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Isn't there anything more interesting to say? Resentment isn't too useful.

I watched someone carry a wheelchair down the escalator a few weeks ago. No one could get past them, since the owner of the wheelchair was clinging to the person kind enough to escort them.
Is there a way to get the results "sorted" ? The filenames don't help much
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They would also put a security camera. They are really cheap now. It would not be wise to pick that lock.
But even the smallest floating point format still has 16 bits per channel.
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Real Estate lobbiests have a lot of power, and are surprising effective.

In CA a few years ago they wanted Gov. Schwartzeneger to sign a bill requiring all Realestae sales persons to be working for a broker for two years before striking out on their own to become Brokers. He saw the their wasen't a need to change the system, and vetoed it. He said, "Why decrease supply? We haven't had one instance where a new broker screwed up."

We all know what it takes to peddle Realestae. Eight courses and a lot of networking, and a lot of advertising. It's not rocket science. It's such a joke--I'm astonished the profession haven't been gobbled up my an app yet.

Well, out of stupidity, or lobbying Gov. Brown signed the bill. If you want to become a broker, and split you commission with the top cheerleader, you need to work two years in order to peddle houses.

It bother me, because I saw the easy money years ago, but draged my feet on finishing my last class, and taking the easy test.
I honestly try to add value to the HN discussion and I usually get upvotes. At the same time I often mention my recruiting thing. I agree that this post really went to far. Sorry this won't happen again.
That's awfully glib. There is medical marijuana in Michigan (a relatively restrictive regime, but still) and we still have pretty big problems with prescription drug abuse and heroin. Never mind that marijuana is at least as available as other illegal drugs. It's probably even easier and cheaper to get than a prescription for opiates.
I don't know what you mean by bubbling. The overall essay produces a quite useful heuristic. Perhaps the specific example is inspired by recent experience... But it has power for me.

It's amazing to watch how many young people get caught up in various online outrage missions. Hours spent browsing Twitter or Reddit to dive incredibly deep into some current news outrage is bull shit wasted time.

Get back to work and try to build something (if that's what you want). Or be with your family (if that's what you want). Or do whatever. But this stuff (including my post right now) is addicting.
Like many others, I think that tech valuations are quite frothy, but this article is hyperbolic.

"Selling and buying stock with foreknowledge, manipulating the company valuation at will, or simply witholding information from others."

First of all, this isn't a complete sentence. Second, this article is very light on supporting evidence.

"But of course, anyone holding preferred shares or enjoying the protection of a hefty severance package, as most outside CEOs do, walk away clean."

How many CEOs of unicorns are outside CEOs with hefty severance packages in terms of cash and preferred shares?

"Taking a step back – doesn’t this situation feel a lot like Enron?"

Nope, not really.

"Just like the legal definition of obscenity, nobody can describe why we’re in a bubble, but everyone can tell you 'I know it when I see it.'"

With pornography, this is a reasonable claim (though of course there are debatable cases). With markets, it's actually notoriously hard know when we are in a bubble. Many otherwise very successful traders have lost a lot of money on false positives.
Yes, LLVM will assume three or four functions exist regardless. The rlibc crate provides a Rust implementation of them, so you just add it and you're done. https://github.com/alexcrichton/rlibc
well since you must keep up with windows updates I am sure there is some information passed to microsoft that cannot be blocked during that process

it might be possible someday like xprivacy on android to send empty or bogus information for data that cannot be blocked
Yes, but again, you may not get that alert and find out that memory module is bad until months from now. It all depends on where the chip is bad at, how much is bad, how much load is usually on the system, etc.

I (and I would guess most people) don't want to find out a month (or more, potentially much more) from now that the memory module is bad, I want to know now so I can RMA it and get it over with without having to take a running system down and apart.

That's the problem that memtest solves, ECC does not solve the same problem at all.
Scan everyone's school accounts for mp3s, copy to one big folder without noting down source..
I really liked this essay. I've been spending a lot of my time dealing with bullshit, and it's exhausting. Essays like this provide me a reminder to step back and re-evaluate -- is what I think true, has the situation changed, have I changed. What should I do next.

There's a lot written on how to live a great life, but in the end more and more I think, you live great stages in life. At any stage, you optimize for it and with an eye for being prepared for future stages.
Done that myself a few times. In the present system, those who aren't able to walk, don't have to, and those that can, ought to be encouraged to, for the matter of public heath.
Because OC is one of the most overcrowded stations in the entire system, it's closed one in three workday evenings due to dangerous overcrowding.

