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Wait, so all of that had the sole outcome of kicking a hornets nest?

If you're going to change the site rules on a daily basis you need to actually communicate it.

All you've managed here is mass confusion and frustration, and you've eroded my trust, and I'm sure others, in your ability to run this place.

I feel like I've been trolled.

Also, not hijacking, responding to a political comment when I thought we'd banned political discussion.

Calling out users for shit you can plainly see they've done at your bidding: not cool.

Having to edit this as I can't write another reply, cheers for the throttle for disagreeing.

Yes, I posted it three times in three political threads because dang asked that we flag/call out political discussion in a major front page thread, and you then asked that we don't in a random comment buried in a political article.

Can you honestly not see how this might not be fantastically clear communication, and how while this is as plain as day to you it's utterly opaque to Joe user?
Children of this post are discussing/arguing about the regional vs. major distinction ... ok, fine ...

But, in relation to:

"Forty-nine people perished when a Comair (Delta Connection) regional jet crashed"

I continue to read:

"after attempting takeoff from a too-short runway."

What the fuck ? How do you manage that ? That sounds like some pretty broken procedures there ...
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Article should be labeled (2012).
Wouldn't it be P1/2/3/4?
I've been (mildly) irritated for years that Chrome's devs have taken so long to put in CSS hyphenation support; this has been supported in other browsers since ~2012. It looks like it's finally got partial support since Chrome 55, although caniuse.com says it's still Mac-only.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=605840
I'm guessing you're mostly looking at career sections for technology companies. In general, tech companies have quite high revenue per employee.

You're probably also looking at startups, which don't yet have material revenue but plan to reach margins closer to Google's than Walmart's.
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> And to top it off, we're working less than we ever have

This really struck me. I am going to assume your numbers ar correct, but if you could point me to a source I would love that. (did a quick search on the web, couldn't find exactly what I would like)

My first thought was that it is fascinating that we would be working 12% less hours per person. I wonder how that break down by gender. The number I keep finding is per day men @ 8.4 vs women @ 7.7 which doesn't match your number because it is only talking about full time employment. Hence if you can help me find better numbers that would be great.

Then I realized the horrible truth residing in your numbers: in 1950 it was almost exclusively men who worked. Today women make up almost half of the workforce. On a per capita basis we are working much, much more than we used too. From this Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#United_States:

The average working time of married couples – of both husband and wife taken together – rose from 56 hours in 1969 to 67 hours in 2000

Turns out things are worse than they used to be. Nobody spent $700 on a phone but they did spend $600, in 1986 dollars, on a microwave - which is roughly $1300 in 2016. And few people spend $5000 on a tv today. A $5000 dollar tv is likely 75 inches or more - I don't know if I have ever been in a home with a TV that large.

The middle class has disappeared and it is not because they became wealthy, lazy or demanding.
> dropping 10-20 feet and seeing/feeling the frame of the aircraft flexing about is just plain unsettling.

If it helps, Boeing tests the wings to failure by mounting them to a diabolical torture device that bends them. They have to be bent near vertical before failure.

A little turbulence flapping the wings is about as dangerous as your car's suspension flexing over rough roads.
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Likewise. I'm now just very confused. What is going to be the next censored topic of the week?
By focussing on impressing, you may wind up with the impression of their foot on the back of your pants.

Learning and problem solving is the best focus, I agree.
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But as so explained the example given - MS tablet computers or 'pen computing' shows the opposite. The modern Windows Phone OS would never have happened if Apple hadn't brought out the iPhone. They still be iterating on Windows Mobile. They had to throw out every bit if mobile tech they had and go back to square one. That's almost impossible to do on your own initiative if you've already got an existing viable product.

Another counter-example. What ever happened to Myspace and Orkut? What did their first mover advantage buy them? A legacy platform that held them back.
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Oh, now that you mention that I first understand what the correlation between those numbers and malloc is. It wasn't obvious from the article:

On top of TCP often length prefixed protocols are used, which means some (e.g. 4) bytes of the length of a "packet" are sent first and the packet is sent afterwards. Thereby you can create the notion of messages and message boundaries on top of the stream oriented TCP.

In the receiver implementation you first have to read the length, then allocate a buffer for the packet and then can read the remaining message into the buffer. If someone will send a HTTP request to such a receiver implementation it will try to allocate the buffer with this number.

