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Javascript package managers like npm tend to work much more seamlessly than the old unix ones. Wouldnt mind scrapping them all for https://node-os.com/

Also, the reason package managers suck is because.. entropy. See Joe Armstrong, The Mess We're In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
> The Story of Mel is a story about a ‘Real Programmer’ that came out in the early 1980′s on Usenet

I read this as a story of "coming out" on Usenet... thought it was going to be about sexual/gender identity or something.
sorry to break your perception (or not), but even as a space exploration enthusiast, never heard of that. but then again, podcasts generally are on outer rim of interest of general population
Well, that was an unnecessary snide remark.
The link you posted seems to fundamentally fail to contradict the OP. The link states "banks do not lend out their reserves" - which is true. They lend from their deposits, which is exactly what the OP was saying.

If that's not it, then someone needs to explain it more clearly.
It's interesting to look back on how idealistic the early web was: http://www.arachnoid.com/freezone/

I think it's actually still the case that the best quality content on the internet isn't on commercial sites.
Amazing initiative! I wish we had more of these. And it's coming right after "Armada" by Ernest Cline was released, which deals with aliens.

If the livestream is overlaid with page elements for you as well, try this URL:

http://livestream.com/accounts/6714632/events/4205486/player...
You mean, like the Steamboxes?

Those are due to be released later this year, but no-one really knows yet how they will work out in terms of performance or cost-effectiveness, or what range of games will be available for them. Even if Valve port all of their own big titles over, the major titles from others in the industry may or may not follow, and it will probably take time if they do.

So yes, Steam machines are what I was referring to, but yes, gaming on Linux is still a far cry from gaming on Windows or any recent console.
Why not get a smartwatch? Well, there are actually several reasons:

- price. It is still going to be more expensive than a cheap dumb watch

- lifespan. Electronics generally won't live more than 3-5 years on average. A good watch can outlive you and your children.

- too much feature. The same way some people still buy dumb phones because they just want to phone and text, some people only want time out of their watch (recent threads about iPod sells explain that pretty well, albeit for a different product).

- fashion, as you said. Some people want to look good, and a smartwatch with a digital screen (gasp!) may be against their sense of aesthetics
If people try to submit an already posted URL their submission is blocked and they are redirected to the original URL which gets an upvote. So if you see a flurry of upvotes on one of your old submissions it's possibly because people have started trying to post the URL.

I think thT's how it works.
One might even say he's addressing slow thinking, rather than grandparent's fast.
> [is Go] currently considered to be in a state where I could start using it today in production

Yes.

> Would Go language be a good choice now?

No.

You've been reading way too much HN if Python isn't modern enough for you. The only way in which Go feels more modern than Python is in its concurrency model (which you are unlikely to need). Unless you are running into roadblocks due to execution speed then you should really just stick with Python. If you take the time to learn a little more Python, it should replace PHP and bash at the very least.

If you're worried about "popularity going forward", you really shouldn't be. Those languages you listed are going nowhere. Python seems to me a surer get for the future than Go.

Really, Go shines when collaboratively building large systems that use concurrency. And it puts things in your way to make sure beginner programmers won't make mistakes, or to make sure everything is clear to read (really, list comprehensions aren't that bad!). It goes out of its way to not be powerful. These are not things you probably want.

Stick with Python. It's great. I use it all the time for scripting and couldn't be happier.
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That's not great for the taxi drivers that get put out of work, since a lot of them work crazy hours - you talk to them and it seems they just drive taxis and sleep, not really time for a 2nd job.
>>> If you do a salary search on glassdoor there is no option to list by gender or ethnicity.

Isn't that a good thing?
Could androids walk among us without us knowing? Dystopian exp suggests yes
IIRC, you have to pay a subscription to shop on Jet in the first place. Every new shopper brings in recurring revenue.
Yes, the internet is full of these so called experts. How do they end up being upvoted here is telling about the quality of the average reader unfortunately.

Sorry if I am hurting feelings here but it is true. You have to be a special flake if you think this is quality content. So please, go ahead with your reactions, they speak volumes about who exactly is the gross of HN.
Advertising & pop-ups on popular news websites are great! Because they remind me that news sites have zero (or near zero) value, and I should be getting back to work instead of wasting time reading them. If they really had value for me, I'd be signing up for a paid subscription & then they wouldn't have to run ads.

