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> And now you're moving the discussion between having KNOWLEDGE, and having TECHNOLOGY. Those are, in fact, different things.

That is, in a nutshell, the difference between 20 years ago and today. They used to be different. Now they are not. Having the technology eventually exposes you to the knowledge. Knowledge now is completely free if you live in the US, because of free access to technology. Between Wikipedia, Craigslist, various social media outlets, there is no way you can be on the Internet today and not find what you are looking for, if it's important to you, eventually. Very much not the case in the 90s.

This has a direct effect on the experience of being poor.

> Is he really THAT much better off with an XBox One today?

Yes, because society was that much worse 20 years ago. What you were escaping was that much more awful.

> Rich in 1995 ain't too shabby. In fact, I'd say it's much better than poor in 2015.

I would rather be 30 and poor today, than 30 and rich in the 80s. You may disagree, but I was not very well off not that many years ago, and I was able to leapfrog what would have been decades of hustling to get where I am now, because of advantages that I wouldn't have had 30 years ago.

You're right, 30 and rich in the 80s isn't too shabby. But that would mean that I would have 30 fewer years of life in today's world. You're completely discounting the value of time and over-valuing money. 30 years is an unimaginably enormous amount of time. I can get 100x the value of my time out of a year here than I could have with any amount of resources in the 80s. If I chose to be 30 and rich in 1985, that means I would be in my sixties today. Being young in today's world is worth, to me, any amount of money you can name.

I'm reminded of the fact that things we find totally boring today were fine luxuries in the Middle Ages. Chairs were the domain of the medieval super-rich at one point in time. The conversation we are having right now likely could not have existed 30 years ago.
Will ProductHunt shutdown OpenHunt with power of law?
That was a 9.6 feature all along
20 years is young for a cargo fleet. Passenger airlines in developed countries often aim to have an average fleet age younger than that, but the planes are built to fly for 20, 30, 40 years and sometimes more.

And remember that the maintenance procedures, mandated by law, for commercial aircraft are kind of insane. The analogy to a car (since everything has to have an analogy to a car) would be:

Every time you're about to get in the car and drive somewhere, first you do a full walk-around inspection of the exterior, then inspect all the lights, vents, wipers, horn, and so on. If anything is in less than perfect condition, you don't drive the car until it's been fixed.

Every ten days, you drop the car off overnight at a garage. They do a full fluid check, tire check and rotation, alignment, lubricate everything, and if they find anything less than perfect it gets fixed before driving again.

Once a month, oil change, filters replaced, new battery. If there's visible wear on the tires, replace them.

Every two years or so, you pull out the engine and replace it.

Every five years, you have the car completely disassembled and reassembled, replacing any part that's even the slightest bit worn or fatigued or shows any detectable amount of corrosion.

If you maintained a car this way, the car would last damn near forever. This is how planes are maintained, and is why they last as long as they do.
Aren't MAX() and GROUP BY enough for that?
Author here. Thanks for the comments, I have fixed both points. The first one I assure you was just a typo, the second, I read too quickly and could have sworn there was another stroke there originally...
I am reminded of the tragic case of Mengyao "May" Zhou, a Stanford grad student who killed herself in January 2007. She outwardly seemed successful and happy, but it appears to me and others who have commented on the case that in fact she was driven to suicide by the pressure her father put on her to have just such a "perfect" life.
What an excellent linking of groups to monads, I really enjoyed reading this! Thanks for writing it up.
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"Organic" simply means "containing carbon". Not all organic molecules originate in living organisms; in fact, probably the overwhelming, stupefyingly huge majority of organic molecules in the universe are of non-life origin.
Wow. Blocking me for using adblock ensures I won't ever view Forbes again. Either way they get zero ad views.
Todays best known painter, Banksy, is a street artist. So his art is displayed by its very nature in public places and personally I do not find it very shocking.

Two examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mauer-betlehem.jpg

http://nypost.com/2013/10/21/new-banksy-artwork-has-fans-flo...
On Windows Phone 8.1 the settings screen is "text labels" and is completely unusable. They added icons in 10 and this resulted in a huge improvement.

Text-only is as-bad as icon-only. Combine the two.
> Haskell is excellently suited for solving extremely complex problems and why it's so desirable for concurrency and parallelism tasks.

What is an example of an extremely complex problem that you have solved that would be vastly more harder to implement in another language.

The most powerful thing that I have noticed is the type system. When you have a complex problem, you end up breaking it up by writing a lot of functions. In case of a language with a less powerful type system, it is hard for you to string them all together to build the complete program.

