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Your analogies are not working. They are not at all on point, and they are not at all relatable to the situation.
"no agenda"

That seems to sum it up.
Is it really irrational to distrust Microsoft? I mean, they seem to be much more palatable lately, but does that mean we should completely forget their history? I'm all for using the best technology for the job, but when you're in a close call situation I think it's okay to rely on an organizations history to make a decision.
I've always felt SIMH was pretty cool. I haven't done anything with the VAX emulators, but a few years back I had a PDP-11 simulation running on a Raspberry Pi with RSTS/E 7.0.

This was roughly equivalent to the system I used in high school, and I laughed out loud when I discovered that 7.0 wasn't Y2K-compatible. The math teacher who taught the computer classes was warning us about two-digit year values back in 1981!
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>>“If you’ve been to London, then you know,” Bill Hayes, a writer and photographer who is at work on a history of exercise, told me. “The driver sits at the front and drives the bus, and the conductor hops on and off the bus and climbs up and down the stairs taking tickets and getting people to their seats.”

Er, not for a long while. It's all Oyster cards now. Bus conductors went ages ago.
There are a lot of good free alternatives on the comments but I'm curious how reliable they are.

Obviously, Xignite is the leader in paid service but it's way too expensive for startups (approximately 20k for the cheapest option).

IEX and AlphaVantage have decent customer support so I trust them, but I'd rather have a cheaper, paid service.
> Unleashing my imagination is a terrifying idea.

Yes, I remember at least one case [1] where that caused some issues :-).

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/
It's good but considering auto-reply feature of Gmail and integration with other apps like Calendar and Hangouts, I wouldn't pay for any such solution.
Of course, assuming the organization use Gsuite else, maybe x.ai fits the bill.
Some 16 year old saying “SILENCE I KEEL YOU’ isn’t a death threat. Get a hold of yourself. I think you should just block trolls on twitter and get on with your life.

The more you cry about it the more the trolls will keep hopping over you. I know this is news to you but you enable this toxic culture.
Indeed everything in its place. However I really don't think I would go into a virtual world to write a book, or do any other kind of activity that requires a lot of keyboard interaction.

I used to hope for the unlimited monitor space, now I am not so sure how practical that really is.
But auditing the source is only useful if you can do reproducible builds to be sure you run the audited source.

This is rarely the case unfortunately, and for most of open source prebuilt software you use, you rely on trust and not on audit.
> But the important caveat is that heat pumps are (effectively) more than 100% efficient.

Well, yes, but heat pumps can't mine Bitcoin :)
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As others have pointed out the Mediterranean Sea loses water and needs an inflow to compensate. In the case of a dam at Gibraltar it should be easy to let some water in. I wonder if we are able to build such a gigantic dam even if we wanted to.

We probably need another one at Suez. According to Google Maps the elevation of the channel is always less than 100 m, which is the worst case figure for sea rise if all the ice of the world melts. Water would come in from the Red Sea.

Btw, not all terrains are suitable for building dams.
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Where did he get money for food and shelter? I would have loved to live like this in my 20's, and I'm sure I would have gotten a lot done.. sadly I was employed, and when you take away 8 hours of work and 1 hours of commute time, you're left with zero hours per day, rather than 9. It was a constant source of frustration to me that I had to spend my useful hours following someone's instructions, instead of learning about the world, forging personal connections, and building beautiful things- which is what I really wanted to do.
Ok, I understand requirements is important to developer productivity.

Can anyone point me to a succinct resource for non-developers on writing product requirements?
The last post on another Yahoo! forum[1] is from an admin that says:

The new download issue which began 11/01/17 and returning an error 999 for most users is currently being investigated and we hope to have it resolved soon

This was before the TOS violation response was being returned so I'm assuming not everyone in Yahoo! was prepared to deal with this.

[1] https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/Is-Yahoo-Fina...
That's right.
Industrial Light & Magic likely used Silicon Graphics machines for their render work. And probably that's where they borrowed they idea.
Losing airspeed indicators can be a minor problem, but not in a jet at altitude at night, which was the case for AF477. You can fly a small plane without an ASI, particular in visual conditions, because the margin for error is large and you have other visual and auditory cues to tell you whether you're in the ballpark. But Jets at altitude fly in a very narrow envelope between stalling and over-stressing the airframe (look up "coffin corner"), and in instrument conditions you have no way to tell whether you're in the zone or not. Furthermore, without reliable airpseed, the autopilot stops working properly. AF477 was not just a case of the crew being stupid or bad UI. It really was a very serious situation aerodynamically.
To be fair a heat pump probably wouldn’t work in Siberia with such low temperatures.

