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>It really depends on what your goal is. You don't need to buy into any of it and still write high quality software.

Unless you also make the decisions at the company you work for, no you really can't.

What you said only applies to people making those decisions for their teams or working alone. Others are at the mercy of whatever BS du jour they'll be asked to code in.
> How does it do that?

By lowering interest rates which encourages borrowing and thus spending and thus economic activity.

> So the fed prints a bunch of money, causing 5% inflation.

Printing money causes monetary inflation, but does not directly cause price inflation so you don't need 1.05M to build your factory. Printing money can eventually lead to price inflation if too much money is printed for too long, but that doesn't mean all money printing causes price inflation as that lever can be turned both ways. Lower interest rates to spur spending and get the economy moving again and then once out of danger raise them again.
And I'd be fine with that width for text -- short lines are easier to read, up to a point -- but when the article is about images, really, let me use a reasonable amount of my screen to see the images.

I know you can zoom by clicking on the image. That zoom is barely acceptable. That should have been the size of the image in the article, and clicking on them should zoom more and let me scroll.
Point taken. Still, if it's important to me for something local, I've got the choice. It doesn't need to be useful with every program on my machine to be a useful capability to me.
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comment below by /u/userbinator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11838209

+ another link: http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/92849-windows-10-anniver...
Reminds me of a Weezer light display
Check out the Megaprocessor[0]. A guy made his own "processor" out of roughly a hundred thousand transistors, resistors, etc. Really interesting project.

[0]: http://www.megaprocessor.com/
Oh, I didn't see that part. That's a lot more inconvenient.
There are adverts in some of the new gamemodes in the Windows 10 version of Solitaire, if you just play classic there arent any.
The problem is eliminating Medicare is essentially a prerequisite to meaningfully reducing healthcare costs. As long as there is a deep pocket to pay whatever outrageous prices people are charged, people will keep getting charged outrageous prices. Take away the money and the price would come down in a hurry.
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Sorry by "account numbers" I meant a standardised system of these, serving as foundation for electronic banking.

In Norway: That single account number is all that's required to send someone money, with amount mandatory and an optional reference. From what I know, they've tightened security down a fair bit and require TFA devices etc, so it may not be as easy as in Australia.

In Australia: On my Android device I use biometric authentication (fingerprint) as a shortcut to the username password that is required on first time login; the username is different to my account number.

When transferring to a new recipient, an SMS confirmation code must be entered. I already explained what destination information was required, but omitted that for BPAY, we require our customer number reference.

Once entered it is saved, which means a manual bill payment is easy as: Log in, select payments, select recipient, dollar amount, submit then confirm => done. (Including login I can pay say my ISP bill in less than 30 seconds). Of course these can be made recurring.

I would say this electronic, biometric model sounds significantly easier, but then I've never lived in a place where banking is so paper based so that's just my world view.

(I received a bank cheque some time ago and honestly had no clue on how to cash it, so rare is this. I learned that our ATMs now feature scanners for depositing, but it took nearly a week to clear).
The only other consideration is stress of jobs on peripheral resources like the database. If you have multiple jobs that may be intense enough to insist on sequential execution it could inflate a wall clock number even if scaling wouldn't matter.

You essentially need a metric for wallclock time exclusive to jobs that benefit from scaling.
If you were good at both, and expecting to get "A" grades, I could see that. If you were bad at both, and just hoping to pass, it's probably the other way around.

I would expect philosophy to hand out "B" grades to nearly everybody. I would expect computer science to hand out everything, especially the extremes. There would be both more "A" and more "F" than in the philosophy classes.
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It's really not that hard to get from instagram to a transactional interface hosted on some other website. I don't think instagram never had any intent of being useful as a marketing platform for certain kinds of small businesses, it emerged that way organically. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
That's a good point. One of the properties I typically instrument in queue processing applications is the time delay from when messages were inserted into a queue, until when they have completed being fully processed. The application emits message processing latency into the instrumentation system for monitoring and examination. I haven't ever tried using this for purposes of auto-scaling, though. I'll have to give it a try sometime.

I've had the most success auto-scaling systems by measuring properties of system processing capacity, like percentage of threads in use, or percentage of maximum connections, or CPU; things like this that are properties of the system, rather than the work it's processing. These all have the desirable property that (i) they're relatively work-type agnostic (ii) you can begin scaling up when a utilization threshold is crossed, which is before there's ever an observable impact (like messages have been delayed an undesirable amount). Scaling on percent of thread capacity means that you can discriminate when to scale up even while your queue size is zero and your message latency is approximately zero (which means there has not yet been an impact on the work you're handling, such as a delay).

