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> by paying people, we could encourage more work that benefits society

Generally, incentives have no effect on creativity (as measured by a panel of judges), or at most, slightly reduce it as they distract the person from the creative work: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10683-015-9440-5 And obviously fiscal pressure (loans, bankruptcy, etc.) would have a negative impact. But beyond that it's hard to see any correlation between payment and outcome, hence the argument for a basic income.

Payment only makes sense for the non-creative, "manual" aspects of society (which are responsive to incentives). As more of these manual tasks are automated, capitalism makes less and less sense. That's kind of what Marx was getting at when he said capitalism was "self-defeating", although he too got a little sidetracked by power structures. I still have no real evidence that power structures even exist; they're a nice theory but basically unmeasurable. E.g., Trump is president, the effect on society/culture/business/daily life seems basically nil: http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/trump-win-changes-nothing... http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-do-nothing-presidency-2...
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I really like that you just went off on a huge tangent about this, no sarcasm. I really agree with your last line too, Kevin Shields is another example of this. By perfecting a unique playing style (holding the pitch bar while strumming) he was able to come up with a sound so unique that it spawned a subgenre
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I'm interested in woodworking but also afraid I'm going to maim myself.
1. Everyone who gets sued by a patent troll is going to complain about the validity of the patent. Even when the patent is, in fact, completely valid.

2. Patent troll + Law firm is not a "dangerous new breed". This has been happening for a long while now.

3. It seems strange to complain about the being sued for patent infringement while owning '150' patents. Do you agree with patents or not? If you agree, then being sued for patent infringement is part of it. If you disagree, why invest so much? I understand the argument of patents being defensive, but, does that really help in a world of patent trolls? More likely, a company eventually goes under and the patents are acquired on the cheap - by a troll.

4. I think the "we will pay you a bounty to help make our problem go away" approach is interesting and I hope it works. ...but it's very self serving. Maybe just pay a law firm $50,000 to invalidate the patent rather than making a contest out of it.

To be fair, I really don't understand the concept of a software patent. If I can implement it then it is fair game.
I'm pretty sure the last value wins, but maybe don't understand what you mean.
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Fwiw, briefly looking at the tags in the typesafehub/config repo and the "history" section of hjson.org, it looks like Typesafe Config predates hjson by several years.
Sure, you can do a pure add.

But that means you need to dedicate specific objects to being purely emissive, to avoid blurring at the boundaries.

And once you've separated the objects, you don't really need to have purely-emissive textures and non-emissive textures in the same file, with the same exact format. You might as well store emissive textures as RGB and save on memory.

Using a different format can even benefit you. You're less likely to accidentally blend emissive and non-emissive pixels, and you're less likely to accidentally apply lighting calculations to emissions.
Apple/Google: Help us out here. Put some container tech on the phones and have it driven by the entry of a "regular password" and a "duress password".

Have the "duress password" bring up a container with plausible faked call, text, browser, camera, etc, history.

Oh, and allow for user defined number of container/password pairs, for when the TSA asks for both passwords.
Gates changes soo often it would be truly impossible to have the scanner check if you boarding correct plane. The mess would be disaster.

AFAIK, the scanner only checks "okay this is the airport you supposed to be inside within 48hours timeframe". That's all.
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This is malpractice:

Widespread modern encryption methods like RSA, named for the initials of the cryptographers who developed it, rely on the use of hugely complex numbers derived from prime numbers. Speaking very roughly, so long as those original prime numbers remain secret, the integrity of the encoded data will remain safe. But were someone able to factor the hugely complex number — a process identical to the sort of math exercise children are taught to do on a chalkboard, but on a massive scale — they would be able to decode the data on their own. Luckily for those using encryption, the numbers in question are so long that they can only be factored down to their prime numbers with an extremely large amount of computing power. Unluckily for those using encryption, government agencies in the U.S., Norway, and around the globe are keenly interested in computers designed to excel at exactly this purpose.

The point of modern RSA is that we use a modulus that can't be factored by any conceivable computer, with limits derived from the physics of computation and projected far out into the future. We aren't a supercomputer advance away from factoring 2048 bit moduli. The government's "keen interest" in that problem is irrelevant.

We've known for coming up on 2 decades, at least (from Eran Tromer in 2001-2003) that 1024 bit moduli aren't safe. There's been speculation for years that the NSA is standing up giant compute clusters in Utah to target 1024 bit discrete logs (it's speculation because it's hard to see how those attacks make economic sense, even with advances in batch attacks). If we want to suppose that IBM and NSA are mounting a supercomputing attack on weak crypto, fine. The presumption that these attacks will get more viable is why, for instance, the WebPKI is urgently scrubbing itself of 1024 bit keys and has been for years.

