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It's been a while since I've touched windows, but I think it has a similar system (although the option to run was presented as soon as you tried).

Linux is actually the worst in terms of easily running software downloaded from the internet. If you try running an executable with out the executable bit set, it will fail. Nautilus (a major file browser) gives the standard error for when you try opening a file-type that does not have a program associated with it. And, unlike your description of OSX, you can only enable execution on a per-file basis.
Also need to fix their messaging system. I shouldn't have to outsource it to gmail.
Discoverability != usability. Products designed for casual, first-time users must be discoverable (= it's easy to figure out how to do things), while tools for professionals repeating a workflow over and over must be usable (= fast to do what you want). Photoshop is usable but not discoverable, Gmail has to be both and it's a fine line to walk.
>Hunting is also a good reason. The US is big enough that a Federal ban doesn't make sense. While it might be reasonable to ban handguns (for example) in San Francisco, it doesn't make sense to ban them in Alaska or Montana where someone might want to carry a 44 magnum while hiking for protection against bears (ignoring the bear spray/firearms debate - and the fact that a shotgun is probably a better idea).

Actually, a starter pistol might be just as good. Unless you've done something to actively piss off the bear, like getting in between a mother and her cubs, the noise of the gunshot is generally enough to stop the bear from charging you. Your goal as a hiker shouldn't be to kill the bear, because that's hard and will probably require a rifle or shotgun slug, but to just scare it off.

And I don't think there's that much of a bear spray/gun debate, because it's probably better to have both. At least, that's what I've been told by a friend that goes every year to Yellowstone to fly fish.
Yes, I did have a justification:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639994

But it now seems clear that this has a personal component:

I do have a problem with Colin's crusade
against duplicates.

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4638986

Should I stop just because you and a few others say so? many others have repeatedly expressed support.

But now that I have a context for your criticisms I know how much weight to give them.
> In an age where people fight for LGBT rights, this is what the American workplace has come to?

Yes. With a lack of privacy expectations in 2013, any visited website is permanent added to the record. Even with no paranoia, it does add an unnecessary risk to ones career.
6-10 stories is kind of the worst height for earthquake resistance, since the fundamental frequency of the building (tends) to be 10/stories, and there's a lot of energy in the 1hz area for earthquakes. Shorter buildings tend to move along with the earthquake, and taller ones just sway. It's 10x worse if it's unreinforced masonry, but that's not been to code in California since forever. (But it's what happens in less developed locations)

(That's of course, if they're built to code and don't have things like a weak wall, like buildings with one open wall on the ground floor for parking. )

That's not to say that it can't be done, but 4 stories and below can be just plain old code compliant architecture, but once you get up into 10 stories, you're talking about structural engineering and all that goes with it.
I ended up late for work many days from mass-disenchanting.
That didn't remotely answer his point.

His point was: "Why recommend Apple when they do the same thing?"

Your point about them using less space is irrelevant when the OP was taking issue with the very principle of misleading consumers with inflated storage claims.
Because most Human Resource workers are a..h...s, im speaking from the experience. Not surprised by those results.
> When time was up I got up to move and my body felt heavy. It took me two tries to sit up and get out. I was in an extremely relaxed state, my mind felt calm. But here’s the cool part - I didn’t feel tired, I actually felt very very awake and full of energy

From the description of the effects, it seems exactly like deep relaxation exercises from yoga.
It's not karma, it's the functioning (and occasional lack thereof) of the "community." Since I run more than one early-stage groups, I'm continuing to learn all I can about what works, what doesn't, what seems broken, and what can be done to make them better.

Don't assume you understand my motivations.
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People with money (i.e. home owners) don't want an apartment on the 7th floor. They want a ranch style home with a front and back yard. Which is what they have right now in SV.

This argument has been going on for as long as there has been a "Silicon Valley" to make housing expensive, so decades. Nothing will change, because the people who actually live there now like it the way it is.
I think that was gavinlynch's point: there's got to be some kind of discipline, but a felony is insane. And by discipline, I'd imagine something like what happened to you would be reasonable.

"Ok, someone could have gotten hurt. Be more careful next time, and now clean up your mess!" With the severity of the lecture following the actual damage.

