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> How do you change the GUI theme on Mac?

You see, that's the problem: Mac is opinionated, and this is the quality we most often praise it for.

Changing the GUI is functionnaly useless for any job. That means some folks in the Linux GUI thingy thought it was good to make everything a variable, not even a build-time constant, write configuration screens, and poll the value each time you redraw the window in case someone changed it at runtime. For every change they also have to test them with a bunch of GUI themes and write automated tests for them. Plus the added benefit that every line of code is friction. I'd say they're spending their time on the wrong thing because...

In Mac, it's fixed. That means as a user I benefit from not spending time choosing a GUI theme. It also means apps can rely on constants. Makes it worth paying a UX designer to interview users and choose the right value™. And this right value will be better than any setting.

- Mouse: I remember fiddling with xinput a lot because the UI never allowed me to set the acceleration. On Mac I don't even need to know where that control is.

- GUI theme: Ubuntu has a default GUI theme that is wrong, because it has big fonts and big borders, makes it look like a toy and consumes half the real estate of my screen. Not great for work, so you have to change the GUI theme. Mac is just perfect on those two priorities.
Too bad Sat Dex already had a child. Stupid will remain in gene pool.
Isn't that like playing Russian roulette? I'm sure it's fun and exciting, but that comes with a major risk.
While I agree that Linux has become better in this regard, this is not a good example of it.

That you have problem running a cross platform application on a platform that has much larger ecosystem of users and experienced developers and that also have well established native alternatives is damaging the Linux ecosystem more than anything.
I can't comment on his assessment, but here is what Dan Luu says: http://danluu.com/integer-overflow/#fnref:H
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Triage.

If you can improve the situation by landing, and not endanger others, you land.

Dead bodies aren't recoverable. Keep going where you were going, unless you've got other reasons not to.
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I think it's more dangerous than stupid.
I imagine the Easter Islanders were similarly convinced as they felled the last tree.

We're using resources at an unprecedented and thoroughly unsustainable rate, and we're not slowing. So unless we have a few spare planets lined up...
It will be interesting to hear to what extent fracking is to blame for this.
Germany's Neuschwanstein also fits the bill: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle#
I have a feeling that the ability to share 'experiences' via the internet and especially video of such experiences leads individuals who are adrenaline junkies to push the limits beyond what might be safer. The desire and push to "one-up" each other.

"How close can I come to the cliff-face? How close to the ground can I skim? I've seen others who have gone this close, can I go closer?"

It's right there in Sat Dex's narration. "Today you fly with me." In that phrase is both the sharing of the experience and the central-ness of that experience to the individual identity of the jumper.

I was watching the Philando Castile facebook live video shot by his girlfriend and watched him get shot live, half-way across the country. What a queer and unsettling feeling to be sitting in my house and know that a human being is dying at that same moment so viscerally...
I will still make that argument, why should a poor guy living in isolated tribal land in India find his dream of basic electricity a bit farther, while people in Europe can take the moral high ground and still pollute nearly an order of magnitude than an Indian.

Also the pollution in the last two-three centuries has been primarily First World led. Tell me how can Im as an Indian, tell the guy that he will have to wait some more time till we can get him to a basic living standard because cheaper options to get you there are off the table.

Per capita human emissions should be equal within reasonable bounds of geographical needs?
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That's an interesting point, which has a fairly obvious solution: train wingsuiters to find the stallpoint - and even stall their wingsuit - in controlled conditions, where they can safely recover from a stall.
I live in Iowa. I had just gotten up and was blearily checking HN and email - and I was swaying in my chair. I thought "Boy am I groggy; I can hardly sit upright" and some passing thoughts of incipient Parkinsons flitted through my head.

Then I read this an hour later. I guess it was an earthquake I was experiencing! A mixed blessing to be sure, but nice to know I'm not as decrepit as I thought.
Same article on AP without the signin crap: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/34f0e22aa7f94ca187d02886167f1...
I think I came to the conclusion that 0.9999999... = 1 when I was 12 or 13. My reasoning was that for any n, we had 0 <= 1 - 0.999999... <= 10^(-n), so the difference had to be 0.
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My friend (who is an ER Doctor) had a medical emergency (man had a stroke) on her flight from Pittsburg to Miami when she came to visit my family a few months ago. She actually told me afterwards that she thought that the bag was extremely well stocked and that she had the ability to perform whatever she needed. They used the Airphone to validate her medical license, gave her the med bag, and told her that if she needed anything to drink, to just call.

