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>I agree it's purely a business decision, but I suspect it's a genuine attempt to redefine the magazine

What's genuine and non-genuine in those kind of business decisions though?

It's not like the CEO (or worse MBA team) running the show is actually "passionate" about redefining Playboy, making its mark on the publishing industry, etc.

I see more as "let's throw this idea to the wall to see if it sticks and makes money" attempt, more than anything "genuine".
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Oh, they definitely do it the other way around extensively.
The young people of today are different. They are on the cusp of potentially something wonderful and strange for the human race. Older people don't recognize it. The values are different. Maybe the idea of 'work' will change to suit them.
Yes a good dose of self-loathing in order to get a job seems like a very healthy thing to do. It's called 'drinking the koolaid' because it's suicidal.

Companies would be in a better situation if they realized that they were just a paycheck to their employees and not a damn lifestyle. That would cut into profits though, they'd have to give raises and improve compensation to keep people.

Companies aren't looking for decent employees, they want cheerleaders and morons that are blindly working for shit compensation 'because it's an awesome place' instead of employees that think for themselves and want to be compensated properly.
The report says it was a Buk missile -- a Russian surface-to-air missile -- that was used, launched from a village in Russian rebel controlled territory.

From which "evidence points to pro-Russian rebels as being responsible" is hardly an unreasonable extrapolation. It's a very reasonable extrapolation, in fact.

So I still don't see where the "outrageous lie" was.
I'm doubtful of that consensus. Is it a real measured thing, or just 'common knowledge' which adds up to urban legend.

I'd understood that the best predictor of success at a job is Conscientiousness. More than test scores, economic class, fancy schools.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10379749
Since "streamlined roadmap" is singular, it must be prefaced with an "a".

The correct phrase would be "to produce a streamlined roadmap." (if it were plural, you could instead use "to produce streamlined roadmaps.)

I'm normally not a Grammar Nazi, but when you're talking about drafting a short SEC filing that will be read by hundreds of thousands, declaring the fate of 8% of your workforce... I think the least you can do is make it look like you put some effort into it. Of course, my initial post has been downvoted to hell, but such is life. I probably should have actually included this explanation and disclaimer in my OP rather than expecting it to be self-evident.
Docker isn't a container -- it's a packaging solution for containers. Capsule is another packaging solution that can be launched in the same kind of container. Also, the JVM isn't a platform; it's the biggest platform by a very wide margin for server-side applications.

So the containers are still general, and you use them for all platforms and they all interoperate. I just see no sense in requiring an extra, inconvenient packaging step for a platform that already packages applications well.
>Why not put responsibility with the group that fired the missile? This is victim blaming.

the rebels were constantly attacked from the air. They were shooting back using what was available to them - MANPADs and once they captured it in June - BUKs. It is obvious from their celebratory tweets first half-an-hour after shooting down the MH-17 that they were thinking it was one more military transport plane of Ukraine.

Ukraine was using air forces for ground attacks. Obviously they should have closed the airspace, especially after their BUK systems were captured by rebels. That Ukraine was using air forces and that their planes were being shot down by SAMs more powerful than MANPADS was well known as well as it was reported in international news sources too (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28299334). So airlines shouldn't have been flying there even without Ukraine failing to close the airspace.
I really hope so.
That's exactly one of the examples I was thinking of! Thanks!
That is not at all what he's saying, as he explains in the second paragraph...

>>The shootings that disturb us so -- school shootings and the like -- do not disturb because there are four or more people killed, but because those people had nothing to do with anything.

Which I actually agree with. People have always (and probably always will) kill each other for particular reasons: money, personal hatred, revenge, whatever. But a targeted killing of a particular person or people is far different than indiscriminately killing whatever random people happen to be in some random place at a random time. The former is something you might see coming and perhaps avoid. The latter is unpredictable, unavoidable and therefore more frightening.
Another of my favs:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Jeri%20Ellsworth&sort=byPopula...
Again it's only a single incident, you've claimed that the BBC is completely unbiased which is impossible and it's not being used to drive political agenda's which is untrue.

It's also highly unlikely that a 20,000 page report revolves over a single journalist and again it's the the issue here is that the BBC squashed a government report about it's journalism bias first initially and then appealed an order from the information commissioner 3 times.
So sorry when a news agency spends 350,000 GBP of tax money to squash a report about how it reports on critical issues you can't but wonder what was in it.
> looking at world economic productivity numbers and our industrial & technology base

If we're looking at this globally, I'd bet the overall resources and opportunities available to the average person is up from 50-100 years ago. The developed/1st world is feeling some pullback from the rush of globalization, but it's benefiting the rest of the world.
> So ultimately, I find that many in the older generation are simply trying to make ends meet in an environment of scarcity that is new for the US, with the youth subsequently becoming disillusioned because the system seems to be set up against them.

