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>Linux is for some reason expected to behave perfectly, while Windows routinely screws with audio, borks updates etc. and nobody calls it unusable on the desktop or similar, another thing - most of these kinds of posters just refuse to read or understand the Linux way of doing things and try to apply their Windows mentality to Linux and if it doesn't work the same way, complain.

I mean... generalizing people who use Windows in such an unflattering light certainly doesn't help anyone (or thier views of the Linux community). When any user complains about Windows they usually get an "amen", but suddenly when a Windows user has a problem with Linux it's because "they're trying to apply their Windows mentality"? So when people complain about how cmd.exe sucks, should I tell them "Shed your Linux mentality and use the GUI" instead of pointing out Powershell and WSL?

Windows and Linux have their warts. I don't think anyone holds Linux to any unreasonable standard compared to Windows (I mean we're at a stage where people are still impressed when a stock Ubuntu install supports all their hardware because it wasn't that long ago that was something taken for granted).

I generally don't try to treat Linux as primarily a desktop OS because it doesn't do that as well (for me) as it does as an OS running in embedded settings and servers, and I generally think that's ok, it doesn't have to excel at everything.
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Not having used any of their laptops, I can't really comment, but I HAVE sworn off Razer mice and keyboards....plastic pieces of crap...
> There is no reason to believe they are a current threat.

Saudi-Arabian nationals provide the ideological standing that IS leaders use, and Saudi-Arabian money financed the rise of IS. And I believe that there's a large number of SA-origin IS fighters, but can't remember where I read that, so take it with a grain of salt.
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To be fair I've experienced the same thing with both city buses and taxis.. :)
(Having them not stop because they are full that is.)

Minus the chickens of course..

Like buses, you just wait for the next one.
So yes, it's a trade-off. Doesn't replace taxis. But it's damn nice when buses aren't readily available, and way more friendly.
We'll have to figure out something that combats cognitive dissonance. Ideally, it would be an AI which double binds them when they say stupid shit.
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Engineering Manager at Dropbox here. Sorry for the confusion! This is an error on that page, presumably some miscommunication between groups at Dropbox. 2FA continues to be an available feature for all Dropbox users. The only difference between plans is that team plans allow administrators to require 2FA for all members of the team. That page will get updated soon to explain that feature properly.

See https://www.dropbox.com/help/363 for more information.
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One of the benefits of getting more expensive tech peripherals, especially in the Mac world is that there is a ton of resale value.

If one upgrades their mac with every new release, it usually ends up being a 200-500 hit per year depending on market conditions. The more expensive peripherals usually will fetch a decent amount on ebay as well.

So for the average cost of around ~$30/mo, one can basically have the latest mac with the latest peripherals all the time.

Or one could upgrade every 5 years as well...
Terrorism works.
The argument ("not like conservatives are forced to get abortions") is denying that there is a difference of opinion here.

Note that you quickly went from "fetus" to "fertilized egg". After a certain point there are brainwaves (what we use to determine death in difficult cases) and even a response to pain. If that doesn't count, then why not pull the plug on anybody needing life support equipment?

Not every conservative is insisting on personhood for fertilized eggs. For example, Bobby Jindal accepted early termination pills.
I'm curious, is there a source for that? It would be interesting to find out the backstory.
Most of the hate I see on the keyboard is from people who've only spent a few minutes on it. After a few days you get used to it and don't even think twice about it. I've regularly measured my typing speed with my old retina MBP and my new one as well as my DAS keyboard with cherry red switches, and I get about the same speed +/-5 wpm across all of them.

I'm going to rant here for a minute: IMO keyboards are a great example of "bike shedding" and the law of triviality. There are tons of options for layouts, key mechanics/switches, etc and everyone has to use a keyboard, so everyone has their preferences. At the end of the day, the only objective way to compare keyboards is by your max typing speed, but this metric is almost 100% irrelevant. When does anyone ever type at their max speed for any practical purpose? For most people, the worst a keyboard can be is mildly annoying. At best, you'll forget you're even using one. Don't even get me started on people who learn Dvorak for speed or practicality...
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I started a company (actually several companies by now) because I knew that my life literally depended on it. I had a job out of school at a big firm and I absolutely hated it. The idea of getting up at 6:30 am every morning, wasting precious time sitting in rush hour traffic, dealing with people at an office I don't necessarily want to see, much less work with on a daily basis, sitting in a cubicle working on something that just helps get someone else rich, was just terrifying to me. I have a few people in my extended family who have committed suicide and I knew that if I continued on this path I would definitely, 100% be one of those people. I know others can, and some may even enjoy it, but I simply cannot enjoy a life like that. So I started a company and fought like I was going to war to save my own life, and it worked. I worked really hard for about 5 years and now I have enough money that I never have to worry about getting stuck in one of those dead end jobs I feared at the start of my career. So, if you're thinking of starting a company, be ready to go up against some competitors (depending on industry) who will fight you to the death - if corporate life doesn't bother you so much, perhaps you should stay there.
I may have misunderstood your question.

