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You are right. I think Google want people to get annoyed with this vignette ads if he or she uses google calendar. The user should install Google calendar the APP to be fully controlled by google. Then Google can just sends the user any ad what google like...

They all prefer user using apps rather than web pages. Google and others want to get fully control of users and make money...
I for one prefer a simple keyboard layout, no number pad, no extra cruft, never use them
Yep... km/h -> m/s conversion failure, thanks!
> There should be tools for crowdsourcing this sort of thing. It's only going to become more common.

That's why Wikileaks originally decided to call itself "wiki", but they gave up on that idea very quickly.
> Can't unions negotiate for fair wages while also throwing the bad apples to the wolves?

No, not really. Its the nature of the beast that unions need to protect all their member. A noble goal with a noble origin, but it gets pretty perverted in the extreme its been taken to. For example, school union members that are no longer allowed to teach students but cannot be fired (search on cases in both LA and NYC). You would think rationality would prevail but then you run into the other problem.

Union membership totals determine power. More members, more money to lobby, which gives you more influence. There is a reason the California Correctional Peace Officers Association continues to advocate for laws that will put more people in jail.

At this point, for government workers, we as a country would be much better off without government worker's unions.
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."

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I hope that higher-res screens become standard in the 13-15in line of PC laptops. I have an XPS13 that I love, but there are still many programs (even certain interfaces inside Windows itself!) that do not behave well with hi-DPI displays.
Puppet is out, in comes Ansible
Clearly meant as a tribute to Minksy.
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So my mac laptop draws into 5120x2880 buffer, then scales that down to 4k to display on my external 4k monitor. It’s also still driving the internal retina display with a different scaling.

External GPU helps.
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i think thats exactly what he was saying. the part about 'sedating the masses' is also very apparent when u look at the robotic and homogenous modes of behaviour and 'exploration' promoted at school. they are also trying very hard to reduce interaction of kids with people outside their age group or level (including parents) which drastically cuts down on learning things in life that school will never teach u.
Defeatist? No. I don't think it's defeatist to avoid relying on something that has been proven, time and time again, to be unreliable.

> How's that been working out for hard drug users, file sharers, and non-molesting pedophiles?

Hard drug users: many countries and jurisdictions are moving towards decriminalization and legalization, as well as emphasizing treatment over jail time for non-violent drug offenders.

File Sharers: File sharing continues unabated as far as I can tell. The most successful efforts to stop it have been offering attractive paid alternatives rather than hunting down file sharers.

Non-molesting pedophiles: Admittedly, an uphill battle. But you're here, on a public forum, mentioned them as an abused, oppressed class, so that's something. Not the first time I've seen such an opinion either.

Privacy is nice, but it's not a security measure. Even the NSA, with thousands of people working full time to find secrets and keep them, cannot keep their information secret.

> The entities currently doing are centralized, so they could easily be put out of business.

Theoretically, yes, Congress could pass a law making credit bureaus illegal. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to happen.

I never said "don't secure your computer". There's a big difference between making sure a keylogger doesn't grab your bank account number and worrying yourself stupid because a list of places you were last week is in a database somewhere that, in all likelihood, nobody is ever going to look at. The former is a reasonable precaution against a verified threat that you can personally take useful action on. The latter is just pointless stress about some vague danger that you have little immediate control over.
I own a macbook pro and I'm extremely envious of that bezel.
The ISIS encrypted messaging app the media reported on recently does not exist
You can also DL the ISO via bittorrent, which has some additional consistency checks.

https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-2.0.torrent
How about using a software to get rid of google ads?

I can erase google ads from DNS level. Users can never reach any google ad at all.

What you think?
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161002

That one is going in the highlights list.
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yes they would, if a font is more readable, it's more readable. And you can test it measuring recognition time and distance. And you can test in the sub optimal conditions mentioned, just like you could test readability on sub optimal substrates, resolution, degradation etc. It's not easy, but it's testable. i would like to see these articles accompanied by some in car photos of the signs being visible, where their conclusion is shown.
Anyone see that episode of South Park lately where Jimmy is the only human that can identify an ad from real content?

Now, when I read something like this, it's obviously an ad.
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The problem with these 4K laptops where you need to set your font as 250% is that if you RDP to a HyperV Windows 7 VDI machine at the higher resolution, you see nothing because you cannot change font size or resolution on the remote machine.

