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The distros do maintain a reference back to the source. Debian makes it trivial to download the source code for packages and to build it yourself.

apt source htop
apt build-dep htop
cd htop-2.0.2
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc
My goal was less to obfuscate than it was to compress the code. I kept it as clear as I could within the limits of trying to get the code really small. There weren't any deliberate obfuscations like using misleading variable names.

The "l" macro cut the code down significantly and is one of the tricks I'm most proud of.

"r" and "i" aren't that impactful in terms of length. Their main benefit is that they make it easier to split the code where I need to in order to render the big ASCII art "@" sign. That's a lot harder when you have multiple-letter identifiers that can't be split in the middle.
If your logic is that people at facebook want to ignore politics, perhaps you'd be better off directing your question at asians? Whites are 46% of facebook employees (underrepresented to the point of being a minority there), while asians are 41% (over-represented by a factor of ~4 vs. the general population): https://www.facebook.com/careers/diversity-report
> This is quite the extraordinary claim -- that a company that is otherwise known for design would not focus on their fonts.

It shouldn't be _that_ extraordinary. Much of my life experience has taught me that people/groups known for a 'thing' reinforce their prestige via a sort of circular reasoning. This can cause people to gloss over frayed edges. Sometimes dubious decisions are even taken as the "right way" moving forward! If the paragon of cheese says acrid, fishy cheese is great cheese, there's probably something to it, right?

OSX, depending on the version, has an uneven margin here and there, or a weird aliased image during setup.. It's pretty clean all things considered, but Apple's reputation is a force multiplier and a floor on how their designs are appraised.

Hot take:
The touch bar is goofballs.
Going from a magnetic connector to usb-3 is a usability regression.
Removing the headphone jack is user hostile.

"Courage" is an interesting way to describe those decisions. It's either that, or they're taking their reputation defense shield for granted. Eh, if cracks start to appear, they have enough money to do things right for a while.
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Are you saying that async hooks perform fine with Bluebird but not native promises? Why not use Bluebird everywhere then?
This article is "OBJECTIVELY" bad.
Also mid-late 30s, work in finance / NYC, hit a bit of a plateau salary + skills-wise that I am trying to work through, also hoping to avoid management, here are my thoughts.

* Staying focused on long-lived, core technologies, C++/Java/Python. I'm not too interested in chasing AWS/docker/Kubernetes or anything with a half-life approaching that of a js framework.

* Need to add new skills. For me, coming up to speed with kdb+/q. I realize that while I have gained breadth / experience with my skills, it had been too long since I have added an entire new "bullet point" / category to my resume.
How reasonable would it be to the prescription process; for example, a kiosk in the mall where I sit in a booth and click (better/worse) while looking into some-kind of a vision testing device.

The whole thing is so procedural and really, not very difficult to administer. It seems like extremely low hanging fruit for automation.
> And where does this money go? What does it end up doing?

Some of it goes to providing jobs to those same middle class people.
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We (Redash) have a similar setup (Docker Compose based) and we used Packer to build the DigitalOcean image. Our setup is public on GitHub, in case you want to copy:

https://github.com/getredash/setup
I ordered Zenni frames and lenses last time I bought glasses. Optically, no complaints, but the frames broke in less than a year and the anti-glare coating developed a cracked/crazed spot in the middle of one lens. Probably won't be a repeat customer.
I've also had good experiences with WP and have referred several friends to them when they mentioned needing new glasses.
I would not use it on a laptop, but it my OS of choice for my desktop. Battery life, wifi, power management, etc. are all terrible. On Desktop, almost none of those things matter enough.
Which developers of Free and Open Source projects do you sponsor?
>> Retina officially happened in 2013, not 2015,

2012, actually.
Try looking at Computer Management on a partial-scaled display (125% ish). It’s impressively bad.
My initial thought was that Kraken had released a Docker registry which was odd.

But now I realise it is a separate project by Uber that is called Kraken.

But as it is a project I am okay with the name clash. It kind of suits the distributed nature of its arms.

