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I do enough work at work. Plus I am not very productive on a 13" computer SSHing over flaky highway WiFi while bumping down the highway compared to sitting at a workstation with two 24" monitors, gigabit internet, 12cores, and 64GB RAM.
Bicycles are not a superior option for everyone and therefore scooters are not pointless.
> also it goes pretty far in what it can do from what I've seen

I'm not talking about the features; the license restricts usage by company size.
There's actually some GPOs to turn this stuff off. I'm running Enterprise on my desktop... the problem is that many of them don't work or only disable the UI, but still connect out to random Microsoft servers. How the hell does Microsoft think that's acceptable in an "Enterprise" product?
Ask HN: Why are Google search result URLs so ugly?
I have always heard around here and elsewhere that best practice is to use human-readable URLs, and that with today's tools it's really not necessary to do otherwise.

Yet when I right-click and copy a link from a Google search results page (e.g. to share an article with someone), I get something that looks like below. This despite displaying a (abridged) human-readable URL on the page itself. Why?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QFjAAahUKEwiQ9arirKbHAhUJ_IAKHaxdAhQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhbr.org%2F2008%2F07%2Femployee-motivation-a-powerful-new-model&ei=cLTMVZD9Ion4gwSsu4mgAQ&usg=AFQjCNFvsdgJlMw6Xc6vWMoX6hjTwsHU9w&sig2=RHlWUOJ95bb3wDBW45zABw&bvm=bv.99804247,d.eXY
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I expected the worst - for it to be due to technical issue with the batteries, however it looks like it is mostly related to the Superchargers being congested and not available immediately to everyone in need of charging.
The negotiation angle has long been missing from economic discussions. The classic line is that you get circa what your marginal productivity is, but that's under some rather stringent assumptions. Also it sidesteps how exactly you calculate marginal productivity. There's very little talk about the dynamics of wage settings, ie how do you actually reach a number?

From what I can see, as a guy who's been in a few businesses, the salary amount starts off with just a simple assumption: we'll pay roughly whatever everyone else is paying for a certain job. You then go and find a bunch of likely-sounding candidates and bring them in to interview. (OT: This is a complete mess, because you're not as good at this as you think, even taking into account lordnacho's law.) You will fall in love with one or two of these people, probably not more. You'll then throw out a lowball number on the game theoretical rationale that they'll either ask for more or be happy with it. If there are special circumstances like the guy being a recent grad, we can say a bunch of stuff like "you're learning a lot from us, you need us more than we need you" (yeah, it's a shitty thing to say) and count on other bosses thinking similarly. The candidate can then take it or leave it, or if they have another offer, use that to get a bit more. But it's really a silly dance around a fairly static anchor, silly because people can get pissed off over small amounts of money. I've worked with more than one guy who thought he was a great negotiator because he managed to talk some guy down by a few grand, even though a $700M hedge fund makes that amount in about three hours.

Now why would wages ever change, if this is roughly what happens? I never came across a situation where there wasn't a huge queue of people wanting whatever jobs we put up. In fact, there was no real rationale for setting any particular salary, other than "that's the market". My thinking is that salaries really only go up when companies find zero suitable people for a given job, or when they get a particularly large number of offerees coming back to them saying they took some other job.

And what would create a situation where there were very few candidates for a job?

1) Collective action. Apart from the London Tube, this seems to be out of fashion. It also seems to be hard to organise something like software devs, given they live in very different cost areas scattered around the world.

2) Growth. When things are booming, companies get desperate. They can see the demand, customers are telling them they want product, but they can't get the staff they need to build the product. But since they can see the demand, offering a bit more to grab those staff is a bit easier on the executive mind.
Your's is an excellent point that gets lost in the shuffle.

On the bright side, as long as we keep underfunding police forces, maybe that reduces the surveillance apparatus? </sarcasm>
...and I just watched Kingsman the other day too. I don't need this crap.
Companies already pay a huge amount of taxes. When you see that ge didnt pay taxes, its because of loss rollover.
To my mind, yes: you use revenues to pay for new innovations and sales. It's riskier because you're making your numbers look much worse to future investors in order to grow now, and you're not putting any floor on your valuation, as you would do if you raised money now.

And, of course, when you raise money, employees can often take some money off the table. When you fund growth entirely from revenues, there isn't really a mechanism to let employees do that -- unless you're really rolling in cash and can do a stock buyback or something like that.
Apparently you can't fully disable it so it looks like it's Windows 7 for me for another 5 years or so.
And many western users have a limited amount of data on their plans.
> for "no good reason"

A "National Security Letter" or moral equivalent would count as good reason, I guess.

The recent renaming of Google may the farthest they can and will ever come to openly stating who's calling the shots around US tech sector.
As much as I enjoy using Linux for tinkering, probably I'll wipe my Windows 10 installation and revert to 7.