That being said, there's also a flip side: once utilization is at 100%, you can't tell how far behind you are, or how much to scale up. To combat this one establishes scaling rules that are aimed to prevent utilization reaching 100%, which is feasible if your mean time to bring new capacity online is low enough that you can follow the demand curve. This is also where you could bring in wall clock time as a measurement of how far behind the system is, and how much it needs to scale up to return to meeting its SLA.

(I should clarify that most of my automatic scaling experience is in the context of soft real-time systems with reasonably tight SLAs, not large batch systems that can afford to run large backlogs and that prefer to be at 100% utilization for efficiency.)
A petabyte of storage would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Think of the not too distant future.
Only if the tax was so much higher than they're paying now that it would meaningfully impact their spending, which it wouldn't be.
> Scala doesn't have operator precedence rules.

That's not true. The operator precedence is determined by the first character of the operator:

(all letters)
|
^
&
< >
= !
:
+ -
* / %
(all other special characters)

Precedence is different than associativity.
True, I don't understand Windows enough to know whether all the changes in https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/whats-new/... could have been easily / practically done as a service pack* though.

Edit: *Especially for Windows 7.
Yes I have - some Haskell, which I found substantially less frustrating. And, I've been using Scala for a year and a half now, so, long enough to get over the initial pain.
I really wish the "Who is Hiring" threads had a more unified formatting, to make it easier to search (and collect data) for certain things, especially location.
> It seems like your argument is that we can't do it because there are a relatively small number of people who would be better off under the existing system. But by that logic we could never change anything, even if the net benefits are very large, as long as there is anyone who is better off under the status quo.

I think this is an incredibly unfair and callous assessment of what's going on with catastrophic health care coverage. It's not about "the relatively small number of people who would be better off under the existing system." It's about the relatively small number people who are alive under the existing system who would be dead under the proposed one.
Go bike riding on the road. Explore backroads around where you live. Gradually ride further and further until you can do an unsupported century (100 mile) ride.

Go mountain biking. Explore trails near where you live. Do some endurance racing, eventually maybe even a 24 hour race.

Go trail running.

Go hiking.

Go fishing. What you can fish for and what style of fishing to do depends on your geography, but freshwater fishing is accessible in various ways in most places.

Go to a bar and hangout. If you don't have a crew to roll with, just take a book and read. If you don't drink, just order water or coffee. Talk to people if you like.

Go to a coffee shop and hangout. Take a book.

Join a bushcraft meetup and go learn survival skills.

Find a shooting range and go take a basic handgun safety class, learn to shoot. Consider buying a pistol and take up IPSC pistol competitions or something of that ilk.

Go kayaking.

Go to a wine tasting.

Take up brazilian jiu-jitsu and take BJJ classes.

Take a cooking class.

Take up yoga or pilates.

Take up free-running or parkour.

Buy a BMX bike and take up BMX riding.

If you live near the ocean, buy a surfboard and take up surfing.

Go to the movies.

Join a gym, take up body-building, power-lifting, or weight-lifting.

Buy an old (non running, even) car... something like a 1974 Chevy C-10 pickup or something, and start tinkering on that as a project. Rebuild the engine, learn to do basic bodywork... learn to paint and paint it yourself, etc.

Buy a sports car and take up SCCA racing.

Go rock-climbing. Or scrambling. Or bouldering. Whatever.

Take up writing fiction. Write a short story. Or a novel. Something.

Take drawing classes, pottery classes, painting classes, glass-blowing classes, etc.

Join / visit a hackerspace and just hangout there and see what kind of stuff people are working on.

Join a volunteer fire department or volunteer rescue squad / EMS service.
Public accusations beget public discussions. There is nothing surprising about that.

> Let's be fair here, defending the accused inherently means you're calling the victim(s) liars, especially this early in the event cycle. You're immediately assuming the accusers are lying for personal gain. You're being biased.

I can't speak for whatever else you've read, but the comment you're replying to is very general and does not defend anyone or calls anyone a liar. It does sounds skeptical. There is a big difference.

In the age of media meta-narratives, social justice crusades and Twitter attack campaigns presumption of innocence is the only sensible attitude to have.

> I don't see anyone leaping to defend Nest's CEO for his alleged instances of abuse.

