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Yeah I think my biggest barrier is not having a clue where to start, and it's overwhelming. I've heard good things about Starting Strength - maybe I'll start there. Thanks.
That's actually the reason windows is and will stay my main desktop system. Former Windows 7, now an "unfucked" Windows 10 Enterprise. It's just smoother than OSX or Linux Desktop and I always test some linux distros if I get new Hardware. Last time in novembre I upgrade to i7-6700k, Titan X, Samsung 950Pro 1TB. Of course it's necessary to have always at least one linux based server vm running I use putty to connect with. That's my ideal desktop setup i am using for years.

IMHO X11 needs to be replaced as fast as possible.
Indeed, that was my point in suggesting it as an opportunity for improvement.
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The unspoken implication here is that 99% reliability is considered bad. This may not be clear if coming from a different field where 99% sounds pretty good.
This is amazing! I've wanted to do some "citizen science" project in waterways around me. For instance, building cheap sensors that detect temperature/water level/salinity/particulates/etc that are so cheap as to be basically disposable.

The sensor itself could probably be made for less than $10 these days using various arduino modules, but I'm stuck on how to have the sensors communicate back to a "base station" to collect the information. Cellular-based would probably have great range but who wants to have a phone plan for each sensor! Zigbee may be an alternative, but it may require line of sight. Obviously it'd also have to be low power to work on a LiIon battery, or possibly have a solar panel to harvest power.

I believe the only way to make change is to show our impacts on our environment. And local government doesn't have the tech expertise, money or political willpower to suggest that "local business" may be destroying our health (when it's creating jobs!).

Anyone have any tech suggestions or organizations that do this sort of thing?
It's a single location summary of things that still have to be done / are lacking in the project. It's thus useful for contributors to see what needs work, since it's easy to get tunnel vision when working on a project.

Don't you have such yearly reviews on your long-running projects?
Management isn't exactly going to be thrilled when you inform them that you've created a big new cost center for them and they need to hire new people to help you out on internal tools that were supposed to result in automation and lower costs.
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I think it's pretty simple - exercise requires physical effort and most people would rather sit on the couch.
The other problem here is that you have a banker, not a core technologist, trying to found a core technology company in addition to acquiring smaller companies. This is a recipe for disaster.
You're right, I can't imagine I could get proper form by looking at Youtube videos. There's no substitute for someone telling you where you're going wrong.
You can install custom CSS somewhere in your .jupyter directory. Of course, this feature is undocumented and different from the analogous (documented) ipython feature.
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What would consider entry level? I use a Mac mini from 2012 (i7 with 8GB) every day and I'm not seeing any beach balls unless Flash crashes some web page.
Agree with that. Makes it very nice jumping in understanding a complicated system -- because it is obvious how state is mutated by looking at the current function. In a typical state heavy OO, I found I am lost more often because I have no idea what the current state is and how it got to that state if it is broken when debugging.
How to avoid being arrogant:

"Assume that your part of the project is the easy part." [1]

"Here’s a polite person’s trick, one that has never failed me. ... Ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: 'Wow. That sounds hard.'" - Paul Ford [2]

[1] http://beyondmanaging.com/2014/09/assume-yours-is-the-easy-p...

[2] https://medium.com/message/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c
Very very easy. Work with people that are much better than you. Difficult to be arrogant when someone can kick your ass, field-wise (sometimes even literally-wise). Plus you get to improve so much faster.

And yes, they're always much people better than you.
"You shouldn't carry on a prize but you should merit it" is what my grandmother used to say. I think this holds true with abilities as well. You've worked hard to be where you are, so be proud, but remember what humility feels like. When I hear myself getting a little bit arrogant, I like to think of JP from Grandma's Boy, a shining example of what not be.
Music fills a different void, though. I don't know many people who just sit down and listen to music the same way that they watch TV. I tend to agree with the other poster. Music is good, but any more is typically more of a backdrop to our lives than a driver of our lives. Music is something I put on in the background while I work, or while I exercise, or when the house is just too quiet.

I'm a Spotify subscriber, and they can't go much over $10 a month or I'll just stop subscribing. Spotify's real value is that it's cheap and it's easier than piracy. With younger generations becoming more technical, the percentage of people able to download uTorrent and get on TPB is getting larger. The value of music is declining as free (though illegal) methods of getting it are getting easier, and as music is starting to take less of a focal point in our lives.

Music just isn't worth what it used to be.
To be fair, although they are both way, way behind, Elsevier and Springer both have a surprising amount of material available for free online. (I don't say this with any relevant examples to hand, but rather as a mathematician who is often surprised that I don't need to use my university proxy to access an article.)

