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To quote the FDA themselves:

> Many liquid soaps labeled antibacterial contain triclosan, an ingredient of concern to many environmental, academic and regulatory groups. Animal studies have shown that triclosan alters the way some hormones work in the body and raises potential concerns for the effects of use in humans. We don’t yet know how triclosan affects humans and more research is needed.

> In addition, laboratory studies have raised the possibility that triclosan contributes to making bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Some data shows this resistance may have a significant impact on the effectiveness of medical treatments, such as antibiotics.

I feel like you're just being pedantic. The FDA has literally banned triclosan from hand soaps because they feel it does more harm than good, but calling it "unsafe" to you is simply "misinformation."

Plus there's a difference between "proven safe" and shown in animal studies to be unsafe. In this case not only has triclosan not been proven safe but animal studies have suggested it is unsafe.

They're also looking at: banning benzalkonium chloride, benzethonium chloride, chloroxylenol, and triclosan from hand sanitizers.

So you can be on any side of this issue you want, but the FDA sides with me. Triclosan is bad, likely unsafe, and definitely never proven safe.

[0] http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378393.ht...
What if Lenovo and MS have an agreement what to preinstall on those Laptops - which is very common. Furthermore, Lenovo agreed not to offer ways to install specific other software - no bundled Antivirus CD, no downloadable Lenovo Picks app - and maybe or maybe not - don't prepare customer support to answer "how to install Linux".

The customer rep gets a cryptic sticker on his desk: "Models 1234S, 3333S: Signature Windows Disk ONLY". If a customer calls asking for a restoration media, they get the correct one. If they call asking for Linux, sorry it is not supported according to my sticker.

I'm just making this up of course, but it is not entirely unplausible to me. In fact I find it more plausible then just an accident. Why would a customer rep just make stuff like that up?
Working on Linux isn't the same as allowing someone to run Linux on their computer.

Working on Linux is recognizing that Linux has more that a 0.1% share and by not working on Linux, your tools loose mind-share among developers.

So sure, if I was MS I'd want some (good) form of VS/C# to run on Linux, if only for devs to see that VS isn't the monstrosity of the 90s and maybe think about migrating back to Windows were you can get "the real VS/C#".

Would I want to let people uninstall Windows? No way
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> But could he have been just as effective online while scheduling in a real life? That is, he could have achieved as much or more with some measure of balance.

I'd like to believe it's possible, but I think he had to accept the fact that, he didn't know how. Maybe he'll figure it out, now that he has some more free time?
This industry runs on young people. Old people are far and between. (In this context, old means anyone who actually experienced Microsoft's behavior between mid 80s and late 90s.)

Most (80%) developer experiences these days are probably limited to their behavior from year ~2008 and onwards.
Why would anyone ever buy Lenovo? It's malware, spyware, and harmful to users. I buy HP or Samsung laptops to run Fedora. Just accept that Lenovo is not IBM hardware, and that it is lost to us.
This guy is so knowledgable that he says

> Why not offer the option to disable it? A user who does would end up with a machine that doesn't boot

But the modder that flashed the custom BIOS was able to boot linux on the first attempt.
If you rock the boat, the system will find a way to retaliate against you, unless you find a way to remain anonymous.

Having a formal process for whistleblower reporting which protects the whistleblower looks good on paper, but in practice it seems that the concerns often go into a black hole and the paper protections aren't a practical shield against retaliation.

The takeaway? Be very paranoid; if you're thinking of being a whistleblower, you need to either find ways to raise your concerns anonymously, or be prepared for whatever powerful people you threaten to do their best to ruin your life. Which means either finding someone more powerful to protect you, or accepting that if you do the right thing, there will almost certainly be very serious consequences for you, but only a small chance of meaningful positive change.

If I ever personally was in a situation like this and decided I saw something that needed to be reported, I'd go the first route -- total anonymity. I deeply respect people like Snowden who choose martyrdom instead, but I like living a comfortable life too much to be willing to sacrifice it for my principles.
The short answer is spend some (not all) of your free time on learning skills and self improvement. Over the last six years I've always tried to have side projects going, I have volunteered to help other people's projects and I have picked up a lot of skills from those. I also volunteered to attend training and read books that I might not have in the past.
What is crazy to me is that Lenovo is usually the brand that people recommend for Linux laptops. They are shooting themselves in the foot here. They may think that the number of people on Linux is too small, but I bet it is bigger than they think. It is just that there is no easy way to accurately census the amount of Linux users on their HW.
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> When my kids were small, I used to do 4 to 6 hours a day of very focused work and would produce the same amount of work as others during an 8-hour shift.

