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> So why don't they have two browsers

I definitely do not claim they were right, but one of my previous employer's (not a software company) IT department insisted that additional applications in employee's computers were an extra workload for them to maintain. (Occasionally also security was used as an excuse). So the text editor that was allowed was notepad and the browser was IE.
Why will safety be any different than loading them in the desktop app?
I proposed this during an idea hackathon at amazon 4.5 years ago, and got laughed at.

I also proposed drone delivery at the same hackathon - though granted, not delivering from the FC, but having drones deliver the "last 1/20th of a mile" from a delivery truck to the persons door, so the truck could just roll down the street without the driver stopping every 50 feet, and the drones could constantly be recharged. Gur Kimchi(who went on to lead some of the amazon drone business) was my VP at the time, told me it was a silly idea :(

Oh well, ideas are cheap.
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Another to see that is that things are not black or white. It's not the company on one side dictating what it wants to the user. This is an example of someone saying "I don't agree with that" and took action. People taking action in accordance to their beliefs should be celebrated.
Elegantly summarized by the elephant chart https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-27/get-ready...
The ad I got to the right of the article is a steel top straight out of Inception. Anyone else, or is that just a weird coincidence? http://i.imgur.com/0ao0aSQ.png

> “I understood that the demo was over, but it was [as] if a lower level part of my mind couldn’t exactly be sure. It gave me a very weird existential dread of my entire situation, and the only way I could get rid of that feeling was to walk around or touch things around me.”

> It seems that VR is making people ill in a way no one predicted. And as hard as it is to articulate the effects, it may prove even harder to identify its cause.

Ok, I know Inception was technically about dreams and not "strap a screen on your face" VR, but really? "No one predicted"? I've only ever tried an Oculus DK1 and didn't experience anything like this, but I think they're stretching it to say nobody imagined that this could happen.
Right. And if I remember correctly, a swipe is almost exactly the same as typing in the numbers on the card. Not sure if it's still the case but years ago I had a job where we had some "swipe" devices which hooked up to a standard PS/2 keyboard port (to give an idea of when I'm talking about). If you opened Notepad on a PC and swiped a card it just typed out the relevant digits as if you'd keyed them in.
> * The Economist (left-leaning but has good reporting)

-With all due respect, calling The Economist left-leaning makes about as much sense as calling Marx a right deviationist.

On the assumption that your comment is sincere - what would, in your book, be an example of a neutral or even right-leaning newspaper? (I am genuinely curious)
What we’d created is called a “toy model”: an exact solution to an approximate version of an actual problem. This, I learned, is what becomes of a colossal conundrum like quantum gravity after 70-plus years of failed attempts to solve it. All the frontal attacks and obvious ideas have been tried. Every imaginable path has hit a dead end.

Isn't that a clue that one of the premises is fundamentally wrong? I'm no scientist but I rely on the scientific method, and questioning my assumptions when I'm stuck almost invariably proves more productive than refining my hypothesis. OK, my problems are very shallow, but nature's complexity generally seems to be the result of simple processes, elaborated and iterated. The author's description reminds me very much of the experience of painstakingly 'solving' one side of a Rubik's cube before realizing the more general iterative approach.
I got E:D and FS2 for Christmas and I'm spending all of my time with FS2. Single Player is great and even with crazy settings it runs great.
You know people who use Facebook. They upload pictures that, more likely than not, include your face. Facebook knows your face even if it doesn't know your name (which people will often readily supply even if you don't have an account, so don't be so sure that they don't know your name too).

You don't want to be "that guy" constantly demanding that your friends pull down any picture that you show up in, a request your friends will probably ignore anyway, and which will greatly diminish your personal likability.

The government has your name, face, address, and other personal information stored away safely in DMV and passport databases, among several others, and this information is surely being used in similar ways behind the scenes. Facebook neatly bundles all of its data and submits it to the NSA via PRISM every day, granting the government full access to both datasets, although to be frank, just Facebook's dataset is going to be good enough to track someone down, even if a little more work is necessary to dig up the exact details like address.

An interested party with such access could almost surely run a program and find the last people you were photographed with, which will almost definitely make it easy to find you personally. Combine this with smart surveillance systems and any time you enter a public place, sans cell phone or any other trackers, your personal location can be recorded.

I don't really think there's any way around it and I am in fact surprised that people haven't already made a public "search by face" engine. Correlate this data with Facebook or some other all-seeing collections and the technology to dynamically identify every individual that enters a building via surveillance footage is already there. The only thing holding it back now is a) political correctness and b) the practical difficulty of extracting all of this data at a large scale into a format that can be easily cross-referenced. Both of these are permeable and temporary restrictions, and access to the data is already a non-issue for some actors.

