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> I use this all the time when working with several monitors. Just press Alt, click somewhere onto a window, move this window to a different monitor, smash window to the top of the screen. Bam, instant monitor-switching of full-screen windows.

1. What's wrong with the maximise button? It wasn't broken, it didn't need fixing.

2. What if you want the window at the top of the screen without being maximised?
European (and British) tea is just a version of Chinese tea, but differencies in tea culture are huge.
> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY.

It must be great for avoiding accidental unlocks, but I always feel a bit dirty swiping up the mouse to unlock.
Linux kernel upgrades are free, has an iron policy on userland regressions, and aren't bundled with malware. That's a pretty big difference with requiring Windows "upgrades".
I use xfce, and have Alt-Left half width full height on the left, Alt-Right does the same on the right. Alt-up is half height, full width on top, Alt-down on bottom, and Alt-F10 maximise.

I tend to only use the mouse to point to the window I want focus on, although on the occasion I do use a mouse I have it that dragging to the top/bottom/left/right does the same behaviour.

I had to really think about those shortcuts (on my phone at the moment) as it's just muscle memory.
Perhaps. But if "voodoo" results in consistent returns then who cares?
It isn't a bug. It's an unavoidable consequence of two facts:

1. There is variation in pleasurability of stimuli.

2. Experience of pleasurability is relative, rather than absolute.

So if your baseline for some sensation is 10 units on an absolute scale, experiencing 10 units of that sensation feels normal, and 5 units is probably uncomfortable. However, if your baseline was 5 units, it would feel completely normal and 10 might be uncomfortable.

You can see this in action with the hedonic treadmill. New pleasurable stimuli initially make you happy, but after a while you adapt, and to get a thrill you need to push the envelope farther. Additionally, once you're adapted, losing that pleasurable stimuli is actually painful, even though you were just fine before without it.
I've been running a lot of these resnet-50 experiments lately and the run-to-run variation is very small, on the order of 0.1%. It's actually pretty amazing how consistent training is given that the initialization is always different and the data is sampled differently on each run. (As an aside, it took us about three weeks to track down a bug that was causing the model to consistently reach an accuracy 1% lower than it was supposed to.)
I sense a little bit of CS ego in the interview. "Let me show you how you're not even qualified to take this interview" is never a winning strategy in any business scenario. Being able to read a person, and giving them an appropriate response is an important skill. After the first couple of responses it was pretty clear that the recruiter was only interested in cookie cutter answers. If you don't want to work at Google why even take the interview? And if you do, why would you care if a recruiting agency paper pusher asked you some dumb questions?
... Sorry, are you accusing me of working for Google? My identity is very public, I don't.
In a way, yes. But by blurring this distinction, you make it impossible to distinguish between an hour at the whiteboard solving a data structures problem, and an hour answering questions like "tell me about a time you overcame a challenge and what you learned".

Because people outside our field experience interviews in the second way more often, I think they don't fully understand what goes on in google style interviews. This is why I would call what we go through "Exam-style interviews", drawing a distinction between the two - even though I agree with you that they have elements in common.
GoPros create an AP and host a Cherokee server in it to serve contents of the SD card. Transferring over Bluetooth is slow. Other alternatives are using your phone's Micro SD slot, buying GoPro Quik Key or other SD card reader for USB C/Lightning USB, or paying 5$/mo for GoPro's Plus service which uploads the media straight from the camera to their cloud using an existing WiFi network.
That may be hard here due to the First Amendment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/right-to-...
“Kalmar Lans Museum” is annoying to me because it should be ”Läns”, and they could have just said “County” if the Ä is so hard!
Found the marketing guy. ("And in version 2, the pain will hurt twice as much!")
"Like the border between two warring states, the boundary between language and program is drawn and redrawn, until eventually it comes to rest along the mountains and rivers, the natural frontiers of your problem".

I wish pg programmed even today and kept writing about it.
I have some notes on the Computational Learning Theory view of decision tree fitting (and over fitting) here: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2017/01/why-do-decision-trees...
It doesn't have code blocks (aside from self-executing lambdas) and is very hard to reason about when nested.
Assuming he didnt lie about the exchange of words, this guy could be a homeless person make believing hes getting hired as ceo of google and this interview would still be an affront to proper advancement. You cannot possibly justify making a quiz that asks about kill in unix and doesnt accept SIGKILL ~literally kill with SIGTERM the default. If you are looking for the default level (15) you should specify. If this interview actually happened the way this guy says it did, Google is making terrible mistakes. I know first semester 2 year networking degree students that would have scored higher than this guy. Seriously people should be appalled at the inadequacy of that interview. Respect lost.
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Governments getting involved with anti-gambling regulation might be significant enough to stop some practices.

