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or nukes, which can end empires and the world order quicker than ever.
VPS might not be the best acronym here, as many will confuse it with Virtual Private Servers.
Don’t just do this without the aid of your vet. Cats and dogs need specific nutrients that are already formulated into pet foods.
Because Linux isn't a UI.
Indeed. Another tidbit is this:

Inventing a fake trucking company is easy, he said, as is impersonating a legitimate one. The only people in the shipping industry responsible for verifying truckers are brokers, who connect customers with trucking companies. Wadhwani looked into vetting practices at a major brokerage several years ago and asked the company to describe its process. An em­ployee said, “We ask the trucking company to send documents, we pick them up off the fax, and we file them away. We don’t look at them, we don’t read them.”

So it seems the industry is very lackadaisical as a whole in terms of security practices. Vetting people costs money.
"Linux" in 2019 refers to such a broad array of software that it's almost meaningless when talking about a specific experience. It's annoying to do, but trying some different distros and guis is well worth the time. There are plenty of people who self identify as full time linux users who cant stand to use each others computers, so there isn't any kind of consensus about what a good linux experience is because people are often trying to get very different things done.

Personally i thing gnome 3 is utter garbage, and poisons people against the whole ecosystem because it's usually what people try first because the screenshots look shiny. You might have a better time with mate or something similar.
Different article from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923942.
Psychologically, I think this boils down to the fact that our brains like novelty and surprise. A King punching down on a subject isn't novel, but a subject punching up on the King (and living to tell about it!) is.
It's because you need to be able to verify (in a trustless way) how much work (on average) someone has done. Thus you need a problem (like hashing) where the distribution of possible results is known so that you can set targets.

This is not possible for actual problems you'd want solved (i.e. "useful work") because you can't know beforehand how long it will take to find a solution.
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Well, this is hacker news.
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I see your point, but bad example. There isn't a plastic straw industry. There is a plastic industry and a restaurant supply industry. There is no single focus on straws ...

And no they are not dead. Get our of your bubble. The places where plastic straws are not allowed is tiny, tiny tiny.
As with anything, it's largely affected by how much you pay attention to it. Pets belonging to people who already have large carbon footprints probably have large carbon footprints. People who are conscientious of their carbon footprints probably have "greener" pets.

With enough effort, a pet could have virtually no impact on a family's carbon footprint. For example, in the U.S., we typically throw away 30-40% of our food. If a family feeds their pet(s) with food that would otherwise wind up in a landfill, they'd actually come out ahead.
> 2nd world — red and non-aligned

where have you seen "second world" used to refer to unaligned countries? this how almost everyone used "third world" before it became a non-pc synonym for "poor". in the original categorization, the "third world" was absolutely worth talking about. these countries were the proxy battlegrounds of the cold war.
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90% Windows users is basically what you would expect based on its desktop market share. The interesting thing is having more than twice as many Linux users as Mac.

This could be one of those places where the efficient market hypothesis is wrong because of incomplete information. The reputation of macOS for graphic designers is well known, but if the result of that is that everyone makes graphics design programs for macOS and not Linux then the macOS market gets saturated with supply and each supplier has to share the market with many competitors. Meanwhile the opposite on Linux, less competition so more volume per supplier.

It implies that Linux may be a good market for graphic design software because there is currently less supply there than demand. At least until more of the suppliers figure that out and release their software for it. (But that may itself cause more graphic designers to switch to Linux, which would then still justify the porting effort even as other suppliers move there too.)
> If you want up-to-date software from your package manager, use a rolling release distro. Otherwise the best you can do is something like a base setup and then side-load the software you want. This problem has been identified to the point where there are several brew-like systems (and things like snap as well), but no clear winner yet.

I use openSuSE Leap with a bunch of OBS (build service) repos added. I get a nice stable base OS with updated packages when I want them. And it runs KDE/Plasma nicely, too, and not as an afterthought or something like other distros.
Outlawing encryption is as futile as outlawing 'abstract' poetry. Hidden meanings can always be encoded.
I use koreader on my Kobo Clara HD, but it's frustratingly "open sourcey". I say that as an ardent FOSS enthusiast who runs Linux as his primary os.
What I mean by that is: bad ux, difficult to install, millions of super specific options crowding out the ones you actually want, etc.

