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The topic is Windows. Windows is not only a desktop OS anymore. The exact same code (since a few weeks even the same build numbers) is running Windows Phone and Windows tablets too.

This is what is causing the issues that the OP is about: new hardware (both x86 and ARM) comes with new features in power management and virtualization (i.e. connected standby) which Windows needs to abstract and they find it too hard/risky to backport the OS and driver changes to every device now running Windows 7.
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It doesn't run slow at all and it's free so it has that advantage over Sublime
I would say that this is better thangaving no breaks at all.
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Bhah. Cool is two-pronged corkscrew. So simple, yet so effective.
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Landing page is > http://inventr.org

Hoping that over time the Inventr boards ask more complex questions especially around problem solving and better giveaways.

Each Inventr has their own publicly available profile which shows their Inventr status, each brand has their own Inventr page (click on a board to get there).

Sharing is built into the platform with the option to share an idea once submitted for as many upvotes as possible.

Business model likely to be subscription based version for the enterprise to drive change, problem solving and innovation.

We were featured on product hunt in mid December. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/inventr
I was thinking about pop culture + education more than "war on drugs", since I live in Europe. I mean since when taking heroin is cool again ? it destroyed or killed so many people i knew 20 years ago ...
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Subutex and suboxone are not the answer just like methadone is not the answer. I know people who I went to high school with take those for years and years. Instead if doing pain killers they are now addicted to the pill that was supposed to get rid of addiction.

Physical cravings aside its a mental game to get rid of an addiction. Every time one of those friends stopped taking subutex/suboxone they would relapse. Some people took them for 4-5 years and were on such a high dose they had withdraws.
I skimmed the linked article and searched it for "envious losers" but didn't find the phrase you mention. It did have a nasty tone, and seemed more like a personal attack and attempt to incite anger than a reasoned response to the ideas presented.
Dont expect me to not LOL when idiots are downvoting technically true statements. ;)
Autopsied one yesterday. Tox is pending, but all the circumstantial evidence strongly points to heroin. Active duty, happened in his quarters on base.
D grade.

Too many mixed metaphors, not enough copy-editing, and he never even defines what he means by "squirrel". The author uses a lot of words to make a very simple point: many unicorn valuations are bullshit, and we should pity the company founders and early-hires who are paying tax on stock options as if these bullshit valuations were real.
Yeah, for the HN people interested in CloudFleet, I recommend you visit our technology overview at http://cloudfleet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/doc/technology/t...
> 2) Our (US) reliance on Saudi Arabia will diminish as there are now two powers in the region to work with.

One can hardly talk about US reliance on SA nowadays. US imports only 24% of its petroleum[1]. Only 13% of which comes from SA[2].

The fact that US reliance on foreign petroleum has fallen from 60% to 24% and is projected to fall to less than 10% in the next couple of years is IMO the reason why the Iran deal was possible at all. SA had no say in it.

[1]: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6
[2]: http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/us_oil.cfm
For the faithful, racking up merit, studying etc are indeed noble pursuits no matter what.
But I was more speaking about all the time spent in churches, praying etc in the mislead hope of having eternal life.
The original (or is it?) 'Ars Longa' is a nice, short read. Worth a pause:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_longa,_vita_brevis#Transla...
As european, may i ask from americans - what pains do you have so that doctors so easily prescribe hard painkillers? When taking into account that one can sue doctors easily in US, why they even dare?
The actual or perceived importance of bioinformatics is safe. My point was that holding up CRISPR as an example of why bioinformatics is important is a bizarre thing to do (this is most definitely not news to anybody working in the life sciences), and only makes sense I think as a kind of half-hearted attempt to justify the writing of an article which otherwise is very easily construed as being of dubious intent.
I'm in California. The scene usually indicates poly-substance use. Source: the autopsies for OD I've done.
The most ridiculous "bug" is: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-...

But I'm just using Everything as search app, it's much better than any other search function.
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This makes me wonder how making drugs legal would affect the overall mortality rate. The changes in Portugal are interesting but it's not the same culture as the US. Would it make it worse (easier to get drugs) or better (less stigma about treatment).
> How did Wagner justify his music in philosophical terms? Why did he even feel the need to justify it? What would such a justification look like? What would a competent justification look like? How can I identify a composer who has philosophical gifts?

Wagner (and most other composers) were highly influenced by their contemporary philosophy. The wikipedia article lists a lot of this and Wagner is a very good example for this as he had rather intense and highly influential conversations with philosophers: many books have been written about Wagner and Nietsche's relationship alone.
Wagner also changed his ideas (and consequently his music) over time, most prominently embracing first germanic mythology and later christianity.

