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Yeah, we all know that you can take a laptop down to a beach and do something productive, but it surely won't be as optimal as time spent working in an air-conditioned coworking space or cafe, or at home.

If you're working on the beach you're not really at the beach, and you're not really working. You're getting a poor experience on both sides. I think anyone who's actually tried it, in all sincerity, would probably attest to this.

If you have access to a beach you're much better going somewhere optimal for work, saving some hours in gained productivity, then heading down to the beach for lunch or after the working day for some actual relaxing beach time.
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Indeed. My country follows EU very closely in this, and I don't expect I'd be able to retire before 65 if I stayed an employee, and it's very, very likely the law will be changed to a minimum retirement age of 70 during my working life (social security is very close to defaulting).
We can't even seem to treat each-other decently. Animals have no chance.
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I only read half of the article, but it seems to me that the language used is philosophically naive. Although it's a popularising article, it should still have a certain standard.

Animals feel, communicate, imitate, take decisions, actions, play, eat, sleep, run from dangers, do all kind of stuff.

But thinking?

Before answering this question seriously, a definition of thinking should be in place. Dualists traditions such a christianity have attributed souls (although not immortal souls) to animals. Having a soul (the article goes the brain-is-the-mind path) clearly involves having mental states, no doubt about that. Being God's creations, animals deserve a good treatment, to touch on the ethical side of complex issue.

The simple fact the animals can see, hear, smell, etc. implies phenomenal experiences (as David Chalmers, among others, calls them). There is no science yet to explain them but there're there, for the simple reason that we experience them and they look familiar to what we do when we experience them.

But thinking? I believe a proper definition of rational thinking involves the ability of having articulate language. I don't know of any animal species capable of that. Sounds? Yes. But sentences with truth value? Anyone?

The danger here is to project our abilities into a small set of faculties animals have and say, look!, we're no better, we're no different.
Until today, it is believed that self-awareness is what distinguishes humans from other species. If ever that gets debunked, I think that would be the start of the end of meat consumption.
As an outsider who has has visited London a couple of times: yes, it is obviously an infrastructure thing. I wouldn't dream of cycling on the streets of London; I don't have a death wish.

(I'm in Sweden. Most of the time there's dedicated bike lanes/roads, but sometimes in the inner city parts we have to share the roads with cars.)

I still think your fellow cyclists are being silly/immature. You should lobby for more isolation of car/bike traffic. However... Rejecting this kind of safety spray out of political reasons would be like rejecting bike helmets out of political reasons. You're wearing it to protect yourself...
> From a different point of view, the parents are age 57 and 59 and if everything went well, they would already have retired.

Things would have to have gone really well to retire before 60 in USA. Most Americans don't even consider retiring until at least that, often 65.
Are you saying that accessing public data should be possible, but require a willingness to jump through hoops?

What's your thinking behind that?
> Android doesn't even let you use the OS properly without account.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, can you explain further?

I will say, that I've had a couple of Android phones for perhaps 4-5 years now and while I initially did use the bundled OS on my first one, I have never signed in with a Google account.. I use CyanogenMod now on a Nexus S with no Google apps and the phone doesn't seem to be without features that I might desire, indeed there are vast number of developer options that I don't use. Certainly there are third party apps that I know exist that I just can't get (F-Droid is limited sometimes) but that is not really OS functionality in my opinion.
Windows is not special. Android is not special. Apple is not special. I am equally upset at any operating system that chooses to collect and store information about me and how I use my device without my knowledge or explicit consent.

You don't get to point at some other examples of Bad Thing happening and hand-wave it all away like our concerns are not valid.
It looks like they have developed their own desktop environment based on GNOME technologies.

https://solus-project.com/budgie/
Historical man pages have been the comprehensive reference for a command. You can't write a document that serves both as a gentle introduction to a tool for a new user, and retain the encyclopedic list of every possible option.

Adding EXAMPLE/SYNOPSIS to existing man pages helps a little, but tldr is squarely aimed at lowering the barrier for entry.
But I see laptops on the beach on Facebook with the same frequency that I see them at the office.
What would it take to completely wipe out all student debt? In theory, could a Presidents pen stroke do it?
Its more a merger of museum and library, and you call them artifacts not books.

Think of plat maps and genealogical records from centuries ago. As a percentage of library artifacts, they'll increase over time.

