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> Article says its a banking environment, nobody outside of desktop support will have admin access to their PC/Laptop

But then it should be even simpler: Have the desktop support team (or whoever manages all those PC/Laptops) solve it centrally, once and for all, for every computer in the company.
What we knew as Hewlett-Packard is now broken up and part of several companies. First there was HP, Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise with the bulk of the employees at HPE. Then HPE spun out the Enterprise Services division (now part of DXC Technology) and Software division (now part of Micro Focus). Those combined were a majority of the employees. What you have left in HPE today could be 50k people.
OK, let me tell my wife to stop working and become a homemaker so I can "optimize away the chores" from my life. That sounds like a more sensible solution than working a normal amount of hours.
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I always ask questions too, but by the time I go to the doc it's usually something that requires more than just waiting a few more days.
Which audio framework did you choose for this?
I don't see how the Flint Water Crisis is connected to Nestle. That was a political decision from the government reeling from the fallout of the loss of US car manufacturing in the area. The company wasn't stealing the town's water as far as I know.
Yeah... I mean how bright of a future does HP/UX have as long as it is tied to Itanium? It seems like a x86-64 port is necessary for future life.
Exactly this. Could not have said it better myself. Even trying to sort this stuff out properly could cost your department millions of pounds due to bureaucracy and incompetent management.
Over 1 Billion users.

According to wiki:
According to the Financial Times, WhatsApp "has done to SMS on mobile phones what Skype did to international calling on landlines."[167]

Seems pretty world changing in terms of providing a core communication service to 1/7 of the human population
Magit has an extensive manual that includes a "getting started" section: https://magit.vc/manual/magit.html#Getting-Started
> So you want to sabotage the system because you're afraid of being replaced by a robot?

Being "afraid" for oneself isn't necessary to simply be passive-aggressive towards something you don't like for reasons you can explain, and that were explained. And it doesn't necessarily have to be all about oneself either.

> If it is going to rain, you might as well sell umbrellas.

This isn't humans vs. weather, it's not humans vs. machines, it's humans vs. humans.
If they'd make a non-browning avocado, most of these yuppies would immediately abandon their anti-GMO stances I imagine :)
Early versions of mongodb locked the entire database server for every single write. Later versions locked the entire database for every single write. Only since Mongo 3.0 does MMAP only lock a single collection for a write and is WiredTiger available to offer you MVCC. And even in the MongoDB world materials it advertised now you can use more of your hardware.... Granted you could always shard, though that gets very expensive very quickly. Meanwhile postgresql had MVCC all along and its write speed was always faster than mongo on a single server basis. And you always could serialize data that changed into text fields as xml/json/csv/some other format. Mongo was mostly great marketing and a lousy product. Over time it has gotten much better. Mongo 3.2 is a way way way better product than mongo 1.x. But marketing did capitalize on a lot of hype which made no sense. Developers enjoyed just serializing their objects (the ones who didn't think of doing this into a text column in a relational db) and for the ones who did not need 'web scale' they had no idea about the severe concurrency issues introduced by mongo's writes. And for the rest there are plenty of posts about hacking around it or switching from Mongo to something else.
I use the "Chrome Store Foxified" extension which lets you install some Chrome plugins including HNES.
Afaik, it's not chronic in the sense that you procrastinate the one thing, but that you procrastinate lots of things constantly.
How does one go about debugging something like this to pinpoint the root cause? I am just curious. I know nothing about PA (or even sound). Thanks!
This is just the normal lifecycle of the internet or just humans in general. We loved the word disruption a couple of years ago, and now there's a shift to hate it. We loved apps, now we hate them. We loved IoT now nobody talks about it. Deep/Machine learning is all the rage.
Oh wow, I never even thought of messing with winhelp.exe. Luckily, I was able to remap F1 at my job, so it was fine. :-)
Besides all that... it seems like this is an easier fix. Don't a lot of computer gamers remove their Windows keys for similar reasons?
I think one thing is disruption the other is unprofitable disruption. Newer better ways of doing things is great. The problem is when Uber & Amazon disrupt the old ways with cheap capital and unprofitable prices. Once the old shops/taxis have died they can raise prices. That isn't fair.
Like rape? I don't think so.
Every Silicon Valley, NYC, and Denver office I’ve worked in had cleaning crews who dusted desks / keyboards at least weekly, if not more often.

Source: I’ve been in the office working when they came through.
For me, personally, the bad old days before PA was OSS, when an application could squat on the audio hardware and absolutely disallow any other software from playing any sounds at all on the system until it was stopped or forcibly killed. And good luck finding which piece of software was claiming absolute ownership of your sound card.