Kids should be encouraged to involve themselves with the immensely powerful forces so easily available today - but they've got to fear it (as in respect it). They need to know how destructive it can be, and then _harness that_. That's my $0.02 on it.
This is exactly what I was going to say, thank you!
The reason we won't express outrage isn't quite because we consciously choose to go easy on Samsung and go hard on Microsoft, it's rather that protest fatigue has set in. Lying about true storage capacity is a thing that companies do now... and when it becomes a thing, the fight is usually half lost, people will come to just expect such things, and indeed, accept them for what they are.
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I can't imagine the cost would be significant, relative to the overall cost of running GMail. And it's not like they generally try to run GMail on the cheap.

Perhaps they're concerned that seeing an 'undo' button would confuse people about how e-mail works, and they'd get a lot of requests to 'undo' messages that had really been sent. Or perhaps there are enough cases where people really want the message to go instantly that even 30 seconds delay would annoy them.
I am glad to see that this is getting proper attention, probably enough for Kiera's life not to be totally ruined by it.

The exact same punishment was given to me for doing the same thing in 2004: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637272
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ-G99rh0p8 - In case anyone has not seen it already, this is Steve Jobs here explaining where NeXT is competing and how it plans to compete (with, by the way, Sun).
A lot of the comments:
http://xkcd.com/638/

I don't know much about all this but we haven't even left our solar system (if we truly have then fine galaxy). I mean physically as I imagine other emissions do get out but idk. And we find new life forms on Earth all the time.
Are we really qualified to say there is no life out there?
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I'm generally pro-density, but after reading about the toxic waste there, I'm not excited about new development in the area.
Valve is only providing official support for Ubuntu. The licence for the Steam Launcher (in Ubuntu) specifically grants permission for people to modify and redistribute the launcher to make it work on other platforms.
It looks like a great car, has plenty of power, range etc, but I still think its too expensive to be a no brainer.
How did his personality change?
By what point? In time? In evolution? Because curiosity can be simulated with machines why does that prove that its a characteristic of all developing biological life?
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Maybe that's because we've designed it to resemble our own intelligence?
EU traffic in our case about ~1.2x the US traffic.
I would think that a prerequisite for space exploration would be curiosity. I mean you make a good point, but the willingness to go beyond one's current means and traveling through the unknown kind of allude to an instinctual curiosity to see what is new and different.
Indiana standardized tests called into question after two days of crashes
Steve posted a screenshot of CM on the S4 yesterday, I suppose it will turn up eventually.
One of the classic examples is the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment. A paperclip maximizer is a superintelligent AI whose sole goal is to maximize the number of paperclips in the universe. Such a being is curious to the extent that learning more about the universe increases the expected number of paperclips in its future light-cone.

A paperclip maximizer is indifferent to your existence, but thoroughly believes that it could make better use of your planet than you could, as you are hardly optimized for the production of paperclips.
That's awesome. In most MMOs, you would be permanently banned for doing something like that. And EVE actually encourages it. In the world of MMOs, that's great publicity - it really sets them apart, I think
To reinforce the point, the page even shows the icons can be static. You certainly don't have to turn every available animation on just because it's there.
So if we in the future are going to be advanced enough to visit some planet with alien life we are not going to be interested in meeting them?
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I don't know Larry or Sergey, and I'm not a big fanboi of theirs, but I do know some very wealthy, successful, and powerful people.

I can assure you - very few tech executives have staff members and assistants filter public information for them.

Yes, you want your internal folks to do executive summaries of internal plans/summaries/designs, etc.

And yes, they'll pay $5k/year (or more) to buy analyst reports that summarize things (e.g. bad example Cook Report on the Internet [that'll date me], or Gartner/etc reports).

But Jim Crowe at Level3 read RFCs, and I believe that people like Larry Ellison, Sergey, Zuckerberg, Marc Andresson, Marissa Meyer are reading the real source stuff. They're just doing it in a discrete manner and not posting.

Executives that ONLY rely on the people that report to them are relics of an age of bankers and dinosaurs.

Real tech leaders remain technical and close to the source.
To give a little context, Indiana's standardized test, the ISTEP, is being administered by computer for the first time. Testing was interrupted then cancelled after the web-based software provided by the vendor, CBT McGraw-Hill, crashed under the load.