But that's not what this article says. Instead, it puts forward a narrative that the USG is collaborating with IBM to build supercomputers that would break all of RSA. Not only is that not what's happening, but if it was, IBM and the USG would be doing us a great service, because we can't rely on cryptography that is a supercomputing advance away from being broken.

Needless to say, they're not really doing us a service, and they're not really about to break RSA, and breaking RSA isn't a really big IBM purchase order away from happening.
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Not enough for my own satisfaction.
you mean the history where people make services that don't scale?

your site sucks. slowwwwwwwww
That wouldn't be "extortion" in the legal sense, which (typically) requires the thread to be something illegal, or otherwise unusually damaging to the victim. Simply saying "give me X or I will sue you" is just how it works.
From TFA:

> Most of the changes include subtle additions like blur effects, which is a type of design we saw back with Windows Vista

And so the wheel turns...
20+ hours a week.
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Go home Elon Musk, you're drunk.
That's awesome! I'm too much of a chicken to take mine apart... I couldn't stomach the replacement cost if I bungled something up.
Cabin crew is supposed to do a headcount as well, so there is a good chance you get booted at that point.
But as I mentioned, it's subject to heavy regulation and most of their job description in mandated by the government. Where the money is might be selling hardware to the TSA but that's probably a big risk
Here are a couple of related resources:

An eye-opening conversation with a palliative care physician:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/11/becky_liddicoat.htm...

"Five Wishes," a tool to guide you through conversations with loved ones about end-of-life care (not to be taken as a replacement for a living will, as I don't think it will hold up legally in all states)
https://agingwithdignity.org/five-wishes/

And if you really want to get motivated to have these conversations with your loved ones, check out Otis Brawley's book "How We Do Harm," which has a chapter that is a HORROR story of what happens when a patient's family asks that "everything" be done to keep him alive. The doctors felt that they were torturing the patient, who had no reasonable prospect for recovery. Yet the family insisted that "everything" be done, including extremely painful procedures and withholding pain medication because the patient's respiration was too fragile.

Don't be this family! Don't be this patient!
Disclaimer: I built airline reservations systems with ITA Software.

I don't recall there being a minimum character count for SSR codes, but in legacy reservations systems (and the passenger name records (PNR) that contain these SSRs) there's for sure a max. Airline reservations systems never met a fixed-width format they didn't like, and the reason is that for a long, long time the unit of storage for a PNR was a block on disk and disk space was precious, so every few bits (literally bits, not bytes) counted. Those constraints have persisted through the ages.

Upthread someone wondered about disrupting this industry. It is expensive (there's a lot of moving parts) but it's basically engineering and integration, with the integration being the far harder part. For example, to participate in the airline networks (the networks that send messages to other airlines to handle cross-carrier booking, talking to GDSes, control departure, speak to DHS, etc) you need to understand the meaning of various airline protocol messages. These messages have unclear semantics; one airline may regard message A as meaning "create a ticket for this passenger" while another airline may regard the same message as "create a reservation for this passenger" which are two different things. The only way to know what these messages mean is to get on the phone with each airline and ask. The documentation is wrong and outdated; the meaning of those messages is the outcome they have to that specific airline and not anything else. Oh and the network connection you send these messages over is a VPN that you need to agree to setup with the carrier you want to talk to. Airline messaging is the reason most modern reservations system can only handle small airlines, since getting the semantics, routing, and other details of airline messaging requires too many humans and too many business relationships.

Additionally, switching reservations system can kill an airline. Most airlines operate with a day or less of cash reserves so if the switch to a new res systems stops operation of the airline for any amount of time you could kill the airline. There's no incentive big enough to switch to a new res system since the rewards are not immediately revenue-impacting.
1-2 months of work building the prototypes or 1-2 months of work building, iterating and getting commitments, or 1-2 months of work building a launchable product based on them?

Paper prototyping is HUGE. I don't get why more folks won't or can't embrace it. Not only can you do the testing that you have suggested but your engineers and designers will THANK you.

There is a huge upside to paper, UI issues can be spotted early and cheaply.
Very early on:

* time tracking: a frankenstein combination of system logs (especially helpful when jumping between workstations), paper notebook, and chatlogs

* invoicing: http://billable.me/

* both: some elbow grease

Evolution (and current, w/ a small team):

* time tracking: http://getharvest.com/

* invoicing, accounting, etc: https://www.xero.com/

The first one carried me for a few months, at an average workload of 60~140h/mo and a maintenance workload of about 4 hours total.