So before you RDP, you need to change the local resolution to something compatible with normal font size (100%) and 15". It is such an annoyance to change resolutions back and forth that you end up configuring the lower resolution permanently.
I want all labor to be paid appropriately too. The proper way to do that is by setting policies that apply to all labor--not allowing particular subgroups of labor to game low-turnout municipal and state political systems. Indeed, I'm not entirely sure public employees should be allowed to vote (speaking as someone who has worked for the government before). There is too much of a conflict of interest.
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What? Everyone I know who reads books for pleasure had books read to them as children and was taught to read by their parent before they started school. Yes, I asked. People who don't read for pleasure are usually people who weren't read to as children.
suspicious.
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Microsoft Edge may be storing InPrivate sessions in the cloud
In some cases you're required to pay union dues regardless of whether you join or not. This is apparently the case for teacher's unions in 22 states + DC.[1] So "don't do business with them" isn't even always an option.

[1] http://www.teachersunionexposed.com/teachers.php
American education is not designed to maximize student performance. As soon as a child meets the minimum, they are ignored. All the effort goes into improving the performance of the underperforming kids.

no child left behind = no child does really well

Involved parents replace school. They act as the real teachers. They pay for after school classes where the child will do all the real learning.

The US education does what it is designed to do. Help as many underperforming kids as it can. The problem is that it claims to help all kids which it is not actually designed to do.

If the US wants higher performing students, it needs to change the design. More education of gifted students will bring the average up. Higher standards will raise the minimum bar that the schools try to reach.

I have 2 kids and I treated one of the top elementary schools in SV as a daycare.
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A reminder that the primary election for Anita Alvarez, one of the country's worst states attorneys and the person with the most discretion in pursuing cases like this, is this March.
MBPs also use Fn+Arrow Keys for page up/down/home/end.
I site these references:

"The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills."

Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, January 24, 1814.

"The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs".

Source: Thomas Jefferson, Works, Vol. IV, p. 360.

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."

Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789.
I was working on a clojure/clojurescript app a while ago. I was hoping to share code between the two. This was pre-clj 1.7 with reader conditionals, so I did some manual footwork to try and resolve the small differences. However the biggest issue I repeatedly ran into was libraries. One of clj's biggest strengths (and why it has an awesome library ecosystem) is that you can just nab a battle tested java lib and write a tiny clj wrapper around it. Those libraries are, obviously, not going to run in js land. As clj matures and we see more pure clj libraries the situation will hopefully improve, but I felt somewhat thwarted by my attempt.
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Benchmarks: https://github.com/tenor/RestBus.Benchmarks

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I am not talking about parenting in the sense that you are somehow interfering I am talking about being mentally involved. I.e. the kid know that you are interested in their education. Not that you are somehow providing your own educational system.
The problem with public unions is that they are not negotiating with an entity that has the motivation to save every penny, which does in fact remove one of the major needs to unionize. Governments care less about giving away money, especially if they're building a voter base in the process. And history rather strongly suggests that governments downright love promising the world tomorrow if you'll just smile for the cameras today. It ends up being both the unions and the government against the tax payer too easily.
It is actually quite tragic if this dull logistics hub became the model for cities in which tens of millions of people must live out their day.

The foundation may have come from Shannon, but I think that the people cities like Shenzhen know how to "fill in the spaces" and create street life far better than Shannon has, having scooted around a bit in Google Maps.
> Don't waste your time on the web

I feel sorry for the young developer
Awesome. I knew someone had to know.
Two links that you may have seen:
http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/658
http://disconnected.systems/nim-on-arduino/
There's the environmental puzzles, where you need to find the right perspective, the right spot, or line up the environment in a specific way, so that you can solve them.

Hint: Look for large circles in the environment, and start dragging a line.
I agree with the necessity of structure at a younger age. The current public education system in America has strict schedules and classes geared towards getting the lowest common denominator a high school diploma. However in a college setting, which is supposed to prepare you for the real world, it's more of a sink or swim scenario that separates those who are disciplined and are willing to work than those who don't know how to thrive without someone telling them what to do at all times. I'm really interested to see how this new university works out.
Number pads are significantly faster than using the number keys. They really are worth learning how to use.
Maybe the problem is not so bad as is commonly believed.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/001955-the-amazing-truth...

tl;dr

Comparing Americans of European descent with Europeans, Americans are above the European average.