I'd be amazed to find this at a startup - I find that it's usually the opposite. It's impossible to focus in an open-plan with dogs running around, music blaring, and people swilling beer, so everyone has to work 10-12 hours to get 4-6 hours of work done.

I'm also surprised there's no mention of rape/abuse culture as it relates to the startup culture of "drinks, bro!": https://annelibby.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/beer/
Personal. Work email is there for the calendar sync (very useful), but I feel little compulsion to check it.

For a while I completely removed email from my phone, but that was a pain when I legitimately needed, for example, an RMA number while standing in the post office.

You're right, rules plus zero notifications would probably work well. Or, perhaps enable notifications and set it to check only once a day.
I believe the term for this is called "Title Inflation".
> random number generators seeded with same value

That's basically the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory
yep that's not an unreasonable point, but do you not think that a more reasonable position would have been to ask Lenovo/MS and wait some time for a response before assuming that it was a conspiracy on MS' part?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12551433 and marked it off-topic. You didn't need to edit-away your comments in this thread, which is another way of abusing the community by vandalizing the discussion.

Since we've asked you before to comment civilly and substantively, we've banned this account. If you'd like to commit to doing so in the future, you can email hn@ycombinator.com and we can unban the account.
Gender certainly doesn't reflect engineering ability, but it totally matters. It would be nice if it didn't. This kind of content is interesting because women have _much_ different experiences working at startups than men.

What you'd rather see is a world that doesn't exist yet. I'd like to see it too. :)
I've heard the U.S. being diverse as an argument before, but I don't really follow. Although, I can totally understand the political climate being such that getting it implemented would be impossible.

There's a company that copies the Finnish baby boxes and sells them to people outside of Finland https://us.finnishbabybox.com/ I think they deviate a bit from the offical one (you can choose genders where the article says the official boxes are all neutral and theirs includes bottles). They ask what time of year your baby is due and how harsh your climate is so the clothes are appropriate and the right sizes. What else might vary? They also offer a cash-out option, which should cover any individual's concerns.

There's also no reason it couldn't be a county or state program.

I know it's not as comprehensive as the baby box, but hospitals give free samples to new parents (I assume from companies trying to hock their goods).
If this jury-rigged, duct-taped "password hashing" scheme impresses you, I've got some land in Florida you might be interested in.

Seriously, though, it's a complete fallacy to think that more complicated password hashing schemes with lots of fancy steps are better. I was at the talk where this scheme was presented, and Alec Muffett himself said the only reason it was so complicated is because they had to layer stronger hashes on top of existing ones instead of revoking all outstanding session cookies (forcing every Facebook user in the world to re-authenticate).
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and those low level employees at Wells Fargo committed fraud on their own without any direction from management.
Except that's an inaccurate assumption.

If you actually read the specifics about the situation, you'll learn that the SSD is set up in RAID mode, and the Intel hardware also supports AHCI mode.

Acronis and all other OSes do not have driver-level support for this new experimental RAID hardware at all; they do support AHCI, of course, like they have for years.

The BIOS normally has an option to revert the hardware back to normal AHCI mode, but Lenovo intentionally restricted the Advanced page in the BIOS containing this option (which is available and unrestricted by default in the BIOS code they received from the manufacturer) by adding a goto statement to the BIOS's code.
How sad for everyone. Now only ignorance exists.
The author conflates procrastination, idleness and perfectionism, as if they were interchangeable. I would argue that they are not, even if they appear to be similar, at the surface.

While perfectionism CAN sometimes lead to procrastination and procrastination occasionally manifests itself as idleness, they are distinctly different phenomena arising from different mental states.

But that's not all. Read the column a little bit further and you find the author introduces yet another romantic notion to support his argument: nothingness.

> Idleness, then, reveals an experience of nothingness. While nothingness tends to occupy a central position in Eastern traditions like Buddhism and Taoism...

Nothingness ("Shunyata", in Sanskrit) is not about idleness or vacuum but means something very specific. It refers to the absence of a solid, tangible self (or an ego, if you must use a Western term). Buddhism's core practice is often mis-interpreted as "don't do something, sit there!" but it couldn't be farther from the truth.

