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I find there's almost no effort made for UI on the enterprise level of things. Which is understandable nowadays with powershell, but previously the GUI was usually the only way to get things done and seeing the old simpler interfaces was the norm. I guess this is what happens when you have engineers in charge and product managers not caring about the experience. This should lead to wonderful things, but in the MS world at least, it leads to old broken dialogs like pressing "open" to create a new file, not remembering previous folders and being thrust into c:\windows\system32 everytime, lack of handy quick access and shortcut buttons, and lots of F5 mashing because nothing refreshes itself for some reason.

Everytime I deal with MS enterprise products it just blows me over how anything of theirs actually works. There seems to be a strong empahsis to dogfood everything (okay to install this you need a .net version you don't have, a bunch of random libraries, some framework thing MS is kinda sorta pushing, a random KB or two, maybe silverlight, and then install process itself requires multiple reboots and usually troubleshooting). Then you have to install the application itself and its many hotfixes and service packs. This will definitely result in troubleshooting cryptic error codes as none of this stuff really works out of the box.

That said, while 10 and 2012 are perhaps uglier and less refined beasts, there does seem to be an emphasis on a single UI style with a real effort to hide the legacy stuff, as well as a much stronger emphasis on getting away from the GUI and just using powershell. No idea how that will ultimately pan out, but I do miss the old start menus. The 10 menu seems like it would be amazing, like you should be able to stretch it and fill it with tiles and shortcuts trivially. Instead it seems like something a little hostile to you and something MS uses to promote whatever it feels lime promoting at the time (xbox, bing, cortana, etc).
Been a very, very long time since I had this argument, but I do think System 7 was better. Absolutely not technically, but definitely in terms of a coherent and consistent desktop metaphor, especially across shell and apps.

W95 broke its own metaphors all the time (hell, it supported both MDI and SDI!) and wasn't consistent. Sure, you can drag and drop this document icon to this window, but try to drag a document icon on top of a window minimized to taskbar and you get a popup that tells you "we know what you want to do and why, but we're not going to let you. Do something else", which is a cardinal UX sin.

Even the look, which I really liked at the time, is a shameless lift of NextSTEP (another competitor for "pinnacle of desktop UX") with other bits pinched from OS/2.
Its not just the trades that generate fees; the application enables you to borrow money with a click of button ( kind of like how they place ATMs near slot machines). The trader pays a borrowing fees plus interest.
New Online Payments System in Uganda
> A marriage has everything to do with romance in terms of the kind of relationship we're talking about: a romantic relationship.

Not legally it doesn't and that is where a pre-nup is involved. A pre-nup is related to all the contract law around the legal institution of marriage. The law doesn't care about how much you love each other. You could marry someone to set explicit inheritance rights, absolutely hate the other person and it is still a legal marriage.
Researchers Think They Have Found Two Divorce Spikes
Increase+Sales+by+Discovering+the+80%+Customers+are+Not+Telling+You
I think Apple's problem with this stuff is that they want it to be so seamless that they refuse to acknowledge the possibility of failure. If you're lucky they'll tell you that something went wrong, but they almost never say what. In many cases they just swallow the error silently. I run into this with AirPlay a lot. When it works, it's easy, but when it fails it's a total mystery as to why. Fixing it involves either retrying until it works, or rebooting whatever is handy in the hope that you'll stumble across whatever's responsible.
Right, exactly. I want guidance on whether code (new code or a modification to existing code) can make sense before I've written all of it. With modern Haskell I can start to ask those questions before I've written all of the term-level code and before I've written out all of the relevant types. I can start working with whichever is more convenient at the time, and feel ahead to where things might break down before I get there.
It's an unfortunate aspect of the human condition that every generation, in their youthful defiance, ends up discarding some of their forebears' painstakingly accumulated wisdom, only to rediscover it later (of course crediting themselves for the discovery). To paraphrase Santanaya, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to reinvent it.
I'm still convinced Fox News is a parody news station. Like how Cosmopolitan is a parody women's magazine.
Google taking on the academic publishing racket? That is such a good idea that it must happen.
Rust's try macro will automatically use any available conversions when moving exceptions up the chain, so if you want to wrap exception A in B this can be done without pain. Rust also relegates a lot of what would have been exceptions in Java to panics, so that things like logic errors or issues with arguments can be kept from complicating error handling.

These alleviate a lot of what made Java's checked exceptions so unhelpful, so I don't think you can really conflate the two.
What about FLACs?
Well, that link inspired me to go through that website and start browsing the Sick Windows Tricks section again... I'd forgotten about some of those.

