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> People are perfectly fine working for YEARS with their own valuation and then all of a sudden they think they're worth more because someone else is making more.

Is that an argument? If yes, I don't see it. If people believe that they couldn't earn more they are probably "perfectly fine" due to this missing information. Then they learn what their peers make and think - rightfully* - "just a moment, I do the same job, to the same quality, why is my peer earning more than I am?" which in itself is already a compelling reason (so, your next point usually does not apply).

> It's every employee's responsibility to know their value and to be able to articulate it. That's a very important dynamic of the workforce whether people like it or not.

And open-salary makes this easier and harder to screw people over using information-asymmetry.

* Yes, there are some people who just don't work as good as their peers and that's the reason they don't earn as much. From all I've seen over the years I am absolutely sure that this doesn't count for a significant part of the workforce compared to the part of the workforce that does a job comparable to their peers but still earns less income.
Dug well into later pages of the Wealth of Nations is the pretty brutal passage below. Smith's works are a lot more complex than often paraphrased as, as are many modern classics. (Currently writing a book on BPO, so a topic of interest.)

Quote follows:

> “The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, nobdle, or tender tentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement concerning many even of the orginary duties of private life.”
Mac laptops haven't had Ethernet for many, many years

That's true, but only if by "many years" you really meant "yesterday".

The following laptop was still available for order from Apple's website until yesterday's announcements: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macb...

Connectivity includes AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0, Gigabit Ethernet, a Firewire "800" port, two USB 3.0 ports, a "Thunderbolt" port, audio in/out, and an SDXC card slot.
> Name one laptop (a laptop, not a battleship) that has 32gb. Dell and Lenovo have a couple monstrosities with trackpads from the 90s with that amount of RAM.

This seems pretty unfair. "Name a laptop with 32GB of RAM, except the ones I don't like don't count."

> C'mon, obviously the toolbar has it when running macvim or iTerm (or some other terminal) with vim.

I don't see how that's a foregone conclusion. Moreover I like using the terminal app that comes with the actual machine.

> still the best keyboard and trackpad BY FAR in the market

Trackpad maybe, but Apple's keyboards have gotten tremendously terrible.
No need to ever manually edit the metadata table. That what Flyway's repair command is for.

However if failed migrations are a big concern for you, do yourself a favor and consider moving to a database that offers proper DDL transactions like PostgreSQL, SQL Server or DB2. Flyway runs every migration inside a transaction and this way changes become truly atomic without any sneaky implicit commits (I'm looking at you Oracle and MySQL).
I'm equally amazed how every Soylent article that passes through HN has people that seem to be genuinely offended that some people enjoy Soylent/the idea of Soylent and don't want their lives to revolve around "the beauty of food and social blah blah". It's wild.
>> Our eventual extinction is a given.

Known colloquially as "in the long term we're all dead". However, you don't kill yourself because you'll die eventually, neither do you stop fearing death because it's inevitable.

Which means that although you don't know the point in time when you'll "eventually" die, you do everything you can to avoid dying at any time there is a chance that you might.

You do this because you wish to minimise the chances of dying at all costs, and push the time of death as far away as possible. That you are willing to pay any cost to keep on living, regardless of how much longer you have to go, makes the cost of dying "infinite".

If you want to be very precise about it, the cost of dying is not infinite, literally, but it's the highest cost you'll ever pay and you can never profit from your own death, so it might as well be infinite. There is no risk that surpasses it and there is no profit that justifies it.

That's how this "infinite cost" thing works.

>> Parachutes fail

The point is that a parachute would give you a chance of not dying. Without a means to survive a fall, you are not "risking" anything- you are simply jumping to your death.

Or, in other words, a "gamble" is a gamble only if you have a chance to win. Otherwise, it's just charity.
no, law is social contract between peers, not slave=>master.
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That's a really clever solution to a unique set of domain specific constraints!
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Why is this getting downvoted? It is incredibly sad when meals need 'replacing.' I understand once in awhile, but it seems like people are habitually making meal replacement a viable lifestyle choice.

It IS sad, downvotes or not.
You must be really proud to support an occupying/terrorist/religious state!
He didn't argue his point well by bringing up vim, but he does have a point. It loaded very slowly and isn't designed that well.
Humans should not be immortal like gods until they attain godlike control of their impulse to consume and reproduce. If we get total liberation from nature's constraints (already 90% there), without evolving a corresponding ability to plan and resource long term, it will make the ecological disaster we're already witnessing 1000X worse and we'll likely destroy ourselves anyway.

