skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can definitely believe that you, as an individual, have driven tens of thousands of dollars in sales Apple's way over the last decade. But even if we assume that there are tens of thousands of people doing the same thing as you (as effectively as you) for the same reasons, that adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars, which is three orders of magnitude below Apple's sales per year, and your impact is stretched out over a decade. Hard to see that loss as more than a rounding error on any Apple projection.

What I'm asking after, I suppose, is evidence that there are "gazillions" of former "Unix converts" driving significantly more money than I'm estimating here. I still continue to feel like this whole "software developers are influencers" line of argumentation when it comes to Apple products is just wishful thinking crossed with extrapolating from very limited personal anecdotes.
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Like many, you've misunderstood basic income.

The point of basic income is that it is universal. It is fundamentally a social welfare program, but it is designed to be a more effective one. By far one of the biggest problems of being poor and especially unemployed is lack of cash flow. This doesn't just get in the way of living a "luxurious" lifestyle, but it causes fundamental problems which can drastically reduce quality of life and often increases the cost of living. This is a well known problem, people with very little money end up forced buying things of low quality, and they end up getting less value for their money, they also find themselves in emergencies because they are unable to pay for essentials.

Moreover, there are huge problems related to improperly aligned incentives when it comes to traditional social welfare programs. With UBI the incentives are, however, very properly aligned. If you want to make more money, if you want to improve the quality of your life, then you can seek progressively higher paying work to do so. UBI merely sets a floor on the minimum level of quality of life that is possible. It does not destroy an incentive to work it merely destroys the coercion to work any job whatsoever in order to avoid starvation. Personally I think that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

Additionally, your point about elimination of the income tax on lower income brackets is tone deaf. This already exists today. The bottom 40% of incomes in the US pay essentially no federal income tax, with many people in those income ranges receiving money back from the federal government in the form of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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Not normal. A typical bay to Asia business class ticket I see is $6k+. At most conferences small talk is around your travel there and everyone else I've talked to from US companies that was a software engineer was lucky to get a bump to economy plus.
This wouldn't work either, because the majority of immigrants will still be unskilled, not speaking the language well etc, starting as dirt poor and having to work hand to mouth, and thus unable to "seek higher wages" for other reasons too aside from their illegal status.
If you ever happen to be in Europe (specifically, Switzerland or France) or Asia (specifically, Japan), try their high-speed trains. Pure perfection. Even German, Italian, Spanish, etc trains are still a lot better than the US train system.
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I can think of $89 reasons each!
OCaml now uses Github as its official repo and accepts PRs.
Slightly offtopic; I worry about Window managers... Too much, I admit but it's such a difference in productivity for me. Is there a good i3/ratpoison alternative for Mac OS X or Windows? I think I have tried all that came up with Google and they are far less efficient than both of the above.
Conversely, this could also mean that the "press" and the vocal majority on a few online forums have no bearing on what people out there really want.

In almost every discussion about this, you will see some people who have actually purchased — unlike the detractors — these machines and are happy with them.

I personally don't see anything bad about the new MacBooks either, except the lack of out-of-the-box compatibility with the new iPhones/EarPods, and their price point in relation to my budget at this current point in time. I will definitely be buying one as soon as I can afford it.

Going all USB3/Thunderbolt only is very good, exciting even, and harkens back to 2 decades ago when the very first iMac came out as the first every USB-only computer. The wide color displays have to be seen in person to be appreciated. The battery problems and GPU glitches have been found to be on the software side, iirc, and some of those issues have already been patched.
Do you sponsor visas?
You are describing a very inefficient train ;)
Disagree with "Security Theater". Look up older aircraft types in Wikipedia, like "Boeing 727" or "DC-9" and look at their incident lists and why they crashed. Many of them were destroyed in bombings or were hijacked. Nowadays, this kind of crime has become a rarity and it can be attributed to much higher security levels at the aiport. While I oppose total surveillance strongly, this kind of "direct protection" where you look into the eye of the security guys directly might help sometimes.
It might just be faster because the author is comparing their hybrid radix sort implementation to std::sort (which is comparison-based).

Would be more valid to compare to Boost's "spreadsort" which is similarly a hybrid radix sort algorithm (and also outperforms std::sort).
I'm sorry to hear about your Dad. That you are helping him resolve these outstanding issues is most likely a huge relief for him.

