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"Gaming" will happen regardless of what system is in place (or even if there is no system). I would love to compare what orgs did back in the day before HR bullshit systems, but I am pretty sure that there were brown-nosers/gamers back them as well.

Good bosses/leaders already continuously evaluate their team and the outcomes produced by the team and how it relates to the organizations goals. This is NECESSARILY a SUBJECTIVE activity that won't map to any scales of 1-5, ranking hierarchies, or made-up SMART goals.

These HR systems are just busy-work that wastes time, resources, and burns out people's good-will and authenticity. I think the big question is not whether these systems actually work (of course THEY DON'T), but how large orgs allow it go on even in the face of NO compelling evidence.
I live in South Australia which is very dry and gets very hot. Through summer months, it can be a challenge to keep gardens alive and houses cool.

There are likely opportunities around smarter approaches to marketing/selling a variety of things to the public: insulation, reflective film on windows (could quote and install without anyone being home), smarter irrigation, on-demand xeriscaping, garden audits, delivery of healthy/refreshing mocktail jugs to offices, etc.
Could you possibly explain for those of us out of the loop as to why? Otherwise I could simply say:

"This is the most wrong comment I've seen on HN in a long time. The SLAM in smartphones are the same as the one in Hololens. Project Tango should prove even more impressive."

And no one would be any wiser.
It would be interesting to redo this study with multiple designs for the dialog box, because as others pointed out, the one pictured in the article looks like sketchy spam (although that doesn't invalidate the claim that people disreguard the dialog when it comes at a bad time if, for a given design, there is a difference in click rate).
The epi pen wasn't extremely expensive until recently, so competitors had to take a different and riskier angle to make it in the market. Perhaps now a carbon copy will do well.
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The text interface primarily has simplicity on its side. The goal was to implement a set of commands with a small footprint. HTTP would have provided "too much" for me to worry about in terms of designing the commands. However, HTTP2 was considered at one point, but it proved to be "too much" at the time.

From my own experience, the text commands are easier to test against, especially its boundaries (inputs to the server) which makes client development significantly easier.
climate is long term, weather is short term[1]. Its a subtle difference and often confused, especially if english isn't your first language.

[1]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_wea...
yeah . he does sound flashy . those photos and lifestyle show ! But one thing I liked about these brothers is that they bootstrapped their companies in India. Those companies made some good money. This is very important because currently in India media covers wannabe steve jobs ..who get funding for shiy ideas , buy polish offices , hire too many people ,and burn all the funding in discount coupons.
The system is set up for rehabilitation and reintegration to society. So even with Breivik, with his maximum security, they set it up so that he has a slim chance of doing so. And to be fair, his case is pretty unique as is far from the norm it seems.
I realized that quickly after I posted my comment.

Guess I'm gonna have to keep looking...
"often subjective" != "always subjective"

It's pretty clear that COBOL would be a bad choice to write a multiplayer online game, and that JavaScript would be a bad choice for an operating system.

As for the far far more common scenario (the one I had in mind) of choosing whether one of Ruby, Python or Node.js might be better for a certain project, the choice between the three is often going to be fairly subjective. You could solve a lot of problems in all three quite well. Trying to decide which one is objectively the "best" is often a waste of time that could be spent actually solving the problem at hand.
I didn't downvote you, but I presume others did because you're spamming.

Also, the Arabic in your multilingual animation is gibberish, because all the letters are in their isolated forms.
That makes too much sence for the FDA, AMA lobby, big pharma, and very entity/persons that makes a killing off health care.

As to the simplicity the EpiPen, I once used it, and under stress didn't do it right.

When I was younger I was very interested in medicine. In college finished all pre-med courses. Interned at a Coroner's office, etc. Even spent some time in med school. Very familiar with giving a subdermal injection.

Now my father had a bad asthma attack years ago. I knew he was in poor health, so my stress level was high. He blurted out where the EpiPen was kept. I got the device, didn't have time to read the instructions, and just stuck it in his thigh. I apparently pulled it out too quick--just wasn't thinking, and nervous. I pulled it out so quick, because I was scared, felt the device was foolproof, and felt weird hurting my father. We luckey had enother one around, and injected him longer this time. If I was forced to use a syringe, their would be no assuming. "I need to get the drug into the syring. I then need to empty the syring into his thigh. Done?"

Well it didn't work, and he ended up in the emergency room. He survived.

I drove home feeling guilty, and still do today.

I always felt a kit with a single dosed bottles of epinephrine, and a syringe would make intuitive sence to a lot of people? I know I would have felt more comfortable that night.

I honestly think the powers at be underestimate the abilities of the average person, especially a person who's had an previous asthma attack. If a doctor/nurse spent a minute showing a patient how to injection themselfs with epinephrine; I don't think most would ever forget. Plus--we have all watched injections given on the boob tube? "But the average person would probally jab the syringe in the Carotid artery, or pull a Pulp fiction." They could jam it into a carotid, even with a EpiPen--with enough effort/stupidity?

