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There's plenty of those services.

This one is recommended usually. https://travelingmailbox.com/

You'd have to live in a decently sized city to get an address in your town though. You can definitely get one in your state. UPS also has mail services. They don't scan, but if you're wanting to protect your address, it's a good option. They run about 200 a year in LA so maybe 130 or so somewhere smaller?
It may be a performance hack. Varargs results in an array being allocated. I've seen this trick in the past, but they usually stopped at a handful of arguments and let the rest be handled by varargs.
> Aren't you engaging in identity politics yourself by pulling out this argument?

No, that's a complete non-sequitur from what they said.
You can purchase a BASIC interpreter on the 3DS eShop. It's called SmileBASIC, and it's pretty full featured. http://smilebasic.com/en/

It doesn't make intuitive sense to me why a BASIC interpreter would be allowed, but not a Ruby interpreter. The difference is likely that Nintendo was never informed about the Ruby interpreter.

While I wish everything was user-modifiable, I'm generally okay with game consoles being locked down, because they don't bill themselves as general-purpose computing devices. I can't run my own software on my BluRay player either.
Most single person consultant companies have more than one shareholder.

In the UK my mother was the company secretary for my Fathers company he used for consulting.
That's silly. Most projects on Github are "kind of dead" too.

It's not like the ASF doesn't have active projects too.
Just some standing industrial fans running for a bit longer might do the trick if you only have two. I doubt a consumer drone would ever have enough CFM of airflow.
How very strange! Rock on, you strange ones, you crazy diamonds.
They included the pdf in an iframe on the page, which most browsers will want to load instantly. If a browser is configured to download PDFs instead of render them inline, this is expected behavior.

Using an iframe is a pretty bad way to offer a PDF to viewers, but the website definitely has quite a few strange mannerisms apart from that.
When i see a person solve a problem with a Github repo, the first thing i try to know is that: What's the problem he's trying to solve.

Then i ask myself: OK, the problem is real, but what about generalizing it ?

Tons of OSS projects focus more on generalizing solutions, not problems. And it's the problem with OSS.
yes, the time spent getting it fixed
This narrative doesn't fit with GOOG hiring 20k people last year.
No, I'm not.

The way you paint Google's (nominal) pro-justice stance as inherently negative suggests otherwise.
I can confirm. I have it and read it from time to time
For context:

The “counterpoint”, that women were not as well suited toward engineering roles due to their biology, was “offered” on a company mailing list.
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As far as I can remember, you have to tell them the person died, they don't algorithmically try to detect that part.
"I imaging China's are bigger ... self contained walled apartment communities with multiple building surrounding a courtyard/common area".

"I can’t think of any recent development that could be described as a superblock or a gated community."

Walled and gated are not the same, and smaller than superblock is probably not superblock.
I use VirtualPostMail for my business mail. It works very well and provides what you're looking for. But the mail address is not available in all cities.

https://www.virtualpostmail.com/
In the US we have international “forever” stamps. If you have a sheet of a dozen of those, you just scrawl a reply, address an envelope, and drop it in the letter box.
It could very well be. It's hard to say without seeing shapes that you have drawn as well.
Please stop with the generic flamebait? You've been breaking the guidelines too much lately and eventually we do ban accounts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> There isn't a natural right to consume content produced by companies who seem hell bent on making it difficult to access that content.

There's also no natural right for them to prohibit me from consuming, or to gouge me, or to push for horrible legislation with their unfair amount of influence.
Well you can bet all you like. I'll bet that the people who are economically affected by this have run the numbers and decided otherwise.
Social justice equals individual injustice.
The problem with that is that only a very small portion of employees actually work on the parts of Google that make money. Everything else is an experiment or hedge.
I wouldn't go anywhere near such a device. The amount of energy in a rapidly disembarking blade would be terrifying.
If it's not available in my location, and I'm willing to pay money for it, and will pay money if it is made available in my location at some future date, then the rights holders can't be too sniffy about my attempts to consume the content even if that includes unauthorised downloading.
What they said is a non-sequitur from the topic. It is a desperate attempt to inject their politics into this discussion by grasping at straws.
Thats ace!

BTW It is really cool that your company does this. It has a cracking name too!
>Imagine if the person raped committed a different crime, unrelated to the rape, for which there was evidence of that on their phone.

Yeah, so a second crime was solved too. That's bad because?
"Hackathon Hackers"

It's a Hackathon-themed Facebook group:

https://facebook.com/groups/hackathonhackers
In order to correctly implement PayPal subscriptions, vendors must check the status of each users' subscription before renewing their service each billing period. If the vendor fails to do this, this is their problem, not the users'.
I think it’s a very reasonable price to pay for a quality indie service :) one that is constantly worked on with love by me :)
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Yeah, dealing with countries under direct economic sanction might not be the best of ideas.

