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>>> One could say, yes, ok, I took that trade-off, but now I got to be a dad, and that's worth more to me.

That's it ! More precisely : I've chosen to be dad for reasons which are absolutely not rational. Therefore, the question of the trade off is not that important.

>>> You should not lose that much

yep, that's what I'm aiming for.

Thing is, the way you put it, I understood that "business suffers from those people who choose to be parents". For me parents are like taxes : as a business, that is as a member of the society, you abide to respect the rules : you pay your taxes because the society decided it's positive for everybody, ditto for parents.

But I think we agree :-)

>>> I think you might underestimate the amount your employer has invested in you.

>>> How much would it cost him to replace you

Not much : maybe waiting a year to find an ideal candidate (so I'd say a month of work), and then a year to train the guy (say, 6 months). So basically 7 months of salary. not much. Hint : I don't work in hyper hitech stuff, I just run very big, long lived applications; nothing fancy.
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That's an overlay, rather than using windowing features. And they don't scale quite the same way into full-screen apps. This ought to be easier to implement for most apps since Android itself handles most of the window management and since rendering shouldn't change too much.
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The carriers are not the problem. They may be an additional problem but even when they aren't involved (i.e. outside America) Android updates still suck.
> The court declared 3/2 against this being a core part of Islam

> For most, this is a victory of simple decency. There are worries that this should have been legislatively dealt with rather than judicially, but on-the-ground truth is that politics of appeasement would mean this option is potentially long and arduous. Right now, muslim women no longer have to worry about instant divorce thanks to this ruling.

I just wanted to add a fact so we have some perspective: a quick Google search shows that just under 15% of India identifies as Muslim.
As a whole, without the 'instant triple talaq', is it easier for a man to divorce a woman under Islamic law? If so, by how much, and do they have any other advantages during the proceedings (automatic rights etc)?
Yeah, its minor differences, but they add up. Maybe its time I learned a little elisp and fixed it for myself, I really like spacemacs aside from the (minor) annoyances caused by not being vim.
Being from the UK, I take it NPR is the equivalent of Radio 4? (Albeit on a bigger scale, naturally)
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I can't remember all the details, but didn't Newton out his predecessor as an anti-trinitarian, and thereby get his job via a witchhunt over something that he himself believed?
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[quote] For most, this is a victory of simple decency. There are worries that this should have been legislatively dealt with rather than judicially, but on-the-ground truth is that politics of appeasement would mean this option is potentially long and arduous. Right now, muslim women no longer have to worry about instant divorce thanks to this ruling. [/quote]

Apropos this, the 1978 Shah Bano case [1] is relevant.

Though the supreme court (in 1978) had ruled the practice illegal, the ruling majority at that time reversed the court's judgement. The political dispensation since then has changed, with the current government advocating against the practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohd._Ahmed_Khan_v._Shah_Bano_...
Which government is yours? Everything I've read is that smokers have lower total healthcare costs since they die earlier and tend to have sudden deaths instead of lingering around using healthcare services.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-...
You shouldn't just consider the difference between your rent and mortgage. Mortgage eventually ends. Rent doesn't.
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India will never prosper until it casts Islam aside. They have a space program but shit on the ground, it doesn't make any sense.
Hello @metrognome, three of your last four posts were [dead] even though none of them appear to break the HN guidelines... I vouched for the last two, the other one is too old for me as user to do anything about it.

You may want to contact the mods about this.
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This was posted on the 18th of July. The Charlottesville rally is not relevant.
The death toll from coal due to worsening air quality can be measured in multiples of Chernobyls each year (using the worst-case estimates of deaths from Chernobyl) for starters.
Whenever there's a pop-business piece on here, commenters are very eager to point out the obvious blind angles, typically survivorship bias. Let's hold pop-psych to the same standard: Once you look at people who actually have skin in the game (ie. actually runs a company and thus has the authority to put such as change into effect), they aren't doing this. Why? Something doesn't add up, and these books are as a rule very light on analysing what.