I also think that Springer deserves serious credit for their commitment to reasonable e-book publication: once you have access, you download the PDF and you have it; no DRM, no special reader software. So many other e-publishing sites want to make sure that I can't actually read their files that this straightforward approach is a relief.

With that said, I am bummed that I missed this apparent window of opportunity!
For me it's a combination of things.

1. Convenience. If I have a gym in the building I live in, I'm about 10x more likely to use it. If it's a block down the street, I might go once a week. If it's two blocks down the street, it might as well be in Algiers.

2. Knowledge. I don't know how to lift weights, and I'm afraid I'll do it wrong and end up injuring myself. Apparently even running isn't trivial to do without potentially hurting yourself. If you don't have a friend who can show you how to do things right, it's not as easy to get started with confidence. (And let's face it, most of us here are probably not super likely to ask a stranger at the gym for help.)

3. Laziness. I've got work to do and video games to play, man! Working out isn't fun. I like riding my bike, but I'm not doing it in 30 degree weather, or in the rain, or in the snow.
It's not a question of cellular connection quality but of data quantity on a plan.
So how does classifying Android as being Linux help anyone? Who does that definition help? The most important drivers (video, camera) aren't compatible with desktop, userspace isn't either, most binaries won't work properly due to use of libbionic, etc.

So what kind of useful definition is "Android is Linux" when you can't really reuse any Android components on desktop Linux distributions?
It's weird, I always kind of wondered why Erlang gets left out of the FP discussions. It's not as dogmatic as Haskell or something, but functional-ness is kind of its bread and butter.
I'm struggling to see the improvement here. The validations are harder (more confusing?) to use, require more code/work and then apparently try hard to provide the exact same integration that the original thing provides? Sooo whats different or better now?
There are a few R packages for deep learning, although I wouldn't say that they compare with Theano yet. There's darch (package for deep architectures and Restricted-Bolzmann-Machines) [1], deepnet [2] which is incorporated into caret which is nice, and gputools [3] which has some of the GPU operations found in Theano.

[1] http://cran.um.ac.ir/web/packages/darch/index.html

[2] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/deepnet/index.html

[3] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/index.html
Met one driver once who is also real estate agent. A lot of expats use Uber.
Can anyone in robotics weigh in on whether new approaches like pneubotics / otherlab [0, 1] make Boston Dynamics' super heavy/noisy/expensive robots irrelevant or not? That's what Saul Griffith has been saying at least [2], I'd like to hear an impartial take on it

[0] http://www.pneubotics.com/

[1] https://otherlab.com/projects

[2] "[...] we're the only game in town." 21:00 onwards https://youtu.be/gyMowPAJwqo?t=1263
I think being aware of it is already a step in the right direction. You can't control what you're saying at all time, but you can try and make effort to be less and less arrogant. Notice when you are and try to fix it, notice when you aren't and try to repeat the pattern.

Of course this advice assume you have already understood that 1) there is nothing to be gained but bad things by being arrogant and that 2) there is no reason to be arrogant.
Up until fairly recently I had a number of issues with VLC and vaapi / vdpau, but now it all seems to work well. I even have working accelerated video in Chromium by removing the GPU blacklist and it works fine. The only things missing now on the video front for Linux is good encoder support, but I can get that right now with ffmpeg - its just missing in a lot of capture software.

Though we really should all converge to openmax at some point. Like, all encode / decode with openmax in the future. It just makes bloody sense.
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I'd say arrogance is expecting success without actual certainty that it will occur. Some people are good enough at what they do that their odds of success are high enough to make them seem trustworthy when they speak confidently.

Others have no real reason to expect to be successful, having never experienced success in what they are attempting.

So to me, the best way to avoid arrogance is to take an honest assessment of your experience and whether you have actually experienced success in the arena you are attempting to enter, and if you can't point to past successes, don't speak as if you expect to succeed this time.

This is something that comes with age, I believe. As you get older you gain more experience, so you understand that success is difficult to achieve. This does not necessarily mean approaching things with a defeatist attitude, but rather to take a more comprehensive look at the challenges and not merely rely on your own unproven abilities and proceed accordingly.
I would settle for a high resolution tty that works without much fiddling.
> To be blunt, they're paying you to do a job, not to make the organization better.

Ultimately what "they're paying you" for is not so specific. Generally, leadership doesn't have the skills to know there is a problem. Even in the cases where the leadership is technically exceptional, there is no way they can consider the myriad technical decisions and how they affect the future of the business.

Maybe leadership still doesn't care. If technical issues stunt the growth of the company or cause it to go under, the response could be "Meh, we had a good run." In that case, I, as an individual contributor, want to know that's the attitude up front. This lets me know to move on before everything hits the fan instead of be one of thousands laid off at the same time.
I am not an expert either, but it is unlikely you ever had the right to share the files in any way, especially as it seems the error had still the standard license, but with cost of 0.00.

