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>These rants are typical but would be much better if people identified the glorious PC hardware they are using.

Razer makes really nice hardware. Visit a Microsoft store or Fry's electronics to see some in person. Aluminum build, current generation CPUs and GPUs. NVidia GPUs not the garbage Apple ships. 32GB RAM and RAID 0 available on the Pro. Hands down superior hardware. Good value for the money.

>He then does not identify a single OS X flaw or a reason he loaded Linux onto his Apple hardware.

I can easily install developer software on Linux that is blocked by Gatekeeper and SIP on Mac OS X. Every time I update, I have to delete /usr/bin/git again because it's just an Apple stub and I have no intention of installing Apple's developer tool package that is gigabytes large. It's bad enough that the last OS X system update was 1.7GB.

Furthermore, you can't even install Linux on a new MacBook or MacBook Pro. Apple transposed digits in the PCI class ID for the SSD so it's not even recognized as an SSD by the installer.

Then there's Docker. Docker == Linux.
>I think that this overall push towards eliminating anonimity and trolls from the internet can only have negative outcomes. Sure, nobody will ever be offended again, but at what cost? And who are these easily offended people for whom we're sacrificing freedom of speech?

The problem here is that "freedom of speech" has come to somehow include, "freedom to incite violence or threaten murder." Just this New Year's weekend, I had to connect two IRL friends over Facebook, because Friend X knew someone in Friend Y's region of the state who had been doxxed and was being threatened with guns. I tried to put them in contact so Friend X's harassment and threat victim could stay on Friend Y's couch, since their own home wasn't safe anymore.
Thanks. I think some kind of internal "meta moderation" may be the best way, similar to how some gaming services have tribunals. Appreciate the feedback and advice.
Thanks! A bit of both for the initial population. Shooting for it to be 100% user-submitted, though.
No need to blame it on a religion -- many drivers of all faiths think dogs are too dirty to let into their car.
Isn't the new MBP one of the best selling laptops of recent? And I'm honestly not seeing anything in the little blurb of an article that states concretely that this is happening in significant numbers.
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This is a bit confusing. Your comments are factually incorrect (there are no forced-full-screen apps in Windows 10, and the default PDF reader is Edge, which is windowed by default and was designed from the ground up for Windows 10, never for Windows 8 or "Metro"), or at least outdated.

It's a bit of a blemish that there are two control panels, but almost no users are ever exposed to Win32. You can do virtually everything (from updates to domain join to adding/removing Windows components) from the modern Settings app. The legacy control panel is just that, and is irrelevant for most users. I'd love to see it modernized, but there are many much better uses of resources (security! performance! battery life!) than modernizing 90s-era utilities that few customers are ever exposed to.
> country is almost unrecognizably better off thanks to Globalization

> is the highest it's ever been since it started being tracked in 1972

Can you prove that globalization is the cause of all the improvements? The fact you'd never seen a Mango before is probably due to transportation technology/infrastructure improvements, for example.

"low cost luxuries" aren't necessarily sustainable so, and seem to depend on labor-cost disparities.
In fact, people ostensibly asking for help in public are almost always fraudsters.

That's not great for the people that do need help, but it's how it is.
> it raised questions since I identified with you, while still feeling characterized under "achiever".

Interesting, because I identify with a lot of what you wrote, too.

- optimizing for ammo/currency: check; I do that out of the fear that I might need it later, which in case of Fallout 1 and 2 ended up with me finishing the game with more gear and cash than I knew what to do with

- I did play a lot of shooters too - mostly Quake 2 & 3, Unreal Tournament, and currently Overwatch

- I do enjoy achievements in most games a lot, which presumably makes me fall under the "achiever" archetype

As for open world games - they tend to bore me out after a while, when I hit the discovery limit. First time I discovered Minecraft (a friend gave me a pirate copy -> no multiplayer), I spent many hours exploring caves, discovering biomes, and building subway tunnels. But when I reached the point of knowing pretty much all the mobs, blocks and features of the game, I got bored. Similarly with Terraria and Starbound (though I started playing it again now on a server with a group of friends - probably scratching my "social" itch there).

So the categories are pretty fluid, I guess.
Nothing. Once you have pruned the tree to be only one layer deep, you are guaranteed to win.
It doesn't seem like the best type of business to experiment on. It would make more sense in a business where hours worked more obviously is not the same as productivity.

When I read about this in The Guardian way back when, they mentioned three other cases:

Brath

For Maria Bråth, boss of internet startup Brath, the six-hour working day the company introduced when it was formed three years ago gives it a competitive advantage because it attracts better staff and keeps them. “They are the most valuable thing we have,” she says – an offer of more pay elsewhere would not make up for the shorter hours they have at Brath.

