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Why don't Lenevo build these types of laptops any more? There's clearly a demand for a laptop with a good keyboard and screen, but "wiring $1200 to someone’s personal bank account in China, then e-mailing a qq.com address." is something I'm not particularly happy with.

I'll just stick to repairing my 9 year old t410s.
And does it work? Like is there a materially lower prevalence of cold/flu in Japan than in countries of similar climate?
Since when does an anecdote provide any proof? I thought exactly the same things as your parent poster. Carbs are sugar, especially if you chew long enough. This affects teeth. Combine this with a lack of toothbrushes and a lack of fluoride and it sounds like a recipe for tooth decay.

Also, people didn’t live as long as they do now. So less chance to have your teeth rotten. Furthermore: the skeletons might have been of people in their twenties with arguably better teeth than old people.

Lots of questions that this anecdote doesn’t answer and you dismiss critique as pretentious.
> tech is absurdly high on the meritocratic scale.

Actually I would make the distinction that tech is ridiculously far ahead of most other industries- but still very low on the scale. (if by scale we mean zero to perfect meritocracy)

Networks matter a huge amount and are dominated by a certain class and racial demographic.

At least we've begun the conversation and I believe truly meritocratic success is very possible, but those on the inside are definitely more likely to be successful that those outside. (really specifically raising a certain kind of seed or early venture funding, where some normal business metrics may be missing- (investing in the founders) )
This discussion is also releveant for the upload filters the european union deems necessary. If Facebook and Google (ContentID) can't do it reliably, who can?
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I honestly don't understand why, especially on Hacker news, we do not push much more for privacy-oriented solutions.
Moreover, with Matrix/Riot, or with XMPP/Conversations, viable alternatives exist, and if we all would put the energy to make these softwares better rather than putting it into proprietary solutions like the one described here, the open alternatives would already be much better than the proprietary ones!

Sure, as I've read in this thread, Discord is intended for the same kind of discussions that would happen in a public space, or in a group, not for the "truly private discussions",so "no need for all the privacy features "... except you do, precisely for these reasons!

I mean, Discord is privately-owned, a public space by its verynature is not. If I'm talking about anything beyond how nice is the weather, such as my political thoughts, or what I love, I don't want anybody (but possibly me) to be able to make a profit through it!
I think hiding your identity and not wanting to be recognised by your co-workers/old school friends/exes is a big reason in Japan. Surgical masks just have the handy excuse built in: "Oh, I felt like I was getting a little bit of a cold".

I was walking down the street in Japan and walked past my company's receptionist wearing a mask. We made eye contact but she didn't react in the slightest. That only added to the awkwardness when she found out we were both going to the same party only minutes later...
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How exciting! Never expected this to come out of the vapourware stage, the technology sounded just too improbable. Sure would be nice to have an ambitious EU counterpart to SpaceX.
I have a friend who visited it and came back with one of the funniest post-Cold War stories I know. It's representative enough of this stuff that I'm going to recount it, even though most of its value resides simply in being funny.

So my friend is a very nice and friendly guy, who travels all over the world. He speaks Romanian well, but not too much Russian. The border checkpoint, naturally, was manned only by a few friendly folks who spoke nothing but Russian.

He shows them his papers, and they manage to understand each other only to the extent that he explains he wants to visit Tiraspol, and that he's a tourist. All of this mostly in sign language.

So this guy apologizes, tells my friend to wait, and goes off through a door in the back. Almost an hour later, he returns with someone who speaks a little Romanian. My friends explains the whole I wanna visit Tiraspol, I'm a tourist thing all over again. More discussion and paper checking ensues.

Another hour later, the two guys leave again, and return with a third soldier. This time, someone who speaks excellent Romanian. The whole explanation gets repeated. They finally give him the visa, wish him good luck and safe journey -- and one of guys pats him on his shoulder and apologizes.

Sorry, man, he says, you look like a nice guy and I'm sure you really are a tourist. But you have to understand, when someone shows up at the border and claims they're a tourist, we usually find out he's definitely not a tourist.

Edit: every other event of his trip was equally funny, except it involved no public authorities :). From what I've heard, Tiraspol isn't too bad a city -- but do remember this is basically still a Soviet state. I'm sure it's very bad if you piss of the wrong person.
I moved here originally for love, then stayed because it feels like home now. I'm in Linz, I started in Testing, moved to back end in Java and am now full stack + devops. Still spend most of my time hacking away at Java on the back end though. ^^ I pass through Graz every now and then, I have friends there and there's an amazing acrobatics community there.
While the NYT might, their employees don’t.
This works but gets you kicked out of all malls and supermarkets.
I think it makes everything taste the same in an intense but uninteresting way, to be honest. It gives it the bad Chinese restaurant quality. Quantity matters, obviously.
Sadly even if foul play is found at Boeing I doubt anyone will be held accountable. The Government is full of ex Boeing people even the Secretary of Defense is a 30 year Boeing vet.
Long blog posts requires more thought and work than his current tweeting. The kind that you usually find in Books in a Library. Twitter content is what you find in the garbage bins of writers. I don't think Twitter has helped Greenwald evolve into something better.
Ha, my sole experience of RDF was on an EU-funded research project :)
>The societal pressure on appearance is so high, that just going to the grocery shopping without makeup is seen a socially unacceptable.