I still use it over the default kobo software, but I really wish it was better.
No, I don't believe we have any special insight here. I expect any effort will eventually be circumvented, as all such things are. I mean, if Yahoo! can't protect their user database, and Apple can't categorically guard against iPhone cracks, who do we think we are? But I also must admit, with a heavy heart, that we must undertake the effort, in order to ameliorate our legal vulnerability against what a customer might do with a modified product.

You sound knowledgable about this field. Do you have any links to further reading on this?
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You do realize that Darwin's Raw Food is a commercial pet food, right?
It depends on the Costcos, Walmarts, and Whole Foods in your area.

In LA, Costco isn't always the cheapest on a per-unit basis, but they're always the cheapest on a per weight/per ounce basis.

For example, Kerrygold butter is $5 at the Ralphs, and the same size container is $8 at the nearest Whole Foods. It's $16 at Costco...but for 4x the amount of butter, making it cheaper than both Ralphs and Whole Foods if you can actually use all that butter. (There are no nearby Walmarts, and neither of the local Targets or Food4Less' sell Kerrygold.)
When I was in the Marine Corps, I developed a "gaming workout routine" to keep in shape and still have time to play video games where I didn't even have to leave the desk, and it worked wonders. I have always thought it would be awesome to somehow make it a more popular thing. For a while I have thought VR might be the killer app that makes it a reality.

For those interested, it was mostly just bodyweight exercises, eg between counter-strike rounds do crunches at desk, pushups, dips, etc. When I finally buy a house I have this idea that I want to design my computer desk to also be a workout desk... pullup bar and everything.
This is really great, and gives me something to look forward to.

Two years ago I started a company with a friend, and we are _nearly_ at the point where our SaaS covers all our expenses. We do consulting to make up the rest, which is not bad at all, but of course it would be nice if it was completely optional.

I realized reading this post that I've definitely been focused on financial goals for the last few months. It wears on you, and it's not the best long term motivation.

Our dream has always been to be able to make our software better for a living, but it's definitely easier to do that once the financial side is taken care of :)

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I would love to hear people's opinions on what was the best acquisition for each of these companies...and perhaps the worst too.
"Show me the man and I’ll show you the TOS Violation"
Also isn't there another setting to track app usage activity on Android? I'm pretty certain that also keeps a record of opening and using apps outside of just what's on the Play store as well. If anything I'd suspect that was used rather than Play Protect.
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There's those who argue it came down to 9 (or, if you like, 5) people.
Flamewar comments and snark and crossing into personal attack. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21242827.

If you'll commit to not doing those things and to following all the guidelines (most importantly this one: Be kind) when posting here, we'll be happy to unban you.
Hi- picking up for Mike. While we do have some distributed team members, the technical roles we are currently hiring for are all based in our San Mateo, CA HQ (could be NYC for the Client Engagement Manager opening). Feel free to ping me directly with any additional questions: matt@ - thanks.
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This is a game made by a research lab for fun, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Unix. I'm not sure they're too interested in funnels, beyond letting people have a little fun (and some advertising that something like the Bell Labs of old might still exist).

The signup annoyed me, too, but it just wants a username and password for the leaderboard. It's not collecting your e-mail address. (There was some kind of bug with the user creation step where it would keep prompting for your country. Reloading the page is a workaround.)
As someone who's run both desktop Linux for a couple years and OS X for the last 5... Not even close. Desktop Linux is an exercise in insanity.
"We'll hand basic trading decisions to a microcomputer? Doubt it." - 1980s wall street.

Increasingly, the whole world is algorithmically analyzed and driven. Decisions to hire and fire people, or whether to invest, or what type of product to build. College students are following this trend by majoring in CS and data science, while liberal arts departments nationwide are downsizing. It's only a matter of time before these algos are unified and all human decisions take a backseat to the decisions of machines.
> Do you work for John Deere?

So close... ;-)
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True, but the person in question was asked in the thread to provide a screenshot of the email.

To which they replied that they couldn't because the account was locked. That certainly doesn't seem to add up, though it might just be a mis-communication.
>Rejection is usually a case of 'I'm not sufficiently sure this is good enough given the information I have in front of me'

Last week there were a few articles about the rejection of numerous articles/papers that would go on to win the Nobel Prize.

Obviously this is a very small set, but goes to show how easily Nobel Prize winning papers could have been lost to history.

