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I can understand that some might want the same experience across apps. That said, I tend to agree. I mostly favor applications that are cross platform and similar across platforms. There are times the Mac version, for example, uses mac idioms and I find it painful to use.

Most cross platform applications feel alien somewhere, and I use Windows, Mac and Linux enough that I'd rather a given app be more consistent to the application. Yeah, make the toolbar use the global one if there is one, use the menu conventions, etc... but beyond that, I'd rather the app be pretty consistent to itself over the OS.

As an example, most archive manager applications, and a lot of file transfer/storage applications are really painful to use on macos vs windows or linux where they just feel better and more usable.
> Fascinatingly incompetent.

Wonderfully said, haha! ️
Measuring against estimates incentivizes over-estimating, especially if the team is small, and team members know roughly who will do what during the estimation process. Big complicated tasks also tend to be under-estimated, so they would be avoided, because they would usually influence the perceived productivity negatively.

I would like to find a feasible approach to productivity evaluation using the output only (PRs, reviews, basically all the data points the article mentions), because I feel that’s the only way of creating an environment, where team members can proactively take a bit more time when it benefits the end result, without fearing any negative repercussions.
Good point. This is why we need to reduce the amount of control shareholders have over company boards!
I'm not sure what you mean about it not being "science". Science is a process, and hypotheses are part of that process. And the process never really ends.
It's not buying a cup of coffee that's the issue. The issue is in converting between currencies, which is no different than investing in foreign currencies. If you exchange USD for EUR, wait a while, then exchange back to USD and you've made a profit, it's taxable.
> All specific opinions are subsets of all opinions.

Yes and? why repeat something obvious.

> Deprecating something is not a challenge if it is presented as subjective. It is the combination of deprecation and statement as fact (e.g. "without a doubt") that is confrontational. And confrontational opinions are perfectly acceptable in the correct context. My claim is that a context where any disagreement breaks social conventions is the wrong context.

An opinion itself can never be confrontational. It's a person that takes it as a confrontation. Just like offense is taken not given.
> That said, I think the pi has a bigger community and more software. (I might be wrong)

Most definitely. From an "ease of getting started" perspective, the Pi is absolutely amazing. NOOBS, or whatever the distribution is called, is pretty painless to get going. You flash it to the SD card, plug in a monitor and keyboard+mouse, and you boot straight into a familiar GUI with tons of tools pre-installed. Plus, the $35 price point (well, more once you include SD card, power supply, etc) is pretty hard to argue with.

Debian IoT (the "standard" distro for the BeagleBone) is cool in its own right, but definitely not as approachable for someone who's new to embedded Linux. Things like GPIO mappings need to get tweaked sometimes, you're dinking around with device trees here and there, etc. For the stuff I've been working on lately (robotics), the BeagleBone Blue has been an absolute godsend. Tons of ports that speak different protocols (UART, I2C, PPM for driving servos, GPIOs, etc), and librobotcontrol is really straightforward to start building with.

I guess a great way to distinguish between them: I pretty much always use a keyboard and mouse to get a Pi set up. I don't even know if the BBBlue has video output onboard, because I've never looked or tried. On boot it exposes itself as a network device over USB; you can SSH into it and start doing what you're trying to do.
I didn't realize tobacco contains MAOIs.

I wonder what happens when mixed with DMT.

For information, DMT is a powerful psychedelic hallucinogen found in several plants. It isn't active orally because it is destroyed by MAOs. To make it active, it can be mixed with MAOIs, that's how Ayahuasca is made. A MAOI/DMT mix called Changa can also be smoked, but AFAIK, it doesn't contain tobacco as a main ingredient, Ayahuasca vine is used instead.
What's so special about software here?

