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In the 1990s I used FrameMaker. It's still around, now owned by Adobe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FrameMaker
Sorry, you are taking me too literally there. This is just a screenshot.
Except you never really got any of the stock if you left within 8 months, right? Couldn't hold out for 4 months more to get all your vesting? You probably also had to return your signing bonus, right? (I'm at fb in new york btw. Also this still seems pretty high to me, 315k total for an E4. 150k base is the higher end of E4, so how many RSUs did you get?)
> Premature panic, perhaps.

I would say pointless panic. The paper itself makes the point that if there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe that is capable of coming here to Earth, it is going to be millions of years (or more) ahead of us technologically. That means we would be at the mercy of such beings if they came here. But it also means we have already betrayed our presence to them, whether we make SETI broadcasts or not; we have been broadcasting radio and TV signals that, to such a species, will clearly indicate intelligent origin for about a century now. So the instant such a species comes within 100 light years of Earth, it will know we are here. There is nothing we can do about that, and draconian restrictions on further broadcasts will not change it.
One thing to think about is the cost of exploits. [1]

It could be the case that iPhone users are more high value targets. IMHO It's more likely iPhone exploits are just harder to come by. (not impossible, just tougher)

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/1-5-million-bounty-...
> What are the chances of an agent being hired and then promoted to have access to an SCI file you're interested in?

I think the chances are higher if you expand the realm of interest to industrial espionage.
Income inequality, labor arbitrage, job loss to industrial automation, exponential increases in the surveillance state, healthcare cost increases, this list could go on indefinitely. Scientists and engineers intentions are largely moot as long as their inventions and innovations are consistently used to further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a vanishingly small minority of the world population.
The facts you cite are irrefutably true. However, I'd question the notion that technological progress is synonymous with social/human progress. Although technological progress might make human progress easier, it doesn't guarantee it (IMHO).

I suppose it comes down to how one defines 'human progress'. For me, the more relevant issue is how humans interact with each other (mostly at the non-individual level). I mean, we've mostly gotten past hanging out in small tribes, killing members of other small tribes in order to take their stuff. Arguably, we've made progress. But it's not entirely clear to me whether we've fundamentally changed our nature, or if the tribes have just gotten bigger.

So although I'd agree that technological progress plays a role, I think it's an indirect one. Technology makes resources more plentiful. In turn, this makes it easier to get by without having to murder anyone. But it's no guarantee that we won't. Indeed, we seem to be at our most inventive when some other tribe is trying to kill us and we're trying to do the same right back (i.e. during times of war)...
Has anyone ever used QR codes on the business cards or store doors? It seems like a waste of space, you need to have a special app on your phone to read it. I think most people don't use that.
The speed of light is ultimate. Nothing travels faster than light. Furthermore it is not arbitrary but emerges from the geometry of space time. Talking about a limit above it doesn't really make physical sense.
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I don't understand that point; how are they going to engineer it so that it's impossible to target the menubar via CSS?
> Is there no "speed limit" (that we know of) above the speed of light?

No. But as far as we know, the speed of light is an absolute speed limit.
The bidding process seems like something that could be brimming with discrimination.

For example, if you didn't go to a top tier school you could be hired on only to find out that a single team wants you. It's in bumfuck nowhere 2000 miles away and its primary purpose is to program the road sign outside google HQ.

It could lead to very different googles for different people, and makes me wonder if applying to work there would really be worthwhile for someone like me.
Premises (singular) is a location. He was on the premises.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20premises

Premise (singular) is a presupposition. The premise is that we can get this done in 3 weeks.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/premise

I agree, it sounds weird. I'd avoid it all together and use on-site.

Edit to add: or, as uncle-comment (?) pointed out with the Wikipedia article, on-premises software is a thing. On-prem might be a good compromise, depending on your penchant for shortening like that.
See the below forums for providers. A simple search on WHT (Web Hosting Talk) of the company name will yield you some reviews that you can use to base your purchasing decision on. If a company has no reviews, well, sink or swim.

