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Nextflow is indeed the best option today. It's sad that it's based on Groovy though, which seems past its heyday as a language/community.

I'm very excited that this is based on Scheme -- I've long wanted a lispy workflow language!

I'm a little concerned about the coverage of the Guix package manager though. I guess instead of writing Dockerfiles the user would have to learn to write Guix packages.

The "Getting Started" example uses samtools so I guess this is oriented towards a similar bioinformatics audience. However without HPC/Cloud support it's probably not too practical, yet.

Addendum: Listened to the FOSDEM 2019 talk, seems like it does support Docker and HPC. However I need AWS Batch support for it to be really useful to me, hopefully that will be implemented at some point.
Standing Man: HK youngster standup against man who tried to destroy Lennon Wall
UK/EU tend not to criticise the Saudis because we sell them billions of GBP of arms+support on a regular basis. They also have us by the balls with oil, and they're buying up a lot of London. That means we're not really in a position to criticise.
I've been migrating to nextflow over the last month. It really is fantastic. I even use it in place of bash scripts for little things now just because resume is so nice.
I've been using Amazon more and more, due to bad experiences using smaller sites (not sure how secure they are, my cc got swiped on one of them). And shipping with Amazon is much faster.

But there's definitely some gems out there!
Trump’s inviting some buds over to complain about how Twitter is mean to them
That's fair, the UX for Woocommerce does need a bit of technical hand-holding. Could be improved on, though it seems like the pressure from Shopify will force some improvement on that front.
The inside story of Hong Kong Extradition Bill
> has no standard way of reporting to the publisher who viewed which RSS entries.

That's a good thing.

That said, I do see an awful lot of RSS feeds that include tracking pixels, advertising JS, and all the other assorted nastiness, so I don't think RSS is precluding those.
Formatting catastrophes are exceedingly rare. You have your code in version control anyway, right?
And you still haven't explained how you would pay for ransomware over the internet via cash. We are talking here about the ransomers being in a different continent even.

And we have strict limits on cash to provide a stop of a complete abuse of it for criminal activities. Cash transactions over a certain limit have to be logged, there are physical controls at the borders as well as searches. So having a suitcase of cash cannot be concealed easily.

Yes, especially with local crime, there are cash transactions. That is regretteable, but cannot be avoided. The difference is, that physical cash servers a very important practical purpose: making legit payments easy. From using vending machines with coins to just paying for your groceries, you can do that easily with cash.

However Bitcoins don't seem to have a large practical values beyond the illegal actions. I am not aware of a large econommy based on Bitcoin transactions. It also can be shown that the pure time required to perform these transactions would be a hurdle. So most of Bitcoin is just speculation, the practical aspect largely based on the shady uses.
> So... you're 50ms away from a total global outage and/or major feature fault?

And 50ms away from restoring service.

The degree of care that needs to be put into a release is related to the potential damage a bad release can cause and the time to repair.

Reducing time to deploy reduces time to repair for most errors (certainly not for errors than write bad states, if you write bad data to your database, that's most likely a long repair regardless of how fast to deploy it was).

If you're building NES cartridges, you should really get it right the first time, since there's no way to update. If you're making a low cost internet service, for small changes, it's not unreasonable to try things without a lot of testing before hand as long as you commit to detecting and rolling back quickly.
Stuck in China's Panopticon [audio]
There are some neat ones employed by Sweden that use Sterling engines powered by liquid oxygen and diesel which is pretty neat and makes them really quiet.
In my experience whether there's a painted bicycle lane or not makes little difference to how angry drivers get about it. Filtering past them is still the safest course of action either way; I'm not going to compromise that for the sake of their unreasonable anger.
> When bone is buried in the ground, it can absorb U-238 from the environment.

How? Is there traceable amount of Uranium-238 in every handful of dirt around the world?
Cloudera Bucks an Industry Trend, Doubles Down on Open Source
Very often the simplest and well-tested tools are more reliable and quicker to use together than yet another fancy tool.
"when the Shopify platform makes the same set of selling advantages available to everyone?"