> the effect of a steady revenue stream on any business cannot be dismissed

Really? The effect of a steady revenue stream on any consumers can't be dismissed either, so how about we have those businesses pay us first? Then we can pay them back for their software. Is this how logic works? An effect can't be dismissed, therefore everyone else must dance to produce that effect?
I still remember the feeling it gave me as a kid to buy a box of 10 3.5" floppies. That was, like, fifteen whole megabytes of storage! Right in the palm of my hand!

Jeez, I'm old.
It's almost as if I really do think you should use Signal or Wire.
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” -- John 14:6 (emphasis mine)

Once you throw eternal heaven or oblivion/hell into the equation, then no matter how terrible the method, if you convert even a single person, it was worth it.

This always puzzled me - how can good Christians do nothing while (according to Christianity) countless souls are lost?
Isn't the idea of gold as a good store of value that it's price doesn't change rapidly over time, allowing you to ride out downturns by converting your money into something that can't be dragged down as quickly as other forms of investment.

Cryptocurrencies seem to offer the exact opposite experience. Wild swings in value that are extremely difficult to predict and may or may not follow other markets.
Fair enough, but if I convert a bunch of dollars to pesos and then the value of a peso increases and it allows me to buy a nicer car (in pesos) than I could have when I received the peso, is that taxable? If it is, is the dollar the only exception to this rule? Because I know for a fact nobody pays taxes (or carries forward losses) on the increased purchasing power of their cash held in dollars.
> We don't know what the short and long term effects of this is going to be.

We're seeing studies showing that with nicotine there is arterial hardening.
> It's disingenuous to both argue that free will does not exist and to proclaim that we should do anything.

Not at all.

Maybe you are a free-will-lacking if-then bot that takes whatever suggestions someone says we should do and executes them, and maybe I am a free will lacking robot that periodically burps out suggestions. No disenguity or "true choice" required.
Acknowledging they have different moral doesn't mean you have to agree with it. Just like them you should do what you think is right.
> Many people don't dare to express their true opinions

If there's one thing the Internet has taught us is it not that most people's "true opinions" are merde?

I don't like it either, but I think we have hope of stabilizing on a kind of "greatest common denominator" of behaviour, but only if the systems that do the surveillance are self-referential: they must apply to the powerful as much as the little guy.
A post must be flagged for a valid reason. If not, I will keep posting articles related to the same topic until one explains why it is flagged. My analysis is that it's a crackdown on free speech on a sensitive subject. But this is HN, I respect content and all I do is report stories as displayed by Bloomberg, the NY Times etc . I am curious to know who flagged and for what reason.
So why do we have to file? Why cant the IRS just tell us every year if we owe or not and how much?
Unless you're a crypomillionare with little other income (most of whom are probably smart enough not to risk it) the paying up part shouldn't be too hard.

I can't stress how common this is with cash only side gigs. People hope they don't get caught and if they get caught they play dumb and agree to pay X per month to settle the bill.

They need to show intent or get you to lie to them if they want to put you in prison (which they don't because they want your money instead).
You can turn the actual Comic Sans MS into a monospaced font using FongForge. I've made a short video about this back when [1]. You'll have to pause a lot, but the end result is pretty neat.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7rWHsiAfQ
It is, though. Transacting with bitcoin is a taxable event just like converting between bitcoin and fiat. It's no different from the IRS's perspective.
Thanks OP! What I find curious is why we couldn't continue our existing exchange over email.

(noprocrast correctly suggested I get back to work, so made a new account.)
It's not the current holdings -- it's the past sales of crypto-currency that will get you.

You don't typically pay taxes on stocks you currently own. You pay taxes on capital gains from the sales.
"Enter a New Dimension"... of what? I didn't advance beyond the opening screen. Is this going to educate me (mmm), seduce me (eww), stimulate me (eww/mmm?), or just going to advertise to me?

The problem with all of these virtual-X or augmented-X is that they don't provide enough value to me -- as a consumer -- they're just "grand ideas" without any real value.

