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I buy options. Way better returns than anything else.
I think this is common practice when building any new community from scratch.
Are these machines cheaper than trees?
I have noticed the Bluetooth problem as well in Ubuntu 18.04 with some new Bluetooth headphones I got... very annoying.
Online Shopping Has Been Terrible for Cardboard Recycling
Blame the poor for existing and inconveniencing the tourists, not the new economic factors introduced by AirBnB.
Many people who try and kill themselves, according to friends who are staff at peer run suicide prevention clinics, do so because of a temporary insanity. They aren't depressed, they just sort of lose their mind for a few hours and if they survive the attempt have no idea how they ended up almost killing themselves. Everybody assumes these people are routinely depressed all the time but they tell you otherwise, that it was a delerious state they were in, unable to reason rationally about what they were doing.
Why would I? Having a bald head is not considered unattractive in the Black community. Bald with a full beard is also a trend now.

When I’m interviewing, I go completely clean shaven to get rid of the gray hair. I stayed clean shaven at my last job because it was very corporate and the CxO level folks I dealt with as the architect were very conservative.

Now that I work for a smaller company, I let my facial hair grow out but still shave my head.
That would imply things got better in some way, which they haven't. We're still in a recession and deteriorating.
Hub and spoke scales poorly because you need more takeoffs and landings for the same route which means more airports.

It's an adaptation for lower overall traffic density and simplifies routing, but direct flights scale much better because you can more likely do A > X > D not just A > B > C > D.
> does the article really reflect the HN title?

No. This is a clickbait post.
You can use the stock market to save the emergency cash. Just invest it wisely.
Lyft is redesigning its app to emphasize carpooling and mass transit
I work for a large ISP. The reason why tech support ask again for information is one of these, or any combination.

a) The backoffice is really shit, broken, and doesn't even display any info (down, badly designed, etc)

b) Backoffice and/or VPN connection from outsourced call center to ISP is really slow, so they work faster by asking info.

c) CRM/Customer database has no consisten quality information, so agents do not trust it.

I may forget something, but those are the most common ones.
There just aren't compelling use cases yet, though eventually the technology will improve and they'll resurface. This happens frequently in tech.

On a similar note, I suspect in another few years we'll be reading an article titled:

> "AR was the next big thing: what happened?"
Oh, I see. Maybe, I don't really have experience with traveling with a family.
Stocks returns are low, look into options if you have risk tolerance.
I'm afraid that if I lose my hair I'll find out I have some weird crack or a third eye or something in there...
An archaic premise these days.

Either Google or Amazon has the world's fastest supercomputer. The notion that China ever led that, was beligerently fraudulent (only good for selling sensationalism), it intentionally ignored that the nature of supercomputing has completely changed over the last 20 years.
This is true. There are some societies that are very strict and unforgiving and give people very few options. Make departing from societies expectations an options. Those expectations are in their collective head.

A person in prison is facing a real prison. The expectations society sets are not prison bars. But it harder to say that society has a fundamental problem with expectations.
It's hard to judge without being in there. Most people can only judge from blogs by the founders, which is why Basecamp and Fog Creek get mentioned a lot.

I'd say a good guideline is to stay away from open offices, or places with no monitor. Geek perks like mechanical keyboards are nice too.
So basically the author is committed into Google ecosystem, and complaining Macbook's lack of Google ecosystem support? And don't do any Docker related work on your laptop, docker machine is your best friend here
The last few times I was tempted to use Airbnb for stays of around a week, I found the price to be comparable to hotels in the area. I ended up getting a hotel, because I wanted my stay to be managed by professionals.
Sounds illegal, or at least quite borderline. It wouldn't be so problematic if it'd just come up in conversation over the course of several weeks/months, or if it hadn't been the senior leadership (including HR director!).

> Really made my approach to job hunting change after that

How so? That is, how does a candidate screen for this possibility in advance?
My MacBook has the screengate issue. I had it replaced two times! After a while, the antireflective coating starts peeling off. When I took it to the service again, Apple's response was hilarious: "We cannot keep changing your screen infinite amount of times". Every time I had the screen changed, I was told that the new screen is different and it won't have the same problem. Unfortunately, it did have the exact same problem. Even much cheaper models do not have such a terrible issue. Apple, as a company with zero tolerance to poor quality, is long gone.
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

Be very careful betting on the market going down. You not only have to be right, you have to be right soon enough.
If you bought the S&P with 50% and held the rest of your money in assets that don't fluctuate alongside the market or hedged, you can buy the S&P at the low and it always recovers.

Others keep their portfolio completely hedged so when there is a dip they can buy the swing.
You should be able to adjust the feedback of the trackpad in the settings. The new trackpads are solid state and emulate the click feeling.
Exactly.