I've had similar experiences on US Airways (Pre-American); I'm a paramedic and someone had an MI -- they airphoned me to a doctor on the ground and he and I diagnosed the patient together, and he gave me orders to push drugs.

On my friend's flight, the Flight Attendant gave her many many small bottles of bourbon to say "Thank you" and American Airlines gave her 25,000 bonus miles as a "thanks," and they upgraded me to first class for my trip home as a way to say thanks for me.
Never understood that either, it always seemed to be a double taxation scheme to me.

A corporation has effectively only a few things to do with their revenue which are or can be directly taxed more effectively.

It can hire more people, or pay it's employees more, which means that money is taxed as income.

It can invest the money directly which means that return on that investment can be taxed as capital gains.

It can pay out dividends to it's shareholders which means that this money can again be taxed directly as capital gains.

It can invest that money internally to expand which again can be taxed at various levels, sales tax, income tax, property tax etc.
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I imagine there are very few good startups that would offer the general public voting rights in early stages without first being able to vet those investors.
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Its just algebra. As noted elsewhere in this thread, 10X = 9.999... so 10X - X = 9.999... - 0.999... = 9 = 9X. So X=1.
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The biggest takeaway from the story for me is that Facebook is now micromanaging censorship so finely that it's now deleting anti-wingsuit posts.
And what about Windows Server?
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> ...has announced the launch of the Nigerian Mirror Project, which is bringing free and open-source content closer to end-users in West Africa through servers physically hosted in the country.

From what I've been told, most places in Nigeria get about 4 hours of electricity per day. A data center in a place like that must be really, really, expensive to maintain.
Can they really recover? There's really no margin for error when they're a couple of dozen feet off the ground.
Interesting, do you have some serious references?

I've seen the argument that as the general economy increases for an industrialized society, democracy becomes a necessity?

(What seems scary is that with increasing 1984 Big Brother technological capabilities, it seems more possible for e.g. China to combine economic freedom and harsh political oppression.)

So, it is not like that?
I never enjoyed math as work but I like to work at Math. See everything in a math way. For me it's binary, sampling, data presence and relevance.

To convince others I often use examples. One is the discipline issues over the years. All BS. (1) totally made up. No data.

(1)http://www.snopes.com/language/document/school.asp
There's what's fair, and there's saving the planet.
This morning at 7:05 am CST DFW. Felt the tremor and the house let out a small creak. My wife thought someone was shaking the bed but noticed no one was there. She starts to think it was some kind of supernatural event...LOL. I told her it was the Earthquake Ghost....

It's hard to imagine what people must of thought of such an event 100's of years ago before modern day science.
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> I wonder if MSFT will even release Win 10 embedded.

There is "Windows 10 IoT Core" that they threw together to jump on the Raspberry Pi bandwagon [1], which suggests that they'll do a Windows Embedded 10 at some point.

In short, Microsoft can trim down Windows 10 just fine, they've just made it hard for customers to do so.

[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot
I wanted to learn about DDD too, read reviews on various books and noted your sentiment about Eric Evans' book repeated a lot. Eventually I settled on "Patterns, Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design" by Scott Millett and Nick Tune, which I'm part way through.

It's mostly easy to comprehend and examples are in C#. The subject is complex though, so I'm not even sure a single book is enough.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patterns-Principles-Practices-Domai...
There are a bunch of rigs just south of the epicenter operating at a well depth of around 5-10 km deep which is how deep this quake/aftershocks were
Likely entirely to blame. If you've not been following what's happening in states which allow injection disposal of waste-water fracking, start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9316_Oklahoma_earth...
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Is there a Write API in works ?.
Or screens or kiosks around the store.
Hey,

Is it vital to complete the coding test in Haskell/PHP stack hosted on NixOS? What if I do the same thing on a Ruby (Rails) stack, with a Vagrantfile, would it still be considered?
That will mean that the money Facebook makes around the world is just taxed at whatever country Mark Zuckerberg lives. It doesn't look like it can work in such a globalized world.
This might help: http://www.gilmi.xyz/post/2015/02/25/after-lyah
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> how about the Zima sign in a Babylon 5 episode?

Seeing the Zima sign up in the Zócalo always makes me laugh.
For pilots instrumentation was useful. Are there airspeed indicators for wingsuit fliers and do they have stall speed estimates?

With modern Bluetooth it feels like it ought to be possible to design a wingsuit HUD to help with this.
> It was in the sense of that kind of discussion probably not interesting to most people on HN.

