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Hey fellow HN'ers, I recently discovered you can select source in this (windows) terminal-like fashion by holding alt (i.e. https://imgur.com/a/XnCSd).

Does anyone know what is the purpose of this feature? I always disliked how difficult is to select something on windows cmd, this seems like anti-feature for me, but obviously I am missing something.
I also appreciate the effort that went into some of those things. Two of my favorite documentary series are the world wars in color (one series for each).

When they were first aired, there was a special episode with the director and artists who did the work. The amount of research they put into it, the amount of effort they out into doing the work, and their attempts to be faithful to the history really, really impressed me.

It's able to be an art, in and of itself. It's also able to be undertaken as a scholarly work. Additionally, the original uncolorized work is still available. It's an additive process and isn't destructive.

I'm not sure why you'd be agitated, but I don't have your perspective. I'd better understand, I think, if it meant the destruction of the original work.
> (Pet example: if you designed websites as data structures and the browser to support doing so efficiently, 90% of requests on a site like Reddit would be a single `memcpy`.)

You'd still want a compressed form, even if you had a good way to bypass parsing.
Come work at Intuit, we get to use a Mac and the apps aren't blocked.
It's not low value. You get a good gauge of others' sentiment with that kind of comment triplet. That social information is worth more than the value of the person who learned the information silently upvoting the evidentiary response, with no follow-up comment left behind.
That's true for the massive difference I was trying to show. Let's try to fix the stats, this shows somewhat smaller differences.

The US has 192 rural inhabitants per thousand, as opposed to 176 for Australia.[1] Australia seems significantly more urbanised if anything. According to your logic, we should expect to see more hate crimes. That's not what happens though.

Wikipedia's list of ethnic riots has 134 entries for the US(since 1857, as that's the first Australian entry(there's more US entries in the dedicated article)), and 8 for Australia. That's 0.41 per million in the US, against 0.33 per million in Australia. The modern population should be fine as an approximation.

I'm going to insert mass shootings, because it's always fun to point this out. Wikipedia has 181 shootings worthy of articles[3], or 0.56 per million. Australia has 13[4], or 0.54 per million. As you've pointed out, Australia has a lower population, so this probably means that smaller shootings are worthy of articles. Removing shootings with less than 5 victims(which wouldn't have an article if they were American) gives us 7, or 0.30 per million.

Going back to homosexuals, the US has 148 items in Wikipedia's "History of violence against LGBT people in the United States"[5], or 0.47 per million. Australia has 13 entries(and no dedicated page)[6], or 0.54 per million. I'd almost surrender that point, if Australia didn't have 100% less cults walking around shouting that god hates fags, and 100%(or 6) less mass shootings of homosexuals.

Admittedly, I truncated all my numbers because I'm lazy. Sorry.

[1]http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/People/Urban-...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_riots
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_shootings_in_the...
[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia
[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LG...
[6]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_acts_of_violence_a...
They have in the last bit here (don't quote me on an exact time frame) stopped caring about Linux/osx support and frequently offered things that are only playable through steam.

I mean like I said elsewhere, I still shop there because: why not, if it's cheaper; they don't have any noticable mission statement anymore though.
I like Firefox too, but chrome still displays JSON objects in the console very nicely. I haven't found a good way to do this in FF yet. Do you know of a way?
This is an interesting argument. I'm aware of it but wasn't aware that the other person was referring to it in his post.

I certainly think it would be interesting to have the FCC allocate a band that could be used in a less regulated way such as you describe.

It's a very interesting area of SDR and game theory and I've actually put a bit of thought into how such an ecosystem might work after hearing a talk about the DARPA Spectrum Challenge.

So I don't disagree with your point at all, and think that the FCC should allocate some spectrum to this sort of deregulated scenario. Perhaps if it also required that all protocol and modulation approaches be open sourced that would help participants to coordinate usefully.

I think that we are far from the limits of physics across most of the network, but there are likely some congestion patterns in dense areas that create complex intermod scenarios that would make a system like this somewhat brittle until the ecosystem evolved to find a cooperative equilibrium of some sort.