I've been interested in compiling an end of life documents for myself for my family. Have you found any resources that offer some kind of checklist and guidance as to everything one might need to complete for such a process?
> they will not auto update when you release new versions

Wouldn't it be possible to do the auto-updating logic yourself? Is there something preventing this? I assume extensions can store stuff with localStorage, so what's to stop you downloading the code and eval'ing it?
> Nobody is saying that your Redis host must be open to unencrypted traffic, not the Redis folks and not me.

Sorry. I disagree. See:
Redis does not support encryption. [0]

> Redis is simply not a drop-in replacement for a SQL server environment, and they're trying to make that clear. Expecting it to be one is more your assumption than a fault of Redis.

I never meant to imply that Redis was a replacement for SQL. My analogy to PostgreSQL was misinterpreted by everyone to mean me saying "Redis should be more like PostgreSQL" when really what I meant was "PostgreSQL isn't focused on security, and yet they still manage to bundle TLS support without making users install additional application to wrap a socket"

> SQLite doesn't implement any security for you

SQLite is a file based DBMS. My point is about Redis lacking built-in transport layer security.

> Should memcached implement https?

memcached should implement transport layer security.

> How about ImageMagick or OpenCV?

To my knowledge these are mostly local services, although granted my experience is limited. My point to Redis was about transport layer security. If the services don't listen on any network interface, then I don't see the need to implement transport layer security.

You may still want to implement filesystem encryption to protect data at rest.

[0] https://redis.io/topics/security
I have Apple cables that old that still have nothing wrong with them. I think it was maybe about 4-5 years ago that they switched the materials, every cable I have had since then has started to disintegrate after a few months. In my office cupboard we have 5 mighty mice that have all worn through after 6 months use and we have stopped buying official Apple lightning cables.
Weirdly, the low-cost long-distance bus service in the UK has an option for food, drink, more reliably available wifi and better seating at not much more in cost if you're clever about it, in the form of Megabus/Citylink Gold. Its higher-cost competitor, National Express, stops at service stations on certain routes and provides vouchers for the cafes/restaurants there. (They also often make stops at large bus stations for upwards of quarter of an hour, allowing people to get food from surrounding shops.) And at times, you can get first class on the trains at less additional cost than the wifi would cost - with comfier seating, free wifi, multiple meals, and free alcohol.

I have a suspicion the issue isn't really the lack of service, it's that either you get nickle and dimed or the next step up is an order of magnitude higher in price.
You can't practically bootstrap an interpreted language. That being said, I'd be intrigued to see PHP run using multiple nested interpreters from different language versions.
Right, so these 10 sprites are definitely not in RAM, but in transistor logic, but at the start it has to scan 40 sprites in OAM, which means checking 80 bytes, and copying 10*4 bytes to the comparators.
We found that rent correlates with market rates, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c... "Perhaps surprisingly, there was a stronger correlation between compensation and rent index than with the more general cost of living index available through Numbeo (or the cost of living with rent index, for that matter); and so we moved ahead with the Rent Index."
Speaking from a global perspective: every nation has its own way of writing and linking their laws. Although civil law countries, and case law countries respectively, have a lot of similarities (historically induced), they are still unique.

That is not the case when it comes to searching the world wide web. Here, by design, everything is linked and national borders are mostly irrelevant. So if you want to implement a Google of law, you have to do it locally. The only exception would be international law, which itself can be seen as local.
I have a little modification of your experiment.

* Divide the big group into smaller groups (where they are giving each other inside the group only).

Now individuals in the group where many give to each other get an advantage over individuals in other groups.

Individuals that keep for themselves while staying in a group that gives also keep the better advantage on cost of their group.
I had a feeling that O(N) is pretty impossible for the general use case.
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ES6 has killed much of CoffeeScript's momentum, because of parity on a lot of language features, but I still find those that don't work with JS everyday still prefer it due to cleaner syntax, and fewer surprises.
Robert Sapolsky covers this in one of his courses on evolutionary biology. I found the content to be approachable and the man charming, I highly recommend the course. (I am not a biologist!)

http://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/behavioral-evolution.html
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When I hear American and European airline bosses whining about the harsh competition from the "Gulf" airlines such as Emirates, Qatar Airways or Etihad, a voice in my head always yells "why don't you just try to give their level of customer experience in the first place before begging your government to help you provide abysmal service".
My main computer is a 15 inch retina macbook pro from 2013. I use it a lot (roughly 10-12 hours/day) so it's plugged often. It always gets quite hot next to the magsafe connector so what happens every time I buy a new charger is this:
- the part of the cable next to the magsafe connector becomes yellow from the heat
- the yellow part of the cable starts to become less resistant and kind of flakes
- Eventually the wires are exposed.