No windows at all = travel sickness, panic attacks, no spotting of fires, the issue with exits in emergency landings etc.

E.g. 80% fewer windows = none of the problems above. True the window seat is then mostly less desirable, but on a long haul, they see nothing for 99% of the journey anyway.
> taking credit for what Obama did while at the same claiming they were bad.

Schrodinger's Obama Policies?
In Memory of Isaiah Berlin
Windows 10 has resolution issues with HiDPI displays.

I find KDE to be fine with a single 4K display. I think the difficulties come with mixing a standard and a HiDPI screen.
The neat thing about macro scale dynamics (e.g. economics) is you can always choose to blame the current or previous powers, depending on which provides support for your political preferences.
Automatic Model Tuning with Amazon SageMaker Is Now Generally Available
It is a bold claim but I agree. I used a Linux desktop for 10 years after ditching Windows but I was often fighting with it. After that I used a Mac for the last 10 years and things are generally smoother. Linux is pretty good these days but there are problems that prevent it from being great and I suspect it will always lag behind a bit. I think most of the problems stem from inferior drivers.
> as is understanding syntax trees and all the interconnections possible inside them so you can NLP the shit out of real world text/speech

But do modern DL approaches (e.g. SQuad, translation models) defy this approach? They train DL models on labeled data without knowing anything about syntax trees, and allow NN do all the magic..
> when this bubble (if it exists) bursts.

This time is not different
Npm, Inc. Status – Intermittent 503s and 504s
Every site that needs a CDN probably already has one, because it's a quick win. For every site that doesn't need one (small user base, small asset size, etc) it's likely not worth the added complexity.
But problems 1 and 2 are the same for the official unemployment metric in times past as well.

1. If the person has stopped looking for a job, their likelihood of resuming their job-seeking is pretty low. That's especially true for the unusually large aging baby-boomer population who are taking an early retirement rather than seeking re-employment.

2. While that's clearly another indicator of the strength of the job market, it is hard to argue that no job is better than a job which isn't ideal for skill/pay reasons. If you have a suggestion on how to accurately measure this that'd be great.

Who knew that a single number was insufficient to measure something as complex as employment? Yeah, we need to look at the larger picture, but it's hard to say we have exceptionally low unemployment AND that this is a good time for a stimulus.
For an example of this been done well, check out Royal Caribbean's Virtual Balconies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4__AIB8Bl-4

Note that RCI did not remove any windows, but instead used tech to give a window to people in inside cabins where there are no windows. IMHO this should be the way to go for planes as well: Give everybody a window seat, with VR. And then also use that VR to show all those movies in a virtual cinema, show VR games etc.
Is here any alternative that can keep up with Apple's font rendering?

This might be highly subjective but for me the same font on a Mac looks much more pleasant than on Windows or Ubuntu. It is tempting to understate this as a minor detail but for me text is one of the most important parts of the user interface and I can't understand how the other platforms could neglect their font rendering this much.
JetBrains is among the best.
This could be an interesting use for Aluminum Oxynitride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduO1fNzV4w
Elementary OS Linux supports HiDPI pretty well.
This was a super good read - thanks!
The fact that this is news is the real story
Sorry to hear that buddy but sounds like you're having fun.

One of the best decisions a high-earner can make to secure their financial future is to never get married. Have a partner yes but never marry.
> I would rather use keyboard shortcuts than look down at the touch bar.

I actually happen to like the fact that I don't have to remember the non-essential shortcuts anymore. That, and volume & brightness sliders. Still, it's extremely immature and far from being useful.

Most importantly, a few applications actually support it in any meaningful manner. Most of time, my touchbar is empty, or shows the function (F) keys. Even when app provides some controls, they're usually for from being actually useful, leaving a feeling that they were added in a haste, just to fill "we support touchbar now" tick, without giving it much thought. Rarely I want the buttons app provides by default, and rarely the buttons I want to see are available.

And it really lacks any tactile feedback. The hacks that use trackpad magnets are not working for me - in a sense I don't like how it feels, at all. If it'd work like a trackpad with display - it'd be perfect. Slide fingers across to "feel" the button, then push a little harder to actually "press" it.
That is laughably and provably wrong.

One primary example of them "donating" dev time is their Advancment of the Linux Kernal of which they have "become a top contributor" like the article says.

Why did they do this? To make Linux a First Class citizen on Azure so they can take on AWS... they did not "donate" this work out of some ethical kindness or wanting to "give back to the community" they did it to make money on Azure.

