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Yes, there are many factors, unfortunately. "Being in a box" can't explain as much as I'd like. Many drivers seem to freak out if you touch their vehicles, even if there's no damage. They clearly don't want their cars damaged either.

Another major possibility is that they don't think they are driving dangerously at all. Having talked to many drivers over the years, I'm amazed by what people have claimed is perfectly safe to me. (The worst was the guy who passed me too close on an uphill part of the road. I honked at him and he stopped to talk to me. You couldn't see beyond the top of the hill and he was splitting the lanes. Yet he claimed this was perfectly safe.)
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller

Capitalism has to be replaced. Trying to change it is futile.

We've been trying to tweak capitalism for a couple of hundred years and we're still stuck in a global board game of Monopoly.

There is only one outcome in such a game and everyone knows it: one winner takes all and the rest ...
The questions you asked and the reasoning behind asking them was quite good, and I would’ve liked this interview.

The timing though was a little ridiculous. You could, and perhaps SHOULD, easily spend an hour on 10 and an hour on 11.

IME, this is the biggest problem with the current state of the interview process - what I call Hollywood hacker testing. Unrealistic timing expectations based on what’s seen in Hollywood movies.

The take home test is worse for this! At least this wasn’t part of your process...you don’t want have a hiring process where the only person who can put in 60 hours wins.

Be realistic, if you really care about improving the hiring process and not being another dumping ground on Glassdoor for interviewees you’ve angered.
If you're interested in async features for the sake of concurrency, you might want to give synchronous concurrency a look - Céu is a very recent entry into this paradigm[0]. It specifically targets the embedded space due to its minimal overhead compared to other concurrency solutions. Also, there is a version that supports libuv for added async stuff[1].

[0] http://ceu-lang.org/

[1] https://github.com/ceu-lang/ceu-libuv
For fun and/or lighthearted, I enjoyed:
Stanislaw Lem: Cyberiad, The Futurological Congress, Tales of Pirx the Pilot;
Steven Paul Leiva: Traveling in Space;
Ted Chiang: Stories of your Life;
John Scalzi: Old Man's War (and sequels)
Former insurance agent here.

You can think of insurance as a small & certain loss to hedge against a large & uncertain loss.

If stuff happens and you do need to cash in on that insurance policy, the payout should be thought of as saving your butt, also known as indemnification.

An airbag in your car is a form of insurance. You spent $X to protect yourself in a collision. The small & certain loss is spending the $X. Say you unexpectedly end up in a crash, but instead of dying, the airbag saves your life. It protected you from a death, the large & uncertain loss.

The idea of that buying an insurance is making a bet against yourself doesn't make sense to me. Insurance is more about making sure you don't lose. It's reducing risk, and a bet feels like taking on risk. The insurance company is the one making the bet, not the policy holder.
7x26 mill. I want metal parts. I guess gantry style router makes sense if you want to make cabinets or signs or something. I did not want to deal with sawdust and don't want to make anything out of plywood that I couldn't with a saw.
I was at one of the baths in Budapest recently where I saw another solution to this problem. The locker room is mixed gender, and the changing stalls have two doors that open to opposite sides of the aisle. But the doors open inward, and the bench inside folds down to block them while occupied. Then you have to lift the bench to get out.
I know Dell released a BIOS update that includes disabling DBC for my 13" 9370. Have you checked the most recent BIOS for a new setting that disables DBC on the 9350?
Yes, for me, fraying hasn’t been an issue since they switched from MagSafe to USB-C. Considering a 2014 MagSafe nearly started a fire in my house (Apple had nothing to say about that, but did replace the cable), it’s been welcome.
They can use violence too. And since you okayed, it. They're justified in posting pictures of you lying bloodied in the street, saying karma's a bitch.
It depends. Are you on Apollo 13?
I imagine that they've done a lot more good for the world recently than the UN has

No, they have not! I am not sure by what metric one can compare FIFA and the United Nations, but I don't think you you are familiar with the breadth of the UN's work. Selected achievements from their results page [1]:

-Every year we mobilize about $7 billion in humanitarian aid to help people affected by emergencies.