People should be skeptical about those accusations as well. Any large company has begrudged employees. That's obvious. It's also pretty obvious that the public is biased against CEOs of large companies.

So what's your point? You're saying that the same biases should be expanded to other groups?
The difference is you have to make more money first.

"Phase out" means middle income people receive lower benefits in exchange for higher income people paying lower taxes. It's just a code word for screwing over the middle class.
Wrong. 3 spaces is the sweet spot. What is it with you people and powers of two? ;)
There's a pixel wall outside the Crittenden Ln. offices in Mountain View, but I don't know offhand if it uses this library or not yet.
"The analysis seems to be indicating that the answer is "more","

That wasn't my read at all. What made you think that?
Thanks for linking that, but this in an in depth audio interview with Pieter on that subject, and more. Tons of wisdom shared by Pieter in this call.
Consider someone at the edges of the distribution of healthiness: say, someone born with severe mental and physical disabilities. A universal basic income will never take sufficient care of this person; his or her medical care will cost much much more than average, and there will be medically necessary non-medical care as well. I think we'd like to socialize those costs, using something like SSDI.
One of the best qualities people can have is to see the good in something/someone. The bad is of no value, so forget it, but celebrate the good. People here are celebrating the things they admired about a public figure. Likewise you can look at an online community and take heart at how people had a shared recognition of great achievements and are able to celebrate it together. It does no good to dwell on the negative and suppose that people would actually deify someone or support everything they do without hesitation in order to affiliate themselves in some way.
What's with all the weird unfounded statements about AI?
Listen to this podcast episode. You will not be disappointed.

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I'm 100% positive that for every single instance of Linux having some driver issue, I can find 10 times the amount of issues on Windows through a simple google search.

Multi-monitor setups not working on windows 10:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1255544-windows-10-10074-n...

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/win-10-wont-recognize-multiple-monitors/fb5c5f33-b9e7-4158-ab82-833a9595e466

https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-do...

http://superuser.com/questions/947819/multiple-monitors-brok...

So yeah we can go on all day about the driver issues in Linux or we can go on all decade about the driver problems on Windows.

I my self bought a brand new laptop from dell with Windows 10, the laptop would not wake from sleep the first time I opened the lid, I had to close it again and re-open it every time. When it did wake up the wifi wouldn't work.

Driver issues are a common occurrence on Windows and in my experience more common on Windows than Linux.
Well that's the question, isn't it. What are the (un)intended consequences of forced leveling of inequality? Especially automatic and predictable forced leveling.

Right now, it seems that Mr. Rich eats as many burgers as he wants (which isn't many really) while all of the Mr. Poors who would be happy to eat them if they could afford them, and happy to make them if someone would buy them (and then could afford to eat them themselves) sit around hungry because there's a recession donchaknow.

Its almost as if the mass of Mr. Rich's on-paper money is blocking the natural signalling between the makers and the eaters so the cycle jams up. It seems like something that needs fixing. So how?
I'm in Chile. It totally blows here too.
> I find it ironic that this individual is for the so called UBI.

Why do you find it ironic? UBI gives people money without telling them what to do with it. It lets the market (i.e. the people) decide what they need instead of the government.

For example, you can imagine a shelter that will provide food, housing and services for the disabled in exchange for their UBI, which doesn't cover the entire cost but covers most of it and the rest is covered by donations.
Trying to equate Canonical and MS is desperate. Microsoft is undeniably worse. And Will Microsoft remove the ads? Of course not. When windows 10 first came out the only way to remove candy crush was with power shell.

http://superuser.com/questions/958562/how-do-i-remove-candy-...

You will jump through these hoops every upgrade unless you go through and disable certain updates, which you will need to keep up with for the rest of your life.

You now have to pay a monthly fee to avoid 30 second videos in Solitaire.
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I feel surrounded by total idiots. None of the math adds up... Cost of living is not considered at all. I'm not against the basic idea but the proposals are beyond half-baked - they're idiotic. I get the feeling nobody writing this UBI stuff has any experience or understanding of the welfare systems they're aiming to replace.
The UBI proposal in the article (one I find pretty weak, and I'm a huge proponent of UBI) is that you're getting $10k plus healthcare. So there's that.

But.

There is no part of the proposal that covers making sure coverage is equal in value to Medicare - in a private market I'm betting benefits start getting cut post-haste. UBI without universal healthcare is a nightmare, and is all but privatizing Medicare. Surprise!