If things are so simple as they are laid out, where is the startup that cut their daily working hours to four and still succeeded? It should be possible to find at least one (and it would be easy for them to attract top talent). What are they seeing that these writers aren't? Also, journalists do intellectual, creative work and are often employed as freelancers and paid by the word, not time -- so they'd make perfect guinea pigs. If the argument is as good as it's being presented here, there should be plenty of journalists willing to give it a try. If you can indeed actually get as much done, and possibly even of a higher quality, they'd obviously make it permanent. Yet it doesn't seem to be happening? (Or if it is, why wouldn't this reviewer have added a simple anecdote from his personal experience, or that of friends?)
a video of the plane taking off and flying would be a nice addon.
They could only allow trading if you didn't get into your top 3 schools. That way you couldn't really count on being able to trade and only the people who were really unlucky could trade.
Open standards are such, but in a heterogeneous software landscape one will always have challenges integrating vendor specific implementations of such and such services.
Also advocated by Bertrand Russell in his In Praise of Idleness http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
I think they do. The original iPhone never got MMS support for alleged hardware reasons that were bunk. Siri was originally on the AppStore but once bought by Apple suddenly couldn't run on anything less than an iPhone 4S. There are probably other examples but those are the two I remember.
Lower average rank of assigned schools might mean decreased happiness, but this system also increases fairness because those who game the system tend to be better educated/more privileged. Disallowing swaps forces people to rank schools honestly and prohibits such gaming of a system.
To be honest, given how well tech is compensated, you are living on a different planet.

My brother is smarter than me, and works harder, as a teacher. Arguably a more important job since he is educating the next generation.

I’m building widgets to help some company do something a tiny bit more efficiently. The excess value thrown off by increasing this efficiency is captured by the company and entirely distributed to the various middlemen, it is not a net benefit to society, it is not changing the world. Someone just found a new way to clip the ticket.

Due to the fact that my skills are more in demand, I earn twice his household (him + wife) income. When you add my wife, it’s triple.

My struggles are self-actualisation and finding meaning, materially we are very comfortable. His struggles are keeping food on the table.

It’s fucked. The answer is not that everyone should become a tech worker or banker.
Meant 0.90 cents.
"Why isn't the internet more simple?"

I guess it's the same reason why we don't use modularity in operating systems and applications. We have gotten used to how things have been done until now.
Recommend reading this article since this ideas have been in my head for some time.

https://joshondesign.com/2017/08/18/idealos_essay

Disclaimer: this isn't my article.

Doesn't mean that this things can't be disrupted.

"Indexing data is hard. There isn't enough value for every given website to do it."

Well a lot of websites have their own search feature and a modular FOSS search engine wouldn't be out of the question. The database would need to figure out what is the context of the content and then tag those contents.
The data could be feed to a repository or pass around different computers if we would use a decentralized protocol.

Given the modular nature of the system you could be hooked to more than one repository and your application would only need to figure out if the data feed is a duplicate and sort the content by metadata.

I'm curious to what would the web look like if a large numbers of websites decided that they don't want Google. A verification system would also be need to verify that no one website tempers with it's data in order to rank higher in the results.

Then again this would be a very modular experience so you would have a lot of choices regarding verification systems,wall crawlers, database repositories.
True, the last part is true, that you would have more choices but isn't that what we want? Also i'm not saying that I wouldn't want Paypal and Gwallet to not exist just saying that there is a lot of interesting things out there I would wish to see happen.
My phone did died too (Nexus 6P). This doesn't mean all Nexus phones will die within opening the box.
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Edit (previous, sarcastic comment below): I belief it is disingenuous to try to discuss such issues without addressing the elephant in the room. I also felt the imagery (angry mob/pitchforks/etc) more than subtly pointed in that direction.

In addition, I feel there are two mechanisms in play here that undermine an honest debate: First, there's a glut of people insisting they're only defending "free speech" and not supporting people such as those at that rally. It reminds me of the "movement for ethics in game journalism" that had nothing to do with misogyny, no sir.

Secondly, the debate is moved to some other subject where people will agree with the idea that it would be absurd to, for example, censor something like the Principia Mathematica. That agreement will then, in turn be used to defend things that are definitely not scientific masterpieces. The underlying idea is, once again, the slippery slope, or some sort of inability to differentiate things that are obviously different.

(Previous reply mocking the objection regarding the timeline: "At the moment I posted, my post did not yet exist, nor did your objection to it. Therefore, I will refuse to take it into consideration.")
Ubiq looks interesting, but I thought this space was already quite crowded.

I wonder if they're going for SMBs / companies that are deploying video conferencing solutions for the first time.
Good response.