I hope in the future we have over the counter life saving medications over the counter, including naloxone.

Demand passing a basic test if worried about consumers hurting themselfs? Something like a CPR certification? If the patient can pass, they can buy cheap medications over the counter? They don't need fancy propriatiatry drug delivery gadgets in so many cases.

I really think the only way to bring down medicine costs will be to make many drugs OTC, and demand basic competency exams if worried about ineptitude? There will always be people out there that will find a way to abuse/overdose/screw up dosesages on medication. Let's just try it for a year? Especially with certain life saving drugs. How many diabetics die each year because they don't have a prescription for insulin, and couldn't get to a hospital?

I used to have so much respect for any sector of the health care; now I look at most of them with utter discontent.
As long as you avoid "virtual", I can't even think of any C++ features which would lead you towards worse performance characteristics than C.

Templates may bloat your binary size and increase compile times, but they're plenty fast.
Do we have the luxury of giving up multiple hundreds of square kilometers for the exclusion zones if there is a failure, though?

And the technology doesn't scale well. Few big plants that take ages to build, compared to panels on every roof and turbines put up one by one.
The standard explanation is that aerosol emissions (soot and SO2) masked the warming during 1940-1980. Once environmental protections in the West kicked in, the warming due to CO2 has taken up.
It's good to remember that "globally" we are a huge collection of individuals. Perfect individual == perfect globe (ideally, of course).
Totally agreed with your comment until that:

> as long as you have a disciplined team and sane coding guidelines

Is it not possible at all anymore to just hire people actually understanding what they are doing? Or cargo cult is here to stay?

I am sorry - please don't take that as a personal attack, but explaining people that C++ can actually be used in OS development by mindlessly sticking to some rules doesn't seem a way to me... but rather a counter-argument to what you said yourself.
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It is in the best interest of the government to make the key resource of cellular Wi-Fi as cheap as possible to encourage use just as it is with wire-line internet providers.

When Google Fiber comes to a city, the prices of competitors drop and the data speeds increase. The spectrum auction which is passed on as an invisible tax creates the opposite effect of that desire.

It is an essential resource in today's world, so this tax is not only implicit and invisible, it is also regressive, adversely affecting the poorest the most.

> And it's not as if taxing the spectrum changes how much more money cell phone companies would get at different prices.

Actually, cell phone providers could make more revenues through increased use of spectrum at lower prices. Consumer, cell phone provider both win when there is no auction and the spectrum is given out as it originally was in the US with radio and TV spectrum.
Can't really expect much else with the market share that Google has. They can implement anything they want, and it's halfway there to being a web standard. If Mozilla doesn't follow suit, they risk losing even more users, because webpage developers might just ignore Firefox or give it a worse fallback solution.
I've spent the last six years in Vietnam and the progress the country has made in that time is evident everywhere. There's been a lot of reckless development and many people have been left behind but there's no doubt there's also a growing middle and upper class. Corruption is endemic and is certainly one of the reasons Vietnam is no South Korea but it's also not the worst-run country in the region.

You know things are changing when more and more American Vietnamese are coming back to start businesses here.
Ask HN: In modern CPUs how many μs to flip a NAND (or other) logic gate?
Shockingly that is pretty much how heat pumps work to a first degree (oh the pun), they don't much care which side is the evaporator and which side is the condenser. There are minor details in size of fan and design of coil vs tolerable noise level vs quality of insulation on connecting pipes. Also the pressure vs temp graphs are a little non-linear which does show up at the extremes (and the extremes are a small fraction of total operational time)

In the west most cooling is done with a heat pump permanently wired into refrigeration mode aka a conventional air conditioner. There's a widely held belief that the entire system coefficient of performance is exactly 1 with somewhat less popular urban legends claiming a small fraction of 1 or only analyzing 100% efficient theoretical gas table cycles of 30 or whatever. However real world deployed average systems including air handler (aka fan) power and a realistic depreciation or embedded energy of manufacture etc results in about 3. So in the real world the total cost to the environment is about a kilowatt/hr to move about 3 kilowatt/hr of heat out of a building. It scales better than linear with size, something to do with moving air being expensive and larger AC being connected to larger buildings having a better surface area to volume ratio.

Anyway for better or worse a kilowatt into an electric heater costs 3 KW of burned coal or uranium down at the plant and generates about 1 KW of heating in a typical building, whereas a kilowatt into an AC or heat pump costs 3 KW of burned coal or uranium down at the plant and moves about 3 KW of heat out of the building.