Zen Buddhism and Taoism's idea of "nothingness" is not about inactivity but about keeping the "self" out of activity.
> real certification ... would simplify interviewing

Well, I admire your optimism, and as much as I wish there were professional licensing for software professionals, I doubt that any licensing exam could ever be so rigorous that at least a few charlatans wouldn't be able to squeak through it.
> Why not offer the option to disable it? A user who does would end up with a machine that doesn't boot

The modder that flashed the custom BIOS was able to boot linux on his first try.
(I can't tell from the post if you are able to print 2 materials, or just embed 1 in another, so I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for)

At one point I wrote a STL converter for medical images (DICOM -> STL), for MRIs and CAT scans:
https://github.com/chrisvana/printer

It would be interesting to print a cancer tumor with one material the and the surrounding tissue with another. Some data here:
http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net
If they relied on quantum teleportation: no, not in the slightest. In order to QT a particle (explicitly not using the verb "teleport" here, because it's a very different thing) you need three additional particles for every particle you're QTing. A pair of entangled particles that act as your fascilitator, and a spare particle on the other end to take on the information state of the one you're QTing.

So unless your sci-fi teleporter comes with a massive amount of pre-entangled particles half of which you have, half of which "they" have, plus an equivalent-mass-worth of particles to accept the teleportation subject, it's still just science fiction.
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>a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON, AltiVec)

Wow, it's been a long time since I heard anything about AltiVec.
What's the connection between hard and virtuous?
Weebly generates absolutely ridiculous code. Tons of CSS files, tons of JS files, plus random blocks of embedded JS.

I've recently wanted to move a website off of Weebly for a friend, and it's a nightmare. Instead of simple clean markup you get all kinds of monstrosity.
Is that representative of most startups? The only common elements I've seen in the startups I've been acquainted with is long working hours and below-market pay.
What about position, though?
> because technology is a product of the people and processes that created it. And since people and processes aren't neutral (who is, after all), the technology they create won't be, either.

Karl Schroeder expounds upon this idea (albeit via science fiction) in "Lady of Mazes", and a little near the end of the Virga series. I highly recommend them.
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But we still have the non-functional GULO pseudogene in our DNA. Every part of the vitamin C pathway is still present, except for that one broken step.

If you inject L-gulonolactone oxidase into your liver, you will produce vitamin C. Evolution didn't decide to save energy. It decided that if the users don't notice the bug before the warranty period expires, it isn't worth working the issue.
1) Thank you for writing this! Some of the techniques you've outlined here, I have thought of so many times... but deemed them too dangerous. Your post has given me the courage to try some of this out on my own. To begin with, I will print some artsy statue with ... uhm, a low infill (like say, 10%?) and routinely fill it with some heavy sand or viscous liquid. I think it'll work well... it'll save me material, but on the other hand it makes 3d printing very hands on huh! I suppose I should pause and fill every other 30 minutes or so.

2) > this approach is ultra powerful, and it's the same thing you see on some of the high-end maker printers (like in the TAZ production docs that describe how to use strong/precise steel parts combined together with 3D printed parts).

Sorry man, what do you mean here? Can you maybe please specifically link to what you are referring to here?
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I used to have the same owls on my sheets when I was a child in Russia. Fascinating to see it's international.
There was a Fedora update a couple of days ago.
You do understand that this has applications that are quite useful though, right? I understand that you're objecting to the terminology, but the actual process is going to be a necessary part of any large-scale "quantum internet", and needs to be mastered.
This, a million times, this.

It's a stunning paradox that densities and adoption is growing dramatically all the while raw retention gets worse with every generation (an astonishing amount of smarts goes into mitigating media deficiencies).

I'm not too concerned (assuming the standard backups) about devices in continuous and powered-on use, but for data at rest, powered off, this is very scary.
ahahaha

I did. :)
Yeah it doesn't even make sense from the "competing with Tesla" standpoint. I don't understand what Apple is hoping to gain from this.
He is not calling on all restaurants to do this. He just thinks it would be good if there existed some restaurants that did.

Just like there are some restaurants that don't serve alcohol, note. Or restaurants that don't serve meat.
Then I guess I'm going to have to track it down, thanks for allying my fears.
Sometimes they do work for the company whose products they are "experts" in. Best Buy gets a "free" employee (the hardware company pays the salary), and the company gets a dedicated person in a store for their products. They're still more Best Buy employee than <company> employee.
You and Your Research (1986)
My kid went to private school as well but I benefit from free public education the same way I benefit from a good public health system: other people are somewhat educated and healthy meaning.
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I think there is no problem with this being accepted.

Firstly, the question posed is quite unlikely to be meant literally (many women do not want to live a monogamous life).

Secondly, if they are trying to fight "biology", may their focus on monogamy be biologically based?

Thirdly, should all statements along the lines of "oh, men", or "men don't take responsibility for [...]" be banned?

Lastly, man or woman - it is hard to truly take offense at such a statement.

