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Is this supposed to be a parody of sarcasm?

First, I didn't say it would be better if Britain was in control of Euro. Obviously it would be better if the Euro was controlled to the interests of all the Eurozone, not particular to the interests of some top-dog states. Which might even need a "two/three zone" currency.

Second, if you ask whether it be better for Britain to control its own currency, that's a given. EU aside, that's what any economist will tell you: a country is better off when it controls its own currency. Denying that is as kooky as being an anti-vaxxer.
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Many, many people are currently paying $100+ for TV per month. I don’t see why they would stop just because it’s a few different websites now.
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What about multiple people coordinating to express an unpopular opinion together, each of their own volition? You know, kind of like a protest.

Just call this what it is, subjective censorship. Of course they give a different reason to skirt by on technicality. But if it were an extremely popular opinion being shared millions of times, it would just be called a viral meme and FB and Twitter wouldn't be making subjective judgements on authenticity.
Real life is not code golf. We do not build things entirely for ourselves. We build things for our employers, for our co-workers, for our family members and for our friends. We build to create value for someone and value is not a one-to-one correlation with the weight of a site in KB.

If I can make it easier for me and anyone working with my site in the future by sacrificing 50-150 KB then I will take that deal any day of the week. That is what abstractions are for. That is why we do not work in byte-code. We pay for convenience in clock-cycles and disk space.
Where did writing begin?
I am currently trying out this Chrome extension [0] which brings a mini map to each website and my first impression is rather positive. The performance impact might be a little too much on my older laptop but on the desktop it seems fine (for now). I don't know if this is any useful but it just looks nice. :)

[0] https://github.com/chintown/monocle
No scrollbar on mobile though
I don't trust any models (too much science background). But I don't need a weatherman to see the obvious result of careless, self-serving philosophies.

And I expect more than you do from the human race, and that the rest of the world will shame our selfish willfully ignorant US into doing its share.
What ended up working out was building modpacks rather than installing specific ones.

Makes it easier for streamers to play a modpack and people play it as well.
I agree fully with the desire for resilience throughout the kernel, especially in today's world. It was very different 20 years ago when Linux was still young.

Otoh it's one of the things that I think made Linux succeed in the beginning. Everyone could upstream a half arsed driver for something and it would get fixed while people use it and encounter bugs. Now that Linux is used professionally everywhere that just isn't feasible anymore.

On another note, I remember that some time ago there was a talk about Linux file system fuzzing given at some conference and ext4 fared the best by far, which is why I'm still using that exclusively, although some of the features of btrfs would come in handy at times.
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well, surely the definition is something like telling the market a product exists and/or creating that market.

which I think is quite reasonable.

it's the stuff people do and call it marketing and advertising that is dishonest - trying to make people want something despite it not being in their best interest.

once upon a time, I think we trusted businesses because we saw most business was honest. and now much less so, since we see most business is dishonest now.
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1. It's delicious
2. It's nutritious
3. Too many people eat bad chocolate
4. There lies a very interesting challenge in creating more heat-resistant chocolate (think climate change)
5. It's a fragmented, huge market.
6. I was looking for a hobby involving manual labour that has the potential to turn into a company
I think there's a part of me that associates being a media student with delivering high quality content on Instagram. So I guess there is still some pressure from society to "preform" well on the platform.
Maybe someone will disagree, but I believe there is no shortcuts or one-fits-all solution when it comes to security. Structure of modern information systems is extremely diverse making single path approach not working in vast majority of cases.

My answer would be quite boring I guess but it does the job to improve resilience:

- Analyse your system and identify potential vulnerabilities;
- Analyse you vulnerabilities against your risk model (identify the most crucial ones);
- Mitigate risks from most important to least one;
- Rinse, repeat regularly;
How would you account for people self-persuading themselves when they take the job, and know to keep that belief alive for self-preservation ?

We have inate abilities to model reality in a way that helps us, not just in a cognitive dissonance way, but in strategic ways as well.

It's the classic "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.". It's wildly viewed as a skill, and in a lot of cultures marked as a sign of adulthood to be able to deceive yourself to overcome your primary reaction.
> The startup operates a coding bootcamp, expected to do $3 million in revenue by the end of 2019. Similar to Lamda School, they offer income-share agreements, but “the similarities stops there,

I'm interested in learning how this can be VC scale. From what I understand, it is a very people-intensive business (look at the student:teacher ratio for one of their courses)[1]. How is it different from,say,a consulting firm in terms of scalability?

