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> It's not primitive in terms of UX. You just need to spend more time configuring it. Some will argue that that means it's primitive, but I don't think so.

Okay, so... let's just think about what you said for a second. Windows 10 and Mac OS X deliver extremely high end configuration with a lot of extensibility in their Window managers via first and third parties without extensive modifications. I have some unique XMonad configurations too! But if I have to be a direct contributor to my experience, I remove a lot of the credit from the people who shipped the software, because they basically sent me an SDK for making a good UI environment.

> The point about portable computers is also false. You just need to pick a machine with hardware manufactured by friendly vendors who help write drivers. Why would you want to support anyone else?

Yeah. "Lenovo is friendly" is not a very compelling argument. Their support and sales are miserable. Their machines are unimpressive. Their supported versions of Linux are years out of date.

> Battery life? My x230 with tpm installed gets 6 hours of battery life on the stock battery.

My surface book gets 6 hours of battery life even if I'm compiling android binaries regularly. Without changing anything.

> HandleLidSwitch=suspend

Are you actually going to pretend that sleep support isn't a major issue for many portable hardware setups? Or is this restricted to "only specific token gesture devices from specific vendors?"

> Performance issues? My system idles at 200mb. Good luck getting macOS or Windows to do that.

What does this have to do with performance?

> The terrain has changed and the mainstream Linux distributions are now very stable and usable daily driver systems.

So.. tell me... does Canonical's kernel update purge old kernel images yet, or are regular users still SOL after about 8 months of use unless they invoke a shell script they barely understand provided by stack overflow? Asking for a friend who I had to do this form.

> Linux is more than competitive,

If Linux is only for experienced users but both OSX and Windows can deliver to the full spectrum, then that's a superset, doge.

This kind of double standard is why linux ends up getting overhyped.
> BTW NYC doesn't have and army nor secret courts

Once data is in the hands of NYC, it can be freely shared with the federal government.
Grabbed, read and understood. Your point?
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Other programs are processing pipelines like a compiler, so the dependency graph code that computes when things need to be reprocessed could theoretically be extracted and published as a reusable library.
The sunset you were seeing didn't happen 8 minutes ago. Sunsets are an interaction of the sun with your perspective position on earth and line of sight. The sunset was happening right then -- the light that was involved in the sunset had been emitted from the sun 8 minutes ago. The last blip of the light you saw disappear over the horizon was a view of a corner of the sun from 8 minutes ago, but the sunset was happening essentially at that moment. </pedantic>
I don't think needing an enemy is specific to the United States, they are just slightly less shameful than other "modern" countries about it. I quote modern because in many areas of its way to govern, the US seems to be pretty on par with other societies they love to demonize and call "backwards".

I think generally there are people with all sorts of agendas. Unfortunately, in the current state of society, the ones that stick will always be the ones who drive profits the most.

Fear might be the strongest motivator for the average human being. It's not surprising systems fed by conflict and imaginary enemies seem to thrive so much.

It doesn't mean that there aren't bubbles of people who are different, but they are just ripples among the waves.
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Nor is the NYC mayor.

The government cannot effectively regulate commerce, which is a core function of government, without access to relevant information.

The contempt for the law that Uber in particular exercises makes this need even more obvious. If the supposed move to robot cars is real and not just bullshit to scam investors, it becomes exponentially more important, as there will be no witnesses to whatever takes place.
I'm a custom software developer, mostly e-commerce, and over the years I have been asked numerous times to implement similar schemes.

The most popular is a recurring payments, such as for health supplements, that you cannot cancel on the web site. Not a broken system, but just no way to do it. You have to contact them via email. And many of them have a unspoken policy of not cancelling on the 1st, or maybe even the 2nd, request.

My suggestion is contact your credit card and declare the charge fraud and stopped.
"some drugs cause horrible effects for some people."

No.

Meth, cocaine and opioids represent the vast majority of illegal use outside of weed (which I think is a different category, and it is treated differently in most places) - and they represent a huge risk to society at large.

Prescription opioid use is becoming a massive problem (and now the #1 source of addiction etc.) in the US - it's systematic - not just a problem for 'some people'.

This not about 'specific examples' - it's widespread and systematic.
Ah ha! I see, that makes perfect sense, thanks.
> sad to think that 'MacBook Pro' is the bare minimum now.[0]

Yes! Actually! Older Macbooks have better battery life! Apple's quest for form factor has actually led them to cut into battery life for their top models. This is why people jokingly tell me to "upgrade to a 2014 mac."

> not true. It is impressive that a modern machine can be ran and coordinated on such a small footprint.

