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LibreOffice is ugly, but a fair amount of the ugliness comes from the effort to shoehorn more and more features into the same style of UI design that inspired Microsoft to develop the Ribbon UI to begin with. Yes, I suppose it's possible that LibreOffice could come up with their own, more modern UI. But I doubt it. UI design has never been a strength of theirs, and the Ribbon UI comes from an incredible amount of research at Microsoft that costs rather a lot of money to do. So the question of which style of Office UI to use is eternally a question - people who hate the Ribbon will insist on holding out, but it makes LibreOffice look more and more dated the longer they do.
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Ask HN: How can I come out from analysis paralysis?
Recently, I am facing the problem of analysis-paralysis. I could not take the sticky decision to do anything. Interms of learning any technology like Whether to learn android or Golang or Machine learning. I want to learn these things well. But I am not able to be stick continuously. Switching over from one technology to another technology happens frequently.

How can i come out of this issue? Any suggestions or feedback?
Paper and pencil aren't a perfect solution either. This page shows a few examples of where things have gone wrong.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2008/12/timewasters_the_bal...

In the case of the Florida Presidential vote, they ran into the problem of "hanging chads" where parts of the page that were intended to be fully punched-out so a machine could detect the vote were still attached to the page, leading to further scrutiny over deciphering the true intent of the voter's ballot.
> I was referring to sub c speeds and what happens by using real confirmed physics.

That much so much more sense. In addition to the velocity there would also be time spent completely outside of a gravity well. However, the article is really talking about warp.

> Make it go 10^10c and the problem is solved.

Too much energy. From what I understand it's exponential - i.e. more energy would be used getting to Alpha Centauri at 10^10c than at 20c. We don't know exactly how to get to 1c in the first place, but we do know that if we could then e.g. 100c would likely be something that would be out of reach.

Keep in mind that before White optimized the Alcubierre metric, getting to Pluto (AFAIR) with a warp drive would have required the mass of Jupiter. Getting to Alpha Centauri would have required the mass of the observable universe (which is now down to something with "the mass of Voyager 1"). That's the amount of energy we are talking about even at a pitiful 20c.
I do not think many, if any, ATMs in my country accept cards with only the magnetic strip anymore. It was over 10 years ago my ATM card was replaced by debit card when the banks phased out ATM cards.

And anonymity of votes has more aspects than just protecting against the guy by the machine. You also need to protect against to guy issuing the numbers (which you don't for ATMs, it is ok if the bank knows how much money you withdrew :)) and also the anonymity should make it hard to sell votes which disqualifies some cryptographic solutions suggested by other commentors (those where you get a cryptographic receipt which can use to look up afterwards to see what you voted).

And some voting machines work exactlty like you describe, and they are not regarded as secure.
Creating and Taking Ownership of Your Personal Brand
That 25% difference is for a single serving of food and only translates into a ~2.5% error in your daily food total. People eat a varied enough diet that a 25% difference in a single food item really won't make a huge difference.

Lets take a man who needs ~2500kCal per day to maintain his current weight. A nice steady loss of 1lb per week would require this guy to eat at roughly a 500kCal/day deficit (a total deficit of 3500kCal translates to a fat loss of 1 lb). Even underestimating his total caloric intake by 10% (he eats 2200kCal instead of 2000kCal) every single day will still see him losing weight at .6lb per week.

After 4 weeks of this he can see that he's only lost 2.4 lbs and can therefore reduce his intake by another 200kCal/day to achieve the desired 1lb/week loss. Tracking your weight/calories like this makes it fairly trivial to lose weight. It really doesn't matter if all the individual food items have perfectly assessed caloric content...as I say, they're close enough.
When you are the “Uke” you are taught not to give feedback to your partner.

This is wrong. Both sides constantly learn from each other. Even the true Shihan learn from their senior students. Don't get me wrong the students are never like "hey sensei you should try this" but they do adjust and refine their skills just like everyone else (if you watch the right videos you can see it if you know what to look for).

The biggest problem I have with the article is this, he states, "he knows his employee will fail." That's not the Aikido way really. His approach should be something more like "I will let him try, so that we may both learn from this experience." Even the masters admit they don't know everything and that they can be surprised by the most novice of people at times. This is demonstrated through many of the samurai's approach to fighting (they avoid it when possible, because they know they might lose).

In my opinion this is a much better approach to management also. I know how to accomplish things, but I may not know the best way (or even the right way at times), and I won't know any more until I learn from someone else, even someone junior to me.
Another take is that people went from being largely self-sufficient (a few animals, some vegetables), to being largely dependent on the factory owners.

