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Does anyone know of or use a decent tiling window manager in windows? I generally use awesome with linux, but I've had more and more things that require windows lately.

Unfortunately I find myself far less productive without the workflow and layout I'm used to, and find that organizing my work on multiple big monitors is tedious and gets in the way without something to handle it for me.

I've used Mosaico from SoulidStudio, but it's quite buggy, and even when it actually works, the automatic window management is pretty much useless so it's still a matter of manual management.
It's because you don't know them well enough. Or maybe because you haven't been "formally introduced". This makes you nervous of the impact that an accidental disclosure of information might have.

Invite them around for a BBQ (if you're American).

Even better, if you notice one of them having a minor problem, offer to help with it.
Note that the original healthcare.gov-fixers were "Friends of Obama" -- volunteers on Obama's presidential campaign. They have technical chops, but this is still largely patronage.
So all processes that have been running for the past 200 years are sure to continue indefinitely?
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I don't see why people have such a problem with long source files to be completely honest. I'd rather do refactoring in one source file than edit 10 and wonder if I hit them all.

None of my other tools care about file length - it might actually take longer to build if the code were multiple files since most of the processing overhead will be in invoking the process and the context switching between the make tool and the compiler - modern C/C++ compilers can handle 10kloc files in their sleep.

In fact, in many projects that I've done with "correctly split" source files (one per class/object impl), I've seen that often the license and the general file boilerplate is actually longer than the code that goes in that file. It actually costs more for the compiler to handle this case, as it is doing even more useless I/O.
RIP to an absolutely brilliant performer. His unique brand of madcap genius will never be duplicated, and he will be sorely missed.
In tech? Maybe you're right. In society in general? That's a crazy statement. I think we just need to wait for the technology-illiterate politicians to die out. It's a known problem that consensus based progress is constrained by the human lifespan.
You're right that we can do more with our computers now than we did a decade ago (though I don't care for the transparency and other visual effects; I used the Windows Classic theme until MS took it away in Windows 8). But the increasing resource requirements of software don't always come with an increase in functionality, and the increased requirements sometimes force hardware upgrades even if one doesn't want more functionality. Would an original 2007 iPhone be able to run iOS 7, even if one only expects it to do the things that it could do in 2007? (Hint: Even an iPhone 4 is sluggish on iOS 7.) So maybe it's just an inaccurate perception, but the increased resource requirements of newer software make it feel like we're on an upgrade treadmill. Or as the saying went in the 90s, Andy (Grove) giveth and Bill (Gates) taketh away.
To me, this is the key - someone has to take the initiative. Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat; being that person can be uncomfortable but incredibly rewarding. Invite everyone over. Someone has to do it, and everyone else will be grateful.
There are few actors whose passing would really sadden me. Whether it was Mork and Mindy from my childhood, his appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway, shared by my kids and I, or the Genie from my kids' childhoods, he has been responsible for a lot of my favorite entertainment memories. Rest in peace, Mr Williams.

Far too many people are laughing on the outside to cover up the pain on the inside. I know I've done my share.
I usually don't react to such things but Robin Williams is such a strong part of my childhood and youth. Jumanji, Aladdin, Mrs. Doubtfire, Flubber, Hook, Bicentennial Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, Good Will Hunting ... RIP mate, you've been integral to so many stories.
>'What's going to let them succeed is by their being successful time after time. Only then will the heads of those other agencies call them up and invite them in.'

Right.

I think that possibly the greatest value in something of this sort is to be able to point to the team, the playbooks and the free guidance as a unassailable proven formula.

Offering a safe, defensible choice of this sort for the people at the top of these agencies is very important.

Everyone knows the saying 'No one ever got fired for buying IBM'.

A legitimate source of excellence within the Government could supplant 'IBM' in that notion as the as a 'go to', safe source for solutions that actually has the best interests of Government in mind alongside technical excellence.
Where can I look up for Scandinavian Tech Bloggers?
Either you're doing it wrong, or your product is not made for PPC. You'll find it's massively successful for many companies.

And why would there be transparency on payout? There are plethora of variables that are out of control of the network. A why would they bear the risk of your conversion ability? I suspect you're one of these people that 'nothing is their fault'. PPC is no more gambling than Ebay is.
So many of my favorite childhood movies involved him (still live watching Hook now and again). So sad and shocking.
That all sounds good in theory, but in practice I would argue you can't simply create effective laws like that.

