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Cryptonomicon too?! Well I'll be darned.

Refactoring... wow. How many programmers have been redefined by works published that year alone?

I can't say eXistenZ was a particularly good movie in any objective way, but I enjoyed it and watched it several times.

Thirteenth Floor has been on my Netflix queue for a while... I should really get around to it.
> Apparently, the cops got tired of trying to wring some salient information from the uncooperative bird, so they turned him over to a nearby zoo, where he'll presumably get to do normal bird shit and not have to spend his days cawing about drug busts anymore. We respect your loyalty, though, buddy. Enjoy your new and better life away from the drug trade.

I don't know why, but I like it when lighter news articles use a tongue in cheek writing style where you know the author is amused about what they are writing.
The answer is to use Microsoft apps on an Apple machine (or Linux if you're that kind of person)
You might have grounds for a lawsuit if it broke your company.
Many people's companies don't offer 401ks.

The limit for IRAs is lower than that for 401ks. It is very common to open a brokerage account if you had more than 5500 you wanted to put away.

(Ex: grad student who interns in the summer, contractor with boom and bust pay cycle, or any worker in a company that doesn't offer a 401k)

>You should be able to skip the foreign tax credit if you manually enter the 1099-DIV: simply enter foreign taxes paid field on the 1099-DIV as 0, and your tax software won't offer to credit it.

I'm not sure it's legal to lie about the contents of the 1099-DIV, even if the lie is to the government's benefit :)
That's another thing I don't get at all.
I'm ridiculously happy still with my galaxy s3 (yes 3), plastic back that i can remove in seconds. I've never had a case for it, and because it's plastic, when i've dropped it, it actually has some cushion. It's also thinner than my wife current iphone x with a case on it. What is the use case for aluminum other than "premium feel"?
Render gets $2.25M seed round, launches easiest cloud
Microsoft is more B2B than B2C compared to the other companies, so it makes sense that they're barely ever in the news cycle. They've done a good job of creating separate identities for their Office, Azure and Xbox brands, so bad PR on the Xbox side won't adversely impact the company's reputation as a whole.
You can't/won't justify a rise in compensation without increasing output first.
> IMO what "you can tell" is that they have good support where you're actually a paying customer, and no support for their free products.

I've heard a few examples here of people having trouble getting support with both GSuite and GCloud.

Sometimes I've got support from GCloud. Even once got two blokes onsite because they'd messed up something badly, but at that time I was working on a project that was seemed to be big time bragging rights for anyone involved on both our side and their side.

Other times our requests would be handled by someone who was more or less clueless && who clearly didn't care at all IMO (this was also the same project.)

For smaller customers it seems to be hopeless from what I read here: - Someone getting their account (GSuite or GCloud) closed for no good reason and with no way to get it back seems to be a thing that happens from time to time.
>There is nothing wrong with the MAX's performance characteristics. The aircraft itself is perfectly safe to fly

How do we know? because the FAA approval is not ensuring me that there are not any other problematic systems where Beoing self approved the corner cuts they made. IMO a full re-approval is needed with a trust worthy institution is needed before you can claim that the airplane is "perfectly safe"
Tencent and Nintendo Partner Up to Sell Switch in China – Pandaily
The obvious alternative is less crime, of all sorts, not organized vs disorganized.
It's just computation and storage, so of course you can do it on a server. Three things blockchains provide: you don't need to trust anyone with custody of your assets, you have censorship resistance, and users pay for all the resources they use so don't need a business model just to keep it running.
>It is unclear if Trump misspoke when he said: "Today, I am announcing that the Second Step Act will be focused on successful reentry and reduced unemployment for Americans with past criminal records. And that’s what we are starting right away."

I don't think it's unclear. I can read this as "getting the ball rolling" and not "this bill is starting right now."

Last paragraph nails it:

>Holden gave a similarly upbeat assessment. “If you told me two years ago that we’d be talking about ‘Well, the Second Step Act hasn’t happened yet,’ that means the First Step Act did happen, and that’s a big deal," he said.

Also the title is non-informative..
For me I got a great intro by doing Crossfit. They’re pretty welcoming to newbies and they include both powerlifting and olympic lifting (although they usually don’t do bench presses). The gyms use rubber weights & floors so that you can always drop the barbell, which is pretty nice while learning.

