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How is this kind of "advice" anything but plain old-fashioned victim-blaming?

If ever an entire category of HN posts deserved an instant trip to -4 territory, these ever-present and singularly-unhelpful posts ("Just turn your phone off/leave it in airplane mode/leave it at home/give it up for Lent/sell it on Craigslist/go to Uttar Pradesh and join a Zen monastery") should more than qualify.

Letting scumbags dictate how you live your life -- or how you use your phone -- is never the optimal strategy. Don't turn off. Fight back.
The rest of the FAQ seems to contradict this answer.
Sviatoslav Richter has some amusing comments on this, even though he did not intend to be amusing. He states in his notebooks that he never practiced more than three hours a day and that he kept accurate records of his practicing, which clearly demonstrated this. He then added that (of course) travel days in which you don't have access to a piano, sick days, etc. all need to be made up for. So, while he practiced more than three hours, on average it was not more than that.

There then appears a footnote in the notebooks by the editor stating that even with this correction, his friends', colleagues', and the editor's own experience of Richter suggest he practiced way more than that.
I love everything about flutter except the size, and I would have stayed on flutter if it wasn't for the competition's app weighing around 1.6 MB.
I'm with you. It occurred to me that what I love about things like react or vue has nothing to do with SPA capabilities. It's just developer ease in building reusable, composable, testable components.

I've had similar experiences with scaling too early into microservices for example. I need a seriously compelling reason to consider building around these paradigms now. The overhead is unreal.

Both great ways to solve a problem, but not really a problem I've yet encountered - ever.

I'm still glad I've had great opportunities to learn this, at least.
I don’t see your point. The US was decades behind Europe in abolishing slavery. That didn’t mean it wasn’t justified to criticize the US for that delay. Also, as a practical matter, we are talking much more than a few decades behind.
That is only possible sometimes, say I create ffmpeg, it can decode/encode 100 video formats, then Google/Apple forks it and support for a new proprietary format that only they use and not contribute it back, Now Google/Apple use this new properitary format and only their applications will be the only ones that can read all the videos formats.

Maybe a bad analogy,
GPL - I make knives and if you want to use my knives you have to agree not to use them to injure/kill people because this taking their freedom

BSD - you can do whatever you want with my knives, you can kill people I am fine with it because I care only about you my customer freedoms but not about any other people freedoms(lives). Just don't remove my name from the knife.
https://xkcd.com/975/ I can't resist linking to the relevant xkcd. It's definitely nice to see this actually done in real life
Could anybody explain why some people say the weather in SF is amazing and some others that it's rubbish? I've never been to California.
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Are you telling me nobody would sell cable boxes or TVs if they had to provide a URL where I could download the code? That sounds ridiculous.
You'd commute the same distance, from your east bay empty hill to an east bay downtown. Make it succeed, and make your neighborhood desirable.

In case that looks impossible, remember that SF itself was nothing special. It was an industrial sort of place.
I'm conflicted between "is this another abuse of the term open source?" and "oh cool it's gpl!"
I am the main author of the new release. If you have any questions you can ask them here.
Workers didn't have to drive themselves crazy being on call all night or working weekends. She actually operated a successful tech company with incredibly flexible hours!

For us you could work part-time, freelance, take a job share. You could do annualised hours, min-max hours, have a zero-hours contract (I know those contracts are very unpopular now but they did work well for us in those early days).
Sure, and I wouldn't want to be. Judiciously, though, I do not consider these people to be innocent just because they didn't pull the trigger. The number of deaths on this community's hands is non-zero, despite any pedantry surrounding their intentions.
And you regard this as strong counter-evidence to the claim about being a 'gateway to the alt-right'?

First, 'libertarian' and 'right' are pretty compatible. See, for example, David Koch. At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koch you'll see he also "considers himself a social liberal,[20] supporting women's right to choose,[21] gay rights, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research.[2][22] He opposes the war on drugs."

He's also a global warming denialist and major funder of many conservative and Republican causes and candidates.

Second, libertarianism is one gateway for the alt-right. I'll quote from the Wikipedia entry for alt-right, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right :

> There were also links between the American libertarian movement and the alt-right, despite libertarianism's general repudiation of identity politics.[55] Many senior alt-rightists previously considered themselves libertarians,[56] and the libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard has been cited as a particular link between the two movements due to his staunch anti-egalitarianism and support for ideas about differing IQ levels among racial groups. ...

> After Spencer was fired from The American Conservative, in 2008 he became managing director of Taki Theodoracopulos's right-wing website Taki's Magazine.[73][74] The website initially contained contributions largely from paleoconservatives and libertarians, but under Spencer also gave space to white nationalists like Taylor.[75] In 2009, Spencer used the term "alternative right" in the title of an article by white nationalist Kevin DeAnna;[76][77] by 2010, Spencer had moved fully from paleoconservatism to white nationalism. ...