But with Haskell, if you have cared to actually annotate the types, this becomes a really trivial task. It also detects flaws in your reasoning (because the result of the previous step is incompatible with the input of the current step).

So, doing this would be vastly more difficult in a language like Python or even a language with less powerful type system like C.
And then there are those of us who block so much crap that icon fonts sometimes don't load. Hover text is usually enough, though.
Ah, good old OutBrain...

As time goes on and users (including myself) filter out more of the garbage, I have less of an idea what web pages actually look like to the average user. Hooray for Standards and the Open Web!
> Start button is where you go to start a program.

Or to shut down the computer.
Most Chinese fonts contain more Han glyphs compared to Japanese, especially traditional. Most traditional Chinese fonts will have over 10,000 glyphs, while simplified are about 7,000.
Many foundaries will create a even larger one, with over 22,000 glyphs in a single typeface.
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Interesting subject. Any links to share on the current and proposed approach?
Oops, I haven't validated any domains that I own in over 5 years.
If a human uses wasted plastic is called recycling, don't know what would it be any different for bees.
That's what I always thought but according to this they have a contract:
https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...
I'd sure like to see more than a set of tweets but this could potentially be huge.

I've advocated this approach to officials of the state government here in Michigan. Also watched a friend do the same. There were no questions, they would not engage with either one of us on the topic.

But the discussion was easier with open data because other states were doing it.
I apologize, during the posting of this article I got the links messed up.

The news of today that I Was trying to post was this:

https://www.rt.com/usa/326481-obama-signs-budget-cisa-bill/
Have you ever actually studied a language involving "pictograms" or are you just making assumptions? I didn't take Chinese long enough to get a feel for it one way or the other but in Japanese kanji will remain in the language from here until the end of the Japanese language. Japanese has a limited set of sounds and Japanese written completely phonetically is not only extremely long, but once you learn the kanji it becomes much more difficult to read and make sense of a sentence without the kanji.
Actually, Latin was once the international language, but has been largely supplanted by English. Hence if I use English labels in my app, I'm being cosmopolitan!
The best icon is a text label, written in the language of the user? Sure.

But the easiest icon is that weird squidgy thing that looks like a ... well, I don't know, I'm expecting users will click on it and eventually figure it out. Squidgy thing takes maybe an hour to create. The internationalization team's SLA is not an hour.
When Sacramento is a 2 hour drive away, why don't you move to Fremont and work in SF, Mountain View or San Jose?
Yes, I understand that; my point is that if "one in ten people are using a device with this exact screen resolution" and "one in a thousand people have this user agent" then it is not true that "one in ten thousand people have a device like this one" if "half the people with this user agent have this exact screen resolution": it is only then true that "one in five thousand people have a device like this one". If everyone with that user agent has that screen resolution, the result would just be "one in a thousand people have a device like this one".

I am concerned that they are calculating entropy incorrectly as I feel very confident that there are pretty obvious correlations between many of these variables: given my user agent you can guess my screen resolution with a probability much better than random chance (as you know I have an iPhone, and there are only so many screen resolutions for an iPhone, and some of these iPhone configurations are more common than others in the wild) and it might be the case that you can guess my "plugin configuration" with 100% accuracy.
I always say that a picture, plus a few words, is worth a thousand words.
If this is all you think CISA is then I think you should do a little more research.
This opens an interesting question, what if we could slightly modify plastic to make it more useful to other species, maybe beavers, maybe bees, maybe ants, maybe woodpeckers, maybe there is an specific trait that one (or many) of this kind of animals seek for when using materials (or eating)
I came here looking for tips on how to turn on text labels in various UIs, and have not been disappointed.
It sucks, but inevitable. The simple reality is that the internet has become almost completely not usable for businesses just trying to business. I think instead of fighting this stuff we should fight for educational laws such that when your browser comes up or all advertising by any ISP should include warnings your information is easily accessible by government agencies - and how it's available.

In fact, I'd like to see Google's default web page (as well as Bing and DuckDuckGo) have a list of very very plain spoken warnings about how easy your data can be compromised. Browser finger printing, MITM attacks, etc.
You probably have. Many registrars only send you an email that requires no action if your contact info is up to date. OVH does this for example.
Is support for python worse than go or clojure? It seems unimaginable.
I've worked at sv companies of all sizes, and I think that for a fresh grad especially, the most important thing as some have stated is to find a team (manager, coworkers) and project that are right for you. You want a place where you will be supported, where you will have interesting work, and where you'll be able to develop in all the aspects (not just technical ones) that you'll need as a more senior developer. You'll want to avoid toxic cultures and places where no real work gets done. In companies of all sizes and stripes there is a huge amount of variation internally. Unfortunately it's often difficult to know what a particular team is like unless you know an insider. This advice may seem like common sense, but in my own experience and through talking to junior colleagues, many people don't have much of a clue for what to look for in a job (beyond - they pay a bit better / I've heard of them and its a prestigious name / I have some idea about what they want me to do and it sounds vaguely intetesting).

