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> why isn't free software running the world?

Isn't it?

As for luck, the details of one's life is luck. But success comes from those who develop a plan, learn what they need to, and execute that plan. Nothing good is going to happen to you if you spend your spare time drinking, if you fritter away your money, etc. Luck finds people who are out there ready to recognize it and take advantage.

> Carver Meade

I've never met him, nor took a class from him. In fact, my degree is in Mechanical Engineering, not CS. I did know Dan O'Dowd, but he didn't think much of me, with good reason. I am not in business nor partnered with anyone from Caltech.

Edison enrolling in a class at Cooper was after he was well established. As for his luck, he put himself in a position where luck could find him.

I know nothing about many of your examples. But I do know a bit about Kildall. Luck came looking for him, and he spurned it or simply did not recognize it. That's on him - the stars aligned for him and he blew it. Gates nearly made the same mistake.

Myself, I could have been a billionaire multiple times. The opportunities were there. I missed them. It's 100% my fault - it's not bad luck.

As for Caltech, many very successful people have come from there. A number of sad failures, too. Caltech provides opportunities, not guarantees. It's up to the students to choose what to do about those opportunities.

I've been around a long time, long enough to see patterns in successful people. 100% of the ones I know do not share your opinion that it's luck. 100% believe they are in charge of their future. They make it happen. They have their sail up when the wind blows their way. I know one fellow who made and lost two seven figure fortunes. This doesn't dismay him in the slightest, he's cheerfully working on his third.

I can guarantee you that these people are a lot of fun to be around. They're always off doing something exciting. Sometimes it blows up in their face. Sometimes it's wildly successful. It's always fun, though. They're always on their grind. None of them watch TV.

Ya know what's cool? Taking responsibility for your fate is empowering. It means you can do something about it. A piece of advice - the next time something bad happens to you, instead of blaming fate, take a good hard look at what decisions you made that got you into that pickle. Learn from it, and don't do that again.

For example, I have poor genes for teeth. It's a constant struggle for me, and unfair that other people do nothing and have great teeth. But by the time most people are my age, they've lost a bunch of teeth. I've lost one. It's because I constantly pester my dentist for how I can take better care of my teeth. If I didn't I'd be wearing dentures. It's a choice I make.
When I played it (4 people game), I would win relatively often initially (before other players started copying my strategy). My strategy was just to buy everything I landed on except utilities and rail stations - I would only buy a utility/station if I wanted to stop someone else from getting all of them (which typically happens much later in the game and often doesn't happen at all) but mostly I would use it as a bargaining chip to trade it for a normal property to complete my set and start building houses (utilities and stations are just bait; you let others complete their own utility/station sets and in the process, you get to complete your own regular sets in the process and build houses). I never understood people who said that utilities and stations were the best things to buy...
You can't build houses on them and they earn peanuts unless you get all of them, but even if you do, they still don't yield much compared to lands that have some houses.

Also, through trading, it's difficult to get all the utilities/stations without giving up something even more valuable.

It's foolish to accept a utility company or station in exchange for one of your regular properties because it will allow someone else to get a complete set and they can start building houses - Once they do that it's game over for you and every other player.
How does one isolate a specific antibody from the blood? Presumably there are thousands (millions?) of different ones in there for all kinds of pathogens.
It says the CVs are beautiful but I don't see any screenshots of the design?

LinkedIns CV:s are ok:ish in design so if you can make a design that surpass theirs I'll give it a try. :)
the region titles are ... unconventional. greece, clearly in the eastern mediterraneon, is not listed, while iran on the indian ocean is. this group is normally called mena, roughly.

likewise, the category called southeast asia contains countries normally considered to be south asian - like india - and omits the larger part of southeast asia.

the creation of “western pacific”, grouping australia-new zealand, east asia, and the larger part of southeast asia, deserves credit surely since it is far more useful than the neocolonialist category of oceania, which mostly serves to allow europeans to swamp pacific islanders with statistics from australia
Yeah that kind of looks like it. Thank you! I'll try it out.
markdown-it [1] has a number of plugins that let you add extra features to commonmark. For adding attributes, I wrote markdown-it-attrs [2]. Combine that with a flexible static site generator, like metalsmith [3], and you have a solution adjustable to your needs.

1: https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it
2: https://github.com/arve0/markdown-it-attrs
3: https://metalsmith.io/
The single biggest one-time leveling up I did as a programmer, was switching to a US keyboard. All the various symbols are just so much easier to type (except, of course, numbers should probably be shift-typed). You can still use your local keyboard for text...
The best way to see how it looks is to try it. :) Install + View CV shouldn't take more than 30 seconds in total if you are already logged on to LinkedIn.
Not trying to be too nit-picky, but that’s not a futures contract (nor a forward). Neither futures nor forwards require payment up front for the exchange in the future. Futures and forwards are for locking in the price for the future trade, not partially completing the trade in the present and finishing it in the future.

