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I agree that GNOME and Unity have jumped the shark — I think that I started to notice when GNOME got rid of xscreensaver and replaced it with a screen-blanker, with an unfulfilled promise of adding screensavers back someday, c.f. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-March/...).

Meanwhile everything went down the path of compositing and otherwise burning way too much CPU to do not a whole lot extra.

I switched over to a tiling WM years ago, and have been extremely happy since. It does exactly what I want; I can connect to a running instance with my editor and reconfigure it, as well rewrite it while it's running. It's pretty great.
Why not just get rid of DST? Is it still in any way relevant?

Edit: instead of "get rid of DST" I should have said "get rid of the semi-yearly time shift". Personally I much prefer EDT over EST where I live, for example.
Autoprefixer and prefixfree allow for writing 1x declaration and as support improves over time the prefixes are automatically dropped from your build.
The online ad industry is already gearing up to monetize/systemize/data mine "organic" sponsorships. The third part aspect will just be more hidden.

I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing but the ad industry absolutely wants to make ad content relevant but they also want to track it. The tracking part is just easier...
Why is the font on Hacker News so small?
That's awesome. It looks like it would make an amazing museum piece one day.
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It's on my reading list, though I'm already aware of many of the ideas in the book from other sources.
The ammount of shilling is just riddiculous. I'm triggered.
There are so many things wrong with iPhones that even if it was given to me for free I would just get rid of it.
Sure, Android is kinda crappy sometimes, but what isn't right now?
And the PC wasteland? 300 million PCs sold in 2015. THE END IS NIGH!
When a business fails to cater to a market that wants its media, and said market can have its needs met by piracy, does it become ethically OK to pirate?
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By it's definition: share or exchange information, news, or ideas.
Yes, my understanding is that they did (and to some degree continue to), especially before the new Mac Pro. We're talking about users that spend 99% of their time in an application suite.
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It will be like Motorola shipping "the first Android tablet with Flash" then quickly giving up on the idea
In France they usually prefer the term maghreb for the north-west african countries.
> has been far from problem free

> and want to stop immigration similarly to the UK

I'd say that it's rather an advantage of Switzerland model, than a problem.
Huh? Linting and compilation pull up just about every problem in the writing of CSS. The rest are browser bugs / quirks.
> Can you give a couple of examples of how you feel it is arbitrary?

He can't, because it isn't. Their acceptable ads policy is dead clear, and yes, it takes time to verify new entries and maintain that list, so they charge money to get onto it.

Personally I use uBlock Origin for technical reasons, but I have no problem with AB+'s acceptable ads program.
Analogies are dangerous in math. They give you the illusion that you understand, but you actually don't.
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I'm 44 and Elixir is a fine choice to start work in, although it's still a small (but growing) market. One possible impediment (for me as well) is subtle age bias- A lot of Elixir folks are really young (relative to us).

If you're great at math/linear algebra, an online certificate from one of the machine learning classes out there would probably help get your foot in the door somewhere!
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I was quite disappointed in this book -- having followed Kahneman since his early research with pupillometry as an indication of interest. I agree with many of the comments in this thread. Given the author -- and the importance of the subject -- it just should have been done better.

But I still recommend that it be looked at for a variety of reasons, including what Kahneman calls the "expository fictions" of "System 1" and "System 2". (In talks I usually pair this up with a slide of "Maps of the Mind" by Turner to make the point that there are many characterizations of mental architectures, some at odds and some harmonious (i.e. be careful when trying to reason with such suppositions).

Still, the "System 1" and "System 2" simplifications are very useful as aids to thinking about many important areas, including learning, user interface design, etc.
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Gosh Switzerland sounds like a terrible place. I have always wanted to go there for a vacation, but now I'm not so sure, is it even safe to visit?
So what has the TSA actually found/done since its creation that would be considered beneficial? Anything?
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I was thinking much the same. 90% of these errors don't even exist in some other languages.
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Apart from other points sibling comments have made - the current Web is very much a mush of "trust one site" leads to running code from three, four different domains via CORS and whatnot. My favorite alerts in noscript are people running js from bare cloudfare and s3 domains (do you trust all js publicly available on s3?) (and other cdns) - and also the "secure" amazon stuff like the hn search-box: some random AWS/cloudfront subdomains, a third-party service (algolia) and its accompanying domain for static resources.