However when the CR2 Euston-StPancras-KingsX station opens with a walkway from PancrasX far longer than 200m, it may look a bit silly for OC not to be directly connected.
A lot of these people got hooked on opiates through a prescription from their doctor. These doctors prescribing opiates before trying medical marijuana for pain management are endangering the wellbeing and lives of their patients.
Well don't lose your faith on HN's sense of humor, there are some of us who do get the joke :) maybe next time add a /sarcasm tag or such? I admit that it will water-down the effect, but it is better than nothing!
Have I fallen through hole in the Space/Time conntinuum? How is this news in Jan 2016?
Aren't Chrome OS and Android Linux flavors? That's my understanding.
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> The leader is not producing consensus

I am sorry, that's what he effectively does. The more other person is an expert, more likely is he to agree with the leader if he made the correct choice. You seem to think that good solutions are somehow unpopular but that's contradictory (unless there is somebody acting in bad faith). The best solution actually has the highest probability of being the popular one (otherwise the probabilities of the experts are incorrect).

> Presumably, if the leader is an expert in the field, that person should be able to recognize a good idea

This is exactly what I said. You say "presumably", but it is an assumption.

The point is, you don't actually need him. Everybody can voice their opinion about the best solution, and then they can have a vote. If you think it through, this procedure encompasses your proposal too, because your proposal is just a special case where they all follow (in the voting phase) the opinion of the person they agreed on. And the restriction that they need to agree on the person doesn't help you any.
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I also use Awesome WM, which is ... awesome. :-)

I think I see what you mean - is it the crazy flickering when you drag the newly created window around? I was able to get rid of that if I set the parent Chromium window status to "floating" (Mod+Ctrl+Space in Debian default config).
It's not a matter of allowing. The math just is.
This is the kind of "bulk collection" they should've been doing in the first place that might have actually busted some crooks. Instead of red flag criteria, they seem to be watching everything else most of the time. (rolls eyes)
Depends on who you are. The element of surprise is a huge part of works, esp horror or suspense movies. Eliminating the surprise leaves out a big chunk of the experience.
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All I can really say is that it was immediately apparent that a lot of the colours we used to use, which came from the default palette in older LO versions, aren't in the default palette any more, and if you go to the corresponding places in the format dialogs those colours do show up as "User" in LO5.

We'd have to look into the sorts of changes you mentioned if we were going to stick with 5, so thanks for the suggestions. However, given the graphical glitches and instability, which unfortunately make it borderline unusable on our test system, I don't think we'll be considering a larger scale migration any further until (I assume) some future updates that fix those things have arrived.

The glitches and instability appear to be across the whole suite, BTW. Basic stuff like drawing menus, toolbars and tabs is broken in very obvious ways, all the time. I'm guessing there's some fundamental problem with the routines LibreOffice uses to draw those graphical assets instead of the standard Windows functionality. Either that or there's some horrible conflict with the graphics drivers on the new machine, which is always a possibility but would be surprising at this point given how many other programs do seem to work OK.
But the other thing is that it relies on group policies to block windows features. But I do not know is what data leak cannot be blocked with group policies (if any), even in the current version of windows.
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There isn't time,so brief is life,for bickerings ,apologies,heartburnings,callings to account.There is only time for loving and but an instant.
Bupenorpine. Made it free. It will help a lot of addicts.
(Doctors shouldn't have to take a special course in order to prescribe it.)

I'm getting tired of this opoid problem. I'm tired of addicts overdosing. As to rehab--if you don't relapse--fine.

We have a drug for opioid dependenancy, and maybe even the
a tool to combat depression, and anxiety that's very safe. Unless you are hell bent on overdosing, you don't need Suboxone, you could get by with Subutex--that is if you can find a doctor to prescribe it? Once you have just bupenorpine in your system; the physical cravings for opioids go away. Plus--you might give up a few other bad habits too--like drinking?
I live in Rhode Island, and the heroin use is out of control. In the small town I grew up we lose someone to OD every month or so, and I have many acquaintances that are using. 5-10 years ago heroin use in the town was unheard of. All of the people I know that use started with Oxycontin, and then moved on to heroin when they became more desperate.
I'm from the UK and have been riding the Tube for decades.

If we're talking about a hypothetical alternative transport system to be built underground and carry private vehicles potentially with single occupancy, you could probably fit four such vehicles within a cross sectional area not much bigger than the existing tunnels. The engineering practicalities would presumably still favour a round tunnel, which would be less efficient in space if you were running smaller vehicles in parallel, though.