I agree that companies will not spend on security unless they have a reason too -- but how exactly can you effectively legislate that? Helping people make informed choices with where they put their business is a much better solution, in my opinion.

You say that there is no cost for having weak security, but that is not because there is no legislation, it's in spite of it. Legislation written by people who don't understand the technology they are regulating is not helping.
I tried this (not automated). It was nice to have someone actually read and like my posts. I quickly found I was pretty boring however and so got tired of myself and stopped doing it after a while.

Sometimes it was fun to set up a joke in a back and forth comment thread with myself though.

I still log in as my alter ego every now and then to see what my profile looks like from someone else's perspective.
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The economic middle road is to penalize the externality. If a community is concerned about non-resident property owners, they might consider taxing them at a higher rate and longer-term full-time residents at a lower rate. I don't know if there's anywhere that actually does this, however.
Everything is going up but wages, which are flat or falling in real terms, and almost everyone I know is laboring beneath an insurmountable mountain of debt with no hope of ever paying it off (since wages are flat).

What's wrong with this picture?

It's oddly and ironically Soviet... like back when the USSR's crops were failing and yet Pravda proudly trumpeted ever-increasing crop yields. Those who looked around and asked "then why is everyone hungry?" were dubbed loons or worse.

So no, I'm not interested in yet another Pravda piece on rising crop yields.

If investments were being made in production, wages would be rising.

I suspect you find some "believers" left around here because the tech industry is an exception. It's one of the few industries where substantial investments in new production (vs. rent seeking) are actually being made. Salaries in tech are therefore rising, or at least keeping up with inflation. If that's you, good for you, but you are not normal in this economy and your experience is no gauge of overall reality.
I watched Mike Bracken, who I think runs that, talk at Wikimania a couple of days back. Quite inspiring in some ways. He figures they have saved about £14bn in government costs by spending about £58m on developers. Quite a contrast from the NHS fiasco with private developers blowing £12bn before their thing was scrapped (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health)

You can see Bracken's talk at http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/friday2014/videos/586156... from about 2:14:50
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You obviously haven't been around many Utah Valley tech companies (or Mormons).
In this case, I don't think the highly-educated are intentionally using "it's" instead of "its". It's merely a common typo.
One of the funniest guys out there for a long, long time. It's hard to believe that someone with access to any type of help one could get could not find the help he needed.

Someone you grew up watching is no longer around. I'm really broken up about it.
A slightly longer piece on the subject, as well

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-dies-su...
Machete.io is awesome!
I may be jumping to conclusions here, but I wonder if depression was part of the issue for Robin Williams.

In our industry or technology, depression, burnout, mental illness are all areas I don't feel we deal with very well.
So sad that depression can bring down someone as great as him.

His kids went to my school growing up, and I remember him picking them up and always being nice to us schoolmates and doing impersonations for us. He definitely seemed affable and happy then, but typically depression hides beneath the surface in a destructive isolated world.
> I don't think legislation/policy is the solution. We have seen time and time again that when the government steps in they create ineffective and ridiculous boundaries that do little in practice.

I haven't seen that, though I know it's an idea that is commonly repeated. My drinking water, buildings, roads, car safety, airline safety, etc. are pretty good. MHO is that the 2008 financial crisis [EDIT: largely] was due to a lack of regulation.

Government isn't perfect, but no institution or company is. Certainly private business is not, and at least I get a vote in how government does things. I don't see a technological solution to these problems and I think a legal one is the best idea.
That's not even typical of BYU.
He has been struggling with depression and addiction for a long time. These kind of mental issues seem all too common amongst comedians.
They like to use terms like the Olympics, but who would want to be in a sport that can't even get basic fairness of the playing field correct. http://lists.wrtc2014.org/pipermail/wrtc2014/2014-July/00090...
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Am I to understand then that there is a parallel online hacking community populated by Japanese-speakers? I have never really run across this, just blogs randonly-dispersed.
Not yet, no. I only said the trend appears to be changing.
And now you see why we have taxi regulations.
"Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun."

RIP, Robin.
It's weird that they list Stripe as a competitor given that one is focused on in-person/retail and the other online payments. They currently aren't really substitutes.

That being said, I always thought Square should have offered an online API long ago.
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One of my favourite actors when I was growing up. Rest in peace Robin Willams.
There are tons of algorithms from academia like DBSCAN, BFGS and so on that are fairly complex to implement by yourself. It would take days to translate papers on these subjects to get usable algorithms - if you have enough background and skills, of course. Even then you would miss out on all the improvements that subsequent papers have brought out. In nutshell, to get to the state of art for cutting edge algorithms is extremely time and skills incentive. This website can solve this huge problem.