For fresh grads there is almost no negotiating room on compensation. Additionally, what one learns and experiences is critical to career growth. At one sv bigco I got paid intern level wages to manually label machines in a server room for a month (hired as a developer). I'm sure this is not represent tative of that company. At another bigco I have seen fresh grads and interns get plum work assignments (and pretty good compensation, according to surveys), and I know that's not the case for many other parts of that company. Neither of these companies is appamagoogsoftbookflix, but I know both these scenarios can be found pretty much anywhere.

Even midcareer professionals should care a great deal about the people and projects they will be working with, but there the ability and need to optimize compensation can be more acute. So, avoiding optimizing for compensation and company prestige early in ones career is something to be cognizant of.
Zapier (YC S12) is looking for a Product Manager to work from anywhere
The Start button may not be brilliant, but it came about through actual usability studies. Having just the one button drastically reduced the time it took people to find things.
They bought ITA Software a few years ago, which largely used Common Lisp.
The DOS drivers and disabling interrupts applies to Windows 95 too.
Unfortunately that's not how your article has been interpreted, especially not in the reddit thread which has (predictably) divulged into an incoherent MongoDB hate-fest.
Well, fortune favours the bold. You can take that risk or you can be cattle for all the apps that want you to actually watch the ads they support themselves with. Make your choice.
Probably not. If the NSA are interested in who is running pirate bay now they probably already know.
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This is not a good comparison. It is ICANN's policy to suspend domains that do not have their whois verified. It is very plausible that they simply forgot or did not bother to do that. Furthermore, as can be seen in other comments, other people have had their domains suspended as well, so it's not like they're using some obscure law. Finally, thepiratebay have long since migrated to the .se TLD (plus others), and have successfully recovered from domain takedowns before, so there would be little to gain from suspending their .com domain.
Can you explain how giving a checksum of a file is violation of copyright?
go remote!
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Don't do daily... or atleast let people sign up for daily/weekly/monthly. The PH daily emails were too much. I already get enough crap I don't read, it just makes me resent the site if I feel they are spamming me too much.
I worked over there for a year. Dropped right into a RoR and Android shop and coded with them just like an American style one so at least anecdotally, they don't really have a different programming world.
>The biological factors are symbiotic with the environmental factors. One does not function in isolation from the other. If your biology is preventing you from enjoying your supposedly "good" life, you don't really have a good life at all.

Agreed. To note I had originally phrased it as an "otherwise fantastic life" but it kind of turned into a semantics argument.

>The way to have a life that is actually good is to bring your environment and your biology into balance.

My position wasn't that environmental or emotional techniques are ineffective, just that sometimes they're inadequate in face of overwhelming biological factors, necessitating biological intervention as well. But hey—I think we're finally in agreement.

>Since I learned the way of thinking about it that I've been arguing here, I've been able to take meaningful action ...

That's great. Please don't take what I said as an indictment or assault against what works for you, I certainly didn't mean it that way.

>Anyway, I won't be responding further; you've made your point well, I've made mine and I hope my comments have helped you to clarify your own thinking, as yours have mine. Thank you for the discussion, it's an important issue that I appreciate people making the effort to engage in.

Likewise. Have a good one. :)
> has become almost completely not usable for businesses just trying to business

Maybe they should have invested in proper end-to-end crypto and actually care about security. If you business depends entirely on a resource, it's usually a good idea to protect that resource.

> Google's default web page

Why would google do that? You're asking them to completely undermine their business model. Google/Facebook/etc are just as bad as governments in their desire to vacuum up as much personal data as possible. Usually, there isn't much of a difference between government and business - national security letters, PRISM, and FAIRVIEW (AT&T) mean that whatever these private business have is also available to government (or anybody else that can gain access to the data).

Both sides like the arrangement, so why would they put up warnings? That would only reduce the amount of data they get to play with.
A common workaround for private and corporate aircraft owners is to register the aircraft under a Delaware company. That results in the registering agent's address ( usually a law firm's office ) appearing in the database.

There is even Delawareing-as-a-service! Just one example from Googling:

http://www.global-inter.net/services/asset-protection-aircra...