I am quite annoyed by this revert -- especially by the fact that big publishers can generate so much good will just by a simple error that gets shared on the Internet, while the correction will get minimal exposure.
Could protecting your data be a good reason to move to the cloud?
> However I do want to note that in general these things do have real concrete negative impacts on the bottomline of the organization.

Not true. Sometimes, things that have concrete negative impacts can BENEFIT organizations.

U.S. prisons are just one of many such examples of this. A concrete positive impact would be lower incarceration and re-offending rates. American prisons have the exact opposite effect. This leads to lots of "customers" in the form of prisoners and victims seeking a more abstract "sense of justice".

The American prison system is probably not the only industry with that kind of business model. There are, no doubt, many contexts where a "concrete negative impact" can be very good for the bottomline. It's also an important lesson about making money in general. It's not about creating value. It's about making others pay for your actions regardless of whether or not said actions are "positive".
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Don't read the HN comment section.
We've been doing gravity surveys for over a century. All you need is to 1) know the elevation precisely, and 2) have a very well calibrated spring.

In fact, the really old Lacoste & Rhomberg style gravimeters are often thought to be more accurate than their modern counterparts because the springs used to be very meticulously hand-crafted instead of mass-produced.

Even Sandwell & Smith's method for inverting for bathymetry from the Free Air Anomaly (i.e. local sea level) has been around for a long time at this point. (Still damned neat, though.)

The cutting edge stuff these days is in satellite methods that can measure gravity anomalies over land (e.g. GRACE and GOCE). They're still much lower spatial resolution than the sea-surface based methods, but you can use them over the entire globe.

GRACE, for example, measures the distance between two satellites ~100km apart to an accuracy of ~1 micrometer. Pretty impressive! GOCE has multiple very precise accelerometers at different ends of the satellite. Because acceleration of the craft will affect accelerometers equally, the differences in acceleration must be due to local changes in the geoid. (In other words, GOCE is gradiometry based.)
So much this. Or maybe paraphrasing -- be aware of your mental health, try avoiding distractions by reading emotionally charged articles, facebook, political arguments. Meditate. Avoid distractions but at the same time take breaks.
#25 is wrong:

> There are no antiviruses or similar software for Linux. Say, you want to install new software which is not included by your distro - currently there's no way to check if it's malicious or not.

http://www.eset.com/int/home/products/antivirus-linux/
12 resolutions is too many for me. Set 1 resolution and stick to it.
Yes, and beyond that, engineers have ethical responsibilities to make sure they follow the golden rule when handling customer data.
> if one build fails and you run it again and it passes, what do you do?

I run it a third time, to start.
> No, there's no consumer-level desktop hardware you can't use on either Windows or OS X or both. That's false.

Oh, I can show you multitude of printers, scanners, tv tuners that do not work with Windows or OSX. Or they work with exactly one Windows version and that's it.
Lots of overlap with "12 resolutions for grad students" (http://matt.might.net/articles/grad-student-resolutions/) as well, especially for junior folks. Everything other than "check with your committee applies directly, and if you replace "committee" by "mentor," then it works very well.
> If you seriously believe that all (or most) companies disallow anyone not in leadership to improve things, I'd consider getting out of your current situation and seeing things again with clear eyes.

I've been around a bunch, including the US Air Force, and I can confidently tell you that heavily hierarchical organizational culture is the norm, individuals contributors who want to have effects beyond their job scope do so at risk of offending other stakeholders. They may tolerate you and even give some limited help, but they're not going to shout your name from the rooftops just because you want to be a boy scout.

Not saying you can't buck the system and get away with it, one of my favorite books was about one of my heroes, John Boyd, but if you want to be a hero, you need to go into it with a clear-eyed assessment of what you're up against and so you can tailor your objectives appropriately.
My usage patterns is close to "Chromebook + Android Studio" The rest is occasional use of Eclipse, Libre Office, a smattering of command line utilities, mainly for internet information (e.g. dig). I'm not a gamer. So Windows holds no attraction, and I dislike the effort needed to secure it against Microsoft and evildoers getting at my critical data. I bought a dead MBP on a lark and will get it fixed to see if I like MacOS X better. But despite ubuntu developing rather slowly, I'm not so discontented as to leave.
Contributors of distributions already have their goals and and sights set. Everyone knows these issues of linux, they've been ongoing for years.

This list has been compiled many times, that's why I'm so harsh to it. It's literally as if someone just copied ans pasted.

