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And their friends? Their support networks? Their families? The place they know and love?

It only makes sense from a fairly warped point of view.
In the United States of "why aren't you working right now?" it's certainly an unusual benefit. I also work for a company that provides a sabbatical after X years. They also pay for you to travel during it if you wish. But I don't know how many people make it to it/take it.
The camera icon is not just a picture of the physical world object. It is pretty universal symbol for taking pictures. When the same symbol is used in so many places, even people who have never used the physical object resembling the icon, will recognize its meaning.

In my view the reason behind many of these user interface changes is not really improved usability. The simple reason is that no matter how good interface you design, after some years it just starts to feel old and boring. Old and boring is hard to sell. Fresh and exciting is better. Therefore we keep on changing stuff, even though from pure usability perspective it would be better to stick to the old and boring but familiar.

Easy to use systems make happy customers, but they don't necessarily win the customer's heart at that point when the purchase decision is made. Maybe this is one issue for Apple? Maybe the "old Apple" was happy giving out xx% of their sales for a bit of ideological reasons, but the one needs to find growth where it can? One could see this kind of hints in the product lineup. I would say back in the days it was pretty opinionated, now there's 4 different iPad models (and countless variations).
If the rents they charge employees are well below the market rates, won't the ISR crack down on this as a taxable benefit?
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There area bunch of new apartments built near Facebook campus[1]. Those are not cheap but are much more affordable than actual Menlo Park.

The reason Menlo Park allows building those new apartments is because Menlo Park has a serious segregation problem. North side of 101 is mostly black and latino communities and they usually don't have any representatives in the city hall and don't get involved with the proposals much. So the people of rich side of the city shoot down any construction near their homes but approve anything on this side so they can get the taxes come in to make their neighborhood even nicer.

This new proposal is in this side of 101 again. They're going to make this side of Menlo Park very crowded and keep their nice homes and probably enjoy even higher property values.

[1] http://www.777hamilton.com/
It's on top of their basic vacation (which, at 3 weeks, isn't stellar, but is better than many US jobs), and the implication is that you take it all at once -- so not to be sniffed at, I'd say. It's not really equivalent to traditional academic sabbaticals, but it is potentially enough to study something new or get a little side-project off the ground.

Edit: the 4-day-summer-weeks thing should typically work out as an extra 17 days off per year, which makes the total -- before counting sabbatical -- higher than the great majority of UK employers, albeit (maybe) with less flexibility.
wow, finally someone that can talk sense.
It does seem entirely different. In one case we're removing a toxin, something that doesn't need to be in water at all. In the other case we're adding something that isn't normally in the water in order to benefit a few people. We do this with fluoride in many places already, but I think this takes it to a far different level by affecting your brain chemistry.

You're giving many people who really don't need it a mood stabilizer, if it's enough to affect those who are at risk of suicide, it's surely still having an influence in the minds of those who don't need it. Why should the entire population have this alteration performed when only a few will benefit. Seems better to go and seek out those few. Personally I'd take the increased suicide risk.

Point is, people will disagree about this, the optimal solution is to just let people who want it add it or take it as a supplement in their own homes.
I'm confused. An expanded canal, that allows for ships three times the size, is harder to navigate? How does that work?
Hey, do you mind if i ask you a question?
How can one prepare to be be a good SRE and what are absolute essentials to know before one can apply at google for the position of SRE?
Well, maybe. It would certainly improve. But you probaly still won't get anywhere near the GDDR5(etc) speeds from those memory accesses. Depending on the memory access pattern it might end up dropping down significantly. But you might still end up considering it "dead slow."
Chronic pain is an entirely different beast from acute pain.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10518/amd-announces-radeon-pro...
The frequency of "Best developer X" hardware questions make me wonder if it would be helpful to sorta sticky some of the most-upvoted posts somewhere. Like a "Hardware" tab on the top banner for logged-in users.
> for new users the ancient ui is a huge roadblock, and most users never will get past it.

Reading & writing is a huge roadblock, but most people do get past it — and the UI of emacs is far easier than learning to read & write.

> then saying emacs is great and not liking it is the users fault is illogical.

No, emacs is great and users should be humble enough to try to learn it, rather than arrogant enough to think they can do better. It's like a kid who says, 'I don't want to read; my parents can read to me.' That's no way to go through life — and neither is using an inferior computer interface.
Yeah. Opus is the default transport codec, and, should you wish to transcode to mp3 or otherwise, is converted after the fact.

