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So was it those women who allegedly harassed employees?
Let's not muddy the waters please. This is about harassment and threats of excommunication from the community
A lot of trades give you estimates but you don't know the actual cost until the work is complete. Auto repair, construction, plumbing, electrical, etc. There are plenty of fixed costs that can be accounted for easily but there are a lot of unknowns that can't be seen ahead of time. That's why quotes and shopping around so prevalent because it allows for competition in price.

However in healthcare that's not an option, there is no competition. The cost of fixed cost procedures (e.g. lab work) are unknown. You can't shop around for surgeries or doctors. Everything is wrapping in mystery even after the fact, there is no final bill. Even if you pay everything you're asked to, you might still get a bill 2 years down the road for reasons no one can suitably explain.
I think the issue is with being forced to drive instead of just being able to walk.
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I want option C. A more cohesive research organization that aims to keep iOS open as long as Apple wants to keep it closed. Right now such an organization is basically spread across a history of individual contributors, such as yourself, and others, like Luca, Comex, Geohot, and dozens of others that come and go (many do end up at Apple). We already know iOS bugs are getting more valuable because the span between jailbreaks is high and Apple's response is much, much faster now. As always with technologists, if you can compensate someone fairly and let them keep doing work they love in an environment with no, or at least few, moral problems, they will gladly take that option over a higher paying, but shady, option. Apple currently wins that battle easily.
Ooof, yes. I was out camping the other day and wanted a trail map of the park we were in. Site called "AllTrails" had a "downloadable PDF" link for it, but clicking it just opened up a "Wouldn't you rather use our app?" popup. No alternative option, despite the wording - intensely frustrating.
Goldman underwrote a lot of companies, if anybody wants to dig through the whole list: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/offering-history.aspx?exp...

The first name I saw that IMHO would qualify as a watermelon was Etoys Inc.
The PC market is devolving into something where you can't do any of that anymore either, with non-upgradeable devices like the Apple MacBooks or quite sealed things like the Microsoft Surface products. And average users don't seem to mind.

Maybe it's a subjective thing, but it feels to me like we've actually taken several steps back in the last 5 years or so.
Hi, can you point us to some up to date research ?
I wish articles like this that are backed up by tons of research, interviews, etc. would cite sources inline (in a manner similar to Wikipedia). I want to at least skim some of the background research, but I'm reducing to copying and pasting sections of this article into Google.
Thank you for your comment.
Something like this, but safe hands sounds more like an insurance company, we are a dedicated team, that you can trust and be sure your work will be done.
Something like "Trusted Team", but I don't like trusted team :)
Oof, apologies. I'd have sworn I'd come across some H5 FreeBSD work recently, but clearly was mistaken.
I don't know if I buy this "explanation" of why they failed, but then I don't have a good explanation.

See, even if a company is "over funded", as long as they have operating margins, they can survive forever by cutting overhead and just keep selling the product. This company had inventory.

Unless you have debt. The interest payments could sink you. So it wasn't the "overfunding" that was the problem, it was the form of the funding that was the problem. $900 million in equity would have been fine. $400 million in debt was not fine.

You see, I am one of the people who think this is the best tracker on the market by far because of its sleep tracking. It was an early, accurate, detailed sleep tracker. It tells you your REM sleep, and I suspect it is dead on.

I stock up on the old products on clearance because they don't make them anymore.
How much did it actually cost? Was the estimate correct?
People already essentially turn their brains over to businesses today, without such grand promises of intelligence or immortality.

Its actually maybe even a pretty accurate description of religion
Sure, but it wasn't a "mistake". Stroustrup absolutely wanted a C with classes, and that meant tight integration with C toolchains. Symbol mangling was the clever idea invented to implement that very deliberate choice, not a fortuitous happenstance.
2x2x2 meter cage.
> IMHO the mobile web is terrible BECAUSE of lost screen real estate due to all these sticky elements.

I agree, and fight these at work (with varying success). That's no excuse to block the most accessible real estate - there are plenty of valid use-cases that aren't floating social links.
Because it's using a 41 year old language which has ultra low memory requirements, no dependencies and runs like a bandit, on internet of things. (And can be compiled to machine code by using Awka.)

In Bryan Cantrill's (paraphrased) words: "let there be an orgy of AWK one-liners!"

(Or even better, entire applications written in AWK, since the language is perfect for dynamically generating web applications.)
There is an option/plugin for Jekyll for finding similar blog posts. https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/
The anecdote about pneumonia and the ICU is pretty puzzling. Why wasn't submission to the ICU one of the classification "labels"?
Also, i recall the hardware being less than great (or even average), not even getting into the build quality...

