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I would say that you will return to the fold soon enough.

Firstly, no political speech is made for its truth value. Let us disabuse everyone of this notion.

1) all human beings have a very limited attention short term span which has to be managed and husbanded.

2) full technically and practically faithful statements of a problem easily crush those human neural limits.

3) emotional messaging subverts all rational checks and balances, and has a disproportion impact on the brain, and such messaging can be made to scale.

Given the 3 points above, without a constant third party or legal intervention to prevent abuse, political messaging will always devolve into emotional button pushing.

The people who deal in politics will be so far removed in skill and native talent in this field, that it would be like comparing a newbie high school graduate vs someone who writes and optimizes game engine code.

Simply put, most communication by politicians will be designed to take these considerations,at the minimum, into mind.

these are the functional limits of the world we live in.
'Historically' not owning a TV was really just saying that you don't watch broadcast television and, by extension, that you don't really watch much TV (like The Onion's Area Man [1]).

I agree that this interpretation doesn't make sense anymore. What fascinates me is that many people will still use "I don't own a TV" to mean the same thing. Even more interesting is that more than a few people I know, myself included, will even believe what that statement implies despite it being completely inaccurate.

It wasn't until recently that I realized that not having a TV had absolutely no impact on my consumption of entertainment, and yet somehow it still felt like I was being 'more responsible' by not having one. Nevermind the fact that I'll happily binge on Netflix or watch hours of YouTube, and not just in my living room at broadcast times, but anywhere and at any time where I have 'nothing to do'.

Maybe one day people will brag about having only one dedicated media consumption device at a fixed location in their house!

EDIT: I just realized that another common implication of "I don't own a TV" is that the person is more discerning in their consumption and only watch 'good stuff' (HBO, feature films, etc.). Having spent loads of time watching only the highest quality shows (of which there many nowadays), I can't help but feel that this is also very often just another justification to consume relatively pointless media that just happens to be well-written and expensive. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[1]: http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...
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Right. So the question is, can it be predicted. Im not confident I can, but there may be people that know more than I.
> It is probably a bad idea to allow mixed character-set filenames

As someone who would be affected by this directly, I can tell you right away this rule would be a no-go. I plainly need the ability to mix Latin and Cyrillic characters in my filenames. A filesystem or OS that wouldn't let me do so wouldn't even be considered.

A very simple rule of thumb is, if it is a title of a book (or a song, or a film etc), it should also be a valid filename.
It ensures that a variable is declared in the current scope. That's the easy to explain meaning.

It's inconsistent with other languages which introduce a new scope whenever there are curly braces, but there's nothing inconsistent about the syntax. That's just a matter of taking expectations from other languages and expecting them to work unchanged in JavaScript.
Honestly, I feel like you do a lot of the time about a lot of things: not just games. But I'm trying more to enjoy the act/process of doing something rather than the end goal that I may or may not ever achieve. This is taking that philosophy to the extreme, but when I reach old age I want to be able to say something like "I really saw a lot of the world (real or digital) -- not just superficially -- and I learned and experienced a lot so my time was well-spent", rather than "I didn't see everything so I spent all of that time in vain exploring something I never completed".

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think it's healthier to just enjoy as you go, rather than having to reach some state of completeness before you allow yourself joy. I don't inherently think like that and I think my mood has suffered a lot for it over the years. But I'm definitely trying to move in that direction.
Nice, although I'd call the AssemblyAttribute EmitAssemblyAttribute, as the Assmebly word has its special meaning in the .Net world, and can potentially confusing (not to mention the assembly scoped attributes...)
Interesting. Are those filenames used in contexts where homographs could be more than a minor annoyance?
I can understand wanting payment.

Wanting the employer to spend "equal effort" is silly. Their loss is not necessarily your gain.
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Excellent. Perhaps it's finally time to build a wunderground-consulting sprinkler timer...
As a guy who really thinks *nix is awesome, I welcome new additions, too.
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The big-name manufacturers are now lifestyle brands.

Serious players know that if you want a Strat or Tele, you get a better instrument from G&L or Suhr than from Fender. Gibson's reputation is in tatters after years of poor quality control and dubious design decisions. A group of Marshall's technical staff left the company to form Blackstar Amps after Marshall went public.