"The mean score of Americans with European ancestry is 524, compared to 506 in Europe, when first and second generation immigrants are excluded."

Americans of Asian descent tie with Asians. Note the provisos.

"For Asian-American students (remember this includes Vietnam, Thailand and other less developed countries outside Northeast Asia), the mean PISA score is 534, same as 533 for the average of Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. Here we have two biases going in opposite directions: Asians in the U.S are selected. On the other hand we are comparing the richest and best scoring Asian countries with all Americans with origin in South and East Asia."
This looks cool. It seems dreamhost did a good job.
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Does it run linux?
It's astounding how poorly most Linux distributions deal with these screens. They've been available for years.
Clojure was one of the first languages I picked up when I started coding and I really enjoyed using it. The instarepl in Light Table was a huge boon for learning and helped to offset the infamous Clojure stack traces of doom. :) However, I'd be very much interested in hearing more from people who have gone from Java, C#, or another statically typed language to Clojure, particularly in regards to designing, maintaining, and refactoring large codebases.

I don't mean to turn this into yet another static vs dynamic flamewar. I'm just very interested in the patterns that professional Clojure programmers use to help manage this complexity. I know that code in Clojure is normally structured very differently than one would find in a more imperative or OO language, whether dynamic or static. I also realize there are things available, such as Prismatic Schema and Typed Clojure, to assist with these problems.

Really, I'd love to come back to Clojure but the problems I run into in my day job often have me thinking, "types would have made this so much easier." :( As a result, I haven't given Clojure the time to really delve deeply into it. As someone with limited time to try out whole new languages, I'd love to be convinced to go further!
This! Thanks for the nice references for PUFM [3].
> Unfortunately, even with this 84Wh battery, the battery life of the XPS 15 wasn't tremendous. The blame for this lies almost certainly with that large screen. Dell's own battery life estimates (which are in the same ballpark as ours, given some differences in testing methodology) suggest that swapping out the 4K panel for the 1080p one would extend battery life in similar workloads by 60 percent or more.

Why is Apple the only one that can build a 15" retina laptop with 9-10 hours of battery life?
The principle of charity is having a bad time in this thread. brijeshp did not type "all" and secretly mean "all but the backups". I did not say "make it clear for abstract reasons, but don't bother making it concretely happen because that's not necessary". These "corrections" are not adding to the conversation.
The classes also cost like 1/4 of the cost

Good point. That was a big reason I started my education at a community college. Classes were cheap, small, and there was and agreement for automatic admission with full credit transfer between that CC and the university I wanted to attend.

In addition, the CC was also 10 miles from my home instead of the 35 miles to the university campus, which was one more reason. For me, it was a no-brainer to go to the CC for two years and then transfer.
#3 should cover this.

3) Make him and every employee sign-off on the P&P Handbook, in which there's a clear clause that in case any personally identifiable data is on his/her machine, he/she is fully liable for the implications of that data getting leaked. Any such employee will be complicit in any criminal proceedings.
If you are interested in this new Dell XPS 15, this is a much better review [1]:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-15-9550-i7-512GB-UHD-I...

NotebookCheck folks do some of the most thorough testing of notebooks you can find anywhere.

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[1] For example: ArsTechnica review seem to have botched graphics tests somehow.

Having Nvidia GTX 960M GPU is a big part of XPS 15 value proposition (and what makes it stand out from e.g. Macbook Pro).

This doesn't show up in ArsTechnica review, yet it is completely obvious in NotebookCheck one.
Teaching is the hardest job in the world. That's why so many teachers suck at it.
It's not black and white. If President Bush had been more prudent dealing with Bin Laden, then the 9/11 attacks would certainly have been more unlikely to succeed.