Then again, as I mentioned elsewhere, the cost of actually doing any of this in both time and money would be wildly prohibitive today and seems likely to remain so for many years to come, so this is all rather hypothetical anyway.
It would be good to read the study's paper. Studies often don't reach any explicit conclusions, which is one of the important features of the scientific process. Other people make inferences that aren't supported by the actual findings.

Some studies are intentionally deceptive, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97299. I've pointed that one out a few times over the years, since it's such an excellent showcase of incentives gone wrong. The researcher ended up getting a lot of funding, partly thanks to the pretense of "rat brain flies plane." No one bothered to try to pull apart their paper.

It takes a lot of effort to do this. The only reason I spent hours reverse engineering that paper was because of how excited I was about the implications. Discovering that it was nothing more than a rube goldberg nearly shattered my faith in academia. Especially the realization that sometimes researchers have to do that sort of thing to get funding, or lose.

It's entirely possible that what you said is true. All I'm saying is, it's best to seek out the original paper. (If it's locked behind a paywall, post a request to /r/scholar and you'll usually get it in under an hour.) Sometimes the truth is quite different from appearances.
is that actually true though? in vancouver, we have a similar phenomenon of Chinese real estate investors, except majority of these investors seem content to buy up properties and then choose not to rent them out even if they're not living there. this takes a lot of rental properties out of the market.
I imagine the arrangements vary on whether utilities are included as part of homeowner dues. The cost of utilities will also vary a lot depending on the climate and your type of heat etc. In my case (house in Northeast without central air), oil/electricity/water/propane average out to the $300ish/month range.
I don't have a problem with needing a cross-compiler, but I don't want to write one. I don't have to write my own if I use Rust. Or D, or C. But I can't find such a thing for ATS for example. So just being a language which has semantics to support this is not sufficient to be declared a language "which can do this". I would also need to be able to download a toolchain which can do this.
I went in the other direction. I used to use Linux (Ubuntu) but I got tired of essential things breaking after updates, like Nautilus, and the constant battle with getting the printer to work. Eventually I just got too frustrated, went out and bought Windows for $300 and considered it cheap.

Now I need Linux for work (software dev) again, so I gave dual-boot a try. I installed OpenSuse, Ubuntu, and Debian a total of 7 times since Christmas, each time ending up with something unbootable within days. And I spent a couple thousand dollars of my time getting them to work, fixing the horrible fonts on OpenSuse, etc. Eventually I gave up and bought VMWare where Ubuntu now sits happily isolated from real hardware, a configuration that it's somehow more stable in. And at least I have automatic snapshots on every reboot, so when something goes wrong I just roll back.

Honestly, desktop Linux is the most expensive OS out there if you count the value of your time. I really like Windows, not because it's a pleasure to use (Windows 8 with that metro crap was terrible!) but because it just works. If I can't get desktop Linux to work nicely as software engineer, what chance does your average person have? Unless some company does to Linux what Apple did to BSD (SteamOS?), I don't see any hope for it ever being anything but a niche desktop OS.
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Really cool project! As CloudFleet was one of the first backers of Mailpile (disclaimer, I co-founded it), I've always loved their concept and am stoked it's coming to light :)
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> of both illegal drugs like heroin and prescription painkillers

I was a teenager in the early 90's and i'm horrified with that heroin come-back. I don't understand how it can be, especially in western countries. What the f. is happening ? I thought we dealt with that sh. long ago ?
I wonder if you used hardware than is actually supported by the distributions you tried? If you need/want Linux I would highly recommend buying something pre-installed. You don't have to use the pre-installed OS but at least you can reasonably assume that drivers will be available.
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I think the writer fundamentally misunderstands Schoenberg's approach, and the approach of many avant-garde composers.

Schoenberg was engaged in an experiment. His polemic was not an absolute statement on the future of music, but a hypothesis. It is a framework for experimentation, like the Dogme 95 movement in film. The point of an artistic manifesto is to push a particular idea to an extreme and see what happens.

To quote Vi Hart: "It's a tool for breaking free of old musical habits ... to get your brain to stop following the same, well-worn neural pathways and think something you haven't thought before."

Schoenberg's legacy wasn't a generation of musicians who dogmatically stuck to serialist principles, but a generation who had a deep intuition about the limits of tonality. Eisler studied under Schoenberg, combining serialist ideas with jazz and folk music. He created some of the most remarkable and powerful music of the 20th century.

The work of the classical avant garde fed into jazz in a profound way. George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organisation was integral to some of the most important jazz works of the post-bop period. Most notably, that includes Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, by far the most popular and accessible jazz album of all time.

Music is a conversation played out over centuries, a back-and-forth of ideas. Sometimes a conversation needs polite consensus, sometimes it needs daring new ideas, sometimes it needs someone to say "this is all bollocks".