If it's a civil, informed, high level discussion of the topic by experts, I think it's a good discussion for HN. (Just have some sensibility to avoid or explain the very technical details.)

Borrowing a paragraph from the guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
To write off the whole sport as stupid is a bit unfair. Just because it is far outside of your comfort zone (and mine for that matter) doesn't mean it is stupid.

These wingsuit wearing daredevils have the chutzpah to plunge into the void and experience soaring like birds.... Probably one of the best feelings a living being can experience. They may be bold, but I wouldn't call them stupid.
They jump off of things.

Not to be too glib, but if it was, 'safe' nobody would be interested in watching them do it. If many didn't die doing it, well that is what safe means.

For example, my 12 hour video "United Flight, Coach, Extreme Red Eye" got way less views.
Can't help but think of Franz Reichelt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_U
some points:

Result quality has not really improved, all the while: more and more content is in silos that are not easily searchable. Spam/SEO/trust in content remain a problem, thus many people rely on social recommendations for content (which has its own problems). More and more content is in non-textual forms. Google (sometimes vastly) prioritizes content on their own platforms.
Gemini had a (much more limited) guidance computer that flew in space: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/ch1-1.html

It didn't provide all the capabilities that the AGC did, but it did provide for navigation calculations and rode inside the capsule.
Bu then why does the theorem only hold with more than two candidates?
Watching the side discussion(s) going on between clinicians, it's surprising to see how much disagreement/debate there is about equipment and procedures for dealing with medical emergencies on flights. I don't know why, but I took for granted that it would be a bit less controversial.
Train while jumping out of aircraft, not off cliffs.
We're just about 20 miles north east of Dallas, but didn't notice it at all. Interesting that others have. I'll be curious to hear more reports about it and talk to some neighbors.
This is not just Math.

I learnt chemistry, physics, biology and all that from middle to high school. Now as a software engineer they're totally useless and I have long forgotten all those details that I spent months and years to memorize and master. Even reading a science-101 book in one day now will teach me more than what I can remember. Unless you plan to major in those fields, should we just take some introduction courses instead?

Also I can testify that I rarely need use any math beyond 8th grade since graduate school as a software engineer, I mean those calculus, matrix theory, fuzzy logic, neural network, etc. Well I may pick up some AI stuff now, but it's more like a start-from-scratch-now as I forgot what I learnt then totally already.

So yes the education system can be optimized to be more efficient.
People fly at max glide too close to terrain which leaves them with no options. If people instead flew fast, they could transfer that speed to lift if they find themselves in the corner, but if you're at max glide you can't really do much.

Of couse, the main problem is people not flying within their limits, or giving themselves a good margin, but that's proximity flight by definition.
The same is true of pilots. To land a plane you basically have to fly it right on the brink of stalling, and if you accidentally stall it a few seconds before touchdown, you're in big (though hopefully survivable) trouble. So it's very important to learn to recognize how the aircraft behaves in that transitional regime.

Likewise, the idea here would be for wingsuit pilots to practice stalls and recovery while skydiving at a safe altitude. That way, when BASE jumping for real, they can recognize and prevent stalls before they happen so that recovery is unnecessary.
how does one calculate the LTV/NPV of a customer?
Who said 30% interest rate? If banks are lending at 6%, than a 30% higher interest rate would be 7.8%.
I'm on a high floor of a highrise in Uptown, Dallas. The building was shaking and swaying hard enough to wake me from sleep.
When sport parachuting first started it was horribly dangerous with techniques and equipment mostly adapted from military procedures. As the sport grew in popularity, technology and training advancements made the sport what I would consider safe.

BASE jumping is starting to go through this maturity process. When the sport first started, there was no known procedures and people died from 'silly things', which were easily avoidable..

There also wasn't purpose designed BASE equipment, people were using modified sport skydiving equipment.

Now that BASE is going through this process, equipment and training is improving. There is quite a lot of peer pressure to not even start BASE jumping unless the person has a few hundred skydives... and even then, more people seem to be doing First Jump Courses, with experienced BASE instructors.

However, some parts of BASE seems to be trying to grow too fast and use the technology advancements from skydiving too soon.

Proximity BASE is really mental. It's super impressive to see, but a significant majority of recent deaths and injuries have occurred from this. This is why there has been a re-emergence of high death statistics.. The traditional BASE statistics were starting to reflect massive improvements in safety.

