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Money is a factor - weighted differently for different people.

E.g. person A generally wants to be happy in their job, but needs $100k to maintain their lifestyle, pay the mortgage, not worry about bills etc. If paid $100k they wouldn't jump ship.

Later, person A has a baby. Well guess what happens next.

Person B also wants to be happy in their job, but they also want to invest in stocks for an early retirement. They get an offer at a stressful trading job paying 3 times their current salary. They think it is worth it in the short term so they go for it.
I have some friends on the mechanical engineering side of things at SpaceX and can definitely say that 9-5 work hours don't even seem to be a suggestion. It likely varies team to team though.
sub based news model? pass.

cant even read this article without paying.
Do freelancers/consultants magically need no onboarding and become fully productive on day 1?
That doesn't protect siblings of <foo/.immutable>...
The NYT is just can't shake the negative influence of their printing legacy with respect to their strategy.

The article quotes them as saying "Our future is much more digital than print". Are you kidding me, they still have to say things like this?

Of course the $1B in non-digital revenue is important and needs a steady hand to maximize it's contribution.

However their digital strategies have been so simplistic, so old fashioned, they just can't seem to catch up to what they really need to do.
For some background, I've been writing 3D code since the early '90's and spent years working at SGI, games studios, all doing realtime 3D.

The tech pendulum swings between solving problems in hardware vs software constantly. Right now, we're somewhere between the two endpoints with the way shaders moved a lot of ASIC behavior into software.

Software vs hardware 3D rendering speed is just one aspect of the differences between both approaches. Hardware graphics pipelines all share a common design - a high throughput deep pipeline which maximizes geometry and pixel throughput. The hardware is incredibly powerful, but you're still communicating with it via a thin little unidirectional pipe relative to its performance, so by using hardware, you end up having a common architecture in rendering engines; that of a retain mode renderer which tries to upload as much static content to the card as possible, then spends whatever time is possible on animated content. That's why today's games all look positively glorious and beautifully shaded, but if you look close, they're all fundamentally a few characters moving around a large static world. The 3D hardware systems simply aren't optimized for dynamically changing all that much of the scene.

Back when we did pure software rendering, we had much more flexibility in our approaches, and there was a lot more dynamic rendering - fully deformable worlds. I miss the huge variety of games which were possible back then. They are still possible today, since hardware is far more capable, but due to being off the optimized path, you can't compete on look and feel, so you lose in the market.
Let's ask the authority, the NTSB:

> The NTSB does not assign fault or blame for an accident or incident; rather, as specified by NTSB regulation, “accident/incident investigations are fact-finding proceedings with no formal issues and no adverse parties ... and are not conducted for the purpose of determining the rights or liabilities of any person.”
49 C.F.R. § 831.4.

(This is on first (non-title) page of any NTSB accident report. [1])

Of course, the NTSB determines "Probably Cause", and makes safety recommendations. But the point is not to blame the pilot. Notice also that enforcement action is taken by a different agency, the FAA, not the NTSB.

Lastly, the whole ASR reporting system is set up to maximise the information gathered and minimise future accidents, while giving some dispensation to pilots that have made mistakes.

[1] see e.g. e.g. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

Edit: add > to indicate quote.
The question was perhaps imprecisely phrased, but I think you can figure out what I'm trying to accomplish.
Yeah, it's the usual open-source ego-driven squabbling.

Whatever the reason may be, users were left without this extremely useful and desirable feature for fourteen YEARS. Thunderbird at its core today acts and performs essentially identically to 2003. I've been using it myself since well before that. Development on the mail client hasn't meaningfully progressed since, well, _ever_.
The experience is totally different, and very polished.
> The real issue today is that there are so many motivational speakers/writers that it's become impossible not to waste a lot of time trying to discern the steak from the bullshit.

This sounds "ripe for disruption." Any startups trying to solve this?
Yeah, despite being largely discredited in the sciences, Freud has always maintained popularity in the humanities and social sciences. If nothing else, he can be credited with framing the debates that happened afterwards. It's telling that his "influenced" property on Wikipedia is just a list of every psychoanalyst.

Still, I'm not entirely convinced that

The simultaneous presence in every individual of the most evil and the most generous impulses makes society an inherent contradiction

really captures the lasting value of Freud's work. Maybe I should just read the biography itself, but it seems less like he's suffering from misunderstanding, and more like he's a popular figure a lot of people know just enough about to be ignorant.

And then yeah, lines like

No brain scan is ever going to destroy a belief in our own subjectivity.

really make this feel more like a misrepresentation of why Freud gets critiqued in the first place.
> Anthropologists don't commonly live in mud huts, that's just a prejudice.