I know there will be some confusion but hopefully, people's google-fu and search terms will be able to distinguish from Kraken the cryptocurrency company, Kraken the docker registery tool and Kraken the mythical mega octopus, and more.
I wore the same pair of Warby Parker glasses daily for 6 years before my son broke them. They are very good for the price.
too strange to believe combinations of ultra-aggressive management plus occasional engineering brilliance plus team sports engineering efforts; before the Internet, paper print was one side of mass consumer applications aka the big money. People here know that super-smart father figure founder John Warnock literally burst into tears on stage as bitter rivals (MSFT AAPL) turned buddy-buddy behind closed doors to knock Adobe off of their type perch, right ?
n=1, but what happened in East Africa was tragic, and was not the fault of careless people. Anyone who says otherwise is not worthy of thought.
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You know, Locklin, it's pretty weird to see you playing coy instead of spelling it out explicitly in flaming letters 100 feet high. Maybe what you're vaguely implying isn't actually true?
I think it's premature to assume that sleep is essential to any essential mechanism that occurs during it. It's similar to assuming that if a smartphone downloads and applies updates when it's charging and on WiFi, that external power and WiFi are vital to the updating mechanism.
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"My case" is "my current company deploys thousands of Linux notebooks" and what I am saying is that while there are certainly problems with the Linux end-user experience, it's not generally the baseline stuff anymore.

Desktops have been fine--not great, depending on your DE and your preferences, but fine--for a while now. (I'd say that Ubuntu 14.04 was the first widely stable Linux distro I ran into.) Laptops are getting there. There's room to improve, but a lot of these complaints are getting stale.
No. Dell XPS 15.
What I find interesting about this is that the agents naturally become "pacifists". To optimize for survival, they try keep their neighbors at arms length and avoid conflict.

I wonder what would happen if they took the 8 species model that developed niches and introduced some kind of "boredom" feature. Or what might be more interesting is to have the agents produce offspring that stay with them early in life but consume equal resources and see if a "boredom" naturally occurs in the offspring.

I guess given that agents optimizing for survival creates routine, I'm curious where boredom or the desire to explore the world might originate from.
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To me, all fonts on OS X are different shades of bold. Cannot stand it.
Thats awesome. Thanks a lot, arikfr.
What is ‘superadobe’?
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The share of incomes from private businesses (especially luxury businesses) isn't flat and benefits mostly the executives and directors and shareholders.
There is a lot of money in them, there have been plenty of companies and individuals making >$100,000 ARR by just working on MMO automation. Maybe some other SaaS ideas are more reliable, but it is more difficult to ensure you have a profitable idea and more uncertainty exists throughout the process.
Maybe the solution for centralization is decoupling the data architecture and the interface. Like in the net neutrality debate everyone understands that the hardware providing bandwidth is separate from the websites which run on them.

Lets take youtube for instance.

Imagine if you had the choice of 10 different services which allow you to upload videos on them. Once the video is uploaded they provide a key to retrieve it.

You can use this key now in any of 10 different video display sites to actually play the video to the end user.

The video display sites provide the monetization and discovery services. The upload sites provide the bandwidth.

This way you can migrate your videos whenever you want to a site which is more friendly to your type of content.
Considering their profits, I don't believe that is where it is going:

http://www.luxottica.com/en/record-2017-net-profits-and-free...

Using a monopolistic position to overcharge doesn't generate more jobs, just profits.
Right, it's almost a collective statement on our health and priorities that allows parasites like this to thrive. What I mean is that obviously, in general, we can afford $800 glasses even though we may hate it. But it isn't, for most people, coming at the expense of food, cars, rent, etc. It is not good free market operating, though, and should be forcibly interrupted.
I've noticed an exponential increase in NYTimes articles being massively upvoted here lately with such garbage articles as this, "A New Luxury Retreat Caters to Elderly Workers in Tech (Ages 30 and Up)" and "NSA has ended phone monitoring based on an anonymous aide."

Maybe it's just me, but this seems like garbage.
And that's why it's important to deliver the quote in person
Sorry, where do the authors claim they achieved >100k connections per second?
As a manager of a remote team, I can see how this can be doubly useful to me! We already use Docker for development too but reviews still involve stopping what I'm doing to pull another developer's code to test and merge. I couldn't find any documentation for Dockup on your website. Is documentation available only if I'm signed in? I was just curious to see how it can be setup before signing up for an account.
Microsoft project Malmo is attempting the same using Minecraft.

Github: https://github.com/Microsoft/malmo#getting-started

Homepage: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-mal...
Here's a useful program someone in the HN/YC universe could write - something that uses your computer or phone camera to measure your interpupillary distance. This is a bit tricky to do yourself with a ruler and a mirror.

Just have the user take a selfie while holding some object of known dimensions on their forehead. Like a dollar bill. Find the eyes and pupils (OpenCV can do that), find the reference object, calculate.

Then take a picture of the prescription, OCR to the numbers (which will need a really good OCR program given the handwriting of many ophthalmologists), confirm the data with the user, and take the order for new glasses. Composite a selfie with pictures of glasses so you can see them on your face.