This takes about 1 year, 1 year and an half. I never jam it in doors or desks. I do not have pets. I sometimes put it in my bag but I do not wind up the cable to avoid having additional tear on it. I do live part of the year in hot and humid climate (like Japan in summer or South East Asia) which might accelerate the issue.

But honestly, this is a problem, no matter how careful I am, I have to buy new chargers.
That's my most recent project, but I wrote a paint program and some Pokemon hacks before that.
I use Amathyst on Mac, having got used to AwesomeWM and then needing to switch. I believe its (unfamiliar to me) key bindings are based on i3.

https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
I used to get this as well. Disabling Spotlight seemed to fix it.
CoffeScript is endorsed by DHH and so it's more of a first class citizen than JavaScript in Rails. However it's not something you have to use. I never really liked using it and I easily managed to keep using JavaScript in all these years since Rails 3.1. I hope it's going to the deprecation bin soon but I believe that Basecamp is using it a lot. DHH won't have added it to Rails if that was not the case.
There is, it just isn't free. Lawfirms pay mountains of money for up to date 'google for laws'. At least in the U.S.
We're still pinning down a definition but if it is for more than a few months we consider it a relocation. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/#relocat...
Ditto for Perl - https://github.com/Perl/perl5
I had extremely negative experience with HR from Skyscanner.
After getting the process started from mailing on the mentioned email address, it took 3 reschedules to get 1st call setup because of random reasons.

And, after first call and initial writeup submission, I haven't heard back from HR after month either way.

Considering such unprofessional handling, I'd recommend against them.
Meh. I'm sure it's worse for non-Americans, but US border control is more of a hassle for me than any of Europe or China. Africa was pretty bad (they confiscated my passport...?) but otherwise the US is generally the worst.
> I'm somewhat surprised that the FFT benchmark is written to use GC time, since normally I think of FFTs as not requiring any allocation at all, much less significant numbers of allocations of separate objects...

Keep in mind:

a) not every machine had FP hardware, so FP instructions might be emulated in software.

b) dealing with floating point numbers may mean allocate float objects. For example not every Lisp had a direct array of floats. The array then would be a general array pointing to float objects on the heap.

c) not every compiler/interpreter was clever enough to keep floats in registers (or similar) while doing float computations.

Even today, allocating floats can be a problem in Lisp applications.
Those folks had crazy results, in all possibility due to a software bug.

For example when they re-tried with Chrome (instead of Safari) the found exactly the same, and in some cases better, battery life.
Many articles about wanting to leave the macOS ecosystem mention Sketch. Sketch is macOS only (and will be for the forseeable future), so it's understandable that people want to consider the implications of switching away from it.

Recently, however, I stumbled upon Figma, a web-based, real-time collaborative interface design app (i.e., a competitor of Sketch). After convincing my group to experiment with it for a school project, I was pleasantly surprised.

- It's web based, so it works on Linux.

- It imports .sketch files

- It's real-time (you can see everyone's cursor and selection). This was great, because it meant we didn't have to walk through the snow to get to campus to have a discussion about tweaking a few elements.

I understand that some people may still need access to Sketch to work with people on their team or at their company. But for me, I'm officially striking Sketch off the list of software that's tying me down to macOS.
One thing my wife and I did that was kind of idiotic with our first child was to both try and deal with the baby at night "as a team".

Once we realised that being a team was better visualised as taking on different roles, we functioned way better. As she was on parental leave for a year, it made more sense for her to deal with the baby at night, and for me to get a good night's sleep so I could function during the day at work. She could catch up on some sleep in the day when the baby slept. If you have a spare room then use it if you are both happy with that.
Looks like a nice micro quad. Have you considered sending out some examples for reviewers (Flitetest on YT as an example) ?

It might be worth it marketing wise.
Or you know, just plain propaganda.

During the first days of during Operation Iraqi Liberation once embedded "journalists" were on the ground, chemical weapon sirens would go off daily. Broadcast around the world were reporters stopping live feeds and quickly changing into hazmat-like suits...