Never mind that it may well be that early factory products were of poorer quality, and potentially harder to repair, than the stuff made rurally.

After all, when you make something for your own use, you put effort into it in the hopes you don't have to do it again any time soon.
30% less fuel means smaller, lighter rockets. Compound cost savings over all.
Didn't most people switch to LibreOffice anyway?

I mean that's only a loss of 4 authors for LibreOffice.
Another reason is if you have some buddies who are ATM manufacturers who you want to give some lucurative government contracts.
Seems great!

I'm a Jekyll user myself, but I can see this as a viable (and simpler) alternative.
And his work email is cloude@google.com? That is quirky
Developing FE Microservices with Polymer and TDD (Part 3/5):The Second Component
Blab.im invites community to an open meeting with Michael Birch this morning
That's on of the biggest upsides of Airport lounges.
They are usually not noisy and actually have seats that people can sit on for a prolonged period of time.

For Americans, just having a credit card with a "priority pass select" membership (Citi Prestige, Amex Platinum) will make stays at larger airports a LOT more pleasant.
First project to add the missing "Outline View" functionality gets my eternal loyalty :)
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org//show_bug.cgi?id=38093

This RFE is a healthy young teenager now and I fully expect it to outlive me. Happily I don't have so much of a need for word processing these days.
Boundary acquired by BMC?
Is this really America you are talking about? O.o
> It is rarely necessary to wait 24 hours before filing a missing person report; in instances where there is evidence of violence or of an unusual absence, law enforcement agencies in the United States often stress the importance of beginning an investigation promptly. The UK government website says explicitly in large type "You don't have to wait 24 hours before contacting the police".

Saw this myth repeated on one of those John Walsh type cop shows the other day.
I am surprised the two projects have not merged by now (if not in the sense of a code merge, then at least in terms of people involved).

The OpenOffice/LibreOffice split made sense at the time, IIRC Oracle was being very uncooperative on the matter. But that particular problem has disappeared, and having two projects no longer makes a lot sense.
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket
Cool at 13, Adrift at 23
Amazon treats its employees the way it does because of us
Show HN: ReelSurvey – Acquire customer insights from exiting visitors
No. A truly uniform random distribution indeed has "clumps".
Nice. I think a mention of figwheel / devcards would have been worthwhile:

http://rigsomelight.com/2014/06/03/devcards-taking-interacti...
I disagree, it lowers the barrier of entry for people to document code, clean up documentation, or just review the code and report issues (e.g. security related). Even if LuaJIT doesn't see a lot of random contributors, it makes it easier to review commits and what not.
I think it would be ok if you have a CI system that runs benchmarks. If a PR comes in you let the CI run and tell you if there are any regressions.
The problem discussed in the article is not the number of developers on the project, but the fact that, at least to the author of the open letter, users are still installing Open Office because that is what they always did. The author is asking the ASF to redirect requests for OpenOffice to the LibreOffice site so that users can use software that is being actively developed.
The spec defines the execution of tasks vs microtasks tightly, the bit that's less clear is how ECMAScript promise jobs interact with microtasks - the consensus is they're in the same queue, but it isn't explicit.

I agree that we should have an API to queue microtasks, although as soon as promises use microtasks, Promise.resolve().then(func) becomes that API. Some promise polyfills also use mutation events to queue microtasks.
Is it me or are there tools for Ludum Dare popping up everywhere? :D

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/
I am one of those people, because I see the examples and the text box but nothing appears to occur when I use it or try any of the examples.

Tried Chrome and FF (and disabling extensions), so I thought I was just doing it wrong.

However, I did a little more digging because of the discussions, and I think the button that I am supposed to click is hidden http://i.imgur.com/kI8TrfE.png

I dont know how this is happening across both browsers though, but I thought I would leave this here if anyone else is confused as I was.

Update:
After trying a few things, stretching the screen width made the button pop up.
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3% to 30% is a 10x savings, because it's a ratio.

E.g., if it takes $1,000 of fuel to get a unit mass into orbit, then a 3% ratio means $33K, and a 30% ratio means $3K.

I am always skeptical of "massive upfront investment but lower per-unit costs," especially for space-launch. It's the way most of us learn about space, because sci-fi novelists talking about space have to explain what finally got man into space, and a massive infrastructure seems such a nice logical explanation. But Musk has shown that Plain Old Boring Rockets can be done much more efficiently than traditionally done. And that doesn't make a good sci-fi backstory.
Open HUB is dead – or worse, it's a zombie
Of course, technically advantaged people find it easy to get started on with their own WordPress or PHP platform, but the beauty behind blot is that it's a no brainer for anyone who knows how to use Dropbox (which is more than know how to setup a hosting account)
Wow, that's a remarkably similar story to mine. Except I wound up with FreeBSD because of, well, Linus.