It might be convenient and powerful - but secure? With our current huge (in code and complexity) browsers? With the series of bugs in font rendering, image libraries etc?

[ed: autocorrect. Apologies for seemingly calling algolia "third-rate" for a while there!]
Things are easier if you put countries like Nigeria, Congo, and Zimbabwe in the "Sub-Sahara African” bucket. Egypt is not a Sub-Sahara African country, and that makes cognitive sense.
It was also the week that a lot of Finns start their summer holidays so presumably a seasonal expectation as well. I'm sure a weak pound plays a part, but hardly breaking news.
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That's not really a good question.

If you want the text to be bigger hit Ctrl + if you want it to be smaller hit Ctrl -. If you are viewing on a touchscreen you can do that pinch thing.

What I can tell you is that touchscreen users actually interact very well with Hacker News and sites with a similar design.
May the gods have mercy on the soul of who'll maintain code using these... "techniques".

(I know because back in the days I've written things like this myself :) ..probably the curses whispered by those who've had to endure their progenitors are finally getting at me)
That doesn't include Egypt though, does it?
They will continue to do security updates for Win7 for years. I think what is happening is that MS realizes that Windows version fragmentation would get more expensive in the longer term. Win10 does have LTSB, but limited to enterprise customers.
Depends on your definition of `ethically`.
This is why we still use it.

http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-t...
The accordion example isn't really what I think of as an accordion because it doesn't auto-close other elements.

For that behavior, you can make some minor tweaks swapping out the checkbox elements for radio buttons.
Looked into it, appears the current surge of the sucides is related to poverty in elderly and the lack of support from family; appears the South Korea government successfully beginning to deal with the issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_South_Korea
All the best and the most pleasant holiday possible :)

First time I read something of the guy and his blog made an entrance in my quick dial.

I take he lives in Germany. That is one of the best and free healthcare systems in Europe (if not the world). Timely and hassle-free access to medication and care is hugely important when you race against time. Kudos to the system there.
> Versus not having any clue about changes that can not even be guessed at, advertised on explicitly untrue premises

I've seen some eye opening footage of refugees on TV and youtube - after seeing that, if someone tells me that did not occur, I'd be a little suspicious.
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FreeWRT was another fork of OpenWRT with the same motivation of allowing a more open governance model. I think the project died now.
Same in Germany, the temporary contract is something to be used to hire people when there is too much work. It makes sense to close that "Just renew it" loophole.
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>the same broken design //

Any reason to think this isn't the intended function by the manufacturers. In my experience lots of products have really simply low cost changes that would make them last much longer (eg fill this 1cm^3 area of the injection mould instead of hollowing it) such that the product will fail after a year or so. Even my IKEA armchair has a beam where a 1 or 2cm extension on either end would give the chair much more strength - before seeing that I thought IKEA was good-but-cheap, now I see them as much closer to just cheap.
The Apple ad claimed they are the most comfortable headphones ever made ;) They're ok.
Yeah, I run three blogs that I started within the last two years and none of them have ads. None of them make money. It costs me $15/mo for hosting and $30/yr for domain name registration for all three combined, so it's not like I'm going bankrupt if I don't make money from my blog. I just like writing, and I get pretty excited when I get 50 views a day on one of them.

Run your adblocker, I don't care. It's not blocking anything on my site. I get "paid" (infrequently) in non-monetary ways, like when I'm given a coupon to a restaurant in exchange for writing an article about them. Your ad blocker won't do a thing to stop that, and on the plus side, that coupon won't infect your PC with malware.
Awesome, we're now 1 bored developer weekend away from Mumps.JS
What we really need is a service that allows us to pay for pirated content and then sneakily distributes the money back to the people who deserve it.
That's irrelevant. I'm suggesting testing a limited number of possible hypotheses, all of which are very plausible possibilities.