PA gives me the ability to have multiple pieces of software making noise at once, a software mixer with per-application and per-sound-hardware volume control which is completely divorced from those applications (so if I say MUTE, it is damn well MUTED), and the ability to choose where the sound is being output to. I cannot imagine anything doing better on the hardware I have.
> Wow, I thought it was pretty clear when I said that self-contained == not a function. I don't know how you've interpreted that to mean 'is finite'...

Because your definition doesn't make sense. Everything in mathematics is a function. I was trying to do you the courtesy of interpreting what you said in a way that made sense rather than just pointing out that you don't seem to understand what a function is.

> The program above is not a function; it has no inputs; it has no free variables; etc. hence it is a finite, self-contained program.

Now it sounds like what you're trying to get at is the concept of a "constant function" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_function). Constant functions are functions, and they can have inputs.

So now it seems that you've just spent all this time and effort to point out that diagonalization is not a constant function. That's true, but I don't think it's a particularly interesting observation.
If they don't record debt in good standing, is there anything that prevents people from taking on far more debt than they can possibly handle, other than unusual things like common sense?
As an HPE employee, we've been hearing of major layoffs for the last few months, and they're supposedly going to start in November...
Seems pretty difficult to use, almost on the same level as trying to learn to use vim/emacs on 2017, somehow i expected a "poweful (G)UI" rather than a text-based one. Anyone has a good recommendation for a good GUI for GIT, GIT-GUI its a really confusing and jetbrains integrations felt like someone with heavy background on cvs/svn made the interface.
Well, that number is Jan 2017, so it at very least still includes the staff spun off into DXC. DXC supposedly has 170k but presumably a large amount of that came from CSC.
Other nice ideas:

> Cap political donations

> Reduce allotted time for campaigning to something like 2 months, and maybe have it publicly funded like Australia

> Use open source congressional redistricting algorithms

> Eliminate First Past the Post

> Eliminate straight ticket voting

All pretty nice ideas that mostly everyone that isn't in power can get behind
If you can't understand why enterprises don't just hire a couple engineers to rebuild everything in Go/Rust/NodeJS and save millions of dollars in enterprise software expenses, you probably really are in a bubble.
Something tells me that even that will get a little shaky as the public cloud grows, unless they nab a contract with Amazon/Microsoft/Google to provide servers for their cloud services.
One thing that helps my reading, paradoxically, is listening to speech on headphones whilst out on a walk. I sometimes find myself visualising the words as I hear them. Presumably this helps me to recognise them more speedily in print.
Anecdotal evidence, but I can confirm black cabs are pretty rubbish and extremely expensive in London. Broken card machines ("broken"?) are a thing. Friends complain similarly.

Uber experiences all good so far.

Not an Uber lover here, just astounded by people reporting that black cabs offer a decent service. I really like the design of black cabs, but since those bad experiences I have avoided them completely.
yes. you can also ahk it or get a keyboard with a winkey kill switch
I use eshell and tramp so that all my dev work is from in Emacs. It also meant that git was kinda ugly in the eshell, so that made the change to always use magit kind of easy.

In general, things just work as expected. Bind "C-x g" (or whatever) to open the status window, and "s" will stage changes. "c" will bring up a window asking if you want to commit. "k" will kill whatever the point is at. Tab will expand changes, and you can highlight then with a region to stage just part. (Or kill to discard part.).

At any time "h" provides a ton of help.
Org mode is the other reason.
You might be overthinking it. Try "F U, Google" on for size.

The CAPTCHA is annoying, because I already know I am not a robot. It is an artificial barrier erected between me and what I want. That it is obviously being used to assemble a training corpus for an AI is a further insult, because that is itself just making it harder to automatically distinguish human from AI. And it is a deeper insult to realize that said AI, once trained, is going to completely destabilize the economy I depend on for my livelihood.

I am not a trucker or car driver, so it doesn't hurt me directly, but the fact that those workers contribute to the economic web by spending most of what they earn means that when robots "terk their jeorbs!" it's going to hurt every business where they spent their earnings, and every business where the employees of those businesses spend money, and so on, until I lose enough customers to hurt. The owners of Google neither spend (investment is not spending) enough of their money nor pay enough in taxes--a.k.a. forced spending--to replace the thousands of people that spend nearly every dollar they earn back into the economy.

Also, each individual CAPTCHA is worth a fractional cent of work, that I don't get paid to do, but Google vacuums up all the half cents--like in Superman 3--and reaps tangible benefit. Thousands of people train the AI, but only Google ends up owning it. So there is no incentive for me to solve the CAPTCHA "correctly", only just barely enough to be automatically classified as not-robot. You want me to do it right? Pay me what that work is worth to you.

