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> This is why I became a Mac user.

Heard this from so many people. We have the latest (2017-2018) MBP at work and every single one has serious keyboard problems. Other than that, I have had crashes and random reboots when on battery, with a black screen error message, sound issues (solved by turning volume down, switching outputs back and forth, or rebooting) wifi problems (solved by switching off bluetooth). And don't get me started on the touch bar. From Mac fans I usually get answers like "you're pressing the touch bar wrong, you need to wait longer"... I'm also missing a decent software management. brew is miles away from apt.

So, for me switching to Mac didn't work out. And the new keyboard is a complete dealbreaker for me. I may still get an older mac with a decent keyboard and put Linux on it.
Risky to test it on the US and not some smaller country. Less risky if it's the US testing it on itself.
Whilst you are driving you can think, talk notice non driving related thinks around, (an attractive person). So the part if the brain driving is not equal to the while brain.

The Tesla chip is solely focused on driving
Yes. The car is responsible for the safety in all circumstances and recognizes it's limitations. Think level 4 autonomy.

As soon as the car sees it cannot proceed properly, it parks somewhere or go in a safe situation and requests a remote human operator to intervene. Then the whole point is to have a call center sized so that you do not have to wait too much.

We're not there yet, and giving back the control to the passengers is also a possibility. However, in a world where passengers almost never drive, it might be safer to give the control to trained remote operators.
I have seen it argued in gentrifying neighborhoods that we should reject all projects which make those neighborhoods nicer to live in, to discourage new residents. This is a pretty direct way of reducing demand: making your neighborhood shittier.
Edit : Downvotes are fine, but would like to hear the arguments against the facts of the region.
> This doesn't work,

Automation must still react instantly to sudden situations (you need liars for this). Humans are there for difficult-to-navigate scenarios and stuff that robo-cars can't handle. Waymo is already testing this in geofenced areas.
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>Prices go up because demand is higher than supply. No other reason.

If the government mandates that the price of something is X, and X is higher than the price is now, prices go up.

Also, remember than nominal price and economic price are distinct. “Price” needs to include all tax subsidies and other incentives/ dicincentives.
I do not know about Sweden, but from Norway they do.

My friend moved to Prague. He said it is difficult to raise children in Norway if you are a christian. He could not afford to buy a car. There is long waiting list for a house. And Norway is taxing expats even after they leave country (for three years).
Unless it's already been tested on smaller countries successfully. In which case testing against the US is just a logical step.
Eh. Rails is fine, and lots of other things are fine too.

Rails is amazing on day 1, even week 1 of a new project, vs piecing together your favorite separate smaller libraries into a web framework. That can be just what you need for a side project that you want to get up and running fast. But if you’re planning to build a business around it and work on this codebase for years, it’s crazy to optimize for day 1. (Not saying rails is necessarily a bad choice in the long haul, just that you should be picking it for better reasons than being easy to get up and running).
I've been using fonts w/ ligatures in my IDEs for many years now with many different languages. Not a single issue, ever.

I do get the point that author is making here, but it's only important for these kinds of discussions in a vacuum, detached from reality, as self-important typography and design blogs usually are.
The UFOs display fantastical properties that are lightyears ahead of state of the art fighters. I find it a bit hard to believe that some secret project can be that much better than what the public knows without the knowledge leaking somehow.
I may be showing my ignorance, but I think those like Verne and even Shelley were the original steampunk authors. I don't think of it as a totally separate genre as people continue to try to recapture and riff on the same styles and set pieces almost two centuries later. It is born of that era.

Similarly, I think you could still write new cyberpunk. It's not dead, but on hiatus.
I skimmed your blog post, and I'm not quite sure I understand how it will make editing easier. It seems more complex to me, although that might be because it's unfamiliar.

If you want some intelligent counterpoint, here is a post by the designer of Rust on why text is a good representation for programs:

Always Bet On Text https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

As someone who's working on a programming language, and has implemented a few DSLs and many parsers, I tend to agree with him.