> It was on websites like 4chan and Reddit that the term gained wider usage, and in 2015 began to grow in popularity.[91] Although there had previously been a strong left-libertarian contingent to these online spaces, there was a gradual rightward turn in chan culture centred on 4chan's politics board, /pol/.

Of course "libertarian" does not mean "alt-right", and "not all libertarians." But the topic here was one of gateway to the alt-right.

Since there is a notable connection between libertarian views and the progression towards alt-right, pointing out that someone has libertarian views is not counter-evidence.
I would know less after reading these books than before. And know more after forgetting them.
so, http is the methane(ch4) gas on the internet?
Do you mean that the mixtape is not 100% FOSS? As in, only parts of it are? This would kind of make the README a bit clearer.
I haven't been there either but weather is clearly a very subjective thing. Personally, I don't like rains at all, for example, but most others seem to enjoy them (at least here in India). So, it depends.
The issue is that if you have a bug where the feature isn't activated even if they pay, the user would lose money. It's natural that as you activate the feature you should acknowledge the purchase. Otherwise you could have bugs like double charging and such.

It was an unfortunate mistake by the author, but it makes perfect sense why it happened. The person who made the mistake should lose out.
Missing from this post is anything about whether the piano player is enjoying the process. The subtext seems to be that we should force ourselves to do hard stuff, whether or not we like it, so that other people will admire our skill.

When I'm doing something I really enjoy, I don't have to make myself do it in a way that's harder -- I already feel driven to add complexity and constraint. If I don't want a task to be harder, that probably means I don't enjoy it, and the best move is to try to get out of doing it.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 and don't post like this here.

Also https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if you need more.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184800 and marked it off-topic.
Thanks — unfortunately that’s not my case.

I’ve received automated replies, contradictory explanations (the extension will be live — the extension will be removed), etc. from that email.

Did you get someone’s name or email from those conversations?
Man, you had me until you went religious. I think -

1) those people have appropriated Christianity since at least King James, as Jesus and his ministry promoted socialism aka selling all of your belonging to fund social programs;
2) we need to stop distracting from the primary topic of wealth inequality / late stage capitalism. Slipping in jabs against capitalism just gives "those" people a leg to stand on and the ability to redirect the conversation.

If anything, we should force them to confront the hypocrisy of their political/economic policies when compared to their religion.
Ask HN: Protecting yourself, your chidren, from food?
Mercury and toxins in fish, antibiotics and hormones in meat, microplastics in vegetables, fruit and water, metals and drugs in tap water...

What active measures do you take, if any, to protect yourself and / or your children from all these things we've made part of our lives at this point ?
I wonder what type of RCS system these craft are going to have; I'd imagine it would be very straining on fuel resources if a regular system were employed. Has ionic engine technology advanced enough yet to employ multiple thrusters around the craft?
Only the website is shutting down. The FAQ also says the 40+ physical stores will remain open.
>Flying drone causes incoming planes to divert to other airports and prevents take-offs - there is no crash risk.

There very much is increased risk whenever a flight plan requires sudden changes- the increased cognitive load on the flight controllers, the increased stress level on the pilots, the increased stress on the passengers... Each one may not seem like much, but it's a hole poked in the cheese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
That's a good point, thanks very much.
> but I think BSD (permissive for developers, maybe restrictive for users) vs. GPL (restrictive for developers, permissive for users)

Strawman. MIT/BSD is not restrictive for users.

When someone derives from my permissively-licensed code and doesn't share back with me? Not my problem, but theirs. They now have a legacy fork to refresh every so often at some non-trivial cost. If I'm maintaining a codebase for them to contribute, then they might be better off contributing. If my codebase is their secret sauce, well, good for them -- perhaps they should consider paying me to help them, and they are welcome to try, but it's not a requirement. It's all good.

Now, if I'm building a project to monetize, I might not open source the secret sauce. The GPL wouldn't help me there anymore than BSD/MIT. So, what good is the GPL to me?
I disagree. We had a candidate talk the talk when we were experimenting with different interview methods. They came in and used a lot of team time to start learning the system and stack. And continued to use the team's time, costing real productivity. They lasted a quarter or so. Not only did the team lose out on productive time, they lost morale by having to support a team member who was not getting up to speed and had to have their work redone and an couple members lost more morale when the newer person was let go. It was a net loss to bring in the new poor performer. I've seen it play out similar more than enough to be convinced that the adage is accurate.
Thanks my man. Any articles or documentation you can point me to so I can better understand what kind of license I should use?
SFTP is the protocol, although in this case it appears to be done over ssh.