The most sensible way to avoid this is checking the first bytes against a maximum message size first. However I have to admit: In my very first implementation of such a protocol I also have not thought about this.
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In your argument, cutting any creature comfort is a slippery slope that leads not only to removal of all creature comforts, but also the removal of rest areas and communal food and drink preparation areas, and even unsanitary facilities. (This sounds like a joke...)

First, almost all corporations in America have break rooms and do not usually give away anything except possibly tea and coffee. Removing the free tea and coffee does not remove the break room. Break rooms have multiple uses.

Second, there are some laws and some basic industry standard practices that apply to the sanitary conditions of washrooms. Removal of creature comforts or breakrooms do not change them.

Third, Cigarettes are also a creature comfort. Why not give away cigarettes? Because they're bad for you, and expensive. Sodas are also bad for you, and expensive. And might I add, neither are necessary for you to do your job. Removing them would not have an effect on removing the break room or equipment, the sanitary conditions of washrooms, or anything else, because quite frankly they are not only unnecessary but they are (over time) harmful to the employee's health and contribute to diseases that will only prevent the employee from doing their job and increasing medical coverage costs.

So I doubt companies give away free soda and chips to prevent the slippery slope of unsanitary bathrooms.
> And then it seems you try to lie your way out of it.

Please be charitable and give others the benefit of the doubt when commenting here.
You're probably getting downvoted because of the combination of unsubstantiveness and dismissiveness. That's bad for an HN comment, so please don't do that.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136943 and marked it off-topic.
Naming is tough :/ Trying to name concepts in programs is tough enough. Thanks for giving it a shot. I don't have any better ideas. It'd be nice to be for something, though, right? Maybe I should convene a focus group! :)
When I was 18 I traveled to Koya-san to begin and end my Shikoku Pilgrimage. I collected the calligraphy and stamps unique to all 108 temples (including the 20 bangai) along the 1000 mile trail. When I returned to Koya-san I went to the calligraphy window at the temple to have the final page of my nokyocho stamped and signed. The monk at the window took my book, flipping through the ink heavy pages that had taken me months of lonely backpacking to fill. Finally he arrived at the last blank page. He filled it in without question. Black ink strokes and three deliberate red stamps over the black completed my journey. He closed the book and handed it back to me through the window. We looked at one another for a moment in silence. I was sure this monk could sense the power this moment held for me. After a pause he raised his hand and pointed. I followed his finger to a sign on the right of the window. It took me a second to realize I owed him ¥1,000.

Koya-san is a magical place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage
> won't be seeing truly immersive VR any time soon either.

Have you demoed VR on a PC, or at least PSVR? I've heard this far too often from people who have only seen a phone HMD, which are complete and utter crap (apart from the mobility aspects - which has recently been solved for Vive).
This is exactly what Alphabetization is meant to solve. A federation of companies can more effectively allow individual divisions to operate like startups. Additionally, it's a lot easier to push experiments when they're not attached to the Google brand.

Personally, I think Google should just funnel all the profits into GV.
Ah, yes, I see. Thanks for the response.

Yes, the reference to our contemporaries in less developed areas is a good one. I listened to an Australian ABC Radio National podcast recently that talked about tuberculosis on the islands between Australia and Indonesian and they brought up how the locals believes about the disease made it more difficult to treat.
If someone writes application software that depends on the linux kernel, and someone else wants to port that code to another platform, how is the fact that code changes are required the fault of the kernel developers? I don't see any hypocrisy.
Please keep partisan politics out of threads here.
We specifically have an interview question here which is: "How would you feel about asking for help, either from a colleague, friend or on the internet, to complete a work project?"

(pro tip; the correct answer is, "fine")
Many people in this thread implicitly suggest that this will have a negative impact on end users. I'm not so sure, amdgpu still can be distributed separately to the vanilla kernel.

So this rejection is about maintainership that negatively affects distribution of the amdgpu module as a side effect. It's nothing that can't be solved by linux distributions though.
Which is when they were still actively developing an AR system, before deciding against it: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/18/4343382/technical-illusion...
does this honor typos? i like spellcorrect changes but i hate all the other assumptions they make about my search terms.
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Checklists in aviation started in 1939, I think. Airplanes had gotten complicated by then and pilots would routinely forget to set things up properly for takeoff, etc.

