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We're not talking about most developed countries, we're talking about the United States.

The Internet, like many other things that are considered basic human rights in other countries, isn't a basic human right here. You can talk about using libraries and publicly-issues to fill the gaps, but, unfortunately, US politicians know how to game those things. They'll manipulate funding for public computers, change library hours and maybe even relocate libraries to gain a small electoral advantages.

And before you say they won't, that's exactly what happens today with polling places, distribution of voting machines and (in states that require photo ID to vote) locations and hours of DMVs (and any other places you can use to get a state-issued photo ID).
Yeah, because (Apple) Pages or (Google) Docs or (Apple|Google|Yahoo) Mail or (Google) Cloud are unique names. You could argue all these add their brand in front of the name, like this case exactly.

:-)
Well, I'm glad to see I was wrong :-) thank you. It's just you seemed to compare my, uh, rhetoric to what the "populists and muckrackers" of the 1900s were saying. Though in certain company I guess that could be considered high praise, I'm not sure I was too fond of the comparison...
Hey emeth...thanks for making this awesome project. As a father of 2 sons (aged 9 and 11, both Minecraft fanatics) this is a perfect platform to get them interested in coding. Starting with Python is a nice easy on-ramp for them, and they'll even start using GitHub with this project, which is great too. Keep up the cool work :)
Last decade? In tech? That's more of a head scratcher...

Scully and then Amelio @ Apple? Fiorina @ HP, certainly after Eckhard Pfeiffer screwed the pooch at Compaq. C. Edward Acker after Sewell screwed up at Pan Am. Kay Whitmore at Kodak.

Edison was a horrible CEO; but of the many companies he founded, the only one that survives is the one that fired him early on. No one every hired him to be a turn-around person.

Turn arounds are hard. The company falters. New person brought in. That person fumbles. Yet another new person. Company recovers. If the company doesn't recover - you probably haven't heard of them.
Ask HN: What was your best career decision?
I saw this thread on r/cscareerquestions and I thought it would be interesting to hear the HN experiences.

Thank you.
> The latter ones invent their own ecosystem. And are very productive with it. It's fast and beautiful. And you know every screw and bolt. There is a feature request? No problem, you know immediately how to solve it. I know many of them. And nearly all of them are the best I have ever known.

You're forgetting type C that don't know anything about existing frameworks so decide to reinvent the wheel by writing an unmaintainable mess of spaghetti code... I'm guessing type Bs are very rare. Once you've seen enough untestable jQuery soup you'll learn to appreciate frameworks.
Perhaps 20 years ago I remember reading an article describing how most foreign workers were no longer using the H1B program - and that Congress had created new programs (and changed limits on other programs) in order to make the number of foreign workers look smaller. Those new programs also had different reporting requirements (so the numbers could be kept better hidden.) Anybody know the scoop?
If it is already happening, they switching to certificates is better because you don't need a special voting machine, as every internet access point becomes one.

Available in: libraries, coffee places, public wifi, neighbours, friends, mobile phone, etc...
> the A-10 is simply the best manned aircraft we have for CAS

You won't hear it here or on jalopnik et all, but there's substantive disagreement on this.

The A-10 no longer has a primary mission: the gun is not effective enough against modern tanks. For CAS in low intensity conflict it's both overkill and overly expensive per operating hour vs alternatives. The CEP on the big gun is >10m while the CEP on small guided munitions is now <1m. The accuracy of the GAU-8 fire depends heavily on pilot skill, since aiming requires pointing the whole plane. This is why the A-10 has generated more friendly fire incidents than any other aircraft we fly.