I'm not saying death doesn't suck or that I wouldn't like to save my loved ones from the suffering that comes with old age, of course as an individual I would. Still extending life is a terrible idea from an ecologist point of view. How about while we're at it we extend the life of and provide unlimited food and protection from predation to elk? That would go real well right? Right now we are no different than Elk in our ability to manage our own consumption.

To people who say "oh we'll figure it out" I say yeah maybe but we're already wrecking this earth as it is, why add fuel to the fire? And everyone will have to die someday anyway and it will still suck.
If I'm not a professional user I don't know what is - I spend a double digit percentage of my life on a laptop (wow that's depressing), running multiple VMs, Terminal, Sketch, Sublime Text, and around 15+ other apps all the time.

I went through two or three MBAs, have a MB, and am excited to be moving to a new 15" MBP. I am not sure if I'll be keeping the MB.

I am pretty sure my main use case for the ESC key is to close out full screen windows, which thankfully is still possible with the Touch Bar. I am a touchtypist - the only time I ever look at the keyboard is to figure out which function key will adjust the volume/brightness/skip track/pause music. I don't use the Mission Control function keys and I seldom adjust key brightness or use the power button.

I have wireless headphones and the only thing I ever plug in to my computer is my phone to charge it, and even then I usually just plug it in to my little travel USB/AC surge protector that the MB charges from. I bought a dongle for the MB and don't mind the negligible amount of space/weight it takes up. I can't wait for the day when everything (Lightning included) is finally replaced by USB-C.

Yea, it cost me nearly $4k out the door. Maybe I could save a couple bucks on another platform, or maybe they could've included newer/faster components. I stopped giving a shit about which model CPU was in my box around the same time I stopped building Windows desktops (hint: I was installing XP on them). I look back fondly on those days but very much enjoy the simplicity of today's computer, at least in terms of hardware.

Long story short: I consider myself a Pro user, am excited about the MBP, and really don't mind any of the growing pains that everyone seems so enraged about. If as many people do jump ship to Msft as are saying it, that's great - they need the users, and Apple needs the competition.
USB-C can run a straight pin out to HDMI now, so you would just have to carry a cable, not a dongle and a cable.

http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/HDMIAltModeUSBTypeC.aspx
I've been running a custom desktop PC at work for years. I tend to want the best possible hardware and getting a custom workstation is the cheapest way of getting it. Very happy with my machine and I've never had any need for a laptop in the office.
Killer, killer anthology. The anthology I read was shorter, but that's ignorable... everybody should go find a copy of 'Adventures in Time and Space', it's a classic full of classics.
>> But people leave houses all the time, and take cars and planes etc.

That just says something about the ability to calculate risk and suppress the fear of dying, not about the cost of dying.
We've banned this account because comments like this aren't allowed on HN and people aren't allowed to create accounts just to post them.

Personal attack plus inflammatory rhetoric is the sort of dynamite we need to avoid if we're to have civil, substantive discussion.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12813739 and marked it off-topic.
Precisely how I feel. Also, what's the deal with the ports? At the moment it seems that you have to carry a dongle/adapter for every single Apple device, that's crazy. After eight years with my macbook it's time to give linux a real shot on my next laptop.
> going back to normal dying will be easy

Depending on the solution, normal dying might indeed be impossible. I remember a piece of dystopian fiction (I think it was an Outer Limits episode) where characters couldn't even kill themselves anymore because nanobots would instantly repair any damage.

Not that this scenario is extremely likely but there might be ramifications we can't think about yet. Immortality after all isn't a particularly well-trodden path.
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I like OSX and Linux and have both systems running on different computers. 90% of the time I am in a browser or in the terminal anyways. So it doesn't really matter which one I'm on. When I want to watch a movie, my Macbook is far superior (even better than my TV). If I want to configure my user interface Linux is far superior. And sometimes I need OSX since I need to interact with people who mostly use proprietary tools all day long at work from time to time and OSX has the better support for these tools.
You're laying the schadenfreude on a bit thick, don't you think?
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> "sudo foo" could be implemented by asking a privileged daemon to run foo and handing off access to the console to the daemon.

FYI that exists, it's called pkexec (yes, from polkit) :)
At the time of this writing this article has 748 points and 1530 comments. For an uncommented link to a product page, really? This is not a shopping site!
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I guess one great thing about Soylent threads is bringing all the urban myths around nutrition out into the open. People in this thread believe everything from "people on liquid diets don't poop!" to "if you put some berries in a blender and drink it, you're getting entirely different nutrition from eating the berries raw!" That second one is a bit of a strawman, but it shows how absurd claims that crushing or grinding foods ruins the nutrition sound.