This is a direct copy from wikipedia:

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

Critics of Linux on the desktop have frequently argued that a lack of top-selling video games on the platform holds adoption back. As of September 2015, the Steam gaming service has 1,500 games available on Linux, compared to 2,323 games for Mac and 6,500 Windows games.[14][15][16]

As a desktop operating system, Linux has been criticized on a number of fronts, including:

A confusing number of choices of distributions, and desktop environments.
Audio handling, particularly before PulseAudio became stable and widely supported.
Poor open source support for some hardware, in particular drivers for 3D graphics chips, where manufacturers were unwilling to provide full specifications.[17] As a result, many video drivers have both open and closed source versions.
Lack of widely used commercial applications (such as Adobe Photoshop[18] and Microsoft Word).[19][20]
Lack of standardization regarding GUI API.[19]

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Notice the things he complained about, and the things that have been edited in there for years are the exact same.
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Somebody told me once to be open-minded without being empty-headed. I've also heard the phrase "intellectual humility", which I like a lot.

Everybody is stupid and broken in their own way which we can never see ourselves, yet we make a conscious and sometimes very difficult effort to like each other and get along anyway. Either you "get" that, or you're arrogant.
Right. 99% is an A+ in school and 3 days of downtime per year.
>But does it really solve the problem of bullying?

I think it's a hard problem to reorganize the system to prevent big corporate bullying. I think any potential solution would be pretty sweeping.

One idea would be to require MegaCorp (defined maybe as $100m+ annual revenue) to pay the legal fees of the small defendant (defined maybe as <= $20m annual revenue). MegaCorp would have to bear this cost even if they won, meaning they could only sue little guys if it was really worth it. MegaCorp would pay the same amount they pay their attorneys into a trust managed by the court, which would allow the small defendant to select his own lawyers. This would ensure that both sides have equally-adequate representation.

A second solution is to lower the cost of litigation in general, which would be accomplished by de-formalization of the system and greater local sovereignty. Why does it have to take 10 years and $5 million to have a dispute settled? Companies are already trying to make something like this the de facto legal system by forcing arbitration against their helpless victims; arbitration might not be bad in theory, but under the current practice, it's an unnerving prospect, since you're going into a black hole.
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That's what the idea behind IBM Watson is, because he can read much faster than any human and you can ask him anything without knowing anything about it yourself and he will give you an answer based on all books and scientific papers he was able to read until that point...only problems are a) you have to trust the evaluation and conclusions of a computer (better the programmer of the algorithms maybe) because b) probably nobody can verify the definite correctness or wrongness of an answer, because nobody has been able to study and to read as much about a topic as him. Exciting technology that is. And exciting times we are living in where computers start "knowing" more about any given topic than a human is able to about one single area and starts answering our questions about them...!
The customers of prisons aren't prisoners or taxpayers. It's the people who decide to spend money on facilities and salaries.
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They also offer reasonably priced server-class dedicated servers with Xeon processors, ECC memory and datacenter-series SSDs.
This happens to me as soon as I enter the website on my mobile. Get forwarded to one of those websites. Although I'm not sure why I want to read yet another person complain about Linux anyway, when I find it is excellent for certain purposes.
> I urge everyone here to take up lifting

Everyone I've spoken to got into lifting because they think it gets girls. They won't admit it directly or perhaps realize it themselves, but a series of questions leads to women: Of all types of exercise, why weights? -> So then why do you need to be toned? -> OK, then why do you need to look good in a T-shirt, or at bars, or in your profile pic? -> Because women like it.

Probably there are some fraction of women for whom this is an important factor in choosing men. Since I see many beautiful women choosing men with average physiques, I'm going to say that being highly muscled is not an important factor for most women.

NOTE: I'm not questioning exercise in general, cardiovascular fitness, being healthy, being free of disease, and not being overweight. All those are very important. I'm saying that of all the efficient ways of exercising, many people seem to pick lifting because of the misguided agenda that it attracts women.
I would say sometimes there is a fine line between arrogance and confidence. I sometimes try to tackle engineering problems, that may be too large for me to tackle by myself. But that is because I want to challenge myself, and prove to myself what I am capable of. Perhaps this is arrogance, perhaps this is just believing in yourself and your capabilities.

When arrogance becomes problematic is when it impacts your ability to work with others. The best type of person is someone who can bring others in to work with them, praise the people they are delegating work to. And share the success of a project, with those vital team players.
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From the context, I think the author was probably referring to office politics, not corrupt politicians.
^ Typical HN comment.

I'm sorry I'm making fun of you, but I just can't help myself as this happens all the time -- somebody comes up with a reasonable idea, and then the next commenter takes it so widely out of proportion, willing to re-engineer the whole society just to marginally improve his own comfort.