Some advertising is good. I am so glad that Harvest advertises. I know I saw it repeatedly advertised on Daring Fireball, so I was aware of it by the time I needed something like it, and I'm super happy with it.
I don't think the millenials are devaluing their value, I think they are left without much of a chance.

The need for unqualified work in the modern world in dwindling and the young lack a way to enter the workforce. the huge supply allows employers to go by only hiring experienced workforce, and they don't even have to pay them top dollar, reducing any incentive to train youngster.

https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/...
While helper scripts for OpenSSLs arcane syntax are highly appreciated, running some .sh file downloaded from the Internet is not the wisest of security ideas. The author (or somebody from GitHub) could just replace this script with one that actually uploads your freshly-generated private key to somewhere.
I find it difficult to believe that the rise of Docker (which is a tool for easily separating processes) isn't inversely releated with people forgetting this!

It is a valid point, but it's presented here in the wrong packaging.
To the honest Materialists: what's your explanation of Qualia? Why it exists? Why aren't we Philosophical Zombies? Thanks
"but once you want to start doing any sort of media work, like editing photos, video, etc"

Its interesting how slowly use cases change and how slowly software changes, but how fast hardware increases. In the 90s I would have really been lucky to have 4 gigs to do those tasks you list.
It is a shame to see what could have been a
scheme of global importance bedraggled by such
terrible user experience. ^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^

Should that be "bedevilled" ??

The sentiment is clear, but the word choice is typical of a non-native speaker finding something that probably sounds about right, and will probably get the message across.

Bizarre, but charming, in its own way.
The answer is usually "what would Jean luc Picard do?"
Except for where they are oligopolies, like the UK energy, water, telecoms markets etc.

In fact all UK privatised assets.
It's certainly difficult to imagine projects that operate on a timescale beyond a single human lifetime, but it got civilisation this far!
It's always in others. Never in us.
Yes. Yes we will.
An optional https://m.news.ycombinator.com/ with bigger font, and bigger vote buttons with better separation between them, would allow them to test how many users want a different UI.
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Or, in short, you want everything to run in an emacs interface. The world has moved on. We have mice now. Sorry. Google implemented keyboard navigation in their search results and apparently the uptake has not been great.

CPUs are there to be "wasted". You pay for that clock frequency to use it and make your life better. Most people don't want to do everything in a terminal. It's depressing.
I often have mental flights of fancy when I wonder what the world would have been like if end-to-end had been preserved and IPv4 NAT hadn't arisen to put a stranglehold on protocol development. Twitter, Facebook, eBay, et. al. should be protocols, not freestanding businesses.

It's much harder to "monetize" a protocol. That's a feature, not a bug.
What warrant us that Faqt.co is still alive next week? Nothing. Every service on the Internet can be shut down. Google services are as long online as Google profit from them.
There are very few pieces of information really worthy of deliberate broadcasts across star-systems in the hopes of someone catching it. One of these few might be a full dump of neural vector-states (or functional equivalent thereof), at an appropriately low-level assembly, which when successfully executed, brings not a message, but the messenger itself.
There's an expression that goes "to know is to be able to explain". Einstein had a saying to that effect, as did Feynman and ... Aristotle :)
GUI's embody micromanagement as a virtue. GUI's in general should be a last resort. Computers are supposed to do our work automatically. Barring that, by delegation. Making rounded corners and gradients is easier than making something useful. that's why it gets so much attention.

NoGUI.
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People can make an atomic microscope at home. What makes people think that limiting "hacking tools", or basically knowledge about how hackers will attack us, will help?

Is linux a hacking tool? Wireshark? Where is the line drawn and how is it defined. This is something else.
What we will have is a lot more experience with protocols as are required to detect such signals. Not difficult to imagine circumstances in which such capability could be highly significant or even critical for mankind or the Earth's future.
> As dangerous as taxi drivers were, I've found these (as a pedestrian) to be much worse.

Yes. When being a pedestrian, you just know that taxi drivers will not be polite, and you just let the taxi drivers pass before you cross the street, just to not end up in a life-threatening situation. However, with Uber, you can't tell whether it is a taxi cab, so the situation is a lot more dangerous.
We also have a government which is steadfast in its efforts to ignore the idea that we can't just stick ourselves to Chinese exports forever.
Methinks thou doth protest too much.

