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yes the linux client sucks... bu the OTHER linux client (i.e. Android) works beautifully. Which is why I cant wait for things like RemixOS or Intel's Android Linux [1]. With predictions that mobile chips will approach PS4 performance in 2017 [2], I cant help but wonder again if Valve made a colossal mistake in not basing SteamOS on desktop android.

[1] http://liliputing.com/2016/02/intels-android-smartphone-prot...

[2] http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/16/mobile-devices-will-be-mor...
Occams razor suggests the latter, i.e. it's all in your mind. Unless you can get one of the beings to factor some huge number for you, of course.

- http://www.ayahuasca-info.com/data/articles/paralleldmt.pdf
- http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-the...
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I'd like to see an interactive version of this where you can change the time period you are considering the savings accross from 5 years to something smaller.

EDIT:

Found this R project on Github:

https://github.com/odeleongt/xkcd_task_optimization

Also, found this chart on Reddit (Money instead of time):

https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/31rlfh/remix_of_xkcd_...
Rails 5 handles DateTime with better precision
Ather Energy unveils first ‘Made in India’ smart electric scooter
I'm using Skype_6.19.0.452.dmg, newer versions are awful.
Fake Girlfriends
I don't understand how it can be "the first ever investigation into the question" when the number one tip of basically every speed reading technique ever is to suppress that inner voice…
He was treated like a high roller, as his comments in research notes would directly affect the BA share price.
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Well, Skype needs a skype account. Though Google's interconnect between its services is maybe undesirable and a hassle to work around.
Ask HN: Log analysis tools for 1-2 MB logfiles?
I'm looking for a tool for small-scale log analysis - the log files are fairly small, most are around 1-2 MB.

For large-scale log analysis, I'm used to things like Graylog2, Kibana, Grafana etc.

However, these all seem like overkill for this scale.

A simple local tool, with either a interactive command-line interface, or that produced a self-contianed webpage output would be nice.

Lnav is the only one I can find so far, which kind of does it - but are there any others?

If we were to try to roll our own, are there any web UI toolkits that would make designing something like Kibana or Graylog2 interface-wise easier?
These are details. The main problem with large projects is that they become complex political games across umpteen divisions. It's futile to think about how you should deliver X functionality if nobody can tell you exactly what this functionality is, who will be forced to use it for what task, and whether these conditions will change in 3 months. The result is an orgy of meetings and committees producing directives that are all over the place, and where interested parties can easily sneak in their own pork and/or agenda.

Any IT project above £100,000 should have a clear line of command, the power to overrule any workflow or operational convention with very little discussion, and freedom to engage in localized feedback cycles without formalized oversight. Pick small and tightly-knit IT/dev teams that can guerrilla their way through the organization with blessed impunity, and just let them loose.
On the third hand, if you have some kind of career goals, then you probably want to be making some kind of progress towards them. While it's not always possible to discuss such goals with your employer (eg. if your goal is "become the CTO" and your immediate manager's goal is also "become the CTO" then discussing this with them is likely to end poorly), it's important to at least let them know which direction you want to go in.

At my last job, I was the primary fire-putter-outer on a number of fronts, and it was very disheartening watching new projects (that I'd put my hand up for) get handed off to others while I was busy fixing up the previous efforts of said others.
As a devil's advocate, couldn't we say the same thing about guns?
I don't know why they have not pulled the new version yet.. apart from the login issue that blocked most people from using the app, there are so many regressions and new bugs it is unusable.

I'm surprised to see such a big misstep from Atlassian.
This is so awesome man! I wish I could offer you a beer, it is exactly what I needed right now! ahhhhh I love the community
I have the same general experience with my wife: we've learned to communicate and it's a skill that needs to be practiced on both sides. Otherwise, especially if we're tired or emotionally worn out, we each speak "clearly" but the other doesn't understand.
Now we know that I must ask for clarification (even when there doesn't seem to need one) and she mustn't think I'm making fun of her or deliberately wasting her time. If we don't, we end up fighting because "all the clothes can go in the dryer" actually means I should still check.
Read the post you're replying to plz.

"But anyway Batman always has a plan in taking down any super powered being in case they go rouge or mind controlled. He stores them on his computer and makes technology or finds items that can weaken them or take away their powers."
That's not how LSD works.
Have you played The Talos Principle?
What Buffett wouldn’t do
Reminds me - still waiting for a season 3 of Äkta människor
Clean URLs from UTM at Last
The crazy thing is that all of those points are blatantly false.