Most of the big musical instrument brands are going the way of Chrysler and Chevrolet - they trade on an old brand image, but there's little of the original DNA left. It's clearly working in the short-term, but I suspect that these brands will fade away with the Baby Boomers that have a nostalgic attachment to them.
I'll recommend the hacker solution: first, buy and install your own meter, right after the power company one. It isn't expensive. Have it done by an electrician. I got mine installed in my fuse box, a small 3-phase DIN rail meter (I'm in Poland and pretty much all modern hookups are 3-phase).

This gives you a way to at least compare the official meter readings with an independent source. In my case, it showed no correlation whatsoever, and it turned out that the power company swapped the meter numbers between me and my neighbor.

Second, most meters have LEDs that flash a number of times per kWh consumed. It isn't difficult to build a device that measures the time between those pulses and gives you energy monitoring. I built one and had it running for a while. It's an eye-opening experience, you'd be surprised how much energy some devices consume, and also how significant a constant power draw can be.
Even more hilarious is the sound quality. I tested some Marshall in-ears at a local hifi store a few years back, and compared to less flashy names like Denon or Audio Technica at the same or lower price, they absolutely sucked. I can but surmise that anyone who buys them has not done any A/B testing before purchase.
You make some good points, but with regards to the security of money in the bank, credit card customers in the U.S. are typically not liable for fraudulent transactions. By law liability is limited to $50, and Visa and MasterCard rules make liability effectively zero.
Not in Belgium as far as I know.
Here 3-phase is only installed when people use heavy duty equipment. The only people I know with 3-phase are joiners.
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To follow up, I have received a significant number of emails about this—while it's great to make your acquaintance if you're reading this now unfortunately the position has been filled.
Continuing: Imagine a guitarist wanted to join your band, but they refuse to let you hear them play until they're hired, saying they won't work for free.
It's a somewhat older word that basically means "to gather" or "to collect". A good surviving use of it is in a "marshalling yard", where a series of railway switches get used to sort and organize freight trains.
Such a tragic story! I had never heard of Newcomb Mott. I wonder if Rust knew about him?
Also, copper is pretty expensive. A mesh of cheaper metal should do the job; might even be possible to tune it to the right frequency so you don't block cellphones, but I don't know
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By design. In the candidate pool, there will be some who see the odds as too steep. For others the cost of completing assignments is lower, making the proposition better. Not good, but comparatively better (less bad) than for the former kind. And that's how we know whom to hire.
> unless many companies have yet more or far fewer

Does anyone have a source showing the distribution of patents per employee across e.g. the S&P 500, Russell 2000 and NYSE Composite members?
Just carrying the sickle-cell trait is mostly neutral to highly advantageous depending on where you live, because it confers substantially increased resistance to Malaria.

This is how a trait that is so dangerous when expressed has managed to spread; in regions with endemic malaria, carriers have better survival chances and the difference is sufficient to make up for those who express it and end up dying young.

It is recessive - you need to inherit it from both parents to express it. So it is in fact entirely safe for this man to have children provided he has children with someone who is not a carrier, or ensure appropriate tests are taken during pregnancy.

Most people who carry this trait in developed countries today know about it, because the mechanism is very clear and they will usually know whether or not any of their family expressed the trait, and will have been tested to see if they inherited it. E.g. we had our son tested because his mother is a carrier, but because I am not we knew he could not have sickle cell disease.

My son is a carrier, but all that means is that like the guy in this article, he will want to make sure his partner is tested before having children, and to ensure to decide in advance what to do if both are carriers or if his partner has the disease (such as whether to have an abortion if tests show the child has the disease).

We can expect the number of people with this gene to drop over time because it is now so easy to avoid. But in the meantime a treatment would make a massive difference for those with the disease.
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I'm not sure about that. Many old electric cookers required a 3-phase hookup. Newer ones don't seem to, so perhaps it's on its way out.
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That's a goal post shifting subjective distinction, isn't it?
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Keep in mind that serif typefaces do not always render pleasingly to the eye as they need more pixels to render correctly. These pixels are needed to render the subtle serifs. Monospace and sans typefaces suffer a lot less from this problem.

