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Another factor here is lots of pointless meetings, especially ones that rehash status or repeat status when there are no updates, are especially demotivating.

Design meetings, one can live for, if one is interested in how to solve a problem. Killing the design meetings is probably something to be avoided.

The zone exists, to an extent. I sometimes think there are parallels to something like videogame-esque canon that takes a long time to charge up. The best work I'm going to do is going to come at some random hour during the day, and if I'm interrupted, the charge counter is likely to reset. But maybe not.

I'm sort of interrupt driven at times, and I think our culture being very triggered by email, phones, other things, can cause people to wait for interruptions to do things too.

So there's a balance. But yes, pointless meetings are bad things. But it's ugly when there are meetings you have to have, and there's a backlash against the manager calling the meeting, because then "the manager is something different", and I think there's a bit of negative legacy to this article in that vein.

Really, I think the question is to ask, at the end of whatever meetings, how much value did you get out of it, and what actionable conclusions came out of that meeting. If the meeting doesn't produce action items (that hopefully get done before the next meeting of the same kind), it's not a good meeting.

And meetings are really about getting people together that need to talk about something. If it's not that, then don't do it :)

Make sure everybody's time in there is valuable. If you have a meeting where somebody only talks for thirty seconds out of an hour, it's probably not worth that person's time. However, it's also destructive to think a meeting isn't worth someone's time, and use that to "protect" their time.

Everybody should get to be involved in some decision making that wants to be.

Do I find that in technical-manager-mode I can't code very well because I'm too distracted by 1000 different things? Yes, pretty much. And one of the first things I do is try to cut the B.S. management meetings and make sure the ones I'm involved in is important. If you can't cut that, it's frustrating.

But the complexity of having more people means conversations to organize things do have to happen, and to crush them in the spirit of "meetings are bad" can be dangerous too.

I think that's wrong. Again, the important part is to have the right meetings. If you can block them out to happen during major blocks of time just a few days a week - most of the time - I think that's great.
Ah good point, I was referring to the touchscreen more than the touchpad.

Firefox scrolls smoothly on the touchpad, though it definitely has perceptible lag compared to IE.
> HN should decide whether a downvote means ‘I disagree’ or ‘this isn't worth reading'

I can't speak for the community at large, but PG has condoned downvotes as a signal of disagreement.
Don't know why but this post reminded me of GKrellM.
There was another maker of bitcoin miners some time ago that would take people's money, make the miners, run the miners for itself (pushing back the delivery date), then deliver the miners once they stopped making a sufficient profit.

What you are saying is generally true, I agree, but the case of (specifically) money-printing machines has the additional complication of having very misaligned incentives, encouraging fraud. For any good other than money (or bitcoin), the producer of machines won't be able to want to do much with them, as you say.
Money is unusual in that regard because you don't need to "use" it to make money, which removes a high barrier that the machine maker would normally face.

So you don't want to "keep" the money-printing machine for yourself, the incentive is to sell it for the original price after printing some money with it that you keep for yourself.
It doesn't guarantee fraud, merely misaligns incentives to encourage it.

Setting up such extreme incentives for fraud is such a terrible idea that I am surprised anybody made business with these companies.

A somewhat related, legal, phenomenon would be a payment service provider (e.g., Paypal, IIRC) keeping the payments for a bit longer than necessary to earn interest (by investing the money with varying degrees of risk) on somebody else's money while that money is in transit.
Also 10.6 isn't getting much in the way of security updates anymore...
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It's 2015. If they've been doing it since 1998 those complaints really weren't that many or that effective, were they?

One could serve 17 years in jail in that time.
Nice. Not a big fan of Paypal though. Wouldn't it be possible to just use Stripe?
Hotels seem to have no problem doing business in corporate America and they are probably one of the largest independent distributors of porn.
MkDocs (http://mkdocs.org) has a readthedocs theme and can actually be deployed to the readthedocs service. It's a bit easier to get setup on a system for the initial documentation to be produced IMHO.
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SwarmX wants to build the mother of all robotics systems
Can you clarify which law (or IRS rule - I don't mean to be pedantic here), specifically, you feel Facebook is violating the spirit of?

