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I agree with the need for a wired option. It's one of the things I had hoped for in the Nexus Player and might have been enough to get me to buy one (even though I haven't run into any issues with WiFi with my Chromecast, it would be preferred).

As far as the second part, I'm admittedly not a Chromecast "expert" by any means (only had it for a month now and only use it occasionally) but it seemed to me that I had both options depending on what I'm "casting".

When I'm using on online media source like Netflix or Youtube, I prefer using my phone or laptop as more of a remote control so it's not constantly draining the battery in order to actively stream as a wireless extender. Still, I can cast my screen directly if I want to do that. I haven't done that too much since it seems less useful in my personal usage cases but the option is there.

The only thing I'd love to see is something more along the lines of Miracast where you have the option of sending content over an ad-hoc connection between your device and the Chromecast. I considered something like a Chromecast for conference rooms at work but since you need to be on the same WiFi network, that's not really an option since the accessible WiFi network at the office has restrictions and limitations that would make Chromecast unusable. It would be nice if I could purchase several of these inexpensive devices that could easily enable streaming from online media providers but could also receive content directly from devices within range (like the laptops and tablets of people in a meeting) without needing to install separate access points just for Chromecast.
A better breakdown of economic waves / technological transitions comes from Robert Ayres, see his "Technological Transformations and Long Waves", February 1989:

http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PUB/Documents/RR-89-001....

Ayres defines five technological transformations. The period of most significant change came with the third, spanning roughly 1870-1890 (with further refinement of major inventions since). I'd argue that the rate of transformation has slowed since.

1. ~1775: cotton textiles, iron, and steam.

2. ~1825: railroads and steamships, telegraph.

3. 1870-1890: steel, coal-tar chemistry & dyes, petroleum, sewing machines & bicycles, internal combustion engines, electrical light & power, telephone, automobiles, photography & cinema.

4. 1930-1950: Petrochemicals, synthetics, plastics, pharmaceuticals, communications -- radio, TV, microwaves, solid-state electronics & computers, aircraft & transportation.

5. 1975-present: Ill-defined. Slowing innovation, growing economy, declining industrial activity in the US, growing prevalence of computers.

Note that Ayres was writing in 1989, immediately prior to the emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web. Though these have revolutionalized information access and communications, their overall influence on everyday life has been less profound.
TL;DR - China likes to spy on everyones data and can do so, because they own their country. This incident is on iCloud, but is only in alignment with their greater strategy and not Apples fault.
One other recent study that jumped out at me was one on salt: apparently new studies are showing that CDC guidelines on sodium intake are far too low(1) and should be increased for health.

I wonder if much of the problem with the seemingly contradictory nature of studies like this the wide variance you see with us humans. I know good experimental design is about controlling for these variables, but it seems to be extremely difficult. Are the Danes in the above study eating something else that provides a benefit? Are they, on aggregate, more physically active than Americans? Is there a genetic variation present that means if I ate that much salt I'd have problems?

At the end of the day, I'll always take the guideline oft-attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Everything in moderation, including moderation."

[1] http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20140402/cdc-salt-gui...
Has anyone found a way in 10.10 to completely disable spotlight and notification center? I know I can disable in system preferences but what about getting rid of the icons and completely stopping the services all together?
Wait. Syncing with iCloud freezes the application? Can't you sync in a different thread?
This is why you shouldn't hold leveraged ETFs for more than a day or two. They end up decaying quite quickly as the bounce around.
This is overwhelmingly because the resume and interview route to acquiring a new job is so incredibly worthless and inefficient.

I'm actually surprised that I have found so many jobs that way, compared to how easy it was just knowing some people who already work at the company who is hiring. I still had to interview, though--one interview with the hiring manager and her boss that took less than an hour.

The only problem is that very few of my old colleagues have connections to any of the jobs that I might actually want.

So now the standard response I get is "we decided to hire someone that was a better fit for us" or "we decided not to fill the position at this time". If you can't read the subtext, that means "you're too old (and therefore expensive)" or "we were trying to import someone cheaply, and your application screwed that up."
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This is true in any field: your employment picture looks very different at 40 than it does at 20. Lots of the reasons why are more due to real-life (TM) than the job market. At 20, you don't really mind renting a spare bedroom in the basement of somebody's house and working 100+ weeks trying to build the latest whatever non-world transforming consumer web thing. You have all the time in the world and no obligations beyond growing your career. You're living to work at this point.