Parsing is a pain in the ass, but I think it can made easier. The difference between text and structured data is "just" parsing, so I don't feel that switching to structured data can be a real paradigm shift. If there was a paradigm shift to be found, then it would have been implemented already by converting text to structured data, and operating on that data.

And this of course already happens in dozens of IDEs, and that's great, but it already happened. And while I have seen people be fantastically productive in IDEs, a lot of the best programmers I've seen also use emacs/vim.

But your ideas do seem more fleshed out than most, and I think that developing a prototype is the only way to make them more concrete, and more clearly see the benefits and costs. I do think there are benefits to making structured data the primary format -- I just think they are outweighed by the costs. Graydon's post outlined a bunch of things you lose if you abandon text.
Is this video legit? Why are they turning the same direction constantly?

Are most of these UFO sightings witnessed by a pilot and co-pilot? Is radar data recorded so it can be replayed later?

The skeptic in me thinks these experiences might seem ‘real’ but aren’t. If there is some measurable and documented proof then there can be an investigation.
This is actually super impressive. Managing to create an application bundle which doesn't break down every now and then with new system updates is super challenging. 10 years is just wild.

Unless you only have libc as a dependency but I doubt that for a graphical application.
I've rarely seen more spectacular agreements with a theory than those of a Lambda-CDM fit of Planck's 2015 data. That can't be wrong (but as I've never worked on it, this statement is just some guy's personal impression based on his physics instinct). What's your take on those results?
If you don't do any land seizures, shouldn't the result of upzoning be more mixed levels of density, according to who sells to developers and who doesn't? I don't see any scenario where SF gets "demolished" without active government redevelopment like what happened to the western addition.
I am also wondering why I have to subsidize everyone else's kids while not being able to afford my own, since I have relatively high standards for what a stable financial situation should be before I have them. Charity is voluntary while taxation is not.
Yes. I think believing your home is an investment beyond providing your home is a huge mistake. But, its a common huge mistake.

The point I was trying to head to, is that rent doesn't have to rise, simply because people think rental investment has to return some arbitrary ROI for the capital invested in it. Lots of forms of investment exist, some of which return less than others, and we have a mix of investments for a mix of reasons.

In Brisbane (where I live, and co-own a house I live in which I do not regard as an investment in that sense), rents fell last year due to oversupply. Prices fell too, but the two were somewhat de-coupled. Supply of affordable housing fell too. Some people think there is a nexus, I think the fall in affordable housing is down to lack of rent controls, long term tenancies, and state and federal convergeance on housing policy.
in germany housing IS an unconditional human right.
We've had so many generations of Web frameworks, but presumably it's still not a solved problem, because we keep moving to new ones.

Of course, sometimes the latest thing has a useful mix of properties that is worth the move. Though many hottest ones turn out to be popular only for a year or so, and then people lose interest.

I wonder how much a factor in the churn is the individual engineer desire to have the newest framework keywords on our resume, even when we can tell it's mostly a gratuitous rehash, because a lot of hiring is for keywords.

Or maybe more often we're looking for the new tools to provide additional advantage for projects (not resumes), but it's difficult to assess the holistic net payout until we've invested heavily in it for a year, whereupon we repeat with the next tools that seem to promise advantage.

I'm all about trying new tools all the time, especially as little side/toy projects, but it's odd that we are often betting important projects on less-proven new tools, when you'd think by now we'd have figured out and proven tools that would be hard to beat. (And I say this as a fan of certain tools that aren't proven enough, but which I wish a few startups would use for getting to demo/launch, so I can humbly see one way this happens.)
I suppose Adobe want to draw attention to ligatures because they want to draw attention to the fact that their software supports them. That "Th" ligature is pretty bad.
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The show never had any legitimately well-argued message about suicide prevention so this is unsurprising. It mainly relied on shock factor in an “edgy way.
Yes. I'm well paid but have been held to CPI for years. I absolutely agree that an ongoing rental price rise has been hugely toxic to affordable housing.
You can just as easily argue the opposite. If the aliens are so much more advanced, maybe we need to spend even more in order to catch up.