Shopify doesn't make advantages like branding, brand awareness, marketing, market research, etc available. It simply makes setting up an online store more convenient for people do. Convenience != competitive advantage. You can extend this argument to cloud platforms. AWS, and Azure make setting up and scaling a SaaS easier, but it doesn't give you any secret sauce that you need to succeed, like the ability to know what your customer want.
On my first job ever, when I was an exchange student in Singapore in between 2007-2009, I did API integration for a trade company with Alibaba's APIs or whatever you can call them back then.

You was making a CVS file with product description, putting it on a web server, and directed Alibaba's product feed downloader on it.

Alibaba also had "hosted frontpage" back then. The same thing you get now with a store in *.alibaba.com subdomain. It was actually much more feature rich back then. They were allowing upload of more or less fully featured HTML pages, but around 2010 they discontinued both.

If Alibaba guys ever knew what a gold mine they were sitting on all that time...
The "Radar" episode of the tv show "Battle Stations" says that Goering and most of his staff believed the towers to be communications towers, but one member of his staff supected the truth. This one staff member got permission from Goering to bomb the towers once or twice at the very start of the BoB. He also got permission to fly a blimp loaded with radio receivers up and down Britain's east coast to settle the question of the nature of the towers, but the German radio engineers made a technical mistake that led them to the wrong conclusion, after which the Germans never again made any moves against the towers or the other components of the radar network during the BoB.
Do you store my bank username and password?
Unequivocally no!

Doesn’t Plaid actually store the credentials?
All code is structured, otherwise it couldn't be compiled/interpreted. The Go community, for example, doesn't need to store their code in some sort of custom binary format to apply changes: gofix works fine with plain text. Text is just a serialization format for those ASTs, no different than any binary format.
>>> Not leaving hatches open that could potentially sink a ship, particularly a submarine, is basic common sense.

Hatches are left open all the time. This sub was not at sea but in harbour. A sub is an enclosed/confined space. While in port it would have been undergoing all sorts of maintenance work. Hatches are left open for ventilation, access, even to run power cords for electric tools. It is not unusual for someone welding stuff inside a ship to require the nearest hatch to be left open for a long period of time.
I was going to reply and complain that it was pancreatic cancer. But after fact-checking a bit, I see that fruits and fruit juices seem to have been linked to pancreatic cancer[1], and there may be some truth in your claim. TIL.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/86/5/1495/4754408
> A basic table saw is $200 on Amazon, a miter saw is $200, drill press is $200, a planer is $500 but there's hand tools for that, etc. Low end but they'll work. Biggest expense would be dust filtration system if you don't want to vacuum constantly. There's probably more people with garage wood shops in the US than makers.

There's people with little baby jigsaws and a circular saw. Folks with actual lathes, CNC routers that could handle hardwood, actual band saws or full sized table saws? Not so much.

> You keep assuming that you need industrial machines that can be used 24/7 to do these things when in reality you don't. You can use hand tools even but those take more time.

No, I don't. A school shop maybe runs the machines for a few hours every other day. It's still expensive.

> I'd call that a professional space since it's used most of the time rather than occasionally.

Okay, well I'd call "$200 on Amazon, a miter saw is $200, drill press is $200, a planer is $500" a professional budget to most people in America, so let's call it even?
Can you share more details about this? Sounds very interesting!
How to Live Out Your Airstream Dream
Except for DOS attacks to Stripe /s
Looks like it's time to create a Guix for BSD systems.
There are many of these so obviously it's useful for folks. What's your favorite use case? :D
It also loaded properly if you were not logged in.
It's an unnecessary publishing standard, intended to replace the one that is already widely used: normal HTML.
Just because I made 200k one year does not mean I will make the same amount next year or have earned as much a year before. Tax brackets non withstanding, it is completely illogical to group individuals into classes based in current income alone. One could be a recent refugee starting from nothing or a recent college grad with enormous student debt
I can see where people are coming from considering themselves middle class making 200k household income. In order to to have the things my parents had growing up in California today (own a decent home, saving for retirement and 2x college funds, go on vacation every couple years), 200k is a reasonable goal. That wouldn't make my household anywhere near median income, but it would meet a the American cultural ideal that many people are working towards.