Most common tax avoidance strategies are possible due to very deliberate policies in each of the relevant jurisdictions. Its fine to claim that there is something wrong with the laws in question, but I haven't been able to identify one that strategies like the "double-dutch" violate the spirit of.
So you would donate to the government, but only if you could ensure that your voluntary tax dollars go to the most important thing?

That's exactly why billionaires donate to their causes directly instead of letting the government allocate it; they don't trust the government with that extra money any more than you do.
> Maybe not all of them, but enough of them that "police are corrupt" is true.

Usually I would never generalize the actions of a subset to the entire group, but in this case there is a key difference that justifies "(all/most) police are corrupt": the failure to clean their own house of the "bad apples". When a supposedly "good" policeman gives cover and protection to a criminal in their department instead of reporting the crime, they become an accomplice. in many cases, protecting the guilty may even be a crime in itself (misprision of felony[1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony#United_St...
Actually many times Yahoo had negative valuation (ie: Yahoo market cap was lower than Yahoo shares in Alibaba, thus if you discounted Alibaba value, Yahoo had negative value).
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A farm I'm affiliated with in Maryland was approached by a solar developer looking to turn 10 acres (level) of it into a solar field.

I want to make sure that we're getting a fair deal with good contract terms. They are asking for exclusive rights to the land (much larger than their 10 acres) for a 25 year term. I also don't know how to begin researching competitive pricing for a project like this. We will be leasing the land.
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Newly Discovered Form of Carbon Is Harder Than Diamond
Yes, it's absolutely horrendous on mobile. On my laptop it's fine.
Have you ever given to charity? If so, why? Why didn't you give it directly to the IRS? They accept donations, you know...
But you had 60k before and now you have 70k... I'm sorry but your line of thought makes no sense at all to me. I'd be fine with it.
In particular situations "wasted" vars like this are helpful. (although I agree with sibling comment that informatively-named functions are usually a better way to communicate meaning than extra vars) If this is your general rule, however, your code will be like twice as long as it needs to be.
To be honest I find it highly entertaining (and interesting).
They have a lot of employees to feed with a dying web property.
I'm not so sure. A taxi in Melbourne Australia won't even take a booking for a street corner.

"I'm sorry sir, it has to be a fixed address."

Also taxi companies aren't set up to accept payment over a telephone call. So they'd have to trust the recipient to pay.
> As early as 1998

It's 2015, lodging complaint's that go nowhere for nearly two decades isn't "policing" themselves; arresting their fellow police officers for breaking the law is policing themselves and that's extremely rare. The thin blue line is a real thing, cops shun cops who rat on cops and since cops tend to only hang out with other cops, or fireman, being shunned matters. Civilians in general don't like hanging around with cops so it's a very segregated little culture.

> In other words officers were policing themselves to the point of triggering Internal Investigations.

Meaningless ploys to cover their asses that nearly always end in nothing being found.

I used to be a cop, I've known hundreds of cops because of this, in general (meaning yes there are exceptions) they're idiots and jocks who take the job because they get paid to be bullies and they like the power. They don't give a shit about your rights or you at all, they care about their stats and how they rank in comparison with each other.. who got more busts, it's like a sport to them. They compete. It wasn't for me, I switched to IT.

> if the parents proposal has no point, and you have identified the problem, what is your proposed solution?

As I said, identifying the problem isn't the issue, never has been. There is no solution to police corruption other than the public getting fed up with them and firing them all; they will not police themselves, internal affairs is a joke, and even the good cops generally keep quite in order to not be ostracized. Time and again cops are caught doing bad things, suspended for "investigation", and the investigation finds no wrongdoing after the media storm has died down and the cop is put back on the streets.

Police are corrupt; that's simply life.
Mark Zuckerburg is now officially the one percent.
I also find this word odd. Usually I think the person being exploited in a financial relationship is the one whose pockets are being emptied.
If you're looking for a portable Thinkpad-quality keyboard, the closest thing you're going to get was ironically originally made for Pocket PCs years ago -- it's a 4-segment folding keyboard, the design of which appears to have been updated to work with Bluetooth and is now selling as the ludicrously overpriced "Amigo 2.0" or the Chinese-branded GK 308.
Many entertaining and interesting experiments could be run on HN if one didn't care about damaging it.
> Apple also have the Apple Store, which is a separate thing that's a website - I believe it's a WebObjects app and the iTunes Store is as well.