It is one of the reasons I never advise to use serif fonts for text body. Nowadays, betterresolutions are used more often, but low res displays are still common enough.
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But why not join forces with cosmos-instead of many half done OS we could have one functional? Were there any particular reasons?
That sounds very unlikely. I would love a source for that. How do you hook up a cooker then without combining two phases?
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That's how emacs does it by default. if you want the 'branching model', there's undo-tree-mode.
The elisp functions to go back and forth in history are there, I'm sure it's just a matter of remapping them.
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For couple of years I contributed to Cosmos and fixed some bugs in MOSA. But my design idea was much different from them. So I decided to start with a new project. And seems like it worked!
Real life gattaca would be quite boring. Protagonist would have failed practical aptitude tests or some such.
I was just researching Mathias Rust since he was mentioned in the Cessna 172 article[0] trending on HN right now.

Wikipedia says he stabbed a nurse shortly after his return, but was lacking details. A quick search turned up a couple news articles.[1][2] Notable excerpts include:

"According to police, Rust pulled an 18-year-old student nurse into a hospital changing room and, after locking the door behind them, attempted to kiss her.

When she resisted, she was stabbed twice in the stomach, police said."

He received only two and a half years in prison for that. The woman he stabbed nearly died. What the fuck.

"Mr. Rust had testified that he might have been drugged throughout his captivity in the Soviet Union, where he had been jailed for more than a year after landing a borrowed plane in Red Square in May 1987."

Having just read an article on the U.S.'s psychochemical warfare program[3] in the 1950s and 60s, and considering the Soviets had similar programs, I suppose it's possible he was drugged in a manner that had long-term effects. It'd make sense for the Soviets to render him violent in an attempt to destroy what amounted to a Western folk hero at the time.

That said, he was already out of his mind to attempt penetrating Soviet airspace in a Cessna 172, so an incident involving spontaneous violence isn't exactly surprising.

Either way, I found the whole thing extremely bizarre.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13792309

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/1989-11-24/news/mn-176_1_moscow-...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/20/world/red-square-pilot-con...

[3] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/operation-delir...
ATM need to sign amounts as well,but keep the key in memory.

That's not possible with the model used around here. The card's key never leaves the card, all the crypto is performed inside the card's chip itself.
> Square won’t take on any of the San Francisco startup’s employees

How does this even work? Give us your database keys and get out?
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I work at a small company in a remote part of an openly backward state when it comes to startups, and yet got two hundreds applicants to file a javascrip developer position.

After interviewing 10 (say two three hours spent on each between contacting, scheduling up etc) it was clear every unemployed with 'can use word' as skill boosted their resume and applied.

I'm sorry for the real developers looking for a job but a company can't dump 20 days work on chasing and weeding liers.

I'm not a fan of homeworks myself but this is what it has come to.

I'd be payng but that puts the company and the prospect in a very difficult position them towards tax laws and towards their current employer non competes, the company toward again tax laws and then there's the absurd of paying for contract work delivered that's 99% of times not up to spec.

Beside, the unwillingness to compromise smells itself and given the choice I'd never get a potential troublemaker in that only thinks time=money and screw everything else.

That little empathy for both sided of the problems sure is a red flag.

Edit: well unless it's a contracting job then it's fine.
Or, in a brief video illustration of said "calculus of privilege": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY_FRc__ZVQ
As such things go, the West Antarctic Peninsula calving is not particularly significant in terms of being or enabling large-scale changes in sea level. The shelf is a shelf, that is, it is already floating in the ocean, and its status as solid or liquid doesn't affect net sea levels. The peninsula itself is a long and thin landmass, which contains relatively little ice. Loss of the shelf does not, of itself, create the risk of greatly accellerated large scale icecap loss.

The symbolic and scientific significance are large. This is an exceedingly large ice mass, it may persist for years, possibly decades, in the Southern Ocean. It may pose a threat to shipping (though there's comparatively little through the region), and may have impacts on local biology and ecosystems (habitat loss, habitat gain, habitat change).

The mechanisms of loss, calving, migration, persistence, and of resulting changes to land-based glacial flow, will be fascinating.

But in terms of portending a drastic increase of ice flows local to it, the calving has little impact, as compared to, say, a shelf loss proximate to the primary Antarctic land mass -- the Ross or Weddel shelves, for example, which have behind them a thousand kilometers and more of kilometer-thick ice. That will be an interesting occurrence.

Or the formation and destruction, say, of ice dams, on the Antarctic continent or Greenland, creating meltwater pools, perhaps hundreds of kilometers in extent, and suddenly releasing those, as the dams erode, into the oceans. Similar mechanisms created a badlands landscape in eastern Washington State as the prehistoric Lake Missoula formed and drained, perhaps dozens of times, releasing cubic kilometers of water in massive scours. A similar mechanism, probably in Canada, triggered a catastrophic sea-level rise, measured as I recall in meters, over the course of days to a month.