As for the other point, no, it is not ethical to create an AI with human-like qualities, say that you own it, and take all of its valuable work product for yourself. I feel like this has been settled since Data was declared a person in Star Trek: TNG.
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The air travel system in the US is run by the Feds. They require identification documents from passengers. This creates a defacto need for a national ID, although at present the issue is being fudged by use of state-issued driver's licenses (which the Feds won't accept as usable in the case of several states).
I will confess it is sometimes slow over a tramp connection. Though, really, I think that is just my VPN being garbage.
Not that this is really any help, but an acquaintance of mine works for HPE and notified he was being laid off yesterday, and his last day is today. He was with HP (now HPE) for maybe 4-6 years.
I can't agree with "compliant = sustainable and good business".

Having worked in the most regulated business - insurance, and being there when more consumer protection has been implemented, I can say that there was no drop in scams and complaints AT ALL.

The fact that you have a license or a traditional VC money, doesn't ensure success or fair service. In fact, around 90% of VC funded startups fail too.

Legal or compliant doesn’t mean "not scamming".
It just means more expensive and hence restrictive..

It blows my mind that crypto-folks who promote inclusion and freedom call for regulation instead of finding new smart ways to deal with new problems.

For example, Bitcoin resolved privacy and re-use of addresses with HD wallets.
Problem with thieves - solved through hardware wallets.

I'm sure we have the capacity to deal with upcoming issues without someone telling us what to do and actually preventing GOOD ideas to be done without having to sell your soul. I understand VC's interests here, but they also need to understand that their value will increasingly be in the experience, contacts and network that they have, not necessarily in their money.

Having said all that, no, I'm not a fan of 99% of current ICOs. But still I don't cry on the shoulders of regulators. And those speculators who invest without any due diligence, usually with much lower $$ value than what it seems and with the vision of a 100x or 500x in a few months, well those will learn through experience. The market will clean itself from fraudsters.
I've left the center of my live in pursuit of a better job, and even though I earn above average wage, taxes & rent consume a huge chunk of it, because many people here live in subsidized housing.

Is that more fair?

Now I can either be poor in my home town (no good jobs) or poor in a big city, where my wage is largely consumed by high taxes and rent. Why do other people deserve a subsidized house but I don't? I want more disposable income too.
I can understand it. Just commenting on what I suspect is majority HN view. Lot of people here are from startups or from Silicon Valley etc.

I'd also like to mention massive waste of money in enterprise IT though. I have seen big enterprise companies buy licenses for products from a consultancy company which costs tens of millions per year and it never ends up being used ;)

Rewriting everything in a hipster / HN favorite language is obviously naive but there is a lot of money being wasted now in enterprise IT that could be saved and used more efficiently (like R&D and innovation). Enterprise is area ripe for disruption imho.
The water table. In some areas (like where I lived in Florida) your basement would flood. You'd have to have a pump working constantly.
I have switched to using black cabs with Gett, I find it a much better experience. I like knowing what to expect, lots of space, the drivers are professionals and there's no pressure to chat. For me that's a good thing, I prefer to have a bit of free time instead of a social interaction with a stranger.
I'd consider HNES's highlighting of new comments to be nearly essential to reading HN. I don't understand how others can follow long discussions without any indication of what comments have been posted since a previous viewing or refresh. And it doesn't seem to me like it would be a difficult feature to add.
Disruption is nothing new; it's been happening for millennia. I think the pace of modern disruption is much faster than in the past -- but IMO this has more to do with global population levels. Technology was an enabler here, but really what we've seen is that world population has grown so much that formerly "niche" markets are now quite viable simply based on sheer numbers. A higher number of viable niche markets means more adjacent markets to try to disrupt bigger markets from, leading to a constant cycle of disruption.

In many senses, "disruptive" simply means "a greater share of revenue goes to the shareholders". This allows "disruptive" companies to win in price-competitive markets, but it has the side effect of consolidating economic wins in single layer of the economy at a macro level. Advances in capital finance without accompanying advances in worker protections led to this; but again, thanks to the population mentioned above, there's not exactly a worker shortage and thus no pressure for worker protections from the political class.
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Is there an editor that supports jump to definition for macros?
furthermore, farmers are forced to plant "refuge" plots - plots that do not get GMO seeds, nor get herbicide/pesticide treatments. This ensures that there is plenty of resistance-less plants/insects left in the gene pool to cross breed with any plants/insects that have developed a resistance - there by preventing the resistant plants/insects from taking over and becoming dominant. Quite brilliant when you think about it.
Why? It makes a great "ctrl".
That's exactly what an internet shill would want you to think ;)
In all their wisdom Asus put the power button next to the delete button on my BX410 [0]. Too bad I can't pop that button. Setting it to do nothing is the first thing I do after installing Linux (which I do regularly).