But I work adjacent to some video game industry business strategy folks... and I can say that the various EA/microtransaction/season pass/pay2win boycotts haven't convinced anyone that those are the wrong way to go.

People in the industry are generally convinced that the golden goose is getting people to pay more than full price and now there are just footnote conversations about "can we get away this"
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GMail like ProtonMail/Tutamail with proper asymmetric crypto. GDrive with the possibility to encrypt on the client side even if it hurts de-duplication (maybe for extra $).
Then you're most likely trolling everyone, by commenting that you know more about their processes than most outsiders do.

So stop right there and run back into your PR cave.
It seems like what Paul is describing, is the niche filled by libraries/frameworks.

When you have a website to build, you reach for an existing web framework, because it has already done the bottom-up steps for you.

The same could be said of choosing a language, OS, hardware, etc.

Existing technologies allow for increased productivity, at the cost of it becoming increasingly difficult to understand the bigger picture. The 'bottom-up' part at this point, is choosing which Ruby/Java/Python/etc libraries to use. The productivity bar has been set high, leaving little time for bottom-up decision making or education. Hence MongoDB and the never-ending tales of mediocre solutions gaining adoption due to marketing hype.

Curiously enough - academia isn't able to solve this problem well, because they're encouraged to produce 'novelty', rather than sit down and digest the mess we're in, to help clarify matters a little. They're in the same rat-race, of getting things done on a 6-12 month schedule.

There's a quote that I really like - "Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster." [0]

Ah well :)

[0] https://youtu.be/-I_jE0l7sYQ?t=21m55s
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> As a result, we generally severely underestimate historical peoples, because there's just too much stuff there to get to know it all. We're constantly reifying facts and narrative to fit extremely complex events. We have to do it to our own lives, and the lives of the people around us, yet even the people we know the most intimately have vast swaths of their inner lives that you will never be able to fathom.

One of the most difficult tasks of a historian is to recover the possibilities latent in the past. This is perhaps even more difficult than ascertaining what did occur.
I owe my career in part to the fact that I just bit the bullet, dumped windows, and switched to Ubuntu as my main OS about 7 years ago. In the war on general purpose computing they're still fighting the good fight.
Weren't those patents part of the AMD-Intel cross licensing deal or are there some x86 CPU related patents that are kept separate?
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This is literally the entire point of the second amendment.

Quoting it verbatim: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." One thing that is sometimes misunderstood due to the phrasing is that the first statement is stated as a purpose, and the second statement the implementation. In modern common language it would be, "Since a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, the people's right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Some random quotes emphasizing their views:

Thomas Jefferson: "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms… The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

James Madison: "The ultimate authority … resides in the people alone. … The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition."

Thomas Paine: "The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them…"

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That said, I do not really agree with you on the doomsday scenarios. But I also find the politicization of things like the second amendment quite silly. I'm probably liberal, at least I've always considered myself as such, yet the constitution and its intent is extremely clear on this point - and I do tend to agree with the logic, even if I personally do not think the times of today are the eras of concern that the founding fathers were alluding to.
Few more informations about SleekDB:

Light-weight, dependency free, only requires PHP to run.

It has a builtin caching layer.

Schema free JSON data storage that allows you to query on nested properties of the JSON documents!

It supports multiple conditional comparisons, text search, sorting on multiple properties, skip and limit on nested properties.
Divorce rate is actually calculated by the number of divorces each year divided by the number of marriages each year. So if married couples flipped a coin each year to decide whether to get divorced, we'd have a similar divorce rate but almost no one would stay married for life.

On the other hand, if 90% of married couples stayed married for life but the remaining 10% got married and divorced 10 times each, we'd also have about a 53% divorce rate.

So the 53% number could support almost everyone getting divorces or almost everyone staying with their first marriage for life. It's a bit hard to measure this statistic, but every source I found says that a majority of Americans who get married never divorce.

Even if it were only 47%, that's still a really high success rate. We're talking about people in their 20s and 30s making a commitment that lasts until they're 80 or so. That doesn't support the idea that our society no longer has long-term commitments.
Yep! My only point was that it apparently took a ton of work to find a way to hack into a place which is already considered fairly insecure. Basically I don't think there's any reason to panic or be surprised by this story, or for Assa Abloy to be terribly embarrassed.