Expect to see such systems developed and sold in the next several years. Laws may make such software illegal, which will limit distribution to laypeople, but ultimately it will still be out there for interested parties to acquire.

The age of unscannables and cyberpunks is upon us. The only way to retain privacy will be to wear your hair in interesting ways. [0]

[0] https://cvdazzle.com/
I've got a kid and I've written a line in the sand: we'll pay for apps and games, but we won't pay for in-app purchases [+]. He's free to download games that are filled with IAPs, but he'll have to play it the hard way. There's a lot of pressure from friends to join free-to-play games and it's just impossible to ban them entirely.

[+] ... some exceptions made here for DLC and expansion material that is priced appropriately.
They are very -very- close to that standard.
Because the discrimination against them was pervasive enough that it was deemed necessary.

Put it this way: is it fair that young people pay higher car insurance? They can't help being young. But, statistically, they are much more likely to get in an accident. Is it fair to discriminate against 18yr old George who is the breadwinner for his 6 month old kid and wife who is looking after her, because college frats like to drink and drive? Well, according to the insurance company, yes, because age and sex (especially combined) is one of the best indicators for requiring a payout.

So, we say that age is fine. And race isn't. I think we agree on that. But that doesn't change the fact that a bank which had a racist policy could charge lower interest rates to asians, and thus offload more risky clients onto other banks.
Sadly, I have to agree, though hearing this must be very discouraging to developers.

I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 and it's broken in so many basic ways; like, it crashes when you open the calender widget on the wrong day of the month, apps only refreshing the UI when you move the window around, isn't even able to format an USB stick with FAT out of the box, etc.

I can't back it up with numbers, but my feeling is that desktop Linux has peaked around 2010 (Ubuntu 14 LTS), and is regressing since. In times of shrinking desktop usage, rather than inventing new stuff all the time, it'd be nice if distros could focus on providing a robust runtime environment for the OSS desktop software we have. Maybe I should use Slackware 14.2 (systemd-free; its setup on modern hardware with nvme, uefi etc. seems painful, though).

But I'm not complaining; all the work is done mostly by enthusiasts, and commercial OSs don't work well either.
Oddly enough, the subject of a country music song: https://youtu.be/BKZqGJONH68
This is a commonly held belief, but it's wrong, the dominant economic models in use today are neither rigorous (internally inconsistent, extremely poor empirical verification, major aggregation errors, lack of essential inputs) nor representative of an economy (a dynamic system, not an extremely stylized static equillibrium model). You should read Keen's book, it's point is not that those assumptions don't always hold, it's that they under _any_ real world circumstance will invalidate themselves.
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> positive side of something like charter schools

The Economist certainly have done this, they used to do one every few months. It's strange, I'd say charter schools were a very "neoliberal" policy.
Most of the comments that I find odd here are the ones that dispute that we are better than a century ago. If they are saying one thing, but mean another (or another way of phrasing this, if I'm completely misinterpreting what their words mean), then that may explain what I find so odd.

If its just that they don't see an optimistic narrative, that this trend will stop and no longer continue, then I would ask why they see it that way. What evidence do they have, and where does it come from? And if it's not evidence, and just ideology, what ideology is that and why do they subscribe to it? I'm genuinely curious.
She's on retirement income, $65/month is barely justifiable.
Fortunately for her needs, 2-3Mbps is adequate.
If you were raised in a self-sufficient rural mindset, owing property is a very important value - to the point that someone saying it's "objectively wrong" is offensive.
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This should be filed for safekeeping... you know, for the next time a journalist laments how grossly overpaid programmers are.
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You me and the author are on the same page. Top speed isn't the issue that the author is complaining about, and it's not the reason to get more power. It's about acceleration and hill climbing. That's why he wants more power, and it's why he hates hub motors big and small. In the author's case, it's so that he can power a heavy bike with 5.5" wide tires through deep snow. So many people in this thread don't ride like this, so they imagine 2500 watts powering their skimpy road bike with 110psi tires. He talks about it in this post: https://electricbike-blog.com/2016/12/21/electric-fat-biking...
"I regret nothing."
The alleged positives of Brexit have the problem of being incoherent: because there's no fixed policy manifesto for it, people keep citing conflicting advantages. Such as ending agricultural subsidies - while telling the farmers that they're not going to lose out.
No language has good interop with C++.
No surprise there, if you don't want any service collecting any of your data, don't use their service.

Unfortunately, that doesn't go far enough. I don't use FB, but that doesn't mean it doesn't collect my data. It does because my husband and friends use FB, and I do not control the information they share about me with FB. Currently it has to be, "if you don't want any service collecting any of your data, don't use their service, and don't interact with other people or companies who use their service.". As an example of where your original statement fails, I don't want to be tracked in the mall by companies tracking my phone.
I wonder how often power shuts off during the delay(85 ms) time window. Statistically maybe a 1 out of 1000 chance.