Every single one of the Open Source projects and initiatives can be traced to the same monetary reason, and largely traced to get Linux to work with some MS Commercial product of some kind, be is Azure or some other product.
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This is anecdotal, but I have taken many cabs in Philly, and every single driver I've had in my entire life here has been on the phone for the entire ride. That and they don't listen to directions because they are on the phone, and the cabs are often in poor condition. I've only had one or two uber/lyft drivers ever pick up the phone while I was in their vehicle.
Fulfilling a military contract isn't the same as killing people with drones. Virtually every plane you've ever flown on is built by a company that also builds killing machines, but you don't see people making a hissy fit over it.
No mention of the Korean paper?
> The notion that China ever led that, was beligerently fraudulent

The same could be said of the Soviet Union in the space, missile and other technological races. Two responses. One, it's a beneficial and not particularly risky lie. Two, the downsides to mistakenly thinking it's a lie are greater than those to mistakenly thinking it's the truth.
Reminds me of this Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
You're typically above the clouds. You can use the stars to get your bearings.
This makes me very sad. When I saw him on the show he came across as a person who had achieved great success. Doesn't so much travel and meeting people make one more enlightened? How did this tragedy occur. I for one sometimes feel I should never have been born. My failings are too much to bear. I have hurt a lot of people with my actions, inactions and words.
Block 3rd party scripts by default and its amazing how many pages will simply not load at all. CDNs will eventually exert their power if this practice keeps growing.

I imagine data mining for CDNs is very lucrative given they interface customer AND business.
What are the reasons that make ThoughtWorks cool?
It seems to be a literal compulsion. I think Trump supporters call it "Rent Free" and they aren't wrong.
> US is currently in capable hands economically since it is lead by a businessman and surrounded by financial experts from wall street. (I don't approve of Trump's character).

All presidents are surrounded by financial experts. Also the ‘financial experts’ did a lot of mistakes and mispredictions through history, not sure if your point stands.

Having a businessman for president is arguably good, a country is not a business.
For reference, the Epyc 7551P (32C, 2.55 GHz turbo) is $2100. The new Threadripper should be in the same ballpark.
It's a funny coincidence. I've just gotten off a phone with a bank officer about a simple question "Is my card there yet?". It took 29 minutes, including a few minutes at the beginning talking to a bot before getting to a human. I'm being unfair and emotional, but right now I'm not sure if humans are really better.
> Patrick Steward is one of the very few men who looks really, really good with a bald head

Say what? Lot's of guys rock it! Off the top of my head Jason Statham, Michael Jordan, shaved-head Sam Jackson, Johnny Ive, shaved-head Bryan Cranston all pull it off pretty damn well. What would Vin Diesel even look like with hair?
IBM and the DoE launch the world’s fastest supercomputer
The benefit of everybody hating the new macbooks is that people are going to be writing stuff on the old ones for a while, which will make them respect CPU resources more and performance of web apps will go up. There are a lot of sites where you can instantly tell the frontend developers all used top of the line macbooks and never even bothered to check CPU usage or throttle network performance to see how slow their app is when served in production to people without business tier connection speeds.
On the flipside, think of the joy of realizing you've finally been connected to a smart, competent person who is empowered to solve your problem. It is like finding a call center unicorn.
Cabin crews (at least on some airlines) tell you to open the window shades for landing and takeoff in the name of "safety":

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/airline...

So why is it safe to remove the windows entirely?
It's startling what the growth on my 401k has done since November 2016. Essentially flat for years before, then immediately jumping, once the election results were in. Q1 2018 was a bit sluggish, but it's back on that tragectory again.

Even outside the market, people are hiring again, companies are making investments, it's a hell of a turn around.
https://github.com/trezor/trezor-mcu/commits/master?after=31...

As jochen mentions in his timeline in the post trezor asked he delay publication until they could fix the bug in release 1.3.3. he says they included a fix on Mar 30 which you'll find in the link above
The giflow concept requires one to verify if a branch can be merged into both targets

hotfix/${version} needs to go into develop and master, so you need that tiny octopus merge to verify before starting the process

but yeah, incredibly rare.
Yes, but in many cases, people still expose the jars (ceramic or glass) to sunlight, for some days or weeks. I remember older relatives in my family doing that on house terraces as a kid. My guess is that the sunlight sterilizes the contents (sunlight in many parts of India is strong, particularly in summer, being somewhat near the equator), and may even change the flavor by some reaction.

So there is a combined preservative effect from the factors you listed, plus sunlight.
Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers
Their flagship OS is completely Open Source, which is what was being alluded to.

I'd be interested in seeing the source for microsoft's Telemetry, if you have a link? :)
I thought so too, but it's rewarding to make progess!
> "2) I didn't take any interest in the full stack when the company needed a full stack developer."

I would consider this a good, ethical thing to do, and not at all unethical. The company's needs don't always come before your needs to protect your specialization and your work experience, not even in early-stage start-ups. It's on the management to get the right people, not to trumpet around some disingenuous "everyone wears many hats" philosophy to squeeze inappropriate work out of you.