Getting a GPS fix? Why yes, wait for 2-5 minutes and be ready to lose it at the sight of a building in a far distance...

Call/voice quality was abysmal - short: it was a nice gimmick with big ambitions, but it was not ready for prime time.
Coming from a country where the number of MDs per capita is 100x that of the US, I am sorry to tell you that this would not have the impact you think it would have.
As of now, no first world country seems to have found a real solution to healthcare prices. My personal opinion is that doctor salaries have a minor impact on prices. Healthcare system structure and culture (as in how much do insurance companies control, and how readily you perform expensive tests) is much more important, I think.
No Sir, I do not believe in day trading and technical analysts - e.g. glued to computer screens and using flags and other candle formations, but yes, I do trade the stock market very successfully using quantitative systems, once the system is build it trades by itself and I just move on to test/develop the next system, which hopefully will outperform the current one I am using...
> If you were offered the chance to become as intelligent as Feynman but only if you turn over a copy of all your future thoughts to the private business that made this possible, would you take it?

"And, my students, if we equate both expressions, then, ... ahem, by the way, do you know how easy it is to get a brain extension from Acme Corp?"
Even more importantly, electricity costs weren't accounted for, while they should be pretty relevant.
The article has nothing to do with overpopulation
Temporal tables are a pet interest of mine, so here are some links that people might find useful:

Richard Snodgrass, Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL.

Hugh Darwen & C.J. Date, "An Overview and Analysis of Proposals Based on the TSQL2 Approach".

Krishna Kulkarni & Jan-Eike Michels, "Temporal features in SQL:2011".

Tom Johnston, Managing Time in Relational Databases. (I haven't read this one yet.)

Tom Johnston, Bitemporal Data.

Magnus Hagander, "A TARDIS for Your ORM": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgni5q0YM8

Also I've yet to see anyone even talk about managing DDL changes in temporal databases (well Magnus mentions that he won't cover it), but it's the same problem as discussed here. It's very practical, but you could write a dissertation or a book about it.
Along with price transparency, everyone should leave a doctors office with a copy of their bill. Sure, it will probably also get sent to insurance, etc. But I have had doctors bills come to me 6 months after the fact, and it is extremely confusing to try to figure out what has been billed, what hasn't, etc.
It's back-handed socialized medicine. Hospitals cannot turn anyone away so the money has to come from somewhere and this is how they do it. Oddly enough this is what keeps the whole system from collapsing.
The problem is not medical school spots, it's residency spots. Having medical school graduates is useless if they can't get licensed or board certified.
Full-communism?

Who is advocating for that?
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Doom 3 actually used Scons across all the OSes (~2004). At the time, it was so nice to have a python build system. I sort of hoped it was the future, but it sort of died as it failed to scale. I've seen a few home-brewed python build systems work well, but typically we're back to CMake/Make
They have 80 million in revenue and 700 employees.
That's a fairly large number of employees for that amount of revenue.
How on earth can they be worth 10 billion?
Indeed. And having or gaining those requirements is itself a lottery.
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Designers and product owners won't allow it. See also: tons of custom styling and behaviors on mobile platforms that break user expectations and double or triple development time, just so the designer has something to do other than arrange in a grid and choose colors for the perfectly-fine built in UI elements which are, most of the time, more pleasant to use than whatever they come up with.
The few books I've dug into from them on python are good and recommended by the 6.00 series of MIT MOOC on python. Also, free book of theirs is offered everyday on their website. I'm not sure how long that is going to keep happening cause I can't imagine them having enough books to keep doing that with forever.
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For instance, if a book has an embedded jpeg, you can tap it and enlarge it to fill the screen. But if it is SVG art (as we often use for line art like charts and maps), it will not scale. Why not? I don't know. There is no support for MathML, or for scripting of any kind. Support for embedded video is poor. Page lists are suppressed in favor of Amazon's own proprietary system. Note that epub readers like Calibre and Apple iBooks can manage these things. It is intrusive about formatting: it may decide that your lists need to be bulleted whether you want them or not. It always underlines links, which is a pain with note callouts. These behaviors may be inconsistent across devices.

Adobe Digital Editions supposedly supports most of the epub standard, but is a buggy mess, esp. the Windows version.
To date, all of the discussion over what GRsec has done is about distribution rights, but it appears the GRsec agreement[0] also contains this:

> If the User has received pricing for the stable patches on a specific product, use of the patches on additional products without the consent of the Company will result in termination of access to future updates of grsecurity stable patches and changelogs.