Well, "socially unacceptable" if you're superficial and want to be popular and trendy.

I have a few Korean friends and they don't particularly care.

So, it's as much "pressure" as wearing brand name clothes would be in the Valley in the 90s.
Of all the good practices listed here, the only one I can't seem to be bothered with is */# for searching the word under the cursor. I am curious is this happens to others, or it's just thst my workflow is idiosyncratic in this respect.
Hrm, there was an graph in the article that visualizes just what you are looking for. If you look at the graph you can see P&G is doing fine relative to the other companies discussed, but they are steadily losing GDP percentage. And as someone who works at one of these so mentioned micro brands that is attempting to distrust P&G stranglehold I can see that we are starting to get some serious traction
Stick a pebble in your shoe.
Anti-monopoly law is not meant to prevent companies from investing in different product lines. Monopoly law is meant to prevent companies from using one product to force customers to buy into another product.
Amusing read. Most of this material is before my time.

But in geoscience grad school just five or so years ago, a number of older, but technically minded professors were still using Sun machines, and most of the manuals for geoscientific software tend to provide supplementary information for other modern exotic systems/OSes, so I wonder: has windows replaced Unix as the technically inferior/evolutionary superior champion?
Really? Why not Jena or Marmotta with Postgres backend? I have little experience but just started setting up the latter, therefore I'm curious.
Napalm seems like a bit of a stretch.

My experience is that it is because of the high number of swallow bird houses.

If you drive around (I've driven most of the southern end of VN and Cambodia), the multi story, windowless buildings are everywhere and in towns with a lot of them, far fewer bugs. The Vice article quotes 4200 houses... my guess is that it is 10x higher than that.

I'm currently in Hoi An and there is a ton of bugs here and not as many bird houses.

http://vietnamnews.vn/sunday/features/216083/swallow-nest-fa...

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/ev8da4/farming-edibl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_bird%27s_nest
Based on my experience in the nautical industry, where most things were quite literally held together using velcro, metaphorical rubber bands and duct tape seems quite likely for relatively younger web industries.
A programmer who by default adds a good concise readme to his projects is an indicator that the same will apply to the codebase, in that he will plan for the future.

I've seen it too many times, exceptions are rare.

A good readme is concise, it offers key 'bring me up to speed as fast as possible' information, nothing more. It's not documentation.

A good readme should include a quick bootstrapping info, but it's not enough, it should have a concise summary overview and list any important gotchas. As well as provide the procedures for builds/releases if apply. Links to relevant docs if exist are fine if the information becomes too large for the readme.

> Having a README wouldn't have saved this code from needing to be refactored. Nor would it have really changed my opinion of the code. It hasn't been a reliable signal.

See I read that and figure that it was actually a perfect signal - since that "bad unmaintainable code" lacked a good readme.

It's like the Van Halen requiring Brown M&Ms at their concerts https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/ - I've found the README is one of the best indicators of the level of detail a person applies to their work.

> it makes no sense to give that much credit for something that really isn't impactful beyond the first few days of using something.

This is the attitude that I wouldn't be looking for when recruiting - a README has a ton of use, for helping bootstrapping new people to the code base - to even helping yourself if you do some maintenance on an old project and don't want to spend more than the minimum time necessary.

It's this forethought I'd like to see in a candidate, and that 99.9% of the time shows in the quality of the readme.
I created this little website because I tend to leave things to the last minute, such as renewing an old website's certificate. There's nothing like a countdown timer to create a sense of urgency. I hope you find it useful.
I wouldn't quite put Pewdiepie in the 'caught in the middle' bucket though. First there's the jokes he's made:

- using the N-word (more than once)
- doing a nazi salute and dressing up in nazi garb
- paying two Indians(?) to hold up a sign with 'death to all jews' on it.

On top of that he not only subscribes to quite a number of radical/far right people (Stefan Molyneux, Lauren Southern), but did a shout-out to a channel that is pretty far down the far-right side of the spectrum (E;R).

Then of course there's the fact that this support works two ways. The 'far right' really seems to like him a lot!