- There has never been more activity in tooling as in the last half year. There are whole tooling conferences with almost 200 people attending. Tooling has been improved steadily, and people made huge progress on all fronts (ScalaIDE, IntelliJ, Ensime, SBT). Things have improved vastly.

- http://scala-lang.org/news/2.12-roadmap/ http://www.scala-lang.org/news/roadmap-next/ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/flgn... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/qRgo...

- Dotty is not developed by the core team. The people working on Dotty are additional resources put into Scala, and they are helping scalac development because they share design approaches and bug fixes with the Scala team.
I can no longer log in into skype for linux. Using the same username/password on Android works fine. No use in the Linux client.
Are they? What have the done recently that made Hangouts better?
> with the ABI changing every year for no reason and yet having to support users having all kind of version combinations.

What? That is simply not true, the Kernel never breaks userspace. And "version combinations" are solved by linking statically.
What do you expect from analysis exactly? Awk is always a good tool if you want to do some simple stream processing. Or do you mean something for looking at the actual stream?
For me the best sound speed up I've found is the Android app "Presto" that can be used by the Podcast app as a speedup service. It uses the Sonic algorithm which is specifically tailored for speech speedups above 2x.

https://github.com/waywardgeek/sonic
What operator syntax?
It's horribly slow and doesn't seem to work well at all neither. Hopefully the new NHS digital team will take over that entirely soon (http://nhsalpha.herokuapp.com/)
I regularly scan (ansi|gnu|color|*)Forth webpages. Thinking Forth is on my mental shelf for so long. ML and Lisps keep delaying reading it.
All I want is work organization that doesn't get in the way of doing things that actually make money. It's truly unbelievable how even small companies adopted systems that impede sales and engineering, or worse make customers jump through hoops, because it makes life easier for some bean counter.

That other stuff sounds like completely optional nice-to-haves.
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> I recently saw how all my friends moved to Telegram, and this is nice.

All my friends are on Whatsapp, and this is not nice... I'm going to try to convert them to Telegram., not easy.
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I discovered Helen Levitt's during her exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm. Her casual approach to her subjects have inspire me and shows how to use the Leica for real street work. She changed how I view photography as a medium. IMHO she is absolutely in class with her peers of the time; Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Ben Shahn.
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If we look at agriculture mechanization, we went from 80% of the population to 5% to feed everyone. While this is good for everyone, I don't think farmers are living some sort of utopia.

Rather most of them are indebted for decades to pay for their complex equipment.

I believe the introduction of robot will follow a similar pattern, some industry will see their number of employee reduced drastically but they won't necessarily increase their margin. The customer will likely win.

The thing is that people who were employed in farms moved to factory. Nowadays I don't know where people who lost their job to robots will move.
For me, it's the same, but I don't have memory for faces and my pitch is not that good, but I had no problem playing piano. I'm good at navigating with maps, but can't remember them easily, and I have a thing which is stereotypical for women: I can't remember which side is left and which is right, I mean calling them or parsing from a word which hand is which. I can show with hand on which side something is, but calling this side by name requires concentration.
Skype hasn't been a pain on Linux since the Microsoft takeover. It was a huge pain long before.

XMPP with http://swift.im/ and http://conversations.im/ is much more pleasant.
Too many cooks spoil the broth? A single /small group of owners is more likely to reach a consensus quicker (no guarentee it'll be a good one, just quicker) than a larger group whose ideas/goals will be more diverse between each member, and more likely to be a compromise.
Exacty, it does. You cannot patent software as you cannot patent math except maybe in US.
It will take a bit longer on the first run to bootstrap SBT and the environment. After that, it's very fast.

You can try https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier for another factor-of-ten speedup in artifact resolution.
NHome – The Hub Free Smart Home/ IoT System
I'd summarise by saying we are going to see increased disintermediation of the banks. We've already got:

* P2P Loans

* B2B Loans

* C2B Loans

* P2P FX

* Online only banks

* Crowfunded Debt

* Crowfunded Equity
NHome, a hub free smart home and IoT system is a different and better way to take controll over your home.
Instead of using a separate app for each and every one of your smart devices, you get to use just one, and we spared you the hard installing part you're normally facing, our app just scans the network your server is on and automatically adds every device on it, and allows them their true features and possibilities.
Mutually connect every app to make your home a little peace of heaven. Scene your pre-set scenes and ambients, Schedule the scenes and devices, and off course trigger them inbetween.
You also get a remote, which can recognise almost every device in the IR area. And let's not forget that we have widgets on our smartphones, a very usefull thing when in a cold night, you find yourself searching for the app and then clicking Unlock, now, you can access every device's controll, directly from your homescreen.