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http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=159

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I think it might have been easier starting with the `standalone` document class vs `article`, then you don't have to spend so much time on set-up. You just have to make sure the tikz pictures are the right size, and standalone will put each picture on a new page.
Being a spymaster sounds far more fun and interesting than being a spy.
I assume GitHub's late UI designer.
They even have their own Bootstrap equivalent, primer [0], it's just a shame that it's not quite as mature. I can't remember what it was, but last time I checked it out, there were some pretty glaring omissions.

[0] http://primercss.io/
I checked HN for deaths, github / blog for SOPA style protest, even reddit. I then assumed that there must have been a bug or my browser has cached CSS with any error.
People aren't lacking savings because economic policies prevent it, they lack savings because they're poor and don't have excess income to save. They use all of their income simply to survive. So no, lack of savings is not the problem, it's merely a side effect of the problem which is the dwindling value of labor in an ever more automated world. So yes, imho you are missing the point, terribly.

And no this isn't a no true Scottsman thing, the entire point of BI is that everyone gets it to avoid the need to administer the program with qualification red tape. Yes there would be some initial fighting about how to implement BI with regards to kids and what incentives that creates, that doesn't mean it'll be endlessly politicized nor does it make the whole policy fertile ground for politics. Fertile ground for that is what we have now, with endless programs and rules about who qualifies and who doesn't and BI would vastly simplify that system while also addressing the long term social problem of the coming end of wage labor. Nothing you've said addresses the problem at all.
https://github.com/mdo has been at GitHub and working on Bootstrap probably longer at this point than while he was at Twitter. My impression is that he's also among the leads of this design evolution. He and whoever else is on this team have spent many hours thinking about this as their primary source of income. Why not just see where they take it?
Yes. I just wrote a guidebook with it. It's not that great if you want to do a full-color glossy thing, but the results are way better than using something like Word.
I think this need not be the case. When creating this, I wanted it to look good and the way I wanted it. Not make it scream "LaTeX".

For a CV, Computer Modern might be more apt since there's also more text on it. But again, why make it scream LaTeX if one can do it more subtle and make it more personal at the same time?

Do note that I have a LaTeX PDF style CV as well, but it's not linked in the article (nor available online).
Yet I remember choosing a data structure too hastily and that killing a project a couple months later. By the time the error was realized, there wasn't time to reboot, project dead. You want a minimal viable product and both words create very difficult judgement calls.
Don't give up the day job.
They're not saying it will be impossible; they're saying it won't be a simple as removing the class.
We complain about today's management class, but in the '80s scumbaggery and general thievery really were at Far-West levels.

The Amiga was a fabulous game machine and a great computer.
Given that *BSDs also have many of their own extensions, (ie openbsd has many security extensions to the POSIX standard), that isn't the best example of a defense.
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It might put off not just Google, but also other companies using Java.
Whatever brings the most attention to the axle mounts.
Page and Brin have repetitively again and again compromised their stated moral positions in pursuit of money. They are billionaires that put thousands of smaller businesses out of business on a regular basis. The company they operate has paid off a large number of government officials to protect them from prosecution, and they have a level of power and influence that rivals oil companies.

If you were trying to show altruistic examples of scientists and engineers, you fell very far astray.
Fedora 25: Wayland vs. Xorg
Please stop throwing around Gates as an example of "working for humankind". His charitable work begun only very recently. Before that, he was a cold and ruthless money making machine.
Awesome, they have Taxman and Super Taxman, I can play the maze I drew up again!
Yeah, menu-based chatbots are the closest they can get to third-party executable code in an iPhone app, and therefore the only way they can approach being a browser-like platform.
You called $250/month affordable, which is almost an entire week's salary full-time on the federal minimum wage. 20% of your wage for a poor person is not 'affordable'. There are 45M people poor enough to be on food stamps in the US - the average monthly net income of these people is $335[0].

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-03/food-stam...
Clicking the About button I see:

"All content created with Ellie is released in the public domain (CC0)."

Are they claiming that any program written with Ellie is in the public domain?

(edit) I've emailed to ask their intent. I'll post an update if I get a reply.
> The fair use defense is not meant for multi-billion dollar multinational corporations that tried to shirk licensing by violating copyrights.