-Every year we assist over 34 million refugees and others fleeing war, famine and persecution.

-We vaccinate 40% of the world’s children, saving 2 million lives a year.

-In 2011 the UN will provide food to around 90 million people in 73 countries.

-In the past few years, the UN has expanded legal international rights to indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, migrants and their families.

FIFA is merely better at marketing...

[1]http://www.un.org/en/strengtheningtheun/results.shtml
The same problem would happen with a promise. In a desktop the user clicks "Quit". If you now have to call an async function the Quit handler will return and somewhen later the await portion of the code gets called. From the Quit handler you can't tell when the await stuff has finished so there is no clear time when you can shut down the app.

In a browser on or server side it's different.
I would be interested in seeing a post on these options and their results if you know of one. Even though grain is "random", it's not random noise and is very distinctive. No two film stocks (and probably no two movies) will have the exact same grain. It would require incredibly precise tuning to manually add back grain that matches the original in the film.
>And so hardware decoding may ether be (a) impossible on current devices or (b) likely to destroy battery life.

The development of the codec has been done with constant input from the hardware developers who are backing AV1 (Intel,AMD,Broadcom,NVidia etc) in order to make it effective when used with hardware acceleration. Just watch some of the developer presentations on Youtube.

Your fear that all the streaming and hardware giants would cooperately develop a codec that won't be effective on mobile hardware is unfounded.
There have literally been hundreds of threads advocating self driving cars saying it's here and now, max 10 years, and rubbishing anyone advocating caution.

Since the hype and exuberance was entirely self created, how can anyone else be blamed? This is like blaming others for taking you seriously.
> They register again and again after the trial has expired

This is great! You have users who are using your product, how could you not be happy? Find out why they are not converting, perhaps your offer isn't that great for their demographic? Note that even if they didn't pay to your service, they may be your biggest fans who may recommend your product to other people. DEA users are usually tech-savvy types, they are also the kind of people who are the early adopters when it comes to tech (since they were able to figure out how a DEA works & how to use one), and are probably the ones who normal people go to get advice. Don't forget that even if not a paying customer, they are still a customer in the sense that they could review your service or refer others through word of mouth! If you're blocking DEA services, it may end up costing you more.
I've been interested in clojure spec for a while, but I'm stuck in JS land. There's a port called js.spec, and I think it works really well for validation.
I’m not sure that is the best way we know.

There are already many smart people who aren’t helping to solve those problems because they haven’t received the necessary education. I’d go so far as to say we’re probably missing out on the potential contributions of most smart people now.

What we need to do is figure out a way to radically increase access to education worldwide.
It is just a consequence of the human environment changing. Birth control and the modern education system disproportionally effect the number of children smart people have. The end result is the smarter you are the less children you will have all other factors being equal.

Another major factor contributing is children are very expensive and smart children are much more expensive to raise than the average child.
Does it matter? It's still a reference encoder. AFAIK, the AV1 bitstream is barely frozen. Is he talking about the working model HEVC encoder right after they froze it, or the final reference encoder before people started working on hardware implementations? The Current AV1 reference being some amount slower than some HEVC reference says nothing in itself about room for improvement.
You shouldn’t be hiring if you’re completely oblivious as to why all 8 would fail.
I’m currently implementing threading into an editor scripting language. Could you talk more about this? It would be helpful.
I’m not suggesting using a company laptop for personal projects. But with an IDE up, a web browser for development, a shell, etc. working on just a laptop monitor is painful. I can’t imagine developing an iPad app on a 15 inch laptop.
Does it matter? The boys that were in the cave appear to have more common sense and maturity than these two.
PDF has to in the dropbox folder somewhere before you can add it. Then it appears as a single page preview. Clicking on it allows to view the full doc within Paper, but there is no annotation feature as of now. Example:

https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Demo-of-Paper--AHs_Q3BsPSNjYAO...
It's not necessarily that you're wrong or anything! I totally appreciate that people have different tastes in keyboards. I'm just aware that I've heard an awful lot of people talk about how bad it is, without having actually used it – to the point that I was really rather surprised when I started using it and realised how nice it is!
"This idea" is that everyone is voting, not that you personally were voting, or that I personally was voting.