In practice it takes less energy to cool than to heat although in theory a heat pump has difficulty telling the difference between 90F outdoor and 50F outdoor temps.
It's not just 'load' the syringe. There's a liquid and a powder that has to be mixed. First, the liquid is injected into the powder. Remember to remove the protective cap from the vial and the two protective caps from the needle (apparently, people frequently forget the one on the vial and break the syringe). Then, mix by rolling, not shaking, for 30 seconds. Then, withdraw the mixture into the syringe and inject it.

Not only does it need to be kept refrigerated, the shelf-life isn't that long to begin with (about a year).

I'm also a T1D and there's a reason that, despite the various seizures I've had in my lifetime, I've never received Glucagon.

Cake icing squirted between your gum and cheek also works (although everything ends up sticky and blue by the end of it).

Edit: I didn't mean to sound like you didn't know what you were talking about, I just wanted to expand on what you were saying about 'show and tell'
Functional programming is cool, and it's possible in Lisp, but I prefer multi-paradigm. Sometimes one wants functions, sometimes procedures, sometimes objects & methods; sometimes one just wants to declare stuff.
That's a fair point and I'll admit I hadn't considered that.

Conceivably, we could make electric (or something) transportation systems that can travel across the world and not produce and CO2, but we certainly haven't gotten there yet.
Esp. if your manager is swamped with work. A good manager is practically begging for for good reasons to give you a raise if you're a high performer, but they need the ammo to convince HR/their manager.
I suspect it's actually better measured in femtosceonds, but either way is good.
Is anyone else wondering why North Korea is even attempting to build their own "Netflix". I get that they're not going to open up for the real Netflix, but why do they feel they need an alternative.

Who's the target audience for this product.
> My point is that trying to decide the best programming language for a particular task (or trying to decide why one programming language is ill-suited) isn't something that always needs a perfectly objective answer.

Ok, I hear that. I agree that you have to find a local maximum to settle at in these things. It's about being reasonable and pragmatic, after all.
It's missing from far more than just meat; the problem is raising taxes is politically painful in the short-term, and said policy will not reap any tangible benefits... The chances of a political solution (economics) to global warming won't be tenable until it's too late.
I've used this for quite some time on an unused iPad mini. Perfect for the terminal when out in coffee shop. Resolution is low, but that's on the iPad's end and have nothing to do with Duet. I like it.
> fact that it's possible to revert to iOS 6 with iPhone 4S

wait, can I get some more info about this? I assumed to cannot go back to old releases. Or are you talking about jailbreaking?

> iOS works fantastically bad on old devices

that's understating it. I actually think my nokia (symbianOS) from almost decade ago is faster. And I mean it is faster even today!
If your parents died and left you an inheritance of $1000 and also a debt of $100 you're still $900 ahead. Most people wouldn't call that being "punished."
For most people, indexing is the best. If you are lazy or don't enjoy investing, which is probably 95% of all people, it's better. If you have a full time job, it's almost always better (because it's harder to plow through SEC filings after a long at the office, etc). Proper long term investing (and getting 15-20% returns per annum) is hard work, and there's risk associated with it. You need to enjoy it. But it's definitely doable to beat the index every single year if you understand certain industries well. If technology is your industry, and you have a good understanding of the financial side, you will be able to better assess technology and related stocks.
Reading into the details of these kinds of "privacy implications" (particularly the desire to force publication delay and the force blurring of people or license plates), I'm left thinking that the "implications" are more stark for freedom than they are for privacy.

Are there really privacy implications of any sort in publishing a series of photos of people and cars on a street that aren't already implicated by the knowledge that Google and / or the NSA already have far better photos of the same scenes?

On a more fundamental level: isn't publishing, in real time and high quality, a photo (or series of photos) of a public area essentially for freedom of the press? And doesn't the insertion of a "privacy" claim that threaten that freedom?

I know it's specifically enshrined in the US Constitution, but in an age of ubiquitous cameras and publication media, it's equally important in Australia and around the world, no?

We can opt either to allow each other to share our eyes and ears unto infinity, putting criminals and power brokers on notice that their actions in public are preserved for all time, or we can decide to close and cover them, leaving only criminals and power brokers to see and hear.
What the FSF wants the boundary of the GPL is irrelevant, since copyright law of the televant jurisdiction determines whether copyright license is even necessary, and the boundary of derivative works in copyright is both often unclear (as noted in sibling comments, different circuits in the US apply different tests that have not been harmonized by the Supreme Court) and differ between jurisdictions.

The GPL cannot create certainty that doesn't exist in the law on which the GPL relies to have any force.
You are, of course, correct. However, in the same way that you cannot reassign codes to the letter A-Z and yet you can compress by assigning a longer code to a sequence (the code is longer but is still shorter than the individual codes needed to represent the sequence), then even though you cannot reassign a code, you will get a new code for a longer sequence that includes the shorter sequence, represents more letters, and overall is more likely to occur than the shorter sequence followed by something else.