Incredibly, my Dad was able to provide these things being the sole earner in the family as a construction foreman.
What do you see we could improve if we only left text? I've read the promise many times, but never actually saw any convincing reasons. Text is just another format anyway.
There's nothing binding about that proposed setup though. It wouldn't affect the function from the chain side so there's no real way to validate that that is what their doing outside of independent audits.
> Pretty sure the journalists like having a job, too.

If those shitty ads at the bottom of the page make the difference between surviving or folding, then I have a bit of sympathy for the truly desperate situation they are in.

However, that's not normally the case. Instead it means a small bump in revenue for no extra work and that's hard for somebody that only cares about this quarter's numbers to say no to no matter how healthy the profit numbers are.
I drive a 2013 Ford Focus and have had the transmission serviced twice in the 26k miles its been driven. There's at least a 1-2 second delay in acceleration lag when I need to accelerate quickly; and it's gotten to the point where I consciously try to avoid those situations. I guess it has made me a more cautious driver, if I want to look on the bright side.

Luckily, I've never had it slip into neutral on the highway or randomly accelerate, but I have had it refuse to shift into a higher gear while getting onto the freeway. The issue would only resolve once I pulled to the side of the road and completely turned off the car and started it back up.

Definitely going to replace the car once it's paid off in January.
Isn't this better than deploying for 15 minutes, having an outage then, and then rolling back?
Do this, and this, and this, and that, and this, and that and this, and in a few days, you're halfway to this readymade offering that would have you up and running in minutes. I don't understand how anyone can type that out and not realise halfway through how ridiculous they're being.

Even for technical users / developers, their time is better spent than fiddling around with 10 different tools.
Amazon invests $700M to retrain a third of its U.S. workforce by 2025
> Since Libra's unveiling, the project has gotten a chilly reception from some policymakers.

If you support the concept of cryptocurrencies, wouldn't this be a _good_ thing? It's probably a sign that you're going in the right direction, no?

Personally I'm a bit neutral on Libra, as I think there's some cool elements to balance some of my concerns, but this article reads like a bit of fluff to stir up negative sentiment against FB & Libra.
MiniJulia: Toy implementation of the Julia programming language (2016)
I am plenty technical to do this and it still sucks. We moved to shopify from a plumbed-together solution like that and it's a world of difference.

First, shopify is like $30 for a month. I'm $30 for a few minutes. The cost savings are laughably huge. And shopify's better anyway! Their plugin ecosystem is great, the admin tools are built specifically for merchant admin types (as opposed to boil-the-ocean blog admin UI with merchant UI hacked on top of it), so my cofounder/brother, who handled listing and fulfillment and that sort of thing, had a much easier time with it.

Shopify could literally 10x their price and it would still be a great deal. And this is for a lifestyle-sized biz. few $k/mo in transactions. For anyone doing this "for real", it's a rounding error.

Their plugin and theming is a joy on the dev side as well. Great docs, easy to get a sandbox account, theming in Liquid is a joy for anyone who's done jinja/handlebars/etc, their default themes have beautifully documented CSS.