With the equivalent of a budget of several hundred thousand dollars and custom hardware, any commercially available equipment can probably be hacked.
What evidence do you have to back the assertion that millenials have a strong FOMO versus their fear of losing everything any of the other generations? (Anecdotes don't count as evidence)

Why wouldn't bubbles be able to exist without a centralized media?
DRM-free epubs only, but unfortunately I can't do much about the hardware right now other than avoid Kindle like the plague. I really wish a company like Purism would make a good e-reader.

You're not wrong though; I'll take the criticism. The e-reader ecosystem right now is complete crap, the proprietary hardware/software/formats are almost completely to blame, and I do regularly feel pretty guilty that I might be contributing to it.
I actually have a coworker that's very active in the Pokémon community, and there are now countermeasures to make this ineffective. IIRC, there are now variances in the weight of a "code card" inside the pack.
Letsop's principle: be conservative in what you accept and liberal in what you send.
> Why change that?

Because it's NEW!! And therefore BETTER!!!!

> What problem are we fixing?

The problem that desktops were BORING, they had always worked the same way for SO LONG. They needed to be NEW! And therefore BETTER!!!!

I would like to switch round the accelerator and brake pedals on the cars of the people who make decisions like this. I'm sure they would thank me (provided they survived the experience), because having the pedals in the same position is OLD and BORING and changing them would be NEW!! And BETTER!!!!
This is a bit trivial compared to others, but it was building a simple compiler for my friends who were working on a video game. They'd written up the scenes in great detail in a structured format, and I built the compiler to turn those scenes into code. It was super fun because I was working with people I knew, on a project with very little pressure, learning something I'd never worked with before (my background is in Data Science.)
Upgrading from 16.04, the experience is quite awkward. CLI wise, I love Ubuntu and 18.04 is just a refined version of a very functional desktop/server distribution.

GUI wise though, it seems to have changed many defaults, a lot of which will require extensions or obscure gsettings/dconf commands. But mulitple monitor really felt like a mess compared to unity. Workspace switches only the laptop screen, no grid layout, etc. And though I got used to putting a window on a side for it to maximise or take half the screen, with Gnome3 it takes the other window into account, so good luck trying to overlap use a side to see a chat with moving that window by hand.

I kinda feel cinnamon gets a lot of thing more right, but Mint is a bit of a mess to maintain and trust...
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Are there any helpful frameworks or tools for unit testing firmware projects written in C?

I'd really love to know what you guys are doing!
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Why is your link for Dutch disease an email address?
$209.09 lol
See that sounds shitty to you man but I just had an issue where I couldn't upgrade to Webpack 4 because some critical modules were out of date, but I have to upgrade to webpack 4 because other modules are claiming they'll be dependent on it soon (or I need to use deprecated modules).

When stuff like this happens I'm like... why did I choose web dev...
This is already happening: See rates of C Sections.
>I don't think of Google as primarily a search engine. It's a suite of services.

Right, you don't. But you are also on HN, implying you are tech-literate.

You know what my mom, Susie from accounting, Chad from marketing and Amy from sales think of Google as? Don't take my word for it, here just see what Oxford dictionary defines google [0] as.

I don't get HN sometimes. People think everyone is as knowledgable or tech-literate as people on here. Still remember that famous comment in Show HN: Dropbox thread about why would one need it.

[0]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/google
I think fully utilizing it will take at least 10 years of shops and infrastructure to grow up around it. I also don't think the 10 will improve, but I imagine the throughput for that area already has improved significantly.

In the months leading up to the opening of the last section of the trains I knew people that had jobs already near train stops. A few had moved into apartments specifically to take advantage of the train. They talked about taking advantage of it on weekends, too. My wife had one of those jobs and we were looking at houses near the train line and could see the home prices increasing. While the weather is nice year round, she worked late hours and was concerned about walking to/from the train stop alone.
I’d suggest a slight addition:

> All Americans should, at minimum, be able to get routine and urgent, surprise medical issues addressed in a way that doesn't completely destroy them financially.