Let's compare to Beech's proposed attack variant of the T-6 Texan II. Depending whose numbers you believe, it's 1/5th to 1/10th the total operational cost per flight hour. Since it's our primary trainer essentially every pilot is already familiar with it. Likewise the ground crews can keep them running with ease. There is no parts problem, whereas with the A-10 replacements parts we don't have in the sitting in the AZ desert have to be done as small scale reverse engineering (for the cost of re-winging an A-10 we could have bought a new Texan or Tucano). It has a built in stabilized E/O ball, the advantage of which could be mitigated a bit by putting a pod on the A-10. But the T-6 is also a two seater, which allows situational awareness an A-10 pilot will never have. The back seater can focus exclusively and continuously on the situation on the ground, whereas an A-10 pilot has to re-acquire and re-orient on every pass, losing awareness of changes between passes. The two seats allows operational concepts the A-10 (and F35 for that) matter do not. For example, the back seater doesn't even need to be a pilot: they could be a controller/coordinator from a different branch, service, or even nation. The aircraft could be easily adapted to ISR roles with a back seater specialized in tending the electronics.

There's this huge internet enthusiast crowd that's infatuated with a big gun and can only see taking the A-10 out of service as some sort of conspiracy. But that's not the case, there is straightforward, solid, strategic thinking behind this.

People need to look at A-10 enthusiasm critically, and consider that maybe the planners actually know some of what they're doing, rather than being pawns in congressional conspiracies.
I replaced a P4 with a C2550D4I for a friend last year. Where the P4 struggled with modern YouTube videos at 480p, the Avoton (an Atom) did 1080p without much trouble. It is odd that The P4 did so well in Intel's marketing video, but did not in 2015. My guess is that the decoder for the more modern video codecs require more than the P4 is able to do. It is also possible that the OS made a difference. His P4 ran Windows XP while the Avoton runs Gentoo Linux. Gentoo Linux should have had a decoder that could use SSE2 while Windows XP might not have.

That said, I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the puny Aspeed graphics card with kernel mode setting. There is minimal tearing and the frame rates are smooth. The P4 had used a GeForce 3.
I'm a little skeptical about that. You can clearly see the rocket slide as it lands.
It probably just means more i3/i5-based tablets, which will probably end up being a good thing anyway, since the push to optimize for weak processors that there was on the iOS/Android side wasn't really there on the Windows side, since a lot of testing happened on developer workstations.
From the article: "massive, see-through projection screen"

Nonetheless, the projection technology behind this is interesting.
Would love to see an IFTT.com integration :P
Do you not see the discrepancy between a statement about the top 0.1% and your claims about the top 10%?
I very much prefer organization systems that help me prioritize. I think a kanban, with its work-in-progress limits, is a much better task list. One can achieve such a thing quite easily in org-mode.
Everyday feeling like a burden for 3 years
is better than
everyday feeling like a burder for 30 years.
A fundamental misunderstanding of the space, focusing on the wrong things, thinking he can visualize (or should visualize) the mechanics, hyperfocus on topologies, misunderstanding of key distance functions, sigmoids, training/overtraining, add buzzword here.

Right now he's a chef who obsessively spent six months thinking about knives. But it's about the meat and the heat, not the chef knife.

Just pick a problem and start playing with it! If you lean to this sort of pedantic "I MUST UNDERSTAND ALL FUNDAMENTALS" (I do!) I still recommend Matlab (available for $49-$99 in student editions) because the tools are so good and the docs are so damn readable. This post is basically a matlab doc page minus the links to the stuff that actually works.
> If you use a library that augments your style of work but doesn't change it then it's a library. Maybe a tool.

> If you use a library that replaces or changes your style of work then it is a framework.

I don't think that one's style of doing things have any merit in classifying what 200 people at Facebook had built. (Perhaps someone likes two-way binding. Backbone would be a library/tool and any Virtual DOM implementation would be a framework?)
Also from Windows 8 and up the built in task manager has per process network usage along with disk usage. Makes it real easy to find bottlenecks or resource hogs.
Thanks this is very useful.
This too https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flow
Ahh, OK. It seemed like some of the comments were echoing the headline.
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> Took around 2000 lines all in all....The line-count went up, of course, easily to 15000 lines.