One of the respected BASE instructors did a really useful talk here.. and it contains a bunch of advice which is pretty portable to general life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2O-Dpw0Yfc
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You are free to tell me why you think I'm rude or respond to any of my argument and I'll be happy to answer, but please don't use this rhetoric were I'm supposed to either admit that I'm rude or come off as arrogant denying it.
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This largely matches my experience - as a software engineer, I spend probably < 1% of my time doing math more complex than arithmetic and simple mathematical logic - but it's missing something crucial:

In a market economy, basically all returns come from marginal gains. The vast majority of your lifetime income will come from a dozen or fewer opportunities that you happen to be in a position to take advantage of, whether it's a new job offer or a high-profile project you volunteer for or a startup that takes off. You will qualify for those opportunities based on the skills you have that other people don't have. They will make money for the organization because of features or insights that your competitors lack. Your customers will buy it because it lets them do things that they couldn't otherwise do.

The stuff that you and everyone else spends 99% of your time doing is economically irrelevant. You probably still need to do it (though if you can program a computer to do it, you have a huge leg up on competitors), but it doesn't get you anywhere.

Ironically, this is one of those insights that a good understanding of math will give you. The common-sense understanding is that we should be teaching what the majority of people are doing; the data says that we should be teaching what the majority of people are not doing but desire the results of.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12414083
Sometimes they can, but I wouldn't count on that happening reliably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hKhofOF_zo&t=120
is kernel.org open source?

Why do you need to hack in to access it?

Is there something in kernel that is hidden I wonder.
Interested to see how this compares with engagement in Reddit. I bet even more people are lurkers here. Survey design suggestions:

-allow me to choose two options for question one

-allow multiple answers for how do you use hn and make each answer a single action, not multiple.

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Great Work with the list! I can see it becoming a thing in the future!

I would add Douglas Adams & Terry Pratchett to your fiction category, although it is hard to quantify why. They are an amazing interplay of imagination, creativity & playfulness and by going through them, some of it rubs off to their readers.

In the case of Terry Pratchett in particular, some of the books are actually quite indirectly educational and as good as philosophical critiques on society and aspects of. Including: Authoritarianism, Government, Racism, Superstition, Charlatanism, Economics, Mortality etc etc.
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>Those that went into finance make consistently much more than the others

Hm, I would never have guessed that. Does anyone have any data on this?

The top 1% sure, but the average and median also?
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The community was seeded from people who found out about it through either Paul Graham's essays or Y Combinator. After that deterioration was prevented by strongly discouraging low quality discussion.
Not really a key paragraph. The article states that jumpers of all abilities are going in (dying). This is just one possible reason related to novices.
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The parent was refuting this claim: ...inherited wealth starts dominating the economy. This means the ability to get rich fast will most efficiently be accomplished with strategic marriages rather than starting your own businesses.

Your comment is discussing something completely unrelated. Facebook and Salesforce were not inherited or constructed via a strategic marriage, they were built. The fact that they were built by high human capital individuals with good parents does not change this fact.

The fact that child earnings are correlated with parental earnings suggests that inheritance of wealth is NOT the cause at all and that Piketty's scary story is wrong. Rather, it suggests that US social mobility is low because rich parents pass good work habits, intelligence and similar traits on to their children while poor parents do not.

The fact that a few individuals can still work their way up against all the odds doesn't alter the fact it's an unreachable goal for most of the population.

It's tautologically true that being in the top 0.1% is unreachable for 99.9% of the population. So what?
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Indeed; just because a job can be done without mathematics, doesn't mean it can be done as well, or as fast, or with as much confidence in the solution.

One could interpret a lack of use of mathematics as less of an indication it's not needed and more of an indication we're not maximising our efficiency.
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> Never understood that either, it always seemed to be a double taxation scheme to me.

Corporations are legal persons, and income accruing to distinct legal persons is subject to tax. E.g. I get paid by my employer, and then pay tax on that. Then I pay my nanny with post-tax dollars, and she pays tax on that. That's not "double taxation"--just the nature of an income tax.

Imagine that instead of forming a corporation, a bunch of investors nominated Bob to be the legal entity in charge of the whole business. Bob held all the bank accounts, directly employed everyone, and booked all revenue minus his expenses as his income. A series of contractual arrangements required Bob to pay out the profits to the investors. Under that circumstance, there would be no doubt that profits would be taxed when they initially accrued to Bob, then again when he paid the investors.

It should be noted that nothing precludes companies from organizing as something other than a corporation. Partnership income, for example, is only taxed when it is received by a partner.