Either way, definitely find something where you have an in-person coach. Its way too easy to develop bad form habits if you’re just learning from Youtube or something.
On Pixels at least there's an optional lockdown button in the power menu. Disables all biometrics/smart lock, hides all notifications on lock screen, and more importantly doesn't say anything like "locked manually".
You may also want to add a DMARC policy. A dmarc record generator can be found at https://mxtoolbox.com/DMARCRecordGenerator.aspx
> It has become very difficult / unwise to host your own SMTP server, though

That's not been my experience at all.
> Gmail's success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem

That depends on what you define as "health".

> Email itself, of course has a huge network effect, and that is because you can email anyone in the world, regardless of what email system they use

If that's the case, then why does Gmail system explicitly thwart this objective, as described by this very article?

> If we lose an open, healthy ecosystem with many providers, we'll destroy the base we stand on

And that's exactly what Gmail is doing when it does what is described in the article.

> we care deeply about having positive relationships with developers and all our users

You personally might, but your company does not. What your company cares about is advertising revenue. If your company really cared about users, it would figure out a way to let them pay directly for your company's services (not just Gmail but search, maps, etc.) so you could see directly from users how valuable those services were, instead of having any benefit to users be a side effect of trying to capture their eyeballs for advertisers.
Have also run into this. Google is the quintessential evil tech corporation. We should all start avoiding their services when possible.
We're not wedded to these big tech companies. I don't know why we need to forgive them at all. Let's talk about smaller companies making interesting products that haven't betrayed our trust, like System76, Lulzbot, or Purism. There's a whole world of hardware and software out there.
Fair points as well. And sure, the title is by far the strongest influence on a new thread. But there are other ways, as I mentioned, for users to request a title change, and if they're flagging an article based on title alone without looking at the text, that's not good.

I appreciate how the moderation call could seem non-obvious in this case, even though it was obvious to me. Here's the most important thing: people shouldn't just flag every divisive article. It depends on the quality of the specific article. We don't want HN to be taken over by political battle. But we also don't want to sanitize it of social issues, because it would be less intellectually interesting that way, and that is the entire point of the site. Here's a good question to ask when deciding whether to flag: what is the information-to-indignation ratio of the article? If it's high, don't flag it. I wrote about this the other day, for anyone who wants more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720659.

What prompted me to comment publicly in the current case is that the article was high in information and low in indignation—surprisingly low, considering where the author is coming from. Which makes the article even more interesting, btw—any time an article defies expectation for its genre, that's good for HN.
Don't even need software for this. Just tell them all but one of your fingers will wipe the flash but they get to figure out which one it is!
I'd love to have a discussion about gmail but offline, feel free to mail me. I've just transitioned a small company over to gmail and the experience so far has been nothing short of terrible, this can't be how it is meant to be. If you're up for it my email is in my profile.
The original appeal is best summarized in this 2010 tweet by Andy Rubin: https://twitter.com/arubin/status/27808662429

i.e. Android is completely open; if Google were to try to put something nefarious in it, anyone who'd checked out the Android source would be able to see that nefarious thing and remove it; if Google kept putting it back in, nerds would be able to fork Android to take it away from Google.

This has become much less true over the years than it used to be, of course, as much of what makes Android Android has migrated out of the core OS into less open intermediate layers like apps and services. This transition helps Google push updates out to users more quickly, since cell network operators proved to be pretty slow about pushing out updates to Android proper, but from Google's perspective it also has the side benefit of making "open Android" (e.g. AOSP) pretty incomplete unless you pair it with Google's proprietary services.
Probably. A bunch of engineers who do that stuff every day are going to look at the prints and be able to infer the implications on handling. They probably couldn't predict exactly what circumstances would cause the pitch up behavior to manifest itself or whether those circumstances would have even been within the flight envelope but they would have known how moving the engines up and forward would have affected handling.

Any automotive engineer who designs that stuff can look at a vehicle suspension and give you a rough estimate of how the vehicle will handle under certain circumstances. People who are well versed in boat hulls can look at a shape and make the same inferences. Yes, commercial airline designers should be able to look at a design and have a rough idea of how it will handle.

It's not magic. It's physics. If your day job involved understanding that niche of applications you should be able to look at it and draw some rough conclusions.
Except, everything you mentioned are still one or multiple files sitting on a remote server. That it isn't necessarily presented as such through a particular web app's interface isn't relevant... under the hood, it's still just files on an operating system designed around that concept. Even data in a database is also data in a database file.

I mean, there's a reason URLs look like directory paths... that's what they were originally meant to be, remote paths to files.
One thing I don't understand is why is no one is criminally charging Boeing's C-levels. Hundreds of lives were lost thanks to their greed.

I say that because everyday at work I am fighting stupid deadlines and ridiculous suggestions to skip QA, unit tests, and other processes to meet those deadlines.