It's also impressive that Red Fraggle can balance two pickles on her nose. It's not really relevant to the claim of "performance" though. It's equally irrelevant to security. Unless you define performance as "fitting into a minimal RAM footprint." Something many memory allocators elect not to do because of the compaction cost hurting running time performance.
If the question, and the purpose of the exam, is framed as "why did the author do this or that?", then sure authorial intent has meaning to the question. And I certainly think what the author intended to mean can be culturally interesting. But for the individual experience of the work, intent beyond that included in the work itself doesn't have much bearing. So, to me, this post has a lot to do with the wrong kind of questions being asked of students. Poetry is not all about discovering what an author hoped you might feel and being "right". It's about your own experience of the words and ideas in the poem- or movie or whatever.

I guess what I'm saying is poetry runs on the client?
Think about this: what does it give you besides generic execution and data when the size of the data varies?

Templates already let you build generic data structures and algorithms when the size of the data on doesn't vary.
Once two Federal law enforcement agents decide the information is relevant, Uber will un-freely share with the Federal government.
I realize there's a (stereotypical) tendency for scientists and engineers to look down on philosophy - and I think this tendency colors this whole discussion to the extent that it almost borders on being a touchy subject.

But a lot of the claims about the uselessness of philosophy in the modern world are probably based around the fact that, at least from the perspective of an Ancient Greek like Aristotle, there was no actual distinction between "science" and "philosophy". It was all just sophia (wisdom) to him. It was applying abstract inductive reasoning to arrive at universal truths.

And this is patently obvious from simply reading Aristotle or the Pre-Socratics. These writers routinely make what modern readers would consider outright scientific claims. A lot of what Aristotle wrote is testable and falsifiable, and has indeed been falsified. But to Aristotle there wasn't any inherent epistemological difference between reasoning about physics and reasoning about justice. But today, we clearly separate these two spheres via empiricism - a method of thinking that wasn't really available to the Ancient Greeks, because it wouldn't be truly appreciated as part of a formal, scientific method, until the Medieval Arabs and later the European Renaissance thinkers really formalized it.

So in that sense, it's understandable why some modern students might find reading Aristotle as silly as reading, say, a Medieval book about medicine or alchemy.

I would argue, however, that Aristotle (and many of the ancient philosophers) are actually very valuable to read precisely because of their historical impact, and how their works shaped the course of human thought for millennia. Aristotle's particular ideas about physics might be hopelessly wrong, but his thought processes and writings influenced Europe and the Middle East throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. It is therefore critically important to have a good understanding of Ancient Greek philosophy if you are to have any hope of understanding the history of Western thought in general.
Washington, Colorado, Oregon, DC... No reports of turning into complete dumps yet.
That one specifically strikes me as a counter-example if anything, you don't lose anything by adding two more characters and calling it popCount, and it's significantly easier to read and understand.
So the child had temper tantrums and the parents drugged him? Wait what? I hope I am mistaken.
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> despite regular calls to encourage participants to use the programmes

People aren't going to use it if it sucks or isn't giving them value. I looked into Beating the Blues a while ago - it's not exactly a great experience. Being reminded just isn't enough.

> Can an app do a substantially better job than books?

I think so.

Books are passive content that you consume in your own time. And, it certainly is helpful. But an app can do so much more towards offering a much richer, more engaging experience. But - and this is crucial - you have to get it right. And I think it is MUCH easier to get a book right, than an app. A book is just the content - an app is a manifestation of that content; if the book could talk, what would it say? ask? how would it do it and how often?

We'll see. My side project is to scratch some CBT & behavioral itches I have had with an app. I could be entirely wrong, but I wont know till I finish and see if it is of use for me.
I agree with your main point but cannabis does make people vomit for sure. i saw it myself in college multiple times. Especially with large amounts of edibles and people's first time.
> If you agree upfront that a correct society should seek to e.g. maximize individual happiness, or maximize economic output, or whatever, there are scientific arguments that would support one policy over another.

These are both utilitarian concessions, building upon a philosophical model of the Right in terms of a maximized final Good.

You may be able to find a "scientific" answer within them (Bentham did exactly that), but you'll be hard pressed to conclude that such an answer is reasonable in any of the ways that we would expect a theory of perfect government to be.
If a lot of the people who criticize using old dead white people as literary texts - which, having worked in Education I know is a "hegemony" hot-button issue - it's not like other brilliant works translated (or not) could be used. Neruda, Marquez...they're completely deserving classics and, I guess the real problem here, just as hard to study and work through as any of the other traditional texts. Kids don't like hard, never have, but that's the essence of education and brain growth - challenges.
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All very easy to say, safely in your house away from your loved child in pain with 600+ violent outbursts a day.