While I strongly dislike Google/Alphabet for many reasons, this just seems like they're being responsible.
Ask HN: What are your pain points with Python?
Pain points with the language, ecosystem, package management, distribution, anything. I'm working on making package distribution easier, but happy to kvetch about other pain points as well.
I don't think they're trying to cut on their headcount, but probably trying to cut on the cost per head.
The future is asymmetrical
A company mailing list specific to debating such topics.
I think you are a bit sheltered about what "bad" neighborhoods can be like
>You don’t feel sympathy for sex workers, who in many places are unable to report being assaulted?

I do, but then again, I don't consider sex workers criminals.
They make money through ads, yea? All this other stuff is just exploration I thought.
>I imagine the important part of the "drying" process/action is being able to give the branches a bloody good shake to dislodge the water droplets

I imagine your typical 5-ish liter v8 coupled to a big centrifugal blower is more than capable of providing a "bloody good shake"
Exactly - the whole proposition is to outsmart software engineers at their own game; you should plan to know at least as much as they do.
> Self-defense. Know two other guys who have possibly had their lives (or at any rate, probably hospital visits) saved in street fights and muggings. There are also countless juniors who have been able to fend off bullies.

Some martial arts have some application to self-defense, but I don't think that's the real distinction - people don't seem to treat e.g. Naginata as a less serious martial art even though you'd never use it in practice. And many non-martial-art sports (I mentioned cycling in a parallel thread) are treated with the same seriousness.

> It's also exercise, which has extensive and proven benefits. It also has huge benefits in terms of bone strength and density.

Aren't those equally true of this hobbyhorse-dressage?
There's also the fact that cable was always absurdly expensive
This depends on the country. Most (single member) companies in EU countries have excellent protections in place for directors and shareholders as long as you don't do anything illegal.
Ask HN: How would you rebuild WordPress for the modern web?
WordPress still powers 30% of the web despite its many shortcomings. I don’t need to go into too much detail here, about its security issues, often sluggish performance, or convoluted interface.

WordPress does have good qualities. It’s very enabling, allowing anyone to create a decent looking web page relatively quickly. A healthy plugin ecosystem expands things much further.

My question is:

“What if we took all that’s good with WordPress, and rewrote it for the modern web - what would that look like?”

This is where where we’ve gotten up to so far - the next generation CMS for the modern web should be:

-Open source-
This is something that’s really good about WordPress. It’s free, so you can install and manage it yourself, or go with one of the hosted solutions. There’s also a large community that supports it.

-Flexible-
Anyone can quickly and easily create a web page.

-Design led-
It should feature a clean and easy to use interface.

-Based on a modern stack-
Things like Node.js and React are built for the modern web, so this new CMS should support those and more.

We wanted to start a conversation here. What are your thoughts on this, and what else should we be considering?

We created a landing page with information on this concept, where you can also sign up for updates: https://nubo.unubo.com
"Easy" like:

git diff master..bugfix > bugfix.patch # or `format-patch`
# now attach/upload bugfix.patch

Instead of:

# make sure you click around github.com to create third fork
git remote add unnecessary-third-fork $THIRDFORK
git push unnecessary-third-fork bugfix
firefox $THIRDFORK # now click around to file a PR
# now wait for your PR to be merged
# now click around on github.com to delete $THIRDFORK
# ... unless you just leave things laying around

What makes the second sequence easier than the first?
Nuclear proponents: This should be cost effective.

Nuclear opponents: [Change laws/rules during construction to drive up costs on purpose; cost is now more than projected but still less than coal]

Nuclear opponents: Look at all these cost overruns. It now costs more than solar would if we solved the nighttime problem with hypothetical cheaper storage technology that doesn't currently exist, therefore nuclear is unviable and we should never attempt it again.
Why compare social justice to ethnic cleansing, 'terryschiavo22?
I think Simon Wardley's concept of Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners matches nicely with what you're saying about different types of people: https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-to...
Get to the feedback stage. Once you get something good enough to provide value or positive feedback, you get an external factor to motivate a new iteration.
How the fuck is this even news?

Of the oh so many things ordered from Amazon maybe half have a personal note from a seller asking for reviews, positive, of course.

I personally know at least one picker in a warehouse and the social scene is a shit show of weirdos with politics to match. Many books aren’t shrink wrapped so obviously this is possible. As is true for any book store or library across the entire world.

What’s the idea here? Shame on... what? Shame on... who? Am I supposed to be shocked at this headline?
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>Do you have any evidence that prostitutes who are raped do not have their crime investigated to the same extent as any other victim?