>But black voters didn't turn out to vote for Hillary in support of Mexicans and Muslims. Why should we now help you?

Seemed like the opposite of coming together. My reading of it is; you're accusing black people of being unsupportive of the democratic candidate, and that consequently black people aren't owed the same unity you seem to be arguing for in later comments.
Because they don't know what computers can and can't do, they never realize the wall is there. Computer course for kids and adults always teach how to write a letter and do a mail merge, not how to use a computer.
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Indeed, The Civil Rights Act kinda does -

| ...equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.

IE, a specific group of people in specific set of places. That does not include discrimination against "things people can't control" in any and all establishments.
Ethanol is broken down and eventually fed into the TCA cycle. Some useful byproducts are also made. So, yeah, you get some energy out of ethanol. It's a pretty inefficient way to get energy though.
At the time of this comment: (6 hours after OP)

14 mentions of Trump. 8 mentions of Bush. 2 mentions of Reagan.

vs.

10 wistful mentions of Hillary Clinton being the better choice. 4 mentions of Obama. 1 mention of Bill Clinton expanding ECHELON.

Obama had 8 years building and using it this entire apparatus, after 8 years of Bush putting it into place after 9/11. Trump had been taking it for a test drive over the past 2 weeks.

Can we please rename HN to "Silicon Valley and Democrats Only" so lurkers know what they are getting into?
1. I was genuinely happy that people are doing this. I'm happy because it's good for me (I can run more software in the way I prefer to, without installing it). I never expressed anything emotional icon other than the "smiley face", which does not denote sadness.

2. The items with similar timelines are not comparable. The link to AppFS is a link to working code being written and the other links are to documents regarding a desire to have working code written someday, maybe.

3. It's a good idea, that I did not claim to come up with. It's a refinement of how things were done on UNIX campuses long ago where the was a common NFS-mounted directory with applications installed on it. This is definitely not original out claimed to be do. Then the same model that Sun/Oracle uses for Solaris packages in "ipkg" in Solaris 11 is mixed in with that. The result is something very similar to something old as well called 0install, back when it used LazyFS. Again not original. The thing that AppFS adds beyond just the merging of these ideas is the additional idea that the filesystem should be writable. This is not original exactly either since the same thing is done for ClusterNFS (except per-system changes are preserved instead of per-uid).

Given that I've obviously used all these technologies to achieve similar goals it should be obvious that I don't think AppFS is original -- quite the opposite, I've been using it for decades.

The intent of my post, which you seem to have missed, is to point to something else that does the same thing as this new thing. The reason that I would do this is because the ideas a are old and we can improve upon them by looking at similar implementations. I certainly spent a lot of time with 0install's LazyFS (probably one of the heaviest packages).

As an aside, I found your post condescending in tone. Given that you acknowledged that all your statements were based solely on assumptions for things I did not write, I do not think this was effective in communicating your thoughts over this medium. Overall, I'm not sure what your message would contribute if these assumptions you made were wrong. My guess (assumption) is that you did not consider what your message was if your assumptions were wrong. If my assumption/guess is wrong here, please disregard this section and do note that this message still has content that communicates meaning.
Key example of that Nash point is Rock Paper Scissors. You can't exploit anybody playing 100% random, yet that's the Nash Equilibrium. RPSAI competitions tend to have 100% random players perform quite poorly
This article http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...
says 120000 hands were played over the course of more than two weeks. How much of a factor was sheer boredom?
Seconded. I find Headspace enjoyable and very low on woo.
It seems unlikely that a non-browser app would embed some other engine. I don't think I've ever seen that done on the Mac, for example.
Does that means that API access isn't getting deprecated as well for Individual accounts?

Control-F "API access for data transport”

> Transfer data from your existing solutions with 25,000 included API calls per month. For additional data transport needs, contact our sales team.