If you instead wanted to provide yourself as an anecdote, that's different.

Sorry that I was unclear. Personal anecdotes are quite different from claiming something is a global rule. I was just trying to double-check that you were giving an anecdote.
> Gladiators are 2000 years old

My point, exactly.

> they didn't represent anyone.

Of course their did. People had their favorites. Community had champions.

Besides, 11 people representing a country is just a ploy to entertain people. There is zero level of relationship between the players and the rest country.

Anyway, the point is moot. It doesn't change the basis of the mechanism: entertaining the mass so that they divert they aggressiveness.
Hi, Stencila dev here. In my opinion, Stencila is not ready for daily usage. But we are looking for beta testers who are willing to put up with bugs and crashes and help us shape the framework. We have converters, based on Pandoc, which are able to convert to both PDF and Latex - although they are also in preliminary development.
I'm a developer and prosumer who types by touch. I have operational macros triggered by FN keys and somewhat miss the hard FN keys on my 2017 MacBook Pro.

I've set the System Preferences so pressing the fn key causes the Touch Bar to show soft FN keys. I use the soft ESC key frequently and without problem; aiming for the left corner of the Touch Bar almost always works and very rarely transforms into something other than ESC (In fact, I can't remember under what conditions it turns into something other than ESC, though I'm sure it does.)

So, one would think that as a touch typist who uses hard FN keys to trigger operational macros, the Touch Bar would be somewhat of an annoyance but for me it's really not.

The Touch Bar changes and reveals and/or offers functionality that isn't offered by any other means.

For example, I frequently Screen Share (VNC) to my home machine that has multiple displays. When doing so, the Touch Bar has buttons to allow me switch between display 1, display 2, or both displays. I've tried and could not figure a reliable way to trigger this functionality with macros or the keyboard, despite having extensive AppleScript knowledge and being very familiar with Keyboard Maestro. The Touch Bar made Screen Sharing much easier to use in a remote context.

Another example, I use Apple's Mail app and for years have used Adam Tow's super useful MsgFiler. When Apple Mail is frontmost, the Touch Bar features a "Move to $Mailbox" button that seems to learn where I file similar messages, and in my observation it is almost always correct.

I also prefer the Touch Bar sliders that reveal when adjusting my screen brightness and the volume controls.

So the Touch Bar does offer a few features which I find useful despite my being a touch typist. I somewhat miss the hard FN keys, but for me losing them is not a deal breaker because I can coerce the Touch Bar to display function keys by pressing the fn key.

So, I'm pretty neutral with regard to the Touch Bar but the keyboard is a different story.

I LOVE the shallow-press keyboard. I generally type with the pads of my fingers rather than the tips, and the shallow key press feels more solid and graceful to me. I've not yet experienced the non-functioning key problem that many others have reported and am somewhat concerned about losing my laptop for a week due to keyboard failure.

EDIT: Fixed three minor grammar problems.
Consistent UI, simple and fast built-in apps for common tasks, good unix subsystem, fast file system, pretty text rendering, system libraries that make it fairly easy to write good native apps, etc.

macOS has all this, but it had all this for a while. There are so many good things in it. Preview.app is great -- it even lets you do simple PDF editing, while being fast, reliable, and easy to use. CoreGraphics does beautiful drawing, reasonably fast, leading e.g. to gnuplot having pretty antiailased graphs on macOS but not elsewhere (via Aquaterm -- this might be outdated information though, haven't used it in a while). The find pasteboard is clever and convenient, as are document icons -- and dragging them into Terminal even inserts the path to the document. There are so many well-thought-out details on macOS.