Assuming no reset, over time the shorter codes fall out of use because the longer ones eventually include everything they represent, extended by all possibilities (with the more probable extensions getting shorter codes by virtue of appearing more often / earlier).
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Wind and Solar are now cost-competetive with nuclear, without its nasty side effects. And the cost of storage for nuclear waste has not really been calculated yet.
Increase college tuition (even more?) with the hopes of stemming population growth? You know the majority of the planet doesn't actually attend college as is already?
1. Reach a firm global consensus that this is a problem and we need to do something about it. (I'm looking at you, United States and Australia.)

2. Implement a top-down program of transition to low-carbon technologies. Switch from coal power stations to nuclear, switch to electric vehicles, and so on.

3. Invest heavily in R&D to find ways to cope with global warming. Heat-tolerant crops, "cloud brightening", flood mitigation, and so on and so on. We must have the necessary tools and technology to hand before we need them.
This kind of thing gets really old.

From reading HN you would think that

Java is the worst thing ever...
OO is the worst thing ever...
Microsoft is without a doubt the worst thing ever...
systemd is the worst thing ever...
C++ is the worst thing ever...
JavaScript is the worst thing ever...
This one feature of OS X is the worst thing ever...
Paying for software is the worst thing ever...
Not being paranoid is the worst thing ever...
Redhat is the worst thing ever...

Outrage is boring. It's everywhere and whatever weird random thing you are on about isn't anymore novel or interesting than anyone else and their weird little random thing.

It's like everyone turned into Dennis Miller and then started to suck just like Dennis Miller. Amirite? I'm rite? rite? What's with all these rants these days? its like two guys dancing the lindy hop in a zeppelin, I mean come on folks...
Anything that close to shore is going to cause, and in this case has already caused, a lot of NIMBY backlash. I can't say I really blame them for it either. We're going to have to find locations suitably far offshore to put these things, as the article suggests.
What on earth does language have to do with it?

Other countries write about climate change too :)
Yeah, talk about vague. They've got a typo under "For Freelancers" section too:

"FGet hired from the client and get to work."
The puffiness of this is just ridiculous, I'm not sure what they're trying to say? I usually enjoy reading about wealth and wealthy people but this just felt... fake.
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The 6502 has a tiny bit of pipeline/speculative execution. The CPU fetches the next instruction before the current one has finished.

http://www.atarihq.com/danb/files/64doc.txt:

"If an instruction does not store data in memory on its last cycle, the processor can fetch the opcode of the next instruction while executing the last cycle."

The 6502 also sometimes does excess reads and writes. For example, "Read-modify-write instructions (like INC) read the original data, write it back, and then write the modified data." (http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?t=2).

One could call that speculative execution, where the processor writes back the value, just in case adding one to it doesn't increase it, and then, having discovered that adding one changes the value, writes the right value :-)
How would you specify a job with multiple parameters? You use "ping" as the example. If I wanted to run "ping -c 20 10.10.10.10", how would I accomplish that? It's not immediately obvious if that is possible.

From going through the source, it looks like the payload is the cmd. Can those be multiple words or will it read each word as a separate argument.

handler := s.Router.Handler(cmd.Name)

reply, err := handler.Exec(cmd)
That's kind of my point. Governments are (for the most part at least) beholden to the people and the people will never tax incentivize themselves into a state of drastically lowered consumption.
> The handful of countries than have industrialized in the 20th century (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea) have taken similar paths that are very different than the policies suggested by the IMF and the World Bank.

Can you elaborate on this? I know nothing about either their policies or the IMF+World Bank's policies. What are they and how do they differ?
I believe they are from the DirectI group. DirectI started very early in India when no one had any idea what the hell a domain was. They did (and still do I think) domain registration, web hosting, etc.

Pretty simple stuff, but they started it all quite a while back and captured a good percentage of the Indian market.
I found that walking in the morning can kick-start your metabolism and helps. A bit.

But basically I had to eat less. Soup was my trick - warm chicken noodle soup was on 30 kcal, but the liquid filled up my stomach.
Sorry for answering with xkcd but it's very on point - https://xkcd.com/1321/

What was considered norm not 30 years ago is now called colder than usual and used as a rebuttal for climate change.
If you compare the rate of fossil fuel use over time, you'll find that that has also been accelerating tremendously. There are other factors involved, including particulate emissions (mostly from coal) which tended to repress warming trends.

From 1945 - 1975, fuel consumption was roughly doubling every decade. The rate of increase moderated slightly during the 1970s oil crises, but picked up afterward, with China's growth since 2000 being particularly troubling.

http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/alternativeenergyinnewy...
Can you be a bit more specific? You mean how long a NAND gates takes to "execute" a NAND operation? It's somewhere around 20 nano seconds.