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No because the kit can limit you.

If you tried to film this advert on a VGA webcam and edit it on an Amiga I don't think you'd get results this good no matter how skilled the person was.

It may take someone skilled to get the best out of the kit, but they're showing that they kit doesn't limit you.
As a developer, it's quite frustrating trying to work out how to communicate "No, I actually know how to do X (well)", because presumably the people who don't will say that too!

It's fine once I get to interview, because most interviewers can tell when someone's bullshitting (and that I'm not), but CVs are a bit of a nightmare because I have fewer years of commercial experience than a lot of people.
>Certainly Song of Songs (in the OT) presents erotic intimacy in a positive manner, and does not to my recollection mention procreation.

Shir haShirim is a Jewish text. Christians sort of awkwardly avoid bringing it up, because, well, yeah, it's ancient Hebrew erotic poetry.
It's not. It's a reference to the more recent philosophies regarding race that indicate that being "colorblind," i.e. not factoring the race of an individual into your decision-making process, is actually a form of racism, because you're denying the individual's historical and lived experiences.
Same thing happened during Radeongate, the GPU problem that affected thousands of 2011 MBP models.

My top of the line MBP 2011 died in 2013, 2.5 years after buying it. At that point Apple denied any problems.

Over a year later, with a couple of class action lawsuits on its back, Apple started a repair program. Of course I had already bought another machine to be able to work, so after repairing the 2011 I found myself with a very expensive MBP that was about 4 years old at this point. I didn't have a use for it and of course nobody wanted to buy it at a decent price because of its infamous problems. The expensive investment I made in 2011 went down the drain.

The repair program was just a dick move to avoid legal problems.

If Apple had wanted a fair compensation to their customers they would have taken those machines back and given 60% of the price paid in credit for buying Apple products, which is what a 3-4 year old Mac sells for.

After that I lost all faith in Apple and am much more careful with what I buy from them.
This mind-blowing article is a book review of Inga Clendinnen's "Aztecs: An Interpretation". The Aztecs really are hard to love, but even understanding the simplest things about their culture requires some comprehension of their deepest foundations, because in many ways those foundations are very different from our own.

Thinking about culture as a largely collective and continuous act of creation, one wonders how and why any culture develops the way it does; what truths it holds dear; what virtues it praises; what vices it damns; what metaphysical stage all of these play upon.

From a circumstantial perspective, without defending the morality of either the Aztecs or the Spanish, there was just this vast cultural divide between them.

While what happened when they met was inevitable, there is still a ton of stuff you can learn watching a car crash in super-slow motion from all angles. As a "clash of cultures", this one was pretty intense. This article provided good insight on some of the contours of that impact, not from a military/physical perspective (that's been done and is easier), but from a psychological/cultural perspective. I'm getting the book.
I really start to struggle with the concept of insurance whenever I imagine the percentage of people working at the insurance company who’s primary incentives involve making sure that I do not get the payout I need should a disaster strike ... how many people are there strategizing the legalese and structure of the policies in a way carefully designed to appeal to me at sale time but to hurt me at claim time ...?

I also shudder at the thought of overly large executive teams milking the profit stream of the company to ensure optimal balance sheet (minimal legal unleveraged asset amounts + maximum access to government lender of last resort backstops).

It’s also very hard for me to imagine the nature of the value chain back to me that comes from the CEO of an insurance company flying around in a private jet at great expense — it’s just not possible for me to imagine that the team of suits in jets running the insurance company could ever be engaging in an activities beneficial to me as they pursue typical corporate business activities...

As a consumer, I think the most sensible strategy for picking insurance involves modeling the profit center clauses of the policies to find who is most likely to be bilked and trying to estimate whether you are more or less likely than the average consumer of the product to hit one of those likely policy “profit centers” ...

In markets where the profitability of insurance companies is regulated, I have a lot of trouble believing that “boondoggle machines” aren’t invented throughout the enterprise to create false cost drivers that ultimately turn profits into costs and higher executive salaries/ bonuses - a kind of profit money laundering.

I think that trust is very valuable but it’s hard for me to believe that insurance companies as a general category are likely to be worthy of trust. If anyone has some arguments how to get over this hangup, would love help shifting my mindset to a less negative outlook here ...
It would be interesting to know what kind of political bias Twitter has in former iron curtain countries and Japan. Is it majority vote, like Dorsey seems to imply?