What you’re describing is just boring old debt.
I think it's a good decision, because it makes it clear that this just teaches you to use the Vulkan extension and doesn't have a lot of useless fluff. The screenshot is a good way to communicate this and set the expectations of the audience.

Vulkan is a very low level API and even putting a single triangle on the screen is a huge wall of C++ code, so it's necessary to keep the domain part of the example as simple as possible.
> This happened to me with Bullhorn and Intuit, despite my investigation and reports being unrelated to my employment.

I should probably have added, before that comma, "threatening my employer".
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Twitter is a very mediocre tech company that thinks it's stellar and brilliant. Their product is consistently subpar, riddled with countless bugs, and they neither acknowledge it or fix it.

So yeah, no surprise that they would blame others for their failings.
It sticks to a virus protein, so you can use that virus protein to find it!
The first big chunk of value added for independent bookshops is that they are not Amazon. That is enough for me. I avoid Amazon. But there are a few possible other pieces of value to add that the other sellers might add, but they are not doing it.

How about, if a bookseller does absolutely no business with Amazon or any of its affiliates, ever, they advertise that so that I can favor them with mine. That would be a value-added.

Now, I have bought many used books from Alibris, since I stopped buying from Abebooks when I learned that Amazon owns Abebooks, but now I find that Alibris has a deal with Amazon to ship the books that I buy from independent booksellers who list on Alibris through Amazon's shipping system. And part of the deal seems to be that any bookseller who lists both on Amazon (or abebooks) and on Alibris always lists the book a little higher on Alibris, and shipping always costs a little more if I buy through Alibris, too. So the independents, who present themselves as wanting to compete with Amazon, are being lured into supporting both the giant and the giant's ability to manage prices throughout the market. If an independent bookseller wants to offer any value beyond what Amazon offers, they should stay out of Amazon's network and sell used books that Amazon's network does not offer.

When I want to buy a used book that I find on-line that was published with one or more CD's included, I have often contacted the bookseller and asked if their copy of the book has the CD included. If the bookseller is one that lists through abebooks, Amazon, or Alibris, either my inquiry is ignored or the response is that they cannot access their inventory to answer my question, and that their terms of sale are that the CD might not be included, no matter how essential it may be to the value of the book. This uniformity of poor service across supposedly-competing sellers is suspicious at best, and an independent bookseller could certainly offer value added by not doing what everyone else is doing.

Bottom line is that it is possible for bookshop to be better than Amazon for some buyers, but I'll wait to see it before I believe it.
OP here (actually, he is my co-founder, same company). I can confirm this experience, looping seems to work.

In our own setup, we fetch data for the last 24h twice a day and then just insert everything. We have a db constraint on the message ID mailgun sends us, so only news ones will be persisted. We aren't even bothered with filtering before inserting, the db constraint does the trick.
> Luckily, he still had the original laptop and knew exactly when the encryption took place.
HSBC UK fraud department in the UK send you a text message if they believe there is fraudulent use of your card with a number to call.

The problem is that number is nowhere on the website. How do I know that text is actually from HSBC? How do I know the number I’m being asked to call is legit?

I’ve tried to explain to HSBC that they are training their customers to be susceptible to scammers but they just don’t get it. I had this conversation with someone in the fraud department where I said, “at least put that number on your website somewhere, so if I go to Hsbc.co.uk and search it turns up” “we don’t want to publicise the number sir” “Well out it on a page that isn’t displayed on the site, but which still shows up in a search if I search for the number” - “I’ll pass on your concerns”. That was about 10 years ago. They still do it.
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Have you seen the commonmark standard? Did not see that mentioned. https://commonmark.org/
i don't think that analogy holds up because it seems to ignore that there are other methods of obtaining energy.

and your last statement isn't getting to why. it's just what happens.
OP here. We saw your request on github, will follow up there. Should not be that hard to do, it's not a lot of code actually.
Cool! I recently tried Mozilla Hubs [1], which is a similar concept but in 3D. Worked pretty well, although it was a bit awkward to not be able to see facial expressions on your avatar. And I got a bit nauseous after some time.

[1] https://hubs.mozilla.com/
> (Spit that you eject through a useless mask counts as "face").

This is such obvious cope. Let's see you spit through a T-shirt. C'mon man, you should feel embarrassed posting this.
From a recent email

> How do I know this is not a Spoof email?
PayPal is committed to preventing fraudulent emails. Emails from PayPal will always contain your full name. Spoof or "phishing" emails tend to have generic greetings such as "Dear PayPal member".
To learn more, go to the PayPal website and click Security.
> Iverson died with incredible technical achievements yet little wealth and little influence.