Every parent has only one subject; every child raising is a trial. You only have one chance and have to choose one approach.

This drug is used worldwide by maybe a billion people. Scaremongering is unhelpful.
There are so many reasons to read philosophy none of them have to do with philosophy as such.

Just because you know a lot about philosophy does not make you a great philosopher. But what reading philosophy do IF you are able to combine it with other skills is to provide you with an ability to think about what you do in a differen perspective.

The actual questions as interesting but not as such why you should read philosophy. You should read it because you want to have another perspective to think about what you do.
Storytelling probably wins over data everywhere there are people, and that probably can't be changed, barring genetic modification.
Yet we seem happy pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere which will likely cause far greater damage.
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The N+ rectangle near the bottom of the transistor is to reduce resistance because the heavily doped N+ conducts better than lightly doped N. The resistance from the collector through the N region to the junction could be several kohms. The N+ layer reduces this to a few ohms.

Why don't they use N+ instead of N everywhere? Less doping in the collector-base junction improves the breakdown voltage. It's also possible to extend the N+ region under the collector until it meets the buried N+ layer, which reduces resistance even more, but that takes another processing step. So it's all tradeoffs.
That it's a free-standing function is no excuse, generic functions have been a thing for decades, likewise namespaces.
Hard sciences also have to deal with naming conventions, but manage to do so without resorting to the recommendations provided by the parent.

The periodic table for example manages to do quite well with one or two-letter variables, which then leads to concise equations for chemistry.
1) 'Jail' - I never said they should jail them. But they should jail the dealers, yes. Moreover, 'required rehab' would be beneficial.

In Canada (a prison in Ottawa, specifically) if you 'go in' an opioid addict, the actually give you 3 doses of methodone a day. A friend of mine in there for a few days (small thing) described them as insane zombies, banging on the door to the clinic when it was almost time for their next dose.

The 'short term' harm reduction ideal of 'giving them drugs' might be nice, but in the 'long term' - keeping people jacked on opioids for months at a time has to be one of the most cruel things imaginable.

2) I think that most 'high schoolers' grasp that heroin, meth and coke are far worse than weed.

3) This is a separate issue. In other countries, such as Canada, we still have 'the war on drugs' - and 'free healthcare'.
Then add people whose life was ruined by addiction, as producers refined their wares to maximize that side-effect, and by getting caught in the prison system - then died of the effects of poverty, homelessness and emargination that result from those conditions. It's hard to keep stats on that, but you'd easily run in the millions.
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How do you test the claim that murder is wrong, or that happiness is the chief human good?
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Is the opposition to cannabis as a therapy at least part rooted in the fact it is not patentable? Large Pharma can't make enough money from something people could grow themselves?

A parallel story is the guy in the UK researching treating depression with 'magic mushrooms' in small doses (too little to be psychoactive). As I recall it took him 10 years to get a license to do the study! These things grow in your lawn in the UK! The results seemed good when compared to the poor outcomes for people on patentable anti-depressants
No, parents don't have the right to do what they like to their children.

> If medical science had an alternative you may have a point. These parents ran out of options

Exactly the point I made above. Lack of options does not mean parents can just try anything else. Some parents with no options chose bleach to treat autism. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

This mother has no idea what harm might come to the child as a result of her experimental treatment. If she's doing it to herself that's one thing, but she's inflicting it on a child.
"Technically, this isn't an argument for legalization, but an argument for medical use of synthetic cannabinoids."

Except synthetic cannabinoids have killed people. Marinol/Dronabinol has cost people their lives.
> if someone took the time to isolate and synthesize the active ingredients in weed and made those available in prescription form

What is the advantage of this over raw plant material?
I noted that irony. The parents should have been informed of low THC strains, they aren't uncommon. One of the NBC news channels broadcast the documentary on CW nationally and repeatedly. Pertinent info can be hard to find amongst the noise.
> Why, after the many years the problem has been repeatedly reported, doesn't Adobe fix their apparently terribly designed and maintained web site, which sends many of their customers who are trying to unsubscribe into a frustrating infinite loop, instead of manually unsubscribing the few persistent squeaky wheels who one by one eventually find their way to the forum to complain and demand a refund?

Our culture loves the safety of recurring revenue more and more every year. It's not a technical problem, it's a business one. How can eliminate market uncertainties in our cash flows? Easy! Auto billing! People are busy and miss line items on their credit card records.