If we criminally charge executives when their products cause loss and deaths, then I suspect they will start respecting processes and sane deadlines. Right now, there are no consequences for them. The worst that can happen is their stock options lose some value or they lose their job with multimillion dollar golden parachute. All they have to do is wait a few months and then get another job or start their own business.
Hey, c'mon now...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida%27s_highest_po...

And compared to say Venus, FL's pretty comfortable!
unrelated:
i was going through a pile of CDs in my archive this last week, and i noticed an earthlink email address on one of my indie electronic CDs, and i still lament that i can't identify some of my old CDs because there's no discernible artist/album names on the CDs themselves, and neither I.. nor anyone I know locally.. own a CD drive.
yes they have their own internal chat app now this was a few years ago
This sums up the situation perfectly.
I am the author of Qml.Net.

With it, you have the full power of .NET Core and QML. There really isn't any limits.

https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet
Most of the time, there won't be anyone trying so most of the time they will make money instead of burning it. As long as they are burning less on average than they are doing in profits they turn a profit in total.

The business model already exists e.g. in the form of American cable companies. They offer crappy services for super expensive prices, but the moment a competitor gets into town and invests heavily, they invest as well and outbid them. This way they ensure that no competitor can make profits and grow beside them in that specific town. So they are safe. Add in government mandated monopolies and "you get counties abc, I get counties def" type deals between cable companies and regulators looking the other way. Same will likely happen for Uber vs Lyft.
Clicking the power 5 times also gives me a heart attack when I do it accidentally when I'm trying to turn up my podcast.
> Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users.

One of the things I disliked about communities moving to Twitter away from bulletin boards/forums was that before, I could write something and people would read it. But when I made a Twitter account I would tweet something and nobody would read it. I was more or less forced to be a consumer of information because I had very few followers. I suppose that's why Twitter is popular among celebrities and busy people: it is largely a one-way communication channel.

If you stick with it I'm sure your follower count will grow ever so slowly, but I never got over that hump because it felt so dumb tweeting out into the void. When I used Twitter I mostly used it as a bulky RSS reader. These days, many of the interactions I would've wanted to have on Twitter are happening in chat apps. I'm quite happy with this.
Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful, and What UX Professionals Can Do About It
Can't tell if this is was written by a Markov chain or by a human.
My thought as well. What on earth about Slack costs hundreds of millions to operate?
Wow since you're so concerned and helpful, here's a tidbit: Everyone who has tried to run a personal mail server in past five years can't because of gmail.
My Chinese coworker has told me that this usually only occurs during the massive traffic jams around the spring festival. He said that many Chinese people who live in cities own cars but almost never drive them -- they wanted the car more for status than anything. So when spring festival comes around and the whole country is traveling, many families see it as their chance to finally actually use the car. Additionally, apparently the major highways -- their version of interstates -- are toll roads, but are made free during that week.

So both of these factors, combined simply with the massive volume, is what leads to these apocalyptic traffic jams we've all seen pictures of.
It definitely is an ask. If you can’t pay it you can often negotiate an amount you can pay. And they even let you pay over time.
the 737max is not really any more unsafe than any other fly-by-wire aircraft - aerodynamically unstable aircraft are not really unusual, and this one isnt even really unstable in 99% of its flight envelope, just one specific place - and its not even unstable, it just handles differently than other 737's.

I agree with you, Boeing should have done a clean sheet redesign of the aircraft for this segment, not patch up the 737 for another decade of production - but I cant really tell them the reasons they made this choice are bad - airlines like and want more 737's, a completely new type creates a bunch of extra costs on all parts - so a choice was made, and now Boeing will live with the consequences.
That is not the only reason people eschew federation. Think about all the federated protocols in common use today: email, SMS, phone. All of them are overrun by spam. 90% of the time when my phone rings, it's a robocall. That, my friend, is federation in action. It ain't great.
> HPV which is unimportant

Wrong. HPV vaccine is super important.

In 2018 nearly 580k women were diagnosed with cervical cancer. 70% of said cancer is caused by HPV (by two strains of it to be exact). So that is 406k women each year getting cervical cancer which could have been prevented if they were vaccinated, and that’s only counting people who were diagnosed. Now consider that HPV is also known to cause cancers in other organs, both reproductive and non-reproductive, and that these affect not only women but men as well.

Granted only 14 of the 100+ strains are linked to cancer, but still. That’s a lot of preventable cancer.