The company, which has 22 staff in offices in Stockholm and Örnsköldsvik, produces as much, if not more, than its competitors do in eight-hour days, she says. “It has a lot to do with the fact that we are very creative – we couldn’t keep it up for eight hours.”

Toyota

At Toyota service centres in Gothenburg, working hours have been shorter for more than a decade. Employees moved to a six-hour day 13 years ago and have never looked back. Customers were unhappy with long waiting times, while staff were stressed and making mistakes, according to Martin Banck, the managing director, whose idea it was to cut the time worked by his mechanics. From a 7am to 4pm working day the service centre switched to two six-hour shifts with full pay, one starting at 6am and the other at noon, with fewer and shorter breaks. There are 36 mechanics on the scheme.

“Staff feel better, there is low turnover and it is easier to recruit new people,” Banck says. “They have a shorter travel time to work, there is more efficient use of the machines and lower capital costs – everyone is happy.” Profits have risen by 25%, he adds.

Filimundus

Linus Feldt, boss of Stockholm app developer Filimundus, says the six-hour working day his business began a year ago is about motivation and focus, rather than staff simply cramming in the same amount of work they used to do in eight hours.

“Today I believe that time is more valuable than money,” Feldt says. “And it is a strong motivational factor to be able to go home two hours earlier. You still want to do a good job and be productive during six hours, so I think you focus more and are more efficient.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-...
Wow, that's quite the (both) useable and useful software - thank you for the link. I'm not normally part of the "x should buy this out" group, but in this case, Amazon really should.
There's a small community of Linux on Mac hardware hackers because they have the slowest rate of change and fewest models to support. In comparison all the PC makers are high rates of churn and configurability. If there were a Mac class hardware build that integrated out of the box with Linux that showed reasonable product-line stability, I'd be buying that in a heartbeat.

The corporate machines may be more stable, but generally they're tied to corporate sales channels that aren't built to be accessed by individual buyers.
If you want to work a very boring large enterprise company whose software recruiting theory is trapped in the 60's then you might run into some issues.

Otherwise you'll be fine.
At risk of putting words in the another poster's mouth, I don't think the idea was that a distribution needs to have changes to binaries, just that it has to include the whole thing. I think the notion is that since you don't get your build of Emacs as part of Spacemacs, Spacemacs isn't a distribution of Emacs. I tend to agree. I think it could be a distribution of Emacs even if it were just upstream Emacs plus a simple conf file, but the key is that it has to include the thing it is a distribution of.
Then again, the hours that were cut also wouldn't have to be paid to the people not working them. In a perfect situation this would have led to higher employment numbers and happier employees. However, the Bloomberg source[1] also mentions that pay was not cut, which led to the overhead costs. You are right that this consequence could've been seen from miles away.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/swedish-s...
Silicon valley programmers aren't wealthy. They have good salaries though.
Alexa currently requires memorization of command sequences. Can take a while for older users to learn.

E.g. there's a skill (AskMyBuddy) that sends a preprogrammed text to a list of cellphones, typically a request for help. But the user needs to be trained to remember the exact command ("Alexa Ask My Buddy to send help"), which might be forgotten if someone is in a stressful situation.

Anecdote: tried to create a todo list with one item, "buy milk", but Alexa would not accept this item unless you setup the ability to purchase items from Amazon.

Weather does not work outside the US (needs a US address).
This is not my experience. I work for a French multinational games company and I'm situated in Sweden.

It's astonishingly common for my French counterparts to "arrive" at there computer at 10:30 each day and head out the door shortly before 17:00. Not to mention the 1.5hour or so lunch they tend to take.

This is a sample of maybe 20 people, and maybe it's a culture of the company more than the country, but I've noticed they like to shake hands with everybody on the floor before starting their day, and they also like to take a coffee first and have a chat. For me though, I operate "remote" and when they are not available on Lync/Skype then they may as well be not working because they're.. not.. working.

it is a stark contrast to my team who are jacked in before 9, and save for a few hourly strolls to the canteen and lunchtime do not leave until 18:00. (unless something breaks then we stay, which is common in crunch times.)
I don't know what sites you visit, but I've been online since 1996 and have never received a death threat. It's not a normal thing.

Second, I don't think the OP's point was that women face "worse than death threats", but that they receive a lot of harassment online. That should be obvious to anybody who's used the internet for any appreciable amount of time. If that's really news to you, then google it.
And even worse you don't know if the 3 or 3000 line fix will take more time.
It's just like the 1990s, except instead of being nearly bankrupt, Apple is now one of the wealthiest companies in the world.
The classic low hanging fruit problem. Whenever we've pumped an oil well dry, we've almost always found another easy to pump well, therefore all oil wells are easy to exploit and we'll never run out of oil. There are other analogies with the ease of catching wild passenger pigeons and bison.
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I was thinking that. Nearly all the big banks must have European branches already and presumably someone at Barclays London can log into the systems of Barclays Paris and do a trade there for instance if it has to be done that way.
This is awesome! For someone coming into the more "conventional" editor space scouring github/internet for plugins is a huge pain and its even harder to find ones that cover your cases and are kept up to date. Having this all rolled into one as and having it all work together in harmony is a big win for on boarding people to vim!

