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since my wife it's from China and I am from Europe it makes things more difficult, our rules for both babies were:

- can't contain R so wife can pronounce it, so no Klara for us

- can't be in top 10 in countries we are going to settle (since my own name was extremely common when i grew up and didn't want my children to experience other 4 children in their class with same name, i feel pity for my sisters children which both carry names in top 5), but also nothing weird. so my favorites (but sadly also everyone's else) Adam and Anna were out of question

- length should roughly match my family name for balance (since children carry my family name, combination with Chinese would look a bit odd in Europe)

- it should be written same way in multiple languages (English/German and my own language) for international use to avoid mistakes (one of benefits of my own name)

- didn't want certain origins of name to imply nationality, for instance I liked Alina but have to pass after finding it's mostly Russian name

- nobody in extended family should carry these names (first child name i met twice in my life, second child once in my life though it was my very close female coworker known even by my wife, so it took few weeks to disassociate her from my child name, it helped it's years since we worked together and my wife had always multiple other options though this was my first choice after eliminating many of my favorite names)

- no infamous celebrities should carry it in countries we are going to settle (we were sure about two countries)

- i am big fan of names beginning with A and in general beginning of alphabet, so bonus points for beginning, it almost never hurts being on beginning of list if sorted by given name

Things we didn't care about:

- proximity between birthday and name day (i have like less than 5 days, first child exactly one week, second child months)

- out of 5/6 letters of their names both children share same 3 letters core, though most of the people would never notice it

- if someone else carry exactly same given and family name, though combination should be completely unique, pretty sure there is zero people in world carrying same combination as second child, first child extremely rare since also my family name it's very rare

- not easy to make fun of name, since any name which came to my mind i could ridiculous and i am sure children have even bigger imagination, so unless it's really obvious one should not bother trying to avoid it
What I really need is a weekly study day: Spend a whole day just studying and reading something (which may be completely unrelated to my work). Some of my most productive ideas have come from such study.
The constants perfectly divide out in this case, adding the pi was an afterthought so that people would recognize it as an area. Yes... It should have had a 4 as well. Too late to edit now.
So, after reading about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect I now no-longer... (etc.)
Windows 10 with transparency turned off is very clean and usable.

I know I'm going to get a lot of reflexive disagreement on this point for unrelated "because Windows" reasons, but I think this is objectively true. The entire UI is just basic shapes and line drawings.
Not quite. They just monetise in the manner. The core value-proposition is very much b2c in both above cases.
This article seems to be based on a Michael Crichton speech. Crichton himself had some controversial and unscientific views on climate change; maybe this was what he had in mind when he wrote the speech. Perhaps, contrary to this opinion, he should have been less sceptical of the media.

The article seems quite poor. Of two supporting references it uses, one seems to contradict the effect (C.S. Lewis became more sceptical) and the other suggests Hitchens referred to this effect in an interview that came years before the speech.
> If the US dollar was 10 times stronger you could buy 10 times more food.

"You" being the distributor, not the final consumer. I don't see why the distributor (or other middlemen) wouldn't simply pocket the price difference themselves. What would force them to pass it on to consumers?
I'm confused over the size of these extra dimensions... They say that they do not rule out small compact extra dimensions, but only large ones, the number they give is ~100 km. But this must surely be ruled out by ordinary gravitational experiments that establish the 1/r^2 law for gravity, since I would assume that that law would be seriously broken for extra dimensions of those sizes for even everyday physics.

The number that is quoted in some textbooks on String theory (but I do not have the refs.) is that gravity is 1/r^2 down to sizes of ~1 cm for extra dimensions.
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This idea is expanded in Taleb's "Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons": https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surg...
Among these norms, again the L_2 norm stands out. It being the standard measure of distance. Here, it is important because it is invariant under rotation. We can define rotation without any appeal to length as the "special linear group". This consists of all matrices that have determinant 1.

I wonder where exactly the connection between 'rotation invariance' and 'estimate of the expected value' comes from.
I have a 34” monitor, so scrolling up to the upper left every time I need to select a menu item is horrid. Plus, they got rid of the amazingly useful tear off menu customization. The Mac toolbar is a big step backwards.
If longevity is what they want, they should release private keys and hardware specs for hardware that they drop from their own OS updates.