The binary itself is rclone. And rclone appears to be a pretty hairy beast, so it has taken a while to vet the arguments they want to allow and prohibit the rest that they don’t.
I definitely agree with avoiding copy-paste. I always type tutorials - I guess it's part muscle memory, and partly because you have more time to think, but it definitely sticks better when doing that. And you usually get to see a few new compiler errors on the way :)

In a previous job I was transcribing letters from a requirements document into a program to generate nicely formatted PDFs. Officially, we were meant to copy and paste them to avoid typos. Unofficially, I always typed them and picked up a lot of errors that the clients were happy to fix. And they usually looked fine when I was just reading them with shallow focus.
The display doesn’t add a huge amount to the price so we thought it was worth including :-)
It’s perfect for that - let us know how you get on!
Thanks for this explanation.

I was literally set to boot my ZoL project server for this first time since ~2010.

I used ZFS a lot when it was being integrated into macOS, then moved to OpenSolaris, then FreeBSD, but Linux was what I knew best.

So I'm trying to figure out the impact, if any, of recent Linux changes, for me to use to get my array back up.
"and still save over 100/year."

That's just it though, as others have said, you have to be making a great deal of money to still be able to have a good time there.
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Wasn't 'kek' just a riff off of 'lel' which itself was a riff off of 'lol'?

I figured someone just off-by-one'd 'lel' and thought it sounded funny. top kek
> Also I think the market would rather easily bear a 30% increase in flight costs

Was that sarcasm? Because air travel has been a race to the bottom from what I've seen
I wonder why we don't do this when listening recorded audio.
That book is over a decade old now. Javascript and best practices have changed so much since then I don't think it is much help.
It sounds like the phrase did confuse you.

"I can't help but be sceptical..." simply means "I am skeptical..."

Try that substitution in your example and it should be more clear:

> It’s like finding a notorious serial killer standing over a body holding a knife who says, “a ghost did it.” “I am skeptical about the ghost....”
I find it helpful to play the big phrase choreography—the shape of a phrase, making it a physical gesture with big muscles, actual exact notes be damned. Then add in notes, making it gradually more precise. But for anyone to say that slow practice is a mistake ever is just nuts! Slow practice is how we find hand and arm shapes and angles, how we listen to the sound- esp. for a non button instrument like cello. A musician who really stretches themselves toward greatness tries all the gaits at all the speeds and all the choice emphasis and every wacky thing they can think of to find something of truth in the music. Sometimes we improvise something harder and easier. A great musician is their practice- they are as fascinating as their practice methods- and the practice should be fascinating. The thing is to find one’s own method, not to do anyone else’s method. If one reaches for artistry in music, their practice must be innovative, stylistic, nimble and responsive to everything: training for flexibility. Training for facility is more like what is mentioned here- not bad, but if you want computing, computers are better suited!
Ironic racism is still racism and in my experience the "irony" usually just a flimsy facade for a person's true feelings
are you sure that it's not you who knows very well how to curate their own content and who to subscribe to rather than the recommendation system?

I'm not sure heavy automation is needed here, people jump from content creator to content creator by word of mouth. In contrast most algorithmic suggestions to me seem highly biased towards what is popular in general. I click on one wrong video in a news article and for the next two days my recommendations are pop music, Jimmy Kimmel, Ben Shapiro and animal videos
Please don't do promotional upvoting and commenting on HN. The community considers that spamming, and we ban accounts and sites that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> Pretty ballsy to proclaim western society and economic coercion as not "legitimate oppression".

Those are 2 claims, in which neither makes sense to me, probably due to a lack of detail. Did they make sense to you when you wrote it?

If it's 'legitimate', are you referencing the oppression of the majority as a proxy for western society?

Economic coercion - The threat or act by a sender government or governments to disrupt economic exchange with the target state, unless the target acquiesces to an articulated demand.

It's possible that 'economic coercion' is now a misnomer, having been used to mean something else specific, initially. I have referenced a definition, for simplicity. Feel free to audit. As it stands, it is not oppression, unless any given demand is supposed to equate to the status of oppression?

You can survive without participating in the economics, it just benefits you more to participate, where lifespan and pleasure is concerned. That isn't coercion any more than checking the material you put in your mouth is biological oppression, it's a linear optimization you're free not to make.
From what I can tell, 'polite' and 'respectable' culture (a.k.a the dominant culture) in America is center-left if not minimally progressive. At least, this is the case for social issues.

In the 90's, the dominant counterculture was some version of leftism. On the fringes, there was vitriol and anger towards the 'polite' and publicly 'respectable' dominant culture of the time - some version of evangelical and catholic right-wing ideology. Atheism was still edgy. Raging against an undefinable machine had artistic meaning.