This might have changed since they rolled the store into the main apple.com site, but as far as I know none of that is public for sure.
A Chinese Artist Vacuumed Up Beijing’s Smog for 100 Days and Made a Brick
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This is the third #nottheonion article today. "Ford considers selling off car business".
'thug' has some really bad associations right now. It's basically the latest euphemism for 'black person', so people read your initial comment as explicitly intended to compare the situation in your country to the situation here.
The $1.7 billion was a settlement between the government and JP Morgan Chase, in relation to the Madoff scheme (apparently they ignored things that they should not have).
> And it's ludicrous to say that "if it wasn't for drugs it'd be something else."

When you've a police force that's planting evidence on marks, that knows about the planted evidence and chooses to cover it up, that has a DA that knows about the planted evidence and chooses to prosecute these cases anyway, and a system that chooses to promote those involved in the conspiracy to high office, then yes... if it wasn't drugs being planted, it's very, very, very likely that it would be almost anything else.
This needs more visibility. It appears to be a previously unseen document in UNIX's history (at least judging by it appearing couple of days ago on the TUHS site, and not a couple of decades).
There is an unfinished Browser plugin (Chrome) for Signal that has seen quite a bit of activity recently. I am excited at the prospect of being able to use Signal from a desktop, and am hoping that it gets an actual release date in the next year or so. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop
There's another question that should be asked: How do we find and punish those that were complicit?
i'll take twice as long over twice as wide any day of the week :)
Cavendish are seedless, they only grow vegetatively. They are genetically identical. That's the problem. Panama disease is a fungus. Fungi are nearly impossible to eliminate.
It's okay, at least Microsoft still got their chance to burn money on Nokia.

...so much money...
The police are as much members of society as anyone else, and they require the active cooperation of you and the rest of society to survive.

You can be part of the solution by depriving them this support: Do not cooperate with them in their job. Do not call them. Decline to speak with them if they contact you. Do not associate with them officially or socially. Do not permit them to shop at your place of employment, do business with you, or join your social organizations. Do not permit their children to be friends with yours.
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Well, the Alibaba part is worth $30b+. Yahoo Japan another $10b. So the world's third (or 4th or 5th) largest internet property would only need to be worth $5b to "break-even". Thanks for the reminder!
It's not a brick made out of smog, but a brick made out of 95% clay and 5% smog. Quite an important distinction.
I like South Park too but calling that contribution "substantive" is quite a stretch.

There's no view that can't be expressed civilly and substantively, so accusations of politically correct censorship on HN don't hold much water in my opinion. It's usually just a fig leaf for low-signal ranting, when the correct thing to do is to be a good citizen and improve your behavior. Most HN users don't have trouble doing this, regardless of where they fall ideologically.
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It can be done but it's quite expensive to engineer such a solution, both in time spent theorizing and in runtime performance consequences. There are many small gameplay features that are trivial with mutability and a data-oriented model, but require a major spec change if functional style is applied. The parts that are easy to do functionally are relatively trivial in comparison.

The happy medium for gameplay simulations is to write straight-line imperative code and minimize your use of subroutines and indirection - you want "static" synchronization that loops over data in big batches where execution flow reads easily. When it's kept simple like this, major desynchronization challenges come down to compilation behaviors and interactions with other modules(render, network, etc). The main loop gets big as a result, but factoring it out only makes it harder to follow, because the complexity is coming from the high number of sync points, not duplicated code.
Dan Quan, a co-worker of mine, spoke about his experience as a police officer, and the mentality he saw from other officers, in his talk at Rocky Mountain Ruby, "Policing and Pairing: An Unlikely Preparation" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGaO92oIGg). While not the main subject of the talk, it's an interesting first-person perspective.
There's going to be big dysfunctional corporations for decades to come. There's no guarantees in life but investing a little time in a technology like that is probably going to pay for itself and much, much more. I wouldn't do it but I can see why someone would.
Whomever has the biggest space weapons.
This looks like a great time and money saver. Thanks for this to all contributors. I will test drive it soon on my app that requires high security level.
Of course they do. Traffic analysis is always a problem. They obviously know the src/dst addresses and the package dimensions (including weight), as those features are necessary for the the delivery.