[1] https://junocollege.com/course/web-development
I'm confused - you knew of this doctor, you knew you wanted to see him, but for some reason you couldn't use google to work out where he works?
It was one of the first software I had when I got my first computer. To me it was the internet and I spent hours reading all the entries and interacting with the audio and video that come with it.
> First of all, I prefer to have less on my screen, not more. I believe that the less visual clutter you have on the screen the better you feel and the more productive you are.

Completely agree on this one. I'd probably prefer it if you can toggle between tagbar's view and your code (there may or may not be a way to do that, I didn't look at the docs).

> Third, I would have to trust those many thousands of lines of code by "someone from the internet".

This is true, but then again, you're already trusting vim, Linux and millions of lines of code all around you ;) It all comes down to trade-offs at the end of the day.
If you know how to use the tools but can't make anything that feels like music, you just have to keep copying songs until you understand how it works. It's just practice like anything else. There's a bunch of fantastic youtube channels that show the whole production process now too.

If you don't know how to use the tools, that's a whole world. There's a bunch of different camps, but if you're trying to do EDM, then Ableton Live or FL Studio are pretty popular. There's open source stuff too, but I don't know much about it. Some people prefer to use hardware instead. Then there's those weird modular synth nerds. It really depends what you want to do and how much you want to spend. A commercial package like FL Studio will come with a bunch of standard plugins that would get you pretty far before venturing into the world of virtual instruments.

There's a few books on the subject (Dance Music Manual comes to mind), but honestly I don't think they're very helpful. You can get extremely far without knowing any music theory, and it's hard to describe audio stuff in a book, so you'll probably get more out of youtube searches about whatever you're trying to do.
Resources in the sibling comments are good.

Aside from those, get a demo version of Ableton and start playing around. Your efforts will suck. Accept it and enjoy the process :) Once you've reached a certain level of competence it's worth asking more experienced producers how to improve, ideally in person, quite possibly via paying for a lesson or two.

Also, listen to a lot of music. OP will be a great starting point!
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Apple wouldn't allow a solution that's integrated within the OS, but if you want to share data between devices, AirDroid [1] is one such free service. It is available on multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and web. Use web.airdroid.com on devices/computers where you don't want to install the application.

[1]: https://www.airdroid.com/
> The Bedouins likely have had their herds graze here before the houses were build, but that doesn't make it "their land" and more than the store where you buy your bread is "your store"

That is a naïve comparison applied to how land ownership in Palestine works and worked and in that way it's just feeding the myth of "A Land with no People for a People with no Land". That is not hate, that just means that the entire modern country of Israel was founded by driving out the people that were already living there.

Maybe consider what would happened to the Bedou if they weren't trying to make "good relations" with the people who were suddenly bulding on the land that they need in order for their livestock to survive. Pretending there is any space for "terrificness" in that situation is clearly incorrect.

And labeling any opposition to your narrative of "terriffic relation" of the occupiers to the occupied as "hate" is kind of supporting the idea that the term "propaganda" seems not entirely incorrect.
Speaking from my own experience, it is probably because it is the US. If I were more exposed to say France or Germany instead, which at least to me seem to be less hypocritical, especially on international politics, I think I'd feel weaker nudging to be more pro Chinese government.
> Actually, if we're going to get into this nitpicky level of semantics, none of the words "cleverly, unscrupulously, artful, unfair, insidious" mean "deceit" or "deception".

"insidious" is actually a synonym of "deceitful" [0].

You could still argue that advertisement is insidious (which I would by and large disagree with), but the previous poster's point about manipulation and persuasion being different still stands.

[0] https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/deceitful
It's probably an edge case given that this page is trying to showcase the control, but it seems to me a minimap would be terrible mobile UX.
Or you could just use Netlify with one click ;)
It works!
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It's not just the comments but those "free independent media" as well. Having freedom of speech doesn't mean having no bias. None of the US media I've seen doesnt have strong confirmation bias towards China. And even for US domestic issues, it's still appalling to see how media could be so polarized. Even when they report truth, they'd select facts that support their views while simply ignore things that's against them. I had to say that's a big disillusionment
Not sure about books, but there are sites like adsrsounds.com which have (paid) video tutorial courses for learning music production with DAWs, and I think videos are the best medium for learning this sort of software because of the combination of audio and visual. I'm sure there must be other similar sites, but this is the only one I have any experience of. YouTube would also probably be a useful resource, but you'd have to search through a load of cruft before finding something useful.