In western countries it is the same left-leaning scheiße, because they are so vocal. I have twittered only once ever about politics in Finland and only recently realized I have been shadow-banned for some time now.
>Where the biggest adopter, Kubernetes, is ironically a way too complex system of automation routines that still regularly fail in production environments.

regularly fail? Do you have any data to back that up? No, a google search for one kubernetes failure doesn't count as proof of "regular failure"
As long as the quality of the camera meets a certain standard, then yeah, cinematography is mainly about creative framing, good lighting, etc.

The thing about better cameras is that they just give you more options, features, flexibility etc. - but if you don’t know anything about the craft, you won’t be much better off with a $50,000 camera vs. a $500 one!
Ralph Northam, Virginia Governor, Admits He Was in Racist Photo
Also the 2007 model Nvidiagate issues
Social moors would be either an open field for gathering or friendly Muslims from the Mediterranean region about 800 years ago. You might mean ‘mores’.
Honestly they don't. The deeper truth here is surely that Zurich was overexposed and just doesn't have the money to pay the claim. They know this is a ridiculous position and that they'll lose the suit, but denying the claim now lets them at least try to rework their finances and come to a settlement instead of just declaring bankruptcy and giving up.

Insurance companies make risk management mistakes too, and this is what it looks like when they do. The money Mondelez is owed isn't there.
> pardon the colorful language, fuck those bioethicist Luddites.

oopsies.. Looks like someone forgot to edit out the naughty langauge gene in this one, and we all know that's an unhealthy one..
Any idea for improvement?
Thanks
does gmail actually make money?
Ask HN: What are the best B2B startup sales decks?
Would love to see some of the best sales decks for technology startups specifically in B2B markets.
It is bad... It is good... Why is it okay to treat people with such heavy handed authoritarianism. I wish more explanation was given.
It depends on the use case, I have a dozen or so Pi's, one, which was logging hundreds of lines a second and loading/executing lots of code/config had cards die every other week, others with less load have had no issues at all.

First I used Samsung cards, it eat a bunch of those for breakfast, then I switched to SanDisk, which did the same.

They all failed the same way; permanent read-only state.

The problem is that some did so silently, for weeks the pi was writing things to it, but none of the data was lost until a reboot, where the FS instantly travelled back in time.
Maybe, but I've never experienced that problem on any laptop I've owned. I've been buying laptops for almost 20 years.
Indeed, but ops people have to learn new technologies all the time, so it's not that big of a leap. When you talk about a cloud and see a sysadmin rolling their eyes, it's not that they have something specifically against the cloud, it's that they've seen so many diverse bugs and issues in their life, that they know you just exchange one set of problems for another.

Also, a challenge to using clouds more effectively is you need to bring onboard your developers. Ops people often have to act as coaches and basic systems' knowledge is very important in this role.
Reads like the FSF likes it because it doesn't bundle "non free" software by default.

Nothing there about why Hyperbola is interesting beyond that. So I can't tell why I would want it instead of another distro that disables "non free" by default, like Debian.

Not criticizing, I did check their home page and didn't find an answer there either.
Ask HN: Can you transition from trade secrets to open source?
Mostly just looking for people submit ideas on the main topic, but if you're interested you can read about
my specific situation below.

I have unique knowledge/experience about how a variety of industrial equipment and computer systems communicate,
and how the software to allow them to communicate should be designed.
Right now, it's very difficult to make these devices/systems communicate, but at the company where I work
we're creating software which uses the knowledge I have to greatly simplify the process.
Companies have happily paid us large amounts of money just for the beta version of our product.
I'm currently the only active developer.

On the one hand, there is a need to protect critical portions of this code. But in an ideal world,
there would be some way to profit from the useful software we're creating while opening source access
to the world. I would absolutely be open to ideas about that, or experiences people have had.

At the very least, I would like to avoid internally segregating our code base for future developers.
However, how would we prevent a VC funded competitor from poaching one of our developers and gaining
access to knowledge it would have taken them years or decades to acquire?

Are some businesses only viable with closed source, internally segregated, software? Or, is it inevitable that
all source will leak anyway, so you should try to create a model which does not rely on proprietary information?
Oh dear, I think your file is already too big to handle it easily. How big is the file?

First, get the data somehow to plain text. LibreOffice is maybe able to convert it to an CSV file. Otherwise you have to open it with Python (for example) to export the data to a text file or directly to a database.

Best way is to find a web hoster which allows you to make the database public. With this solution you can transfer the XLSX columns one by one (with Python) to your online database. After finishing change the database from public to local.

An easy UI in PHP isn't really a thing.
The reason growth is important is tax revenue and debt payments depend on it.
that's a cool vision, but I am not sure how would that make money?
Increase in the ratio of solved crimes will make society less tolerant of wrongful convictions.