Technical achievement by itself is not good enough. One must also be good at business and marketing. I know nothing about Iverson, but I know many people who are technical geniuses but refuse to deal with the necessary business and marketing aspects. They often wind up angry and bitter. Is that bad luck? No. It's refusal to deal with how things work. It's a choice. Nobody gets lucky in business without learning how to do business and marketing.
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> Unfortunately, it’s hard to explain without some exposure to pure mathematics.

you are right, but i suspect that is still a massive understatement. thanks for the links.
> Windows and macOS do carry italics, strike-throughs, and the like through copy and paste.

There is no magic, they do it by literally exchanging HTML on the clipboard. Applications use it as a lingua franca and convert the text into whatever form they use internally.
For example someone in Bern took a gherkin virus and modified it to trigger an immune response against SARS-CoV-2. I saw in Swiss television that they already have something that works and are now conducting tests and ramping up production. They hope to be ready end of year.

https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/coronavirus-impfstoffe-aus-d... (in German)

This is just one of the many parallel efforts.
There are a lot of IP protocols that sit on top of IP. SCTP, IPsec and ICMP sit right on top of IP on the same level as TCP, for example. Most of the time people UDP use a no-op stub and put their protocol on top of UDP, because many operating systems make it hard to implement IP protocols in userspace, and networks tend to have middleboxes that don't work correctly with most IP protocols.
Does it matter whether google or the consumer of the google api caches data?
It's really hard to comment without having all the facts and documents but as a general rule, a permanent change in job location that is outside the MSA of the location on the PERM application requires the filing of a new PERM application.
> Isn't this a bit naive?

No. It's naive the other way around. Think about it. There are 1.4 billion chinese. There isn't a government more concerned about the "happiness" of their people than the chinese government. If the chinese people aren't "happy", then the government is blamed, attacked and destroyed - and many political leaders killed. Who do you think is more concerned with the welfare of their people - Xi or Trump? I'd say Xi since his very life depends on it while Trump could ruin the US and go back to his business and have the next president clean up his mess.

> How do you figure dictatorships ever stay in place?

How do you figure dictatorships ever lose their place?

> When the power in place controls everything

That's also true of democracies as well as dictatorships.

> uprising is almost impossible.

Uprisings are impossible when times are good. Peope revolt over empty stomachs and economic interests. All indications are times have been very good for the chinese people the last few decades. So I'd suspect most chinese are quite supportive of their government - especially now that they are engaged in a trade war. But then again, it's their country and their government. It's rather paternalistic to think the chinese are incapable of looking out for their best interests.
I am really struggling to understand the recommendations for SARS-COV2 at this point.

WHO claims that the virus is transmitted via contact or heavy droplets and some other study previously linked on HN refered that aerosolization was only a risk in ICU when extubating a patient.

But this video seems to contradict that, no?
Yes, she could file a change of status to B-2 visitor status and while her application is pending, she could remain in the US. But this application should be filed before she quits her J-1 employment and note that there is no guarantee that her application will be approved.
Of course you can spoof anybody's address. Depending on the protocol, you may not be able to get it working. But if it's UDP, you can definitely spoof someone's IP address.
Why not? It makes business sense for a conferencing tool to be able to link to files on a mounted drive ("can you tell me where the project notes are?" "sure, they're over at \\projects\jabberwocky\notes.docx").

Every chat application turns HTTP strings into links and I don't believe it's the application developer's fault to assume that a simple link will cause code execution or leak credentials. That's a bad API design by Microsoft to the point where it's a vulnerability.

If someone told you that on iOS a link starting with HTTP would cause the device to send your Apple password to a random server, would you think that's normal and therefore developers should know better? Why would it be any different with any other kind of link? Wouldn't you expect the OS not to fail catastrophically when a user clicks a link like that?
If speed it's only thing that matters, he can use /dev/null for writes and /dev/urandom for reads. That's also very scalable.
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That issue links to another open source routing engine for OSM (Valhalla) that is actively developed, what are the strengths of each?
Show HN: Connect to any site as long as you can have a shell
> I hate that I have no idea how it will render on Github or wherever

Stick to PDF then since otherwise you have little to no idea how something else will render on the end user's device.
Pandemic really shouldn't be an excuse to just sell out students to any party that used more marketing money.