I don't care about iCloud integration, sync with iOS, Springboard, tabs in Finder or Maps, Siri, iMessage integration (I don't use an iPhone). The new Photos app doesn't honor mac system conventions. The Mac App Store is repulsive to me in its philosophy, and its implementation has been inept. I miss the HIG. Airpods are cool, but connecting them with my MBP works only haphazardly as you'd expect of regular old Bluetooth headphones, not as you'd expect of Apple hardware talking to Apple hardware.

I could go on for much longer, but I'll stop now :-)
Why don't you just solder on your own cable? I don't see the problem.
100% agreed.

One of the things that I think people have a hard time grasping is that for a lot of software, the marginal cost of a user is approximately zero. People get stuck in a scarcity mindset and get really upset at the notion of freeloaders getting away with something.

This is in sharp contrast to the abundance mindset you see in most open-source software. How many people are Linux freeloaders or Mozilla freeloaders or Gnu freeloaders? Hundreds of millions, and once you count devices, maybe billions. But as long as those outfits can pay the bills, they don't care.

The funny part to me is that so many people trapped in scarcity thinking only care about getting paid, not paying others. How many of those people trying to capture every dollar of generated value are using open-source tools in what they're selling without giving back? Most of them, I'm sure.
Apologies (and too late to edit). Really crappy tablet soft-keyboard, and miss-, non-, and duplicate- keyregistrations.

That along with lack of preview or spellcheck, scroll-away-from-post mechanics, and tiny edit boxes, are my kryptonite.

Occasionally an amusing typo emerges, though not sufficient to compensate for the pain.
> I feel way too constrained doing a lot of work without at least two external monitors. Preferably three.

I use my personal computer for things other than work. I don't need 27 inches to read my email or post on Hacker News.
Interesting read but a pity that the author doesn’t understand the difference between blog and blog post particular as one of his points was attention to detail.

If the author is reading this blog is the medium (like magazine or newspaper) and blog post or post is the individual what a blog is what one authors.
I don’t think it’s too hard to figure out. Natural selection disfavors a strategy that requires significant investment in non-reproductive activity (education, career ladder-climbing) during prime reproductive years.
I skated for most of my youth and have the same thing going on. I was very happy when someone from my area won SOTY also. I don't really see the same magnitude of fandom during SLS ever occuring. Sometimes people really hate Nyjah or really fan boy for Joslin. Maybe we'll see regional skateboarding teams in the future, but for now we can enjoy skateboarding purely being about the talent. The Olympics will definitely test the waters for this.
Interestingly enough, I get this same feeling of being constrained while being tethered to a desk. I love the ability to move to the kitchen, or the couch, or outside. I've tried using external monitors before and I'm so used to virtual desktops that I often forget they're even there. To each their own, I guess.
> "...it's only a bad measure if you're trying to max it out at 100%."

That's the point. If that metric is a KPI - and often it is - it can be taken to a counter productive extreme. Which __does__ happen
At about 25 minutes into this, the claim was made that the world was financially stable, currencies were backed by gold, the "real economy" was in balance with amount of money available, until 1971, when the "Nixon Shock" happened. It's somewhat true, but Wikipedia gives a more nuanced story:

- There was the Bretton Woods system (c. 1958) which established a kind of gold standard for currencies; the U.S. dollar was pegged at $35 per ounce, and the U.S. owned over half the world's official gold reserves—574 million ounces at the end of World War II. Foreign governments could exchange their dollars for gold.

- As Germany and Japan recovered, the U.S. share of the world's economic output dropped significantly (from 35% in 1950 to 27% in 1969). The French called the Bretton Woods system "America's exorbitant privilege" - i.e. the U.S. could produce a $100 bill for a few cents, but anyone else would first need to produce $100 worth of goods to get one.