The latter is solving somewhat different problems, but does equate to time won on the admin side.
Did they fix font rendering? if they did I will go back to windows. If they didn't. No thank you.

Just fix fucking font rendering, I did use Windows machine as my workstation for 4 years, But I had to switch to Ubuntu, because of ridiculous font rendering they introduced in DirectWrite. I don't have money to pay for new monitor every 2 years, and I am quite happy with my dual monitor 27 inch 1080p until windows 10 changed font rendering to DirectWrite. It is fucking disaster in low dpi monitor.
As always Microsoft ignored their current users in pursue of new users. I haven't seen this attitude from any other company. I haven't seen apple make font rendering on old MacBook worse to force people to switch to new MacBooks. Or I haven't seen something similar from Google.
This is fucking total disaster.
As someone who reads text for whole day (programmer) I care about my eyes and it fucking hurts my eye to see font rendering in new UI (UWP) and Edge.

p.s. Old/win32 application do use old rendering engine and are acceptable.
Microsoft (and several others, so they're not alone) has a pretty terrible reputation for their business support. It's something I can personally attest to when trying to engage them a few years ago with a mission critical systems problem for a reasonably large multi-million $ account at the time.

Note also the person you're responding to said "get their bug fixed", which is different from "get an engineer within 24 hours to discuss an issue". Discussing an issue can simply be a tick-off point for an SLA with no real substantial action behind the scenes beyond that.

Of course, you might have very different experiences so far too. :)
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Very nice -- looks like an open source Klipfolio alternative. Which would be great because Klipfolio has some serious limitations.
Please don't comment like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
40+ haha.

Im a Freelance Javascript developer currently having a very easy/boring job.. No kids, no wife, just a dog :)

So including weekends I easy hit more then 40 hours!

TradeJS

https://github.com/DutchKevv/TradeJS
Side projects hours are directly proportional to how happy, satisfied, and content I am with my say job.

At my previous job it tended to be 15+ per week easily. But now it tends to be 0-2 hours per week. It's not a bad problem to have; to enjoy and feel satisfied with everything at the day job.

I still wouldn't mind being more side project engaged sometimes though. It's always a struggle.
Anyone curious about this, don't use your work computer.
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Learn to fly scenarios vs how tesla would build an autonomous drone is my question for something viable.
> Most airlines operate with a day or less of cash reserves

That's kind of amazing, and kind of terrifying.
It was the sell organs to pay for college that I was referring to. What a terrible society to live in where people think this reasonable. Perhaps society should just properly fund college education so that the harvesting of organs from people isn't considered reasonable.
Interestingly, IBM's WebSphere support team are one of the few commercial outfits I had good results from (a decade ago). Super expensive product, but for the environment at the time it was good choice due to the support people actually having a clue. :)
Sparring has nothing to do with claiming that everyone outside of BJJ/MMA circle is delusional. You response only highlights the problem with your attitude.
You're right, I misremembered. The 2-3x warming effect is due to other atmospheric effects ("radiative forcing") and nor direct effects of the emitted co2.

End result is the same however - the same fossil fuel is much worse when used in air travel than on the ground.
Yes I believe that is what Cloudflare is banking on - Blackbird backing out and no bounty money spent. I wouldn't find it too bad of an outcome though. Googling "blackbird patent" will pull up Cloudflare's blog post and other tech companies can use the same strategy against them by offering a bounty.

Patent troll invalidation bounties might become a new thing. The more ways to slay the trolls the better.
This is off the top of my head and I'd welcome correction:

Large scale password cracking has a much clearer payoff than attacks on 1024 bit DH, which have to be targeted to individual (probably TLS) connections. The RSA that most of the Internet depends on is brokered by CAs --- so, problem 1, the USG already owns CAs and doesn't need supercomputers to get valid certificates, problem 2, the most valuable "authentic" CA signatures are 2048 bit and far outside the capabilities of an IBM supercomputer, and problem 3, even after breaking that certificate you still have to target individual TLS connections to use it.

On the other hand, you don't need the world's most powerful supercomputer to effectively crack passwords.

It's not unlikely that the simplest explanation here is just "the NSA will do whatever thing secures it the largest budget". That doesn't mean they won't use those budget-enhancing projects in ways that will shock our conscience!
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Its funny because I basically asked a question a long time ago on SO on how to handle similar problems: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2807629/handling-incremen...