Links if anyone's interested:

http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html

http://toastytech.com/guis/miscb.html

http://toastytech.com/guis/miscc.html

http://toastytech.com/guis/win1x2x.html

http://toastytech.com/guis/misce.html
The Amazing Nature in Odle Peaks, Dolomites
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Nginx-performance compile script with custom modules and libs
I suspect this is a relatively new development- I think 5 years ago I would have been pretty comfortable with my chances against AI trading bots. But in 2016, not so much.

Based on my own anecdotal evidence, I think the large corps building HFT systems with AI have gone a long way towards eating the lunch of "lone wolf" day traders in the last few years.
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They have an overview and inside it links to a copule example repos:

- https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/overview
- https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/example-hello-...) to some getting started examples
That could have been my current employer.

We are currently making a web version of a old C++ app. Told bosses we need someone who primarily does web stuff. The job listing gets passed around and C/C++ gets added because it 'would be nice if they can also maintain the legacy app'. I swear they are trying to find a unicorn with how much they are willing to pay such a person when found (very entry level).
No, it means that the company most willing to exploit the spectrum will win and buy it. Ultimately, that's a win for the market as resources will be optimally allocated (assuming profit is what you want to optimise for).
It seems like some people have created VLF-like packages for Atom that employ similar workarounds to emacs for large files. This tickles me, but I assume long term this'll be solved more fundamentally.

I personally never cared much about emacs' similarly slow loading times, and don't see much of an issue with a modern editor taking time to start up. I'm happy just never quitting emacs on any of my machines, but it does mean you need something that interacts with sudo (i.e. tramp in emacs) to make quick edits to config files etc.
The stock market isn't a zero sum game (or a negative sum game for that matter). If you think it is, you are over simplifying. At the very least you need to account for traders' differing time spans on their trades.
Because he's not Valley Guy you never heard of Div Turakhia, worth $1B
Saying consciousness is "just our subjective experience" of anything isn't a definition, it's tautology. The question is whether a reductionist definition of consciousness exists, or whether it's fundamentally irreducible.
I'll add an advice to the final list: don't overtake a motorized vehicle at a shorter lateral distance than what you'd accept where the vehicle overtaking you.
Meteorite or Meteorwrong?
IBM do the same for P series as well. You get the privilege of purchasing an 8 core server but you only get the rights to use 4 cores. It's your responsibility to pay IBM when comes the time to be able to use all the 8 cores. Organized crime of sorts... like democracy
Facebook’s secret iOS features you may never get to use
Perhaps people's bank balance should be coupled to their facebook accounts; so that if people go on a holiday and post nice pictures, you can say: "ha, but your balance dropped by $5000".

EDIT: It may sound like a ridiculous idea, but I think it would make for a great social experiment.
"Be the farm, not the livestock."
I would never want to risk it because I've seen the damage it can do. My family fosters kitten litters with a nearby animal shelter. It's normally fun and rewarding work, but we once lost an entire litter to toxoplasmosis. It;s generally harmless to people and cats, but in young kittens who don't have very strong immune systems it becomes a degenerative neurological disease. The vets initially thought it was rabies from the symptoms: lethargy progressing to a loss of motor control. We had to clean the room we kept them in with bleach, wash all the cushions and blankets thoroughly, throw out all the cat toys...

I don't know what Toxo does to fetuses and infants, but based on what it does to kittens I'm not keen on finding out.
I went to Home Depot's website and sorted range+ovens by price. The 50 cheapest or so (I stopped after 2 pages) all had a knob for each burner.

One had a knob for the oven, but that was maybe notable.

So the 'functional' marketplace hasn't abandoned sense for nice looking stuff with complicated hidden controls.

Siemans still uses knobs on their gas cooktops:

http://www.siemens-home.com/ae/productlist/cooking-and-bakin...

Presumably the mechanical valve works better than an electric one.
It would be interesting to know whether the gains were concentrated among a small group of same individuals over time, or equally across the large group (ie everyone getting lucky once)
It should be noted that while the US forward auction is extremely complicated, with dozens of bidders and hundreds of regions, most national spectrum auctions are much easier. They typically have 3 or 4 bidders and 4-8 bands for sale, run the ascending auction described in the article, and last a few days at most. The only countries where you'll see package bids (aka a combinatorial auction) is in the richer Western nations.
Ask HN: Legality of web app with encrypted database?
For a Web App, I'd like to encrypt user entries on the client side before sending them to the server (and decrypt them after receiving them from the server). The encryption salt (chosen by the user) would be saved in the session on the client-side, NOT on the server.

The benefit for the user is that his data is fully protected in case of a server breach. Also, I would have no way to see his confidential data, so he does not have to trust me so much. (On the other hand, I would also have no way to help the user recover his salt if he loses it).

I don't recall seeing that approach used anywhere. Do you know of any reason ?