One of the nice side effects of this is that transport streams are really low-bandwidth. If I set up a JACK master server, and, say, six slave laptops recording input, I can stream/mix over 802.11g without latency, whereas other solutions will fully saturate a gigabit switch.
I'm not sure there needs to be an evolutionary function for everything. Some things are just "dewclaws".
Thank you, I've been looking for this for my entire l... since 2 months ago.
> what's weird is the fact that we do sometimes kill ourselves when things look completely hopeless.

The hope is always there, just change the purpose.

Instead of a life without suffering one expects to end the pain.

That is the final hope that the suicidal people embrace.
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You realize there are seriously negative side effects to lithium, right? Kidney disease, extremely bad for nursing babies, etc
You don't seem to understand much about evolution, or life. Claiming that evolution is a random, unguided "whatever works" process is mere ignorance. To everyone who has ever looked around (or listened around, or sensed around) even for one moment, it is beyond obvious that not only evolution works "by design", but that this design is supremely personal and the ultimate in creativity. So the implied negative connotations in your "creationist" label are misplaced.
very strong desire to live.

Meh, I just fear hurting the ones I love.
Yet, wouldn't you agree that it's a bit deceptive? I'd bet I wasn't the only one to click expecting something completely different.
While you're at it, you might as well add magnesium, potassium, sulfate, phosphate, iodide, L-selenomethionine, copper, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, orthosilicic acid, and ascorbate, too.

While you can't make people exercise and eat their vegetables, they will usually drink the tap water.

But you then have to provide a way for people to opt out without any de facto penalty, which is the problem. So this would so something more suited for a dedicated drinking water system in an apartment building or complex. The mineralized water on tap goes to sinks, drinking fountains, and refrigerators, and regular old municipal water to sinks, toilets, showers, and laundry machines.
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Lithium might be an essential micronutrient, so it may simply be treating a common problem. Much like how milk is fortified with Vitamin D.

PS: There is little (ed: zero) evidence that Lithium is and the human body puts effort into removing it. But, it's also common in the environment and may have positive impacts at low levels so it's more debatable than you might think.
I think people should make diverse aesthetically pleasing things (even if only some people find some of those things to be aesthetically pleasing).

The world needs diverse things and something for all tastes. What I dislike very much, however, is strict bucketing or stereotypically selling those things.

Pink drills? Why not, though maybe blue, green, orange, magenta and so on drills would also be cool to have. And please don’t write “drills for the female renovator” above them.

Also, if there is only one shitty pink drill and the rest of the stuff is not available in pink, wouldn’t you say that sends a message, too? It says something about how normal it is for women to do e.g. home renovations. It says something about their status and role and as such is pretty shitty. See the wider context.

(Also, your assumption that you are somehow uniquely positioned for glasses for people looking at screens all day is itself somehow weirdly sexist. So many people look at screens all day for all kinds of reasons, irrespective of their gender.)
Meeting with a firm who is actively out to collect money from you is a dangerous path for a young founder without a legal background. You don't want to accidentally give them any more fuel for a potential lawsuit via something you say during that meeting.

I do agree that talking to legal counsel is wise... but not necessarily VC B's legal counsel, as that relationship will skew towards what is good for the VC, not your company.

Also, don't be afraid of getting sued. One of my lawyer friends always says that small businesses tend to harm themselves by over-avoiding lawsuits. If you grow enough, lawsuits will happen, and you need to know how to deal with them. Act from a position of knowledge, not of fear.
I agree with most of the assumptions. They are assumptions, though. We don't really know what makes us feel and act the way we do.
Most advantages of being tall are based on peer perception, which is always behind the curve. The trend is that it's no longer as advantageous to be tall, just like it's no longer as advantageous to be strong, or to be able to run fast. In an information economy world, and with increasing global population, being more efficient on a per-human basis, being more intelligent, will become more important factors than the more archaic advantages like strength and traits of physical dominance.

Advantageous like "people look up to tall people" are based on perception, and perception changes. For example more people used to like slightly chubby girls, and now our perception puts attractiveness at thin girls. However things like "smaller people consume less energy" or "smaller people live longer" are fundamental and if those advantages are conducive to the future then that's where the curve guiding perception is heading.

Other examples of changing perceptions are: small feet in China, large butts in Florida. It took some time, but eventually people realized that small feet bore no real advantages and perception changed.

And as most people have no choice in their height, arguing for/against a certain height is not much more different than arguing why certain races/cultures are better/worse.
You have to be over...40?

https://www.amazon.com/867-5309-Jenny-Song-That-Saved/dp/193...
I used collaborative filtering for movie recommendation (http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/morse/MORSE-Paper.html), and it worked well for that, and I'd probably use it for music too. Movies and music have quite complex "structure", making it hard to compare even similar examples. Dr Strangelove's most similar movie is probably Fail-Safe, but the two are still very different in many ways, aren't really interchangeable, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone liked one but not the other.