It can really be damaging to your career if you get hired into a start-up to do X, but then because "wear many hats" or "we're a lean shop" or whatever nonsense, you only spend your time doing Y.

After that, if your real passion was to work on X, it can be really hard to get employers to look at you seriously for hiring for X. You'll be pigeonholed into Y.

Since employers ought to care about career goals and growth of their staff, it definitely makes this sort of thing more the employer's fault than the employee's.

So, I would say item 2) is not unethical at all -- and in fact it's deeply important for people around the industry to take a hard line with this sort of thing when they need to protect a career-goal specialty.
Actually, I thought the post you were responding to was quite insightful. Depression can be chronic, debilitating and painful, but it definitely is not terminal. Terminal implies that there is a highly predictable progression of the disease that inevitably results in death. I think the parent was trying to say we can easily see why terminal patients consider suicide, as they have a fairly determined remaining life, but we should also extend that same sympathy and understanding to those who have conditions which are chronic and painful, but not necessarily determinative of remaining lifespan.
Man, can you imagine having to decide how you were going to look for the rest of your life (hair style, tattoos, piercings, musculature, body mass...) at age 20? It'd be like when you picked your AIM screen name at age 10 and then had to tell it to people in college.

[Minor nit: genes are insufficient to record someone's physical state.]

[Minor nit: I'd argue age 25-30 is probably a better physical peak to snapshot than age 20.]
The new keyboard alone is enough to turn me off this machine forever. Apple went from building tanks to a vehicles made out of feathers. My 2013 mbpro has been pinched, hit, dropped, and abused but has had no problems. On the new ones you can't even type softly without it breaking. Half the reason to own a mac is gone right there. The trackpad itself too is another reason. The previous trackpad was perfect. Now it's so big it requires palm detection software that doesn't work well at all. Whoever designed this machine should be ashamed of himself. This design isn't worthy of a high school drop out, let alone Apple's designers who I assume make millions. I guess not even millions can buy common sense and Apple and the rest of the world are finding that out. If I was tim cook I'd fire the MacBook leadership asap and get competent people on board... Except I think the incompetence clearly starts with cook himself.
I'll speculate that a freight 747 is still fundamentally structurally a plane designed to have windows (with the correspondingly reinforced fuselage) but with minor tweaks.

I'd be very surprised if that's not the case. You'd need a plane that's designed from the ground up to not have windows in any configuration.
We = People that value Ethics, Privacy, and Software Freedom...
At one time people thought that any transport faster than a horse would cause the human body to fly apart.

Engineering finds a way.
Counterpoint: How about a cure for back hair?

(Asking for a friend.)
Google Makes Salad Emoji Vegan to Promote “Inclusion and Diversity”
Do you have a blog on setting this up per chance? I'm interested in reading more about IPFS (haven't looked at it since I first heard about months and months ago). Their website seems a bit light on the details bar a link to a whitepaper I haven't dared to look at yet ;)
It only diminishes debt if your ability to service that debt outstrips the rate of inflation. If your ability to service debt does not grow in line with inflation, you are in no better state.
That's an extremely subjective statement and, I think, a modern sentiment. Starting around the 1990s, it became much more acceptable for men to be bald, either trimmed very short or shaved.

I mostly thank Patrick Stewart and Michael Jordan for the push toward normalizing it.
Yeah I'm with you there. I've had a 2017 15" MBP for about 6 months now and the keyboard is acting up a bit. I guess I must have something under the left Command key because it's not really pressing the same way as the other keys. The 'H' key sometimes decides it doesnt feel like working or feels like working too hard and I end up with "hh".

Other than that it's a great system. The performance I'm pretty happy with, even for gaming.
Did you mean the US re: space race?
The public transit in the US is incredibly poor if you're not living in the middle of a large city. Acting like everyone has the opportunity to take a gray hound is rather naive and in my case, again, I didn't have the option nor the funds to do so.

You don't find these reasons compelling because you can't seem to understand that a lot of options are entirely circumstancial. For people that even do have the option to take a bus, you're effectively asking them to lose their job or stop taking care of their family for possibly an entire day. An option a lot of people don't have when they live paycheck to paycheck.
> > If windows can get the Linux subsystem stuff working 100%

It has to be a whole lot better than it is now. You know what would be awesome? If I could have something like VirtualBox Seamless mode, but without all of the hassles. I open a control panel, pick from a list of lightweight distros, and the Linux apps appear on the Windows Start panel. I open them from there, and they just open.

The killer would be this: Let me have multiple virtual machines, which I can snapshot, copy, etc, then let me switch between them on the fly. Do this, while letting me keep the same Linux home directory in a way that looks to the guest OS like mapping it as a network drive. (But which is much faster, so I can compile without penalty.)

Come to think of it, a feature set like this could easily fit into MacOS.