I had a very similar journey. For me, I got hooked on computers when my mom (a programmer at a defense contractor) would take me in to work when she didn't have a sitter. I got to hang out in the computer room and play adventure on the minicomputers they had in the late 70s. I had the typical Apple II experience many of us had in the early 80s. I learned to type by typing in those games from Byte (and how to debug by finding my typos), eventually writing my own games and learning 6502 assembly.

Flash forward to university and my first Unix account on an always-melting-down sparc server. There were dozens of DEC VT220 terminals in our public lab at UB in 1989, but only a few Xterminals which were highly coveted. My friends and I jumped at the chance to use them. Most of us eventually got on-campus jobs or internships with the goal of getting unfettered access to Sun or DECstation workstations. I STILL use some of the same keyboard shortcuts from my 1990 .twmrc, and my .cshrc, .Xdefaults and .emacs files have all just evolved from then (and yes, I still use tcsh).

The first time I installed Linux was from a stack of 3.5" floppies sometime in 1993 when I was a grad student at a different school. I was a huge Linux fan.

A year later, I met Linus at the '94 Linux BOF at the USENIX in Boston. At the time, I was trying to convince our dept to buy PCs rather than Suns or DECs to replace some wheezing grad student workstations. However, I ran into a problem where we used LaTeX, and it kept its fonts on a central NFS server (these were the days when disk space was precious, there were no package managers, and everything was installed by hand --- so installing stuff to NFS was very common). The 12MHz Mips R2000 DECstation 2100s we had (our slowest machines) would render a page of text in a second or two using xdvi. However, a test Linux machine (which was a blazingly fast 66MHz 486) would take 10x as long. I eventually figured out that this was because Linux NFS did not do any file caching at the time, and xdvi was seeking around byte by byte in the font files.

I was very excited to meet Linus, and was really looking forward to the USENIX BOF. So when I asked Linus about NFS file caching, he blew me off in what I now know is a typical Linus like fashion, and said he didn't care about NFS. So I went to the very friendly and welcoming FreeBSD BOF, found out that NFS works, and never looked back.
Personally, I would be wary of any IDE that attempted to interpret what my code is doing for me. Each person probably has a different mental image or interpretation of how their code works, and enforcing a singular interpretation of code via IDE might only enable people to 'learn' how to program within that environment. Teach a man to fish.
You have the right to not sleep with someone who does not share your life goals / abortion views. I'm pretty sure you have that right even in France.
But it's a 30 day cookie and many here have Amazon prime, so we'll call it $100.

Last time I checked an Amazon cookie lasts about 24 hours. Also, honestly what is your problem with his Amazon affiliate ? It is not like you are forced to buy a monitor if you follow his link. I'm more interested in what he has to say than in actually buying a display now.
I'm not so concerned about the individual unfairness the article hilights, as "what if everybody did". These algorithms are designed to automatically pull correlations out of large data sets, so if the designers aren't incompetent then given about the same data -- which seems a reasonable assumption -- they'll all find about the same correlations.

Which is a problem whether or not it also correlates to a protected class. You still end up with a group being excluded from society, even if it's a relatively new group that hasn't needed explicit legal protection before.

This applies even if the criteria do only include actually causally relevant things, as long as all the algorithms are more-or-less in step; you still get people being systematically excluded.

Some amount of fuzziness in decision making is useful to society, even if it doesn't benefit any of the individual decision makers.

Plus there's also the monoculture / local maximum issue.

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(Also, I find it a bit curious that the subject line in my RSS feed, the page title, and the article headline are all different.)
I think that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram. It doesn't have the diagrams I remember, though.
I would not say that LibreOffice/OpenOffice is ugly. It is not very pretty, but I think that is okay - I use it to get work done.

I can live with ribbon interfaces, but I still think they were a bad idea, made all the more annoying by everyone and their grandma jumping on that particular train. But, for better or worse, it is a little late for this discussion.
Why have I heard this before...