If ratio of solved crimes is not high enough -- society tolerates wrongful convictions -- because without risking wrongful convictions it is hard to make any convictions at all.

Because DNA testing increases the ratio of solved crimes, it decreases the chances of wrongful convictions.
It’s not just about learning a new technology it’s about learning a new mindset. Unfortunately part of that mindset is giving up control over the underlying infrastructure, automation, and could be making yourself or some of your redundant.

Not too many ops people that I’ve dealt with that move to AWS reach for Python, CloudFormation, creating custom resources with lambda to plug into CloudFormation, etc to automate. Most won’t even use System Manager to automate EC2 maintenance.
Urs and Jeff were amazing. Something has changed though. Granted it’s been 15 years since I worked there, but some of the incredible spark that used to be there seems to have gone out.
> lot setbacks

Does San Francisco enforce lot setbacks? I don't think I've seen many buildings in San Francisco that weren't just immediately adjacent to the sidewalk.
How do slices internally work in Golang
An economic/investment community forum of the same caliber as The Hacker News
If global warming is real, why am I cold when I get out of the shower?
Kids shouldn’t really be violent, both in their childhood and throughout the rest of their lives.
Not knowing, I wonder what is the current carrying capacity of the blockchain? That is, how much data can it hold at the present time? I assume some form of data redundancy is present.
I think it's just a test, knowing that the company is summitto . Are you able to say no and reply properly?
Yes. It has nothing to do with the topic though. Google are an order of magnitude less than Volkswagen.
Taking a macro view on it and ignoring individual circumstances, I believe San Francisco is slowly bleeding itself out which may be a net positive for society (and I would apply this to my home NYC as well).

I don’t believe it’s a good idea for our society long term to have ALL of the nation’s leading X (technologists, bankers, engineers) in one city or state. As painful as it is to see your community leave, taking a perhaps heartless view on this, these talented people are going to other places and will revitalize communities.

I live in NYC and it pains me to bump into people who are enslaved by their paycheck commuting 3 hours (no exaggeration) a day. Moms and dads never seeing their kids dealing with crumbling infrastructure. I believe they could cut that paycheck in half, live in Charlotte or any number of good cities and lead a much happier life.

I guess I’m saying that while I wouldn’t wish being priced out of your community to anyone, for people on the trajectory of being priced out, the sooner perhaps the better to a happier life somewhere else.
> There is an apocalyptic amount of people moving into California, and no one blames them for the overcrowding and the shifting culture. But when too many Californians leave California and settle in, say, Portland, they are blamed for ruining the place by way of simply being themselves.

Part of this is where the money comes from.

Poorer/lower-middle-class people (mostly) move into California, to work these jobs under varying amounts of duress. It's hard to complain about the kid who moved from Iowa/Wisconsin/Tennessee/etc, and is hoping their first real tech job at Uber or Facebook or Netflix justifies the move. That's why discussion moves to hating the companies, not the people.

But when Californians leave, they leave wealthy (in comparison). Even if they were poor-ish in California, just the act of selling their home (or condo, or any unit, anywhere in the state) instantly propels them straight to the upper-class or upper-middle-class when they move to places like Idaho or Nebraska or Michigan.

So, when they move here, and say things like "$200k for a beat up old house? That's nothing! A downpayment in California would be $200k!" -- it gets easy to hate the coastal person for their money. Because you sure as hell aren't earning that cash local -- Our hometown Gordon Foods corporate jobs aren't paying even 33% of the wages a corporate Uber Eats job does. Our local housing prices are no longer driven by local wages, they're driven largely by what percentage of coastal people are cashing out their wealth and dumping it into our hometowns (or what percent of coastal private equity funds are buying up our cities to rent back to us at inflated rates)

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That's not to defend these actions, I am not saying this is right (no one should hate anyone over this). But it does at least help understand why the blame goes where it does. The blame follows the money. In California, that money comes from the companies. But in flyover-USA, that money is coming from the Californians (or NYC/Boston/DC/Seattle/Denver transplants), because you sure as hell aren't ever earning that much money from any local company here.
You can sideload on iOS but it’s annoying and you’re not likely to get paying customers to jump through the necessary hoops.
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Whoah there. Just because the parent is painting all Americans with one brush doesn't mean we have to reciprocate.
Good info.

You are right, AWS can cost more, but I disagree with "always". I run my personal website for $15/year, and most of that is the domain.