Inexperienced programmers can make bad decisions in any setting so I don't think this has anything to do with frameworks. I would be heavily against any decision that bloats a codebase 7 times its original size unless the pros heavily outweighed the cons.

People tend to associate poor coding mostly with spaghetti code and copy/paste everywhere, but poor coding also includes adding useless tests and abstracting too much.
I too would like to hear about how org-mode is an effective task manager. On its face, it seems like grandparent is saying "This doesn't compare with the power of Markdown for managing to-dos." One is a tool, the other is a formatting language.
The next Bank of England £5, £10 and £20 banknotes will be printed on polymer
> (If you want to argue that they should have named it ".note.GNU-noexecstack", I wouldn't disagree.)

The presence of that alone won't make the stack noexec, the status of the stack is determined by whether or not the `executable` flag is set on that section. So calling it the `stack` makes sense, since it in-effect just represents the stack itself, which isn't normally mentioned in the ELF binary.
Did you read the article? The article refers to the "The top 0.1 percent" who are "average income of $9.44 million". The article specifically refers to the top 0.1 percent. Why? because in theory they should pay taxes like the top 10 percent, but they don't. Many of top "0.1 percent" use creative tax accounting to avoid paying their share.
It's a reasonable counterpoint, but limited to the part of systemd that manages starting and stopping services.

It also takes over virtual terminals, syslog services, login management, network interface configuration, dhcp, system time, udev device management, containers (machined, dbus, cgroups).

That, to me, is where more of the concern lies.
My Austrian provider charges 80ct per minute to call other EU countries. (SMS are cheaper because the rate for SMS is independent of the destination country).
Do users care though? I don't. I select a Linux distro based on how popular it is because frankly they are all pretty excellent these days.

I go for popular distros because it's more likely that bugs are found and community help is available.

I also do very little customization. If the default window system is Gnome, that's what I use. If it's KDE or something else, that's fine too. Again, they are all good enough.

I use Linux, I'm a huge fan of it, but I'm not dogmatic. Using Linux is a way for me to get work done, but it isn't the goal itself.
Capital gains is personal income. So yes, it almost certainly does.

Additionally, that figure (much like Warren Buffer) understates what the rich pay - first the corporation they own pays taxes, then they pay taxes again when the profit is distributed to shareholders.

It's a misrepresentation equivalent to claiming that middle class folks don't pay the employer portion of payroll taxes.
Because it's too hard to secure everybody's home computers. A botnet could swing an election.
...who composes all these identical tech ad songs ?

Microsoft Songsmith. [1]

1. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/song...
I'm not sure how the size of your app can possibly say anything about applicability or quality of jQuery.
So frameworks matters because they define a set of development practices to get interoperability between project members, to allow different people (in terms of development practices) to do work together.

Seems like it's mainly a matter of balance between collaborative work easiness and individual work flow quality.

There's also the work avoided by not having to test code on different environments but after reading this thread looks like it's a minor advantage of frameworks.
I tried using Taskwarrior with sync to Mirakel last year, as a free replacement once my Todoist trial ended. The sync didn't function correctly, and notifications weren't reliable. Ended up paying for Todoist. It's a real shame, because I much prefer going with free & open source solutions whenever possible.
I like systemd from the perspective of a service-writer/maintainer, the service files are nice and simple and don't have the repeated boilerplate of old init scripts.

However I still dislike its monolithic nature, its folding in of journaling and udev, and all the rest of the creep.
Elon Musk did. Respect.

“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.”
Too poor to pay for college, too rich for financial aid
Lossy compression. Reminds me of this hilarious bit: http://web.archive.org/web/20050402231231/http://lzip.source...
That would cause inflation, and would cause markets to raise interest rates to account for this one they knew about the policy. Modern monetary theory is very non mainstream, flawed economics. It has a Wikipedia page, but very very few academic proponents. Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory#Criti... if you're interested in reading more criticism of MMT
They don't have any causal power to make you actually do the things you set out to or should do, but they can be a useful way to organize and keep track of your tasks and deadlines if you have more than a handful of them.