Disclaimer: I haven't tried this package but it does seem to have a lot of promise.
Harassment can be flagged up either by the type language used or the repetition of an action.

It has to start with a manual we-know-it-when-we-see-it process. You collect data about the types of users that are using your service in a harassing way. Where they come from, how they use the service etc. Over time you will see patterns and trends that will likely lead to you being able to flag certain sign ups in that way. The more accurate it gets over time the less manual intervention you will need.

It maybe that certain referrers or keywords drive this type of traffic. Perhaps there are similarities in the first actions of this type of new user or the content that they create.

The only way to recognise it is to start gathering examples and learning from them.
> Think about it like this in the US: Imagine giving everybody a basic income and eliminating minimum wage, social security, medicare, welfare, and so forth...

What happens when someone inevitably spends their entire income on non-essential expenses, or bets it all on black, or gets talked into making a bad investment, leaving them with no money in the bank? Do we just tell them, "well, suck it up and get a job"? "Sorry, you can't feed yourself because you made your choice on how to spend your money"?

Replacing all other entitlement programs with a cash handout is a political non-starter.
Why pity the dog? She's a working dog with a purpose and gets to spend 100% of her day with her owner.
How is the on the front page? There is nothing of merit in the article.

Edit: HN title has been corrected.
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Unless it is tied into some kind of mandatory tax, or government subsidy.
> The fact we're still discussing the trackpad, suspend/wake, fonts, networking, and UI - in 2017 - means the problem still isn't solved on Linux.

One reason is, it's not Linux's problem to solve. It's the hardware vendor's. Those morons still don't ship with proper drivers, firmware, or even specs —possibly because spending a single cent on Linux isn't economically viable or something.

Last time I checked, suspend and power management does work flawlessly on Linux… when the hardware is a couple year's old. But it will never work properly on new hardware unless the vendors make it so themselves.

On the other hand, Wifi hardware vendors now often ship with proprietary drivers. Proprietary sucks, but it at least works.

> I'll pay the $1000 premium and if I value my time at $25/hour, I'll recover that additional cost within 2 months compared to Linux maintenance. I wish it weren't so, but the maths don't lie.

Let's be generous and assume MacOS requires zero maintenance. 1000/25 means 40 hours (a full work-week), of Linux maintenance.

A full work-week in only 2 months, aren't you being a tiny bit hyperbolic? I spend a few minutes per month in maintenance.
How does this compare with the already popular distributed file systems IPFS?
This is just a guess, but I suspect that "scale" also generally correlates positively with compensation. A medical device company with 50 employees just doesn't have the same resources as a company with 1M+ users, for example.

Following from that, compensation is one of the easiest ways to measure professional "success", which is why large, highly-compensated companies are commonly viewed as the pinnacle of software engineering.

Whether that's a fair or accurate assessment is a different question.
This isn't really true. Quantum computation devices are not general-purpose computing chips, like the way an x86 or ARM core is. They are constructed to solve specific instances of specific categories of problems in a way that is more efficient than a classical computer. And you can't accelerate all forms of computation in this way either -- only some very special categories of problems.

A "quantum computer" is more likely to look like a CPU/GPU combo where a general-purpose classical chip does the work of arranging work units for a special-purpose quantum accelerator, and interpreting the results.
> The Holocaust was hidden so effectively from the world that the Allied powers plausibly denied knowledge of it.

I don't believe this assertion. The Holocaust was reported in great detail by those fleeing Nazi rule, and the Allied powers absolutely knew what was happening. The general population knew as well, if they were paying attention:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11370972/Ho...

> Germans living in nearby towns denied knowledge of it.

While it's true that they denied knowing of the existence of extermination camps, it's an idea that has been widely rejected.

See for yourself - here's a video of German residents of Weimar being forced to tour Buchenwald after liberation. Do these people looked surprised and mortified to you?

https://www.ushmm.org/online/film/display/detail.php?file_nu...
I made notes some time ago that cover the linear algebra needed for Quantum Mechanics in some details and then go on to introduce basic QM at the end:

https://graybits.biz/notes/quantum_mechanics/preface
>. First, no company could ever build enough phones for the world, and secondly, to serve every customer would ruin the profit margins that make the business model so successful.