You know, Linux is not a pretty exciting gaming platform at the moment :p
Human capital is a standard economic term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital#Background

The improved dexterity of a workman may be considered in the same light as a machine or instrument of trade which facilitates and abridges labor
Hmmm all european nations ? (i love capitalism and would love to live in US compared to the retarded socialism we have here).
That's... a really good question. I added instructions in the README: https://github.com/djanowski/hasp#installation

Thank you!
> So manufacturers are never going to abandon the Goog

Amazon, clearly, doesn't exist.
https://twitter.com/ICCP_2015/status/592403545468448768/phot...
No. If dev's don't take into account the real world environment their app will run in, they are doing a lousy job.
I believe they also make money from the market makers. MMs will pay for companies like Robinhood to send the flow of trades their way.
And yet, you can still not use Google Search or Google Play. If you disable Google packages, they will stay disabled (incidentally, I do have the Play Books/Games/Music/Movies apps disabled, so speaking from experience).

You do not have such choice with Windows 10 - it will send out your data without regards to you opting out.
It's not just unlikely, it's completely nonsensical from a legal perspective. If Google's Android division were located in Europe, that would make zero difference for their legal fight against Oracle.

The only way to avoid US law is to not trade in the US at all, otherwise someone should have told Samsung and SAP before they paid hundereds of millions to Apple and Oracle respectively.
And again what does this has to do with Thorium?
On one hand you propose a liquid metal salt reactor which doesn't have to be using thorium, on the other hand you insist on using older designs with slower burn rates which require the use of water as coolants and cannot be coupled with super-critical boilers to run gas-turbines.

No nuclear technology is perfect, no nuclear technology is intrinsically safe even if you have a WAS (Walkaway Safe) reactor design.

The idea of reactors like the BN-800, BN-1200 and other ->/= Gen 4 reactors is to couple efficient electricity production, multiple fuel cycles to reduce waste, a walkaway safe design paradigms to reduce the likelihood and the impact of a run away reaction while building on top of 70 years of experience.

I'm not an expert on the French nuclear industry and considering that the French pretty much proliferated nuclear tech to half the planet i would say their reactor designs is the least of their sins.

But picking up some competing design from the 50's and saying that it's the answer for all of our problems is just criminally naive there are tons of competing designs for 4 Gen reactors and reactors that cannot be even tied to a specific evolutionary generation some of them are safer than the "proposed" Thorium reactor, some of them give better answer to nuclear waste, some of propose to build the reactor as a nuclear waste containment vessel and pretty much have like a roman candle like design that can be then left in the ground after all 3 fuel cycles have been depleted, some offer very high thermal to electrical wattage ratios so saying X is the best is just scientifically wrong.
This is really crudely put together, completely disregards recent findings from news articles proving you cannot completely disable W10 telemetrics, and the author acknowledges he doesn't want to support reversing destructive processes with it.

You shouldn't bother using this.
are there any legal/copyright issues from using TMDB API?
no, this is a real outdoor summer camp with tents and stuff. It only happens every 4 years. The congress is every year.
I don't think those are quite conflicting. It sounds like Assange says he's happy for the Swedes to do it, but the Swedes are saying they can't get permission from Ecuador.

OTOH we have Assange saying "this Swedish official refused both", which could be conflicting, but it's pretty vague.
With globalization and the lifting from abject poverty the greatest numbers and percentages of people, should we continue to see wage growth in areas where people are relatively better off? Should we not expect some normalization, a meeting of levels?

It's a bit selfish to think that the fist world should continue to get richer while the poor remain poor, which is what protectionism would get, alongside stagnation.

Another sidepoint, when people get wealthier the more they spend and the more they contribute to resource depletion. I'm of course in no position to even guess what the optimal average wealth would be but I'm sure having everyone with too much disposable income leads to wastefulness.

On the other hand, let the people at the bottom catch up and let them breathe. That's what we should be pushing for.
I'm surprised no one in the comments so far has used the word "clipping", which is what the real breakthrough here is in. I've been doing street photography somewhat seriously for about five years now, and always shoot full-manual: I rarely have problems with motion blur because I control the shutter speed; I rarely have problems with focus because I use assisted manual; the only thing that gets me with any regularity is highlight or shadow clipping.

I often shoot with a histogram overlay which helps a lot, but there are still high-contrast scenes where I have to decide where I'm going to bias the exposure. I can usually tease out some more detail in Lightroom from the RAW file, but direct sunlight plus shadow, or a quick-draw moment where I fumbled the exposure to make the shot, often leave some clipped areas.

Not having to worry about clipping would be an amazing breakthrough, and I'd even accept some other limitations in a camera that could manage this.
1) "Most" people nowadays just need a web browser. It may not fit your particular situation though.