The rejections include everything from:

-reviewers not liking the name of the paper (politics/subjectivity at its worst...I think the journal was trying to take an active role in the propagation of the prevailing terms regarding the subject matter)

-Not the right journal for the topic (quasi-subjective and potentially political)

-a backlog of articles to be published (maybe a little subjective, not sure if the examiner(s)/publisher(s) could have shuffled things around, but that would get back into subjectivity/politics)

In most cases, as you can imagine, the authors were disheartened and frustrated. Some never even published again as a result of these experiences. To me it just makes me wonder how many papers/articles could/would/should have won the Nobel Prize but for some rejection, and as a result how much time/effort has been lost.
Windows CE and Ipaq. I created mobile tour apps for museums like the Louvre, LA County Museum, SFMOMA and the Whitney that successfully served tens of thousands of people daily in the mid/late 2000s.
Ironic, given that Buzz was essentially killed on day one by the decision to auto-follow your most frequently emailed contacts, like the person you're having an affair with, or your ex-wife, or your lawyer.
"Many processors, each with their own run queue"

"Because synchronization is almost entirely avoided, this strategy can be very fast. However, it’s not a silver bullet. Unless the workload is entirely uniform, some processors will become idle while other processors are under load, resulting in resource underutilization. This happens because tasks are pinned to a specific processor. When a bunch of tasks on a single processor are scheduled in a batch, that single processor is responsible for working through the spike even if other procesors are idle."

The trade off of this is high performance over uniform utilization, which is a better goal than loading cores evenly. And all you have to do to make use of it is a bit of thought about your load distribution, but you also have plenty of thought budget here by not having to think about synchronization. Stealing work from other queues is not going to be faster, it's going to be wasted on synchronization and non-locality overhead and would require you to do synchronization everywhere, not a good direction to pursue.
Now should I be worried about using YouTube vanced app. Same thing there to isn't it?
Agree! I've been using XFCE for many years, after deciding that Gnome wasn't actually pretty enough to justify all the extra pain.

For me, window managers are mostly just a convenient way to arrange a baroque collection of web browsers and terminals... Occasionally, I use file organization/navigation or a couple other programs that are helpful in my job. But ultimately, I just need a minimal window manager that gets the hell out of the way. (in fact, after setting up awesome rotating Moebius wallpapers, I mostly don't see them, as they're almost entirely buried under the web browsers and terminals.)
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But just raw muscle isn't necessarily great -- I think there are lots of nutrients they would get from specific organs in the wild. One vet's recommendation was to alternate with high-tech dry food, which is likely to have these things. And some vegetables.
I don't think any of them failed, they were all relevant for a period of time, and users moved to a different network. That is happening with Facebook, will happen with Instagram, and is just part of the cycle.

Bebo founder is selling his house in SF for $39 million [1], that doesn't seem like a failure to me.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-couple-list-their-eclectic...
A couple of practical solutions here.

1) Automate your releases and run that on a CI server if you can. "It works on my laptop" is not ideal for releasing stuff.

2) Have a release branch, and only allow stuff to be merged that passes your CI tests and trigger the automation under step 1 after a merge to your release branch. This works for continuous deployment but can also work for releases of other stuff. If you use semantic versioning, the CI server should tag the release and publish the artifacts. That's one less thing that can go wrong. If you forgot to bump the version number on your master branch, the build should fail.

3) Have a release checklist. People forget stuff and having a small list of "Are the release notes and readme updated? Is our CI not complaining? Have all PRs been merged? Etc. Even with the above, premature releases through an early merge to your release branch could happen. A checklist can prevent that. And of course, if you can integrate those checklists into your CI. If your release notes are unchanged since the last version

4) Release often. Small deltas are less work to test and less risky to impose on users and you get feedback on stuff you did earlier.
The future was a fun place to be in 2003. I didn't have a landline and was in college, going to football games on campus and checking other football game scores from the stands on a Sony Ericsson phone with a WAP browser. :)
For those reading the comments first and getting confused as I did: This is not about a NewPipe developer getting their Google account suspended due of a ToS violation (which would already be a disproportionate sanction, considering the practical consequences of the suspension). It's a NewPipe user getting their account suspended. It's like loosing access to your Google account because you dared use an ad blocker.