About the "competence" and "half-bakedness" of musical theories held by composers over the time you can probably entertain many prolonged spirited conversations. Personally - having read some classical and pre-classical aera musical theory books - I think you can find excellence and mediocracy distributed rather equally over the centuries.

And yes, this piece seems to expect the reader to know a bit about music history, especially that of musical theory.
> what pains do you have so that doctors so easily prescribe hard painkillers?

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/13172/relieving-pain-in-america-a...

tl;dr - "Chronic pain conditions affect at least 116 million U.S. adults at a cost of $560-635 billion annually in direct medical treatment costs and lost productivity. [...] [It] is much more than a biological phenomenon and has profound emotional and cognitive effects. [It] contributes greatly to national rates of morbidity, mortality, and disability; and is rising in prevalence."
"If they were actively discriminating against you because you were a girl, I'd expect you to have said something like: "a roomful of junior high boys who scorned me proactively because I was a girl despite the fact that they knew I loved computers.""

Why? This type of sexism or bias is well-known to the point that I'm surprised you asked her to explain it. Here it is: our culture molds men and women into different roles at an early age that shapes the average person's expectations of what's a "man's thing" or a "woman's thing." Although early technicians were women, men eventually took over the field and computers were another thing they played with while women did other things.

Although I'd like the specifics, I could easily see a group of male, computer nerds assuming she was a waste of time because "women don't hack on computers." Just like how [male] mechanics would likely roll their eyes if a woman suggested the answer to a mechanical problem that wasn't obvious to them. Whereas anyone can do math.
It’s always said when the worst dystopic visions become truth.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

[2] http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
There's actually two problems:

javascript vs. machine code generated from c (or a c-like)

rebuilding UI elements in HTML and rendering them with a browser engine vs. native UI toolkit.

Often in comparisons the emphasis is only on the first one, and the difference usually isn't that big (maybe a factor of 2). The real issue actually is the second problem, it's much worse.

That's also why I find the trend to do user interfaces in HTML so terrible: native UI toolkits work better and use less resources. The only advantage is that they run everywhere, but so does drawing into a 2D pixel matrix and rendering it.
How the hell do you perceive it as something good and enjoyable instead of a valid reason to get a panic attack?
It's bad in AK too, at least in Juneau. A city of ~30,000 people during the tourist season had at least 6 overdose deaths last year[0], and one particularly bad weekend saw 4 people treated for overdosing on heroin[1], and just the other day a seemingly healthy acquaintance of mine was found dead[2]. While they haven't ruled that one an overdose yet I think it's pretty likely.

Disable JavaScript to get around the Empire pay wall.

0: http://www.adn.com/article/20151107/juneaus-heroin-heartbrea...

1: http://m.juneauempire.com/local/2015-11-17/one-weekend-5-dru...

2: http://m.juneauempire.com/local/2016-01-15/juneau-man-found-...
None of those PG communicates with believe that all income inequality is bad.

This is exactly one of the main problem with the essay. He argues against a position only very very few people really have. But it goes further than that.

PG is right claiming that you can't stop how technology creates inequality. But he is wrong if he believe that this wealth is created purely from risk taking and hard work. Of course those who are wealthy mostly work hard, but so does everyone else.

But the real issue of course is that if we can't stop technology to keep pushing wealth for some into extremes and for others to keep stalling then the wealth created is mostly due to luck and access to the right people and some timing. Not unlike a Powerball ticket but just of being born into the right context.

And so if PG wanted to show he actually understood the issue.
Instead of arguing against some straw man he could have spent some time on using his otherwise amazing ability, to think out of the box, to put forward some thoughts on how society could deal with this. Then he would have at least shown some understanding of the people he was talking about.

Instead he basically says. It's going to continue like this, but don't worry it's better than the alternatives and it's going to be good again.

Why would anyone who doesn't stand to benefit from this ever accept such a position?

I just don't see PG's thoughts as well developed here as they are in other areas and no amount of historical context is going to change that.
I still swipe from the right when I want to shut down or restart my laptops. Probably doesn't help that I'm using a server edition of Windows that still has that at work.

Glad I'm not alone in missing that.
thanks for the constructive hint I will try to do my best
This really is a fantastic presentation for newcomers to the field. When I was taking these classes I found it difficult to keep all of the available algorithms organized in my mind. Here's an outline of his presentation:

Overview (5 slides)

General Concepts (9 slides)

K nearest Neighbor (6 slides)

Decision trees (6 slides)

K means (4 slides)

Gradient descent (2 slides)

Linear regression (9 slides)

Perceptron (6 slides)

Principal component analysis (6 slides)

Support vector machine (6 slides)

Bias and variance (4 slides)

Neural networks (6 slides)

Deep learning (15 slides)

I especially like the nonlinear SVM example on slides 57 and 58. It provides a visual of projecting data into a higher dimensional space.
Drugs come into and go out of fashion, and there are changes in availability as various precursor chemicals are made harder to get.