Probably more likely to shut off while opening/closing the door -- in those 2 loops (2 out of 1000?). Assuming an average main loop of ~85 seconds.

Kitty jackpot!
I agree with you. The reality though is that there is this huge population of people that aren't interested in doing anything difficult ever in their lives (the amount of times I've heard "sweating" as an excuse not to ride a bike makes me believe it) . I think this is why the bike industry has such a hard on for ebikes. It's a huge market to tap in to.
Wire (client) was open sourced after (because?) they failed to gain popularity. They also failed with monetization - even today they are burning investor's money.
Well, I guess we can cite statistics all day to prove each other wrong, but clearly in [1] from 1990 to 1992 it rose before a Clinton Presidency where it fell considerably (not crediting President Clinton directly but he did produce a large number of jobs during his presidency) before President Bush's contractionary policies started a large increase in poverty again in 2000 through 2010 in our worst recession since the Great Depression.

It did, this has improved, however it's structurally temporary. The effects of it are that it's also continually displacing larger numbers of the middle-class as our trade policies are moving what remains of our higher paying manufacturing base, what used to make up that lower to middle part of the middle-class blue collar workers, to lower paying countries.

So, if you think, with your single graph that poverty isn't increasing you're not looking at what's really happening structurally in the US economy and with all of the relevant data around you.[2]

We have College tuition that is unaffordable and an aging, out of work, unemployed, or underemployed workforce, with skills that have not kept up with the rapid change in the shift of American jobs and poverty truly is on the rise.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/200463/us-poverty-rate-s...

[2] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/03/jobs-s03.html
(Uncertain how credible this site is)
There are issues which may arise because of the optimizations. Need to have them in a staging build.
Dumb joke. "resemble each other" is a more unambiguous way to say what you meant.
His trump card is the fact that all of his friends are playing [free game] and so he also will play it period and will be exposed to the in app purchases. We are fun little social creatures.

The question is what options do game designers have that don't involve making crummy games and yet still allow for free games and in app purchases? 'Hats' and other cosmetic options and genuine expansions are the only two I am aware of. What else has others heard of or seen?
The author states: "A few valiant attempts at bringing GC into systems programming -- Modula-3, Eiffel, Sather, D, Go -- have typically cut themselves off from too many tasks due to tracing GC overhead and runtime-system incompatibility, and still failed to provide a safe concurrency model."

Nim follows a different approach.

Details: http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#threads

Benchmark (with Rust): https://github.com/costajob/app-servers
What if I flag the email as spam? And go as far to block your list of domains which you use to make solicitations? The funny thing is I don't actually do that but it seems GMail has gotten too good at its job to where the only solicitations I get are the ones I actively pursue. I'm not faulting them for using social graphs, I'm just saying that at some point that their utility is subjective to such a point to be a kind of solipsism. Sure you know who I am but what if I never read the email? Sure you know my doctor but what if I only use them as a rubber stamp for my medications and maybe check my health once a year? How do you get your marketing shim in there to wedge my wallet open? I can't see how it works maybe because I'm the extreme case here of a hard customer.
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Interesting. Perhaps we should focus more on whether the labor is safe and meets reasonable time requirements than to arbitrarily impose an age cutoff.

I agree with you that attending school is not always the same as learning. Before recent western history many children became apprentices in valuable trade skills which often paid well. Maybe we should start looking at such options again.
Exactly. Which is why I've been so critical, in Rust discussions, of the excessive use of "unsafe". The reply is usually something equivalent to "it's not unsafe the way I do it". Sometimes the claimed performance gain isn't there. I had a link yesterday to a forum post where someone was complaining that using an unsafe vector access function didn't speed up their program. Optimizer 1, programmer 0.