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And I'm thinking the gentleman that answered might actually be the same person as the author.
</strike> ... probably not but the answer reminds me of this article.
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What determines autonomous flying? Couldn't the drone just hover in the middle of the room and not crash? Would that count? Don't you need some sort of increased score for moving around?
Sounds suspect, as I think airlines would take the hit on seat design if it meant halving their fuel costs.
There is such a thing as technical writing, I don't think anyone is saying code should be fiction.
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I believe he's implying that women have been and continue to be sexualized in a way and to an extent that men are not.

I'm fine with this particular example but I wholeheartedly agree with the comment. However me being fine with it isn't enough - everyone already takes me seriously. I haven't always seen that same courtesy extended to women engineers.
you should check out https://plotdb.com
it abstracts simple things into GUI yet still gives you the power to modify source code to do the hard things.

disclaimer: I'm the founder of plotdb.com
Death is probably the most philosophical moment of our lives, but unfortunately it leaves us no time to contemplate it. Among the few things I appreciate about religion is how it tries to bring our lives into perspective by incessantly reminding us of its end. But we're all sorely under-prepared for it. Not just in the western countries - I'm from India and a close member of my family died of cancer two years ago, and we were all woefully underprepared for it.

The treatment got more aggressive as the day neared; we were shuttling to and from the hospital every week, and towards the end my extended family of around twenty people were staying at and near the hospital for three weeks.

He was intubated after both lungs failed. We didn't know what it really meant - a few family members wanted the doctors to "do all they can" and so they obliged. He was under tremendous pain, and went through multiple radiations, and then was intubated for about a week. It was pointless because the lungs simply weren't going to come back. But the patient nor the family was ready to acknowledge the inevitability of the situation and so we went ahead with it, and he was intubated, and we all waited.

Intubation puts the onus of the big decision on the caretakers. Medical care can prolong the state of coma for quite a long time with artificial respiration - the bills simply accumulate, the patient prolongs their extreme suffering, and the entire family waits in extreme agitation and anxiety. The laws concerning removing intubation and thus letting go the patient seemed to be murky in India, and so (or for the money) the doctors were reluctant to move to palliative care, and the caretakers weren't ready to carry the responsibility of forcing the decision.

I now know that in my terminal condition I do not want to be intubated. I also know that death is a taboo and it takes a certain kind of philosophical wisdom to think and speak about it. I value that a lot now, and as someone else recommended Atul Gawande's Being Mortal should be read by anyone who might die.
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It's specious nonsense to try to do the right thing? You can't possibly mean that, right?
"There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties."
50% of my time is dedicated to my side project (20-40 hours).

Over the last 2 years I cut consulting hours down to 20, and increased my hourly rate so I could work 50% of the time for 75% of the money.
>it sounds as if you're implying that ambition is a universal pro

The GP was implying that I think, I mean that it might not be the case.
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That is the thing about self compassion.

My understanding of compassion is that it is more than trating yourself as a best friend -- that is a short-hand if you have diffculty generating loving-kindness for yourself.

Life does not always give you a choice. You are not always in control (though one should still keep their wits about them). A sense of agency can again, augment the false sense of self, no more different than self confidence or self esteem.

Self compassion is different. It is loving-kindness directed to oneseld whether one is doing great or doing bad, on top of the world or hiding in deep shame, heroically rising above or writhing in guilt, having a strong sense of agency or lacking it.

It is much more painful to recieve loving-kindness when you are wounded. Loving-kindness doesn't soothe away pain so much as bring it into greater attention and allow the pain to be felt, accepted, and change can take place. It is only then that there is a transformative effect.

It can be difficult to generate loving-kindness towards oneself if you've lived a lifetime of self-judgement and self-harm. You might have forgotten what it felt like.
It'd be nice if there were a summary of each company without clicking through.
That would be awesome. Here's the issue for it if you want to talk more about it: https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia/issues/182
Wing tsun close combat techniques are better suited to defend against the shown mma attack. Overall, a better professional at his forte style beat tge less proficient regardless of the technique though. Simple as that.
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I'm a huge Amiga fan, but what is there to learn from it that couldn't be obtained by working at the lower levels of a modern system?
god I wish this would build on cygwin
Be aware that hospice care is simply to end someone's life without pain. It's giving up. My father was not even in pain but everyone had given up and I can still hear the hospice person asking " are you in pain, are you in pain" but he was never really in pain; just very weak. The hospice care he received in-house in TN was free. It didn't last long. I've nothing against people who do want to give up when the pain is too much. Just be sure you understand hospice care.
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Does it really 'more' forward or not?

I think you mean 'move'.