Plenty of people will be "into" converting popular books. Then a smaller subset are into nation wide distributed but unpopular books. Then books not written in the local language or current language. Finally you end up with artifacts that are valuable to researchers but might only be read every century or so. Consider small town city council meeting records. Or church records of baptisms and funerals (and burials).

Aside from technological or economic collapse (good thing those two have never historically happened and therefore can never happen in the future...) the library of 2030 will be a lot like a museum is today, except perhaps more hands on. So you can walk into the genealogical room and its basically unchanged from 2015. Teen fiction, well, maybe that will be gone entirely. The concept of special collections or rare books will be eliminated because the only remaining books will either be special or rare.

What to do with all the space and salary is interesting. My suspicion is the days of 90%+ of American kids living less than 15 minutes walking distance from a public library are about to come to an end. I live in the county seat and have the largest public library, and probably every library in the county will eventually close and send all their genealogical artifacts to our formerly city now county library. We already have a small county historical society museum and I would not be surprised to see them merge with "the" county library.

Probably not a good decade to try to get a library science degree and become a librarian.

Interestingly there is a subculture that refuses to read off screens, even here, on an online on-screen discussion site, and that combined with very rapid printers and print on demand and ordering online means that bizarrely enough there might be more paper books in 2030 than in 2015, its just that cities won't pile so many up in one building. Much like the decline of public wells as a source of urban drinking water doesn't mean we've evolved past water drinking, it just means we have more faucets than mouths now, including faucets in our homes, so a neighborhood sharing a well seems weird and is basically culturally dead. Likewise in 2030 the idea of sharing a pile of books might feel icky, like a neighborhood sharing underwear or shoes does today.
This sounds a bit like Charles Duhigg's "Power of Habit", but I don't recall him talking about suicide in that context.
Seems like it was a prudent move.

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Just to emphasize your comment: anyone looking to expand their knowledge should download pdfs and epubs from genlib/libgen (I pronounce it "libgen"). It's changed the way I read.

Now, if I have even a passing interest in a book, I download it and read the introduction. If I like it, I get it from the library. If I like my first reading, I buy the book.

The two things that have increased the range of my intellectual interests in 2015 have been libgen and twitter (where people more interesting than me talk about their research with others).
I thought Gennardo was a company doing it and tried to google it. Realizing now you actually know someone with the same idea haha. But no, I'm not gennardo!
> The Navy has another paid-internship and training program for college graduates with no job: it's called ENLISTING.

The Navy (and other services are similar) actually has lots of non-uniformed internship programs for current students ; I suspect the biggest advantage of having family in the military is that they are likely to be aware of these things.
I agree that the outrage over Windows 10 seems a little...inconsistent. For Android users (could be on iOS too, not sure), open up Maps. Open up the options menu in the upper left hand corner and choose "Your timeline." This will literally show you every place you have traveled, WHETHER OR NOT YOU EVEN SEARCHED FOR A PARTICULAR LOCATION (i.e. it just shows where you've been walking around). You can delete the data and opt out I think, but it's not by default.

And that's just one thing off the top of my head, I'm sure there are many others. Ultimately, if you REALLY care about privacy you probably shouldn't be using any mainstream operating systems for mobile, desktop, etc.
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> An analytics applicant came into Jet for an interview. In some ways he was a model candidate, smart and driven. But he did not score high in the “plays well with others” category. Asked to talk about a recent project in which he was a member of a team, he could not think of any. His prospects immediately diminished to zero.

I hate this anecdote. Just because he could not, on the spot, think of a project in which he was a "member of a team," he is unable to "play well with others"? What if at his previous company he was asked to work by himself for projects? Does that mean he can't work in a team if he was made to? Does that say he's not good at analytics and doesn't deserve the job? Or what if he couldn't think of a good example of a project involving teamwork? I really hope this anecdote is merely incomplete.
They still have the runtime under the GPL, right? So you'd have to pay for the Pro version to distribute non-libre binaries.
Hopefully not.
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Oh I misinterpreted your comment. I see your point.
not sure that this logic follows.

I would say that humanization is a prerequisite for treating anything humanely (and the inverse is true as well, see: dehumanization). IMO, the primary reason animals do not have a chance is because they are not universally (or sufficiently) humanized. This could be in large part due to our grossly insufficient or oversimplified understanding rather than intentional malice.