Well, empirical reality is enough.

Unless people live in some middle/upper middle class bubble, and have seldom or never met and talked with prostitutes, policemen, people in everyday contact with either group, etc, they know that this exactly is the case.

That's a 2011 article about a change in mentality in a single country, and with still measly little statistical increase (even if positive). And it doesn't even touch on what happens afterwards, and the rates of convictions in each category. If anything, the article negates the question (it started getting somewhat better in 2011 -- which already means it wasn't anywhere near on parity as per the question).
You weren't the audience of this article. Since he wrote it as a blog post on way-cooler.com he surely was expecting his audience to be people familiar with Way Cooler, Wayland and Rust. He doesn't have a responsibility to dumb it down for you. And anyway it only takes a few minutes for you to get the context. Which you did, good job.
This reminds me of the inimitable game, Sim Copter. The idea of owning your own helicopter and people pay you to fly it is really compelling.
Imagine something like Jupiter Notebooks as shell.

That was the REPL of non-UNIX graphical workstations of uore, and inline images was naturally part of it.
Long ago I worked on a 3D scene exporter for 3DS MAX. It was complicated, unreliable code built on top of a complicated, unreliable interface. I put a big structured exception handler around the entire Export() process so that when random stuff went horribly wrong, I could pop up a dialog saying "The export failed. But, at least MAX didn't crash. An error has been logged. You should back up your work and restart MAX now."
I don't know where you're getting your numbers for the Swedish budget, but the OECD [1] says that their spending is $23,780 per capita, which would make for a $247+ bn budget for a country of 10.4 mn people. So more than double NYC's.

Your PPP argument doesn't hold either. Sweden's PPP is only slightly above the US average, but it would certainly well above NYC's. NYC is one of the most expensive markets in the United States.

You seem to be asserting that if NYC would just fix some inefficiencies, they'd be able to implement a Scandinavian style social welfare state with the savings. I'm sure there is waste in the system, as there is in all large bureaucracies, but to assert that there's so much that we could fund free healthcare out of it is just nonsense.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm
In practice, California's method entrenches wealth.
I am not sure it is terribly important to hear that black people are genetically inferior (Murray) or that gay people are an abomination (Legutko) . We hear that quite a bit already.
It would be pretty bad if the only phone options were iPhones or Pixels. For broad society we need cheap phones. Same for drugs or other medical treatments. First we need cheap options for all before we should worry about luxury treatments.
Should probably get a privacy policy.
Here's the actual guidance from CPS: https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/handing-over-mobile-phone-da...
Are you honestly taking the position that graphical user interfaces are harder to use than CLI?
Ah, yes, the very predicable "doing it wrong" comment.
Honestly, what on Earth possesses you make such a comment?

I'm wasn't "doing it wrong," its severe depression that causes such a reaction, not intensity. My workouts are never particularly intense anyways. That's depression - it causes profound disruptions in response to stimuli. Other innocuous things make me vomit too when severely depressed as well. It's called severe clinical depression. I mean, that's literally a diagnosis criteria, anhedonia - An inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable.

I can exercise just fine when not depressed without vomiting or feeling like garbage.

> Did you try backing off the intensity to a level where you could simply cope and enjoy it?

This is the equivalent of suggesting to a depressed person that they should just try being happy.
Apple used to have an iOS app called Cards where you could snap a photo with your phone and it would arrive as a handsome postcard a few days later. I thought it perfectly fit at the intersection of Apple's obsession over digital experiences and tangible products. Sadly, Apple has since abandoned all of their printing services.

Bill Atkinson, the storied early Apple engineer, has an app for this as well, but I have not used it and can't vouch for it. But it's worth noting that when Bill himself went to have his own photography book printed by a publisher, he made modifications to the printing equipment before he was satisfied with the quality. http://www.billatkinson.com/aboutPhotoCard.html
re: the handles to handles stuff ... I don't think that's so silly really, when you are talking about a resource that in some fundamental sense belongs to a different system (in this case OpenGL). Sure, that system gave you a handle, but if the semantics of managing that handle aren't 1:1 matched with your languages model of things, another level of indirection is a clean way to handle it.
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Rust's borrow checking does not correspond to RAII. A simplified explanation is that borrow checking gives you the guarantee that mutable references are unique and immutable references do not change.

Rust's lifetime system is vaguely like RAII, but the C++ type system gives you no way to create an object with lifetimes that don't correspond to some scope. In Rust this is done by moving values, but in C++ this is not possible, you have to fake it by using std::move(), which really just creates an rvalue reference.