Absent for individual accounts.
Personally, I've always wondered if the people who don't want to make cakes for a gay wedding/provide flowers would be willing to subcontract that out to someone else. When you buy a cake you don't generally expect that specific person will be making that cake. This would allow them to not participate while at the same time protecting people from discrimination.
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That's better than nothing, but even if you resort to eGPU solutions you still can't use the current fastest GPUs (GTX1080/Titan XP) with OSX because there's no driver support.
Can you link to some of these comments? I didn't see any. I will dig up one of the old threads shortly to see if I can find any.
Cider was the most common drink.
I am not an authority but did significantly extend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Buddhist_traditions_t... and have studied Buddhist history relatively extensively. I am unaware of any reference to infinite worlds or eternity in very early Buddhist scriptural traditions. As far as I am aware these ideas only arrive through the later schools of Mahayana/Vajrayana and possibly some contributing precursors like Mahāsāṃghika. In those traditions one could argue that certain sutras discussing for example Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin 观音, often depicted as thousand-hand/thousand-eye, from Tibet through China to Japan, Korea and Vietnam) referenced to some extent infinite worlds.

Note that as far as we can tell from scriptural evidence, the historical Buddha answered difficult questions in particular ways, suggesting that debating some questions was a waste of time (relative to the central goal of Buddhism - working to escape suffering and rebirth and achieve englightenment) since no authoritative answer could be meaningfully sought. 'Right speech' is a central pillar of Buddhism's noble eightfold path http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html#eightfold, and it means considering all speech and only speaking when it contributes to your path to enlightenment and/or alleviating suffering in others through sharing the dhamma. He also questions the motivation behind those asking answerless questions. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html#questions

He specifically dealt with the question of world-origin in the Acintita Sutta: "Conjecture about [the origin, etc., of] the world is an unconjecturable that is not to be conjectured about, that would bring madness & vexation to anyone who conjectured about it." http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.077.tha...

As far as Chinese philosophy goes, if you have access to paywalled academic articles http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6253.... looks to be a good recent review of the emergence of various concepts of the infinite. Less authoritatively, Daoism included direct reference to concepts of the infinite in its key texts (circa 600BCE) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuji_(philosophy) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_(philosophy) These concepts were expanded upon by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Names however most of their work is lost. They were an interesting early school of formal logic based to some extent on a sort of primitive set theory, classification, categorization, and the discovery of formal systems proving statements in informal language anomalous: "a white horse is not a horse", "a dog is not a hound", etc. where the ontological coherence of the statement is based upon disparate formal interpretations of accepted informal senses of the verb to be. (Not enhanced in clarity by the need for translation)
Freezing things wasn't that easy either until recently.
not true, checkout codepush from microsoft which enables OTA updates for cordova, react native, etc.
> Yes, it's a libertarian pipe dream.

Yes, yes it is.

> No, I don't want to hear about how "poor people will not be educated" by such a system.

Libertarianism summarized: have you ever tried hating poor people... on weeeeeed?
> I know F5 to refresh, but never used it on my Mac since the media keys were set to be the default and were more useful to me anyway.

Probably a good thing, since F5 to refresh is a Windows thing and does nothing on the Mac.
Thanks, that's a great HN post! Very inspirational too. Better keep lifting those weights and doing those rides. :)

(Also I agree with his statement that 20 years of experience could very well be one year repeated twenty times; very true.)
Does the red or the blue half of California grow the food? I suspect the red does.
I've experienced a lower level of this too. They want a quote even though the price is right there on the website. They ask for the "sales team" (uh, hi). After weeks of silence, they send you a purchase order, want an invoice, don't pay their invoice for a month, and finally pay by international wire transfer or once even by mailing a cheque! Sometimes they can't buy it themselves and have to ask their preferred reseller to set up a reseller agreement with my company which is "just buy it like any other customer".