Just bear in mind that writing music with DAWs requires the same level of commitment (time, effort and financial) as learning a traditional instrument.

edit: just seen the sibling comment, so as I suspected there are plenty of resources available! :)
> Intentionally or not, I believe not talking about X is X [...]

That's extremist talk. HN is just one of many online communities, many of which encourage political debate. Technology can often be separated from politics as demonstrated by the majority of submissions here.
I'm not sure how you explain the fall in cigarette smoking rates from the 80s until the present day, despite a lack of prohibition.

I'm not a smoker, but man did this comment send a chill down my spine.
SquashFS also supports append-only modifications in-place.
Agree, I was in Singapore for a couple of years before moving here and I never felt becoming more pro China there
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Irregardless isn’t a word. :)
Are you also taking vitamin supplements? (I am seriously and legitimately curious.)
Wondering, if there is flash memory friendly filesystem, that is actually not overwriting existing blocks until card is full, but write any changes to new memory cells, rather than overwriting existing ones. This is not a problem for devices like cameras, since they only create new files, so wear is distributed among all cells evenly (assuming you remove all files when card is full, before taking new photos), but it's real problem for devices like raspberry pi and rapsbian, doing lot of updates (log files, ...). And, yes I understand root partition, could be set to read-only and log stored on tmpfs, but I'm still curious.

PS: As I still struggle to understand, why I'm getting downvotes. So please be so kind and write why, so I can eventually delete this comment.
Also Wren, which did a Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20461577
I'm not claiming any evidence, just restating what the earlier commentator had said.
Maybe you can outsource the development in India / China, where $10/hour is an high price
Do you believe the consumption of fruits and vegetables should be promoted?
>if we ever found a contradiction in the ZFC axioms, we wouldn't throw out math, we'd just throw out ZFC.

It's like saying: if we ever found a contradiction in the base case of a mathematical induction, we wouldn't throw out mathematical induction, we'd just throw out the base case. The indudction step remains sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_induction
I thought you could cancel but not have them removed from your roof.
Am loving the innovation and appreciate that the assumption here is if you've already got Kubernetes then this can be useful. Otherwise, a Kubernetes cluster is quite the pre-req for a static site generator that can run on the command line or on a build server.
The down votes are concerning. Regardless of your opinion on FAANGXYZ there are other industries which aren't being talked about enough (banks, oil companies, etc..), and we all know why. Talk about tech, yes, but we don't need a sustained smear campaign like we've been getting the past 3 years.
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The earth covers a pretty small part of the sky for the moon, so I'm not sure it would have that much effect?
> Cashless and bankless society.

I live in backwards South Africa, and even I can't remember the last time I needed to use cash. So I'm totally with you on that one.

But bankless? Eh, I think we are at least two or tree decades away from that.
There are a few https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_file_system
Let's keep in mind that propaganda, advertising and public relations are all spouting from one and the same sewer. Hell, PR as a modern profession is a descendant of propaganda[0].

It doesn't matter whether you're selling a product, a service or an agenda. The mechanics are the same, only the labels we assign them differ.

Creating false grassroots support for your product? Astroturfing. Creating false grassroots support for your agenda? Sockpuppeting.

An early episode of Motherboard's otherwise mediocre podcast "CYBER" did an interview with Gruqg.[1] That episode has an incredible amount of material about the nature of propaganda and modern information warfare. It's 40+ minutes, and well worth the time spent.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_public_relations

1: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7wmv/former-exploit-bro... [warning: stupid consent modal; find the episode in podcast search instead]
And in Germany: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanghuhn
filfre does have a history of the IBM PC that tells the story of how it came to be and the dealings between IBM and MicroSoft and (with Kildall of Digital).

It is worth a read.

https://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ibm-pc-part-1/
I believe that the phrasing made the sentence confusing.

"They have some sociopaths working for them whose focus is purely on making a buck at the expense of consumer's lives"
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Found this here on HN a little while ago. Public domain ebooks but with higher formatting standards than Gutenberg. Less selection as a result but might be worth checking out:

https://standardebooks.org/
also, I would be stunned if China decided to target HN with professional propoganda. It's just not that large or well known.

If, say, eight out of ten people haven't heard of hn then why even bother? just put more resources into spamming twitter or whatsapp or whatever they use in china
Scared to comment in case I end up like the guy that slagged off DropBox.