Is it because of a legal requirement to be able to assist government investigation, and thus be able to read user data saved on the server ??
I know this gets viewed as overly negative, but to provide a bit more context: I still use my purchased Sublime text instance for: 1) Quickly opening single files, and 2) Opening large e.g. JSON files. I prefer everything else about Atom / VSCode, but in my experience they have not yet matched the performance of Sublime Text.
Your setup appears to be an hour focused culture, not a goal focused culture.

They may be a bit schizophrenic about this, and promise nice leave based on hours put in and when an often non-expressed goal in not met (indeed, not formalised internally) is not met get very managerial, imagining management, especially hours focused culture, is leadership.

If they're not letting you take leave on your birthday, hell I give that day off for anyone if they ask for it or not, then they're an hours focused culture faking a goal focused one.

You're right to get out.
I'm really curious why you say so.
Here you go. https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste

I think it's really sad you're being downvoted. Dunno why anyone would do that, it's a good question.
Though I think I really have to write some user CSS or a bookmarklet or something for pages like this, namely:

body {
width: 50em;
margin: auto;
line-height: 1.6;
}

The Firefox Reader View is supposed to do that but it's way too narrow (30em I think) and way too often messes up some formatting essential to understanding the content.
Raspberry Pi Wifi Config Generator
Not knowing what your opponent will do does not make it a game of chance. For the purpose of defining gambling, the component of chance must be exogenous to the participants.
Ask HN: How much do you make at a remote job?
Inspired by threads about Amazon [1] and Google [2], I thought that we would all benefit from some more information about the pay of remote jobs.

Some companies seem to highly adjust for location, for example, Buffer is paying $93k for a developer in Hong Kong, $77k in Buenos Aires, and $144k in San Francisco, for the same job.

This raises questions about determining 'fair' salary outside the major cities, where the cost of living is well known and understood, and sources such as Numbeo and similar sometimes miss essential issues.

So, dear reader, what's your job, where are you based, on what's your salary?

The more information we have available, the better off we are! :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449
Tell them I'll do it for entry-level wages if they throw in a healthy amount of stock/equity :)
I mostly agree. Just two comments.

[My native language is Spanish, please don't read the "you" here as some direct advice to you, it's a generic "you".]

It's important to get good doctors, there are good doctors and bad doctors, and the default health service doctor may be not be optimal. In most situations it's not possible to get a x10 doctor that will make you live x10 more, but a good doctor will reduce the number of unnecessary and stupid medical procedures and provide better treatment.

[Some people strongly disagree with this.] Read Wikipedia article, all the links, the fist 20 Google results and then a little more. Be aware that the Internet is full of scammers, crackpots, and overhyped press release from universities, so take everything with a (huge) grain of salt. Don't expect to find a magical cure, the idea is to have a minimal understanding of what is happening, understand better what the doctors are saying and what they are not saying, the tradeoffs, the risks, ... Remember that it is not your field of expertize, so don't get too confident. (For example if you are an expert in software, think that it's a hardware problem, so there are many tricks of the trade that you don't know.)
Coala 0.8 released
Do you have a good alternative to propose? The beauty-contest model didn't seem to work out too well, because regulators have a relatively poor ability to determine in advance who will best use the spectrum, and the process disproportionately rewarded those who were well represented at the FCC. The lottery system eliminates the latter problem, but greatly exacerbates the former. In either case, one could rely on secondary market transactions to reallocate spectrum to more optimal uses, but this would impose a 'hidden tax' at least as high as simply auctioning the spectrum in the first place.
I am not sure you came across The Last Lecture, if not you may find it interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7zzQpvoYcQ
https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/book/

I consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to work with you and learn an awful lot along the way. Thanks!
If not the patch from Linus himself, firmware loading would stay impossible without (broken) udev - https://lwn.net/Articles/518942/
I'm sincerely sorry for the people who died in those accidents, but the only evidence I found in the article is that queuing behind a lorry would have prevented all of them.
By the way, the bet is online at http://longbets.org/362/
can't we use numba directly, not llvmlite?
Atom is ~30 years newer than the original version of Windows Notepad, and Atom runs on hardware that is orders of magnitude faster than the 286 on which early versions of Windows ran.

Yet Atom is still slower and laggier than Notepad running on Windows in 1986.

How did GitHub manage to pull off that feat? Given the fact that faster programs were made 30 years ago on vastly inferior hardware, Atom's performance absolutely deserves to be criticized.

I can start Visual Studio right now and make a simple Windows desktop app in an hour with a text editor whose performance ( startup/ file load / editing ) will blow Atom away.
Keep in mind that Facebook itself also does a ton of curating. Posts that get a lot of likes and replies are much more likely to show up in your news feed.
This oft-quoted study at the University of Bath in England:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/articles/archive/overtaking110906...