I would say: if you're trying to list and shift to AWS, you're doing it wrong, and it will always cost more. You also can't really fire many people aside from pure network guys. Server admins will still be needed for the virtual servers.

If you take the opportunity to redesign, you can realize cost savings. I still advocate avoiding layoffs, because you can retrain competent ops people to support the new infrastructure. The grizzled old guys that have trouble adapting are still usefull because chances are high you are not fully serverless within 3-5 years after a lift and shift.

As you become more familiar, you realize the tweaks that can be made to save money. We used to spend $600/month on 3-4 concurrent CICD workers. We swapped to docker-machine Spot-based CICD and spend $100-140/month for 12+ concurrent workers (we started at 6 and keep raising this number because the costs simply are so small)

Our front end is all static files (JS driven API calls). The $100/month server is now under $5 month for S3+CloudFront.

So I agree, AWS always costs more if you are trying to replicate a physical data center and ignore all the possibilities for improvement... But with slight tweaks (even starting with auto scaling.. or even more simply, timed lambdas to turn on/off servers overnight), you can reduce costs. Migrating to containers is also a huge cost savings, since you can pack more work into fewer servers without worrying about as much (I lived the nightmare of virtualenv's and managing 12 apps on 1 server.. I prefer containers now as an ops guy)
You may still be right, and I agree with a lot of what you say, but it is extremely difficult to see clearly through the rose-colored glasses of low interest rates. And we have had very low interest rates for a very long time.

I tire of this very rarely being addressed. Both in boom and bust everyone is busy looking everywhere but the one single (central) policy that affects the value of half of every transaction conducted in an economy.

And GDP is overstated by the error in the proxy metrics for inflation (e.g. CPI) which I believe this is larger than most people estimate.
>Several months ago, she had made the difficult decision to move back onto a small corner of her parents beach-town property, after her urban East Bay house became waterlogged during the rainstorms of 2016. We had to move her out over a weekend, after the mold took half the furniture and gave her roommate pneumonia in both lungs. I touched swollen blisters of stagnant rainwater pulsing on her walls. After emailing the landlord about the issues, the housemates abandoned the property. He then successfully sued them in accordance with California tenant laws.

What the actual fuck is wrong with California and its tenant laws?
> Why are we still giving column inches to people saying "This is really disturbing"?

Because it is. Who will be responsible for the suffrage that gene-edited people will inevitably go through when someone screws up (and make no mistake, someone WILL screw up). Who will pay their medical bills?

That's only addressing one small issue from an unfathomable pile of issues and unintended consequences.

I for one am glad those "luddites" have more say in issues like this than people like you.
Maybe it’s time to stop focusing on growth and start thinking of other measurements. Maybe happiness, health, personal prosperity and other factors.
Isn't it empirically not a good idea? Deaf people can't use it, it can't work, as sign is more than just the hand movements. It's like using an IDE made by a cello player that uses musical notes instead of letters to write code.
Never heard of it. Will take a look once I have time.
That still makes no sense at all. If you are millionaire with ample funds, you'd still be down massively compared to if you took out the insurance.

Example - The average UK home contains £35K of stuff. The average annual contents insurance premium is £139. You've been paying for ten years and "Oh no! A fire destroyed all my stuff". You're better off by £33600. In aggregate the insurer makes money, but they don't necessarily make money from every individual. This is where the model makes sense for the buyer and the seller.
There's an upside to that, as buying that content would finance more of this kind of anti-consumer lobbying.
Is there a more verbose explanation about why they’re moving away from compiling packages from source? All the explanations I’ve seen make it sound like that’s the obvious direction it should go, but it’s not obvious to me.
I’m having trouble seeing the intention of this comment. Could you please explain it?
Obviously Zurich took the lower road, deciding that litigation would be less costly than an honest payout. I hope it's a jury trial and the jury puts Zurich out of business, that'll send a message.
AWS accounts for something like half of Amazon’s operating revenue. It may not be exciting but it is a license to print money. Why wouldn’t google (and MSFT, and anyone else with a big sunk investment in data centers) want to monetize their investment too?

Originally bezos was pissed off that Amazon’s excess capacity for the Black Friday/Christmas surge was going to waste the other 50 weeks of the year. I suspect that’s a pretty powerful motivation. But google absorbs huge spikes too (9/11 was one of the first harbingers of this) so it seemed inevitable, even back then, that they’d do it eventually.

Fighting the momentum of entire markets and hoping a muse settles on your shoulder isn’t a sustainable business strategy for most companies, let alone very large public companies.
Thanks — much appreciated!
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Apparently he/she used jQuery, jQuery UI, and D3.