Most heat pumps are no good below 20f.
I know this is the question you don't want to hear, but: why didn't you switch the antenna? The card has rp-sma pigtail connectors and usually you have two/three antennas connected to them. If you have only one, and the driver uses the other, just connect the antenna to the other connector.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/02/painless-functiona...
Was it BrandYourself?
Remove Windows servers not being used as web servers (active directory, sharepoint, domain controllers, exchange, etc.) and the Linux number is probably near or above 50%. This share will only grow with Microsoft embracing Linux in .NET Core, and many of the next wave of cloud consumers being small to mid-sized orgs looking to move to managed cloud applications vs. simply putting their machines in the cloud.
Rent certainly makes it more affordable to live somewhere until you suddenly never own your home and the rent was higher than the potential mortgage the whole time. I understand home ownership has a lot of hidden costs, but I think the rent situation is a festering cancer preventing the growth of a middle class especially in cities.
I am not. Lets look at the trade offs. Each city doing a huge construction project to protect them selves from raising sea levels, or one huge dam.

What you say about all of those side effects are true. But what are the effects of not doing anything?
As a kid I always tried to convince my mom to let me play computer games to heat our house during winter. She didn't believe me. But it was probably not the efficiency of the heating that stopped her from letting me game all day, though
From what I can tell, the project would result in the majority of Greek islands sort of "fusing" together in one big landmass- and a good few of them becoming part of mainland Turky.

As a Greek woman, I am very certain that my fellow Greeks would be very excited about this project.

... though, perhaps not in a good way?
How was technical debt not one of the things mentioned? In my experience that’s by far the #1 reason for poor velocity.
MSFS is amazing. So is X-plane. The latter has aerodynamic models accurate enough to simulate flight on other planets!

https://what-if.xkcd.com/30/
Please just post the meaningful comment instead of unsubstantive flamebait to begin with. You've been posting a lot of that and we need it to improve.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Has anyone interviewed with Angelpad for Fall 2017?
I find the two bumps ridiculous. A bump on the back to disturb physical interaction with the hardware, a bump on the screen to disturb mental interaction with the software. An ultimate antithesis to Apple's past leadership in design.
Sorry, I can't understand this at all. Could you restate it?
I would include overburdening processes.
How does this guy make money only charging $1,000/week?
There are already locks on the Suez I believe.

I would think that the Rock of Gibraltar would give the damn a decent base rock formation underneath, but you have a good point.
Reports and stories are not the same as evidence. Go ahead and start providing credible sources and you might actually have a point.
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Yeah? Where I can look?
No kidding.
Of course, it would be cool if Bitcoin didn't require throwaway computation. Then we could use this computation for something that's actually valuable, like protein folding, or something, and still make use of the waste heat.
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And they get slower as you add/change requirements.

Managers don't get that you waste time if you put a sewer canal in the street, close the street and pave it, then break it up again to put cables in.
>heat pumps are (effectively) more than 100% efficient

The CoP of a heat pump is greatly dependent on the difference in temperature potential of the source and sink. If it's extremely cold outside, it's very hard to pump heat from colder air into a house. When the temperature potential between the two reservoirs is equal, sure the CoP beats out electric heating but when it's high (When your house is warm and the outside is below freezing) its extremely poor.

http://alliedthermaldesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/T...
There are entire journalism courses on the topic of objectivity. AIUI, the takeaway is that humans are inherently biased and a part of good journalism is recognizing that and minimizing its effects to provide the best coverage one can. The idea that there can be something completely objective here is in some ways naïve. You can get a good overview in the Wikipedia articles on Journalism[0] and Media Bias[1]:

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias

As for non-toxic, I definitely think that's possible, but involves a bigger conversation as to how people communicate with each other: the same self-awareness that's necessary for good journalism is necessary when people talk with each other day-to-day. It's not clear to me how we rebuild our ability to engage each other in a non-toxic way about important and divisive topics, but I think it's necessary and well-worth trying to figure out.
If you cant get your benefits you might not be be able to eat or heat your home hospitals might not be able to look up patients records etc
Yes and if it’s countryside, even less I guess
One not mentioned that I see quite a bit: automatic StackOverflow answers.

I like DuckDuckGo very much. I use it mostly for the privacy aspects and the !bang features, but some of the features in this article are also good reasons. Unfortunately Google seems to implement every good feature that the DDG guys come up with.

Also I find that DDG's database just isn't as good as Google's. When I'm searching for a solution to an obscure coding issue, I almost always add a "!g" if I want to find anything. I recall that DDB uses Yahoo's search behind the scenes. I wonder how that will change after Yahoo's demise.