I'd like to see a more extensive study, although my own experience of using a helmet and hi-viz clothing seems to confirm, some motorists see the gear and think "experienced cyclist, I can pass closer".
Not exactly your idea, I think, but perhaps similar:

- A patent from ibm for some previous dynamic dictionary [1]

- Brotli: 120kb predefined dictionary [2]

[1] http://www.google.com.br/patents/US8610606

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotli
Google cloud engine is down
I feel like CBT can be counterproductive because it encourages you to ruminate on negative thoughts instead of just not thinking them. You have to examine them and put them into categories like "mindreading" or "catastrophizing", but giving them time in your mind just reinforces that you should be thinking them.

I much prefer mindfulness methods where you immediately think "is this thought useful to me at all?" and if it isn't, you put it out of your mind. Meditation helps with this, as it trains your brain to be able to let go of thoughts.
I'd love people's opinion on this. From my understanding, HFT (High frequency trading) firms are front running stock orders. NYSE sells them data on stock orders. They buy data center space in order to front run stock orders. That is how the HFT guys make a profit when Day Traders can't make the same kind of profit. Is that true?
Thank you! The gif/screenshot appears to be dead, so I can't see how it behaves exactly, but I'll investigate further.
Tidl 1.0 – Stepping out of Beta
I think you also have to define "the index". There are dozens of indexes on the NYSE alone, and many come with legitimate questions about how well they actually represent the market. In that sense, I think it is possible to choose (and not luck into) a better basket of stocks than what goes into the indexes. Of course, it isn't easy.
This is a good point. And we shouldn't assume this means that the number of successful traders is automatically higher due to their greater understanding. There could be a large number of people hiding their trades due to a losing record, or an unlucky streak inducing paranoia.
পতাকা (Potaka), a programming language written in Bangla
It's actually probably more useful to have the big radars in Europe, for anything not specifically targeting that piece of the continent. Hitting a ballistic missile during boost phase is difficult, especially one launched by the US, Russia, or China, who are willing to pay for more and better ABM countermeasures on their launch vehicles. Having forward radars to detect and track the launch makes it easier to hit later.

It also makes it easier to estimate the target area for each vehicle, and assign priorities accordingly.

The US and best buddy Israel have developed some incredible anti-missile and anti-artillery technologies [0][1]. While really expensive, they do ensure that a very clear and obvious act of war has to occur in order to seriously damage a defended area. A handful of guys with plausible deniability can no longer just fire some rockets and mortars over the border and expect to get away, to do it again later. The projectiles that might have killed someone are destroyed in midair, and return fire is already incoming to the original firing positions.

It is possible that the US has fielded systems on its own that are at least an order of magnitude more expensive than those shared with Israel and Europe, but are not known to have been tested by live fire, because of the increased difficulty and expense in firing missiles that can hit US territory. Iron Dome protects cities and towns. Whatever the US has probably protects whole states, if not the entire continent. The military certainly isn't spending all 3% of the whole US economy on individual soldier benefits. And not everything produces as much disappointment as the F-35. Sometimes the big expensive thing actually works as intended.

Telemetry stations in Europe are not necessary, but they are cheaper to operate than the alternatives. And they provide the PR benefit of, "Oh yeah, I guess we can provide first-strike deterrence for your country a little bit too, while we're at it."

You need only look at the recent history of the Crimean peninsula to know that your country has to have some strategic importance to the US in order for the American military (or diplomatic corps) to even attempt to defend it. The more recent additions to NATO would be wise to see to their own defenses, under the presumption that NATO is far more able to avenge than protect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_3
I'm mostly concerned that I'll be destitute when I'm too old to get hired. And hiring in software development is cutthroat, unless you are happy grinding out meaningless widgets to mostly line someone else's pocket.

Nobody around me seems to give this a second thought though. I don't see how they aren't setting themselves up for misery in the long run.
Google has some more search easter eggs, like 'askew' and 'zerg rush'
My main question here is whether this kind of rigorous user lab testing - at a time when things could still be changed - was also applied to Windows 8. That thing seemed such a top down dictated hot mess to me.

IMO the issue of productivity and discoverability has still not been solved on touch based UI, even with our post-iPhone interfaces. Shame that Microsoft didn't go back to these roots and innovated on exactly these issues.
Hello! A maintainer of coala here.

This release has so many new features and improvements - several new linting modules (bears), massive performance gains, bug fixes, better documentation, and much, much more.

You can find a full list of all the supported languages and the modules under each language here: https://github.com/coala-analyzer/bear-docs/blob/master/READ...
Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School Highlights
80% are losing who the hell is winning and how? I fell like they are cheating or have some sort of advantage that is not easily available to private day traders and no I don't think that advantage is a PHD and fast data connection.
Eliminating “if” Statements: Legacy Endpoint Primer (in Kotlin)