And if you don't want anyone unallowed to "unlock" your doors, the NHome app delivers you a superior security module, which allows to add as many cameras as you wish, and to record with them on many triggers, say Motion,it Integrates with ANY alarm system, and always gets you notifications when something you didn't expect happens.
Get NHome and try it, we promise, it will be worth the three clicks necessary.
If you find it either usefull, awesome, or nice, feel absolutely free to spread the word, and make sure to mention @NHomeApp whereever you can (It's twitter), and you'll be helping build something extraordinary
> maintaining anything proprietary under linux is a chore, with the ABI changing every year for no reason

Is Skype a special snowflake to the extent that it's an impossible task? Skype-on-Linux's problem are caused by interface changes with the server API, not the ABI. Recompiling isn't rocket science.
First look at Xiaomi's Mi 5 flagship
When someone suggests rolling their own crypto a bunch of people pop up to point out the considerable risks.

We need the same for these "wheat / chaff" steganographic noise generation schemes. Steganography is probably secure, but people tend to vastly underestimate the amount of cover material needed.

Considerable money and time has been devoted to "finding the real signal".

The Usenet keyword triggers were trivially easy to filter. Mostly because people just put a list, in all caps, at the end of their post.

We know these are trivially easy to filter because putting a list like [ECHELON CIA NSA GCHQ IRA BOMB inurl:groups.google.com] returns loads. Here's one example, with the handy words "anti echelon block" https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.media/KqhWP1rLF9U/G...
You skipped over everything I've referenced and introduced a completely new narrative which has a simple rebuttal.

We waste tons of grains to filter through cows' bodies. Cows produce waste, that waste is used to replenish the land with minerals needed for grain growth.

Now, wouldn't the same thing be possible without filtering that waste through animals, keeping the waste in high amounts, suitable for the grain agriculture?

Of course, there's absolutely nothing magical in cow's butt that produces the necessary fertilizer. You can fertilize land with vegetable waste, producing less pollution and less non-recyclable waste, needing less energy.

The animal component is completely unecessary.

If you're trying to find rationality of these industries look at this narrative.

People hunted animals, they survived because of animals, but why did they do it, instead of just picking berries, raising food?

It was a time-saving heuristic. The animals were free, the animals were collecting nutrients, packing them into their bodies, and all that time was saved for the human. Humans just "collected" the neatly packed nutrients and had concrete savings.

Today, we bring the food to animals, we center everything around their food filtering, from an energetic, sustainable, environmental perspective it isn't equivalent, it's not even close. It is irrational. This irrationality is closely linked with our desire of excessive luxury.

From all the given evidence, dropping this would save us billions if not trillions in environmental cleanups, health-care bills etc.

Currently, there's nothing magical in animals that necessitates our use of them. The magic has disappeared when we snatched the planet.
The automatically cleanable bathroom already exists. I have used them years ago in cheap hotels. After taking a shower, it locked the door once you exit and it rinses the whole room with some detergent and water for 30 seconds.
I do not believe this has not been studied before. In psychology you talk about the inner monologue, in linguistic you have experiments measuring if silent reading activates muscles in the speech apparatus (as far as I remember, it does), speed reading is all about silencing the inner monologue.

A quick search brought this up on Google Scholar:

Auditory imagery, D Reisberg - 2014 -
books.google.com

"Psychologists have debated the role of inner
speech in silent reading, and clinicians ...."
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Sorry, I didn't mean you when I said that. I meant our dependencies. We will revisit this topic when node js inevitably screws you and your project fails in mysterious ways with a new node update.
This article is wrong. Why is it wrong? It talks about fulfilling work and a great boss as if it's the ONLY thing that employees look for. BY common sense what employees look for is a huge multitude of factors combined together part of which includes "Free lunches, more vacation time, latte machines --- and don't forget a ping pong table." It is stupid to discard all of these things as inconsequential when the employee himself states that these are things he wants.

Engaging work is ONLY one factor out of many things that Employees declare that they want.

What this article is trying and failing to address is the fact that most employees become dissatisfied with their work EVEN when employers try to satisfy all these needs and wants. It hints at the fact that there is something that the employee wants that he isn't fully aware of. What is this thing that he wants?

Simple. The answer is: Career Growth. As humans our needs and wants are unlimited. It doesn't matter how many needs and wants are satisfied, the employee will eventually want more. Employees are looking for a continuous improvement in their well-being keyword being "continuous." The company that provides the employee with the fastest rate of unlimited growth is the company that retains the employee.