At 40+ you probably have a couple kids, a mortgage, a spouse, education loans, car payments, family vacations, pets, children's activities, children's pets, your own personal activities, cocktail parties, maybe saving up for your kids' college educations, whatever. Unless you've found yourself without these kinds of obligations, your job will end up being defined as something that can fit a work to live scenario. This is very hard to do in the previously described scenario.

So what's left? Some startups will let you do the 9-5/5 40 hour work week, but the reality is that big boring mega corps, building boring B2B insurance/inventory/timecard processing/bleh software is where you're likely to find the kinds of jobs that fit your new "adult" lifestyle. And you know what? You won't really care all that much.

If you do care, and you're tired of figuring out the access permissions for this role as part of that use-case for the umpteenth million time, you can career shift into management and start learning about the business you were supporting as a developer. You might want to end up managing other developers, being a "nerd herder", which presents an whole new set of fantastically non-deterministic challenges. You might move into product or program management, and be responsible for overseeing execution of contracts or high-level delivery of vague CEO initiatives, an entirely different challenge.

You may even want to take the plunge and shift into sales, starting as a sales engineer, but developing your own clients and moving into a full-service sales and solutions provider role...which you might later turn into a business consulting company later. Your hours might be more flexible and your pay can be unlimited in this kind of role.

Lots of startups make a big deal about the "full-stack" developer, you can do front and back-end systems with equal finesse. But a "full-business" developer, who understands the entire business from sales-cycle to post-delivery product-support can be extraordinarily powerful and I guarantee that job can be very interesting. The tech can be boring, but the kind of critical thinking and task breakdown skills you might bring with you from development can be really useful elsewhere in the business world.

You might even learn enough about some segment of the "business stack" that you realize you can launch your own startup targeting software to solve some problem you saw when you were operating in that portion of the business.
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> Right now there is a [firehose] of job offers from recruiters on linkedin

Interview offers, and they only come to the people who have the right combination of keywords and location. Miss on one or both of those counts, and you are invisible. The second seems to be much more important than the first, too.
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I save after every logical edit too - I think it's a good habit. You never get caught out by network/file-system failures, and can confidently reload from disk to a recent good state if you mess up or change your mind mid-edit.

I think commiting should be done for a more meaningful unit of work than a single edit, something logically 'complete' akin to a transaction.
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I lost over 50 pounds about 3 years ago now. And since then I have been relearning to eat and doing a good job at it.

One of the tricks of the eating healthy trade that I learned and has helped me tremendously, is to put fatty stuff into drinks; mostly teas and coffees. Like bulletproof coffee[0]. Often you hear don't drink empty calories, but as someone that has never counted a calorie I can attest that it is more important to avoid sugary drinks.

For anyone interested, I started with the Four Hour Body by Tim Ferris and then migrated over to fatburningman[2] podcast after the slow carb diet. The only supplement company that I trust is Onnit[3], but I don't take a lot of supplements so I don't spend time researching them.

0.https://www.bulletproofexec.com/bulletproof-coffee-recipe/

1.http://fourhourbody.com/

2. http://fatburningman.com/

3. https://www.onnit.com/

also, if you are struggling with weight loss, I will motivate you with the power of email. dlooeps2 [at] gmail, drop me a line .. I consider myself a fat guy that got skinny to eat more food. if that makes any sense.
I'm a programmer in my 30's and my wife is a writer (short stories mainly). We've discussed how similar writing and programming are, and it's a lot more than I would have initially though.

Think of when you are working on a large project and you all of a sudden need to refactor some module which then has a huge impact all over the application. This is similar to a novel where late into the book the author figures out they want to change some part of a main character (like their origin, name, just some kind of detail), which will require fixing it all over the book. Writers refactor similarly to programmers.

Writers have outlines. Programmers have design documents.

There are more parallels between the two, but I forget many of them right now.
"Too big to fail" + "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" + complicated & expensive tendering requirements. It's much easier for a big company to buy from another single giant company than to assemble a solution from smaller contractors. More expensive, but easier to organise.
Of course, just as America likes to spy on everyone as well. But let's not completely pardon Apple, they can always do something more to strengthen their systems to be more and more resilient to these attacks. It might well be a cat and mouse game, but they should at least try and play rather than just give up. They're sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars, they get hundreds from many of us, the least they can do is look out for us a little more.
> Personally, I refuse to treat my job as "just a job." I want it to mean something.