We can throw in as many other causal factors as we want in an attempt to explain the current socio-political state of the country, but we can't really deny that it looks as if the new counterculture exists somewhere on the right.

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I remember the days when John Stewart was edgy. Now, you'd be hard pressed to find a mainstream comedian, who focuses on politics (Colbert, Noah, etc.), that isn't clearly center-left. The coastal, cosmopolitan, affluent, center-left culture is practically a monolithic gate keeper of what is and isn't 'respectable'.
Wait a minute. 5 lines of code were missing in the app, causing users to be refunded. So does this mean a malicious user could decompile the app, remove this code, recompile, and get these auto refunds? This seems a way easier mechanism to get free in-app purchases rather than reverse-engineering the rest of the code.
SF weather is unusually consistent and most days it's on the cooler side but not super cold, often a bit cloudy/overcast. If you like that (I do), the weather is great. If not, the weather will be bad almost every day.
I'll assume by "Wrong Behavior" the writer means "Illegal Behavior" like watching child porn, and not "non-crimes" like developing unfashionable political opinions.

I'm very skeptical of all these articles attacking YouTubes's algorithm. Sounds to be like a power grab to control and bias the information presented to users.

If the algorithm is presenting illegal material, then call the cops. Otherwise, mind your own fascistic business.
You’re always going to be targeting a framework that’s playing catch-up with the native APIs, so it’s not like app size is the only benefit.
Relevant discussion titled "Why I'm still using jQuery" (27 May 2019, 237 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20021289
I think grandparent's idea was to first play only measure N, then measures N-1 to N, then measures N-2 to N and so on. Not literally play the sheet music backwards.
The government has always defined the bottom (above physics), and they can certainly boost the bottom up by 30%. Remember when pretty much everyone took the Greyhound?
Glen Gould also practiced by playing slowly and very slowly and so on. He practiced by singing and not playing, and yes by playing at speed and as has been mentioned as something bad... he practiced pieces sll the way through for hours on end
Yeah, but then you have to do orders of magnitude more transactions, creating a large paper trail in exactly the place you'd want to avoid that.
Websites in the US (which doesn't, I believe, include this one) have to follow the Stored Communications Act, which specifically forbids disclosing customer information just because someone asked.
I wish more people realized this is what happens when you attack a group - it gets stronger.
In India, home Internet is increasing for sure, but relative growth is definitely much smaller than mobile Internet. BSNL has 100Mbps 1TB limit plan under ₹1000. Same for Jio Fiber when it is launched. A lot of local operators like ACT offer at even cheaper prices.
> during that canada van attack thing the entire site went down

This is not true. HTH HAND
Are they still blocked from DigitalOcean IP addresses?
Cheers, agree on the larger point.

I still think antifa is blown out of proportion for propaganda purposes
No, don't be silly; responsible companies don't pick and choose languages to exclude based on suspicions.

No... responsible companies exclude ALL programming languages except those that they can responsibly support -- you don't want the new guy writing some a critical piece of infrastructure in Haskell or Ada or Lisp or something because they feel it's morally superior, and then find out it can't integrate with some critical management system because it doesn't have the right bindings, or that it doesn't run on your upgraded production environment, or whatever. When you have tens of thousands of programmers, it's guaranteed to happen unless you proactively prevent it.

No, we have a handful of programming languages where we can guarantee that everything works, that the important infrastructure is accessible, that every library will remain supported until we replace it, that every vulnerability can be patched within a given timeframe, that code will run correctly on every machine, and so forth. Taking on a new language means dedicating a whole team of engineers to maintaining support for that language, indefinitely.

Some companies may be able to YOLO their way through decisions based on what what's popular at any given moment, but when you operate at any serious scale you have to be a bit more... responsible.
Maurizio Pollini still practices like crazy- lots of hours. More than I do! (he is way better than I)
A racist story that cannot proven to be connected to reality is still racist.
Small threads from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8340389

and 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5755539
Could you please elaborate on that?
California is essentially unique in this way, while people are trying to generalize about centers in general. In no other center can you actually quit your job for a competitor; it’s doubtful that the competitor’s presence is relevant.
great musicians always enjoy practicing- it is like making something new when done properly. If they arent enjoying it, they know they must get creative about it— otherwise it’s mindless.
Only nit bit from me is that the animations are playing a bit too fast to follow along what's happening. Maybe that's intentional to "tease"? I would want to slow them down a bit.

Would be great to just hit "Enter sandbox" or "demo" or see a tutorial without the download.
Little off topic. How was your experience with Flutter? How does it compare with other two?
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