Maybe I should do a separate comment for each startup saying "Great Idea! Guaranteed success!" so I can refer to it in five year's time and look really prescient.
This piqued my interest. Can you please explain how? From what I understand, Juul/vape products don't contain tar which is supposedly the worst offender in a cigarette. Is that what you meant?
We do, but not usually heavily used ones, and the VPNs we're aware of use lots of IPs.
That was Microsoft’s fault. No one asked Microsoft to shovel ads in my operating system, no one told them to force telemetry, it was Microsoft's choice not to open up retail stores everywhere with trained staff who can handle a broken or replacement device immediately. They didn’t provide a curated App Store where I didn’t have to worry about malware.

Microsoft did nothing to earn the trust (instead the broke the trust) and business of customers, why should they have succeeded?
79lbs ~= 36kg
In the article the say accuracy is coming down to 1m vs 3-5 for other GPS
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Netlify is one of those services that just makes perfect sense. Perfect vertical integration across the web stack.
I suspect he's being facetious and talking about keto, which isn't literally just water and a glob of fat.
Can you undergird this claim? (serious question, no flaming)
It's very likely the most popular OS shipping today on desktops, laptops and servers. All Intel chipsets post-2015 are running MINIX 3 internally in the Intel Management Engine.
"It was originally just me. I’ve never logged my dives, because I didn’t see the point. Some people do it for the numbers, others do it because they want to do things by the book (literally), and some people seem to just collect the dive shop stamps. For me, the paper logbook just didn’t make sense.

At the same time, I’m a huge believer in dive computers. The first piece of scuba equipment I bought was a Suunto Gekko, because while I’m fine renting everything else (I’m apparently very regular sized, and I’ve never had issues with mask fitting etc either), I also think it’s stupid to do dive tables when a dive computer can just do so much better.

So I had my dives logged on the computer, but the Gekko would only remember profiles for about 20 dives or so. So I did want to download, but the Suunto downloader only worked on Windows, which I don’t have, and didn’t work for the Gekko anyway. I looked into a few projects, but they really didn’t work at all.

And then we had problems with kernel.org, and for a couple of weeks there was basically nothing kernel-related for me to do until the infrastructure was cleared up, and I started writing something to save an electronic log-book. It actually started with just parsing some XML that I had from a Suunto export that Dirk had done for me—I think I had given him my Gekko because I had upgraded to a Vyper Air, and he had saved the dives I had on it using the Suunto app and exported them as xml, so I had some data that I wanted to look at."

https://divelog.blue/linus_torvalds.html
I thought most flash devices did their own block mapping to implement this. Or is that just SSDs?
A lot of people simply don't care. I've met people who've worked for casinos and tobacco companies in management and decision making roles, and they are fully aware that they are trying to make people addicted and maximise profit on their habits.

I've asked them about the morality of it, and they're apathetic. It's not like some Wolf of Wall Street attitude where they enjoy ripping people off or making addicts, but just corporate apathy. The job pays well and they get to enjoy the finer things in life, so why should they care?
I don't want to start an argument about tau versus pi, but I like a tau form (or modification) of Eulor's Identy: [e^(ikτ) = 1] for all integer values of [k]. This gets across rather well that this formula expresses a complete turn around a unit circle. You can't get something quite equivalent using pi.

I even more prefer the full form of Euler's Formula: [e^(ix) = cos(x) + isin(x)]. The real beauty of Euler's Formula I think is that it shows an equivalence between an algebraic function and a trigonometric function.

(Note that I'm only a mildly learned laymen when it comes to mathematics. Any experts in math should feel very free to tell me why I'm wrong.)
A performance difference so drastic in theory should sell itself. Many of the original motorized carriages were sold through the Sears catalog. Others were sold by retailers who would bulk order from the factory and mark it up to the individual who eventually bought it. For those who could afford the investment and risk of learning new technology, the added benefits of motorized carriages were 10x better than carriages pulled by a horse (for those who needed to travel say 35 miles and not just 8 miles).

The real question is how two different companies selling basically the same thing can achieve drastically different results from each other in sales (think about Delta vs United vs American Airlines).

That type of sales is done through big channels and very intimate corporate contracts that are hard for newcomers to crack into (notice there are no new startup airlines out there :D)
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Also see Cross Apply and Outer Apply (MSSQL), often it is faster than using many CASE statements

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I feel like all these discussions should make some mention of how the US government felt this was their land to give
There's some information on this towards the end of the slides at https://www.anandtech.com/show/14758/hot-chips-31-live-blogs....

Sadly there's very little concrete info on the packaging methodology (hardly a surprise) which to me is the only truely novel thing about this chip. But it must cost an absolute fortune.
Nicotine alternatives help people stop smoking, and Juul’s is the most innovative and compelling yet. Demonize them if you will but they have helped a lot of people’s health.
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