Well, some people don't build model airplanes after work. They raise families, work at food banks, take care of their elderly parents, sponsor people in AA, and so on. Ideally, every waking minute of your life will make the world a better place, but it's a luxury to expect a career that really means something.

Good luck on your career decision. It sounds like you've already made up your mind, but in general it's a good idea to talk to your boss about the soulcrushingness of work well before you want to quit. It's possible that she would be willing to give you more variety, responsibility, or freedom to keep you around.
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Yes, Denmark. It was scrapped after about a year since the government found out the Danes were buying fatty products in Germany and Sweden. Classic Danish government.
This comment is still ignoring the main point. It shouldn't matter what Hachette's balance sheet currently is. The point is that Amazon appears to have complete control over it. Given that situation, it will inevitably reach zero.
Will Android and Chrome marry?
Not as a rule, no -- I believe IBM does offer business consultants, but most of their consulting business (by revenue) is technical consulting - you know, "charge us a lot of money for some medium-low-quality tech infrastructure".
In case it's helpful: anyone can get a CPF. You don't have to be Brazilian, or even live in Brazil. From what I remember, you go to the Brazilian consulate, fill out a form, pay a small fee. (Foreigners need a CPF to do various things, basically to enter into any kind of binding legal agreement, IIRC.)

Not that you're probably going to go to all the trouble for a cheaper ticket or two, of course.
I was going to post asking for level numbers to be displayed, but then I read through the comments here and actually enjoyed reading people's stories about levels and having to describe them in terms other than "level #53".
The Nobel Foundation begs to differ.

It's not one of the original Nobel Prizes but it is considered by the foundation to be on the same standing as the other prizes. Winners are selected by a committee appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences but voted on by the Academy as a whole.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/

"In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. The Prize is based on a donation received by the Nobel Foundation in 1968 from Sveriges Riksbank on the occasion of the Bank's 300th anniversary. The first Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.

The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901."
I think 'knowledge' can be gained from watching these lectures. By knowledge I mean facts. But if you want to learn a skill, you better be slogging on the homework's to gain intuition. I don't think you can learn discrete math by just watching lectures, you'll have to spend countless hours doing problems to learn anything non-trivial.
I'm talking more about the situation a fellow team member has to revert something that Frank wrote that's dropped production at 3am. Trawling through commits that contain half of two small features because he commits based on home time and coffee breaks in an emergency sounds terrible.
There have been a few posts on HN recently that make this same misunderstanding. Problems in the web/social industry are rarely well-defined, and people think the problem is that we don't have good algorithms or that thinking hard is somehow ineffective. But the real problem is nobody clearly knows what the problem is. I claim that this is the clearest evidence that software engineers should develop more mathematical thinking skills.
Hm, odd, it's still in my preferences as an option?
That's the guy, yep.
VMware Disables Inter VM Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) for Security Reasons
Yes, it is really depressing how blatantly we are all being watched. :/
The Piccolo seems to be a 3-axis machine, i.e. it can already do that since lifting the pen is quite essential when drawing.

However, I guess it can't control the extrusion rate dimension that a 3D printer has, so it would still fall a bit short.
In most of the civilised world there are significant costs to just shutting down a business especially redundancy costs for staff. This is in addition to considering outstanding debt in the business being sold and makes zero or negative purchase prices sensible in many scenarios.

I don't have a list but it doesn't strike me as at all strange or odd even where there is no ongoing commitment or contract between the companies as in this case.
In the US at least, asian people are more successful than white people are. Higher incomes, higher levels of college education, higher GPAs, higher SAT scores, lower unemployment rates, and lower rates of poverty.

The recent trend to pretend that asian people are white people as far as diversity is concerned is extremely disturbing. It points to an incredible racism at the heart of the arguments.
> China's surveillance is always so blatant and public, they don't bother trying to hide it like America.

I'm a little shocked - they've surely got the ability to do a proper MITM. CNNIC is a root CA for plenty of browsers. Saving it up for when they really need it, maybe?
I'm not the guy you replied to, but your email is not in your profile page. Remember, the email field is not public, so you have to add your email to the about field for it to be seen.
Can you run Java with full JIT on Power8? What about nodejs? I know IBM did some talks/slideshares of porting nodejs to power.
(Free) JavaScript Books:

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What was your experience and opinion of Four Hour Body? I've heard recommendations for it, but its marketing speak of "AN UNCOMMON GUIDE TO RAPID FAT-LOSS, INCREDIBLE SEX, AND BECOMING SUPERHUMAN" has always turned me off to it before I started.
We prevent force pushes to the remote, so if you need to rebase commits that are on the remote already, you'd have to delete the branch from the remote and re-push, and that closes the PR, which confuses reviewers and causes spurious notifications.