Just because a giant company wants to be paid, and another giant company could afford to pay them, doesn't mean the bill was justified. Huge companies get access to fair use too. It's the flip side of the fact that noncommercial uses are capable of infringing.
This can start at the top. If you're in a company that exists because the founder is a great actor and was able to bullshit, social engineer and gladhand a hapless angel or VC into funding them; then they'll likely hire similar shiny people for other management positions below them, too. Chances of success: poor.
On Facebook I use their 'saved' feature so I save anything I see that I find interesting before moving away. I totally understand though as I have this problem with Instagram.
A point, but if nobody thinks about them, you'll never know.
Brown as well. You really can't talk about the slave trade in colonial RI w/o mentioning John & Nick Brown.

Of course, the brand names of these colleges are too valuable to dump.
I don't know if the reason is sound, just as IDK if the "religious" or "cosmetic" are sound. I just know that it's a reason.
He set up his foundation 20 years ago. Still too recent?
If you remove the class right now the header reverts to how it was. This is what these extensions are doing right now, simply removing a class.

I'm saying that Github is going to apply the dark styles by default soon (without the modifier class) and the only way to revert the header will be to rewrite the old styles.
LucasArts made some great games, but had they really done anything near the end that wasn't just another Star Wars game using someone else's engine?
More people have chrome than greasemonkey / stylish.
The US border patrol cannot force you to give up your password.

But other countries (including Canada) can.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/guilty-plea-ends-ca...
maybe I'm missing something, but there's a lot here that don't sound right...

"When you employ trunk-based development in a single huge repo, you have only one version of everything. That’s kind of obvious. It’s still good to point it out here, though, because it means that — at Google — you can’t have app FooBar that’s using AngularDart 2.2.1 and another app BarFoo that’s on 2.3.0. Both apps must be on the same version — the latest one."

I don't see how sharing the same repo implies everything uses the exact same dependencies. Why can't apps share the same repository and specify their own dependency versions?

"What if AngularDart needs to make a major breaking change (say, going from 2.x to 3.0) and that change breaks 74 thousand tests? Will the team go and fix all of them? Will they make changes to thousands of source files, most of which they haven’t authored?
Yes."

This just doesn't sound reasonable. I could see forcing framework devs to fix mission-critical stuff on some google's biggest projects, but every single one? Hundreds/thousands of projects?

"One of the cool things about having a sound type system is that your tooling can be much more useful. In sound Dart, tools can be sure that a variable is of a certain type, for example. For refactoring, that means that many changes can be completely automatic, with no need of confirmation from the developer."

I'm sure a good deal of API changes can be fixed with automated refactoring, but plenty can't! How do you automatically go from factory pattern to builder pattern for example.
More importantly, I'm assuming developers don't have all 86TB of the code checked out locally and loaded up in an IDE... So how is this automated refactoring done?
Well, of course, because the terms 'handful,' and 'overly large' are undefined. In the article's case, it refers to 1% causing 9%. Disproportionate, but far from a majority.

Contrast with threads about the '80/20' rule. In those, people start saying something not much different, like:

> I suspect the sentence "80% of <effects> come from 20% of <causes>," is true for all groups.

We'll always have a distribution of a range of behaviours, and we'll always have cognitive bias; these in combination will lead to any number of reasonable 'x of y' rules about populations.
You are confusing memorization, teaching and brainwashing/indoctrination.

They all work by repetition but last one hurts people ability to thing rationally.
255,255,255 is white.

The text is 0.75 white. The header background color is explicitly set with hex.
I'm finishing up a 350+ page family history book that I wrote in LaTeX; I've got two or three more to go, and I wouldn't consider using anything else. It's got its quirks, but it was so easy to work with page formatting, footnotes/endnotes, and sections that it made up for all the fiddly issues I ran into with images. I have also been using the genealogytree[0] package (which relies on TikZ, coincidentally used by OP) to draw diagrams programatically. In addition to satisfying my scripting itch, it looks beautiful despite my unlearned eye for graphic design.

Related: I wrote a resume in LaTeX a few years ago. After an in-person interview, the manager took me to meet the team: When we walked in, they were crowded around a monitor arguing about figure out how I'd made such a cool-looking CV. It probably didn't actually look all that good, but anything that isn't Word stands out nowadays.
I'm not sneering at them. I'm objecting to the categorization of them as a victim being exploited. They're doing useful work and getting paid for it.
The end of the world order as we know it
This should be updated to not just specify the US border. It should say any international border with border control.