The CDC recommends the vaccine for basically everyone up to 26, and the FDA has approved a vaccine for up to 45.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/human-papil...
I was sleep deprived today (only 4.5h of sleep thanks to catching up on GoT season 7), and I think I was 30-50% slower than usual. I didn’t notice throughout the day, but I just didn’t get as much done.
Show HN: Praeco – Elasticsearch alerting made simple
> "Emotive forces shape the gestalt of the brand identity."

This is where I lost it.

And that's when they literally started building a "tiny brain, normal brain, enlightened brain, galaxy brain, universe brain" meme, out of freaking Pepsi logos.
Show HN: Game Written in Go
The Organizational Innovations of Pirates
...and then they wonder why elite college graduates happily go on to create scuzzy outfits like FB, Uber, etc. etc.

Also, UChicago is pretty much the only university in the country actually deserving that title.
> Don’t forget to add in the currency conversion fees on either side since most people transfer money to use it.

Hm? That would be factored in already. If I wanted to send money to say, India, I would buy Bitcoin with US dollars and then send it to someone's account on an Indian exchange, where they'd sell it for Rupees. The conversion is already baked in.

> Walmart charges $8 for the same service. There is some potential savings here but it seems unlikely to argue that Bitcoin’s enormous costs can be justified by the number of people who need to regularly do international transfers and, if everything is lucky, save a dollar or two on the transfers.

I'm not arguing that international wires are the only useful thing it can do. It's simply a counter-example to the idea that there are none.

> “Extremely solvable” but unsolved a decade later suggests that they are not in fact that easy and will end up making the cost even less competitive. People have been preaching that Bitcoin will take over for years but even most advocates don’t use it for a non-token percentage of their transactions because it’s simply not financially sensible to do so.

It's already solved if you keep your money on an exchange.
Prop 13 is in California, this story is about New York.
Don't worry, in a few years we won't even be able to make that argument: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/nadella-microsoft-wi...
I'm sure the police will get that bird to sing what it knows.
Yes, but the theory was that since the pilot could override the system it was less critical compared with Airbus where the systems controlled by the sensors are considered critical for flight. That's why Boeing used 1 while Airbus uses 3.
V looks pretty slick, though your 'comparison' to nim (https://vlang.io/compare#nim) is incomplete.

i.e. you don't actually write comparable code. Instead, you just lambast how slow the compiler is.
> the far-left are running newsrooms, universities, associations, corporations, public education, etc.

Perhaps, but elite opinions in those sorts of highly-developed, urban institutions have been dominated by the "left" side of the political spectrum since we've had a recognizable left-right (or 'progressive-conservative') split. Cthulhu swims slowly but he always swims left, there's nothing new under the sun. Of course many people think that today's left is too radical for its own good, but I wouldn't know how to even start to counter that tendency - and, again, you could say similar things about radicalism on the right - I remember what the Tea Party grassroots movement was like in the early 2000s, and there was nothing like the total craziness we see today!
How is that possible since even instagram spent around 10k per month for few million users? Am I missing something?
The portfolio effect:

A lot of funds pile into the techs. They lose money. Their customers pull their money. They have to sell not just the techs, but the rest of their portfolios too.
It may as well be. It costs less than a dollar to send a letter through the post.
I'm interested in what you are referring to, and but can't find a reference.

I suppose these two articles show a tenuous link, but do you have a specific article you can cite?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fingerprinting/japa...

https://www.accenture.com/t20180419T122514Z__w__/us-en/_acnm...
Capital gains and dividends in a Roth IRA is not taxed either.

They clearly mean they ALSO had a taxable brokerage account that generated dividends; saying they contributed to an IRA was an (unintentional) misdirect.
It has been a very long time since doing this produced a usable operating system.

Relevant thread: https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/772592323112869888
> The problem isn't that webpack is bad but too many projects use it where there's not need for it.

Well, I feel that bit of nuance gets lost most of the time. It’s usually just simplified to “all these JS tools are a mess.”

It’s like if people all started complaining that rust is bad because they saw someone write a rust program when that person should have just written a bash script.
So basically the same as the US.
This is an important point. I agree. China will fail - and fail badly - in my lifetime - again. Authoritarianism failed them badly during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

"These policies led to social and economic disaster, but these failures were hidden by widespread exaggeration and deceitful reports. In short order, large resources were diverted to use on expensive new industrial operations, which, in turn, failed to produce much, and deprived the agricultural sector of urgently needed resources. An important result was a drastic decline in food output, which caused millions of deaths in the Great Chinese Famine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

Sure, they'll not make that mistake again - but they'll make others just as egregious. It's what authoritarians do best.