My personal life outside mostly consists of eating, sleeping, having fun, and the occasional visit to the dentist, so I don't need a computer program to manage it.

Procrastination trivially circumvents any system by simply ignoring it, and it's possible to go overboard with micromanaging yourself to the extent that you spend more time fiddling with your "Getting Things Done" setup than you do actually doing things...

But for example, with the very small business I own with my brother, setting up a Trello board and using it to keep track of various bureaucratic errands very clearly improved our efficiency.
That is, after all, the hope that a lot of Silicon Valley startups (and VCs, naturally) depend upon.

It was very liberating once I'd got that idea out of my head.
Google given access to reams of confidential patient information
I thought this would be about something like giving the Hutter Prize [1] a go using character RNNs [2]. Instead, it's a somewhat confused "gentle introduction" to neural nets (which there are plenty of already, of higher quality) and compression is sort of handwavely discussed, not properly with bits and entropy like us information theorists would have it :)

[1] http://prize.hutter1.net
[2] https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn
BinderCracker: Assessing the Robustness of Android System Services
>Just pick a problem and start playing with it! If you lean to this sort of pedantic "I MUST UNDERSTAND ALL FUNDAMENTALS" (I do!) I still recommend Matlab (available for $49-$99 in student editions) because the tools are so good and the docs are so damn readable.

Don't pay to torture yourself! Use Python instead! Numpy and scipy are the standard libraries for most scientific code nowadays, and you'll be able to use Theano, Caffe, TensorFlow, PyMC, scikit-learn, pybrain, and loads of other machine-learning and statistics libraries with Python interfaces!
Switch "most popular" to "your site" and it will probably change user's desire to wait for it.
Laremy Tunsil: Twitter hack could cost him millions after pot video goes viral
I'm amazed at how well my phone handles this.
I had never looked up the OSI definition[0], but you are of course entirely correct. So the difference between free and open source software is the "four freedoms", which I think we all knew to begin with.. :)

0: https://opensource.org/osd
Sure. Why not?

It's idiotic if you think you by doing so you can replace MS Windows on everyone's desktops within 15 years.

It's great if you think it will give you an understanding of how to write a operating system.
This is also a GREAT opportunity to work on something you typically wouldn't, hacking at night and weekends.

If you were forbidden from launching something for 3 years, what's the biggest thing you could be working on?
Are you sure? I have never heard that nor could I find anything in the roaming regulation. I just checked a few (German) mobile providers and all charge more than you suggest.
That doesn't mean you can't have an opinion on it.

And I'd wager it does have something to do with many people. CEO salary increases don't happen in a bubble - there has been an unprecedented increase in them while income growth in the middle class has stagnated horribly.
I've been waiting a long time to be able to see this show live. Since last December I bought tickets to see Hatsune Miku "live" this June in Mexico City.
> Yeah, so someone tweets "YourCompany fucking sucks!"

No one would ever use twitter solely for that purpose...surely...
It's not that it is hard to `document.createElement` compared to `React.createElement`, it's just that React has a nice paradigm of syncing your app state to what's displayed to the user which many people like. Sure it might be better somewhere else, but React is what is popular and more easily accessible.
> Japan had developed full-on derivatives markets (not just futures but CDS-style bets) for its rice crops.

Any English-written resources for that? It sounds really interesting.
It's TODAY in SF, there are still tickets available if you act fast.
Why would I want to choose Taskwarrior over todo.txt?
Just more tiresome performative masculinity.
> I can't think of any profession where the demands to compensation ratio is so out of whack

Teacher is one that immediately comes to mind. Nurse? Probably. Soldier? If you're deployed, certainly.