For beer, although there are many different styles, similar beers could more easily be substituted for each other (e.g. Sierrra Nevada Pale Ale and Brewdog Punk IPA). So if you couldn't get the one you asked for, you'd be happy with the other.

I have no hard evidence, though, and might be wrong. I didn't get the chance to apply my MORSE algorithm to beer, and it wasn't as generally applicable as I'd have liked. (See http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/morse/DeadOnTime.html)
Your premise is false. You're assuming that people are working in these situations. In my experience you can get one honest week of 40+ hours out of a team, then you will see people piss away company time on meaningless bullshit.

Study-after-study has shown that knowledge workers are useless after 40 hours a week, yet every body seems to think they are the exception. I'll tell you why:
Because we all know what it's like to work more than 40 hours a week on something we truly love and are passionate about, and we've sustained insane levels of work for a long time on such things.

The problem? Your bog-standard social-media/consumer app is not something your developers are going to be passionate about. They may find the odd project here or there in your company that they truly care about, but for the vast majority of applications your dream/company is work for them that happens to align with their skill set, it's not something they'd prefer to be doing.

I know there are exceptions to this rule, and I've even gotten a chance to land a dream job once. Do you know what a dream job turns into pretty quickly? Something you've mastered, and find boring.

Company runners/founders need to get over the idea that their employees should be as passionate about their company as they are, it's such a BS idea. Your workers, should be loyal, do what it takes to keep your dream up-and-running, and coming up with original ideas to make it great, but they should not be sacrificing their lives for your dream.

All-in-all I think you can still design a great product with two people in less than 40 hours. Hell...I think you can do it in 25.
This, I think, is relevant to the idea that suicide is very strongly tied to exhaustion and hopelessness.

Pain and grief, even when they are absolutely horrible, don't appear to be strongly correlated with suicide. Inescapable problems, even when they are not so severe, absolutely do.

Broadly, people seem to turn to suicide either when their circumstances seem unimprovable (chronic pain, inescapable debt, irreparable loss) or when they lose the ability to imagine recovery (acute depression, various forms of psychosis). I think that when considering suicide, experiences like "I've been in that much pain" are basically irrelevant - the operant part is the permanence, not the severity.
Time is a flat circle.

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> But if you have never seen a camera

Who are these supposed people who are buying Macs but have never seen a camera? This set of people must be miniscule if not empty.

Cameras are still in use, even if most people have replaced them with smartphones. Walk around any city and you'll see gobs of people taking selfies on their phones, but you'll also see a decent number of people carrying dedicated cameras.
Perhaps, but if it's having a mental effect of notable size it still causes me concern. If you're happy with your current behaviors I don't see why you'd want it. Wouldn't it be better for individuals to just opt to take it themselves, encourage usage of those already existing environmental sources, etc?
The beetles are not native to the US, so any side effect of eradication here would be back towards the way things would be without ocean shipping.
Of course they are disincentivized from taking risk - their job is capital preservation, not capital growth (that's the job of the rest of the business).
The sad emoticon expresses an opinion.
Miami must be pretty low on crime if the police are spending their time encouraging random bitcoin sellers to do something illegal just so they can arrest someone.
It obviously goes beyond the word "instantly." I'm afraid we disagree irreconcilably about the limits of reasonable civil discourse. Your definition of "starting a flamewar" is indistinguishable from "stating an unpopular position."

I've sent a message to hn@ycombinator.com.
It turns out if you drop out of school, and decide you want to go back, they let you back in.

As for "bleeding money out of his trust fund" - you do realize, short of developing a 6-figure coke habit, he could've lived off the interest for the rest of his life QUITE comfortably, right?

His relative risk was nearly 0. He was going to live, at worst, an upper middle class lifestyle regardless of the success or failure of Microsoft.
I have a feeling you'll like this Stan Rogers tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4
What? I pay the equivalent of 9 dollars for a plan with unlimited calls, unlimited text messages and 10GB a month of internet bandwidth. I live in Europe. Is it really that much more expensive in the US?
Right now FractalViewer is using a modified version of the Successive Refinement algorithm invented by Robert P. Munafo. See a description of the original algorithm http://mrob.com/pub/muency/successiverefinement.html .

Version 2 of FractalViewer will use Web Workers (multipple threads) to render the image, so it will resemble "the maps one" (rendering multiple smaller squares at once). See progress on this at https://github.com/valera-rozuvan/FractalViewer/issues/3 .