As Google moves from a search company to an AI company, I hope that DDG can continue to grow and eventually be the high bar for web search.
That's not true. You could always, you know, run the version you compiled yourself.
Yes, they're all ridiculous. Also their licensing model is so hideously complex even different license advisors from Microsoft will give you different answers as to what you need. The only way you feel comfortable being fully in compliance with licensing is by massively overbuying. Its a ridiculous burden to place on a business.
Right. Can't count the hours stack overflow saved for me although I'm disappointed by the lack of response.

The most popular answers and questions tend to be new things in popular SDK's. The unanswered things are deeper problems in existing API's. You either get an answer in a very short term by multiple people or nothing at all.
The last I heard was an email on August 31 that said "We are still reviewing applications and are finalizing the list of applicants selected for interviews...until you get an email status from us, absolutely no decision has been made."
Is this like an alt account to issue apologia for unpopular comments? You literally went through the comment tree and rehashed your personal opinion on the comment over and over again.
Am Estonian. The remote upgrade system is still working, but only enabled for high-priority users right now because of the high load - medical professionals, social workers, people who used the card more than 100 times over the past 3 months. It will be re-enabled for all users at the start of next week, maybe earlier if the high-priority users have all been serviced.
Tried my account. Says I'm a bot. My rating: incorrect.
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> Schedule meetings at the beginning or end of the day, or near lunch.

Please don't unless you can make sure it won't make your devs miss lunch or leave late because it got extended.

I'd prefer to just schedule meetings ahead as a suggestion.
I hear there's a LIVE chat here for AngelPad applicants: https://angelpad.metachat.com/
> But increasingly, I realize that my time is better spent building something myself.

> Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

-- Albert Einstein

I think you can also read in various ways. You can just absorb it uncritically, or try to find flaws or supportive anecdotes for it, or just freely associate about the thoughts and emotions it makes one aware of etc. But he and you do have a point, there's got to be a balance. Second-hand expertise is valuable, we can't all find out which berries are toxic individually. But with many things that aren't quite so critical, learning through mistakes can be quite empowering, and sometimes you find out it's not a mistake, but something new and good outside of the usual rut.
I believe the parent comment was referring to actual material problems with work tasks, not a lack of "evolution," nor a theoretical obsolescence of the overwhelmingly dominant form of workplace organization.
Oh, so much this! The whole UI world seems to have jumped the shark about 2-3 years ago. I dread the day when my current car (a 2012 model) dies because everything on the market today sucks UI beans. (Actually, the same goes for phones and laptops too. I have an iPhone 4S running a jailbroken iOS 7 and a late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina running Mavericks, both of which I am going to hang on to until either they or I die.)
The Deamon book has some cool motion interaction in it. They call it the Shamanic interface! I really want to make one of those, too bad tech is not readily accessible yet.

Is subvocalization a possibility? Mic or EEG setups might need to be slightly different.
Probably the worst outcome is easier 51% attacks: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Majority_attack

Note that from this perspective, a mining pool is effectively a single miner - so a Serbian miner might not actually help, depending which pool it's attached to.
It's a good idea in principle, but...

Also, you have to remember, in places like the bay area, you can't just pick up and move closer to work. People have enormous incentives to never move: Proposition 13 means you get 5 times lower property taxes by staying put. Not to mention the enormous imbalance between housing and jobs. All the jobs are on the peninnsula and all the housing is in the east bay. All these problems would just be amplified.

I think we're miss-stating the problem. The problem isn't that employers are forcing us to commute long distances with poor company placement. The problem is, we as employees don't have enough power to choose/demand where we want to work. There's simply too much labor supply and too little demand. So, if a worker demands to work remotely, the company can just say: we'll fire this guy and hire one of the countless others willing to commute 2 hours or more.

Just to prove my point: Here in the bay area, companies still place themselves on the penninsula where there's a 4 to 1 ratio of jobs to residential places to live. By that math, they shouldn't be able to hire anyone. And yet, they're having absolutely no problem filling positions, because workers are extremely desperate for money. So desperate, they're willing commute 2 hours or pay 60% of their paycheck to live closer. These are all symptoms of labor oversupply and too little labor demand.
NiMH needs venting.

"One inherent risk with NiMH chemistry is that overcharging causes hydrogen gas to form, potentially rupturing the cell. Therefore, cells have a vent to release the gas in the event of serious overcharging" [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93metal_hydride_b...
The interesting thing to note is that the plan "reached great popularity".