This is wrong. It should be: thou dost protest too much. Just saying.
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I just realized that the comment section of hackernews uses ~80% of the window width, with hardly any padding for top level comments.
Physicist?
The fact that the watch needs to be paired to a phone makes it a non-starter when evaluating fitness trackers.
An upheaval in the way we see our role in the universe? Re-invogorate the race to space? I think there's plenty of things that follow "then what?".
Why rewrite all the operating system utils when you can just refine the existing ones and improve the OS exploitation prevention mechanisms?
If you rewrite you'll add bugs and you need a lot of competent developers to rewrite everything (which is the same reason OpenBSD doesn't provide official binary updates for base packages IMHO).
Plus, you can't benefit from upstream improvements since you rewrote everything.
This tool exec's, and its return status reflects whether the command could be launched. Sudo waits and returns the exit code of the process. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the blog post, it's probably the most important difference.
I read that Telegram used a custom crypto protocol instead of standard ones, which was a cause for concern [1]. Open-sourcing their server code would certainly make it easier for researchers to fully analyze what's happening, as well as enabling others to replace the custom ones with standard protocols.

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegra...
I'd venture a guess that most of those entrepreneurs aren't taking large risks or going far from the beaten path with their business model. Instead they're setting out to make a living by running a successful HVAC business or restaurant.

Another thing I've observed as a (soon to be former, thank f##king god) MA resident and which has not contradicted what I've observed in VT, NH ME as well as other parts of the Boston/NYC/DC urban+suburban area is that the blue collar business owners (and to a much lesser extent, their employees) directly benefit from serving a wealthy area. Wealthy people hire landscapers, plumbers and mechanics much more readily than less wealthy. The owners of businesses that serve them milk it for every penny of profit (and rightly so).

Don't believe me? Look at the trucks they drive and equipment they use. If it's all on it's last legs then times are tough. With all the people with the money to pay professionals for services times are anything but tough in most of MA

Anyway, my point is that if one plays their cards right, they can do very well (comparable to white collar professionals outside of tech/engineering/financial) by owning a small business. Desire to be an entrepreneur has nothing to do with it, for someone who isn't wealthy in a wealthy area more possible situations where the risk/reward makes owning/starting a business a great strategic decision.
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Sales is not a good example as pay is so variable I once helped some one sort out a disagreement over a 15% cut to bonus

That 15% cut was a lot more than the uk's median wage :-)
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This also had a pretty big impact on South and to a lesser extent North America. All the guys who had finally driven the Moors out of Spain only knew how to fight so went off to Mexico with Hernán Cortés to carry on doing more of the same.
Do you not think that actually knowing, really knowing, is a worthy cause in and of itself? To have proof that we are not alone? Even if we can't get there I think that certainty would be a very nice thing to have.
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I run 60km+ per week, I use wearables to track performance and do accurate heart rate training. I compete with my friends for distances, speeds, segments, Nike fuel any other metric we think is fun.

I don't lack will power (when my wearables run out of battery I still run).

So your comment sounds way off base to me. Just to give you a perspective you may not have seen.
> The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full
of doubts.

-- Bertrand Russell
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I know America is supposed to lead the way but Europe is larger and richer and has a space budget one third of NASA.
"QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" is absolutely brilliant. Made my feel like I actually understood the subject.
Well so ? That how competition works. If the taxi are getting better than Uber, not using because they used to be crap is the same position than people not using Uber because they are not the good old taxi.
I've been running the Aquaris E5 for the past few weeks and while it has a few bugs, I am amazed at how much smartphone functionality Canonical has put into this clean and easy new interface. Everything I expect on the "device infrastructure" is there (although obviously, apps are sorely missing). Still I'm finding it does 90% of what I need via the web apps (have owned multiple iphones and high-end androids) and it refreshingly clutter free. I can't stress the last point enough. Android feels to me like an oversatured mess of a kids playground with all its silly colours (even worse on OLED screens) while the iphone, though cleaner, is also suffering from feature creep. My E5 feels like a crisp blank sheet, like that refreshing feeling when you have a clean install of your operating system. By the way, SSH terminal into my work computer, no problem, including ANSI support. Tmux, Vim, all perfect. It's no less powerful than the full blown terminal in desktop Ubuntu (though obviously the screen is smaller).