To believe otherwise is to believe, essentially, in predetermination. Hindsight bias does not imply that things would have turned out the same today, no matter what people did in the past.
OK, what does a good API look like?
Cool, I didn't know about Voxelands. It is, however, apparently still GPL licensed, whereas Minetest relicensed to LGPL a few years back. I also don't think a fork is really the right direction here; Minetest needs distros that come pre-bundled with all the fun stuff, not split communities and duplicated effort.
I'm sure it helps to write the OS.
I upvoted this comment because the point about the importance of writing. However, I don't think conciseness and clarity was the problem here. In 1985 if an engineer personally composed a long letter you should automatically know it's important. If you read this letter at all the danger is made clear.
It's OK Bill, the Bin Laden's and Bush's go back a long way.
It's not as bad as that, but New Mexico did have the man who was "forgotten about" in police custody for two years: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17212442-man-left...
You misunderstand the problem. The problem is that in the public sector, "labor" and "management" are on the same side of the negotiating table, shaking hands and slapping backs about how much money they're going to bleed from the taxpayer. Our "public servants" generally stand to personally benefit from increasing spending and worsening performance. That's not a dynamic that exists in a for-profit business.
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I had trouble finding the specific generation you are referring to, do you have a link?
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It's pretty trivial to create an encrypted app: put together a simple custom android app that uses open source openssl libs for messaging directly between phones/clients.

There will be no way to stop this.
Reminds of this great quote from Alan Kay:

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
http://goodbye-microsoft.com/

just need to combine the two

:-)
The keyboard would become more off centered. Without the extra keys, the F and J keys are already slightly off centered because of the quote key.

edit: What if this column were on the left of the keyboard to offset the quote key? Then the keyboard would be symmetric with respect to the F and J keys.
Nice examples. Am I correct in guessing that this code:

(ns com.stuartsierra.component
(:require [com.stuartsierra.dependency :as dep]
[com.stuartsierra.component.platform :as platform]))

requires the correct platform.clj or platform.cljs depending on the runtime?

And that this:

#?(:clj
(defmethod clojure.core/print-method SystemMap
[system ^java.io.Writer writer]
(.write writer "#<SystemMap>"))
:cljs
(extend-protocol IPrintWithWriter
SystemMap
(-pr-writer [this writer opts]
(-write writer "#<SystemMap>"))))

is how you perform different operations in a single file based on runtime?
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I respect it's usefulness, but the LISP syntax just never worked for me. (((())))))()()))(()))())) is not something I want to read and write all day.
Do schools really teach kids to read? I remember reading lessons, but they presumed some existing ability to read. I think I learned to read by reading things on my own.

Does anyone really get "taught" how to read?
I'm not actually bashing Java's security record, I'm just hoping they get rid of the obsolete stuff that nobody should be using anymore.
As a workaround I'm trying https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shortkeys-custom-k... [ and ] set to pgup/pgdn.

It mostly works, but I've found I still don't use it as often as would the real keys.
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> Wealthy kids with uninvolved parents do fine? Why?

For one, the school and teachers your kid gets is determined by whether you're rich enough to buy or rent property on the correct street (at least, here in Toronto).
Plenty of frameworks free you from the details of DOM updates and state transitions, basically any with templating are equivalent here.

React pushed more on components acting as pure functions of state to DOM, but that style was not totally uncommon before React. Even in many old MVC frameworks, the best practices would lead to "stateless" views, and often controllers that act as pure functions for ease of testing.

I would say popularizing those functional principles, even if React actually implements them somewhat loosely, is Reacts best contribution. Eventually I think those principles will make their way into Web Components implementations, and we'll have interoperable components with React-like internals interoperating with any other off-the-shelf web component.
>>It wouldn't matter if MIT only taught basket weaving as long as they still had such a thorough selection process

The whole point of Ivy leagues has been reduced to being a hub for assembling smart/rich people at a place. This has all sorts of unintended consequences like for example, alumni network which exists solely for career benefits.

Though great works still comes out of these universities. They are not exactly making people smarter or helping ordinary people directly in any way.

They just exist to gather rich/smart people at a place, and see if they can go further.
SF's maritime pilots navigate 1,000+ foot cargo ships into the Bay and earn $450k
So labor should just take whatever management and politicians feel like giving them like obedient little servants?

When they're public servants, yes.

Do we feel that the civil service is sufficiently isolated from rapidly changing political pressures to ensure the rights of workers and to avoid the inherent issues involved in political control of a large group of government workers?

Why is that the goal? A shift in public attitude should result in a change in public servant staffing and behavior.
Then just make it an 'administrative ruling' so that the Constitution no longer applies. That is all the fad with prosecutors these days (same reason being put on the SO registry can be retroactively applied/extended without it violating ex post facto laws).
You're asking for an advanced degree of empathy that goes beyond what the collective here is capable of so far. I'm sure many individual members are capable, but the nature of large groups is that the whole is less than the sum of its parts.

I wonder if we can eventually get there, though.
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