- In February 1965 French President Charles de Gaulle announced an intention to exchange its U.S. dollars for gold. By 1966, non-US central banks held $14 billion, while the United States had only $13.2 billion in gold reserve (with only $3.2 billion available to cover foreign holdings). By 1971, the money supply had increased by 10%.

- In May 1971, West Germany left the Bretton Woods system. Other nations began to demand redemption of their dollars for gold (e.g. Switzerland redeemed $50 million, France acquired $191 million). On August 5, 1971, the United States Congress released a report recommending devaluation of the dollar. On August 9, 1971, Switzerland left the Bretton Woods system.

- On August 15, 1971, Nixon directed that the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets is to be suspended (with certain exceptions) - hence, foreign governments could no longer exchange their dollars for gold (presumably for the time being, at first).

From this lay-person's perspective, an improving economy and a growing population would naturally bring about an increase in the demand for money. Gold isn't as constraining on the supply of money as some folks may insist (there were already too many greenbacks for the gold in reserve by 1966). Everyday working Joes will still need some cash in their pockets to purchase their day-to-day needs, and the more such "Joes" you've got the more money you'll need to put some into the newer pockets. For that reason alone, fractional-reserve banking becomes a thing; at the end of the day, a "Joe" has a more immediate need for food-clothing-shelter than for gold. So long as banking clients collectively have other more pressing desires than that for gold, the "virtual gold" of its ledger books could suffice.
That's an API. Like asyncio in Python is an API. If you make the event loop swapable without making this API mandatory however, it's never going to be a protocol.
Author says don't follow a morning routine, but then mentions they have a morning routine (breakfast/trainer).

Author says don't focus on the morning being your peak time, you should find the time of the day that is the peak time for yourself. Ignore the fact that their good breakfast and work out helps power their peak times. Inconsequential.

Okay, but that's why those morning routines have you do the rote/everyday stuff quickly in a short window, so you can have longer peak times during the day. Notice in their long list of things blogger says you should do is none of the real work you get paid to do.

Granted, you don't have to wake up at 6am; but if you're going to have a routine that you do every day, that you should optimize such that it doesn't get interrupted by work messages and e-mails or other responsibilities, when's it going to be?

It's going to be early in the morning.

The author is making the exact point they're attempting to refute. You should have a morning routine, it should be filled with things that are good for you and harder to schedule during the day, you should optimize the specifics to what makes you feel good, and doing it will make you more productive as a result. Great.

I'm glad the author took the time out of their day to correct all those other incorrect bloggers who didn't know what they were talking about.
In the words of John Gruber of Daring Fireball, Ballmer knows how to make money. People will disagree with his decisions but the results don’t lie.
Encode speed hasn't seen much optimization, the bitstream was frozen just weeks ago.

Also there are already an alternative AV1 encoder in the works, RAV1E, written by Mozilla in Rust, so there will be competition which will likely speed development, and the x265 developers have stated that they will create an AV1 encoder if that's where the market goes, which at this point seems very likely given that all the major players are backing this codec, coupled with the fact that it's royalty free and thus can be implemented anywhere.
Elon Musk attacks Thai cave rescuer in angry tweet
Unfortunately for us, Apple bases its decisions on expected sales numbers more than our feelings. That said, does anyone know if the sales numbers are stronger after these mean keyboard and touchbar (and dongly) redesigns?
I develop iPad apps on a 13" laptop, and it's not actually too bad. You scale your iPad simulator down so that it fits on the screen and stick it another space if necessary.
What you're talking about is called the Flynn effect. There're many studies indicating it's not just "starting to ease", it's getting reversed for today's teenagers (i.e. they're getting dumber). Here's a recent one for Norway: http://www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6674
The gladiators might not, but the chariot racers in the Hippodrome did have teams/factions, with fans loyal to each: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot_racing

That said, you're right that it wasn't "international", but then again "nations" themselves aren't that old.