But the main one I want to call out is "Ensure is well-researched", which seems to have reached self-perpetuating status. Go ahead, type terms related to Ensure into PubMed or Google Scholar. I would cite a particular one if any of them turned up anything. The most prominent independent examination of Ensure's nutritional value (that I've found) came when Abbott was forced to settle with the FTC in the late 90s for falsely advertising Ensure as doctor-recommended and useful to drink with an already healthy diet.[0] If you're not interested in reading it, the FTC's main complaints were over false claims about doctor recommendations and the fact that Ensure's advertising compared a single can to a multivitamin.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/1997...
Or it will be sold without permission in secret, and when it comes to light, the ISP will get a slap on the wrist much smaller than what they gained from selling the data.
A new election wouldn't help, the opposition are in a terrible state right now, the same party would in all likely-hood be re-elected.
My story is very similar to yours. I have come to appreciate that those years formed a very strong foundation for me, and today I can be domain specific with a large blob of context.

Point is if you don't become a good generalist first, then you'll be a mediocre specialist.
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Yes, that would be lovely, Kaiser Wilhem I would still sit on the throne of Prussia and Rutherford B Hayes would be seeking re-election.
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From the description I'm willing to bet its polyphenols and some of their customers are sensitive - feed me two pots of green tea and I'll projectile vomit.
I've been to the tomb, once, when I was 13 ish. I remember an Orthodox priest inside the chamber, who was taking donations in exchange for candlesticks and talismans etc. I also remember him telling my father to leave the money on the tomb, next to his goods. My father, who is no more a Christian than I am was absolutely disgusted at that.
Using GAE, you have access to Stackdriver applications which provide everything from monitoring to logging which have pretty large free usage caps.
@dang: Predictable reaction

This was not a personal attack in any way or form. It is a statement of the fact that supporting an apartheid state is not OK!
There's the rub. The feeling of "There's just not enough time." precisely stems from the fact that our time is limited. If that's no longer given that feeling might disappear from humanity entirely, which in turn could lead to stagnation and ultimately - and ironically - to mankind dying out.
Look up Ensure's nutritional label. It's just sugary flavored water. It's calorie dense nothingness for people who have trouble keeping anything more complex down.
Saying that you don't want to pay VAT is not a point.
Honestly, this is one part where I don't see the big deal.

Currently for me, your list of examples is already three dongles (minidp-hdmi for hijacking hotel TVs when I'm travelling, minidp-dvi for my monitor at the office, minidp-vga for the projectors in the meetings rooms), and five different USB cables - usb-B for the usb hub in my monitor, lightning for my phone, micro-usb for my SD card, mini-usb for my camera, and micro-usb3 for my harddrive).

Everyone's annoyed that they're replacing 'The One Plug' with usb-c. But 'The One Plug' is a myth. For me, the only difference between a different connector for each device, and a different dongle for each device, is what spin you're putting on it. Either way I'm still going to need 8 cables in the bottom of my bag. The donglepocalypse is just the same list s/usb/usb-c/.
Mother nature could never have awareness for the contexts in which we live now.

Purely biological success knows nothing of the societies we have built and the knowledge, ability to experience, and the complex contexts within which we all live our lives. Death really doesn't make sense for an individual, and no one is really itching for Humans V1.1 so the idea of letting evolution continue doesn't make much sense either.

If I could stop aging right now, I would be content with what I am capable of. Even if I die in 30 years from bus to head syndrome, I will have been fit and active for those years and that is a much better situation than slowly deteriorating to death.

That is the reality medicine has given us already, and anti-aging is only the focusing of a subset of general health issues that tend to cause problems as we age. It isn't the search for the imoral and exclusive elixr of life as some people seem to claim it is.
Well shit. I'm almost out and was about to order a new batch. :(
A good link maybe:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-mani/

Pearl's theory summarized in chapter 5, but it is put into context: related work, criticism, etc...
I'm sure there's research out there discussing it

This is not a researchable question. It's a philosophical one. The answer cannot be discovered. It's whatever you decide it is.

You're not as different from a hammer as you think, desire every ounce of yourself telling you otherwise.
How is tech changing the property market?
Seems to be just the right thickness.
Just an interesting note, his son was Daniel Pearl, who was tragically murdered in Pakistan.

I enjoyed Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent systems. I was unaware of Causality.
Could one think of Soylent as a baby formula for adults?
One point I take away is that there's something even better than "responsible disclosure": talk to your local CERT instead of the company affected, unless you trust the company will handle it professionally.
I have been using Balsamiq mockups (Desktop) for years and the lack of interaction design is still a huge drawback that sadly won't be fixed. Which means that when you are showcasing/previewing your mockups, users can't really interact with them as you would with usual UI widgets.