Elective procedures are obviously a thorny issue people will debate over where to draw the lines. But standard checkups, routine wellness procedures, and covering the unexpected ought to be the bare minimum—the healthcare floor of social decency beneath which we do not allow any member of society to fall without recognizing we are failing as a society.
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MCOM (later Netscape) and NCSA were definitely not on friendly terms. There was a lawsuit against MCOM at which point they changed their name.
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To clarify: in the case of a BEAM both the generator and all but the top layer of the discriminator is replaced with an RBM. The adversary in this case operates on features encoded by the RBM, not raw data samples. Secondly the RBM is trained with a combined loss involving log-likelihood and the adversarial term.
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Gothamist is back
I would love to see the chain of command, along with specifically who, for decision making relating to the investigation of and up until the press releases relating to that last crash where someone died (where the roadway safety buffer structure wasn't replaced properly), where based on information and analysis in HN comments, it seemed like Tesla/someone at Tesla was disingenuous or had a thinking error in information they translated up the chain of command. The PR definitely felt like the marketing department - who we can assume doesn't have the same technical understanding or abilities - had sway in perhaps a situation they shouldn't have. The only way for Elon to survive the hole that's getting dug deeper is to own up to analyze their process, own up the mistake, and be very public/open about the process and improvements to their processes they will make - and highlighting if it was brought to light by information/analyze from the tech community; the liability also shouldn't be any higher than 50% for Tesla IMHO, because if that safety infrastructure was properly replaced then there's a very high probability the individual would have lived, and they would become a spokesperson crying foul.
Matrix lets you pick which sites can load which resources. It's a lot more fine-grained than I need for basic ad blocking. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ "For advanced users"
Or if you don't value the source of information over the ability to interpret it ala cognitive collaboration. Everyone knows everything. Basically.
Here's a few pictures of Manguel's old library: https://thesleeplessreader.com/2012/09/24/the-library-at-nig...

It doesn't look like 35k books. Must be very efficiently stacked in there.
Very much so this. There was a strong request for a better solution for the company's database system and I finagled some off-the-shelf solutions but I knew it wasn't great and there was a lot of clunkiness. The users figured this was as good as it gets just had to deal. I wanted to change that.

The workflow was pretty unique and there wasn't much out there that could tackle it in the right manner with price constraints in mind. I set off to rebuild something from the ground-up but tailored exactly to what the users wanted (I kept track of all the complaints of previous solutions). Because this is specific to the company, I was able to make many of the routine tasks automated and reduce time users needed to spend with the tools. Now they actually enjoy when they do! There is no gimmicky extra stuff, it's just software that solves their day-to-day problems. The application I built is super boring, nothing groundbreaking or inventive, but it works.

Seeing it run smoothly in production and having people enjoy the UI/get to spend more time on other things has been quite gratifying.
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki
I recently read the book Nudge, if you haven't read it I strongly recommend it. [0]. The author just won a nobel prize for his work in socio-economics and it discusses exactly this. One of the fascinating examples discussed is a study that showed offering somebody $100 to do something is significantly less effective at motivating (whether or not they're about about it, their behavior changes) them than fining somebody $100 if they fail.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A5DCALY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Any interest in open sourcing the Node.js /Redis component? I was thinking of a similar implementation but using Kafka. Your piece would give me and potentially others a way to get up and running pretty quickly.
Obligatory Schlock Mercenary: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-11-14
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/emacs/rms-came-to-tow...

>So, what is this thing called Richard Stallman? Quirky, yes. Dedicated,
yes. How much fun can it be to tell the same story hundreds of times,
and get the same old questions hundreds of times. Is he arrogant or
paranoid? No. Everything he said was warmly said, and said to motivate.
He spreads a message he deeply believes in, and encourages others to
believe just as deeply.

>Richard Stallman is not a madman. He is not the enemy. He has a simple
and logical story to tell, about individual and collective freedom, and
communities of cooperating individuals. You might conclude that his dream
can never be fulfilled, but I believe that you should listen to his message,
and consider how you can improve your own life by improving everyone's life.
I respect him, and I respect what he has to say.

>Stephen McKay
1999-05-11
In a large hotel/resort, there are literally hundreds of people with access to your hotel room at any given time. There's a reason hotel room doors have deadbolts and chains in addition to the keycard - they've never been considered 'secure'...
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Well they are tinted 'sunglasses' so not really suitable for wearing constantly indoors. So they need to be near to hand to put-on, at which point a phone is probably just as near
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I do. I've interviewed twice and gotten offers twice (and declined twice). That's what I said in my post. I'm claiming no greater (but no less) knowledge than having gone through the interview process.
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