In Canada you can be put in prison for 1 year if you don't give up your password at the border.
Someone made a great point about the WSL (Linux) layer in Windows in this thread.
The reason I posted the workaround is because I feel like the publisher is trying to have their cake and eat it too. In other words, they enjoy the publicity they get from having their articles shared on Google, Facebook, Hacker News, but these sites usually don't want to feature articles that require their users to pay, so WSJ sets up a soft paywall that lets some of these users view the article for free.

But of course that becomes a bit of a blurry moral line. If I start browsing Google News in the hopes of stumbling upon a WSJ article so I can read it for free, is that immoral? What about if I google the headline of an article I'm interested in? Automatically setting my referer to facebook.com whenever I visit wsj.com probably goes too far, but then where do you draw the line?

Anyway, I feel very strongly that either everyone from HN should be able to freely read an article shared here, or no one. If no one can read it, then the link shouldn't be allowed here.
People spend a lot of time demonstrating their sexual fitness for reproduction by displays of prowess. It's just what we do. Intellectuals and engineers aren't exceptions, they're often very naive about this tendency and the biological roots of it. I agree there. I've sometimes said that universities are very important because they teach people to meet the irrational demands of cloistered professors in order to succeed; thus preparing them for business. But there are times, you would probably agree, when you have to argue strenuously for engineering problems to be funded for engineering reasons, before they crash the business. Building a bomb because that's what management said they wanted isn't what you're paid for either.
> Their primary product (the Oracle DB engine) is being displaced by the NoSQL and things like Postgres.

Worth noting they own MySQL (via Sun acquisition)
Could be? For anyone outside the boomer generation falling housing prices would be a godsend.

Millennials are starting to get priced out of entire cities, and it's generally the ones with the most jobs available.

It's starting to look like "millennial" will become an insult meaning someone with no job and no money, hilarious given that it applies to an entire generation.
Don't travel to Japan without business cards. It's really awkward when everyone gives you one and asks for one back, as I think exchanging them is an important part of meeting someone there.
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Or considering they became such a large company selling a product that targeted IBM compatible systems. In that case, they were a consumer of what was essentially an API, but one wonders whether Microsoft would be in the position it is in today if IBM had been able to prevent Compaq and other vendors from creating clean-room implementations of what was essentially the IBM PC API.

IBM would have been in a much better position to push OS/2 and supplant Microsoft's OS offerings if it would have had a monopoly on the PC's supporting it's PC interface.
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>some nice guy told me I had to make business cards for the conference

why? are they checking for business cards at the entrance or something?
When I worked government contracting they had broad goals handed down which they must work toward without it being an explicit requirement. One of these goals? Get on top of an open source only stack for security, cost and future interoperability between other groups.

I worked on several projects where they were originally using Oracle or MarkLogic and we transitioned them to Postgres or various other, open source tech.

If the slow moving government is moving various projects away from Oracle, I would be shocked if some businesses weren't doing so as well. Now I don't know if moving away from proprietary is a trend or the more frequent than moving to them.
Sure. Animal Farm - written by Orwell - is the prototypical Orwellian dystopia.
I prefer to use a live version of ubuntu on a flash drive on a laptop with no hard drive in it. A separate sd card, or thumb drive with an entire encrypted file partition. Writing in plain text only.
It's not a "merit test", it's just "these are the ones the artist chose".

Copyright attaches to creative works when they are fixed in tangible form. An exhaustive list of every combination of colors in order is not creative.
I did a reasonably detailed tutorial for setting up your own VPN with Softether

http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/128701492804/softet...
I edit a genre fiction and we do all our layout in XeTeX. I picked it because it's the right tool for the job, and I don't know PageMaker. The colophon calls attention to it because I think it's helpful to tell others how you made something (typefaces, tools, etc.) rather than for nerd cred.

https://www.aliterate.org/aliterate-page47.pdf

The typefaces are Minion and Myriad.
>in fact, they gave him plenty of indications that it was actually a Very Bad Idea (for the reasons that have since come to light: inadequate intelligence, no backup plan, etc).

And then someone told him to nut up or shut up, and here we are.