2) It's a difficult situation for drivers, but for most software you can just package the shared libraries you need (or statically link). This is what most people do on Windows / OS X anyway...

3) This is often a matter of personal preference and experience, but I find Gnome 3 perfectly usable....
At first I thought 'this is so cool' , but then after thinking about it for a while, I realised that it's no cooler than any of the 200 videos or pictures with 'cool stuff' that I see every day.

I think it's a pretty useless expensive gimmick created out of toxic materials to excite the numb neurons of the bored inhabitants of the digital realm for 2 minutes or so.
Then we'll all forget about it and move on to the next thing.
I'm already looking for something else :).
There's no shortage of choice for desktop environments on Linux. If you're looking for a system that's completely user-friendly from the top down, look at Elementary OS. I personally use KDE on Debian, Gnome on Arch, etc. and I haven't had any problems making them usable desktops.
> dotNET's openness does not extend to the actually interesting parts (WPF, WinForms).

Are you kidding me?

https://github.com/dotnet/core

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
This has to be the most pretentious crap I've read in a long time.

My grandmother could use Ubuntu, and wine makes cross platforming with windows stuff (mostly) seamless. Unless all you use is enterprisey crap or play AAA titles from bad companies then chances are with a week of practice you will be right at home with Linux. No one is asking you install slackware with xmonad on your first go.

Even if you do play AAA titles like battlefield 4, Wine and/or a well emulated windows machine will do you wonders.

Windows is objectively worse than both OSX and Linux in more ways that I care to enumerate here. Unless you have a specific reason to be on it, you're missing out on better security and performance.

P.S. No one calls it GNU/Linux except RMS fanboys. Quit your pretentious holier-than-thou mocking.
Only if you ignore the thousands of games on Steam (of which many AAA titles).

But maybe it's just more fun to spread FUD?
It sounds like the core team is contemplating doing LTS releases, which should ease the fears of anyone who worries they'll be left behind if they can't keep up.

source: https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/84#issuecomment-1304511...
So i looked up burqa bans and found this: http://qz.com/326086/the-places-in-the-world-that-have-a-bur... which basically only has 2 European countries banning it nationally, and just a few more who implement local bans or have attempted to ban it. Provided the constitutional religious freedoms we have in the US, it seems very unlikely that a similar ban would pass here. In terms of obscuring your face, there are anti-mask laws, but they really pertain to protests/riots.

I'm not suggesting that the ban is good, or other countries will not follow suit, however it just seems like quite a jump to make - because 6 countries have some form of a ban on a burqa we have to watch out for face recognition. Should we not wear a cross if we're Christian because Syria persecutes Jehovah’s Witnesses?
As far as I've been able to tell, the Federal Circuit's decision sets no precedent. It is only binding on the trial court in this particular case.

Their decisions on patents set precedent, but for copyright they are supposed to follow the precedent of the numbered circuit that the trial court is in, which would be the 9th in this case. Future copyright cases in the 9th will still be appealed to the 9th Circuit, not the Federal Circuit, unless they are also a patent case.

I think there needs to be a change to the way appeals work in cases like this. In federal trial courts, there is a thing called supplemental jurisdiction which allows a court to hear claims that they would normally not have subject matter jurisdiction to hear if they are part of a case with other claims that they do have jurisdiction to hear.

For example, suppose a business deal goes bad, and ends up spawning a lawsuit involving federal copyright claims and state contract claims. Copyright claims must be heard in federal court. Federal courts normally would not have jurisdiction to hear state contract cases, but because of supplemental jurisdiction the federal court will hear the state contract claims too. If the case was just a state contract case, it could not be brought in federal court.

The idea behind supplemental jurisdiction is that in case like my hypothetical business deal gone bad it really is one case that just happened to generate issues that fell under different jurisdictions. If tried separately there would be much overlap in witnesses, documents, and other evidence. It would be an inefficient use of judicial resources and unduly burdensome on the parties and the witnesses.

At the appellate level, the court is examining the trial court's application of the law, not the trial court's determination of the facts. The appeals court works off the transcript and documents from the trial court, and the only people that have to appear physically are the lawyers arguing for the parties.

I think it would make a more sense to let appeals from multi-issue cases to go to multiple appeals courts, each appeals court only getting those issues for which it sets precedent. So in a case like Oracle vs. Google, tried in the 9th Circuit, copyright issue appeals should go to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and patent issue appeals should go to the Federal Circuit. In cases like my hypothetical copyright and state contract case, if tried in the 9th Circuit, appeals on copyright issues should go to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and state contract issues should go to a state appellate court.
While I hardly think you're asking with any sincerity, sharing every keystroke, local system search, application activity, wifi passwords, and so on is over the top. Making that the default, instead of a value-add that you pitch, was profoundly poorly considered.
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Sure, if you have enough settled funds to make 10 substantive trades in a day.