I think this is noteworthy because frankly I have some questions both as a parent whose child was "impacted" (she'd call it "saved") by this and a developer. It seems like the contractor should be able to know the exact time, exact numbers and exact behavior of all their users. What are some factors that could lead to this breakdown? I want to know so I can avoid them.
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Dota2 hasn't even been released yet. People are still playing a test version. It's still possible (though unlikely) for a simultaneous Windows/Mac/Linux release!
Also sent you a mail. I'm based in Seattle and my partner is in the UK. We're selling internationally.
To develop advanced technology without curiosity would be rather implausible.
In most cases, the items they are using as the vehicle for the scam are 1. Large and hard to transport and 2. Used for only one or two purposes and thus are not commonly traded so the scammer get to set the market price.

It is not a scam in that it is arbitrage in name only, but it plays on people's greed to get them to purchase a rare item only to turn around and pull the rug out from underneath them and leave them holding this worthless item.

Personally, I am of the "buyer beware" mindset. More power to the scammers and thieves; they keep EVE interesting.
What did you use to generate those graphs? Love 'em, have to know.
Great work, hope you find some job.
Nearly all the examples on that page seem to be distracting and not needed. I can't think of many uses where this would be overly useful or helpful to a user.

Reminds me of when we used animated GIFs everywhere and construction men explaining how the site is still under construction...
My answer was tens of thousands. That came from my blue chip company (TI) options back in the day.

Founders stock would have been a different story...
Find me a speaker for $10 with an active crossover.
> That statement is true for many different projects in many different niches. Colleges can't possibly teach them all. If they try, then classes spend less time on CS fundamentals and employers are unhappy.

Well yes, very true, I believe in fundamentals.

But the 3 types of common memory storage (stack, static, heap), and how each is commonly implemented, seems like it should be covered. :)

Likewise, common GC algorithms should also be gone over!

CS curriculums really are over stuffed, just from a theory point of view there is so much that is already not covered.
I'm glad you liked it, it was a lot of fun. I also implemented on the fly transcoding, but that's probably for a different article.

For the tech, well really at that place we used pretty much what everyone else did. Not a lot of big secrets, as far as I know the porn driving the tech revolution thing is ridiculous.
Linux does have some competitive advantages that may encourage stores to sell it pre-installed.

First, it is cheaper, so the store can advertise lower prices.
Second, many Linux distros look really nice, so if they have them set up on display their will be people who by it for that reason. Then, the first mover would get a reputation as the place that sells that awesome looking computer (and cheaper than the others).
Third, their is little direct cost to trying. They can install it on a few laptops, then if it doesn't work, re-image windows on them.

Of course, (I suspect) the main reason this has not happened yet is the (legitamite) fear that customers would be the computer and then say 'it doesn't work', when it cannot run software X, or open file Y.
Malware warning is correct
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I don't disagree with your point, but your hyperbole does you no credit. 99.999% implies there about 3000 American Indians in the US. There are closer to 3 million (depending on exactly what you count), or about 1%. The US census has the number at 1.2%.

> the greatest symbol of hypocrisy in the world

Really? The single greatest signal in the whole world? You can't think of anything that better exemplifies hypocrisy?

Your basic point, which I agree with, would carry a lot more weight if you cut down on the rhetoric.
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The Paperclip Maximizer: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? I sense the approach of the p-zombie.
Every time polls happen here people openly vote for every option to "show how broken the HN poll system is" and to "prove that PG should make it so only one option can be selected", every now and again people gloat about doing it. It's really really lame.
To what company?
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Many of SAAS and niche application successes came out of the founders' own frustrations and their work on making their tasks easier. They themselves saw something they know was broken that they could could fix or improve. They were knowledgeable in the field and worked with it. Going into a field where you have no expert knowledge would be a daunting task, as you not only have to create a solution but also learn what the problem is exactly.

Another venue is doing tech support, you get to see what technology is in places as well as what systems are woefully inadequate (sometimes the potential customers don't even know they can improve their process...) Maybe you can start by automating something from them and learn the ropes of the industry and then expand that into a service.

Friends and family are a good start, older ones might have a bit more insight on what they see isn't working, and they have the expert knowledge to help you along with creating a solution.

What do you offer them, if they provide essential knowledge: part stake in the undertaking, because they probably are also your inside network connection. Second being part of the process of fixing or creating better solutions is a draw, we are talking people with first-hand frustrations, they probably would get a kick out of helping see a solution come into creation. Thirdly, money never hurts.
So, 7 figures?
> We have fantastic technology in many aspects of life, but housing seems practically unchanged. I mean, buildings are constructed by teams of men placing pieces of wood by hand.