By the way - maybe I got your question wrong. What do you mean by "a render technique like the maps one"? Can you point me to a resource where it is described?
I don't get to live by my family. I had to move for my job. I had to make new friends and travel to see old ones. When this job ends I'll probably have to move again. When I retire (God willing) and if I'm still in SF, I'll probably need to move to somewhere cheaper. I don't see why the same rules shouldn't apply to them.

If their friends and families care so much they should take them in, not put them on the public dole. As retirees they are probably better off living somewhere cheaper anyway, like a retirement community in an exurb, where everything, food, medical, and entertainment was a lot cheaper.
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Github says "40% complete" in a milestone, that's where I got the impression from https://i.imgur.com/DQoyGeW.png .
Women in countries like Senegal are less free to choose want to do and so this is not surprising. As societies become more prosperous and free, women (generally speaking) are less likely to be interested in careers in IT. Of course, women who do want to work in IT should be encouraged and accepted.
It's also not always quite that simple. My city is trying to pass a moratorium on residential building permits because the infrastructure is simply not built out enough to handle all the people moving to town. Yeah, yeah, public transportation, etc... but all of that takes time and money to build.

The 2 lane road leading to my house is already overloaded and a builder is wanting to build another 2000 houses at the end of the road. Instead of waiting and relying on the state to improve the road, maybe we should do a better job at shifting the infrastructure costs to the builder when they put up a new apartment building or neighborhood.
I swear... I have worked with coworkers who have taken a lot of these principles to heart.
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This response is probably the most rational one I've seen here. It doesn't dive into a holy war of UI opinions -- it sticks to observations of reality and conclusions drawn from them.

Thank you for trying to introduce thoughtful conversation to the embers of a flame war.
> You know where you put your apps on your home screen

Really? Because when I used an iPhone, I most definitely didn't know where most of my apps' icons were. I knew most of them on the first screen and the rest of the screens were a mix of random stuff.
What license update?
My feeling comes from "40% complete" on a milestone, where did you look at? https://i.imgur.com/DQoyGeW.png
But "no hope" is not equivalent to "extremely depressed".

Think of people who commit suicide over inescapable scandals, chronic pain, or terminal illness. Extremely depressed comes with 'no hope', but that's cancelled out by 'decreased agency' (which is one theory for why antidepressants carry suicide risk). Not every form of hopelessness shares that loss of agency.
Check out Umberto Eco, The Search for the Perfect Language.
Have they given any thought at all to what happens when an employee is let go? It's not easy to find a new place to live on short notice.

"Bob, I'm sorry we had to have this meeting. But your performance has been slipping, and we've decided that today will be your last day as an employee with us. We have some boxes for you to clean out your cubicle, and the moving company will be here this afternoon to help you pack up your apartment."
If they truly loved or appreciated their location they would work enough to be able to afford to live there in retirement.

It is unethical and impractical to hold wealthier individuals accountable for the financial missteps of individuals. Especially when hardworking and financially responsible people get crowded out from living in a desirible location who could actually afford it.

Of course, this assumes that anyone can acquire as much wealth as they desire regardless of circumstance, which, as we have seen numerous times, is as much a "theory" as gravity is.
> On the other hand, I'm a bit tired of the holier-than-thou attitude of many Emacs (and many Vim users) on internet forums.

Well, think back to when you were a kid in school. Did the high-schoolers consider themselves better-educated than the first-graders? Almost certainly. Were they right? Indubitably.

vi & emacs are, simply, superior to the alternatives (albeit imperfect in themselves). It's a recasting of the Blub Paradox: someone using a moderately-powerful editor can see how it's better than Notepad or nano, but cannot see how emacs or vi is better than his own editor. From his perspective, users of better editors are self-congratulatory and delusional — the problem is that his perspective is wrong: there is an objective ranking of editors, and his is worse than theirs.

> In my case I voted with my feet already :)

In the long run, that's like being truant. Sure, it saves one some miserable hours in school, but those miserable hours buy one an education.

Life's too short to use Atom, Eclipse, SublimeText or TextMate.
In the West programming started out as a "women's job" because it was just seen as a subset of the general secretary "data entry" job category (i.e. menial work with no long-term career path).

You're right that it is important to not exclusively support women but I don't think this programme is going to tilt the balance dangerously. We're talking about a country that has a literacy rate of 74.2% for men and 56.2% for women, not to mention problems like child labour, child marriages and female genital mutilation[0][1]. A code camp for women isn't going to turn this into a dystopian matriarchy.

I would normally be the kind of person to be called anti-SJW but Senegal is definitely a country that is in a cultural position where Feminism can address significant concerns much like it did in those Western countries over the past century. If there is such a thing as a patriarchal society, Senegal is certainly still an example of it.

[0]: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/senegal_statistics.html

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Senegal