So while the patches are derivative works of the upstream kernel, which is GPL licensed, they're attempting to restrict the use of the patched kernel source as well by requiring "consent" to use the combined work, the bulk of which was not written by the GRsec developers and has been licensed directly from the upstream kernel authors to anyone who receives it.

That directly contradicts freedom 0: the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.

[0] https://grsecurity.net/agree/agreement.php

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
> Didn't submerge it in liquid yet but I doubt that an iPhone would survive that.

Actually, the iPhone 7 is specced to be able to survive up to 30 minutes of submersion in 1m water. iFixit had a demo where it survived 8 hours of submersion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIauEB3EMHY

> If you have evudence showing that the fairphone is less robust than other phone, please share it.

Given that it such a niche product, there isn’t a lot of info available on it. Most manufacturers don’t publish their loss/repair rates, but logic would dictate that more openings and loose connections would give more problems.

Also worth noting is that the Fairphone 2 is worse than the current flagship models on almost all metrics. It seems that this modularity does have its price, after all.
I also have thexyz.com as my email provider, very reliable service and I like how there are unlimited aliases included so I can have someotheremail@thexyz.com or 2news@thexyz.net also sent to my main address.
I keep hearing this and it seems wrong. I think the actual problem is a social one. In a free, decentralized environment, you'll get jackals (tragedy of the commons). In a centralized one, you'll get dictators.

I don't think you can work around this with any kind of technology.

I know that what I'm saying is basically anathema for HackerNews, but I think it's the truth.
Nearly everyone cares. But the people you're referring to carefully weigh all the facts (what little there usually are) before coming to a conclusion.

In which trial was it unambiguous that the police broke the law and also demonstrated institutionalized racism, and faced no repercussions?

I'm all for police accountability, but when we do have video evidence it often ambiguous on if the officer was in the wrong in using force. And when it isn't ambiguous, the officer goes to jail.
> people aren't going to fiddle too much with the small device on their wrist when they can pull a phone out of their pocket

Definitely. The jump from dumbphone to smartphone was pretty huge. I can do a lot more on the go now than I could before. The jump from smartphone to smartphone + smartwatch is smaller, and possibly just lateral rather than forward. It doesn't enable many more things than just a smartphone, but it offers you a slightly more convenient way of doing some things, at the cost of another device to charge and keep track of.
You know, that is a great question.

I have (excellent) employer provided care and I knew my cost would be low. But I will post this when I find out.
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Don't mean to bash you but you want to use "i.e." there.
The Linux Programming Interface by Kerrisk is probably the best book of its kind. Even better than Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, although obviously linux specific.

https://www.nostarch.com/tlpi
fuck that color scheme holy
I came here to learn about a technical issue that HN felt worthy of the front page, because I'm not certain how I feel about systemd yet. I ended up learning what a bunch of people feel about systemd, but nothing about whether this is a reasonable divide strategy, or whether anyone has any arguments to counter his, or .. anything whatsoever. I'm glad the thread benefited the wellness of the community by providing an outlet for unresolved rage, but y'all missed a key opportunity here to consider a new semantic about the Kernel-Init(Systemd) interaction before it's fixed into stone by commits or whatever.
Surely that's exactly the cargo-cultish part of it? POs are convinced this is how mobile is done to the point of following those principles without actual user input.
I remember reading that the 6% are from the billed prices, not the cost. The same when they claim to do things for poor people. They do a few procedures for free and claim the billed price so they can have nice PR for cheap.
For reference, the kernel has ~15 million LoC, and according to a not exactly reliable or verifiable infographic on reddit, BioShock infinite contains 631 miles, which would be between 3 and 10 million LoC.
> I stock up on the old products on clearance because they don't make them anymore.

I often think about this when a company goes under, especially hardware focused ones. I assume it's only a matter of time that their servers will no longer accepting requests, APIs will no longer function and your device will suddenly become useless. Personally, I feel that this is a perfect use case where open source can shine by liberating locked down devices.
I understand that many people really truly don't have any other options. Their kids need to be fed and clothed, etc. Or maybe they just don't earn much due to the economic landscape or whatever. It can happen easily and quickly, unfortunately. I certainly don't blame these people for not saving!

On the other hand, its because these things can happen so quickly and easily that one should really prioritise getting a little safety net tucked away. I'm not saying "no-fun-expenses-allowed", but putting away something is a good idea (or paying off (some of) the high-interest debts like credit card debt would be a good too), if you can at all afford it.
Another anecdote to this point: I had an experience in which a doctor accepted me as a patient (knowing what insurance I had and what reimbursement rates the insurer would pay), performed a procedure for me, then subsequently found out my insurance would not cover the procedure (because of a preexisting condition waiver I did not know was still in force).