Where the heck did that come from. I'm well aware of cultural anthropology and have worked with a couple on academic grants. I just think those more familiar with oral tradition of tribes would have an amazing time in a software company.

Also, just for your information, not all tribes live in mud huts, that's just a prejudice.
With the ability to use pl/pgsql within the game, it can get as complicated as you want :)

It doesn't necessarily teach each advanced technique, but it does give you a good place to practice what you've learned.

(Thanks for the mention!)
The most important area to focus on is accuracy. There's a huge prevailence of rumors masquerading as news. Plus, there's an entire political party who's base has lost faith in the mainstream media. If the NYT starts taking shortcuts, they will fall into a dangerous trap and will lose a lot of readers.
And what do they really need to do?
Probably that was when coders learned about being sold to Qihoo and to get ready to train their replacement.
here's nate silver's ingenious monthly odds generator:

#odds [insert democrat here] wins

sample(75:100, 12, replace=TRUE)
I completely agree, it sounds like the forever present problem of wrong tool for the right job.

However it offers the potential to approach problems in a fundamentally different manner. I find myself incredibly curious and fascinated with how it works - then immediately rejected once I see discussions on HN about the blockchain.

According to your bio you've been programming for many years - is an apprehension towards something new a common pattern you've observed?
The thread starts with the treatment of circus animals, but we (your digression) moved quite a bit beyond that with vegetarianism and leather.
His position is self fulfilling. We only see the negative folks he's talking about. There are plenty of financially independent folks who continue to work because they want to.
*rumors masquerading as news on other sites, not NYT
No, GTK3 looks like this[1] these days[2], these screenshots use an ancient version.

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/0eLhrAM.png

[2] - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chergert/gnome-builder-web...
Can you describe what you mean by simplistic and old fashioned in more detail?
No, I haven't seen those. I meant their own forums. It sounds like they've been getting a lot of crap somewhere, and their patience seems to have been worn pretty thin.
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My last job gave me a ~2% raise the first year and a ~1% the next. I left shortly thereafter. Should have left after the first lousy raise.

The previous job gave me back-to-back 1% raises. Left that job after two years as well. Should have left at the one year mark.

I've been in my current job a few months. I'll stick around till the first annual raise cycle to see how they treat me. I don't think I'll give this employer a second chance if they screw up the first one (Hint: if your raise doesn't at least cover inflation + offset the costs associated with your annual medical benefits cuts -- I consider it a pay cut, and I'm not going to be happy. In fact, getting a "Congratulations on your (1%) annual raise" email from corporate HR is probably not going to get the reaction you were anticipating).

I actually had one employer that gave me an 8% raise at the two-year mark. So they got another year out of me (until the mass layoffs came).
When someone says "Europe" in the context of the EU, I thought it would be obvious that they are referring to the member states. How would the EU prevent non-members from wars? That does not make sense.

The UK was never really committed to the EU and yet it got special treatment time and time again. I say this as an EU outsider.

The "common people" usually want all upsides with no downsides. No one can deliver that, buy the populist politicians depend on it and promise people the moon (see "closed borders and common market"). Good luck with the Tories and IndyRef 2.
> In 1760, the lowest 65 percent received about 29 percent of total income in Britain; in 1860, their share was down only four percentage points to 25 percent. So the lowest 65 percent were substantially better off, with an increase in average real income of more than 70 percent. [1]

Despite what Dickens may have written, the period was marked by faster gains for the lower classes than the previous century. And perhaps in part due to what he's written, we now have a social safety net -- I'll admit the quality of this system could be improved. What concerns me is making broad, major social changes in anticipation of a completely speculative (and very specific) view of the future.

I'd be curious about your answer to this: If conditions for the bottom third improve -- instead of falter -- as this trend develops, does that change your policy recommendations (about presumably, UBI)?

[1] http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandth...
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Based on what you say here, why not have the user create a Nylas Mail account for advanced features once they decide to upgrade? That would make it so that users (that only use the Basic version) can have a privacy-safe email client, if it doesn't even talk to your servers in the first place.
There's s story about Bill Clinton's early years that is similar. He became governor at 32 and had ambitious plans, increasing the gas tax to fix the roads was one of them. The tax passed and subsequently Clinton lost re-election.
He was stung at his loss since he was a fairly popular governor despite the gas tax hike. A few years later he decided to run again and went all over the state to talk to voters.
In one small town he came across a man and introduced himself. The man said "I know who you are, you're the sumbitch that raised the gas tax!" Clinton replied "I guess I can't count on your vote then."
The man said "Oh, I'll still vote for you." Shocked, Clinton asked why?
The man grinned and said, "Cause I know you'll never do that again!"
Thanks, you obviously know your stuff.