And NewPipe doesn't even link to the Google account, so it's not clear how Google made the connection.
Hi- picking up for Mike. Unfortunately, we aren't planning on bringing on any interns in the coming year. If you'd like to ping me I'd be happy to take a look at your resume for future/relevant opportunities: (matt@) - thanks.
This is going to sound a bit morbid, but it's helpful for me when I'm thinking about mortality to realize that my dog is going to die way before me and I'm not worried about that, so why am I worried about my own death, which is vastly further away?
Only on HN would somebody argue that Teslas killing people is just like the Allied powers fighting the Axis (who were engaged in genocide).

You don't get to choose when we move on. You have a broken brain. Your opinions are worse than useless.
Can I ask - how do you send emails programmatically? Every time I've done this for personal projects, I run into issues. Whether it's auth blocking from GMail or whatever. Seriously would appreciate even just a nudge in the right direction.
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> * modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent

Lol, different strokes for different folks. Having to use Karabiner instead of the much more versatile tools on Linux really peeved me when I switched over a few years ago.

I like to rebind my caps lock to function as an extra modifier key. On Linux, you just set it to Hyper; ezpz. On Mac, you just straight up can't, so I have to bind it to command+control+option+shift to get the next best thing (since I would never actually press all four of those keys). And I've had issues with Mac's Keyboard Shortcuts -- some of my shortcuts have just stopped working. I used to have CapsLock+[1-9] as shortcuts to switch to Workspaces 1-9, but some of the shortcuts just stopped working and I've had no luck finding a fix.

On Linux, it may take more effort to do something, but it'll always be possible. So many of the things I want to do on Mac are just not options. When I retire this MacBook, I'll be going back to Linux.
In terms of foreign policy, you're right, but not in the way you think. American foreign policy has been 100x as evil as Chinese foreign policy for a long time. The US government invaded Iraq based on a lie, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. That's just one of many truly evil things the US government has done abroad recently.
Yeah, it feels like walking on eggshells these days wrt security... Either paranoid, or locked out.
Sure we can - we did it with slavery! The inequity of slavery reflected the desires and choices of human beings. But over time (nearly 200 years) we changed our ethics so that these desires and choices were no longer acceptable, and eventually outright abolished the practice.

Lots of people said it couldn't be done. Not only because it was "natural" to own slaves, but because our nation's economy was deeply tied to the practice. We changed it anyway, purely out of deference to our moral philosophy.

Inequality is inherent in nature, sure, but our moral philosophy can be used to change our desires and choices to create greater equity. So before we settle on "people just do what they do", let's ask ourselves: should we be doing something different?
> It's that you can have a noise ordinance without giving anyone the capacity to compel anyone else to use a specific landscaping company or style.

of course you can, this is how the law already works in most relatively dense places!

your original post seemed to imply that you weren't aware of noise ordinances outside of HOA bylaws, apologies if I misunderstood.
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Thank you. I have no idea how accurate or complete this answer is but I like it and the idea of a duty towards particularism acting as a protective layer against encroachment of authority, instead of fear tactics concerning universalism. Sort of "rule of thumb vs a moral" way of looking at shaping the world.
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> Those on 3g will have to wait ages for the video to buffer. Those on an old device won't be able to play it at all if you used new codecs.

This advice is pretty stale: 3G is rather old by now – 4G came out in 2009 – and unless you’re still supporting IE8 HTML5 makes it easy to let the browser select from multiple sources (subtitles have similarly had wide support for at least half a decade). Properly hinted video will start playing pretty quickly — certainly not massively slower than someone with 3G on an old device is going to experience everywhere else, especially since that old device isn’t going to pick the 4K version anyway.
That is so true. Even if your algorithm works it's a human factor that breaks it.
Not only did they reject the article, they sat on for ages. Great work Nature.
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Do you happen to know if anyone out there is using DL techniques for identifying and most importantly for categorizing ancient pottery? I’m asking because until now most of that identifying and categorization has been of course made only “manually”, by archeologists themselves, with, imho, different levels of “success”. On top of genuine human errors (i.e. no-one can visually remember and compare all the pottery from a certain geographical region) there is also the added geo-political factor that must be taken into consideration, i.e. an archeologist from a specific country won’t categorize that easily a certain piece of pottery as belonging to a neighboring country/culture and thus a potential “enemy”. I’m thinking that further automatizing this process will get rid of human error.
> i suppose if people want to make the comparison that humanity is as mindless as a fungus that causes disease, then by all means.

It's clear that that's not his point. It's hard to take people seriously who don't argue in good faith.