I do agree with Sam Bowman that the term is often misused (and that it doesn't make as much sense as it should since the word 'signalling' is meant to refer to costly signals and not 'cheap talk'), however my belief is that people are critiquing because the term is hitting 'too close to home' rather than because the term warrants serious criticism.
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Exactly. Writers must read 1000s of books, singers must listen to 1000s of songs, and so on. Even for those who don't create additional content, it's impossible to 'consume' culture without creative engagement. Nobody can pour content into his head:

http://www.jfallen.org/wordpress/2015/04/12/the-bucket-or-th...
I wish your comment gets upvoted to national news.
Those async antipatterns are worse than the 'goto' statement. Time for programming languages to add the 'async' keyword on the caller side.
Harvard has its own press for this sort of thing. They produce all sorts of books with tiny print runs.
The problem is that, just like Java, electron wins at the end of the day in terms of market share. If we're in the business of helping people, we can do more "good" by making an inferior technology slightly more bearable. Of course, that is just one perspective (not mine but one that I'm trying to understand as well).

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I don't know why this is downvoted when it's obviously correct about speech codes: Newton's own Cambridge banned Catholics until 1871.

I don't think the ordainment requirement is true, I think it's the other way round; the universities were founded in training people for ordainment.
2nd that! First machine I learned assembler on was a 11/45, still remember toggling in a bootloader to load RSTS/E from the RK05-disk :-)
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It sounded like mid-size companies with a few conference rooms at least. Agreed that it's crowded but also there's been no great solutions either. Unless you have the $$ to get Cisco systems.
> The rule itself is referred to as "triple talaq" and is part of sharia. In Sunni islam, basically men can abandon women, without any (any) limit immediately and without consequences.

It's worth noting that there is no consensus on the validity or meaning of triple talaq within Sunni Islam.

> they get to take possession of everything the woman owns as well

This is not true, I guess you are confusing it with a khula divorce in which the woman requests that the man divorce her. In this case, she has to give back the mahr (bride price).

> They can take the kids if they want, including kids that have been conceived but not born yet (technically they should take the kids, but that's not what happens in practice).

In Islam kids stay with the woman if they are below a certain age, and men take kids above a certain age.

> Women face progressively harsher physical punishments for abandoning a man. If they remarry without his permission, they face (extra cruel) execution (stoning, often with the kids and family forced to watch).

I'm not sure what you mean, a woman does not need to seek permission to remarry from her ex-husband. Her current husband does need to give permission for a khula divorce, there are other kinds of divorce e.g. by a court in cases of mistreatment or abandonment. Yes, in general only men are given the right to divorce for no reason.

Stoning is the hadd punishment for adultery, i.e. sex with someone one is not married to.
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What? Aren't you making the opposite argument?
But the problem with schools is different in the sense that each candidate can only accept a finite amount of votes.
Sounds like they do the latter too - action items to help utilize space better.
so let's say if it happens FB sues you, what will they sue you for.

1. Holding a patent on your own IP.

In that case according to FB

3rd point here: https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556
"unless your patent counterclaim is related to Facebook's software licensed under the Facebook BSD+Patents license."

How is this relation formed. Only if you have a product in the same vertical as FB and have a similar patent. In that case you should not have used React in the first place use vue.js
Wouldn't it already help if apt-key printed the list of keys it imported instead of the absolutely superfluous "OK"?
>There's thousands of solutions

Yes, but only if you declare the business models of everyone involved a non-goal.
You are concentrating too much on employee skill when s/he comes through the door and too little on employee education. I can't name a single company that has good employee education program. Even the word "A+ player" is just such a cringe fest.

Your invoicing or something startup looking for RoR/elixir/node ninjawizards isn't interesting to most "a+" employees. Most of them have their own shit they want to achieve. If they don't, they aren't "a+ players".

I hope this doesn't come across as bitter it's just that this circlejerk misses so many things.
Pretty much any argument for network/device tie-in is fallacious on its face for the simple reason that there are many countries out there which don't have that arrangement. And yet the phones there work fine, and so do the networks.
As a swede I have a hard time understanding what liberal and conservative is. Here we talk about Left and Right politics. I get the impression USA only has Right and Right+ in swedish terms.

Left would be social security, right would be free market / privatise everything.

I have to admit that I wasn't paying much attention to politics in my schoolyears but I did try to read some political comic book (comedy central?) from USA...
I think the main thing is "a decent book deal". Most authors do not have these. Most academic books are not read outside of academia. Even a book that gets published and does well within academia (gets on many courses reading lists) will not give the author an income.

A decent book deal is the very rare book that is both used in the academy and which goes mainstream - something like A Selfish Gene, or a Carl Sagan.
My take on this: http://www.yegor256.com/2017/08/22/to-be-nice-or-not.html
Only 8000 students? In the US we have high schools that are that large.
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It doesn't help with things like firmware vulnerabilities (without some extensive reverse engineering). I can get LineageOS on my Nexus 5 just fine, but it doesn't have broadpwn fixed.