With things like MDMA this control over precursor chemicals does harm, because people use "research chemicals" or bath-salts instead, and there's not much evidence of safety for those. And there's some environmental impact as illegal loggers cut down trees in rain forest to get safrole oil.
They're rather polite about it over there, it seems, even though they may be expressing hatred under their breath :)
I'm a new father, and it's striking how things that previously seemed broad and philosophical get pressingly real as you become a parent. Parenthood is full of great joys but also intense logistical realities: your time gets heavily scheduled for care and play. And when you see a child developing new abilities every week, your 5x/week decision on when to head home from the office becomes a very clear trade-off between working more and collecting a unique experience with the most compelling person you've ever met.

For people who aren't yet parents, it compares a bit to the way your thinking about money matures when you get your first job. Suddenly a shirt equals two hours of labor instead of some abstract quantity of a theoretically finite resource. This triggers in many of us a quest to figure out income, so we can get the things we want. But even the affluent among us can't just throw more time at all the things they'd want to do.
The goal of suboxone therapy is not to free someone from physical dependence. It is to save lives and restore livelihoods by replacing a dangerous and debilitating drug whose use is associated with a whole set of unhealthy behaviors with another drug that permits nearly normal functioning in society.
Painkillers are often prescribed after serious surgeries, like knee or hip replacement.
Sometimes when someone is too far gone it's a waste to medicate.
It all looks nice until we get numbers from groups like GapJumpers that institute blind auditions for hiring or performance evaluations where evaluator can't identify what group they are. Starting out, these "fair" companies are usually under 10% minority or women. Once they see only performance, it's suddenly closer to 50/50. Hmm.

Then there's the experiences themselves:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/12/silicon-va...

Would you work in a place or field like that if all you heard was what's in above link? And people justified it instead of solved it? And hard data, such as pay or hiring w/ performance in context, showed they discriminated in both hiring and advancement? Probably not.

The problems are in the Valley's culture and decision-making, not anything intrinsic. Same as in most other places. Good policies on professionalism, hiring, and promotion which focus on performance instead of identity would go a long way. Have, in few companies that did it.
> Linux is not that great at compatibility with old code or old binaries.

The default on Linux is source code availability. If the ABI changes but the fix is to recompile or change a couple of lines then it's a much smaller issue than it would be on Windows when you can code. And even if you can't, since the default is also redistributability, someone who can may have done it already and the fix will be in the package manager before you even knew it was a problem. Or you can submit a bug which, when the fix is that simple, some random hacker will fix it for you because it looks good on a cv or github history.

This compared with Windows where you have e.g. some driver with sources unknown that needs to be updated to support AMD64, which already supported x86 and was 64-bit clean for some RISC architecture, but now you can't do it at all. Or even more frustratingly, you have the driver source and the fix is very simple but you can't actually use or redistribute it because you're not up for the five grand and six months it takes to get a certificate for code signing.
Worth to mention that a Statistical Learning Stanford course [1] just started and according to the lecturers there is a lot of overlap in both areas.

[1] https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...
I am young, and very scared of this 'death' thing. It is so humbling to read of those who have transcended that fear.
They are tagged so you can use something like easytag to rename them based on that. Alternatively just use a proper podcast client to download them all, I like gpodder 2.
For what it's worth, almost everyone I know my age has a relationship with drugs that falls somewhere between open-to-the-idea, dabbling, or frequent-but-functional. Designer drugs are viewed as cool and a status badge in some ways. Concentration/ productivity drugs are popular, nootropics are trendy, almost normalized. The other day a perfectly normal, if rather nerdy social media manager I know brought up to me how he's looking to get into cocaine because he thinks it'll be fun (but maybe that's just a social media manager thing). Granted, the article said the rates were more associated with lower socio economic groups, but I think all this still points to there being something in the air.
Are all of these *coins written in C? If you had a language not so easily obfuscated you could at least more readily find crap like this.
Buying real estate itself is not. But buying it with elicit money with intent of obfuscating its trail is.
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I have two kids, I have had two melanomas so far. I understand what it means when people say life is to short.

But is life is too short to use your wealth and power to help solve the problem you acknowledge there is? That sounds like a weird idea. Most of PGs essays aren't controversial they are more informative. Why is life too short for that?

If anything PG is a thinker and a good one at it. He doesn't get everything right (who does) but he is a smart enough thinker to be able to develop his thinking.

You can read his essay in three ways.

1) Life is too short, I don't like writing essays about things that interest me anymore.