Say you have 10k of settled funds in your account. You can make a total of 10 $1k trades of SPY throughout the day, or 100 $100 trades. Your account is effectively frozen for the next 3 days as the trades "settle" and you are unable to do anything with them. So you would have needed to cash out of your bank 3 days prior to have active funds ready to go for the next day.

AKA Robinhood gets 2-3 days to earn interest on your unsettled/uninvested funds.
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Apple's Products Are Getting Harder to Use
SVR1?

Remembers AT&T's early attempts to "professionalize" Unix.

Screams "The bugs! The bugs! They're all over me! Get them off!"

Huddles sobbing in corner.
Yes, most of us where I work do this. Fusion runs about 3x faster for our system, so using virtualbox would seriously impact development time; most of us use VMware shared folders and SSH into the VM, so it feels pretty seamless. I haven't had any of the problems that others are saying they have.
I wish more papers had a Q&A section.
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I wouldn't question their ethics since Facebook isn't exactly invading your privacy, you're giving away your privacy by using them. This isn't like Lenovo or the NSA spying on you since in those instances there was a reasonable expectation of privacy. Facebook is a platform designed around you sharing as much information as possible, so it should be assumed they're tracking your location to advertise at you.
Your perspective is not very unique, there are a lot of veterans due to high churn. It is my experience that there is very little crossover between the military and police. Of the hundred-something guys in my last company, only two went on to law enforcement. A few years ago I had a nonmilitary friend go through one of the country's top police academies, and his stories aligned with my experiences - there weren't a lot of veterans in his class. The local PD has 120 officers, of that only two are veterans (neither of them were combat arms). I have my theories about why this is, but that is another discussion.

So the whole narrative, where police militarization is due to veteran hires, rings pretty hollow for me. What we are seeing here is the result of an end-justifies-the-means mentality. The military has the same mentality, but this is very deliberately tempered by a focus on honor and duty - something that law enforcement lacks by comparison.
I tried using LibreOffice last year and it was a total joke. Almost nothing worked the way it was supposed to, and it crashed often. When it came time to give my speech and output slides to a projector, that just didn't work at all. My presentation had to be saved by someone letting me use their Mac. It was the worst software experience I have ever had, and I've had a lot of bad software experiences in my 43 years.

It's so bad that I believe it's unethical to offer it for download as working software because people with work to do on short timescales (as I had) may choose to rely on it and then get screwed.
I use it as exercise so I don't really want electric as my main transportation mode. I'd like to try one of that boards, but the price is too high.

When it's hot yes, I'm getting sweaty. You can ride slower, but it's less fun for me.
Would you let the creator of your fridge eat some of your food, if they gave you the fridge for free?
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Probably performance (no routing is faster than some routing) , and a combination of the fact that a) it does just work and b) it's an internal URL (from google to google) so it doesn't really matter
Blocking at the router level could work. I figure if you have multiple PCs on the network, it could also be easier to maintain.
It allows Google to track your click. Look at the parameters after the 'url?' part of the link. Lets break it up, some will make sense to you, some only to Google.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&
rct=j&
q=&
esrc=s&
source=web&
cd=1&
cad=rja&
uact=8&
ved=0CB8QFjAAahUKEwiQ9arirKbHAhUJ_IAKHaxdAhQ&
url=https%3A%2F%2Fhbr.org%2F2008%2F07%2Femployee-motivation-a-powerful-new-model&
ei=cLTMVZD9Ion4gwSsu4mgAQ&
usg=AFQjCNFvsdgJlMw6Xc6vWMoX6hjTwsHU9w&
sig2=RHlWUOJ95bb3wDBW45zABw&
bvm=bv.99804247,d.eXY

This is all done server side so no need for cookies or JavaScript.

See also:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28321041/google-search-ho...
Pay a dev?
Can you also fake/spoof the appropriate signatures/headers? Otherwise separating that data is going to be very easy. Unless you do it on a higher level like emulating input, but then you won't have a very useful machine.
Exactly. I was surprised how well Steam runs on linux. Ubuntu-Gnome is my main desktop now.
I mean, this site is called "Hacker News". Are you suggesting that a Windows desktop makes for a better development environment than a Linux one? Unless you're targeting specifically Microsoft technologies, and using Microsoft tools to do it, that's not really the case. And I don't know what year you think it is, but in 2015 there are several Linux distros that make for very useable desktop OSes. Also, don't be sorry for not calling Android "GNU/Linux". No one calls it that, because it's not GNU/Linux.

At any rate, even if I have to spend extra time making a Linux box useable when compared to protecting myself on Windows from the prying eyes of Microsoft and god knows who else - and even then just hoping I didn't miss something - I consider it time better spent.
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