Had this been about abilities or some "obsession" in the non-private sphere, I suspect they would have come to a different conclusion...
Because what's better than procrastinate reading an article about procrastination?
Any indication that women are more put off by beer than men? At the last startup I have seen, the women were much more predatory than the men during beer nights.

Not that I like beer nights, but I dislike one sided blaming.

Besides, if people want to have beer nights, why shouldn't they have them? Maybe my main motivation to start my own company is that I get to have beer nights. Why shouldn't I be allowed to create company with a work atmosphere I like?
If you need to save/encode images you really want mozjpeg instead.
I dislike it - there's no history between app installs. The least I need is another ephemeral messaging app!
How was it now civil or substantive?

Edit - oh, you must be referring to "dolts". Please consider it a succinct version of my opinion of trigger-happy people who downvote perfectly good comments that they disagree with. The downvote option is still not meant for expressing disagreement on HN, is it not?
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Not really. Not unless you and whomever you were getting data from shared entangled particle pairs. While this is a real thing already, some banks use this setup for quantum encryption, it's probabilistic (particles can stop being entangled, so you have to run checks against a series of them and then decide that p>0.999 is good enough for instance) and the owners of each particle is regulated. There is no QT without first making sure two parties each hold half of an entangled pair, and then make sure they both use the same particle for running the QT algorithm against.
Look at open source code. I think it is just as important to review well written code as it is to practice writing code.
I don't think anyone is saying they HAVE to support linux. Think of it like freedom of speech. Lenovo is free to put themselves out of business however they want and their consumers are free to call it a big ass mistake and call them idiots and not buy their blackbox crap.
lol relatively new (hmm first PC I built myself was 1992, started work professionally in IT in 1995, first ran Desktop linux with (pre FC) Redhat 9, s'that long enough ago for you?)

I was a Netware admin back when MS dirty tricks were at their height, I personally battled with the driver shenanigans they pulled on Windows 95...

This really didn't look like a conspiracy to me it looked like old-school, someone's done something funky with the hardware and not bothered thinking about linux support.

Thus my original comment, it was disappointing to see pople rush to judgement on this, not everything is a conspiracy and it doesn't help to see it as such.
> (There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way. You’re in the business of unemploying people. If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn’t matter.)

Good grief, what a lovely offhand comment that is.
Would be interesting to see whether this would cause a retreat to "honest" titles, or an evolution to something completely different.
That sounds like a bigger issue--being oblivious to what your role is/how companies work. No amount of re-naming/re-titling yourself will fix that. A name is just a name; it's what you do that matters.
> there’s no need for the discussion to specifically focus on the “female engineer” part

Agreed. Perhaps you could consider reframing the entire series accordingly without gender bias, starting with the title.
Semantics matter. Especially when you're trying to sell something, such as your skill set. Ever had to lobby your idea or project to a non-technical decision maker? You can't whip out the technical jargon and explain in minute detail why your solution is obviously the correct one. The non-technical decision maker is going to gravitate toward the option that is wrapped in the most appealing narrative - hence the semantics.

That's great that your happily employed and are well established in your company. I'm not. And a big junk of the problem is because of what Patrick discusses in that post. I'm an engineer who was hired to work in what is perceived as a cost center. Because of that, many of my solutions to problems are only allowed to be half implemented or they slide lower and lower down the priority list as more urgent tasks come up. The only reason they're more urgent is because someone can directly tie them to making money. Telling someone you "program" things doesn't tell them what value you bring to the table.

I wish I'd read this post 5 years ago when it was published and I might not be in such a sticky situation.
it definitely is, although it's pretty game dependent how it works, and rarely called simply dodging. i'll talk about counter strike because i know that game the best. sound and movement are huge components of the game. in the 1.6 days there was a trick called russian walking [1], where you bound the crouch command to mousewheel down. that allowed you to have the silent footsteps of a crouched player while moving at close to full speed, with your player model jumping around like crazy because of all the crouch commands. the classic bunnyhop [2] let you take advantage of quirks of the physics system in the game to move waaaaay faster than normal and beat people on the opposing team to contested areas of the map and be significantly harder to hit. and then the basic shoulder peek [3], which is ideally meant to bait out sniper fire so you can more safely push somewhere. then just normal little movement things; jumping out from contested corners to be harder to hit, crouching when you're spraying up close to be a smaller target, etc.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE-fhaIs_cQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-3EMeU1DFg
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbKnP7gmVqM
All of the examples look like someone just installed Photoshop and applied random filters, totally destroying the original, and making it look like cr@p.

Enhancement it is not.
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A circle is a shape. A square is a shape. Thus a circle is a square. This is the logic you applied.