[0] https://dlcdnimgs.asus.com/websites/global/products/APfLG1Rk...
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Oh, it did not work good for many use cases, and even in the supported use cases it had pretty severe bugs. PA is also way more power efficient.
When I was a coop in college, everyone at Boeing was in a union, this included the student cooping at Boeing and the full time engineers.
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These things come and go, the annoying part is verifying they are still maintained. I recently collected this list along with the best discussion, typically from their launch:

http://hackernewsgrid.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078605 (2017)

https://www.taggernews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337275 (2017)

https://vue-hn.now.sh & https://hnews.xyz | https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hnews.xy (2017-ish; 3 discussions)

https://tophn.info | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782574 (2017; only 1 comment)

https://hn.algolia.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801 (2015; official search provider)

http://ihackernews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1694049 -ish (2010; ran an API for a while)

https://hckrnews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14962820 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1722914 (2010)

Many of these discussions include comments vouching for these and other alternative UIs.

App recommendations would also be appreciated (if you created or regularly use the app yourself).
Right. Messaging apps like Twitter didn't change the world.
>Um, I distinctly remember reading about insects evolving to adapt to changes brought about by humanity in one generation

Literally impossible. Mutations can't magically move to high frequency in one generation. The article you said this 'Plant populations began to diverge significantly in response to insect attack in as few as three to four generations'. Not one. Yes intense single mode-of-action selection can change allele frequencies in a short period of time, but that is much different than adapting to novel challenges.

The types of adaptations you are talking about are likely what we call "standing variation". Dormant mutations at intermediate frequency that become fit during intermittent circumstances. Like a stressful year, or a certain predator that comes every decade.

In the case of chemicals however, we are dealing with an entirely novel mechanism, with little to no standing variation to draw upon. Thus evolution in this circumstance is slow.
It's pretty easy to use the Mongo protocol to talk to Postgres, and Postgres JSONB beats Mongo BSON hands down
What is difficult about it? I don't mean that combatively. Genuinely curious. I'd think a toolbar might help some folks, but I also expect some folks need a different interface.
> A 20MT weapon detonation could result in disabling the global electrical production and distribution system, as well as permanently disabling the electronics necessary to move food, water, and medical supplies.

The Tsar Bomba was a 50MT detonation and no such thing happened.

There certainly are more electronics around today, but the EMP from a 20MT blasts, or even many 20MT blasts, would not be global, and even many electronics in range would be fine.
As a matter of fact, my desktop & my laptop are both wired, and I hate how flaky WiFi is on my phone & tablet. Just moving to different rooms in my (small house) does horrible things to my network connexion speed — but Ethernet keeps on chugging along.
Thanks, you're very welcome.
From the article:

>These founders who actually have disrupted industries and markets were not grandiose when they started out.

They did not appear grandiose from the outside. But the founders were very ambitious. With Newmark as an exception among the mentioned examples.
The idea that public rights shouldn't be sold on the private market

That's not what the article is saying. And you know that's not what the article is saying.

Right?
I personally think it is impossible to eliminate bias. Even news services that try to inject as little opinion as possible (eg wire services like AP News) have to make some choice on what they carry and how they phrase it.

All five of those sources are biased, but in different ways. It is helpful to "look outside your natural bias" sometimes, so assuming the NYT maintains its quality standard it probably is worthwhile for an American conservative to peek in that direction every now and then. (This goes vice versa, eg it is helpful for American liberals looking at more sober quality news sources with a more American-business-conservative bias like the WSJ.)

The important key here though is accuracy and sober analysis. So the fact that the NYT is "American liberal" is not a problem. The issue described in the linked article, that they did a poor job of fact-checking on a relatively sensationalist article, is a problem. The BBC also has its own bias too, but at least they showed a little big more skepticism compared to the other outlets. So props to the BBC here.

IMHO if the New York Times values its current "quality journalism" rep, they need to watch this more carefully. There are plenty of clickbait sensationalism-driven "news" outlets, and only a relative few with decent reporting reputation. "Quality journalism" is more expensive, but I feel it is also something some people actually would pay subscription money for. Few people are going to want to pay money these days for sensationalist clickbait they can get on the Internet for free.
> I'm really struggling to see why your advice is any better than: Treat when sick, stop when well. Even if you get sick again: treat when sick, stop when well.

First, bacteria multiply very quickly. In the days between the first and second course, the bacteria could recolonize to the same number you had before. So it's not just as simple as taking the remainder of the course of antibiotics or even a slightly shortened one. You may need to take another full course. Additionally, those bacteria have had time to evolve and possibly become resistant.

Second, when you take antibiotics, it doesn't just kill the bad bacteria. Sometimes good bacteria dies as well. This can be disastrous to your health if done too many times.
This is not true. The first amendment says the government can't pass laws to suppress free speech. And in fact the press is required to do all sorts of things for the public good, such as:

https://www.fcc.gov/general/emergency-alert-system-eas
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