"I have a great idea for this app, I just need a programmer to help me build it. No, I can't pay you, but I can give you 15% of the company!"
Windows 10 won't run games with SafeDisc or Securom DRM
Awesome Internet is coming, London
Good point - here in Scotland there were the Clearances in the 18th and 19th centuries forcing peoples off lands - either to the cities or to emigrate or to simply starve:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances

There is a lot of very murky history to land ownership in Scotland - one of the reasons I'm so pleased with the "right to roam" that we have now as well as Scottish Government policies favouring community land ownership.
It was successful because they were able to detect if someone voted CDA (ChristenDemocratisch Appèl) because the "è" sent out a different radio wave that was detectable from a distance and broke voting secrecy. The main point, that electronics are orders of magnitude harder to secure because they are inherently more complex and less transparent than simple solutions like ballot boxes and voting on paper, is still not well understood in society and even not in the hacker community as you can read in most of the comments here.
Google Hangouts Gets Its Own Site, Just Like Facebook Messenger
I actually just spent the night (~4 hours) passed out in both the first, egg-kinda-sorta chair, and the bench-type they rated the highest during a really long layover before going to Seoul. My advice? Avoid having to sleep anywhere in SFO if you can. At least you won't be the only one doing it, though.
That will happen for automation and manufactured goods, but not for assets and anything else leveraged. If anything the in-deflation we are seeing today will be amplified as central banks will be forced to keep money cheap to avoid total deflationary collapse. Picture a $5 million starter home that costs <$1000 to completely furnish.

This is what a post-scarcity society in denial looks like.

The reason cities like SF and NYC and London already look like this is because they are the vanguard of the future. If present trends continue a house in rural Kentucky will be as unaffordable relative to average wages as one in SOMA. All that cheap money has to go somewhere, so if labor is deflating it must go into assets.

In-deflation is "deflation of labor and the products of labor, and inflation in assets, consumable resources, and essential services like health care and education." It's been the condition in the USA and to some extent Europe since 2008. It's today's equivalent of stagflation in the 70s, something else economists did not think (at the time) was possible and did not understand. Some are starting to get it, which is why you see some starting to talk about inflation in areas like housing separate from inflation in the rest of the economy. In-deflation is not visible in traditional aggregate inflation indices because deflating manufactured goods and labor are grouped with inflating assets and essential goods/services and the two cancel.
This patent will absolutely not stop anyone from making a space elevator, given that is going to take more than 20 years from now to build one.
So you either didn't read the article or you are choosing to ignore the alternative proposed which I've felt is the better way to do this for some time. Each subscriber's $10 -> $7 (After streaming service fees) is divvied up between the artists they listen to in a given month. I fail to see how this causes any issues at all and does not result in having to buy albums one by one and gives you access to a huge music library for a minimal fee.
No Brainer
A great sentiment I can agree with, but what exactly are young folks supposed to do?

- Protest? Recent events have shown the media will simply turn face and demonize us as pariahs.

- Activism? When faced with the backlash from "I have nothing to hide....you must have something to hide," most people don't know how to respond to this logical fallacy[0]

- Spreading Awareness? Now this is something I can get behind. But tell me how one goes "greyhat" and explains himself to authorities. AFAIK, even POTUS is given sec disclosures and does nothing on them.

Finally you have to consider the sheer amount of young folks, men and women, who are now earning their livelihoods from this same issue. I scoff at it as a developer, but I can't harp on the vast numbers of unemployed seeking ad revenue on their blogs (which goes hand and hand with massive corporate surveillance) as a way to make money and support themselves.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
I would think about this all the time when I got a shuffle in high school. After listening to it for a while, I could really predict the next track that would come on even in shuffle mode.
28Stone and OpenFin Announce Partnership
Currently EasyMorph supports integration through command line only. We do not plan having API for the desktop client, but we will definitely make EasyMorph Server API if we reach that point.
http://www.Yesware.com. I believe the free version only gives you so many though.
Not in Sweden. Here it involves paper, pencils and manual counting. Nothing which could not have been done in the 1880s and we still get a preliminary result a few hours after the elections close.
Blind Proxy Cache [pdf]
I'm not sure how you've interpreted the phrase "almost indefinite" as meaning "incredibly short lifespan" but it undoubtedly means they have a long but unknown lifespan.
I would take that to mean: a duration so long that for all practical applications and uses it might as well be indefinite.

But yes, it's either definite or it's indefinite, there's truly no "almost."
Some of the ugliness came from implementation decisions that LibreOffice have been busy fixing.

For example the dialogues used to have to be laid out in such a way that all languages strings would fit in the space that was left. Which left them a bit sparse and odd looking. I think that conversion is all done now:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/WidgetLayout
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For a related discussion see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10076919
You have a computer right in front of you, why not use it to figure out what your code is doing rather than do the mental gymnastics in your head! This reminds of a story, I think it was dijkstra or maybe Knuth, who was lamenting that their students were being too sloppy because they got to program on interactive terminals and not the punch cards of yesterday. Programming without an IDE is the same...it's using punchcards when something much better is available.
> Too much energy.

Right, you would need those rare, stable, dilithium crystals.