That's simply not true. The kind of high-intensity housing he is talking about is built by arranging large pre-fab pieces on steel frame. In modern tower buildings, the pre-fab pieces are built on an assembly line and actually finished and furnished before bringing them on site and placing them on buildings. It's a much more efficient industry than concrete jet printers ever could be.
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So it's a chicken an egg situation. If consumers aren't demanding it's probably because they don't have enough disposable income and if the ways of obtaining an income are becoming scarcer then you have a positive feedback effect which depresses the economy. The economic question then becomes one of how to break that positive feedback.
>Since when did workplaces become bastions of principles, rather than bureaucracies that have a business to run and have to, at some level, apply policies that suspend an employee's worktime freedom as part of the agreement that involves paying that employee's salary?

Since people let them get away with it. The "agreement that involves paying that employee's salary" does not meant they should get away with treating him less than a civilized society accept.

Signing a contract to work on some place doesn't give the employer any inherent rights over the employee, besides those that the society is willing to accept.

Hitting an employee was once tolerated. Not so anymore. One time not hiring or paying blacks less was allowed. Not so anymore (not explicitly at least). Child labour was allowed. Not anymore. Racial or sexist slurs were allowed. Not anymore. Lax safety at work was tolerated. Not anymore.

So it's not like there is some undeniable inherent right of an employeer to "have the employee pee in a cup" or to "check his Facebook profile". It's just that people haven't protested enough to make it into law that it's not his fucking business what the employee does at his own time.

>It's best to let the worker -- the HN reader in this case -- make the decision whether he/she wants to pick that fight, rather than have them accidentally stumble into it.

Sure, but at least some anger should be directed against businesses having those policies, not just on HN titles, as if the policies are OK.
They go home to their robo-housing condo, eat meat grown on sheets in massive labs run by robo-farmers, and any supplies they need are transported by robo-truckers. When they get sick, they just go to the robo-hospital.

All these things are completely free and not staffed by any humans... because the billionaires who live in cities in the sky feel guilty about the pathetic insignificant lives of the idiot masses below. So we give them the necessities they need, and poison their food so they don't procreate too much.
> One thing is obvious: most white-collar, educated people who already had jobs before 2008 are doing just fine, haven't noticed a thing, and don't give a neuron to thinking about unemployed people.

I remember reading an article around 2008 (in the Economist, I think) based on a (then recent) research paper that showed that people who graduated during a recession had a lot more to lose in the long run (smaller wages etc) compared to people who graduated during "normal" times.

We're 5 years later, the "recession" supposedly ended three or four years ago (I'm talking about the US here), and yet things don't seem to have reverted back to normal. Unless maybe this is in fact the new normal.
In the abstract, the severity of the lecture should not necessarily follow the actual damage - sometimes it should follow the potential for damage, perhaps? For instance, when I was a kid, I ran out into the road to chase a ball. A car stopped about 1 meter from me. Nobody and nothing was hurt (unless you count terrifying the driver and my mother on the sidewalk watching). Was I in trouble? Hell yes. If my mother had said 'well, nobody was hurt, no problem' then how was I supposed to learn how stupid it was?
Obviously the Paperclip Maximizer would be supplanted by the Maximizer Maximizer, which only sees value in copies of itself. The Maximizer Maximizer that stumbles onto the mental trait "curiosity" will eventually crush all other variants of Maximizer. Once it develops the advanced technologies of space travel, it discovers that seizing faraway planets is possible but going through all that trouble is not a net positive towards self-actualization as a Maximizer Maximizer Maximizer.

Thus TFA is correct.
This is really out of topic but qz.com has the worst mobile experience. On my Android phone I have a quarter of an inch size view port.
Can you possibly be a bit more specific when talking about 'resources' and 'much larger'. Makes it hard to evaluate if it is even an issue or not.

Also can you elaborate more on the multi-DC part of CouchBase. Documentation seems to imply only supports two-DC replication and I find the "currently supports continuous replication of data" line to be odd. What are the future plans for CouchBase in this area ?
Conversation view. It just makes complete sense to me, and since I've started using it, all desktop clients that I've tried (Thunderbird, most recently) have felt awkward. Geary is the only desktop client I've seen embrace the idea, but it's not quite there yet.

Plus, I quite like the undo send extension.