That way, we could continue using old iPads and iPhones, albeit with custom Android builds.
Improve productivity to where? The last decades already saw enormous productivity increases - it doesn't seem to have lead to less inequality or higher or more secure incomes for many.
I'll believe them when I see their products come with replaceable batteries and more expansion options, and they start selling parts on their site.
Or check out taustation.space

It is a SciFi MMO text based game that also has beautiful artwork and was only released recently (almost brand new game).
I recommend Zork on that list. Recently played it for the first time and it's a great experience. Your mind fills in so much more than virtual images or sounds could create.
For many products on Amazon, there are several sellers, each competing for the "buy box". Third party sellers are not an unalloyed good, but on balance are good for Amazon shoppers, IMO.

Outside of Amazon, Amazon has helped to set new standards for online commerce (free shipping, fast shipping, no/few questions customer service). When you see Zappos (now Amazon), Jet, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, and Ebay all mimicking aspects of the Amazon shopping experience, you're also seeing increased competition. It also has effects on brick and mortar commerce that are beneficial for consumers. Some stores match Amazon prices in the walk-in stores.

It has absolutely taken margin out of the retail industry, making it harder on retailers, but so long as they don't fail in droves, margin leaving the industry is money that's being returned to consumers, at least in part.
In my previous life as an ActionScripter, I also had to work with Silverlight one time a year or so and, every time, I had to update the SDK (.NET & Co.) to the latest version. During one of those updates, the installer greeted me with the craziest, least informative, and least actionable error message I've ever seen: https://78.media.tumblr.com/wRSf1eblFaaf9zptcf60kcLv_500.gif
Fair point for nullables, although that is already possible through annotation processing (see the checkers framework) - but there is a good faith argument that this isn't "core" enough.

The syntax for functions and inlining are not part of the type system. Inlining especially, is a useful language feature, and has to be checked at compile-type, but is unrelated with types.

Sum types, really you can have that with just inheritance (base class with package private constructor + final sub-classes). What Java lacks is a nice way to pattern-match/switch over types (which Kotlin does nicely with flow typing), but again that isn't really the type system (although it does make the type system nicer to use, certainly).
I haven't heard that definition of "hotness" yet. This sounds interesting. Thanks.
Not never as you write but surely very often. For UIs to be gorgeous they should be left to tech savy designers (that is, not painters), not programmers (having the two teams communicate closely though). A programmer usually focuses on functions, bugs, speed, which inevitably detracts the attention from aesthetics or usability, so having some people working exclusively in that field would benefit a lot. Unfortunately not all projects can afford or even find for free a good designer, just like not all FOSS games can get the same amount of graphics primitives as commercial games have.
Consistency is a different problem due primarily to fragmentation (it's thousands developers!) and lack of a central entity benevolently dictating standards also in the GUI field. I was just downvoted by someone who clearly missed my point in yesterday's post about Linus taking some time off: I wrote that Linux would benefit a lot if we had someone like him forcing consistency in the GUI and other fields. It is a necessary "evil" intended to help more developers build a solid single standard until the gap with Windows/MacOS is filled.
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You do realize issues about immigration aren't just about jobs, its about having a home. Maybe it's too hard for the rootless masses on HN to understand what its like being rooted in an area over generations to just watch it become a foreign country within a decade.

Then to be told if only you cared more about climate change everything would be fine...
> it seems equality operator in javascript is good for nothing but being a source of confusion and a target of jokes.

I would say that's the defining characteristics of JavaScript.

It makes it fun to write JavaScript with its quirkiness and "dynamic" nature. And once you master it you become a ninja.

Compare it to Java or Golang where you are restricted by the language syntax and anything slightly creative and fun is either not supported or not idiomatic.
Alternative possibility: maybe you're moving on too quickly?

Obviously I don't know, but it might be the case that you've been too extreme in the "move on" part and enough in the "following an appealing pursuit".

Just my $.02 ...
I had tremendous problems finding a job with a background technology (STEM PhD) in the states. In the end I had to leave to China. If you look for a job here they ask you "Can you start tomorrow?" They mean it. Nobody can afford a 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. interview here since they know other will ask the same question. For my first real job here a company screwed around two months with the contract. When they were ready I was long gone from the job market. Impossible here.

Is it like this now in the states?
For typeof obj == '..' you don't need === since typeof always returns a string

And the engine makes it as fast as === https://github.com/dperini/nwsapi/pull/11#issuecomment-38327... (Generally else == is slower than ===)
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But that's not the same; it's about truthy-ness. E.g. -1 and 1 are both truthy, but not loosely equal.
I do not necessarily disagree about the fact that batteries should be easily replaceable.
On the other hand, I do not think that Apple's motivation was pure greed: if you make the battery an easily replaceable part you also need to encase it in a shell, and make it robust enough that even untrained users can safely handle these.

This means that you have to make it bigger (externally) sacrificing actual internal volume. A softer shell (that will be reached only by qualified personnel who will later properly dispose of the old battery) give you a slightly longer battery life.

