I know of. The FAQs link to a discussion comparing it with emacs org-mode and others. It has fulltext search, some finicky but very functional import/export, a nice numbered-outline export to text, and a journal/activity log.)

I have noted to look at Notion, and Trillium, to see how much they overlap and if we can collaborate. I have been quite slow lately though, hoping to get more done sometime relatively soon.
I don't have an echo but there was a post on HN[0] not long ago that linked to an article[1] about how Alexa is able to add multiple items to your shopping list at once, and how it understands what is what. So in theory you shouldn't be running in to the problem you're describing. Not every time at least.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706651

[1] https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/36ca7d4c-cd98-...
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Glad to hear things worked out for you because you'd made a better choice. Shame that it came to that, of course, but once you're in a rut, the only good thing I reckon I can do is praise your efforts towards getting out. :)

What was your mindset like from the day you quit DAoC to now? Did you feel like it all doesn't matter anyway, so why bother? Was yours a resolute mind?
Modern art was CIA weapon (1995)
Got a chance to meet the founder a few weeks ago. He's a really cool guy.
For those just discovering Notion, it's one of the most liberating tools I've ever used, because it offers just enough complexity to configure it however you want, while still remaining simple on the surface. I just love that I can mould it around how my brain works. I wrote this guide that might be useful for anyone else in understanding its power and what you can do with it: https://medium.com/@ow/the-writers-ultimate-guide-to-notion-...
Is it just me or does it give no information about what sort of functionality this will include?
Not gonna lie. That knowledge base with the collapsible menu looks like a very useful feature. Especially with integrated search. Will definitely give it a try. As far as self hosting goes. If there is a feature to export to text, csv or md. One could use the app to edit. Then archive and serve a read only copy locally.
I use search way less in Notion than Evernote due to the ability to hierarchically organize notes in a manner that better matches my mental map, to the point where it's hard for me to comment on the quality of search in Notion. I haven't had any complaints with it during the occasional times I have used search though.
The page needs to answer why freeform is better. Basically, explain benefits to the user not features.
At the end of the day these are all just tools and some work better than others depending on the job and the person wielding it.
Notion is my favorite app of 2018. It's seriously a game changer for my personal organization and how my team communicates.
Ask HN: Does anyone else despise mechanical keyboards?
https://imgur.com/a/vOELehA

Am I alone in my preference, here?

I bought this aluminum frame keyboard from SIIG like 10-15 years ago. Short travel and low keys means I type faster. It's quiet. It's sturdy. It has lasted longer than most things, or people!, in my life. We are almost family. :D haha. It's so well loved the shift and ctrl keys are fading. I even left a review (rare for me), because I have gotten such great use out of it. It actually still works. I just have noticed the plastic on the S key is bending finally.

Google, Amazon, old HN threads ..all have not shown me a replacement option. Out of stock, everywhere, as expected.

In order to maintain this level of satisfaction and productivity I am still refusing the popular mechanical keyboards. I really like being able to roll my finger from one key to the next on occasion. You can't do that as well with full-height keys. Can't really at all with chiclet keys. Also, talking to people on meetings while on the phone and typing at the same time is a daily activity... so having one that is quieter is kind of crucial.
That's a pretty good title, in a literary sense.
Remote Working Survival Guide
That never works for me: after 10 minutes of running, I'd be thinking things like "Is my 10 minute rule really meaningful if I don't REALLY allow myself to quit after 10 minutes? I should quit today just to reinforce to myself that the rule is really meaningful.". Then, next time I run I have exactly the same thought and the whole concept falls apart.
His link describes why they are worthless.
Markdown and front-matter does scratch the surface, and I do have an understanding of the product. It just isn't what I'm looking for. I care about my data and having it accessible, even outside of the application. I like organizing my content using directories for sections, and files for pages. I don't want everything saved to the cloud using a database. I want to use local files and front-matter to create content, and Hugo does this... I've started building what I'm looking for already.
I am in the process of moving my digital life to Notion. This includes my huge collection of bookmarks, 40+ browser tabs, dozen or so text files and content of some spreadsheets.

Here's my work in progress: https://imgur.com/a/LKY7RlP
Elixir v1.8 released
> Except for integrated graphics, which are worthless

What!?
Eclipses During 2019
Some framed-on-the-wall level of motivation right here
Back in 1996, I was doing an undergraduate honors independent study project on integrating computer technology into elementary-school classrooms. As part of that, my university and I had worked out an arrangement with a local public elementary school to let me teach a class on computer skills to a class of 5th-graders (ages 10 to 11, for those of you not in the US) a couple of days a week for a year.