Order from China, deliver via E-Packet, profit. Who needs Luxotica?
I don't think an aggressive litigious attitude like this is constructive.

It also ignores the fact that Google has scraped many sites to build its own profitable products and features over the years.
Every single programmer I've known from the UK that was from working-class roots started on a Spectrum, so I'd argue that, at least for one country, it's among the most important in history.
Happy to see this out and public!

We (Redash) had public AMIs for AWS and GCP for a long time now. But recently started the process of creating a proper marketplace listing with them and DigitalOcean. Needless to say that we're still working on the AWS and GCP listing, while the DigitalOcean one is already live. As with everything, they created a simple and nice experience for the vendors.
Employing people at each step in the eyewear industry. Plus, employing people at companies who support the eyewear industry. Plus, employing people at companies that support the companies that support the eyewear industry...etc. etc.
The parent is working on legislation.

If you want that long list of things, and can get it, good for you. Does it then follow you can demand legislation to protect that?

Then there's the question of what a devoted fan is. Surely if they only wanted devoted fans they'd site the concert somewhere out of the way. The South pole perhaps? That would sort the touts.

Edit:
And a final point, my experience as a fan would be much improved if I could reliably go out and buy say 4 tickets for me and my friends, any friends because i don't know which will be free, and if only 2 can make it, sell 1 to someone else that would like to go.
I use Fedora and I've never noticed anything wrong with the font rendering. However, now that I've read the article, I'm guessing that's why I notice more eye strain when doing lots of reading on my computer versus the other (Windows) computer in the house.
I agree, if people are still complaining about windows fonts the last version of windows they probably ran was vista. Windows has come a long way and the entire surface product line depends on beautiful font rendering on high dpi screens.
Lens Crafters charges a huge markup if you want their lenses put into your own frames. It's almost cheaper to buy new frames from them (and in the case of particularly-expensive lenses, it is in fact cheaper to buy new frames). That's clearly a scam.

Warby Parker sells glasses at more reasonable prices, but their frames are god-awful hideous tortoiseshell plastic abominations. If you want nice metal frames, they have a small selection, and the prices aren't that great.

I normally buy two pairs of glasses at once (one for distance, one computer-specific). I'll probably soon start buying a third pair, progressive bifocals. I'm now wondering at what point it will literally be cheaper to fly overseas to get them made. I may in fact have already crossed that line.

The only reason I ever use Lens Crafters is when I need glasses same-day due to an emergency. Just last month, I broke my glasses a few days before an extended overseas trip. If I hadn't been going to the Cayman Islands (where everything is more expensive), I'd have waited until arrival to get them made.

It's unfortunate that most optometrists have a two-week turnaround on new glasses. For all I know, they're going through the same Luxottica monopoly too, but at least I avoid Lens Crafters. Their quality is absolute shit; poorly-ground lenses, shitty coatings that scratch easily and bubble up. It's probably intentional, so that you're forced to return less than a year later for new glasses.

I've heard good things about Costco, but I don't have access to one.
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Why are you not listed on this page? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=w2019
There are plenty of examples where rising profits in an industry have led to workforce downsizing, not job creation.

Is there any data to show that these excessive eyewear profits are being used to create new jobs?
Perhaps because renewables wouldn't have gotten started if it weren't for subsidies. Was that the right move? Perhaps it was. Seems that way for Wind Power.
I just bought a pair of glasses from the local optometrist. Lenses and frames came to $650. It turns out the eye exam was done so hastily that I ended up with the wrong prescription.

So when I went to a different place to have the exam redone I decided to try some discount glasses. I found a pair for $27 with free lenses. I sprung for the $12 expedited shipping and have been very pleased. The online store I used was GlassesUSA.com, which I believe ships directly from Thailand.
>> " to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all."

So they are going to release this data? How? Open source? Or will this be a subscription service? The fact that the website is so unclear makes me think the later.
I respectfully must disagree with all of the claims here regarding zenni and costco, unpopular as it may be. They are only comparable at the low end but have no matching product at the high end. I bought a pair of glasses at costco for $200 as a backup to my daily rimless wearers. First, costco and zenni don’t have any rimless options. Second, the lenses I did buy ( partial frame) were their lightest but still significantly heavier than what I replaced. Third, the lenses just didn’t have the same clarity and sharpness as my oakleys. They just don’t offer the same quality coatings and I paid for their best. After a couple of months, I caved and went back to lenscrafters for a replacement. My new Ray Bans, although expensive, are like night and day compared to Costco. Light as a feather, outstanding clarity and sharpness, extremely scratch resistant, on the whole simply remarkable to wear. Side by side comparison, exact same prescription, there’s no contest. None.