I sort of hope card companies start to look into people's frustrations regarding recurring revenue and implement policies based on it. Or the FTC. Policies such as 3 click cancellation, or maybe even higher merchant fees for recurring transactions.

I'm not afraid to report recurring transactions to credit card company. They just block your number with the charging company if you explain to them that their site didn't allow you to. Eventually they're bound to set a nice letter to Adobe if we all start doing this.
I agree the author reached a little far. These questions are OK if ask we are checking is basic reading comprehension. Not great, but OK. Poetry seems like a weird fit for that kind of assessment though. The content of poetry is usually more complicated than the raw understanding of the words. It seems that these questions want to assess the more complicated inferences and such, they just fail to effectively do so.
It's a C function. C doesn't have generic functions.
Thanks for your input. I forgot to mention that we've been considering having kids for some time now.

And yes, she might eventually look for a reduction in hours worked, or (long term) for a different type of job altogether.
Who are these "many other startups"? Last year's London Perl Workshop was largely populated by the usual suspects who've been there since the early 2000s. I didn't hear the word "startup" mentioned either in conversation or the literature.
It's little different elsewhere.

One of my relatives were railing about being compelled to get EZPass for the Mass Pike, citing security/tracking concerns.

The reality is, any state or highway water crossing is almost certainly captured on LPR. If you travel on known "drug corridors", like I95, you're face and plate is captured multiple times.
Didn't that happen on 2016/05/20 ??

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11546324

More items about this:

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“This concern with aim or results, with differentiating and passing judgement on various thinkers is therefore an easier task than it might seem. For instead of getting involved in the real issue, this kind of activity is always away beyond it; instead of tarrying with it, and losing itself in it, “this kind of knowing is forever grasping at something new; it remains essentially preoccupied with itself instead of being preoccupied with the real issue and surrendering to it. To judge a thing that has substance and solid worth is quite easy, to comprehend it is much harder, and to blend judgement and comprehension in a definitive description is the hardest thing of all.”

Excerpt From: G. W. F. Hegel. “Phenomenology of Spirit.” Oxford University Press.
You should read up on the history of political primaries. The majority of our history, the parties chose the candidate outright. Now we have a mixed system, with some electors chosen by open voting and some by party leadership. The idea that the party having an opinion and influence on the candidate selection undermining democracy is deeply ignorant of our history.
I suggest this Kurzgesagt video:

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

Deaths might not be in the million range, but the number of ruined life thanks to the war is well beyond millions.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-war-statistics
One of those Unix tools that would deserve to be better known is dcfldd (http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/). It is basically dd with extra powers including on-the-fly hashing, progression, multiple outputs...
From a quick look at the source code it seems only to support grayscale, RGB and CMYK jpegs with 8 bits per channel.
Ask HN: What Java and UI stack should I use?
I've been recently recruited into a new company - a startup. I am familiar with Java, Scala, Python, C++, C#, Javascript etc. I have coded mostly in Java and C#.

My goto stack is Playframework with Scala for API, and I haven't written Javascript for a while, not after coffeescript and backbone.js dawned. IMO the javascript eco-system that I saw reminded me of early days of Ruby and Rails. Exciting but I don't want to wet my feet in it, and I want a stable UI framework to work with.

Since I am the early engineer, the task has fallen on me to choose the stack.

The dilemma is two-fold,

One - Do I choose a stack with which I can work fast (Playframework and Scala), but can't expect to find a lot of programmers to recruit, or do I stick to a saner, more worldy choice like Spring-Boot with Java (which I also am familiar with) and have the option of finding more people?

I picked Angular 2 for UI, but then the going got so slow that I fell back to Angular 1.x and was able to build up things much faster than Angular 2. Now I have the choice of sticking with Angular 1.x for the UI or moving off to something else. The choice seems to be between

Ember, React, Angular 2, Angular 1.

I am not so bothered with the UI choices though. Angular 2 seems to be shaping up nicely, so I wouldn't mind sticking with Angular 1.x and building up an Angular 2 app on the side.

It is the server side stack choice that bothers me.
I have the opposite problem re: what voice I use. When I say it "normally" the phone doesn't respond. Then, I say it in my "WTF why don't you understand" voice and it responds instantly.

I never remember to start off being angry at my phone, so it always takes me two tries.
Cowboy drug trials on children are scary. No need for scaremongering.

Aspirin is used by billions of people and it's dangerous to give to children.

She obviously has no clue how to manage safe dosing for a trial and that is ignorant and dangerous.

Just because it's natural and everyone's doing it doesn't mean it's safe: hemlock is natural, "everyone" used to smoke cigarettes.