The reality is, nothing can satisfy an employee if his wants and needs are unlimited. We all fight for this plateau of ultimate satisfaction that we will never reach. If you want to retain employees you must give employees the constant illusion that they are making progress towards this nonexistent plateau.
Would've retweeted if it wasn't for the #thanksBill hashtag...

I haven't been on Windoze since I don't know how long. And the Mac Client is superb. Linux client, absolute desaster, indeed.

But still, this has absolutely nothing to do with Bill.
> It is Qualcomm's property, they can keep it secret or open source it however they decide. I deeply reject the idea that government should have the right to order us to share our private property with the public.

Mostly I agree with you, but I think it is worth noting that this discussion is in the context of patent protection for software.

One of the requirements of applying for a patent is providing a reference implementation - I believe this is what the parent was referring to when they mentioned whether or not Qualcomm should be "permitted to keep the sauce secret".
I would argue that most of those are bad patents, which should not have been issued. One of the criteria for being awarded a patent is that your invention be non-obvious to an expert in the relevant field. If just looking at the product is sufficient to disclose everything you need to reproduce it, that doesn't necessarily mean that the idea is "obvious", but it should give one pause, and warrant further investigation into whether or not this particular invention is really worth patenting.
They keep ignoring all their users, Windows too. A couple of weeks ago, they shipped a completely broken version that would crash regularly and scramble the message order randomly if the messages were sent within ~1 minute. Hello QA? Where are you? Hello beta testing? You cannot ship a program this broken to all your users?!
In the past year, the Mac client has also become very fragile. If I quit the Skype App without signing out, next time login keeps failing unless I go to the library folder and delete my Skype user profile directory. Quite shameful for such a high profile software.
Maybe you weren't aware that literally all the computer does is binary arithmetic?
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Same as for EU countries where software patents are not valid. You can make a product that violates US software patents, but not sell that product in the US market. Depending on your business model that may be acceptable or not.
Pity the poor Brexiters – they could win yet still lose
It depends on what you want to do and how structured your log files are. My web servers write json records for each log event and that makes analysis sweet and easy. I have other log files that are just text seached through the records.

Splunk is free for up to 500mb of import a day. It has a web interface and I use it to analyze web log files and other log files. I used the free one for a while and then went to paid because of my daily imports were occasionally >500MB.

I like it for my needs.
Why is Guantanamo Bay so hard to shut down?
By thinking your problem is a software problem when it's not.
Yeah but, once you memorize them, the metaphors are pervasive and follow common patterns. I think having a similarly-metaphorical language helps taking cues from context. I haven't seen it taking ten years or so to memorize them.

Phrasal verbs on the other hand? A nightmare! I've been speaking English "fluently" for more than 15 years and I still struggle with them.

There's definitely some overlap of metaphors in western languages though, and English culture influence over western media helps establishing those metaphors too (we don't use "blue" as "sad" in our language, but it's not hard for us to relate to it since it's in so many songs).
Skype always crashes when you log of a windows machine.
Well you are right, should not have used even. I agree with you WeChat is the most reliable app that I know of for voice and video chat.
I think you answered your own question several times:

> I hear a voice usually when I'm reading but it is of some kind of soundless intensity.

and

> I only have an inner voice for my thoughts when I try to articulate something.

I'm sure just like some people see colours when they hear sounds, other people experience their inner voice as very, very real.
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Because you don't want to disclose your information.
Wanna code an alternative then
Microsoft spun its wheels a lot with file-syncing in the mid-2000s. Aside from the stuff coming from Office (Groove, etc) and Windows (folder-shadowing, BITS, etc), there was a slew of inter-related products in the consumer space starting with the acquisition of FolderShare. By the time DropBox launched, it had become Mesh.com, with PC-to-PC syncing and online storage, but thanks to internal competition and constant rebranding/repositioning, it slowly became deprecated and subsumed by SkyDrive/OneDrive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Mesh
What I don’t understand is - Why is there not a serious competitor to Skype?

If there was a cross-platform Skype clone that worked on OSX, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android that was stable and secure - the whole world would jump onto it. All it has to do is not be a bloated piece of crap like Skype.

Instead, everything else out there is fragmented.

We’re all waiting, get on it already!
Think about it this way: That guy wasn't just some jerk on the street being mean to a robot. He's one of its creators, and he's knocking it over in order to make future robots better.

He'll be sentenced to hard labor at worst when the robots rise up.
They are asking for 10 particular cases, each of which requires a warrant. The point stands that this is not an incident of mass or unwarranted surveillance.
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This is a problem with all patents though, independent invention is not a valid defense…
Curious about the git clone failures, did you have to fix errors on the client side, or update the repo to get it to work again?
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