To be clear, I'm not saying he is a white supremacist, a racist, or even 'far right'. I'm really not. I can't read his mind, and obviously it's true that if one wants to troll, the above is a very effective approach.

(Although he could also, I dunno, mix it up by doing some far left stuff. Promote communism, make a Stalin shrine or guillotine the rich jokes. Or do any of many other things that are provocative that aren't as much associate with the far right. defend PHP?)

But the least that I would argue is that he's definitely not part of the middle that is 'caught' in between all this. Not in behavior, and not in effect. And in that context I don't care too much about intent (which we can never really know).
I've played around with the Python integration - it's pretty smooth. See, eg, https://groups.google.com/d/msg/shaktidb/lQ3XSvFPDhw/DOlmmFg...
I'm not sure I've ever seen a better example of classic HN-style "middlebrow dismissal" than this comment. I want to print it and frame it.
Mostly Java Backend or full stack, they have a niche in a smaller company and get noticed for delivering great results.
Those are links to relevant blog posts, not to paid content/product. I highly suspect your account is a highjacked one (3 comments: 2 here, 1 4 years ago) made to defend the spammers.
I chuckled on the EU research grants part. My God, when I remember the monstrosities I was thinking up just to bodge in Semantic Web/Linked Data. Those guys are purely fueled by buzzwords. Maybe we met somewhere :) .

"Semantic data is the future and always will be" - unknown author.
> Making calls and sometimes they get picked up and sometimes not?!?

I like that paranoia is the default. Once you get used to it, easy stuff remains easy and hard stuff becomes less scary.

> But in-process? If I call a function on an object, I want the compiler to tell me right now if this code makes sense, and the compiler should stop me right away if that code cannot possibly work once deployed.

You are going of a tangent; What you are refering to is a matter of typing and compiler help, and not related to the OO paradigm as thought by Alan Key. (If there is a relation, I would be happy to learn it). Put more concretely: I don't see why a Java compiler would be more warning than a typed Smalltalk compiler.
uTorrent from the actual uTorrent era, e.g. 2.2.1, is 394KB, so, yeah, it is in fact "several times."
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I am highly suspicious that google was instrumental in centralizing the web. At some point, it started to increasingly only show results from the same dozen or two websites. At this point, if you want to search for something that is not hosted on one of the popular 'centralized' sites, you are out of luck.
I started learning classical guitar a year ago.

It's challenging but really nice.
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Yeah though hydrogen is produced by burning fossil fuels currently. I hope the tech to get hydrogen from the air and water using solar keeps improving and getting cheaper to the point that it becomes the main source of hydrogen. As hydrogen used as a fuel source and as a way to store renewable energy has a huge potential to bring down the world's carbon production.
There's a similar set I use often alongside those three: zt, zz, and zb. They scroll the buffer so the cursor is at the top, middle, and bottom.
Try turning off Javascript.
I use Wire which has a similar problem to Riot. That is now 2 different workspaces just for "chatting" (they take up an entire workspace to be usable, because it wastes space, not good, IMO), then there is another for IRC on which I can also have a browser anyway because the terminal is only 80x24. I stopped using Riot because of it, and I might stop using Wire, too. :/ I hope they will fix it in Wire though, for example, by making the friend list collapsible or something.
I tend to agree, but I actually don’t think peace is prerequisite. The internet was designed during the Cold War and was designed in a way to be resilient to massive fallout of the network (nuke safe). While, I do agree that if the establishment is not pleased with the openness of the internet they will attempt to regulated/censor it more heavily, but I think it’s too late. Attempts to regulate the internet would be met with massive resistance. Maybe, I am just slightly delusional about how much people care though, especially considering net neutrality in the states
That's exactly how I imagined Tumblr's design and development, based on my multiple unsuccessful attempts, over the years, to find any useful navigation between blogs, or the function of reading comments.
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To take it a step further, locksmithing should be considered. Mechanical locks are devices which open when given a particular numerical sequence. This doesn't just apply to combination locks but also to keyed locks as keys just represent a predefined numerical sequence through the cuts made into the metal.
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Not exactly rocket science. Many cities around the world have figured it out already. To me it seems that the US went to the other extreme and is only slowly turning around.

I remember reading "Das neue Universum"² in the early 80s where they proposed large skyscrapers connected by tubes. No cars in sight.

Oh and don't miss "Das Neue Universum Volume 84 (1967)": http://klausbuergle.de/buergle_verkehr1.htm -

Click on the bottom left image - looks a lot like Hyperloop, doesn't it? The text even mentions that the tubes contain a vacuum!

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² https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Neue_Universum
That comment has very little substance. Where do you get the hydrogen? Where do you get the jet fuel? The answer determines if it's environment friendly.
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The Model Y has a 7 seat option, the Model 3 does not.
I'm sure of it for rodents. Primates and rodents are "supraprimates".[0] Maybe I'm wrong about pigs, though.