So they decided that (battery life+markup in handling replacements+making sure only certified batteries will be used) > (user convenience) which I think is not such a stupid idea: outside HN maybe not everyone is willing to grab the closest screwdriver when having to deal with their phones...
No "Pick Up The Phone Booth and Die"?

http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=4gb36vjo20qpvxty

That site has a bunch of IF games that you can play online as well.
Bashreqs: like pipreqs but for bash scripts
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In U.S. discourse the concept of a political "center" can generally be reduced to the concept that nobody is advocating for anything that's really all that different than things are now. Or to the extent that they are they are advocating for slow, incremental changes. "Common sense, bipartisan solutions" and so on.

Thus, in practice, centrism is in fact a political philosophy that advocates for corporate hegemony and income inequality. Those are current major societal trends, so by definition any approach advocating no major changes serves to perpetuate those trends.
Ok, since you won’t give up even in the face of obvious facts:

O365 Enterprise E1 is $8/month

O365 Enterprise E3 is $20/month

O365 Enterprise E5 is $35/month

GSuite Enterprise is $25/month

So none of O365’s Enterprise editions are double the price and in fact all but one edition is cheaper than GSuite Enterprise.
You mean, the work and the person are completely unrelated?
You are crazy. It could be a tad more precise, but that would be less informative, by listing the exact missing conditions. But as it is, it is giving you all the prerequisites, and you can checkmand install all the software required. There’s no error message more informative and actionable!
I'd take just consistent. Linux userspace people seem to have a culture of doing things different from each other just for the sake of it. How many distributions are there? How many of them are just a change in the default package install list of Ubuntu?
> Stop this bullshit, it is unacceptable.

You are getting a free article, having to put up with those popups seems acceptable to me
If there are extra dimensions that gravity doesn't exit into, this experiment won't detect them. It is not curtians for string theory.
They only dropped Java after being validated that Mac developer community was fine with Objective-C.

They dropped Java because it was obvious that Java couldn’t handle they dynamic nature of the Cocoa framework. It was a horrible fit.
Oh, 10.6 was so nice, my MBP came with it, it flew, it was fast on 4 GB of ram! Now, the latest MacOS is slow on 16GB of ram, it's the same machine and I still do the same things with it. I don't understand "progress".
> Given that EU wages have increased much more than US wages we can conclude that unemployment has very little to do with wage increases.

No, we cannot. Unemployment and wage increases could be perfectly positively correlated and still be completely consistent with EU wages rising faster in the US when the EU unemployment rate is twice the US rate.

All we can conclude is that the EU unemployment rate to wage increase function is not the same as the US function, so that a given level of unemployment does not result in the same rate of wage increases in the EU and the US.

There are huge social safety net differences between the EU and the US that might affect how urgent it is for an unemployed person to find a job, and so could affect what employers have to offer to get workers.

In the US, being out of work is a major disaster for many people. If you are in a state that has not expanded Medicaid, you may not be able to afford even the cheapest health insurance for more than a short time with no money coming in if, like many Americans, you do not have much in savings.
Basically what Windows Server comes with iirc. I wish the "Pro" version of Windows 10 was just Windows Server, aka I don't care for a lot of the bloat that Microsoft has to offer to all consumer versions of Windows. If I'm a Pro user let me decide what I want to install.
I assumed it was a riff off of the millennium prize problems (which do have a bounty of $1M each), as a way of saying "here are some other very interesting unsolved problems"

http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/millennium-prize...
Its always risky to switch to your job with a startup. There isn't any security for your job as well as for salary.
Airbnb, like Uber, took advantage of regulatory inefficiencies instead of market inefficiencies. The model is do something (in the minds of regulators) illegal, quickly enough that you can become large enough to get a seat at the table when the regulations are reworked.

The counter example to these companies are the ones that quickly raised capital to dump scooters on public streets before they could be shut down by cities. None of the players were able to grow large enough to have a say in the reforming of the laws that regulate them (SF learned its lesson from Uber and moved quickly, limiting their participation to asking for proposals).

This is framed to present a VC as "missing out" in the financial sense. Ultimately a VC is liable to its capital partners in far more ways. If Airbnb had all of its assets seized by the federal government as an illegal enterprise (just as an example), we would be applauding their foresight and brilliance in avoiding this otherwise lucrative opportunity.
While this is an interesting post to read, it is also about 7 years old.

It's quite cool how the transcript goes to say "There's no reason this couldn't be as big as Ebay. And this team
is the right one to do it."