I'm sure the gimmick effect has some value in and of itself, but c'mon.
Not only Linux. Many people praise Apple for its radical "game changers", but I mostly use macOS because they haven't broken my workflows or muscle memory in the last thirteen years. It's a miracle in the world of commercial software, and it probably won't last as long as XFCE.
I work in agtech so I can speak to some of your concerns.

> people can still think that technology is somehow going to save us from bad agri practices

So one thing we're doing at my company is we're trying to de-commoditize agriculture. You're right in that the current agriculture practices are all about creating a baseline crop for the commodities trading market. The truth is that these practices vary from farm to farm, and there are quantifiable metrics you can track in crops. These crop qualities vary wildly and certain buyers of the major crops want different qualities. If we can turn our major crops from being treated as commodities, we can incentivize more sustainable agricultural practices that both create better crops for the economy and the environment.

> Cooperating with nature instead of fighting it is continually being proven to be the best practice for growing food from a environmental and deliciousness perspective.

Agreed. This is exactly what we're working on because we recognize that fighting the environment with harmful pesticides and herbicides has long-lasting residual effects on the soil and the economy.

> Every time I see an article about farmers having some kind of trouble, their crops are one massive monoculture

Are you referring to the fact that there are 4 major seed producers for 60% of the seed sales on the planet? [1]

The economics of a farm are such that, because of commoditization, the margins are so razor thin that the only way to turn a profit (which they aren't, because prices on major crops have plummeted in the last 4 years) is to have a highly refined process from the purchase of the seeds, to fertilization, to hydration, to transport. The whole process is streamlined in a way that doesn't benefit the end consumer. Again, there are people hard at work to break this bad habit. Even still, there is plenty of variability in the end result of those crops, which is why crop quality can vary wildly depending on things such as rain, nitrogen in the soil, etc.

A great primer on the lifecycle of a year in farming in the US is This Blessed Earth.[2] If you're interested in understanding the agriculture economy from a farmer's perspective, this is a must read.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-consolidation-in-the-seed...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/This-Blessed-Earth-American-Family/dp...
Yes, sorry, it was a bit over the top. I've been burned a few too many times by people who use that argument to justify poor tech decisions.
Barrage of anecdotes ahead, in the absence of good data. I also have a pretty big interest in the company, despite not vaping. I have a small write up on designing my own Juul pods (delving into the chemistry) on my site https://ethanmye.rs/fixed/projects/juulpods/

I am a college student (probably Juul's main target audience) in the US. Juuling in unbelievably popular, for a couple of big reasons.

It's discrete -- no visible vapor, smell is noticeable, but not an obscene scent.

Widely available - pods can be bought anywhere, pawned off friends, etc

Crazy addictive -- there's someone else here talking about research into MAOI prompting nicotine, but it's important to note nicotine is available in two forms -- as a freebase, and as a salt. Previously, vapes were limited in concentration of freebase nicotine to a few mg/ml of nicotine, owing to the harshness of anything higher. Juul turned freebase nicotine into a salt, allowing them to push the concentration waaaaaaaaaay higher. IIRC, it's something like 60mg/ml. They use benzoic acid, but also have patents on basically every acid you could think of, even choices that would be terrible for you, like sulfuric acid. The patent info is a wealth of interesting tidbits -- vaping a salt pushes nicotine into the bloodstream way faster than basically any other method except IV.

Excellent marketing. They say they don't market to kids, but let's be honest -- that ad spend is getting in front of kids well under 18, and they know it. All the need is the plausible deniability to say they didn't target 18 years, and they're good.

I should also point out these guys are making money hand over fist. They're selling, for $4, a pod with 700uL of liquid in it -- this works out to about $15,000 a gallon, for maybe $10 in ingredients, $20 if they switch to synthetic nicotine, which would let them push concentrations even higher. It's a printer and ink model, except the printer is probably the most addictive chemical we know of, other than maybe meth.

I should mention that while I greatly respect Juul's business savy, I have nothing but disdain for them otherwise.