They still don't know what's inside the package. I really don't see why this boundary is hard to understand. With snail-mail (fedex, usps, etc) there are even laws that protect the boundary between the envelope and the private contents. Why would you think software would be different?
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That's sad. I like Firefox and use it a lot, but I need Thunderbird a lot more than I need Firefox. There are other good browsers out there, I don't know any other good email client.
"do you indeed believe that Apple is happy with 15% (US) market share for desktops and laptops?"

If that other 85% is cheap laptops with no margin in them, yes.
Thanks for taking the time to share these thoughts; I appreciate it. His comments resonate with a non-trivial number of people. Since they discuss human values we all share, that makes sense, to me. With respect to feelings of guilt and shame, I'm completely in agreement that they can represent a wake-up call to further self growth--but only insofar as we can link them to the human needs they are telling us to pay attention to. That's where the self growth occurs. I'm not in agreement with using guilt and shame, as tools to get people to obey or submit, because doing so focuses our attention on what we want people to do, not why we want them to do it. They're both important; without the latter, it's just obedience training. I think we're pretty close in our assessment, so I'll leave it, at that. Thanks again.
Yes, but what's the point of existing?

Sell the investments, return money to all shareholders. Bye bye Yahoo.
> My claim is simple. The U.S. is the most prosperous place on the planet, the inequality doesn't touch at least a hundred other countries. Again, inequality isn't necessarily an indicator of poverty.

The comparisons you make are on absolute terms but the reality is more nuanced. There are almost 47 million people living in poverty in the US [1] and something like 38% of the population live paycheque-to-paycheque (up from 31% in the late 90s) [2]. Even if most of those people are food-secure (something like 90% of Americans in poverty are) those numbers should still be pretty alarming. Just because the average American has it much better than the average African doesn't mean their situation is necessarily very good.

[1] http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/index....

[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-americans-live-paycheck-to-...
As far as I can tell, this is a speech directed at other billionaires, attempting to 1. put them in an idealistic frame of mind and then 2. making the suggestion that the natural outlet for that idealism is philanthropy, while 3. Putting his own money where his mouth is for some peer-pressure.

If that works, then this will singlehandedly be the highest-ROI "evangelism" anyone has ever done. Unlikely, though.
This law doesn't give ownership of the asteroid, it gives ownership of the mined resources (emphasis mine):

> Any asteroid resources obtained in outer space are the property of the entity that obtained them, which shall be entitled to all property rights to them, consistent with applicable federal law and existing international obligations.
The 'Save the American Inventor' Campaign
Instagram's UI is made in HTML.
Seems TPP related. A little hokey to my eye, but I am just one person.
That would be true if Social Security was an investment. However, it is a social welfare program and a tax combined into one.

In 2040 when the current balance is tipped, that program can become solvent without increasing the tax by reducing payouts by 25%.

Meanwhile, the current federal budget is only funded to about 2/3, so there are other programs I'd worth about earlier, if I'd care about programs and the taxes funding them.
You can think of monads as abstractions that may or may not return toasted objects.
I question your premise that the author of the article flipped. By your same logic, the pastor was simply expressing his feelings and is thus beyond reproach.
Depends on the kind of mesh you're talking about. Linear Technologies has a mesh network with motes that can be battery-powered for years.
A ton of the comments below are about how cops are abusing their power. The other group that seems beyond the reach of justice are district attorneys.

The system is setup so that DA's watch out for cops' backs and the cops for the DA's. Cops would be less likely to engage in bad behavior if they knew that DA's were less willing to support it.

Oh, and then there's the private prison system...
> 'Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means'.

Article 2 of the Outer Space Treaty [0]

The whole treaty is pretty vague and mostly deals with access to objects and national claims of ownership preventing access to objects. Article 9 might apply here but it's pretty loosely worded too and basically says exploration will be conducted "with due regard to the corresponding interests of all other State Parties to the Treaty" and avoid harmful contamination.

Not sure if this qualifies as allowing national appropriation, all I've seen is that this applies to the bits they pull out not giving ownership to the body itself. There will probably be challenges once someone actually tries to go out and actually mine one. Article 9 might make better fodder for that though.

[0] http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_21_2222E.pdf
Well I hope he learned something from the boondoggle his grant to Newark schools turned out to be.