Do you merge master into feature branches between the time the feature branch is first pushed to the remote and when they are reviewed and ready to merge? Can your command line tool handle creating a squashed commit when master has been merged into the feature branch a few times?
I'm learning F# right now, it's flipping excellent! From what I understand it's similar to Ocaml, but has some other features that give it the edge (for me at least).

I did try to learn Ocaml at one point, but I was put off by the standard library variation (the default one apparently has numerous shortcomings, Batteries project extends it and Core project aims to replace it, but neither one is the clear winner) and the lack of extensive parallel processing support (coming soon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzmQTC_X5R4 ).

F# comes with a sensible default library (including Unicode support as default), some nice syntactic sugar (the pipe forward operator is especially useful, and to be fair it has made it into Ocaml now too... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8986010/is-it-possible-to... ), seamless interoperability with all .NET libraries, and parallel processing is made comparatively easy (for example, if performing a map operation over a list, can just change the List.map function to Parallel.map to get the parallel version).

This is probably the F# introduction I would recommend the most (it's a video, which I know isn't ideal, but it's a good one):
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL11

Oh and type providers in F# blew my mind! I can't really summarise them yet, but imagine being able to mix Python or R or many other data sources in with F#. If anyone has a good introductory post on type providers, please feel free to share.
I think one way to do this is to get a sense for what are sometimes boring corporate missions that actually do have a huge impact in the world.

I remember when I was early in my career I talked with an older engineer who had done lots of time in the insurance business and I said something like "I don't know if I could ever work in something so boring".

He replied "making sure that claims are paid out correctly can be the different between somebody having a home or going homeless, or somebody being able to feed their family or not having transportation at all. Keeping in mind the lives of the people you're ultimately serving keeps me motivated even if the day-to-day is boring"

It's advice I've always kept at heart and it's been helpful.
As the author points out in their final paragraph, this particular experiment is not an ideal benchmark for comparing language performance and should not, on its own, be used to make language choices.

But it did show some interesting results. The 7x speedup by using PyPy instead of cPython was interesting. Gccgo being 2x faster than Go caught my eye.
I'm not saying security is not an important issue. Inherently it is.

The problem is that Apple is using the industry standard for encryption here (SSL). China cracks that security by giving their folks a browser that allows them to easily swap the certificate out and send all the data to them before sending it to Apple. This is called a MITM (Man In The Middle Attack).

Personally, I'm a big fan of privacy - also I'm the CTO of a web-company, so I'm concerned with security for webapps, too.

When users are ignore warnings of their browsers (what Firefox would do in such an event) or even install a "trojan browser" by a mean government - well, then there is little you can do as a company.

Just wanted to give a short TL;DR on the article to prevent an icloud shitstorm on HN, because the article is really on how mean China is. Not saying or implying at all that other governments are better.

Also not saying that Apple is perfect in terms of security. Btw, as developer and sysadmin I'm using Debian stable - my Mac is for convenience and productivity. Just saying that to disqualify myself as the regular fanboy(;
Really? Maybe in the Valley they are becoming more libertarian. I think people are becoming less libertarian on main street.
It's not intended as an appeal to accomplishment, more as a suggestion that he would have as much to lose in reputation than to gain by getting involved in such a thing if he didn't genuinely believe his position.

EDIT: I'd also suggest that as a default with the participants in this particular disagreement, anyone with self interest at heart should probably think about siding with Amazon. Jeff Bezos doesn't lose too many fights.
1Password dropped support for Dropbox synching of the main vault some time ago.

Wat? Not only is it still supported, but they recently squished a bug that caused Dropbox syncing to get disabled. Does your copy of the app not allow Dropbox syncing? Where did you hear about this?
Did you even read the article? It's asking developers of third-party apps to not use the iCloud sync backend for their apps, due to a lot of problems they are seeing with it.
You should make it much, much simpler to try out. Ideally hack it to where it's a single click to log in as some demo user.

Right now you're asking for 9 pieces of information before you even let people see what / how it looks.

Another thought, you could let people do a one-click deploy to Heroku from a private repo or something to make it less burdensome to roll out. This is sort of a middle step between on premise and full automated.
As usual, Simpsons did it:

The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by
small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
-- Military school Commandant's graduation address, "The Secret War of
Lisa Simpson"