I can understand big companies need a formal process though to protect themselves from potentially expensive mistakes when they have so many employees and are such an big mark for con-men.
That's largely a false narrative.
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I am sure everyone has heard of or been to the fast food restaurant McDonalds. This company’s signature logo of the golden arches can be seen around the world. I am going to post about one negative experience I had at my local McDonalds. I will begin by saying this is not always a bad fast food restaurant, I have had many good experiences here; however, I will share my moment of misery in this post. Now lets get to the point, I was driving through the McDonalds drive through and had ordered a burger with fries and a drink. I got my burger and drink, but had to wait a few minutes for new fries. I thought I got lucky getting fresh fries! But when the worker went to hand me my fries, it hit the ledge of the window and fell on the ground outside. Instead of saying sorry and getting me a different order of fries, she dangles out the window, says a few cuss words, grabs the fries and handed them to me. Although the container was in a paper bag and most likely did not actually touch the ground, I was appalled that she handed it to me and expected me to drive off. This moment of misery was not enough for me to stop going to McDonalds, but I will always think of that when I drive through the convenient fast food restaurant McDonalds.
In case you're wondering what the flecks are, apparently it's cosmic radiation and waves hitting the sensor (you have only to read the description to find out but not everyone does). At first I thought there were millions of little features in the rings!
A bit like saying that WWI started because of a sandwich, I guess. Archduke Ferdinand's assassin mistimed the original location, and stopped for lunch. As he was eating, Ferdinand passed by. If not for that sandwich "WWI would not have happened" (but of course it would have - something else would have sparked it, or the Archduke would have been assassinated later on)
How about we try not to shame liberals? This is a community and we should all be respectful of each other. Don't take comments of a president current or past so personally.
Not sure if the doc here is refreshing or scary. But Godspeed GitLab team. I've loved the product for about two years now, so curious to see how this plays out.
Huh, I've had no troubles with HP AIOs running Debian Jessie, touchscreen works, so do the capacitive buttons controlling screen brightness/volume, and dual monitor works fine on everything (VGA, DVI, HDMI) except displayport.
So, according to your argument, it should be ok to denny someone service based on their religion as well.
Lucky you didn't go blind
What people are feeling as "framework churn" is probably more like framework uncertainty.
Thanks for your kind words! Yes, thegrid guys are really good at advertising, they had a very successful kickstarter campaign, but they failed to deliver an actual product. See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10140724

Huula focuses more on the technology and we really want to build something that's intelligent and amazing. CSSRooster is just our first step, there are certainly a lot of technical challenges to be solved, but I believe we'll have something soon, stay tuned.
Here you go, not a popular app, but recent https://github.com/birkir/kvikmyndr-app/

React native with Firebase as realtime backend. Also has code push for OTA updates, mobx for state management, etc.
> The Conservatives won through white identity politics, hateful rhetoric, and propaganda news produced by Bannon who now holds various key government positions. This is the pot calling the kettle black (at best).

Which only exists because the left has been playing identity politics for so long and has lately been demonizing being white.
> If so, it's disturbing that I had to do this challenge in order to get them to read my resume.

I'd read that more like "after considering all data points...". I'm sure they read your resume beforehand. Maybe the discussion on their hiring team was "Well, if he pulls out some magic in the coding challenge..."

You never know. It's not helpful to be angry about it, although it's natural and understandable. It's not even necessarily your fault. Maybe they just found someone that would slot into the position easier, just because of differences in their experience, education, or personality.
Are 'YP' the initials of an employee or is this an acronym I don't know?
I have a pretty good idea for an app that I'd like to make and I'd like to apply. However after reading through the article it seems as if the deadline has already passed?? Would I be applying for Spring 2017?
Also, any advice on what constitutes a strong application (in other words: I don't yet have a working product, can I still apply? )
Where Republicans are the diversity hire.
It's not just about money. Even if parents can afford to have one of them be stay at home, neither parent might want to be the one staying at home.

Being a stay at higher parent is an incredibly difficult, stressful and under appreciated job so to many well educated couples, it's not appealing at all.
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The WiFi thing sounds like it could be a hardware fault - take it in to the genius bar and they'll fix/replace the machine. Hell, from my experience with Apple support they'd almost replace the machine just because of the shift key if you're polite enough.

When my 2011 MacBook Pro (the one with the faulty graphics card that would eventually die) was in for service, before the replacement program, they called me and said "Oh, we noticed that your trackpad button felt a little weird, so we're replacing it, free of charge". This was on top of replacing the logic board for free as well, even though at that point the replacement program hadn't been announced yet. The next time the graphics chip failed they just ended up replacing the laptop with a brand new 2015 model for free (top of the line model too, which was nice).
They've released a doc of the recovery effort: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCx...

This is the best communicated outage that I can remember seeing.
You can aim at other models that aren't trying to improve the 18-year batch model. The great stratification that happens at the end of that, where you're either raised to the great meritocracy in the sky or cast into the abyss, would probably still be unconscionable if it were done fairly, and it's not.

So focus on the parts that happen once you're an adult. MOOCs aren't a panacea but you don't have to miss a class because your shift moved. If the objection is they aren't taken seriously by employers, my objection is that's still playing the old prestige and rank game, and there is always going to be someone at the bottom of that anyway. So make them useful to themselves if employers don't want them.

(I believe fixing childhood poverty involves the US Government doing things it's not going to do soon, and that private business isn't going to do it. We must cultivate our garden.)