(Early in my career, I spent four years doing maintenance programming for a mainframe OS. Every time a machine crashed, taking a few hundred users off line for several minutes, I got a crash dump, which I had to analyze and fix. Most of the errors were pointer problems in assembly code. When Pascal came out, I thought we were past that. Then came C. I had hope for SafeMesa, but nobody outside PARC used it. I had hope for Modula I/II/III, but DEC went under. I had hope for Ada, but it was considered a complex language back then. Rust finally offers a way out of this hole. Don't fuck up this chance.)
It may be only tangentially related to the genre, but Factorio has stolen far too many of my hours and is definitely worth the $20. It is engaging and challenging like no other game I've played in the past couple of years.
Chrome can't kill Flash fast enough. I'm stuck with AppD, and the sooner that Chrome highlights what a festering pile of garbage their web portal is, the better.
I wonder if there were people who felt the same way about telephones and immediate long distance communication :-)
Amazon's flying warehouse idea looks like a total disaster
I use Atom when disconnected on my Macbook Air. Works great. Not as fastvas Sublime, but it is fast enough for me.
Think about who is picking up which language and how many programmers with what background there are. Go offers solutions for certain problems that many of programmers have. I.e. performance and ease of deployment are the biggest ones for people coming from scripting languages, and there are a lot of them. Having easy to pick up syntax doesn't hurt easier. But generics are not as valuable for them at the beginning. And Go's syntax has like a dozen of critical problems either way, might as well add generics in 2.0 together with all the fixes.
As someone looking in that hasn't voted one way or the other on this thread, I would say it's because there's been no substantiation of the claims being made, even after it was specifically asked for.

HN does not look kindly on people that make definitive claims without evidence, and especially not on those that refuse to provide evidence when then requested. There are less inflammatory ways to make the statements presented here, and ways to do it with evidence. That wasn't done.

I have seen the "breaking changes" aspect discussed multiple times in the past, and Steve has even addresses it in a prior discussion (linked to by him from this discussion)[1] and this thread itself farther up[2]. If you respond to him there with any questions, I'm sure he would be happy to answer or point you to relevant discussions.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13267399

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13278367
The number of bytes in a machine number is not the limiting factor here. You could use arbitrary precision numbers (with some constant factor of additional storage), and solve the precision problem.

Being pedantic about this point doesn't get you closer to a correct answer. Read dsp1234's responses. They are correct.
I don't understand. You don't even need to be using VR to experience things like this.

It's a standard brain/body signal interpretation issue that is already the subject of alot of study.

For example, the experiment where people seeing a fake arm in place of their real arm feeling whatever the fake arm "should" feel.

Hell according to the wiki, it even lists a specific VR case study from 2010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_transfer_illusion#cite_no...
"Clone itself" as long as you get gearboxes, actuators, bearings, bolts, and any other part already made by other machines. "Assemble a copy of itself from parts" would be more accurate, but of course less attention grabbing.
From beer pong with close friends in my early 20s, to house parties with random folks in my teen years.

All the way to now, in my late 20s, those close knit house parties becoming much more close knit around a game of beer pong and good company.

I owe it all to the red solo cup.

Thanks, Red Solo inventor. For everything. you've given a shy boy a lot to be thankful for over the years.

My friends and I will mourn this loss the only way we know how, with beer pong, over new years.
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Did you ride it up a hill through some uncompacted snow?

Part of what is being said is that the higher power levels are more fun.
Well, I believe that the best thing is to phase things out rather than go cold turkey. Otherwise you will get a backlash like the civil war that happened here in the USA.
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>The development cycle for a car usually last years, which can be frustrating for programmers used to building a system in weeks, said Mandali Khalesi, Asia-Pacific chief of Netherlands-based digital map-maker HERE, owned by German automakers Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG. “These people are from complete IT backgrounds and they don’t expect these long-time cycles,” he said in an interview in Tokyo.

Do these hackers no longer exist in the US? Or is everyone a hipster rubyist today?
I hope the API becomes more Pythonic and less NumPy-ic. A little more purity would be practical in this case.
Or we were severely disappointed when we realized Rust doesn't really give you that safety.
Can any old-timers here comment on whether or not beer pong pre-dated this cup, and if so, what were the prior cups of choice?
I've destroyed two sets of Avid Juicy 7 hydraulic disc brakes with upgraded pads just by mountain biking, and these are almost top tier of bicycle brakes. Can't imagine people are running electric bikes with a lot of power without matching it with appropriate braking system.
I'm in the same situation. We're a very small team (8 total), so I barely find time to contribute back among other events like trying to relax, personal development, entertainment, etc. I think I might have to carve out one day or a couple hours on a specific day of the week that'll be my "open source time". I look at it almost every day, but don't have enough alone time with the open source software (like React.js) I want to work on.
Very funny quote: “You’ve got some engineers making 20 million yen ($170,000) a year. Then you try to fit them in the traditional manufacturer-based salary structure where it should be 7 to 9 million yen.”

Clearly they don't understand the market, if the other parts of the market are paying 20Million Yen for this position then that is where it "should be" and you have to figure out how to cover that cost.

I get really tired of companies saying "Talent Shortage" when they really mean "I don't want to pay that much."
This doesn't look like something that can be stored in an apartment, unlike a bike (and presumably an electric bike, which are about the same size). Having to park it outside is a huge hassle and theft risk, I'd never leave my bike outside.
Why don't Romanians just get remote jobs?