0) http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticle/refId-a0005306.html [see Images tab]
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For me it's because putty by default dumps characters on the screen when pageup is pressed. I work in an awful cloud hosted env that will not remember changes to my putty terminal aas well.
> So keep your paragraph width between 50 and 70 characters.

Yes, I have a terminal (xterm) with irssi running, that terminal is 80x24, and give or take the timestamps, it is indeed between 50 and 70 characters.

Whereas Wire and Riot takes up the entire screen as a single window.
Couldn't they put a random piece of paper in the ballot box?

What happens if a white piece of paper is found? Do all the votes in the box get cancelled?
“Doesn’t emit CO2 when in operation” and “carbon neutral” are two completely different things.

If Musk produces his methane using electricity from the solar cells he sells, and this thing flies on hydrogen made by burning oil to drive a generator that uses hydrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, Musk’s rocket hopper can well be closer to carbon neutral.

Also, “environment friendly“ is yet something different. Using bare steel and reusing rockets, as Musk does, will help there, but this design also seems to be reusable.
I liked the example of 1 line of code generation a table of random stock data.

But, this is not free or open source?
They went into trash nowadays. Also cats preying on birds and decimating them. There's no ideal solution.
It's possible they have commercial relationships with the vendors that back those other OSS projects. It's common for such vendors to build a discount into contracts in exchange for promotional support.

Also, corporations are not homogenous entities. Perhaps other people in the company would have had the authority to say yes.

From what I've seen, there's very little incentive for any company to reveal the technologies -- FOSS or otherwise -- that they use, unless it's to attract job candidates or to position the company as a technological leader in preparation for a funding round. In either case, it's gonna be hype technologies that get on the website: Hadoop ten or so years ago, NoSQL five to seven years ago, some kind of distributed log three to five years ago, and so on.
That example is correct, because in OOP you should not simply change state/value inside other object, because you pretty much end up with anemic domain model where classes are just structs and code that modify it is not part of the class. What parent meant was that you call "accept new job" on person object and then use this object instead of just setting the salary. Maybe it was oversimplified, though.
> if you're superficial and want to be popular and trendy

You can be concerned about being popular and trendy without being superficial. Ignoring fashion, style, and appearance standards can hurt your life chances and your relationships with other people. In societies where popularity and trendiness signal and enhance status, it's rational to be concerned about them.
One is a 7 seater, one is not. One is costly, one is not. One is not a replacement for the other. What is the Osborne effect here exactly?
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In SE Asia, you don't wear a mask to protect you from other people's germs. You wear one to indicate to other people that you are currently unwell, and protect them from your germs.

The article is pure uninformed speculative bullshit
Loads of times. A couple of days ago I had a quick question about a print job I was a submitting to a printer. Got an answer in about 20 seconds. What's not to like?
Personally I find the cases the EU has against Google to be, well pathetic. Absolutely without merit. The sites that felt disadvantaged, whom the EU worked on behalf of, were scummy comparison shopping sites.

The other complaints, the "right to forget" legislation had similar scummy people behind it. Politicians that had committed fraud on multiple counts and wanted to hide this.

That pretty much leaves the android case ... I don't know too much about that, I must say. I might add that android is not entirely free for device manufacturers. Probably cheaper than any other option, yes, but not free.
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Wow. 1,500C to -150C in 1/100th of a second sounds pretty remarkable. Any idea how that's achieved?
From reading it I recall it was less about contemporary alternatives (which all sucked), and more about how UNIX displaced better environments in the 70s/80s.
> I believe the Kay-official answer to the question "what is Kay oop?" is "you just don't get it." Which for me has always raised a flag.

There are at least two problems at work here:

1. The words that Alan Key is (rightly) using are overloaded, since other languages adopted the OO term, but interpreted them differently. This adds to miscommunication: The words sound familiar, but their meaning might be subtly or drastically different.

2. The advantages of OO as thought by Alan Key are hard to convey if not by hands-on experience. Debugging and developing programs in Smalltalk is really fun and effective, but I had to write my thesis in a Smalltalk company first to appreciate it.

This is an instance of the "blob problem" as termed by Paul Graham. Many Non-Lispers have a hard time appreciating the benefits of powerful metaprogramming, and reading articles about it won't change that. They might peak interest, but one has to play around some time with those concepts to gain a feel for what benefits and limits are.
Me too, the working principle sounds too much sci-fi, and require supermaterials for pretty much everything.
Which means less than half of Americans are satisfied with their coverage. Not “most”.
Methane can be produced quite easily in a carbon neutral way, for example by collecting it from manure.