The doctor then demanded full payment for his non-discounted rate-- 6x the insurance reimbursement rate.

To my mind, acceptance of the "deal" was done when the doctor took me on as a patient and agreed to perform the procedure. At that time the practice had full knowledge of what the reimbursement rate would be. I see the doctor's "windfall" of demanding the non-discounted rate as being fraudulent.
To give the parent the benefit of the doubt, I think the point he was making was less "this isn't awesome" and more "explain why you think it's awesome, don't just place your upvote in the form of a comment".
Why not just ditch js on mobile? What's the big need for sticky toolbars and other such cruft. Juts detect if it is a mobile and serve up good old html (of the non-5 variety).
On Android websites that fulfill some criteria to be a "PWA" even cause Chrome to ask the user about adding them to the homescreen if they are visited repeatedly.
I apologize, I'm not sure how I could improve it to make it more clear.
I don't think the BBC article really explains what Soti's software does. Especially considering the story took place in 2001, we're talking about Windows CE. A lot of stores and warehouses used (some still do) Windows CE devices to scan products and manage inventory.

I'm not terribly familiar with the product, but it sounds like Soti would be used to track all of these handheld scanners, possibly read what they're scanning and add it to the master inventory database, let the helpdesk reboot the device or push updates if something is malfunctioning, etc.
Modern GPUs still have hardware sprites for the cursor, and OSes still use them! However, the path between the mouse and updating that sprite has gotten more complex, alas.
Designers and developers are definietly not blameless. Although AMP is clearly a Business People invention, it wouldn't have been adopted if the web was quicker on mobile networks and CPUs.
I have very little experience using boot. The main benefit of Figwheel is that it allows you to retain the state while hot loading code. I find this makes a really big difference when working on complex UIs. I can get the application in a particular state, and then tweak the UI in that context.

There's a https://github.com/boot-clj/boot-figreload plugin that adapts Figwheel for boot, but I haven't used it myself.
I don't mind mobile websites if they are done correctly. An example of a perfect mobile website is Wikipedia.
First thing that came to my head! Got linked this fanfic on hackaday ~5 days ago and could not stop reading despite not being a Potter fan.
GC performance is a trade between throughput and pause time. There are tricks you could play with each tab in its own heap which is entirely discarded on page change, but I think it would take something expensive like Azure to really work.
Probably some folks at Soundcloud who are salty...
Preliminary but important point: what you call prevention is typically called 'mitigation' by the UNFCCC, NASA, and other environmental orgs, while what you have called mitigation is typically 'adaptation' [1]. I know this is jargon, but if you have conversations with folks in the environmental/climate field it can in the best case provide instant rapport to at least be speaking the same language, and in the worst case, at least prevent serious mis-understandings.

>>The other thing is that people don't really think this is a true emergency. An evidence for this is the quote "What if global warming is wrong and we made the planet better?" If it is a true emergency, we should be doing stuff that make the planet worse if it is wrong. We should be pushing nuclear power - even to the the point of reducing existing safety regulations. A Chernobyl every decade is preferable to global warming. Politically, we should be willing to trade existing environmental regulation for those which reduce CO2.

-Human perception of danger/emergency has, from the evolutionary perspective, been optimized for concrete, near-term events/entities, eg terrorism, explosions, enemies. On the other hand ,it has not prepared us for preparing against abstract, medium to long term adversaries, eg planetary or physics scale changes that threaten civilization, malevolent ETs, malevolent super-intelligences [AIs].. etc etc.

-Even if this weren't true and we didn't have these unfortunate cognitive bias, your argument about broad public wisdom of emergency relies upon a well-informed populace that is familiar with statistics, and the scientific methods. Unfortunately, that is not the case in almost every advanced Representative state on the planet. This broad ignorance renders the ambient public awarness point you have made quite moot.

-Finally, I see the logic behind the 'what if global warming is wrong and the planet gets better' case as analogical to Pascal's wager, or the false postive; what you forgot to mention is the false negative, which is metaphorically relatively similar to the outcome of Pascals (Hell/Earth becomes like Hell).

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/adaptation-mitigation/
I think it's the individual that matters. An intelligent, the right amount of humble, responsible, and motivated person that is broad enough to grasp the bigger picture while understanding enough of details, and is interested in managing other people will do well as a manager, regardless of background.
For more information about the rough guidelines by which pricing works in the US (or doesn't work), check out the often referred to term "usual and customary" (UCR) charges. Read about it and then form your own opinion - I'd rather not bias too much by offering mine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usual,_customary_and_reasona...
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Won't help if the problem is as the author describes (contention for a system-wide lock).