In addition to MIMO, I'm interested in things like using TDM and awareness of harmonic and intermod characteristics to create various emergent latency "contracts" that correlated with different frequency ranges and time slices, so that participants that did not need low latency could create significantly less interference than they otherwise would, and participants could cooperate based on the data rate and latency requirements of other nearby nodes.
That is certainly the best case scenario. And I'm not saying it won't happen, but it does give me pause. T-Mobile has been doing a pretty great job in recent years of expanding coverage while keeping prices relatively low, and I can't help but worry that a Sprint merger complete with two different cellphone technologies will end up being a huge distraction that'll slow both of them down for years.
Wasn't IGN almost Steam in a previous life?
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At the very least, GOG is an independent game retailer. For most of the games you'll see on the Humble Store, what you actually get is just a Steam key for that game. There's a few indie games where they've funded porting work for one of the Humble Indie Bundles, but I doubt many of those are exclusive to the Humble Store.
Half of $0.000000001 is $0
I've seen people use the same shortcut in sublime text to copy small code blocks (without copying the indentation).
Practical Deep Learning for Coders, Part 1
They should not let this merger go through. If Sprint needs to sell they should sell themselves to Comcast/Charter.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-talks-comcast-...
2 key sentences in the article say so much:
"Several said Model X, Model S and former SolarCity operations seemed to be targeted."
...
"The spokesman said most of the dismissals were administrative and sales positions, and outside of manufacturing."

This has little to do with performance or any conspiracies. If your output of products is about to dramatically shift there is no reason to think employment should remain stable among all departments. I would guess if shifting a company's labor requirements was more politically correct, the shift would be much larger.

The average pundits head might just explode trying to rationalize the juxtaposition of a clean tech company increasing production rapidly yet 'firing' hundreds. The rational, however, applaud these efforts and the difficult decisions this requires.
IDK man, afaik there's no way to prettify API responses in a Response tab.
There is another problem with stack ranking -- I saw this at a previous employer: some people are hired into "4s and 5s" from the onset. I heard some hiring managers upset that they would have to force rank their hand-selected elite team into 1-5 ranks, and upset at the situation, they purposefully hired weak workers with the intention of slotting them into 4 and 5 ranks. Their argument was (i dont agree):

- these weak workers wouldnt otherwise have a job

- these weak workers get an extra year of employment they "dont deserve"

- the strong team members get the 1,2,3 ranks they deserve

- the hiring manager is "forced" to do this

All that said, seems incredibly unfair to hire people directly into the chopping block without the expectation set from the start.
Occasional underperformance is normal variance as is overperformance. If you can't handle these cases you don't belong in management, and if you fire everyone for underperforming once (your suggestion) you will soon have no workers, and you will cause everyone remaining to underperform.
This is a very odd comment.

The whole purpose of the comment section is for people to discuss their take on the news, including if this is a good or bad sign.

So... your top comment is preemptively trying to funnel that discussion as well as a meta-discussion about any such news.

It would have been simpler to just say your mind:

> I confess I feel it here [...] “oh no, they sold out” [...] “uh oh, that’s the beginning of the end.”
I remember reading this in Readers Digest way back in the early 90s.
Ah yes. The "we hire a few psychopaths now and then" excuse.
I'm not sure if your question was tongue-in-cheek, but a k-hole (high ketamine dose) is also considered by some to be a psychedelic experience. It was (is?) common in the rave culture to do exactly what you describe.
Hiring managers are going to remember this. I hope that it was performance related and that Tesla wasn’t just trying to save face with investors.
Can anyone give me any insights into how stuff like this (and Goop) gets any traction?
I share the same reaction. I can think of many examples in which a company that made something I cared about got acquired and the product got ruined. Pretty much the only counter example I can come up with right now are Disney's acquisitions of Marvel and Star Wars.
Anecdotally, this is precisely my experience. It'll start the engine, but you have to navigate the course.
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Better question: how much of that did IGN decide to give to charities?
Yes. I think if you put you and your parent comment together it forms a good synthesis of how to approach the results of this study.
I'm sorry, but as someone who's reflexively pro-union and admittedly not versed in the issues you're talking about, you'll need to provide some better references for me to understand what you're talking about specifically. The citations you've provided don't back up your claims at all -- I don't doubt that Tesla and the like are targeted by unions, but you'll need to reference more than the US labor law and one guy's salary to convince me that they do more harm than good.
I aks for three of each, because the first one in each category is predictable and therefore not useful.
Interesting comments can also be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15470314
How would that be better?
Its still useful for providing feedback.
Same here.

They've not been humble, indie, or a bundle for a long time.

Par for the course. Similar disingenuous commercialization is rampant through the games industry: see what Valve has done to Steam, and what major publishers have done to their titles vis monetization.

Unfortunately the games industry is floating in too much money for another crash to clean house.
I think Amazon has done a fairly good job with Twitch. Adding features and such. Maybe it’s because there really isn’t another big competitor to twitch right now so nobody jumped ship when it was acquired.
I specifically mentioned that analogy was not accurate. I have to add that it's the kind of feeling that directly reflects teenager's physical growth, taller, quicker, faster, stronger, etc. Perhaps my original analogy led you to relate to the emotional side more. Especially in western societies, that can turn to more physical impact. Teenagers in China actually have that kind of things as well, but there is simply less room for them.