Checklists have been incredibly effective in improving safety. It's a crying shame that they are not used elsewhere, like for surgical procedures. Doctors need to give up on the idea that checklists insult their competence.

Also, the health care industry could learn a great deal from the aviation industry about eliminating human error. The health care industry just wings it as far as I know, and hospital deaths due to stupid mistakes are legion.
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'dang has made clear that changing community rules is not going to be a common thing. There's a lot of insightful discussion from him and other members that will probably answer a lot of questions you may have in the same thread I posted above, and the link provided there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
Why the downvote? UPS is a major airline - even if they only transport cargo, humans still had to give their live.

Also, "freight dogs" is the gentle term for the pilots in cargo planes.
That is a recurrent point that Uncle Bob tends to do. In my opinion, sounds resonable. e.g.: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html
And in fact the Guttag piece linked in this comment page also suggests this (says the DLP demo was the most impressive). I doubt they could use actual DLP (because the TI DLP group is a pain to work with) but it would make sense that their MEMS chip would be also a micro mirror array.
Check out http://castar.com launching 2017. I backed their Kickstarter so I'm excited to get one :-)
Since SciFi in relation to AR is mentioned I though a recent episode of Black Mirror I watched was pretty interesting ("Men Against Fire", S3E5). I won't spoil it but the general idea was pretty interesting/food for though with regards to uses of AR.
> Self-driving cars also need to not have any accidents that humans would have easily avoided.

Why? If they're overall much safer, then that seems like a net win to me—even if their failure modes are not identical to human ones.
Please don't toss off inflammatory, unsubstantive comments on HN. If you're going to comment here, make it substantive, and if the topic is divisive, please make it less inflammatory, not more.

Edit: you also became uncivil downthread. We ban accounts that do that. Please (re-)read the site guidelines and follow them:

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> > how do the amount of leaky abstractions compare in Haskell to other languages?

> I don't think Haskell is worse than any other language in that regard.

Many Haskellers are happy about this kind of stuff:

min = head . sort

which is the very definition of a leaky abstraction. The blame lies with laziness, because it allows code to depend on implementation details of other code in crazy ways: "sort is O(n log n) unless you ask for only the first element, in which case it's O(n). What if you ask for the last element? Uhhh..."
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Even today, Common Lisp is still one of the best choices for many applications.

Then why don't people build amazing and popular things with it? I don't mean one or two people build one or two things, but lots of people building lots of things.

Nobody uses it, but it's the best choice, can't both be true. And 'nobody uses it' is approximately true. It's not a mainstream JVM language or CLR language, it's not an AWS or Azure or Google Web Services language, it's not used for Linux Kernel, Windows, Oracle, *BSD, SQL databases, No-SQL databases, it's not used where Erlang is, it's not the research language Haskell is, it's not the fun esolang or the long-tail COBOL, it's not the new compiles-to-JavaScript, it's not the back of 3D games or VR engines, it's not behind Amazon's shop or used where Go is. It's not talked about in StackOverflow's most popular languages surveys, or most profitable languages for devs to learn, or most desired by employers. It's not an educational language like it once was.

Yet it's "one of the best choices".

I simply don't believe it. Any perceived advantages it has, in practise must be a wash.
This is uncivil and stoops to personal attack. It's just the ante-upping, signal-noise-lowering sort of comment we ask people to abstain from here. Please don't post like this to HN.

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1. could the user run this in a VM and avoid some of the hassle?

2. part of the hate should go toward the proctorU company too right? they're the company who made the software
I suspect that typically both arrive at the same time!
Please don't call names ('you spew') in arguments. If someone is wrong, explain so civilly.

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I'd do roughly the same. I would build and play with the main model, perhaps the secondary designs if they looked like fun. Then I'd break it down and use the pieces for whatever I felt like at the time.

But then roughly once a year I would break down everything I'd built and sort every piece. Then I'd rebuild all the original models.

Funnily I have trouble swallowing medication, but I once put a flat 1x4 piece in my mouth for storage, but accidentally swallowed it. After that I'd always be bummed out when building my fire truck because it would be missing a piece. Back then in the 80's you couldn't get replacement pieces (at least where I lived).
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It would be great if this could be used in (new) mobile phones and tablets in a low power mode when you don't need high data rates.
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Absolutely agreed! 'head . sort' is efficient by accident!
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Please don't do the programming language flamewar thing here. There are plenty of other ways to discuss them.
Thanks for your insights.