Hey, welcome to the adult world! Do you think, if you asked the older generation to describe one another in confidence that they might say the same?
Not at WiGig speeds. You might as well put a single-antenna 802.11n transmitter in there, no point in 60 GHz.
I'm the maintainer of this site -- happy to answer questions.

I made it primarily because hacker news and Reddit don't have regular enough news updates on the robotics industry for what I wanted :)

I used telescope app, an open source project to get it up and running.
Oh my, I can so identify with this.

I used to do product reviews for a magazine, and Rose was the only review software I decided not to keep. And I'd have felt bad giving it to anyone else.

From that time on, any mention of Rose in a job description automatically disqualified it.
No, that would be unenforceable. If your implementation doesn't honor the DRM, they won't provide you with the encryption keys in the first place.
Would this stop me from screenshotting the image, saving it as a .png, and distributing that?

Because I and many people would do just that. Sure, the DRM might work for my grandparents and a few other non-techies but over time I can teach my grandparents how to screenshot an image and others would catch on. People would even make chrome apps to "click a picture and resave it in a shareable format".

I'm not sure what this DRM would solve, if anything, other than pissing off users and giving photographers and other digital-sharing artists a false sense of security.
Sure, if you want to call me on it. The hyperbole about 1% half-assed yada yada is classic dismissive language.
Another idea: how are people today that do so-called 'work' contributing to the human race anyway? In my occupation I call 'work' my contribution is minimal. I help build software to make corporations more money. Almost a negative on the human race. My saving grace is that I make music in my spare time. That is my real contribution to the world.
How, if some Future JPEG (FJPEG) is a standard, does one make a standard FJPEG image unreadable to unauthorized FJPEG implementations? Either the standard itself has to be kept secret or the FJPEG implementation has to contain some secret, right?

If the standard is kept secret, by maybe charging a tidy sum for it, and getting all buyers to sign an NDA in blood, we'll all have fewer implementations of FJPEG viewers. There would probably be no "open source" implementations of FJPEG. We would all loose, as the market for FJPEG viewers has barriers to entry, and therefore would serve buyers poorly. That's standard, Free Market economics.

If FJPEG viewers have to contain some secret (an algorithm or a key both come to mind as things that have happened in the past) the same sorts of things happen - barriers to entry to sell in the market, higher costs, fewer options to consumers.

Of course the 3rd option is to legally mandate some kind of overall DRM at the operating system level, which would have much the same effects, except that we'd have a narrow choice of Windows or Mac OS, with maybe a larger choice of FJPEG viewers.

All of these options should be repugnant to Free Market believers such as myself. I predict the Republican Congress will laugh this out the door.
I've been using http://surge.sh for the past year or so and love it. Features include:

* free custom domains
* clean URLs and supports for SPAs
* simple deployment
* collaboration features
Only tangentially related but it seems to me that if you want to work on cool software that does something novel and exciting it seems like it's better to graduate with a degree in math or physics.

Also interesting if you visit her company's website: http://www.htius.com/

It's a view into a software industry that is virtually never reported on in the news, at least not on HN. The client list is impressive. It's not really clear what they actually do? Seems to me like they maintain a developing environment and sell support contracts for it?
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And if not, why not?
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If you don't mind me picking your brain about this, here is what I've been able to find from the DSB report (page 183):

"On 6 June 2014, [..] an Antonov An-30B had been downed using a MANPADS at an altitude of less than 4,500 metres near Slavyansk. On 14 June 2014, [..] a Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin 76MD had been downed during landing at Luhansk [using a MANPADS]. During the weeks that followed, other incidents occurred in which a helicopter (Mil Mi-8TV, 24 June 2014) and fighter aeroplanes were shot down. On 1 July an attempt was made to down a Su-25 UB and on 2 July 2014 a Su-24 was shot at. Both were allegedly targeted by a MANPADS."

Would you say this information is a fairly complete summary, or have there been more (unconfirmed) shootings?

"On 14 July, three days prior to the crash of flight MH17, a Ukrainian Air Force transport aeroplane, an Antonov An-26, was downed in the Luhansk region, [..] was flying at an altitude of 6,500 metres when it was hit [..] according to the Ukrainian authorities the aircraft must have been hit by a ‘more powerful weapon’ than a MANPADS.
The Ukrainian government assumed two possibilities: a modern anti-aircraft system ‘Pantsir’ or an ‘X-24 Air-to-air missile’. The authorities assumed that it was a weapon fired from the Russian Federation, because the armed groups would not have such weapons."