I would, as the developer, literally pay my own money for shopify to be part of the stack just to abstract all that crap away from me. The time savings for me alone justify it.
Here’s the tl;dr and it’s awesome:

“A system that can simulate itself is to some degree self-aware... We said, “Let’s take all that infrastructure that people have made to help robots learn about the world, and we’re going to turn it inside, on itself.””
More information about our processes to safeguard speech data
It's an effort to undermine European identity movements.
I’m pretty sure the proximity sensor activates as soon as the call comes in, so the screen would be disabled until you take it out of your pocket.
Deep Adaptation: Imminent collapse in 10 years due to climate change
For people more knowledgeable than me on this, I wonder what a low price point changes, since Elon Musk called lidar "expensive appendix".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w1G2GyPTUM
Did the Value of a College Degree Decline During the Great Recession?
Docker Volumes – Host vs. Anonymous vs. Named Volumes
Cloudflare acquired an old Sun Microsystems slogan and I’m feeling nostalgic
I'm not quite sure what your point is. You said "best co-founders are those who you've got some history with, who you know and trust. That doesn't happen overnight"

I agree but then how do you start it in the first place ? Isn't the point of startup school or dating school is to connect people and then from that, over time you can build that history and trust and then use that as consideration whether you want them as your co-founder ?
Behold the power of making a product for users instead of advertisers.
Climate Urgency
That is my understanding.

Also I think a British squadron usually tried and often succeeded in meeting the German force before or shortly after it crossed the coastline, and the British squadron had radios.
but Shoppify's model doesn't involve marketing, they leave all that up to the merchants. so shoppify itself isn't directly affected by this.
Donald Trump is on track to splinter the west
It certainly doesn't help matters that housing prices have massively outpaced inflation for many years. Cost of living still mattered when the brackets were set, of course, but there weren't the common and enormous differentials that we see now.

At $250k it's perhaps less relevant, but it's basically impossible to assess how "high income" $50k/year is when rent is anywhere from <15% to >50% of that value.
The Hard-Luck Texas Town That Bet on Bitcoin–and Lost
BBSes made such a difference in my childhood. I think my parents wished I was chasing a hoop down the street with a stick, playing stickball, or some other confused memory they had of their own childhood that was probably just an episode of Leave it to Beaver. But BBSes were where I learned about technology, programming, and collaborating with others to build something beyond what I could do alone. They're where I made friends with the cute girls in my city that 13 year old me wouldn't have thought to approach otherwise. They let me message to people on the other side of the planet back when $2/minute long distance calls and weeks-long mail delivery letters were the norm among most adults.

I ran a moderately popular board with my brother called "virtual unreality systems", which seemed like the coolest name to me as a kid. I may add to that page once I'm back in front of my laptop
Some of the how and why of reproducible builds, I found interesting here:
https://reproducible-builds.org/
In other words speculated not demonstrated.

We do have economies B for controlled experiments and that data is pretty clear.

The richest countries are those who use the most energy to help them deal with nature.

Effects might happen depending on the temperature but we don't know which or how severe or when or if it will. We don't know how much humans affect it meaning that we don't know if it even make sense to do anything.

Evolution is not scientifically demonstrated. It's a way to interpret the data and observations from biology. It's the model that explains the best, but it's not in itself science just like climate science isn't science in any concise way but rather an interpretation of data.

It's that data which is being discussed and speculated about. We are very far from demonstrating even a fraction of what we speculate.
:-/ I make $300k / yr.

I live in a 10 x 18 room, in an apartment with 3 room mates that has an acceptable kitchen and a cramped living room.

I save > 50% of my income, which is nice.

But I also spend ~ 80k / yr on medical expenses.

I guess I'm upper class if "hoping to retire to a remote part of the world at around 35, and live off ~20k / yr til I die" is a reasonable hope. But also that's just ... ill.

I hate the "upper / lower / middle class" model because I don't think it really is a meaningful way of slicing society anymore? It's a very post-WW2 idea of how our society is organized and what's desirable.

I'd tend to start slicing along a set of lines like:
-- urban / rural
-- race
-- age
-- degree of community support / culture
-- type of labor (knowledge, service, manual, ...)