They could EASILY create a program to taper smokers off cigarettes or their own product. There's a fucking microcontroller in the Juul, just reduce the total dose by say, 2% a day and sell pods with decreasing nicotine concentration until people are free of nicotine.

Regardless of what they say in front of congressional panels, their marketing IS reaching large number of kids, something that is just too convenient.

Their pod design also sucks. Not refillable, complicated, and leaky. Offer a program to buy back old pods (or a discount on a new purchase), or design a new pods.
WhatsApp for iPad and Mac in the works, suggests reliable leaker
Are Senolytic drugs something new they came up with our something that we've had for a while?
The Maker vs. Manager Problem
The battery sounds small, since it's only 2 or 3x that of my phone. Other than that, what incredible specs for only $200!
Trial and error is valuable, but if you go to github and search for "movq", "ld a,(hl)", or similar string you can often find examples of code that is presumably working.

I'm reminding myself of Z80 assembly at the moment, building a simple computer and I've done a bit of that.
A reviewer is not there to learn. If anything, they're there to teach. What good is a reviewer that can't grade others on their adherence to the coding style and application architecture of the project? They're supposed to determine what goes in or not.
Can you tell me when you'll be playing at Revolution Cafe or the name of your group?
I think it is accurate, and we all see that how we see it.

There is not a wrong, just grave differences, IMHO, unresolvable ones. At least for a considerable time.

That was the intended point.

People are going to really struggle over this area of tech.

Not so much an argument as it is, look out. Incoming!
A cure for cancer, Alzheimer’s, depression? FDA smacks down wild CBD claims
Thanks, we've updated the title from the submitted “Photos and fingerprints of all EU citizens copied from the UK to the US”.
Is sensitivity weighted by which stage it is for multi-stage logic chains? I.E. for the example graphic, we could argue that the output of the OR into the AND is an input, or in the bank loan example it might ask "Are you married?" and if you answer yes it asks how much your partner makes, so it's a second-stage input to the final boolean calculation - is that taken into consideration when calculating sensitivity?
I'm not inked at all, but I watched a friend get inked to commemorate a friend of his who committed suicide. I think that's extremely cool. :)
It's not tech or startup related. If the protesters hacked the airport it would be relevant.
As someone who switches between mac, windows and linux many times over the course of a week, the more similar a given app is across platforms, the more likely I am to choose that app for a given task. There are some low hanging fruit you can do for cross-platform support (menus in particular), but I'm going to prefer same-app to same-app experience beyond that for the most part.
My interpretation of the openbsd slides are that it acts as a sort of turing test.

If you are the sort that is excessively bothered by our use of the comic-sans typeface. Then perhaps you are not a good fit for our project.

More and more, I see the the continued use of cvs as sort of the same thing. It works and it weeds out people who care more about how something is done then what is done.
Yes, the extreme cases are easy to spot, but the nominal cases are not that minuscule, more like one developer being twice more productive than the other, which, I feel, should be recognized and rewarded accordingly.
Yes, because you as a US person track your gains/losses relative to the USD so if you buy Pesos and the value of the Peso changes relative to the US Dollar over the time period you held them that is in fact a capital gain and reportable to the IRS for tax purposes. Every country that taxes capital gains operates the same way to the best of my knowledge.

> Because I know for a fact nobody pays taxes (or carries forward losses) on the increased purchasing power of their cash held in dollars.

Increased purchasing power of the cash relative to their home currency is what's taxable, and reportable at disposition.
I got a bunch when I was 18-21 and it was for exactly that reason, confusing time, trying to find acceptance and identity etc.

I am in my 30s now and don’t regret them but would never get a public facing one again. Private/easy to cover ones I still consider though, modern humans rarely recieve scars or injuries to mark our life experiences, but we still suffer and go through transformative events. I do like tattoos as reminders of these times, even if the content of the tattoo is unrelated to the event.
Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges
I don't think most people have the mental energy for our current lifespans
SoftBank Unveils New Tech Fund to Expand Its Sprawling Portfolio
>Please don't listen to this. Give junior engineers bugs right away.