Music needs people like Schoenberg, just as software needs people like RMS. The progress of culture depends on the grand pronouncements of obsessive lunatics.
So did I. Please re-read my post. The same change that triggered the accidental fork was done smoothly later on, but the change was the same - it was a deliberate hard fork. You probably didn't notice because there was plenty of lead time and I don't think any miners got split off the chain, even though they could have.
I was hoping gp was being sarcastic

> limited supply with weighting in favour of early adopters

How is that not true for the royal families of Europe or pretty much all the billionaires in China/India/Russia? Of course, it is not a desirable feature as we've discussed in criticism of pg's essay but what option do we have?
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I just started looking at her top listed data source, the GDELT Project[1]. Kind of mind blowing.

[1] http://www.gdeltproject.org/
There's also office 365 which runs in Chrome (and probably Firefox) on Linux. The office/Windows lock-in is definetly a thing of the past.
Their journey usually involves walking to the station, walking to the escalator, walking from the escalator to the train, and walking from the train to work.

That short escalator ride isn't a public health disaster.

The lack of healthy food available to commuters is probably a bigger problem.
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Yes, as we become removed from the reasoning, let alone the information behind a recommendation, also removed is the opportunity for critical review of recommendations. Your horoscope comparison is apt. Just look at the concerns about self-delusion and data shopping being raised in peer-reviewed science:
(text): http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9216383/irreproducibility-resea...
(audio): http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/15/463237871/episo...

Clearly, there will need to be better automation, wide understanding, and improvements of techniques for producing more reliable results with machine learning. For example, the common standard of 2 sigmas for publishable resuls ought to be increased to 3 sigmas at least. I'm not suggesting the 6 sigmas used at the LHC but 2 (1:20) seems insufficient.
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Prescription opioids were over prescribed & being abused. A crack down on those made heroin actually easier & cheaper to get in many places.

There are some macro economic aspects as well making heroin cheap & powerful & readily available.
> I thought we dealt with that sh. long ago?

In what way do you think it was dealt with? As far as I know for actions like 'The War on Drugs' it's at least debatble whether they actually did reduce the amount of use of illigeal substances (let alone amount of related crime etc)?
Here's a long list of (awesome) public datasets:

https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets
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In another related thread I posted: Cut away branches that suck energy but don't bear fruit.

For me this is my bullshit filter.
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Chrome OS is a variant of GNU/Linux. Android isn't, it only has Linux kernel, but the userland is mostly incompatible with any existing GNU/Linux distros (there is some resemblance, because of *nix roots and POSIX compatibility, but not much)
> They're only dropping it for new systems

Wrong. They are also dropping support for existing Skylake systems.
I had never even heard of the issue of GUI isolation before people started using it as a way of promoting the Wayland idea. It was well known that keystroke loggers were particularly easy to do in *nix type systems but once you own a user in most any environment in practice getting keystrokes (or anything else associated with that user) isn't that hard. You really have to go further and explicitly sandbox a potentially malicious program.

This sort of issue is why Android (also Linux based but doesn't use X) runs apps as separate users.
This is a deeply ugly and patronising thought.
It's more subtle than that. The difference in attitude between "I walk when it's unavoidable" and "I walk whenever I can because we spent a billion years evolving to do it and living in a city is very bad for my overall health and wellbeing".
Maybe learn pylab to play around with data visualizations. What's nice about python is pretty much anything you can think of doing, someone else already built a library for that and answered a stack overflow question.
The purpose of the article was to show how to get up and running with rust on a Raspberry Pi, not to show how that rust is easier to use than C for programming a Raspberry Pi.

Plenty of things I do are are word for word the same in C and python. (import math vs. #include <math.h> , math.sin(x) vs. sin(x), etc.)

It is when you want to build something more complex than a blinking light that the differences between languages come out.
Too much contradicting stuff on the internet, it's hard to know what to assimilate and what to filter out.

-To procrastinate, or not to procrastinate. That should not be a question
I love this essay, and I love the mindset of being aware that your life is limited and your time should not be wasted. I find it is avery enabling realization. A personal favorite quote of mine:

"Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly
granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage.
It is time now to realize the nature of the universe to which you belong,
and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand
that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your
enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again."

Marcus Aurelius (Meditations 2:4)
Trust is indeed a huge issue that seems to be misunderstood and misapplied in the software community. Stallman's views on trust may seem radical, but he's pretty much right. Over and over I see the things he warns about come true and I trust companies and other entities less and less. It's kind of disheartening to see the huge potential of cloud infrastructure, amongst other technologies, going to waste.