We now know there were zero chemical weapons, so why so many alarms?
Another modification would be:

* Allow the group to punish those who keep for themselves.
That would be a limited supply of units in a high demand area causing the price difference, which is a fundamentally different argument
Lexis Nexus and Findlaw?As usloth_wandows said, there are law databases but that's a huge part of a lawyer's value and knowledge, so these databases are extremely expensive.
Unites States of America. You are closer to more opportunities as a software dev than any where else in the world.
The previous title was more informative (add "?force=lite" to the URL)
> the recent outages caused by the leap second were due to programming languages (most notably Go) not offering APIs to work with time separately from system time

You are misguided to blame languages or standard libraries for leap second outages: at worst they are to blame for not educating programmers about nonmonotonicity of system time on certain operating systems, depending on configuration and behaviour of their time synchronization client, if available and enabled. Support for various monotonic clocks (each good for some but not all uses of monotonic time) is not consistent across operating systems, and almost no standard library expose any of them, as they should not before third party libraries with this functionality gain widespread use.
Depending on how and where you spend it, its about $7500 or more to save a life.

http://www.givewell.org/giving101/Your-dollar-goes-further-o...
Agreed. Git int is awesome. I would just like them to support more advanced git functions.
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Excellent, this actually makes Maps usable for me. I don't have flash installed which seems to break place searching on standard Google Maps but not the Lite version.
The airline would rather be carrying paid for cargo instead of empty space.
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> International business class
> is expensive, yes, typically
> on the order of $8,000 to
> $10,000

The usual roundtrip flight price for flights Germany-Japan (as determined with hundreds of searches on Skyscanner) seems to be:

Economy: ~400 GBP

Premium Economy: ~1000 GBP

Business: ~1300 GBP

First: ~3700 GBP

So, the "$8000 to $10000" isn’t even in the same ballpark as First class, respectively business class.
Yes, in the preface the translator does mention the use of short phrases. I found it wonderful.

Although I'm not sure if thats the style Camus writes in.
>Clean doesn't really mean anything in design

It actually conveys pretty well that the interface is uncluttered and with a minimal aesthetic, with lots of space, etc.

>Are all other interfaces that are not clean, dirty? Or unsanitary? Or cluttered?

Obviously cluttered.

Don't really understand the objection. "Clean" has been part of UI vocabulary, and before that, of aesthetic criticism (in fine arts, architecture, industrial design, etc) for ages. ("Clean lines", etc).
There's a rumor that they're working on a wireless charging technology for iPhones where it charges completely wirelessly without using one of those clumsy power mats.

So your dream will likely come true in a different--yet much better--format.
Clayton Christensen (guy who wrote Innovator's Dilemma) has a pretty good debunking of the "target user" approach, telling us to instead focus on what job users intend to do with your product. Tells it through the story of trying to figure out the idealized milkshake buyer: https://youtu.be/f84LymEs67Y?t=27s

This whole idea goes by the name Jobs to be Done. Intercom has a sick PDF book on applying the concepts to product development: https://www.intercom.com/books/jobs-to-be-done
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Many Lisp interpreters are bootstrapped, have a glance over the examples of meta-circular evaluators at Wikipedia: [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator#Exampl...
Jony Ive considers standard strain relief cones to be unattractive and prohibits Apple from shipping them.
How much do they pay? And how is the pay structured?
Actually this feels just as sluggish as the full version. Where exactly do you guys see/feel the improvement?
> if Apple's not going to make the next iPad, who is? None of the existing players

This is a great pitch for an early-stage fund. Sort of like the kind pg peddles :).

(I mostly agree with the analysis, but the bias is worth noting.)
> I used to use Exposé all the time, now I don't because everything slows to a crawl when I activate it.

Too true. I just tried opening Mission Control on a maxed-out MacBook Pro with Sierra and it took 7 seconds. It's a shame that Snow Leopard isn't compatible with most toolchains now.
Also perhaps machine learning experts are paid well enough in industry research labs in tech companies that the difference isn't perceived as that large given the diminishing marginal utility of money.
Thanks, can anybody explain why google allowed maps to turn into a such a sluggish feature bloat?
Development of Nim (https://GitHub.com/nim-lang/Nim) and its tools is done openly on GitHub.
Yup. A lot of people are complaining about a lack of exciting updates, but I'd rather start by seeing hardware updates that keep up with the industry. Whereas Apple were once releasing products based on Intel chips before they were even widely available, we're now looking at products which are generations behind. Low-power Kaby Lake chips have been available for six months; why is there no Kaby Lake Macbook yet?
>Literally everything is terrible. The only thing it has going for it is that it makes long distance and overseas travel logistically possible on an acceptable timescale.

Yeah, just that. Merely taking like 7 hours to get from the US to Europe sitting on a chair in the sky and being fed -- as opposed to a trip that used to take months or weeks, people got sick and/or died in the way, and unless you were rich you were getting terrible food (or what you brought yourself) and bunk beds.

>and the basic human dignity of having personal space

Immigrants from Europe towards the US / Ellis Island:
http://www.amicidicapracotta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/...
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