Of course this does impose annual requirements for company returns etc but many owners consider that a reasonable cost for the privacy it provides.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. However it is an arrangement I frequently encounter when researching corporate jet ownership.
Given the century of economies dominated by Keynesians, Monetarists, Marxists, and other UFO abductees pretending to be economists, why wouldn't they?
Just thought of this, but isn't it conspiracy? Kind of the only way to arrest someone before doing something.
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Isn't re-use the slogan-compatible word? I'm not sure if the bees are disqualifed if they use the plastic for a different use or how much physical alteration matters.
Psychopathy is defined as scoring a 30/40 or higher on the standard psychometric for it, the Hare psychopathy checklist.

Psychopathy is characterized by a number of traits that are sometimes adaptable and sometimes maladaptive, depending on the context. Those traits include impulsivity, irresponsibility, and a lack of empathy.

There are far more psychopaths in prisons than there are in board rooms. Successful psychopathy seems rare, even among psychopaths. But, being a CEO is rare anyway, and since we can agree that many CEO's share a certain personality type, it's not a stretch to think that the personality type they share is trending towards a personality disorder, namely psychopathy.

Where do you remember reading that? I'd like to vet the reliability of the source before I make inferences on it.
What helped me grok monads was to understand that monads are just a subset of functors. Then I did what I could to fully understand what functors were, since at that point they were still a kind of cargo-cult black box for me.

let liftF = fmap
liftF negate (Just 1)
liftA negate (Just 1)
liftM negate (Just 1)

Realizing these all performed the same operation (if operating on a monadic value), and that `fmap` is just a `liftF` ("lift a regular function to work on a functor"), cleared some things up for me.

This also helped: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Applicative_functors#A...

So all these abstractions really just let you do different things with functions that normally don't take functor arguments. They make the function basically allow functor arguments (kind of), to save writing a lot of boilerplate within your functions; typically boilerplate that would be put at the start of every function.

Once someone really gets the idea of what a functor is and why they can be useful, I think the rest is easy to understand once you read the definition of monads and applicatives.
How would verify that this, indeed, the "official" TPB .onion site?
I think companies need to test their UI's with senile people first. Nothing has given me more insight into user experience than watching my grandma trying to use an iPad.
It does get pretty tiring explaining the difference between them. Mine is definitely biologically based, although stress exacerbates it like it does many other things like acne. My "eureka" moment came in high school (when brain chemistry changes from puberty can cause such issues). I was at home playing video games online with friends when I noticed my vision was blurry. I went to the bathroom and saw tears streaming down my face, which baffled me as my conscious thoughts were in no way sad/negative at the time. There was just an underlying feeling of heartache. Over the next 4-5 years I worked with a professional and finally managed to find a drug combo that balances me out. I still get sad, but only for logical reasons, and only as much as I used to before my symptoms developed. It has been a full year for me now without any "episodes", something I had not thought possible previously. I just figured I would share this in case someone else might benefit from reading it.
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The biggest flaw with that calculation is that most Bitcoin miners are not located in American households.

They're naturally located where electricity is much cheaper: they're using environmentally-generated or surplus power, close to the source, at bulk industrial rates. The author even said it in the same article, but did not factor it into the clickbaiting comparison.
I doubt a lot of users would know that you can even do this, as handy as it is.
I personally prefer Icon+Text over Text-only. And icon-only is often confusing on websites/apps - it only works if one uses the website/app regularly like the Office <=2003 toolbar.

Also the recent trend for black and white icons makes them sometimes harder to understand. Colorful icons worked fine, in older Office <=2010 and elsewhere. Though finding a good icon set with 500+ generic icons that fits one needs means taking compromisses.
You are confusing the money driven popularity contest with art. There is a modern art market, and you are right that it is just aesthetically pleasing objects made by famous guys, however that someone else pays a lot of money does not mean that you have to like it.
I was an original Macintosh Beta tester back in 1983, and I raised this exact same issue. I built all my apps with text + icon buttons and got penalized for it. One of several reasons why an early Mac beta developer left Mac development, not writing code for the OS for a decade afterwards. (PC users were lucky to have Windows 1.0 around that time, and I did well writing GUIs for corporations that wanted better.)
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Discussed at length a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10738891
I hope not for the sake of old people everywhere.
Seems I'm not the only one:

http://thomasbyttebier.be/blog/the-best-icon-is-a-text-label
I think the first sighting of the hamburger was actually from the flat/sans Google redesign of 2013. It popped up on Android first, then the web apps, then everywhere.
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Who's offended? We're talking about good design.
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You can't look up an icon. You can't google an icon. You have to hope there's a tooltip for it.

I can look up a word written in a phonetic alphabet.
Are you familiar with Alexander son of Philip, of Macedon, there was a song about him.