I'm working on building long term community structures (one of my low-key goals is to buy and convert a church into a community space). Because the "I'm X class!!!" is dumb; it treats people as totally not dependent on their community. Unless you're willing to pay for community builders to do their work, you're not going to have any real community.

(btw, this is why I can't stand people skeptical of affordable housing and the like: why do you think it's pleasant to live in neighborhoods with a robust variety of people? because often people that aren't working all the time can do things like maintain a community garden. Which is only possible if they can live in your community.)
> albeit poorly documented

That's an understatement. Haha The docs are basically worthless. There is so many different versions, all scattered around the web. Not to mention, most of them are in the form of a .pdf that is hundreds of pages, with a terrible search function. hah

With that said, Palette [1] is an awesome company that builds exactly what you are describing. I've used there products for a bit now for PS work, and love it!

[1] https://palettegear.com/index
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20402070
You could set up a vpn to your home network to use it I suppose, otherwise no, it doesn't.

pihole is nothing more than a dns blocker for your home network.
What's really interesting is that when the ancient Greeks spoke of 'reason', they didn't mean a cluster of intellectual processes divorced from our emotional lives, but an approach to the world that was informed by logic and also the noblest sentiments within us.
Not every city is Madison, Wi, which you yourself considered to be a special case when it came to parking just seven little months ago.

And not everyone can bus - especially in America, where public transport is essentially a sad joke. Not everyone can walk - distances are actually a thing. Not everyone has the ability to find someone to carpool with (which might either be related to different schedules or different locations). Not everyone can move, especially not for rare city business (city living is expensive, not everyone is a VC-funded startup engineer). And parking ramps are a thing, but still limited - the issue is not with "parking options exist", but with "parking options in sufficient availabilities exist".

That being said, I would love to see you haul a fridge three miles on foot to your next parking ramp.
Zero-Day in Gimp, Darktable, Showtell and Luminance
You’re doing a random sampling of the earth to find and date various bones. No matter how old the oldest one we find is, there is almost certainly an older one out there somewhere. Eventually they’ll stop being pushed as far back or found as frequently.
that's nowhere close to a reasonable reading of any of my posts. You're on a crusade that no one else cares about.
> I presume the team had good intentions, particularly for end users.

I don't question the intentions of the team. I question the intentions of Google.

> for instance, they pushed forward a new web standard (packaging) to fix the address bar problem

Yes, which is a thing I object to even more than I object to AMP.

But, truthfully, here's my real problem with AMP: I genuinely hate AMP formatted pages, and they are increasingly being foisted on me. Every time I have to manually copy/edit/paste a URL to get the real page, I get a little bit angry, and I'm having to do that increasingly often. If there were some way I could opt out of getting AMP links, I wouldn't be quite so emotional about it.

There are a small handful of things about the web that make my suspect that I'll generally just stop using the web at some point, and AMP is one of those things.
N26: Our US Journey Begins Today
Even in the Bay Area you can get a decent apartment or home mortgage for $40-70k a year. Taxes on $200k are gonna be less than $25k. Parking and gas are a few hundred at most, food might be as high as $1000 if you've got a big family or eat out a lot. Let's guess high and say another few thousand for utilities, phones, etc. Let's also say you've got some family health crises your insurance won't cover that run to $10k out of pocket.

That leaves you at least $90,000 free and clear. If you can't live comfortably and save for retirement with ninety grand a year, you either have some outstanding expenses (severe medical disability, etc.), or you're making some very bad decisions.
I used to work on commercially available proxies for scanning email and web traffic. A large amount of time was spent unpacking compressed content so that someone couldn't smuggle in naughty pictures by hiding them in a zip file, for example.

Zip bombs were designed to DOS companies using such products by wasting disk space (or just CPU time) while they were unpacking and scanning the contents.

The mitigation is easy though. We kept track of the compression ratio as we were unpacking the archives and tossed out anything where it got too large. No legitimate content compresses 1000:1.