(note that I wasn't able to actually replicate broadpwn on Nexus 5, if anyone was, some info would be appreciated)
There is one more hidden bias, which (IMHO) have much stronger impact for aspies - application forms and grant proposals.

Even though officially it's all about merits of accomplishments and ideas, almost always there is an expectation to deliver it in a form of "sales pitch". So, any honest and straightforward presentation is unlikely to stand a chance with one full of "soft bullshit" (e.g. promises to cure cancer, create universal quantum computer, etc).
> Nitpick: The children would have to move very quickly to get there during the time of flight of the shell (a few seconds).

Double nitpick: 155mm artillery rarely has a time of flight of a "few seconds" - as they usually call "splash" 5 seconds before the anticipated impact in order to give the forward observer a heads up. A TOF of a minute isn't unusual - in that time a lot can happen.
And yet, most PCs built 10 years ago can still run most modern software that is written for modern PCs.
Closer to what, though? If, for example, you practice some kind of after-school activity not near to your home, you might be better off choosing a school near it, and the footprint is the same.

It's better to discourage the harmful activity directly than to impose indirect restrictions, since those discriminate against specific groups.
Perhaps you should re-read the last sentence in my comment.
They are similar in a way that none of them is readable. At least Perl is writable...
Yeah, long term relationship here, we split our expenses using Google Sheets. I have to say I don't feel any pain doing it this way, and it's super simple - just sum two columns and show the outstanding difference.

I certainly appreciate how often applications can grow out of spreadsheets, but I don't see why I need an application to do this kind of thing...
Not giving them this information.

Every question to Google is an answer for Google.
This is why I am a developer. I was in the restaurant business right out of high school, looked around me and saw success usually correlated with addiction, went back to college and never looked back.
OpenDNS is neither Open nor DNS.

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> Once upon a time there was Qt, but now it's also doing qml+js..

QML+JS is still primarily C++ in that the QML gets compiled into a scene graph that is then processed in C++ and OpenGL and your JS would typically only be setup and glue code. QML makes it super easy to write single objects in C++ and have them seamlessly communicate with QML/JS, so writing simple logic in JS and performance-sensitive code in C++ is easy to do. QML performs extremely well, while my brief experience with electron was less favourable.
Yeah, this space is very exciting at the moment. Would be great to see a summary of all the current incumbents and new companies and what they're working on.
I commissioned and programmed pdp11/83 based systems used for process control and operator interface systems in a steelworks as "recently" as 1989. I wouldn't be surprised if they were still running...
Don't understand the parent downvote, i was also very intrigued by the startup's claims. If someone with good expertise on the field could bring arguments that would be great.
I seem to remember gas works in England would convert coal into gas too. No that this is something that would be done today given natural gas being cheaper.
So make it an opt-in mode, just like sideloading apps.
Flock seems like it could help solve some crimes, but at a huge cost - privacy. You can't opt out, unless you live nearby and register with the company. "Residents of monitored neighbourhoods can opt-out of being tracked - but visitors, or people passing through, cannot."

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41008141

Do people like law enforcement collecting license plates and keeping them in databases indefinitely? How about random people? (Flock says it deletes data after 30 days, users have it beyond 30 days). What if their users had a database with pictures of faces, not just license plates? Facial recognition seems to be in their roadmap.

For context, it's presumably legal in California to collect licenses plates, and pictures of people's faces, if they're in public spaces.

A quote from the founder on privacy: "We don’t want into get into the business of making decisions about privacy and how this technology is used beyond the original use case."

Aren't there better ways to solve the problem(s) this product solves?
"tolerance for intolerance" somehow makes it seem like intolerance is a good thing.

The phrase itself is oxymoronic and probably better termed "intolerance for tolerance"
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Discussed a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505349.
That's true. Although if you are moving across continents I imagine moving all your furniture and appliances would be a major headache. If you can get all your stuff packed into a suitcase that process would be much simpler. Which means you are de facto more mobile.
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Yes. But that would break all existing tools wrapping around apt-key.

That's the downside of everything-is-just-strings in Unix
I don't remember the details, unfortunately. They may have just planted (simulated) shaped charges directly on the hull, or they may have gone through some rigamarole with grappling hooks or something.

It occurs to me that you could probably climb the outside of a ship with sci-fi electromagnetic gloves/boots, but I've never heard of anyone actually making anything like that.