Luxottica may be overcharging, but truth is the discount brands do not carry a comparable product. Certainly you can save money at those places, but the product isn’t the same. In some sense you are getting what you pay for. You can get even better lenses from Zeiss and Nikon if you go beyond Lenscrafters, but I haven’t walked that path yet as it’s a bit beyond my budget (read: insurance), although I’ve heard excellent things.

Edit: Grammar.
Added a javascript version, for those who want to try it out without compiling anything: https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070....

Online version: https://jsfiddle.net/dfu7ws69/
I think a big part of this is, like health care, insurance hiding the true cost from consumers.

I have a vision plan as a benefit from my job. Covers exams and eyeware, so I have never paid more than a small co-pay for glasses and I had no idea what the cost was behind the scenes.

The insurers don't care as they just pass the cost along to the employers who pay for the policies. The employers don't know any better.

This is a case of market pressure on prices being totally eliminated by layers of bureaucracy and obfuscation.
How can you say that? Luxottica employs 85,000 people. Do those people obtain no benefit from employment?
Why would any of these jobs be lost in a more competitive eyewear industry? People keep repeating this talking point, but I don't understand what they mean.

Nobody is asking for the eyewear industry to stop existing. We're talking about a single monopoly controlling the majority and driving up prices.

How does an artificially high price and artificially low competition generate more jobs?
> Something I've always felt was weird--its not like prescription drugs

Perhaps they can get reimbursed by your insurance provider (without co-pay, so you don't necessarily even know about it) and/or the government, when they make glasses according to a prescription, in a way that they don't when they make them 100% for retail?
I think we need both internal activism and external regulation
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When it comes to creative freedom vs reusable blocks, the latter will always win. Period.

Assembly language provided creative ways to solve a problem. C won because it had patterns to solve them across projects.

Word processors provide creative ways to layout your document. Yet markdown is winning because it solves the layout problem with reusable syntax.

People like patterns and reusability. Be it developers who want to reuse code or the users who want to reuse their previous knowledge. Practicality will eventually win. The arguments for Web 3.0 goes against this very funda. I doubt it will ever catch up.
Some of these apps exist, but none are as accurate as a ruler and two post-it notes with a pinhole.

If Apple opens up the depth sensor on the iPhone camera, such apps will be more accurate.
I never said there shouldn't be competition. The parent asked where money goes...
They're taking on growth with an abatement on revenue
Although I'm detecting a significant amount of hostility and condescension in your response, I'm going to ask you to elaborate on your position a bit more since I don't really understand what it is that you're trying to say. What do historical cycles of industrialization have to do with the observation that modern, information-rich consumers appear to have a growing moral imperative to prioritize human rights and positive environmental management when deciding how to allocate their discretionary resources (time / money)?
The book Sapiens has a few pages on this. Essentially, the thought seems to be that we're an edge case that's been able to jointly optimize for intellect/large brains and small efficient bodies by overcoming the limits on brain size imposed by vaginal birth. This in part explains our relative immaturity at birth. We're vulnerable and require constant care for the first few years of life. Compare this with other mammals such as calves which are able to walk roughly at birth.
> something that uses your computer or phone camera to measure your interpupillary distance

Presumably any program that does face recognition already has this capability somewhere inside it, and you just need to either extract it out (if FOSS) or trick the engine into doing just that one thing for you.
Funny how you singled out Linux, a free/open source OS.

Because just a few days ago I read that fonts, as well as UI elements in general, are a complete mess in both Mac and Windows, two paid/closed-source OSes, when you try to use them with Hi DPI displays.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1006968985760366592 (Elon Musk: "We use less than 3% cobalt in our batteries & will use none in next gen")
Zenni requires you to do a bit of your own research, like every other new-economy self-service approach. But it's worth it.

Switching to Zenni has allowed me to move to cheap CR-39 lenses rather than expensive high index material. CR-39 is soft, and if I'm paying a lot for frames then the lenses getting scratched is a Big Deal. Then pile on further costs for coatings etc. But if the frames and lenses are both inexpensive, then needing to get a new pair sooner is not really a big deal.

(polycarb is right out due to its horrible chromatic aberration. If you don't know what that is, and you're perfectly content with the clarify of things you're seeing, don't look it up lest you sensitize yourself to it!)

I still need to find a decent sunglass frame on Zenni. Their basic aviators are way too small.