I wonder if with AI advances though, we can have robots that are 'damned good' pilots that can also spot things.

(The judgements would need to be made back on Earth though, admittedly, with speed of light lag as an annoying factor.)
To comment on the use case of faster than T+3 settlements using the block chain. You have to keep in mind many of these instruments trade monthly at best.
Snapchat is being extremely secretive about its I.P.O
I think the key point is it's not either/or. The post I linked was saying that you can use a functional ARCHITECTURE (immutable data, explicit dependencies like monads) inside an OO language.

Hadoop is written in an OO language -- Java. But it has a functional architecture (MapReduce).

So really the two camps aren't that far apart. They both have something to bring to the table.

Opponents of OOP are thinking of all the spaghetti imperative code with globals dressed up as classes, which people have realized is a mistake, but there's still hundreds of millions of lines of code out there like that. And there are tons of "frameworks" which actually FORCE you to write in that style.

But yeah there is no real contradiction that I see. Thinking that you can write a for loop to update a hash table is as big a mistake as writing spaghetti objects.
You announced your project with tons of fanfare but no Windows client. I realize MacOS is very popular amongst developers, but Windows has a 91% desktop OS marketshare.

From a broad marketing perspective, you should have waited until the Windows client was available. When you finally release it in a week or a month, will you get another frontpage Hackernews post? Probably not.
I really like this advice...I don't think I've ever seen the benefit of specialization to the generalist worded so succinctly.
> and it's so non-native on macOS that you have to run an X server just to see it.

Gtk has been ported to macOS in 2007. You don't need an X server anymore :)
you're right, its hard to know. that's why I linked an example of a reasonably good empirical study examining editorial bias in a NYTimes article.

criticism of this kind is important in revealing those kinds of flaws. in many instances its not actually the journalist doing this, but the editors. NYTimes, for example, has recently begun the practice of making undocumented changes to online articles _after_ initial publication.

here is a recent example of that practice:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-t...

and the times public editor's response to the controversy

https://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/new-york-t...

so why am I pointing this out? is it to undermine faith? I find it shocking that you would have any faith left at all. What is there to even be undermined?

in other words, who is responsible for convincing you what is true and what isn't? if you take things on faith you are demonstrating an attitude that you are ambivalent about the truth. that attitude displays a preference to have certainty in your dogma and to not be challenged about the trustworthiness of the sources of that dogma.
I installed it from here: https://github.com/nylas/N1/releases

Seems to work just fine with a "basic" account.
That assumption is just that.
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went negative pretty fast here! must be big demand for a package that helps you be massively wrong almost all the time as long as it reinforces your political religion.
Gödel's arithmetization of logic is one hell of a beautiful mathematical idea, up there with linear algebra or probability theory. One of its big selling points for me was how easily it solves the unexpected hanging paradox. (The simplest arithmetization of the judge's self-referential statement is a statement about numbers that can be shown to be self-contradictory.) It's also cool how it turns Russell's paradox into Gödel's theorem, Curry's paradox into Löb's theorem, etc. The connections to algorithms and computability theory are also neat (Gödel's idea of "effectively axiomatized system" is any computer program that can print sentences, which has just the right amount of generality and connects to the halting problem in the obvious way). To me arithmetization is simply the right approach to logic, which easily subsumes everything that makes sense and rejects everything that doesn't.
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> The report, Mr. Leonhardt said, was written for The Times newsroom, but it could end up providing guidance for other news organizations facing similar challenges. The company is also releasing the report publicly.

This is so non business like (and the way things seem to be in today's day and age). You take your hard work and give it away for free to your competition. Now you could argue that if others do the same it's good for you in some way (more people who buy print papers means more business for all print papers) but for some reason I don't think that's the case.

Remembering all of the free publicity that newspapers gave the Internet back in the mid 90's and further down. Not realizing exactly how that would impact their business model and not seeing it as a threat in any way.
they would risk competitor using 1/4 memory, loading instantly, and with zero UI latency(load 40 tabs in anything Chromelike and then try fullscreening YT video- takes almost one second).
That's still validation from the outside, from which one will never receive the clearest, most honest review, though I admit it can be helpful on the journey. The highest clarity comes from within, which is what all paths of truth teach (and in fact, what self-help books are often based on, inspired by, or try -- and sometimes succeed at -- teaching)
Good luck. With cloud/distributed computing, I am not sure they can even do that now!
Is this image from before or after selecting "Load Remote Images", assuming Nylas has such a feature? Also, what is the default configuration? To load remote content, or to not?
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Absolutely. A brief story on tech debt from the top:

One of the more frustrating things I've experienced is when I got push-back for implementing more project management process (we have a very light process, but when I took over it was sticky-notes-on-the-desk level). The complaint was "we can't slow down development to do more process". Very through-the-looking-glass, as I, the Engineer, was arguing for more management process and Leadership wanted less.