In any case, bayesian inference is immune to this kind of overfitting. It will give you a set of models and their probability, given some reasonable prior.
> open-source

Take a look at his licensing page. [1] Certainly isn't Open Source in the traditional sense and the terms are pretty convoluted; again IMO the reason for it not gaining mainstream developer adoption.

I remember paying a yearly fee ($100?) for their "Club Greensock" membership so I could develop and supply code for clients and be in good standing. Of course the costs involved trying to replicate this toolkit and keep within deadlines made the fee seem very reasonable at the time.

> transition

There was definitely a transition, some Devs might argue it wasn't that painful; but certainly having a JS version of this particular codebase helped immensely, and also proved that we could still do all the "sizzle" we were able to do in Flash now with JS.

The posted example is testament to that IMO. Very smooth :)

[1] https://greensock.com/licensing/
I don't know, I do see a few relevant ad sometimes these days. I found the shoes I am wearing from an ad, and they are neither good nor bad, but the ad did serve its purpose of notifying me that a product of my liking was available.
No need to stretch what I said. Communicate has a well defined meaning: share or exchange information, news, or ideas. And 'complex' was used to exclude what I consider instinctual feelings/thoughts: anger, hunger, love, happiness, obedience, etc.

The deaf and blind can communicate. And even in the case of a human vegetable, a broken table is still a table.
I first encountered LGTM on some of Airbnb's open source repos, here's an example of it at work on a closed [1] and open [2] Enzyme PR:

1: https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme/pull/449

2: https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme/pull/459

I love that this enforces a social practice a lot of teams use already, and I'm pushing to add it to my own team's workflow (both internal and for open source contributions).

Edit: another tool in the same vein people might be interested in is Facebook's mention-bot [3], which analyzes PR diffs and @-mentions people it thinks would be good reviewers based on git blame of lines touched.

3: https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot
My entire account has been banned for 6+ years for someone else clicking on my ads in a way that they claimed was fraudulent. Appeals and offers to turn over server logs all got rejected.
"Massive"? You mean a handful of cases?
Nice material. When I was watching it, I wondered where were those expert opinions during the campaign itself? I mean that's how all our Western elections seem to work. We have highly staged advertisement-like TV shows with catchups being thrown upon viewers. And after we elect someone, experts start to analyze what just happened.

That's not how the system is supposed to work. Candidates should present their programs half a year before elections and then the social discussion and expert analysis should kick in and go on until the voting.
After the departure of Mr Callas this probably further proof of the decline in Silent Circle more than anything. Too bad...it showed promise. Probably too close DC to really affect change.
Very interesting, great guide. As a seller, it's actually very tempting.

On the other hand however, this is everything that's wrong with Amazon. This feels messy and like wild west ecommerce. If I, as a customer, wanted to shop with little to no curation I'd do that at eBay. Since I'm rarely interested in buying that way I'd prefer Amazon to focus on quality products instead of setting up a free for all environment.
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My thoughts exactly. This guy built an entire computer, complete with CPU, ALU, memory, storage, etc from transistors, and the article just says it plays Tetris? Sure, it was going to run some program, but that's missing the point.
Definitely having timeout issues on the OP link. Your €3/month hosting from blacknight.com isn't holding up to the HN load, apparently :)

Thank you for the github link. Mods can we get OP link adjusted to the github link instead of what was submitted?
I think one influences the other.

And you need a certain age to appreciate them (for example the child holiday thing).
If I worked for such company, I would probably feel better INSIDE the coffin.
It's likely that older collage-aged people will learn differently than primary school children. In fact it may be too late to try self-directed learning, which has been trained out of them?
yes, I know, but my company is using Github for a long time and migrate is not planed.
Might be, but it's a personal experience in that case, not one that should be forced upon employees by their employers. Keep work and spiritual life separated, if at all possible.
I was filling your parent argument, but calling ABP a key logger just crossed into delusional territory.
Have you had any successes or failure while trying to apply that to your investing strategies so far?