I believe computing freedom is a right people should assert, and I should inform them why they should assert it, but I don't go as far as saying it's unethical to use non-free devices and/or software. At least not when non-free is more readily available and, from the perspective of the average user, more "convenient" than free.

Personally, I like Debian because it removes non-free blobs from the kernel (and I check the license on a package before I install it). But let's say Ubuntu was the only available GNU+Linux distribution. I would still choose it over Windows or MacOS because mostly free is better than completely non-free, and I would rather support Ubuntu (or Android, for that matter) than enable and give money to Microsoft or Apple.

As for peripherals, from a practical point of view, doesn't the type of peripheral matter? A monitor or printer (output devices) going rogue seem far less dangerous than a rogue webcam, for example.
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Rift and Hololens.

I get that there is an immediate "Wow" factor, but then I wander off and look at the real world, and think "Holy crap!".

They are good, I get that... Not great but something. I don't understand the purpose though.

The best virtual reality experiences I've ever had have been between the pages of a book, or induced by psychotropic substances.

If they can fix the latency, resolution and FOV issues, reduce the size of the headsets and make them cost $150, I can see that a certain sector of people might sit at home on the couch and do whatever they do. But moving around with those things on seems like an accident waiting to happen, even more so if they get the display technology right.

For AR, I can see it as a technology used in business a lot more than for the consumer.

That said, as one of the comments in the article mentioned... would be great to ditch my monitors and have an ultra wide panoramic coding experience. But again, that is more of a business application.

I really struggle with the fatigue aspects.

And yes you are right, the phone stuff is abysmal.
Google isn't selling your data. They'd never do that. They make nearly all their money with advertising because they have so much good data to target ads. If they sold this data they'd lose their competitive advantage.

It doesn't matter if Google is good or evil, selling user data to other companies would be a very bad business decision in both cases.
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Any suggestions?
The distinction is very simple. Either it's hardware or it's software.

If the firmware is written to flash once and then can no longer be updated by the vendor or the user then the firmware is treated as hardware, even by RMS.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html

>What is the boundary, in digital devices, between hardware and software? It follows from the definitions. Software is the operational part of a device that can be copied and changed in a computer; hardware is the operational part that can't be. This is the right way to make the distinction because it relates to the practical consequences.

>There is a gray area between hardware and software that contains firmware that can be upgraded or replaced, but is not meant ever to be upgraded or replaced once the product is sold. In conceptual terms, the gray area is rather narrow. In practice, it is important because many products fall in it. We can treat that firmware as hardware with a small stretch.
That sounds amazing. And great for website owners, they'll get paid! Any experience with it? Don't want to lose my google account because of that.
> Should they be allowed to buy all their employees the best mattresses available because a good night's sleep helps productivity?

Yes, potentially though it'd probably help to have data supporting that. But things like company housing or sleep pods can materially benefit the company (for one thing, if you can take a nap at work you'll work longer hours).

> Should they pay for a nanny because help with child care makes you more productive?

Sure, potentially. In fact, employer-provided childcare is a tax-free benefit.
> If he wasnt spending time on PR he wouldn't be doing interviews

There's a difference between spending minimal time and no time at all on business, PR aspects.

> founder worship

I only stated the facts. Where is the worship?
I'm not an RF expert, but it sounds like it would be transmitting an empty carrier wave, not a real signal. Think of it as a big light source and the passive transmitters as mirrors used to flash signals back and forth with reflected light.

(Of course you'd also need a traditional wifi router for everything to connect through, and you might as well build that router into the same shell as the emitter thing, so it gets confusing. But the basic carrier wave wouldn't necessarily carry a signal.)
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Isn't Prolog the better language for this? Don't get me wrong I love clojure, and one of the best things about dialects of lisp is that they are pretty much always multi-paradigm, but...

Pretty sure this is exactly what you would use Prolog for.
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Reliable wifi and streaming video appeal to a significantly larger market than GPU-heavy video games. Having a good, easy-to-use image editor (competes with paint.NET and old versions of photoshop) and music player (competes with foobar2k et al/the surprisingly good performance of iTunes on os x) doesn't hurt.

("Do users do X often?" isn't the question; "do they get annoyed when they can't?" is the question, and hardcore gamers tend to have one computer for gaming and oftentimes other computers for other stuff; if they were even using Linux on those it'd be a paradigm shift)