I don't think software engineers actually have that high a level of demand, on the whole. Don't get me wrong, many lead very stressful lives but a great many are also coddled with free food and amenities in their office, babysitting relatively static code. Then they go home to their comfortable apartments with smartphone app controlled lights.
Please present your data on rates of home ownership in the US compared to other industrialized nations. Also, what do you think should be done to encourage home ownership beyond the current scheme of making mortgage interest deductable for primary residences?
I'm not the most familiar with either, but one of the simplest differences is that org-mode allows you to have entries longer than single lines and have it formatted. This is immensely more helpful when implementing GTD IMO.

Org-mode can also easily become your calendar as well, which Taskwarrior cannot.
I can't take an article discussing the New World's technological inferiority seriously if it doesn't mention horses.
Mmm interesting
> if you know what you're doing

Because everyone is perfect, right?
+1 for python however good luck building fundamentals given the sea of chaotic products. The whole point of the Matlab recommendation is that, like Amazon S3, they haven't really touched the damn NN toolkit in a decade. While y'all were tinkering with MVC apps in 2007 some of us were researching and publishing and laying the foundation for the nine different open source learning libraries that can't agree on terminology or workflow patterns or which cloud provider they are clandestinely pushing you toward.

That said, I deploy using Python and several of these libraries (and more interesting unmentioned ones). But often, Matlab for exploratory dev! I re-recommend it for getting started.
Data roaming prices got better with this change, but are still somewhat high.

Two of the 4 major US carriers are able to offer free (but somewhat slow) data roaming in Europe, and the other two sell relatively cheap packages for data roaming. How can US carriers offer cheaper roaming in Europe than European carriers themselves?
Rayiner's stats explicitly show that the wealthy pay more, on a percentage basis, than the non-wealthy. If the wealthy pay 45% of taxes while earning only 33.5% of income (ratio = 1.34), then simple arithmetic shows that the non-wealthy pay 55% of taxes while earning 66.5% of income (ratio = 0.82).

So no, you don't pay more on a percentage basis. You pay a lot less.
To get it done, they would have used project management [7] whilst management decided on EDI integration suites. [8]

7. https://www.getflow.com

8. http://www.flowsoftware.com
If the whole point if verification is that you don't trust your software, then that's not a very good idea. So you use the ultimate slow-but-reliable computer, the trained engineer.
Neither did she, that's the point.
Oh, that makes sense now. Didnt mean to sound accusatory.
I think it's the same type of tech used for the Tupac hologram that was touring a few years back. I believe it all works on the same kind of principle as the Pepper's Ghost illusion.
It still has surplus horizontal velocity when it hits the deck, hence the sliding. [1] Musk confirmed on Twitter that the rocket in fact doesn't need securing and the metal shoe plan turned out to be unnecessary.

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/726218218109444096
Unlikely, that tweet has no spelling errors.
At this point (didn't know then) we already know there are some strange genetics. Over the past 10 both myself and all of my siblings have been diagnosed with various immune diseases.
I'll be sure to add, "To me" next time, so that my harmless comment better meets with your approval.
Add state, local, city and sales taxes and many people have an effective tax rate of 40%-65%. Yet it still doesn't buy an adequate social safety net.
Two fold:

1. Putting aside friends, family, and religion to focus on the task(s) at hand.

2. Saving enough "fuck you" money to be able to do whatever I want.

Both are related and the former is pointless unless it's going to lead to the latter.
I have a hard time with small screens (farsightedness) so I only use mobile Internet in emergency cases. Is it a hardware (screen size) problem or a software (too much screen real state eaten by ads) one? I honestly don't know the answer, but it's still a problem.

Edit: I use glasses, specially for reading, but the optmestrists refuse to raise the graduation that would give me a clear vision for small letters. They say it would make the problem worse long term.
How dare they consider end users! What is the world coming to?!?
I've tried all of the Unixy tasks managers* and vim-tasks works well for me: https://github.com/irrationalistic/vim-tasks

Any file with .tasks turns into a todo list with keyboard shortcuts to create/complete tasks. Which is useful when adding them to projects on github.

I don't bother with trying to have one sync with mobile anymore. Simpler the better.

* I still need to try out org-mode
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