The fact that we don't treat actual humans humanely is an orthogonal issue.
Yes! Thank you, all I want is an example of how to use the command. Man pages never help me, they give a bunch of non-concrete examples. I always just Google for the command and someone's blog post helps me out.
I can hande the "py" prefix or suffix (hopefully lower-cased though), but the dash is too much!
I snuck into a Banking security conference; forged a badge, and stayed down the road to hear Kevin give a very lengthy speech.

It can be found here: (https://soundcloud.com/michael_graf/kevin-mitnick-speech-201...)

I gave him my forged badge, and told him I really like the speech - he signed my book and spoke with me for around 10 min... Really nice guy
What a load of BS. So the message is what? If you blow through giant piles of VC cash spending money like crazy you can make some employees happy?

One gets to put out such puff PR pieces and be taken seriously if you're profitable, or even close to profitable. Then you're actually saying something. "Look at us, we run a great business and have happy employees." Otherwise, yes if you light mountains of money on fire some people will get a good ride out of it... until the cash is gone then it's a bloodbath.

Jet's business model is, well it seems they no longer have a business model other than seeing how fast they can burn cash. I wish them well, but seriously right now this company looks like a friggin' mess with no clear long term path forward.
2016: The year one switches to Ubuntu due to the slow, chunky over engineered mess and automatic updates of Windows that screw up workflows and interrupt video conference meetings where money is on the line.
Location History is opt-in, and Google sends you frequent email reminders that you are opted in. I have email reminders in my gmail account dating back to 2011 when it was still called Latitude.

If you want to see this info and/or enable/disable it: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
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"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word _no_."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Azure is their cloud OS and runs on a special Windows server cluster in huge datacenters. (One can run Linux VMs on it, but that's just a byproduct) Azure and software as a service are their mid term future plans. Not for a reason Dave Cutler (73 years old!!), VMS and WinNT fame/chief architect has worked on Windows Azure and Hyper-V since 2008. He is undoubtly Microsoft's oldest and most important person - without him Windows (NT series, XBox, Azure) wouldn't exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
What is the advantage of Mendeley over Zotero?

My understanding is that Zotero implements essentially all of Mendeley's features, and is free and open-source. (Here's the comparison according to Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/compare-mendeley/ ). I think most people just haven't heard of it. It's supported and developed by a foundation, and if you ever stop liking it you can take all your data and move it to Mendeley very quickly. On the other hand, I don't think it's easy to leave Mendeley: https://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-general/suggestion...

EDIT: Here's how Docear compares them:
http://www.docear.org/2014/01/15/comprehensive-comparison-of... Zotero lacks Android/iOS apps (except for Zandy on Android, which is poor).
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How is it better that fewer people are taking ownership of their computers and more are being pushed into following laws dictated from Washington?
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I use Zotero (https://www.zotero.org), and am liking it a lot. (It's also independent, as opposed to Mendeley which is owned by Elsevier)
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That's part of the story. The root keys are RSA-2048, but the intermediary zone signing keys for the root are RSA-1024. The latter keys are changed every third month. So, while there is pressing need to move to larger key sizes, the short validity tends to lessen the impact somewhat.

There were some concerns that the larger keys could cause issues with some network equipment, but it looks like those concerns were overblown. Network engineers are a fairly conservative bunch and, perhaps contrary to your expectations, there are real systems in the real world that would break if the root zone broke. These systems tend not to be web, so they might not be as visible to an end user perhaps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_traveler

There are several countries that will offer you citizenship by investment, including some with visa-free entry to US and Canada. Of course there is no guarantee this will last or that you personally will be able to travel (see Roger Ver).
Which makes spending that much money on a journalism degree from a private university that isn't particularly known for Hollywood connections (and certainly not in its journalism program) an extremely poor decision.

A Rutgers journalism degree might be a good choice (though still probably not going to pay off quickly, in net financial terms) if you want a career in journalism.

If you want a career in Hollywood, you probably want to get a film or related degree from a school where the department has Hollywood connections; I've heard (though I've never seriously researched it, since it was never my interest when going to school) that UCLA is fairly good in this regard. (And, you probably want to research what it takes to actually make a career in Hollywood, and be doing that while you're in school, rather than hoping that just getting a degree is going to magically open doors.)
I suspect that the goal is to be acquired by some big profitable company that wants to dip its feet into e-commerce. Or even being acquired by Amazon, which would probably want to eliminate all competition, even if its not profitable. The CEO of this company made a lot of money selling his last company to Amazon -- he's probably hoping to do the same here.
HN topics tend to run in cycles. A couple months ago we were on an aviation kick, with a lot of stories about old high-technology bombers like the B-70 or A-12. Once, a few years ago, the entire front page was taken up by Erlang stories. Summer 2013 was all about Snowden & the NSA.