I had some friends in the campus bookstore, which had a very close relationship with Apple (as was common in those days), and through them was able to get my hands on a QuickTake 100 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake), one of the earliest consumer-level digital cameras. As soon as I started working that camera into my curriculum it became obvious to me that digital cameras were going to be a Very Big Thing. The kids took to it like fish to water, they loved taking pictures with it, and then when I showed them how to transfer those pictures to one of the Macs in the school computer lab and then publish them in a simple static-HTML Web page for their friends and family to see they were practically over the moon.

As with many Apple innovations of that era, the QuickTake was doomed by being just a little too far ahead of its time -- too expensive for average people to afford, too low-res due to the primitive sensors, and too clunky to use from the lack of simple ways to interface with a PC (USB 1.0 had only just been standardized and wouldn't start showing up in PCs for another year or two). It died at Steve Jobs' hands in the great massacre of Apple products followed his return in 1997, so that part of the future was left for others to make fortunes off of, at least until the iPhone came along a decade later. But even now, more than 20 years later, I still remember that camera.
I don't think there are really guidelines on 'how often' UX research should happen. Ideally it is integrated in the development cycle and something like this is found in a usability test and fixed before deployment. Usability testing and UX research are a continual process.
The software was stock android (Android One project).

The important part was that the 4 year old iPhone 5s had the latest iOS and still works better than a new €250 Android.
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No. You just have kids. The rest of what you said is incidental.
I'm developing an ipfs-based personal knowledge manager that works on similar principles.
> In 2019, there are three solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses:
2019 Jan 06: Partial Solar Eclipse
2019 Jan 21: Total Lunar Eclipse
2019 Jul 02: Total Solar Eclipse
2019 Jul 16: Partial Lunar Eclipse
2019 Dec 26: Annular Solar Eclipse
Can we please not use the term "WOO" just because AMD's CEO happens to be a woman ? Just don't. It's not hard.
Thanks for sharing your view on this.

I feel, with a certain definitiveness, that I need a schedule. Rather than working on a strict task-to-task basis, I feel like what I need is an obligation: "Do project X at 10, for at least an hour, then take your time until project Y at 2" etc.

Just thinking out loud.

Best wishes to your progress.
Both answers seem ridiculous and like something that would quickly be dismissed in the employees favour in EU countries.

But at the end of the day, do we really think gitlab is going to dimiss or renegotiate with a performing employee rather than this being a loophole to get rid of someone they don't value?
I wish I could import stuff from Evernote into Notion.
Just copying and pasting would be amazing.
If I could copy and paste checklists (or maybe even just copy a list and turn multiple items into checklist items at once).
I would be better to have some screenshots of the font at small sizes, if the main objetive is to have as much text as possible in a small screen with a small font.
> What do you do to keep yourself motivated? Especially when you hit something you hate to work on but is necessary.

A while back I read "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity" [1], and though I'm not completely sold on his methodology, the author has a few ideas and techniques I really liked, that have helped me get motivated.

One of them is to figure out the next concrete, actionable task that needs to be done to make progress, and do that. Don't think about a million edge cases, or a big rewrite, but instead focus on the single edge case that's blocking you right now, or the first thing you need to do to start a rewrite, and then go do that smaller, specific thing.

It will feel good to have it done, and it'll motivate you to get to work on the next small step.

https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produ...
Dinoflaggelates have been observed to steal plastids from other marine algae. Not only this, but some species of dinoflaggelates are 'picky' in the algae they target for kleptoplasty. To perform this action, the single celled dinoflaggelate identifies a suitable algae in the environment; it must calculate and decide if the identified candidate algae represents an improvement over its current photosynthetic captive; it must then calculate a cost benefit of rejecting (or digesting) its current captive and retaining a new captive, and the expected rate of return of the partner.

Clearly, this single celled, is performing computation. 'Knowledge' of self, environment and the relationship between the two worlds has to be encoded in an active and dynamic fashion. While networks and networks of cells are an incredible and fascinating system, clearly inspirational and massively insightful for the development of intelligence outside of biological systems, one could and should consider the argument that by jumping to networks as systems for computational intelligence, we skipped a step in describing how cells (and thereby networks of cells) encode computation and intelligence. I think that a major step in theories of intelligence and mind could be possible by reconsidering intelligence at a cellular and single cell level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoflagellate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty
https://aem.asm.org/content/78/3/813