I think, as a startup, you might want to cut down on "making money" part and especially muddy waters of patents. These are likely not the greatest incentives either for researchers or consumers given that lot of grants don't allow this and even if it did many researchers settled in academia have severe repulsion to it. Instead try to grow the site organically keeping it as frictionless as possible for both sides of users. Motivate researchers to post code and data, for example, to allow them compete against state of the art. Be the that reputed site for computational problems and algorithms that people go to like they go to Stackoverflow for programming problems. Once you establish yourself like that, researchers want to get benchmark from you to cite in their papers and that's great motivation for them to give you their code. Consumers can then find them in your repository. I would suggest to keep making money as TBD. Just grow the site making it largest possible index of computational problems and known state of the art solutions.
Yet more proof that depression (and mental illness in general) does not discriminate... When I think about the friends I've lost to suicide, the list includes one of the smartest people I've ever known, and someone who fits the description 'full of life' better than anyone I can think of... Now one of the funniest people the world has seen.

My thoughts and prayers are with Robin's friends and family. I hope they are able to find ways to celebrate his life, and aren't plagued by 'what ifs'. I also hope this pushes us just a little bit further down the road of reducing the stigma associated with depression...
Quite that.

My first response to seeing this was just shock. Hearing NPR play a clip from Dead Poets Society was when my hair stood on end. The Fisher King and Good Will Hunting as well.

Oh man.
Just last night, I saw him in a 1977 Richard Pryor roast. Sad.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/08/richard-pryor-roast-197...
In some ways it's cultural, but in many ways it's political. That sort of overhaul would have to come from the top. No-one wants to be the person who suggests it since, if any income drops as a result you'd be in a hard position. So, many lower sections jostle for space and they all get in. (I heard this from a Rakuten frontend performance engineer. Other companies may vary.)

Edit: it's also extremely unlikely for a designer with a strong vision and skills to rise in a large company. Most will turn freelance long before they get there. Most upper management seems to come from eigyo - sales. I don't think engineers (basically just troops to implement the sales guy's vision and take the blame when something goes wrong) are in a position to easily climb the ranks either.

Edit2: I don't think the feature phones argument still holds water. Most sites will redirect for feature phones on the user agent level - they have too. Many models and carriers have their own quirks (eg only tables allowed, only inline styles allowed, different emoji codes) around which a large but dwindling infrastructure exists, catering for normalizing across models using template generated html. The browser versions are separate.
Safety would be the largest cut into margins. Completely unplanned and everything from bumping into a yellow pole to an accident. Those all cost hundreds of thousands apprx 130k for a yellow pole...the market is not ready or willing for the risk that the companies traditionally absorb.
You're right about debt, but it's orthogonal to the essay. Re. real wages:

"The result is a steady rise in the productivity of labor, which continually increases the supply of goods produced relative to the number of workers producing them. The effect of this is a steady fall in prices relative to wages, a fall which occurs even in the midst of an increasing quantity of money and volume of spending great enough to raise prices; in this case, the rise in money wage rates outstrips the rise in prices, with the result that prices still fall relative to wages. In other words, the effect is a continuing rise in real wages and the average standard of living."

I encourage you to read the whole thing, and consider that paragraph in particular when evaluating wages vs. cost of goods, especially goods that one could simply not obtain in the past.
Just echoing other sentiments here - some of my most memorable childhood movies and times involved Robin Williams. His death is a loss to all of us.
Yes, sorry I should have clarified I was referring specifically to legislature surrounding tech. I agree, many of the people who make legislation for tech barely understand how to use a computer in the first place and rely on crappy metaphors and explanations from other people. A more technology-literate set of politicians would help hugely.
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you almost certainly get a kick out of dogging him with the person on the other side of his house

Well no, not everyone enjoys that kind of behavior. To me, it's one of the repellants in neighbor relations. I'm happy to help them out, but that kind of shit talk is poisonous.
Can you elaborate on the issue with comedians?
Incidentally, this notion of optical computing has some interesting roots in the radar community.