Don't extrapolate this into a trend. It's more that seeing an interesting story tends to prime people to notice other interesting stories on the same topic. This is also why you get press cycles - notice that the other topic that's been recurrently popping up on the HN front page is Theranos (and data breaches, and how we now have too many JS frameworks).

Eventually all these topics will pass, people will continue writing programming languages, and HN's collective attention will move to something else.
>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Praha%2C...

FTFY.
I think most people would. The problem is the same with size, OEMs have to retrain people that thinner is not better. Unfortunately, OEMs currently have an oddly obsessive compulsion to make phones thinner and thinner. I honestly don't fully understand this.
You may think language is necessary, and probably because that is the only way you've experienced thought. Curious, what do you think went through helen kellers mind? Or someone in a similar situation? Are they incapable of thinking without a formal language to internalize? Do you think they "think less"?

Our thoughts are inextricably linked to and shaped by our senses. Sight and vocalization dominate for humans and your thoughts center around those sensations.

But what the hell do I know, I'm just a dog.
No, not crazy. Not all properties of mass are force. For example, inertia. Also, really we should be talking matter, not mass.
I think your definition of "thinking" is a bit too narrow. Certainly, there are humans with mental conditions which prevent them from communicating with "articulate language" (autism, aphasia, etc). Yet there's little doubt that they can still "think".

Yes, there's a danger of personifying animals. But there's also a tendency for us to picture ourselves as special (Geocentrism being the obvious example).
Amazon has no profits but bountiful cash flows. They make money on the margin when you buy something, they just invest it back into the business.
> But thinking? I believe a proper definition of rational thinking involves the ability of having articulate language.

This isn't a very robust argument, because it can't handle the "I have no mouth, and I must scream" scenario.
Can someone point me to the documentation for their cweb-equivalent (weave/tangle etc.)? Just interested if their definition of literate includes "macros", or just the semi-literate stuff you see more commonly these days (i.e. inverted comments, without restructuring).

Might also be just a fancy word for "we use begin/end, not braces".
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My understanding from interviews with employees and they use volume, logistics and other factors to leverage a better deal that they pass off entirely to the customer. (They make their profits off the membership as I recall)
I assume they're thinking they'll enter these countries under the pretense of vacationing.
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You are an outlier. For 99% of the users (not an accurate figure, of course) using Android without the Play Store is not viable.
The difference is that Amazon had no profits in the early days because they poured money into improving their supply chain not selling products at a loss as a strategy. Drop shopping isn't the same as building your own supply chain out. There is no strategic advantage to be had placing orders with a drop ship network.
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I meant "as we know it". There are large parts that did not survive, such as this one, and music videos for example.
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You should get yourself a pet. My cats communicate with me every day.

"The danger here is to project our abilities into a small set of faculties animals have and say, look!, we're no better, we're no different."

I think the greater danger is to project our definition of what it means to "think" onto animals, and say, look! they're stupid, thoughtless creatures we can do with as we like.
I've heard people like Dave Asprey recommend people not to buy EV, because of the EMF and the health hazards. Any comments?
You’re basically trying to redefine thinking in purely human terms. Many animals plan, which is the clearest definition of thinking there is.

A range of animals also have complex language skills, and or use tools which imply significant levels of cognition.

EX: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/innovative-fema... , but chimps have also been known to make and use weapons and warfare.

PS: I would avoid redefining an existing word that with a similar meaning for what you’re describing as it muddles your argument. Replace your specific meaning with say 'Pogo Stick' and it becomes clear when you mean that specific thing vs the more commonly understood definition.
SELinux isn't enabled by default on many distros because it's not the only kernel security module out there. There's also AppArmor and some others.
It can be turned off in version 1511 for Enterprise and Education editions, under Group Policy: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...

See screenshot and guide at http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/30/windows-10-and-privacy/

Alternatively, disable this service if concerned: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/19/microsoft-rena-and-telemetr...
I'd like to hear from some actual marketing people on this. Is it because once you've gone large you can't go back (I'll pause for the snickering to stop)? What I mean is, after you've told consumers that larger screens are better, is it really that hard to tell them, well, no, "right size" is best?
Android and Apple Pay suggest other intentions.