Also, since children under 18 don't get UBI, they would have to be covered by their parents' $3k/annual buy. But again, privatized "universal" healthcare? No thanks.
It's the other way around. As of recently, the majority of doctors are salaried (employed), not in private practice.

The numbers I cite correspond to the practice revenues, but as much as half of what doctors in private practice receive in reimbursements goes to practice expenses and insurance.
That's a good point and it also brings to mind a way to fight it.

This http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.1897v4.pdf could be one way. You could generate images which are not of someone who wants to protect his privacy, but tweak them to strongly correlate to an image of that person by the neural net, whereas it could be a picture of anything you have just optimized (the images could be just noise, or another person, etc). You could generate batches of those and upload them, and confirm to Facebook that they are indeed photos of the person who wants their privacy back. You could repeat this (automatically) and corrupt the weights in FB's neural net, which would overcome their face detection abilities for the individual in question.
Yes I think Selenium adds that additional headache of dependencies that need to setup. Also its a pain if you want it to run on headless server. With this too you need some setup but its minimum.
Those are exactly two things I don't agree.

> Executables must start with #!/bin/bash

Either they never use *BSD, or they put their bash there. Unbelievable choice.

> If you find you need to use arrays for anything more than assignment of ${PIPESTATUS}, you should use

I use array all the time and never used PIPESTATUS. So what?
How often are you going to want to identify who's driving a car with no clue who it is?

This has implications for "which family member is it?" or "you claimed you lent it to your friend, is that really true?" etc.
There are comparatively few hardware stories posted. And when you do post something hardware related, you'll have a better chance of exposure on HN; load up some keywords like IoT, Raspberry Pi, etc., and you'll see what I mean :)
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I don't see why not. You can do it today with headless options like PhantomJS (headless WebKit), and this seems to be intended for similar uses.
I still don't understand this argument. The vast majority of people who would receive the UBI are not homeless. They live somewhere now. Why would the same number of people suddenly demand substantially more housing?
Can we get this changed to the original source? Not only does the Softpedia article not add anything substantial to the original source, it's also factually inaccurate. Windows 10 wasn't installed on any of their computers, the issue was just that it racked up a huge telecom bill for caching the installer. It also didn't impede any operations or disable any computer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4mcdon/i_live_i...
So, why do you still use Facebook again? FOMO > privacy?
I told you how many solutions you'd have to store. I don't see how that is underestimating.
> I am really getting quite tired of the go-to "she lies"

The thing is that there is no proof given to these accusations. No police reports, no suits won, no due process executed to collect evidence, nothing. If even an iota of evidence were produced, then I'd believe it. But alas, there doesn't seem to be anything of that nature.

> Let's be fair here, defending the accused inherently means you're calling the victim(s) liars, especially this early in the event cycle. You're immediately assuming the accusers are lying for personal gain. You're being biased.

There is a difference between calling someone a liar and asking for due process. We don't have assumed guilt in most western courts as they operate on a "innocent until proven guilty" principle.

I'd like to ask, how would one -- if accused of rape -- prove they didn't do it in this situation? I'm fairly sure that the point of contention wasn't all of the parties having stayed with each other. I think the issue here is if there was and sexual acts that did happen.

Again, as soon as I'm given any information other then "he left Tor" and "some people made a website and put stories on it", then hell I'll lend you my pitch fork. But before then, I'm keeping my pitch forks locked in my shed.
We definitely don't use any crazy Scala libraries; neither shapeless or scalaz are allowed in the codebase, and there's a strong bias towards pragmatism in the company. That said, I've definitely had code that IDEA just barfs on - especially for-comprehensions.

You may not want to use libraries, but that's not always feasible. I definitely don't want to write my own DB library, or FTP library, or logging or... and, if you have to do that, you'll find that the Scala options aren't easy to reason about. For example, I had to look inside the slick codebase recently and I found it...obtuse. OTOH, I've looked into a number of Java and C DB libraries and found them way more straightforward.

This is my biggest frustration about Scala: that the community appears to stress "neat" and "cool tricks" over pragmatism. This IMO, makes it a bad choice as a language for a startup.
Apple Maps is great because

1. the sign it shows actually matches the sign on the roads

2 UI is clean and clutter free

3. Takes less battery life

4. uses lock screen properly unlike gmaps

5. Better voice

Google Maps on the other hand is just a buggy app and a battery hog. However there're few things Google Maps does better

1. Which lane to use

2. Suggest new route mid route for faster speed

For me (in US) routes are exactly the same all the time.