There's a reason why (at least in this part of the world) the educational products receive additional scrutiny and need to comply to additional privacy and security directives.
This is basically a rewrite of the original article on Laphams Quarterly and a better source (images aren’t miscaptioned and there’s an audio version) https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/greatest-all-tim...
This small tool helps devops to connect to remote services that cannot bind other interfaces than loopback. With uutunnel, if you can have a shell, you can
connect.
Still at the early stage where it solves only my problem, I'm wondering if it's worth improving to make it able to help others, and curious to learn if better alternatives/hacks existed.
Something like Elm but that compiles to native binaries. It should come with Material Design level of HIG documentation and a tone of examples. The compiler and the Native/Kernel parts should be implemented in a modern systems programming language, maybe rust.
+1, I've made my own geocoding/geodecoding on openstreetmap data, it worked 10x faster than google and with our level of usage, server essentially pays for itself just for 20% of resources. With our level of usage, we would burn through free tier in several hours.
Placement of the cache definitely matters, even more so if you can take advantage of the more specific data freshness requirements.

Disclaimer: I work in Google. But I also worked a bit on effects of cache placement in my PhD.
Yes, most people learn and use QWERTZ. In your typical electronics store, you will only find QWERTZ keyboards and notebooks. If you want QWERTY, you have only one option, you have to buy it on the internet. But even on the internet the typical Logitech keyboard for example is hard to find in US-QWERTY in Germany/Europe, because most merchants don‘t have them on stock. In the past, I‘ve even imported US keyboards from the US, because they were and are hard to find here.

It gets even more difficult for notebooks: Any notebook you can buy here in Germany has QWERTZ. Want a notebook with US layout, because you are a developer? Your only options are BTO options from Apple or Lenovo. But even there, you have to be cautious: Dell for example will sell you „English“ keyboard layout notebooks as BTO option, but you won‘t get the real US layout (with a wide return and wide left shift key), but some kind of „International English“ ISO layout with a tall return key and a short left shift key... Lenovo has an „English“ option and thankfully you will get a keyboard layout that really resembles the US layout (but with an Euro key).

Only Apple really gives you „US“ as BTO option, and you really get the real US layout. Funny story, I wrote an e-mail to Apple, over ten years ago, when they didn‘t have US layouts as BTO option in Germany... I think it changed something, because one or two years later, Apple changed it, and you will get real US layouts ever since on their online store.
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> There's also the general fact that capitalists love efficiency and hate excess capacity, which means they tend to sacrifice resiliency.

I do actually agree with this criticism.

> There's no profit today in maintaining capability to handle a disruption in a socially beneficial way, so they specialize for their hothouse environment. Heck, if some apologists for price-gouging had their way, such a firm could even profit handsomely from a crisis they failed to prepare for.

So here's an interesting question: if charging extra for items in high-demand during a crisis (price-gouging) were legal, would there be enough?

Consider that housing inventory can be a cost, and that for many companies controlling costs is a necessary step if they want to stay in business. They might even want to have some excess inventory to handle shocks in demand. But if they can't charge more for selling goods that are in their reserve inventory, then they won't be able to cover the costs of holding onto that inventory for so long.

Those costs exist, and society has to pay them, even when the government is the one holding the reserves. Now, if we don't want consumers to have to pay the extra cost during a crisis (which is fair, because many people might have lost their jobs) we could just have the government step in and pay the difference.

It may seem like it would be rewarding price-gouging, but all it would be doing would be to delay government paying the cost to warehouse reserves.

What's more, is that the government would only be paying for those reserve goods that it would actually need. There are an endless number of goods that could possibly be needed in a disaster; stocking up on them all would be untenable. Allowing corporations to do most of that work would drastically reduce the burden on the government (and the average citizen).

Lastly, even when government's prepare, they don' know all of what those needs might be (again, the example of Switzerland not stocking up enough of masks).

NOTE: I am not saying I am OK with people price-gouging for goods already on the market. I'm just talking through a situation where a legal change might allow corporations to have better incentives with regard to disaster preparedness and redress the flaw we both see in the current system.
I guess it depends on what you want to do. If you're trying to make sense of a given countries response, (cases) / (population of administrative region) seems like a decent metric. Also since policy tends to follow administrative lines it's a decent (but extremely noisy) metric to see what policies are working.

What do you want to learn from (cases) / (people in infected area)? The denominator seems difficult to define since it's not scale invariant. If you defined an "infected area" as being within 1 km of an infected person, for example, you'd get a very different answer from if you defined infected area as 10 km from an infected person.

In the limiting cases where you define infected area with very fine or very course granularity, you get an infection rate of 1.
We also had an increased Maps bill after the new pricing model for each map load on a detail page for a specific real estate object. Our map is now disabled by default and can be loaded with a “show map” button on a static cached map image.
Then you would go into your Time Machine backup and restore the version your want to /Applications
You may want to use -noaccurate_seek