I'm not saying I think these things, I'm just trying to point out that your conclusion is not a given.
You left out flat out lying in an attempt to sway the human domain towards a certain solution: say, military budgets.

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I just want LOLCODE to become mainstream.
It doesn't sound like your friend is a millionaire moving to escape taxes.
But firefox and linux aren't competing for anything?
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> Maybe the mechanism is as simple as a springy protein that can absorb tidal forces and convert it to an information signal.

Tidal forces don't have periodicity of a month, but change twice a day:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides...

"High tides occur 12 hours and 25 minutes apart. It takes six hours and 12.5 minutes for the water at the shore to go from high to low, or from low to high."

To detect the tidal forces in some organism that can't sample the sea level you'd need an organism of an immense size, not something of the size of any animal on the plant today.

> There are potentially a lot we can learn about the universe by making simple observations here on Earth.

We are making observations, but they aren't simple anymore.

It started with simpler methods than today's: there were ancient Greeks (more than 2000 years ago!) who correctly estimated the diameter of Earth and then also quite correctly calculated the distance of Earth to the moon, who haven't had too precise instruments. E.g. Hipparchus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus#Orbit_of_the_Moon

"According to Pappus, he found a least distance of 62, a mean of 67 1⁄3, and consequently a greatest distance of 72 2⁄3 Earth radii. With this method, as the parallax of the Sun decreases (i.e., its distance increases), the minimum limit for the mean distance is 59 Earth radii – exactly the mean distance that Ptolemy later derived."

We today precisely measure that distance to be 60.32 Earth radii.

Think about that it was more than 100 years before that famous "birth", that is, at least 120 years BC!

Still the bigger advances started when we used the instruments that enabled us to capture more signal than what just our senses without the instruments, or with the most primitive instruments, would. The first was Galileo's use of telescope to discover:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_moons
Ask HN: How do (or did) you test UI in the companies you work(ed) for?
I work for one of the Valley startups and my manager has asked me to setup a QA automation pipeline for UI. I started as a manual tester 3 years ago, and now they're moving me into QA automation - which is new to me, but I am sure I can learn things faster.

So far, we've been doing only adhoc testing, and the backend team has slowly started adding unit tests. We (front-end QA) have become the bottleneck for releases, and we decided to invest in automation.

Here is what I want to understand so I can setup something.

1. What to test? Unit testing is measured in code coverage, so it is easier. For us functional testers, coming up with the testing model in tougher. So, how do you guys & girls do it? And what to measure here?

2. How do you manage tests? Excel? Confluence? Any other tools?

3. My company is doing a crazy amount of A/B testing, and I am afraid the tests I wrote will be flaky / useless too soon. How do you deal with this?

4. Should I test cross-browser? How do you guys decide it? So far we've been testing only on Chrome, but our users are using Firefox, Safari, IE and Edge. We test on them only if a bug is reported.

5. With automation in place, my manager thinks we can run the tests every commit - but I think release process is going to be really slow. How do you guys test? Commit? Pre-prod? Post-deploy? Only a single branch? Or after merging? I want to figure this out so I can tell my manager some datapoints, else he will screw me up.

6. Selenium with Python is what we decided to use - this is taking a lot of time to write. Is there something else we can use to make tests faster?

7. If you guys can tell me the release processes you follow in your companies, it will be useful for me to understand the trends right now so I can convince my boss to adopt the right process.

PS: Posting this on Hacker News as I think this will be useful for other users as well.
Edit: Formatting.
People should not have to live or die depending repeated random acts of kindness from strangers.

So many American feel-good news stories are utterly dystopian, where some person completely fucked dry by the government or corporate interests have disaster temporarily staved off by friends or colleagues desperately sacrificing their time or money. Either that, or it's about some billionaire dropping pocket lint on a good cause.