I'm curious about the Ukrainian response here. Did they not consider the possibility that the rebel forces would be able to operate their BUK, or was it willfully ignored?
We do have it easier with more resources. I'm gen X, and I wouldn't trade my upbringing for the previous generation. And gen Y had it better than I. We have FAR more entertainment; more control over personal transport; better materials for everything from clothes to construction; better occupational health and safety; FAR better civil rights; better levels of healthcare; better public understanding of health; the jobs that are available are better (more office jobs, less factory work); better access to shopping times (24-hour retail is a recent thing); FAR better communications options and quality (we have the internet!); better transport for dissemination of products, including international; better travel options for international travellers... the list goes on and on and on. In the west, we don't even have significant wars anymore - after 10 years in Iraq, the US lost 4k people. 10 years! And people still complain that the toll is way too high.

We absolutely, posititively, utterly have it easier right now than at any previous generation. Yet we've become so entitled that if life isn't perfect, then someone must have had it better previously.
Couldn't we just stop using JPEG? I realize this is a can of worms, but it's an option, right?
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It still annoys me that Apple took setting the default email and web applications out of the system preferences. That's exactly where it should go.
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I'd guess was fairly common in the rural US anywhere that an after-school hunting trip was common. This has probably always been a relatively small but non-zero percentage. I wouldn't be surprised if it still occurs in some communities.

Anecdotally, growing up in Northern Wisconsin in the 1980's, storing guns in lockers would not have acceptable, but this was a non-issue because many students drove themselves to school and would keep their hunting guns in their car rather than bringing them inside. It's possible this it was officially forbidden to have a gun in the car on school property, but in the absence of other circumstances wouldn't have been any cause for concern.
Perhaps not quite the same bandwidth, but Apple had optical networking as their wireless connectivity solution done time before WiFi: http://lowendmac.com/2015/irtalk-irda-and-the-mac/
Less jobs more food. Grow food, at whatever scale available, pots in your room, pots on the balcony/porch, small gardens, side gardens, public spaces, large gardens.
>but they are not really any less disruptive.

Where's the disruption exactly? Everytime I look at the 3D printing scene its a bunch of neckbeards printing Star Wars figures and other useless knick-nacks. What industry has cheap 3D printing attacked? The argument seemed to be "Oh we'll make spare parts and such," but that never happened. It was supposed to make a new market, but seems to have completely fizzled out.
Actually, I read of it being done in Europe by World War II. I don't know how much before that it existed. But I think (without concrete data) that it was much less common before somewhere around 1950.

One thing about the early European replacement lenses is that they were transparent at least some way into the ultraviolet. It turns out that the human retina can see a short distance into the ultraviolet, but the lens blocks it. The replacement lens let the person see further into the ultraviolet than ordinary people. The OSS used these people as guides on commando raids. There would be a parachute drop of supplies, for example, and they'd put a UV beacon on it. The commandos couldn't see the beacon, and neither could the German soldiers. Only the old person with cataracts (and surgery) who was guiding the commandos could see it.
Toppp!
You can always make more jobs. Just tax people that have money and give the money away to other people in exchange for participating in elaborate paper pushing schemes. Bureaucracy has been providing jobs for people as the technology progressed.

For example... No jobs? That's great opportunity to hire some people to help unemployed look for a job plus some people to educate the unemployed plus some people that would decide if unemployed deserves some material aid... you can also hire some people to audit those people and hire some more to build software for those people and for the auditors and so on and so forth.

As long as you can tax, you can invent bullshit jobs to have an excuse to give that money away.
>the world's needs can and will be met by fewer and fewer people

Perhaps, but jobs also exist to fulfill wants, and there's no end to those.
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Thanks for the video, I enjoyed your talk. I have an idea for how federated blockchains can avoid Bitcoin's global variable problem.

Recent http://thenewstack.io/why-art-could-become-currency-in-a-cry...
Older http://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin/
You're the grandpa or grandma in the story of VR.
The disrespectful part is discovering that you've been laid off via a side effect of the layoff, rather than being told by a person.

It's true that layoffs are (even more) difficult and complex in the case of a remote employee, but this doesn't mean that we should see something appalling and simply throw up our hands and say "what were they supposed to do". We solve complex, difficult problems every day -- when the solutions are valuable to us. This is a demonstration that treating their employees with respect is not valuable to Twitter.
> In an email to its staff, Condé Nast’s chief executive, Bob Sauerberg, said the deal “reinforces our commitment to building Condé Nast’s premium digital network, focusing on distinctive editorial voices and engaging high-value millennial audiences.”