But of course, accurate estimates were needed, just, you know, without making measurements. I implemented some process anyway. We actually increased development speed from less churn and lowered communicated (consult docs before breaking someone's flow), improved estimates, and we've been able to better contain our tech debt.
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> I can not imagine any jobs that an average, unskilled human can do, that a machine won't soon be able to do.

Whenever I hear statements like this, I cannot help but think that the person making the statement has never done a week of work as "unskilled labour" themselves. (No offense intended.) Be it flipping burgers or building houses, there is improvisation both when it comes to high-level intelligence and in the ranges of motion the human limbs go through that make robots a complete non-starter.

Adding to that, a cheap robot arm that can lift as much as a four-year-old is $20k purchase price, plus another $20k for the controller/AI system, and probably $2k-$3k a year in maintenance. Figure four year depreciation when run 8 hours each day, you're looking at a yearly cost of $12k. That's compared to ~$15k for someone working full time on minimum wage. Take into account the huge process of switching your business over to robots, and it just doesn't look good.

Also, we don't need AI to take a customers order, you just need a touchscreen, or even just an app. The tech has been here for more than a decade. Why don't restaurants do this?
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The challenge there is to build up the infrastructure to do so. Real news gathering takes staff in offices around the world, relationships with residents and officials, etc. etc. Otherwise, all you end up being is an AP feed.
"These days, everything is in flux, and life expectancies in the United States actually decreased in 2015"

Indeed. Which is why my last comment clearly states that I also think that the path that brought us a lot of success might not work anymore.

But there is plenty of empirical evidence of that nationalism and isolationism increases chances for violent conflicts in between countries (informative book about it, you might know it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...). If people ignore this fact (and history) and happily walk down a road which increases the chances for bad outcomes for everyone, how can one not call it "short sighted backwards thinking"? Hating the label does not mean it is wrong.

That being said, it gets obvious that your response is not to me specifically but rather to who you think I represent. Which is why you mention "racist" which is really not what I am talking about here. You are apparently quite fed up and you probably have your reasons. It's my failure then that you got the impression that I belong to the "opposite" group. I don't, I try to not see things black and white. But I don't see the same from you.
Excuse my ignorance, can you tell me an example of a what kind of API would someone sell and someone else buy and why? I just don't understand what is the business model here. Thanks.
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> If you like Clojure, but are unhappy with the start-up time, or if you want something outside of the JVM ecosystem, then Pixie may be for you

YES! :D
The big use case for this would be for workplace use, not for social / community use. In that case, since it's the company's account system (whether it's actual SSO, or just access to the email account where password resets go) that authoritatively identifies users, it's reasonable for the company's IT department to have a way to issue replacement keys that can also decrypt the data.

Encrypting data client-side doesn't make it difficult to share information between other users of the same system: all you do at the protocol level is send them a message with the data, or perhaps with a key for decrypting a stored file. It's really just a matter of UI to make it smooth. If anything, it makes it slightly easier because you can use any transport mechanism you like for sending the ciphertext; you're no longer obligated to route everything through HTTPS connections to a single server. So, for instance, you can throw encrypted uploaded files in an S3 bucket, and maintain availability for existing data even if the service provider is having an outage, because users can access and decrypt that data using their client.

It does make it more difficult to share it outside the system (to people without accounts) without storing it decrypted.
I'd argue even that even in cases of "clear cut" pilot error, the goal is to learn and prevent it.

For example, the first fatal 747 crash, the Lufthansa coming down upon departure from Nairobi, happened almost certainly because the flight crew did not extend the leading edge flaps. Clear case of pilot error. If that response had been it, it would have happened again (in fact, it did happen at least twice before, but at lower altitude airports where the aircraft performance was enough for the crew to depart without accident).

Instead, it was acknowledged that the whole system could be improved, and Boeing put in a take-off configuration warning.

Similarly, AF 347 over the Atlantic - sure, you can argue that the pilot in the right seat should not have pushed the stick forward, and that it was entirely his fault, case closed. But maybe one can, instead, improve the whole system, the HCI, etc.

Edit: typo
Would poorer people have access to non-fake news? Or would they be force to read/consume fake-but-free news?
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Might want to make use of CSS sprites.