Right?!? That's how I get every junior developer into the code. Hell, that's how I get myself into the code at a new job.
Every taxable event is something you have to keep track of.

And spending appreciated crypto, even on coffee, or anything else, is a taxable event.

So the point stands that using crypto as "spending money" vs purposefully saving it as store of value is going to be a real pain, for all of the technical reasons but also the tax complexity.

To see why this is the case, imagine someone saved BTC as store of value, then years later exchanged it for a house.

They didn't sell if for $. But they used its appreciated value to buy something. There is a capital gain involved, and so taxes as well.
Given the libertarian bent of some people who are most attracted to Cryptocurrencies I'm guessing many don't report anything to the IRS voluntarily.

Even regular capital gains are kind of a pain to report, especially when you've inherited the stocks from a deceased relative who kept no records about them.
"I am also perplexed that people would spend their time on getting it. As if they have nothing better to do."

Have you considered sitting down and asking them, with an open heart and mind?
Can you use Square? A lot of local merchants use it to sell handmade goods, and I'm sure they aren't registering companies to do this.
Untrue. I see articles from Nature on evolution, cells and embryos upvoted. How is that startup related? Please explain
Current global warming is unparalleled in 2k years
I do much the same in a different medium. I direct Shakespeare, and one of the first things I do is take out a lot of redundancy in the script.

That's a different kind of redundancy, since it's not just repeating the same words. But writers of the period tended to emphasize things for an audience who wasn't always paying attention: theaters were noisy and busy.

Shakespeare also tended to expound on themes in a way modern audiences enjoy less. Not every word Shakespeare wrote was gold, and audiences use to the timing of movies prefer that you move the plot along in two hours rather than three to four.

I can tighten focus on themes that are important to me, and cut out things like jokes that aren't funny any more or references that are lost. Audiences greatly enjoy the result, without having to be extensively taught to like Elizabethan theater.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/juul-teens-vaping....

Juul Targeted Schools, Camps and Youth Programs, House Panel Claims

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAa5B71WwAAwhOf?format=jpg&name=...
because it is interesting, and because the knowledge in it while old is still relevant.
Well, I wrote to you (Pioneer team) multiple times over this week. I actually sent all the materials for this article yesterday.

Edit: re-read your comment more carefully. To answer: because the exchange was not productive. I only saw general comments equating to "you don't understand our opaque system" without even acknowledging the arguments I was making.

To add to my previous comment. What separates "expert voting" from "leaderboard manipulation" the most in my opinion is the access to the leaderboard state. If experts vote in isolation, based solely on the project info and reports it's a "mixture of signals". If they have unlimited power, and change the scores to shape the leaderboard to a desirable state, it's manipulation.
I love OpenBSD's utterly passive aggressive use of comic sans. To adapt a popular metaphor, it is going out and painting the bikeshed flourescent pink and green tartan, whilst everyone else is still trapped in the meeting.
I am not sure if you're obligated to pay US federal income tax or not (either non-US resident/citizen living in the USA or US's resident/citizen in expat).
If the IRS sends a formal letter to you, their intention is pretty clear that they found something wrong with your tax situation. I have had a couple of official letters from them for the last 4 - 5 years. Some of which I owed them money and I had to either pay (with penalty) or if allowed, file a amendment soon after. For others, they said I had errors in my filing and they gladly return a few dollars for me.

The first time I had to deal with them, I was surprised that the IRS is very professional, patient and courteous to me! I believe if they assume you're not trying to cheat taxes, they will help you to solve your case.
In Norway all the banks come together and created BankAccept as an addition to VISA, where they put some extra information on the card and bypass all the VISA fees for usage in Norway. The other Scandinavian countries have done the same.

Only if you pay online (with the credit card number) will the fee apply.