Another thing is, in a world with several nuclear weapon equipped states, can two such nations simply confront with each other? Look around east Asia, you have to play very carefully.

So I guess there should have been more context to put in to have a better idea of what I was trying to deliver. If some big and vague words can explain, yeah, it's cultural difference, too.
And pension plans can't be evil? All it takes is the guy running it to be immoral, and they have an incentive to be as it increases the numbers they are rated by
Life is the characteristic that distinguishes organisms from inorganic substances and dead objects. (WP)

Anyone who made it through the childhood and has no plan to die soon succeeded at life. You probably mistaking it with reproduction, which is often required as ability, not as demand.

It is also pretty rough to label fertile ones as losers.
There is a rational talking point relating to a higher noise floors causing smaller range and higher bit error rates. For CDMA network P/N solution is a real thing.
I can't wait for IGN to put their name all over stuff like they own it, like they did with almost everybody's cheat codes submitted to the old cheat codes site that they bought, including codes I had submitted. Any they've never bothered to fix them even after notification, either.

Just wait and see. The garbage self-marketing begins now.
I'm not a fan of firing the bottom 10% of annual 360 reviews, but, do you think that having a 10% false-positive rate on interviewing/hiring is outside the realm of possibility?

EDIT: Just so you know ... the cumulative quarter average (done annually) cull of the bottom 10% (people who have been put on improvement plans 3 quarters ago), is done by people that have nothing to do with interviewing/hiring. You'd probably be firing the wrong folks.
Lifetime prevalence remains the same.
They're big companies that can afford to invest in Sprint's network and could bundle wireless service with other products. And most importantly it doesn't let the industry consolidate from 4 to 3 players.
I actually live in Seattle right now, and throughout Washington my whole life, which is why I got into programing (thanks Redmond!)
The effects of subthreshold doses of psilocybine would suggest that it's a cause of the drug, rather than the experience.
Everything all humans have ever said and done were merely disguised ways of sneaking in "me" in the conversation.
Who is the person ultimately responsible for creating this junkware known as CoinhiveJS? That is the entity we should be focusing on, not these sites.
Collapsed?

Or were supply lines selectively destroyed by market-cornering adversaries, knowingly, according to the degree of “demand” which might be extracted?
The high estimate was 700 fired. Out of 33,000, that's 2%. Culling the bottom 2% performers seems like a reasonable (even healthy) thing to do; not really an upheaval.
Do other companies do this? Unless this is GE-style force ranking, I've never heard of it.

If somebody isn't performing well, I have no idea why I'd wait up to a year to deal with it. And it seems terrible for morale (and PR) to have a regular event where a bunch of people will be let go in one block.
Fair enough. I thought it would be a useful contribution to describe my gut reaction, but with a clear disclosure that I recognize my own impulsivity.

Your suggestion is much more concise, and brevity has never been one of my gifts.
They do have more than just games like e-books https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791255
There is some truth there but what you say really only makes sense if you are talking about massive layoffs that would have a major effect on the local labor market.
Supplementary to that and also a bit more specific I'd be grateful for an answer to the following:

Is it considered best practice today to use Flex & Bison for the front-end of (for example) a basic C compiler?
This is because our intelligence agencies currently view China as a tamed bitch and Russia as a wild threat.

This view may or not be in tune with reality, but that is the view none the less
It’s mostly appearance based, Xi Jinping looks like Winnie the Pooh and lanky Obama looks like Tigger, and it’s popularity as a meme soared after China censored them on Weibo.

Examples:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02590/TIGGER_259...

https://i.imgur.com/qouV61I.jpg
Outside the realm of possibility? No. But if 10% of my work (I'm a warehouse worker) had to be thrown out I'd have been fired within a month.
Well, there's a lot of details and I don't think I can cover it all here, but if you're interested in the general framework that I used to approach this problem, take a look at this blog post I wrote last year: https://medium.com/@upal/how-to-use-machine-learning-to-debu.... Let me know if you have any feedback!
When they keys are all different types then you've got

data Value =
...
| VMap (Map Value Value)
...

assocIn :: [Value] -> (Value -> Value) -> (Value -> Value)

I was again assuming types more informative than Clojure. Also again, lenses actually solve the higher information type situation that you're pointing at in your comment.
There was that whole annexation of Crimea thing.
Assuming they check your results before passing them along, it’d be noticed immediately. Hard to discover, easy to verify. Not much different than just blocking them.
There are tons of nutballs who are convinced the fed is behind every bad thing. Where's the evidence that they are bad? I believe they are like wall street, insulated from normal life via controlling the money supply, and their goals might not help most people, just 'keep the economy going and growing' helps wallstreet more than main street.