But for certain fast prototyping it is unbeatable, probably faster than pen and paper once you get used to it.
I wondered if maybe I was missing out at some point, but after pushing myself to do other stuff, what I quickly realised was that I do what I do because it is what I enjoy.

It is not necessarily less "living life", just different choices.

Of course, that assumes you do it because you're working on things that excite you and interest you because you enjoy them.
However the IRS will soon be contracting private debt collection agencies [1] which may use some of those methods.

[1]:https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/new-private-debt-collection...
They didn't. They scanned the IPv4 address space for servers with directory listing enabled and ".sql" files visible, and happened to find one at Australia's red cross.
One of our rules in our gym is 'Don't trust anyone that tries to sell you any powder.'

I always wondered why my fellow Hacker News readers went ballistic against Theranos but remained coy about Soylent. I guess we are just as much 'sheeple' as anyone else.
IMHO, Uber has accumulated enough years of practice of law circunvention and political lobbying to earn some expertise badges. Maybe they were ignorant, now they are not.
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I'm not sure that was the outlook that film advocated.
They missed impersonating someone's voice, which WaveNet can do (though not perfectly yet).
In my experience thats not the case - its more like 'It works, no-one touch it! We're spending our money on more visible things' (several years later):- "Whats that, its no longer going to be supported? Damn, now we have to upgrade"
Someone already does. ZapTip etc.
But how often have we heard about issues? Short Circuits and even fires and it ended up being a non Apple Third Party acessory that was faulty and caused the issues?

Is it really that much to ask if one wants to use only official apple tech?
One dedicated magsafe and this would have been a non issue. It can't have made the macbook thicker seeing as how small the magsafe is.
They could have even mentioned in the keynote "and if you don't want to use the magsafe, charge your macbook from any of the usb-c devices"
And simply put both charging options in the store so people could get a non magsafe usb-c is they wanted.
The blending idea I've not seen any research to back up what you have said.

Surface area of absorbing fructose could logically affect your body (think Higher GI), as could enzymes in saliva. So while it's the same stuff you might well absorb it in worse ways for your body...
Given that a) our ancestors lived a very different lifestyle and b) we would like to live long past child-raising age, which is where evolutionary benefits to longevity would mostly end, a diet similar to our ancestors is by no means a safe option.
The article says that the system wasn't hacked so much as a database backup was left on an unsecured, public site and was discovered. It seems plausible, from the described timeline of events, that the discoverer didn't know what they had until they had downloaded and examined the data.

What kind of sucks here is that there's a complex chain of trust from donors to medical staff that take the donations and process the paperwork to a computer technician that for whatever reason exposed the data to the world. Everyone involved in that kind of medical activity has to have an intense and professional respect for patient dignity. The thing that sucks is you could look at this data and realize that due to the actions of a nameless computer janitor, the assurance you gave to people whose blood you took about the privacy of their participation is worthless.

The other thing that sucks is to think about the kind of care that you should take, as a computer janitor, with this kind of information. Seven million data points about things as sensitive as "at-risk sexual behavior" correlated with full names and addresses? How do you even process how careful you should be? I would have three different people double check everything I did! I would go to sleep every night paralyzed in fear that I made some tiny mistake!

Okay, as an aside, when you're designing IT systems and data storage policies for research, your ethics and review people wouldn't let you do this. More specifically, in my (collective) experience, it seems very, very unlikely that a research institutions ethics review board would let a researcher store data given in confidence associated with non-anonymous identifiers in a computer system. Usually, they ask that you don't even link identifiable information (which you need to record that you received consent) with results. They should be totally separate. And for "high-risk" data, they would ask that the consent data not even be stored electronically (one reason: you might think that data collected "for science" is in some way exempt from disclosure to say, law enforcement. It isn't. So if you want to do research about say, drug use in pregnant and nursing mothers, you are literally gathering evidence about crimes that the police could use to prosecute your research subjects. Don't harm your research subjects - make the data that you store, the data that the police could seize with a warrant, useless for that purpose).

Anyway, IMO, it seems a failure here is that someone at RC sat down to make a DB schema and didn't see a problem with having fields like "Legal name" and "Permanent address" in the same table (or even system!) as fields like "have you engaged in at-risk sexual behavior." There are safeguards in other fields against even making systems that correlate this kind of information. Why aren't they present here?
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The metric is percentage of the population already having seen the movie or read the book. Not how long it's been out.
I can't see the point, I'd rather just run Linux in a VM.
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I liked how this one relates to cheat sheet itself.
Because you miss out on death, which is arguably the most important event in our lives.
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