Both seem wrong? They could produce more models at lower price points and lower costs and maintain similar margins, like Samsung. Probably the branding effect on margin would be smaller but would still be a healthy margin.

Am I missing the point here?
How is the work/life balance at Facebook?
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I was just poking around the Internet for the cheapest land I could find. I didn't look for a super long time. I think land below a certain price doesn't stand out because there's little incentive to promote it, so you have to hunt for better prices.
Well just a single small example in the homepage is not enough to convence me to sign up and try.
I understand that here it's not about subconscious thoughts, but about personality in general - that your personality determines the way you approach a game, how you play, and how much enjoyment you get out of it.
We did a trade show in Minneapolis' convention center a few years back and had the same issue. We were charged ~$1200 for a few days of Wifi access from SmartCity. Even though we paid for them to allow us to use our Wifi AP (Cisco enterprise AP, not some consumer gear bought at BestBuy) we still had to beg and plead with their on-site network engineers to get them to stop issuing de-auths on all our traffic. Then again, you have to pay hundreds of dollars to have a trash can in your booth as well. These venue are such a racket it's ridiculous.
How is the work / life balance at Facebook?
> used to lisp by evaluating in the function namespace an argument in non-function position.

True, macros can confuse people not used to the concept.

For example the DEFUN macro: (defun plus (a b) (+ a b))

'plus' is in the function namespace, even though it is in a non-function position.

Strange, isn't it?

> Common Lisp simply can't approach the succinctness and elegance of currying without adding some syntax.

That's true. But it doesn't even try, because the 'succinctness and elegance' of currying without adding some syntax is a non-goal for Common Lisp. Lisp has always preferred one expression for each function call and over the years it added complex argument lists (variable number of arguments, optional arguments, keyword arguments, ...).

Personally I don't miss things like 'automatic' currying, since they are making the code harder to read (-> currying is not explicitly visible in the source code) and debug.
What you've just calculated there is the cost of giving everyone, including middle class and rich people, a $20k tax break. Obviously this wouldn't work, as the amount of tax in and out of the system needs to be the same. The easiest method or distribution to understand is negative income tax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM

Would it work in real life? Dunno. Lets see what the outcome of the various tests are. The key question isn't the maths actually, but whether people will choose to work enough to support the system.
In 80-90% of real-life murders, there's no mystery who did it. It's all just basic evidence collection then move on.

TV shows are of course centered around cases where the ID of the murderer is harder to prove. That's just basic storytelling.
So if you're not going to do it for the payout, which was the main reason to do it, then why do it? Why put yourself through the crap and the unpaid overtime and the stress and the subpar pay for the chance to make someone else rich?
A several-sentence anecdata blogpost from someone too inexperienced to realize people were switching FROM Linux TO OS X in the first place?

And that steps on its own thesis by admitting he still uses Apple hardware, so he'll be one of the "90%" you see using Apple systems?

How did such a terrible "article" get upvoted in the first place?
I didn't realize it was available on other platforms.
SMBC did a pretty interesting comic about quantum computing a few weeks ago: "The Talk" - http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

It was a collaboration with Scott Aaronson ( http://scottaaronson.com/ ), so hopefully it's as accurate an intro to quantum computing as any webcomic could be.
financial literacy is a huge issue in society and especially startup land, many folks don't learn about the pros/cons of 83(b) elections and how to properly calculate the value of your options... also negotiation skills aren't really taught so many people don't negotiate for a better deal

I found this repo on GitHub to be the best resource on startup equity, highly recommend it: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation
Yeah, buy a house, work for 5 more years, sell house at 5x, then retire.
Again, if you're disallowing platform headers and writing tooling to make sure you're never calling libc, what's the advantage of writing in C? You have all the headaches of switching to a new language, with none of the features.

And, honestly, one of the features is "vibrant community of developers." Even if Go and Rust were bad languages, which they're not, they'd still be better choices than C-with-custom-in-house-restrictions-and-libc-wrappers, simply because of the communities around them. If you're writing in Rust, someone else has already written the safe C wrappers, and if they haven't, there's a community of people who will code-review your wrappers for safety and merge them into a centrally-maintained project, which is extremely useful.
AFAIK (but I'm not up-to-date on the area) nobody has ever showed that quantum annealing is any faster than classical annealing.
I could understand the hostility if you approach the subject with unsubstantiated statements like "almost never economically rational".

It would be easier to support the claim that most startup employees earn less over their career than those who only ever work for BigCorp.. Though I've never personally seen data suggesting that's necessarily true. You have to consider length of career, job and city mobility, career mobility, etc.

"Economically rational" does not mean BigCorp > Startup career pay.. it means it's not rational to accept startup career pay. That's a much harder statement to defend (honestly, I don't think it's the case).
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