Reading this article immediately brings Bill Hicks to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp97SMZc6M
A lot of this kind of work ends up being repetitive-- like multiplying two matrices together that have a few thousand entries each. These are the sorts of things that GPU's do very well with. GPU's have the ability to do such things on a massively parallel scale. GPU's also tend to have more memory bandwidth doing the kinds of things that a CPU would get bogged down on in the memory cache.
I'm interested that the missile effectively missed. Is this the intended method of action, nearby explosion with shrapnel impacts or should the missile have entered the body of the plane in a, militarily speaking, perfect deployment. With such weapons do they choose the point of impact, ie is the cockpit the target, or are the weapons not that "refined".
> so what's stopping new startups to make apps and publish on kickstarter to avoid paying the investors back later?

Absolutely nothing, plenty of niche games are funded through Kickstarter.

> why do these "investors", more like donors, so willing to throw their money at the screen?

Because someone is promising to try to build a thing they want, that no professional investor is willing to fund.
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> My mind was absolutely blown when I first realized that the function of a CPU is pretty much to read tokens from a stream and perform an action for each. - no magic!

The magic is mostly in the pipelining bit :)
FWIW, you can use the little ESP8266 devices for more than just temperature. Any sensor can be connected to these, and then to home-assistant via MQTT. It is a really slick design.
Competition Without Rules Is Destructive
> And when the manager says "deadline is next week", and the new and EXPERIMENTAL and UNSTABLE (gasp) feature is the only way to get it done, you use it.

I fail to see how a manager's failure to understand that you cannot rely on features that are subject to breaking change or removal at any time, without warning is Google's, Microsoft's or Mozilla's problem.

> Now, good luck getting permission to go back and clean up technical debt.

If your site breaks because the experimental feature that your manager forced you to use was radically changed or removed -as per the widely advertised, well-known policy regarding experimental features-, and your manager doesn't give you permission to fix the mess he forced you into, you -as the programmer- have nothing to worry about. This is clearly a failure of management. :)

Will that stop this manager from yelling at you? Probably not. Will this stop you from getting fired? Maybe not. But, seriously: If you get fired because your manager ignored your expert recommendation that his plan would lead to disaster, and -a little while later- his plan leads to disaster, you were working for a very unreasonable boss. It would only be a matter of time until you were fired for some other equally stupid reason.

If -on the other hand- you commit to doing something that you later find out is not possible, and you don't own up to your mistake, whatever fallout comes from the stupid things you do to cover up your mistake is your own damn fault.
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> Yeah, there's always some holdovers commenting from the era of easy jobs and easy money.

Ironically, this complaint always seems to ignore that a ton of jobs in the "easy jobs" era were shitty menial jobs. Factory work in shitty conditions and similar. These are the jobs that have been automated away.

And, strangely, this kind of comment also ignores that women weren't anywhere near as significant a part of the old workforce... and the ones that were had signficantly reduced opportunites available and were legally paid less than men.
The Robustitude of 'Robust'
Well, in the first place, this is a Soviet missile. And the main thing, report doesn't say about a party launched it. Provocative language and factual distortions are good friends for mass hysteria but not for objective investigation definitely.
An interesting point would be that frequency of the AC power line is used for timing, what's more your supplier will generally try to normalize the frequency http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/Industry-information/electri... if if they're alternating too fast they'll slow it down to compensate and give an accurate long-term average.

I wonder if home-solar converters have this feature built in :)
But why? It seems to be a decent format. And what's the other option?
Study Shows HTTP/2 Can Improve Website Performance Between 50-70 Percent
That's a very positive spin on the message. The way I read it is that developers and maintainers are encouraged to make Emacs work better on free than non-free platforms.

This is, sadly, self-defeating. If Emacs were widely recognized as the best editor (or whatever of its myriad functions you use it for), "works best on GNU/Linux" could advance the cause of free software. As it stands, though, "only works well on GNU/Linux" instead just means that fewer people will be using it.
Maybe, but you would have said the same thing when I was skeptical of practical gaming applications of the Kinect. Now, its not even bundled with the Xbox and pretty much dead. Nintendo can't sell motion games anymore either. Four years ago this all would have been unheard of.

Be careful about buying into hype, grandson.
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Oh nice tip, thank you very much. Yes, salt and pepper is a good description and they could definitely do with less of it. I have some reading up to do it seems.
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Raytheon successfully tests new 'mini-missile' that can be fired from rifle
That doesn't follow in the slightest. There's more to "dominating" an industry than being effective at a job (I'd put that fairly low on the list as long as you hit some threshold, actually).
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