Any particular cognitive bias you're focusing on mitigating?
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I know the problem, it's the same in Poland - a lot of content has Polish subtitles baked-in and it's incredibly frustrating.
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I follow that definition when I want to speak proper French.

The rest of the time I'm quite happy to speak my dialect instead.

Ergo: I don't consider dialects (mine or others) to be French. They are dialects of French. Not French.
> I was talking about basic rules that even idiots should get right.

Ah, like politeness?
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They aren't absolutely infertile, but in hunter gather societies this is handled by infanticide. When it isn't possible for a mother to support two children under the age of four, the only solution was to kill one, which is what they did.

In the _Wandering God_ by Morris Berman, there is a story of a story of a girl (maybe 19th or early 20th century?) in a nomadic society in Africa. Her mother got pregnant again and was going to kill the baby, but the three year old child protested and agreed to go with being breast fed to try to save her newborn sibling. It wasn't possible to breastfeed two children at once, so her mother was going to kill the infant.

Miraculously the child managed to survive, but it was by no means guaranteed and she had to figure out to be self sufficient to some degree. It was considered such an odd occurrence that the relevant anthropologist reported the story.

I think we forget that infanticide wasn't uncommon that long ago. It was one of the major 'moral' victories of Christianity to make infanticide uncommon. And it could only do that because it wasn't necessary anymore.
I'd almost believe you if it wasn't for the part of the article that read "The participants at this session were sent by their employer, human resources firm Staffs.". I don't see staff members volunteering for this, let alone people signing up for this of their own free will.

I wouldn't necessarily trust the positive feedback from participants either. After all, who would willingly give truthful feedback to an employer that actually believes that this would have the kind of positive effect they seem to believe that it would?
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In what sense? There is no doubt that there are large numbers of refugees; but we have partial responsibility for causing/contributing to that.

I honestly believe that people don't want to leave their home unless it is serious, and that the portrayal of them all as wanting to just 'Freeload' for an 'Easy life' is nothing but Xenophobia, and FUD peddled by politicians with a personal agenda to push.
I'd be curious how many people pirate TV in order to skip the ads vs how many people pirate because they don't have access to the show, don't like the limited time they're able to see the show, or don't want to pay money to subscribe to the network. Seems like ads would be pretty far down the list of reasons to pirate.
Not really. Broadly speaking, DST was introduced to conserve fuel during war time.

Personally I prefer it to be lighter in the evenings than in the morning so I prefer DST (or BST as it's known in the UK) over the winter time (GMT / UTC)
It still baffles me that the media companies that so often complain, file lawsuits, and spend exorbitant amounts of money lobbying still cannot grasp the simple concept that people will pay for content that they can easily access. How can these people not realize they are fundamentally doing something wrong when you have a situation like the one in this article in which it would be quicker, easier, and a better experience to pirate the show in question than to watch it through the legal channels? Of course, pirating is illegal and wrong. However, maybe these giant media companies should spend their money on improving their platforms and making them more widely available instead of using said funds trying to convince lawmakers to create laws to prevent the very problem that their own business practices helped perpetuate.
Status symbols are inherently wasteful. Waste and the situation implied by that waste (high status and affluence) is their function. I believe this is generally true across cultures, but it's often easier to see them for what they are in someone else's culture.
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I saw Mikey Dickerson talk about his experience in the initial recovery phase of healthcare.gov at Velocity in 2014. I think it shows just how insane the situation was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vc8sxhy2I4
How would you solve the following use-case: You want users to be able to try your software for non commercial use, but you want them to pay for commercial. I don't see how GPL licenses can do that for you. In fact, I don't know any common OSS license that has non-commercial limitations with the option of purchasing a commercial license.