Canonical, all is forgiven for the past few versions of Ubuntu which haven't moved forward. It's clear that you've been putting huge resource into Unity and I hope it has a huge future.
Can the lang=ru query string be removed from this link? I clicked it and now the 'lang' cookie is set to ru which might cause issues for other people.
Skype becomes a problem for the US government. eBay buys Skype for the US government. eBay sells Skype. PayPal becomes a problem for the US government. eBay buys PayPal for the US government. eBay sells PayPal.
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That form would be quite the mood-killer.
I could see Amazon throwing its hat in the ring for eBay- it would make sense considering their business model and I think a lot of eBay shops would be happy to let Amazon handle the packing and shipping portion of selling.
Do you have any tips for someone who will be interviewing for jobs in the near future?

Not specifically Netflix but anywhere.
>>> In turn, and somewhat unsurprisingly, TfL appear to be excusing themselves from blame.

Well what did you expect? Due to the nature of Apple Pay, it is literally impossible for TFL to match the fares. They also warn against it. On their dedicated Apple Pay page. What more do you want?

There's nothing to apologise for.
Google hijacking the keyboard to only be able to navigate through their search results instead of letting the user scroll the page with keyboard as usual is indeed pretty annoying imho..
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Related reading: predictions about the feasibility of heavier-than-air planes and metal/concrete boats, feasibility of space travel, market size for wireless communication and personal computing etc.

> 2015: We’ll get AI, and it will almost certainly be through something very much like recurrent neural networks.

> ~1700: We'll get aircrafts, and it will almost certainly be through something very much like birds flapping feathered wings.
If a NDA or any contract clashes with the law its null and void - you cant sell you self into slavery or sign away statutory rights for example.
We need to build a huge space ship with a fusion engine and send it to the nearest star. But that sort of doesn't make any sense because we have lots of our own solar system to explore.
There's no such thing as a legal open relationship.

Maybe there should be. I think the world would be a happier place if people who aren't naturally monogamous didn't have to pretend to be - to themselves, or to anyone else.

The space in that place is a natural sticky area for sociopaths who enjoy lying and hurting people. Making "poly" an explicit orientation would make that space smaller and save everyone a lot of confusion.

But marriage is as much about property, taxes, and inheritance as it is about sex. That's the real reason it's a binary in/out yes/no state. And it's difficult to make those elements work when there are multiple people involved.

That aside - yes, it definitely is weird that starting wars and torturing people gets by with a nod and a wink, but infidelity brings out the howler monkeys. I think the reason is because virtue in America is defined by heroic force projection, greedy accumulation of resources, and dominance over enemies and the weak.

If you look like you're doing that, it's all fine. Having sex with people you aren't married to doesn't fit into that, so it gets big downvotes for weak self-indulgence, and - most of all - for leaving you vulnerable to a counterattack on your status and reputation.
As a Massachusetts resident with solar panels I can tell you that this is a useful service. In this state you do not get paid for the over production and instead it just accumulates in your account. I currently have a $500 credit with the electric company and no good way to cash out.

There is a mechanism in place to give someone else your extra credit but then you need to figure out how to charge them by looking at your bill every month. There is also a requirement that the person you transfer to must be in the same "ISO-NE load zone" and I haven't figure out what that means yet. It probably means that my neighbors are ok, but my co-workers might not be an option.

I don't know know how they set their rates, but I would be happy to sell people electricity at 75% of what they pay the power company since I am not doing anything with my extra as it is.

To answer the power or money question: This is just a money transfer. It is similar to the way anyone can purchase renewable energy for a 10% premium. They don't send you different electrons, it just gets paid differently.
Thanks for that captain obvious
Obama got a Nobel Price despite Guatanamo and Drone Murders, so i think the price's value isn't that high anymore.
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Yeah it was pretty nice. The SPIN OS team wrote a whole OS in Modula-3 that supported safe, dynamic linking of code into the kernel for performance boosts. A recent discussion here showed that the Go language was partly an attempt to re-create one of its author's experience coding in Oberon. The combination of systems programming, safety, and productivity disappeared when he switched to C.

Far as JS, that would help but it's a good example of why it won't. There were many attempts, like Juice [1], to replace JavaScript in the browsers with something better. There were also attempts to solve the problems at OS-level that Web solved. All of them ignored it to the point that we eventually got stuck with JavaScript & browsers being only thing that's on all devices with presentation & computation layer. So, while still ignoring better options, they continued to improve the speed of JavaScript engines and their new JIT schemes.

So, the OS's could certainly benefit from the kind of activity that led to JavaScript JIT performance. However, their existence says more in the other direction.

[1] http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt69.htm