Sites like https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news just make me depressed:

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/3283/Man-Shares-Chick-Fi... - man starving on the streets gets one meal our of sheer luck

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/3279/7-Eleven-Owner-Catc... - starving children win the getting-fucked-for-life vs eating-a-meal lottery one single time. Thoughts and prayers go to their next 1000 times they need to play.

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/3270/Unused-Cafeteria-Fo... - starving children (Why is this even a thing anywhere?) are allowed to eat leftovers.
Using the same editor is not implied though. Only a common format for "rich" comments that is supported by a sufficiently large subset of editors. This could be as simple as using the same markdown/HTML/whatever comments as before but with WYSIWYG support in the editors.
The terrible kerning is literally the first thing I saw when I opened the article. It's truly appalling.
Are you considering the value of the equity in the home?
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Taw laws are written sufficiently broadly that the enforcement of the laws can be ex post facto.

In this case, the law merely clarifies the state's long-standing position on sales taxes based on pre-existing state laws, so it is arguably Constitutional for them to seek retroactive sales taxes. Whether it is wise for them to do so is another matter.
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I've been a mentor at a hackathon a few months ago. 90% of the participants were on their twenties. The chances they know Rails are lower than for the same demographic ten years ago.
People have died. So it seems pretty unsafe to me.
> Driver was obviously over confident on system's ability to self-drive

That thing is called "auto-pilot". If its purpose is not to self drive a car, maybe it should be renamed.
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Would quantum computers with more logical qbits help? My layman impression was that this could solve protein folding.
The most notable tool to help improving your skill in vim (after doing the excellent vimtutor), is to go and do some vim golf. You can see the solution from just one point better than you, improving your skill gradually.
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I am a solo bootstrapped founder (like yourself) and RescueTime consistently shows 45 to 50 hours per week.

I strongly believe WHAT I do in those ~50 hours is much much more important than squeezing in another 10-20 hours per week.
> Usually I don't complain much about the gov, but just look at the construction mess they've created on 101, it's been like that for more than 4 years!

If they finish construction then they stop getting paid.
The need to “defend from aliens” would become the rationale to spend $60T. Oh, and after the money is gone it would turn out there are no aliens after all. Similar to what happened in Iraq.
What about maintenance though?
This got me started on my own editor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046446
Why aren't you also wondering why you have to subsidize everyone else's police, firefighting, army, food and drug safety, environmental protections, transport safety, public education, libraries, ...

Edit:

Also, the reason you can't afford kids is precisely due to the US having the same mentality as yours. Because you have to worry about healthcare, or college, or not having enough vacations and sick days. Instead of, you know, not worrying about that.
One example of a project that is sort-of heading that direction is Jupytext

https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext
No problem! If you are willing, for only a few thousand I'm willing to sit down and write a 1 page draft on a variety of topics!

Semi-seriously, my team did solve a lot of very hard problems in a very resource constrained environment, and we didn't competitors sueing us to oblivion, so... patent everything!

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It's quite possible that other people are subsidizing your children more than you are theirs.
You know 2-3 millionaires, that’s cute. Half the senior engineers in my unremarkable US-based startup are millionaires.
Turtle Rock made L4D. Valve bought Turtle Rock.

If paying for exclusives is bad what viable alternative strategy should Epic be using to get users to their store?
It's probably the Russians playing around with their Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster drones.
Because most of those things scale very well for the amount of people that use them. Medical care on the other hand does not scale at all.
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Thanks, but Basecamp is very vocal about not hiring though and I don't see any indication GitHub/MS would be offering anything comparative. I'm fine with links too, if you have any please share.
I was thinking more along the lines of a sophisticated terrestrial US adversary, like Russia or China, not aliens.

But it's probably just the US military testing something secret, or just a complete fabrication, either way leaked to project magical capabilities.