If they were truly bad, I'd hear about it from respectable liberal and conservative speakers.
Another article on New Yorker (published in 2015), "Born Red", is quite interesting as well on this subject.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red

According to the article, Xi once said,

"People who have little experience with power,
those who have been far away from it, tend
to regard these things as mysterious and
novel. But I look past the superficial
things: the power and the flowers and
the glory and the applause. I see the
detention houses, the fickleness of
human relationships. I understand politics
on a deeper level."

I am sympathetic about Xi's early traumatic experience; but I also feel that if he considers that "human relationship" is essentially "fickle", it would be quite scary as well, especially for a decision maker at a country's top level, as he is. I don't know how much trust he has for any one who is not in his family (or even for his family members); but a society with a very low level of mutual trust is a horrible place to live -- not to mention its average interpersonal cooperation cost would be very high, people would even hurt and damage each other's interest just to obtain a bit more sense of security. The harsh censorship there is one such example; as well as that in China more and more people these days are being sent to prison, after some staged trial in a kangaroo court -- simply because they voiced something that the administration does not want to hear.

Humanity itself is a quite complex matter. It's true that sometimes, certain people can be quite cruel, ruthless, or even cold-blooded; but this should not be a universal trait for the overall human beings -- or otherwise, it would have been a definition for the concept of "human" many centuries ago. There is a dynamic motley of benignity and malignity in any individual -- and the concept of "benignity" or "malignity" can be relative in certain cases. It's better for us all, if we construct a system that could inspire more benignity (-- or if possible, maximize ) out of us.

But today, many dealings by the Chinese government seems to simply view its citizens as objects or even tools, with "fickling" worthiness that does not lie within themselves but is based on the external perspective of the ruling party, to perpetuate their ruling.

Perhaps that is why Xi would raise the question to Biden in 2011/2, "why does the U.S. put so much emphasis on human rights." [1]

Note:
[1] see https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red for the details about that episode...
This is only because of the hard work of the mods (dang and sctb).
Due to that risk, the wast majority of base research aren't funded by investors. NiH funding for medical research is the single biggest researcher in the world, with a annual research budget of $26.4 billion. All that is paid double by the citizens, first through taxes and then again through insurance/drug cost.

Now imagine if we had a regulation that both forbade universities from issuing patents and limited the price of any drug that is initially based on public funded research.
The rare blood group called Bombay Blood [video]
And it is suprising that such social mobility is possible in autocratic regimes but not in US.
The Sound the US Diplomats in Cuba Were Subjected To
I agree that this sounds terrible. Tmobile is revializing the mobile world. I love love love all the things that tmobile as been doing. They've not bought all that low frequency tv white spaces spectrum, there's a good chance they will continue to force the other major players to improve and lower prices.

They have been ending the horrible contract system, taking customers with their innvoation. I love being able to use my phone internationally. I don't see how much good can come of this. sprint is just going to be an anvil around their feet, with debt service to paying off the sprint owners holding tmobile back. This is what at&t and verizon want probably.
There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence
That HN submission was softkilled almost immediately (it fell of the front page near immediately, presumably by flags by people who aren't interested in random gamer stuff). And now the story is #1 on Hacker News.

This is a case where HN's rule of original titles can be somewhat annoying.
I’d reply honestly to you but it would just get me banned.

Like it or not you’ve contributed to a culture that people can’t reply to you honestly in.

Think about how dangerous that is.
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. I definitely don't think that the individual citizens of America are in any way inferior to those of any other country, nor do I think that collectively Americans are to blame for their current predicament.

While I don't really understand your point about showing gratitude.
1. Many of the major medical breakthroughs in recent history have nothing to do with "America", sure some of them might have happened there but that's hardly their defining factor.
2. Where in my comment did I imply that it was not disgraceful that American people where not enjoying the drugs we have in the modern world?

In terms of the whole homosexuality thing, no shit. It's also a problem that we are absolutely ruining the lives of the aboriginal population by throwing up barriers to progression and education at every turn and just treating them like second class citizens at best. Even worse that the way we treat our native citizens is how we treat refugees who we send to an unregulated island so we can beat the shit out of them and rape their children.

But just because there are parts of Australia that make me worry for this cesspit of inhumane bullshit, doesn't mean I can't also find it appalling that as a nation it seems impossible that america can't stop killing it's own citizens. Lethal weapons are sold at the local shopping centre, you can't get medical care even if you need it and God help you if your not white, you basically just need to factor "will get shot by police at some point" into your life plan.

Just because two countries are fucked up doesn't mean that you can't notice the stuff about another country and makes it fucked up alongside your own.
tmobile doesn't need this. it's not going to make the us market better for anyone, other than maybe sprint customers, and probably better for verizon and at&t
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