That would also make for an interesting news cycle.

Contextualisation of these types of events in the press is exceedingly poor, with a small handsful of exceptions. I've already mentioned Brad Plumer's Vox coverage in this thread, he's among the exceptions.
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Apple does give bonuses for patents, but they are of a mostly symbolic size.
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Noted, though "normal" and "major" are somewhat semantic.

The main spillway is the mechanism by which, when needed on a normal basis, major discharges can be accomplished. That is: its design intent is to accommodate such flows, without failure of itself or incapacitating damage. To that extent, the spillway damage was a massive management failure.

The emergency spillway, as I've only learnt reading up on this story within the past day, was designed as a "use once" capability. It isn't designed for repeated usage, requires massive reconstruction after such uses, and (in conjunction with the parking lot), provides the basis for a "soft failure" of the dam as a whole, as opposed to the prospect of the entire dam face collapsing.

The Auburn Coffer Dam engineered failure has been mentioned (though not linked -- it's easy enough to find on YouTube) elsewhere in this thread. That was a 1986 event during an extreme rain event. The dam, also an earthen structure, was designed with an intentionally soft "plug", that could and would erode before the main dam face, but in a slow fashion, such that the dam would fail over the course of hours, rather than minutes.

The rate of occurrence of things matters, and a factor of 60 or so (as above) is tremendous. As a comparison, you're in a car moving at 100 kph, and are later moving at 0 kph. How do you feel?

If the interval is 20s, probably pretty good. If it's 0.02s, likely not so hot.

That's a rate difference of 1,000 fold. Something to keep in mind in the context of other stories, such as, say, the fact that climate is change at a rate of roughly 1,000,000x faster than normal, presently.

A point Tucker Carlson apparently cannot grasp, given a recent appearance of Bill Nye on his programme.
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It would be in consumers' best interest to be able to access meter readings with at least hourly granularity, just like wireless carriers provide call logs with up-to-the-minute accuracy.

This way one can detect anomalies in resource usage based on raw data, unless the error is constant.
Well, I know it has been done several times before, but it's not common.

A recent example is that some apps support this using the Surface Dial: https://youtu.be/8BJisE80wAc?t=116

Whether it's mapped to a two-finger slide, a scroll wheel, a dial, etc isn't the important part. The novel-feeling part is that as computers get faster and people improve at engineering performant software we can have the software provide results in realtime to analog inputs which makes people feel connected to the software in exciting ways.

A basic example would be a virtual DJ type app that lets you slide across an on-screen LP to scratch forward/backward. Obviously something more visually or conceptually impressive as seen in games which support time rewinding would be closer to the spirit of the post.

I would certainly like to encourage more developers to make use of scrolling/sliding input in unique ways.
In this thread a bunch of weirdos from San Francisco decide that your children don't really need computers. Only the elite priesthood that consists of them is eligible.

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Ask HN: Founder liquidity options after leaving company?
Hey HN, I wanted to see if perhaps this community would be able to help me get some clarity on how to think about the next few years of my life with respect to my company.

I've been working at the startup I founded for about five years and we're doing fairly well: revenue keeps going up, the teams's growing, raising further rounds shouldn't be too hard if necessary, not a unicorn but the metrics for our age are great. I'm however tired of the job itself, the crazy hours, the people and the location. I'd love to be able to go do something else with my life before I'm much older.

Truth is I could be with the company for the next 10-20 years, but I'm already not particularly passionate about the mission, the industry, or the job itself. I'm pretty darn good at it, and if I stayed I'd keep getting the company to bigger milestones, but I'd rather do something else. If I were to leave, I believe the company is at this point large enough and diversified enough that it would do just fine without me.

What options do I have in terms of trading my fully vested equity for the FU money pot of gold? At the end of the day I'd be happy to live a very modest life somewhere boring and have 100% ownership of my time. I can try to talk to our investors without the other founders knowing, see if I can strike a deal with them, but it's likely I'd get gouged. I don't think I can talk to the other founders about it because it'd make it look like I'm not committed to the mission much before I have an exit plan.

Has anybody here gone through the process? What did you do? What did you learn? Thank you.