2) Life is too short, I just want to kick back and enjoy my family and the money I have.

3) Life is too short.

No matter how you turn it around I fail to see why he would give up writing something that he surely enjoys doing. Especially when you have the power to actually get people to take you serious. (Perhaps thats the problem?)

So why should life be too short for that? Only PG knows. But I think he is proving that either some of the "conspiracy theorists" in this thread are not wrong, or some of his critiques of his last couple of essays are not wrong either.
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India was about as poor as countries like South Korea immediately post world war 2. The most massive difference was their embrace of a Soviet style planned economy, which means that they grew at about 1-2% annually for the next 40 years and South Korea grew at a much, much higher rate. It's not a coincidence that economic liberalization in India in the early 90s (as with china, 15 years earlier) coincided with a boom in growth rate.

I fully agree with your point that India ideally should be many, many countries: democracy suffers greatly when a massive, linguistically, religiously, and culturally diverse subcontinent is forced into a single government. Just look at Europe and their cautious, precarious tiptoeing towards political unity, despite having the relative advantage of being infinitely less diverse, way less religious, and way more developed than the Indian subcontinent.
An interesting example of how too much uniformity can weaken a system. Where i live, there is a low but "reliable" percentage of riders who are just too rude to follow the left/right protocol. They are rare enough that during low-traffic periods, chances are quite low that you will be blocked while taking the individual latency improvement of walking. However, in periods of high traffic there will be enough of of them to reliably break the throughput-limiting lane pattern and congestion propagation will make sure that it stays that way until the next break in throughput demand.

Never occurred to me that the occasional lane-blocker was an accidental optimization.
A lot of these points sound similar to the famous resolutions of the young Jonathan Edwards. I try to make a habit of reading them at least once a year for many of the points Paul mentions in this article.

http://edwards.yale.edu/archive?path=aHR0cDovL2Vkd2FyZHMueWF...

a few examples:
"6. Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live."

"9. Resolved, to think much on all occasions of my own dying, and of the common circumstances which attend death."

"52. I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: resolved, that I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age"
Then shut up.
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You could argue it both ways, but I'd argue that the externalities of legalizing it (drug dealers don't have to shoot each other to compete, police officers are no longer risking their lives breaking into meth labs, etc.) make legalizing worth it.
I don't think enough time is spent on signalfd: It's not just great if you have it, it's easy to emulate if you don't[1], so it's worth designing programs to use it instead of trying to handle interrupted system calls everywhere.

SIGIO could have gotten more attention, it get's a poor treatment because epoll/kqueue are better, but if you stop thinking about getting out of the signal handler as fast as possible and start thinking of it as a kernel-side queue you can save a couple syscalls on an IO-heavy application.

There's some neat tricks you can do with SIGURG as well, since it lets remote processes(!) send a signal ahead of the TCP buffer.

Another good thing worth mentioning is the trick of trapping SIGSEGV/SIGBUS to sbrk; something like this:

char*p=sbrk(0);
void h(int _){ sbrk(4096);signal(SIGSEGV,h); }
signal(SIGSEGV,h);

This allows you to manually manage memory without having to check how close you are to the end of memory[2] which can really simplify some programs, since you'll get a hardware trap that automatically extends the data segment when you write off the end of memory.

SIGXFSZ can be dealt with similarly: So many programs try to track bytes copied (quotes, etc) when setrlimit and a signal is easier. More programs don't bother which is annoying.

Also not mentioned: The terminal. SIGWINCH[3] which is useful for getting updated when the window resizes, and SIGTSTP/SIGCONT is how you detect a console user putting you in the background.

[1]: https://cr.yp.to/docs/selfpipe.html

[2]: https://github.com/geocar/ed-v6/blob/master/ed.c.orig#L608

[3]: http://web.mit.edu/~mkgray/jik/sipbsrc/src/utree/tst/sigwinc...
The thing about the gateway oxycontin to heroin is that when people get "clean" and then relapse, the idiots try to take their old dose and end up killing themselves because they do not have the tolerance anymore:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/1998/06/heroin-relapse-ups-ov...

Living in a low income area, I am grateful every day that I do not seem to have the attraction to drugs that so many people around here seem to have. I'm not even tempted. Not patting myself on the back for that because I suspect it is just fortunate genetics in that one regard. Now put a pizza or chocolate in front of me and I have an impossible time stopping but that won't kill me of course.
Interesting, that is 50% of adults suffer from chronic pain. Thats a lot.
Couldn't have said it better and more clearly myself!
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There was a woman who became obese following a transplant of gut flora.

Recall how much the idea of evolution bothers some people. Are you sure this isn't a similar type of situation?

We seem to have evidence that obesity isn't always a choice.
so much conjecture, no substance..