From the Wikipedia page on synthetic aperture radar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_aperture_radar

Before rapid digital computers were available, the data processing was done using an optical holography technique. The analog radar data were recorded as a holographic interference pattern on photographic film at a scale permitting the film to preserve the signal bandwidths (for example, 1:1,000,000 for a radar using a 0.6-meter wavelength). Then light using, for example, 0.6-micrometer waves (as from a helium–neon laser) passing through the hologram could project a terrain image at a scale recordable on another film at reasonable processor focal distances of around a meter. This worked because both SAR and phased arrays are fundamentally similar to optical holography, but using microwaves instead of light waves. The "optical data-processors" developed for this radar purpose [2][3][4] were the first effective analog optical computer systems, and were, in fact, devised before the holographic technique was fully adapted to optical imaging. Because of the different sources of range and across-range signal structures in the radar signals, optical data-processors for SAR included not only both spherical and cylindrical lenses, but sometimes conical ones.
Apple is encouraging Metal adoption through game engines like Unreal Engine 4, Frostbite and Unity (among others) to make it less demanding for developers.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/2/5773128/metal-ios-gaming-wwd...
My (somewhat lonely) contention has always been that these 'waste of time' games are actually the source of many more of the best programmers/quants than after school classes like 'learn to program 101'
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If you are an iPhone user, there is a great app called PocketPacket: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocketpacket/id336500866?mt=8
who are the people putting 100 euro into digital goods in a single transaction?
Absolutely agree.

If Adobe had open-sourced the Flash client (but not the authoring tools) I like to think we would be in a different space technically. Certainly I hope we wouldn't have spent the last 6 years redesigning Flash by committee. Possibly licensing concerns around codecs and other things would have blocked it anyway, but one can dream.

I just think Flash deserves respect for filling in the "online multimedia" space so well while others played catch-up. Well, they caught up.
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What a filmography, going to be so hard to watch many of these ever again:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/#actor

He even goes back to Laugh-In and Carson shows.
TIL that there is a market for $150 purple/red/yellow plaid shirts.
The premise is that each neighborhood and the conversation contained within it is completely private to the neighbors.

Since every neighbor is completely verified, you can be 100% sure the person you're talking to is who they say they are. That's why you need to sign up in order to use the service.
A large number of comedians are depressed in real life, away from audiences and cameras. I met a relatively famous comedian and he was quite depressed, and definitely not the only one.

RIP Robin Williams
Too low resolution to do that sort of science. Mindwave Mobile is only a single channel.
Don't throw stones on me, but... Why on HN?

(besides, I am as saddened as you are. I truly loved his as an actor and comedian - I just used his acronym scene from Good Morning Vietnam 4 days ago in a presentation I gave).
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You are completely mistaken. "Its" isn't violating the apostrophe rule at all. "Its" is a possessive pronoun just like hers, theirs, his, ours, mine.
Yeah...I was like "magnet to a skateboard"... huh? How many metal skateboards are there? I guess you could stick it on one of the trucks maybe, but it would fall off immediately if you did a trick.
Depression is a fairly relevant topic for this audience (most audiences, really, but I've seen quite a bit of it in hackerdom, though I'm lucky enough to never have suffered from it myself in the clinical sense).

If that doesn't work for you, he was an avid gamer, often talking in interviews about his Doom, Quake, etc, playing back in the day and his daughter is named Zelda (after the game). That has to earn him some nerd points, right?
>> First, you could send an email to existing customers telling them that you are raising prices but that you are grandfathering them in and their rate won't change.

This is the approach I took, but worded similar to how cable companies word their advertising - that the discount is only valid for x amount of months. After that period, they could be subject to a "change" in price. The wording is left vague so you don't say there will be an increase, simply that the rate could change after their discount expires.

This was usually after a 12-24 month period. After two years of discounts, I finally increased the monthly fee, but only by about 8% which still left them paying less than new customers - which is an important point. Yes, they're paying more than they did, but it's still less than new subscribers, giving them the impression they're still paying less - when in reality, I'm just making back the discount I was giving them.
This was a fascinating read. I'm having trouble with the statement "switching customers to monthly billing is great for your cashflow and sanity", given that the previous paragraph details switching customers from monthly billing to annual billing. Am I missing something? Which is preferred in this case?
Just because it's Hacker News doesn't mean the only thing we care about is hacking.
California to require “kill switches” on all smartphones
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel.

Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.

Doctor says "Treatment is simple. A great clown, Pagliacci, is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up."

Man bursts into tears.

Says "But, doctor..."

"...I am Pagliacci."

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This is sadly true all too often.
Obviously enough HN readers find it interesting, in the same way that a lot of social justice articles or articles about San Francisco real estate prices are.