Turns out that literally was the case! Good call Paul!
Compare the nextspace screenshot to the nextstep screenshot, and one can see they are appreciably different.

nextspace: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/mast...

nextstep: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/NeXTSTEP_desk...
While quickly descending use the motors as a generator via autorotation?

I'm only joking, but there might in fact be practical application of the concept.
US voters have probably an order of magnitude more elections than other democracies.

I'm a dual citizen: in my other country, every five years I can vote on two ballots (to choose a party list for national government and one for regional government) and the following year again two ballots (to choose a party list and an individual representative for local government). In the US, I can vote for n state judges, state governor, state lieutenant governor, state treasurer, state secretary of state, state representative, state senator, presidential primary, president, federal senate primary, two senators, federal representative primary, representative, mayor, n members of the school district board, n local referenda, n state referenda. Some of these offices have terms as short as two years (e.g. representatives), or non-aligned terms (e.g., in a six year cycle there are two separate elections for federal senators). While in the other country there are two election days in every five year cycle, in the US I vote once or twice a year, and there are half a dozen to a dozen ballots on each occasion.

It could be done by hand, but the scale is very different to a more typical democracy.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result - Einstein

Democracy is the best system of government, except for all the others - Churchill

With the News Media, it seems to be the combination:

News based on Capitalism and Competition is the worst system for making sense of information, creating echo chambers and clickbait to pay its bills in a race to the bottom, but we will still keep turning to it to inform our democracies.

How about something new for a change, namely COLLABORATION like wiki or open source news, and replacing the journalists risking their lives on the ground with citizen journalists that have cellphones. This is 2018 and people document every phenomenon anyway. All we are missing is collaboration.

This being HN, let’s hack it together. If you want to build a site like that together, contact me (greg at the domain qbix.com)
Ya, with the prince and the teen pop sensation it's coming back for sure.
I miss Apples native RSS readers (Safari and Mail used to have native readers, with Mail being configurable to send you RSS feeds to your inbox). Sadly they dropped them with Lion if I'm not mistaken.

RSS is/was nice to be able to stay up-to-date with infrequently updating blogs, and it's honestly a shame that it's no longer used as much as it used to.

One thing that could possibly re-ignite the use of RSS feeds is a button in the adress bar (I recall Safari having this option) to indicate that the site has an RSS feed and taking you to it when you click on it. Maybe look in a couple of predetermined places to find this feed (feed.xml and rss.xml are almost universally the common feed names I've seen used on the sites that I frequent, with the exception of reddit, which simply lets you append .rss to any URL).
You are right. I confused truthy-ness with '== true' for some reason, didn't write much JS lately.
I personally like calm, rational logical inspirational leaders. I would like the fictional Captain Picard! Those are very hard to find.

In my humble opinion, I believe you will find a lot of disagreement on methodologies throughout this thread as some folks are introverts, some extroverts and a wide range in between. Each person here will have had their own personal experiences that were a result of a mix of personality types. If we just go by Jung, that's a matrix of 16 types. The possibilities and interactions are quite extensive.

I believe that each org filters down their group to a certain mix of personalities that are tolerable (cultural fit). The more critical someone is, the slightly more that people will tolerate in exchange for what they contribute.

I suppose what I am suggesting is that there is no single form of leadership that is entirely optimal in any org. The mix of personalities can block rational discussion. There are some websites where people discuss the toxic results in their org.
I have been looking at this recently with great interest!

A problem I have with all other split layout keyboards is that they place the B key on the left side of the keyboard. However, I type the letter B with my right index finger, not my left. I know this is "incorrect", but it is firmly ingrained in my muscle memory and while I've tried changing it in the past, I've had little success.

I got very excited when I saw the "key cluster" module, since if it were available for the right side, it would allow me to just place my own B key next to N where I want it.

Is this planned? I would buy this in a heartbeat if so.
Thanks for the context. I am extremely doubtful that a company like Apple is going to commit to durability, parts reuse and recycling.

Repairability score of iPhones are not so bad, but the latest MacBooks are unrepairable.
The battery is replaceable in most (all?) of their products, just not by the user. Battery service is sold on their site today.
Unfortunately most of the world loves Jobs kind of jerks and hates Linus kinds.
How can you produce good work if you never improve yourself? If going personal can improve someone and then improve their work, whats the argument again that we shouldn't go personal?

Hurt feelings?
It's full of ad popups, even clicking the scroll bars. Also you can support the interactive fiction community (including the classic text adventures authors) if you go directly to the interactive fiction database http://ifdb.tads.org/, you can find there how to play the games and how to play it in the browser too.
Wow!!! Finally it comes to Windows. Love the macOS version so much <3