One of the big things that causes problems in C++ is iterator invalidation. This is not solved with RAII, but it is solved in Rust with the borrow checker. The price you pay is that iterators in Rust are strictly less powerful than iterators in C++, because the way C++ iterators work cannot really be expressed in the Rust type system. (In short, C++ lets you have as many iterators as you like into the same container, and defines ranges as pairs of iterators. Some algorithms are more naturally expressed this way.)
No, what actually happened was the nuclear vendors lowballed their bids, confident they could either reduce costs or get the customers to pony up more later. Regulation is just the excuse they gave when the inevitable happened.
Perhaps some lawyers here can opine:

Is it not possible for some of those affected by the recent measles outbreak, and others adversely impacted, to file a class action against the anti-vaxxers ?

Call me paranoid, but lately I've been thinking about getting the MMR as an adult who is in mid 40s - and I'm pissed. So, I can't even imagine what someone who is directly impacted might be feeling.
Why all sensible unions keep them selves at arms length from this even more so M&P unions as they aren't in the business of stopping the employers right to manage as they represent managers.
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I don't have a personal experience - but I prefer a B2C given its low overhead and the less presales involved. If I remember correctly, many startups started as B2C (Github, Basecamp, ...) - but your market size might be different.
The top brass are probably as you say. The rank and file, at least as I read, are quite sympathetic to causes and issues we'd generally say are politically supportive of union formation. Why haven't we seen any serious effort from within? Maybe it's not so bad over there. Maybe these "retaliation" stories are few and far between, and we're only hear the employee's side of the story.
> The UK seems to have a flexible attitude as to whether a false rape accusation should be considered a crime.

This isn't true. False accusations of rape are more likely to be prosecuted than rape.
The attach and upload part, and figuring out how the discussion went on the mailing list if changes are requested.
Let me ask, do you think that the content of my message reduces to "graphical user interfaces are harder to use than CLI"?
btw, wayland-rs is both RiiR and bindings currently (native_lib cargo feature), and I've used it with libweston for custom protocols!

My project https://github.com/myfreeweb/weston-rs was also abandoned though. For a much simpler reason — I realized that I didn't need to reinvent the wheel — https://wayfire.org is everything I could possibly want from a compositor :)
I'm not seeing it; Cristiano Ronaldo, Kevin Durant and Novak Djokovic all make millions playing.
But that won't happen. If you have evidence on your phone of a crime you committed you're not going to give the phone to the police to look at. Therefor we end up with no crimes solved instead of one. Ontop of that, because everyone knows that a criminal can no longer report a rape, there's a carte blanche to rape anyone who falls into that category without consequence.
I know this isn't a popular opinion here, but the reality is that Google has created a hotbed for activism, espoused very political opinions internally, hired Twitter activists, played with identity politics, fired people for right of center political discussion...

Now they are having their dirty laundry aired in the media (the same media that is aligned with the social activists they've been courting). This was the inevitable outcome of playing these games and they have absolutely reaped what they've sown. Hopefully this will be a lesson other companies can learn from and we'll start to see a return to "business" instead of "activism+business+social media outrage".
If targeting US customers I'd avoid using a foreign TLD. If you're targeting Indian customers wanting to send to US addresses it should be fine.
Aren't you only affected by the measles outbreak if you're an anti-vax in the first place... ?
They are only left leaning when compared to the rather right wing (pre trump) republican party.
I created http://simplepostal.com a year and a half ago. Just never knew how to get it on top of hacker news :)
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Hi, engineer on the project here! That's an old version of the code that turned out to be too slow for the volume of records we need to process. The current version, which you see in the images from the article, is written in Golang.
I suppose. I was assuming these old docs cost nearly nothing for them to stream.
What makes either of those things harder than what you have to do to use github.com?
Yes, I do!
a perfect opportunity to start a conversation with her coming-of-age son about critical thinking and how to make informed decisions. ignorant ideas and opinions are everywhere. the best defense is being capable of logical reasoning.

it's also important that we are exposed and open to ideas that challenge our beliefs. wisdom begins in doubt.
Libraries pay for the content they provide. That's the only thing you forgot to plan for in your hypothetical system.
>Ontop of that, because everyone knows that a criminal can no longer report a rape, there's a carte blanche to rape anyone who falls into that category without consequence.

Could this serve as an incentive for less crime?

Frivolity aside, "raping criminals" doesn't seem a very viable endeavor. They are, you know, criminals to begin with, and they, or their criminal friends, can perhaps do your head in...

(Plus, blackmailing a criminal with evidence of their crime, sometimes for sex too, has happened since time immemorial - even between corrupt policemen and criminals-, it's not something uniquely enabled by mobile phones).