In other words, when Europe has problems, when it needs lebensraum, it's a great idea to migrate to another continent and even change its landscape to accommodate our people. But, when Africans migrate to Europe, that's not so popular.
That "throwaway" computation ensures the integrity & correctness of the blockchain, all while confirming new transactions.
I'm sure Azure has great stats on paper, it's not the simple, easy-to-measure data that concerns us. I'm also sure that Azure is currently treating their clients really well, in the spirit of "the first hit is free". What is concerning, is not the effects of their current actions, but rather what their current actions say about their future plans, given MS' history of "embrace, extend, extinguish".

With MS, the EEE process should be your null hypothesis when you are trying to predict their behavior.

Having said that, I am not against the idea of taking advantage of an opponent who prostrates themselves, just make sure that you can safely extricate yourself from the trap. If you want to deploy on Azure, make sure it's a multi cloud deployment with some insulation above the infrastructure, like Mesos or Kube. Which precludes using the more specialized services, but seriously, who pipes unencrypted data through 3rd party message queues? That's just crazy.
It seems like you are highlighting business process / management problems rather than workspace problem. In my experience web conferences / hangouts overrun just as often as physical meetings. Are you suggesting that these meetings just wouldn't happen if people were not in the office, or that they would somehow be more efficient? If the latter, how might this be the case?
It seems that the people who are most likely to tell human from bot are the ones who would use Chrome extensions. I am glad people are working on solutions, but I'd love to see an approach that works for all users.

For example there could be a Twitter account that replies to every bot tweet and those included in the bot's tweets. Accounts that have a high likelihood of being a bot would get a reply stating that the account is likely a bot.

I'm just spitballing—certainly, this would push up on Twitter's API limitations. But it seems like there a much better way to identify fake accounts than through a Chrome extension.
Ahh yes, but then you take away the mystery. Can't grift investors or customers if you let them look behind the curtain, can you?
1. Mobile-ID requires a pretty good cellphone connection to work properly and avoid getting timeouts.

2. Mobile-ID requires you to pay for signing up and after that, 1€/month to your mobile provider.
"I'm personally center left" ... <Reactionary talking points>

They said "center left." That, by definition, means they're not going to be in lockstep.

So you're taking someone that effectively said: "I generally agree with Foo but some of their actions are not to my taste" and responded by finding them guilty of association with the enemy.

--

For the sake of argument, I'm ignoring the fact that the "reactionary" label is thrown around to mean a "contrarian" to the left's memes rather than a bonda fide political "reactionary" (which means something more specific than "contrarian" + "right wing").
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I used to increase my PC voltages every winter at my parents wooden heated house near the arctic circle. The room temperatures could drop all the way to 16C (60F) during the night. That allowed easy overclocks on my Athlon processor from 3 to 4Ghz. I still had to wear wool socks though, because the air pushing from the central unit would cause an annoying breeze of cold air onto my toes in the always chilly room.
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It's not unique, just exaggerated; the reality of people watching you requires some degree of tangible output, even if that output amounts to "they seem to be typing sometimes."
That's what a bot would want us to think.
Yeah, ideally you'd want plausible deniability.

In theory, you could achieve this by only storing the password DB in a cloud service you access through the Tor browser, but then you run into two other problems. First, how do you remember the address of the service you're using to store your password DB? If you store that address on your device, you've lost your plausible deniability. I guess you'd have to use a well-known clearnet site you access through Tor (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).

That leaves another problem though. If you have a password manager installed on your PC, that implies the existence of a password database, which might also cause you to lose your plausible deniability.

Maybe if there was a profiles/password manager feature built into the Tor browser that lets you decrypt and load a profile from a service provider, then destroys all local evidence of that profile when you close the browser? Seems like a feature that could be useful in all browsers actually. A cross-browser password manager and bookmarks sync feature? That'd be really convenient.
I thought nickel mining was a horribly destructive and toxic process?
And there are people who do want those blobs. LineageOS has chosen to err on the side of caution and not allow a patch that might prompt Google to take action.
I like this! Even if this route does not work, it gets several people learning more about the nitty gritty of batteries.
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Is the value of the real estate principally the value of the building on it, or the right to have that building there? In large parts of the UK, the cost of real estate is a fraction of the replacement cost of the building, so even if the building was leveled in an earthquake, the only way the speculator would lose out would be if the earthquake did so much damage that the city was abandoned and the population dropped enormously.

It's not uncommon with really expensive houses for a new owner to have it demolished so he can build the house he wants instead; the value is in having permission to have a house on that land, and an earthquake won't take that away (unless it's a really huge earthquake that outright destroys land or makes everyone leave forever).