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I think I have some bad news - this page looks like it's still in date.. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-live/microsoft-ac...
What forest? You still haven't elucidated at all what it is you want to accomplish and why firmware is relevant. It seems like it might have something to do with input devices, but pre-EFI machines weren't any more limited in the range of USB HID devices they supported.
In no way am I trying to incite Mac vs. PC, but after years of Apple laptops I grew bored with their aluminum fascism and decided (last year) to buy a top-of-the-line Thinkpad.

A couple of months later, taking a huge economic hit, I sold the Thinkpad and returned to Apple. I simply could not handle the trackpad (and I gave up on the weird Thinkpad nubbin back in the early 2000s). I quite literally felt like I had a degenerative neuromuscular disease when I used the trackpad, and since "mousing" is almost certainly the primary way I interact with a computer, the laptop itself begun to give me a strong, strange aversion to use.

I'm told Microsoft is working on improving trackpads in general, but they should really have every single engineer working on this issue. Forget about new features, let's get the simple stuff right.
Oh, yeah, such a prescription's effect and risk would fall entirely at the hands of the prescribing doctor.
It's like us learning regular English in school but everyone
speaks Shakespeare or something (of course it's not that
dramatic of a difference).

Actually it is a pretty dramatic difference. Cantonese and Mandarin split roughly 1000 years ago, whereas the difference between Shakespearian English (which is considered Early Modern English) and Modern English is only a few hundred years. In addition, Modern English is a descendant of Early Modern English whereas Cantonese and Mandarin are not descendants of one another.

The Chinese writing system tends to obscure these differences because cognates among the different varieties of Chinese are represented using the same characters, even though their pronunciations have diverged considerably. There are vocabulary and grammatical differences as well, though they are not as big.

The difference is more akin to if English speakers had to write in German†, but because they generally don't know how to actually speak German, they would read it using English pronunciation instead. For instance, if you wanted to say "I know that you said that", you might have to write:

Ich weiß dass du das gesagt hast.

But you would read it "in your own language" as:

I wit that thou that y-said hast.

This is similar to the current relationship between Cantonese and Mandarin. Cantonese speakers write in Mandarin (i.e. "Standard Chinese") and read it "in Cantonese", even though when speaking, they would really say something almost completely different. When Cantonese speakers actually write in Cantonese, Mandarin speakers generally would have difficulty reading it.

† The difference between English and German actually spans more than 1000 years, but I'm not as familiar with other closer Germanic languages with which to provide a good example.
That was the consensus of scientists who specialized in studying general intelligence, not the consensus of scientists, and was controversial at the time. It did help to fight myths that were being promulgated by popular writers and politically-motivated cranks about what the consensus of scientists who studied general intelligence actually was.

Asking scientists who specialize in Spearman's g whether g is real is like asking astrologers whether astrology works.
No, multiple comparisons are a separate problem. This paper isn't about the false positives they bring.
Mark Zuckerberg Just Revealed His Grand Vision for the Next 10 Years of Facebook
My GF usually works from home and has video on one screen 10-16 hours a day, and concurrently streams to a tablet for about 2-6 hours a day - some of that is concurrent usage, but she also likes to fall asleep with the tablet on (and plugged in).

Netflix HD "best quality" apparently uses 2.3G/hour, as of 2012. If all the streaming was Netflix HD in best quality, she'd be using over 1.5T all by herself.

However, it's not all Netflix HD, so her actual usage is lower. And she's also a fan of various talent reality shows, which she sometimes acquires from other sources.

Increased bandwidth is similar to increased road capacity. Just like road capacity makes longer and more car trips feasible, increased bandwidth encourages accessing large files remotely and reduces the incentive to cache locally.
Do you scrape the data or get it from a web service? What do you use for scraping in case of the former?
Taylor Cohen’s Backpac App
Lie down and tell the App what's wrong
Designing Stereographic Lampshades
cool!

Not really a criticism but more of a question as I'm not a designer by any means:

Why do you only use a sliver of horizontal screen space in the middle?

I only mention this because it looks slightly unusual on my 27"

https://i.imgur.com/rVxPCQG.jpg
Why do you think of those as negatives of the proposition itself? Those seem like arguments that it perhaps won't be as effective as supporters might hope, but not that the proposition itself is flawed.

(I'm actually unsure how I feel about the proposition at this point, so I'm just curious to hear some more discussion about it.)
Someone figured out what Inception actually means [pdf]
Forget self driving cars we should look at self driven buses
I saw a promotion for Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd. ed this morning, in case anyone is considering purchasing the book. If you buy it direct from the publisher[1], there is a coupon code [2] for 35% off -- bringing the price down to a very reasonable $36.

[1] http://www.informit.com/store/design-and-implementation-of-t...

[2] https://twitter.com/MeetBSDCA/status/528659641106837504
Am I the only one disliking the new Bookmarks Manager?
Building a Better Version of Capitalism Is a Massive Startup Opportunity
Of Resin.io or of Caucho (this is what I meant in my original question)?
Requiem for a Dream: Aaron Swartz was brilliant and beloved. But … [2013]
I have to give the CS rep some credit as he does seem to be trying to make things better. It's more response than a lot of manufacturers would have given.
That's why I qualified it so much, "brand new" + "to carry people". If they were only trying one of these I'd be a lot more forgiving.
Honestly, this is the way Android went as well, with touches boosting processors as well. Everyone is scrambling to try to scroll as smooth as Apple, lol. The author seems kind of strange being against it, honestly. It is usually hailed as a feature, not a bug.
5 years experience. 1 job at $120k (w2) and long-term consulting contract with 40 billable weekly hours at $95. Fully remote. For short duration (<1 month,) I bill at $115. Almost purely Rails.
This is a classic "if X is not perfect, there is no point to X" argument. Nobody sensible says, "This patch does not fix all the bugs in the module, so we shouldn't apply it!"

The only question I care about here is, "Is this going to improve the situation enough to justify the work?" So far, it looks like yes.
What progress is being made here?
I did not stop using it completely.
Fundraising Acceleration Is the New VC Investment Thesis
>The music industry in Japan came up with a brilliant business model that enabled them to sell the same CD multiple times to the same consumer, basically by bundling a ticket to each CD. Sometimes a single ticket grants you one vote, sometimes you get one piece of (say 12) tickets randomly and you need to complete all 12 pieces to get something. This forces loyal fans to buy 10s and sometimes 100s of the same CD.

I don't understand what you mean by tickets and votes. It sounds really interesting, and I'd be grateful if you could elaborate.
This thread was going fine until someone talked about how apple is superior to all other manufacturers together.

This, obviously, needed a proper position from those who believe that Apple is not superior.

This whole "Apple is perfect" versus "Apple is for idiots" is pointless, as the majority here already knows. But some people insist in degrading a perfectly fine thread just to reproduce it here.

Grow up, guys.

BTW, I'm curious why people are allowed to talk about Google with the same adoration others talk of Apple but receive no counter arguments. Is Hacker News audience biased towards Google or Google is just consensus?
Some comments on the site, since the topic is kind of ridiculous... It's not immediately obvious you can click on the faces. Also, I'd like a better overview of what panelists have to say, but it's too much clicking to look at person individually. Finally, it could be helpful to write/generate a transcript to read versus the video to watch. Some might like the video for added cues, but it would be nice there was an alternative to watching 30 minutes of talking heads.
Had it not been for WWI, most of the globe might still be under colonial rules.
> I just don't get how someone could think it's a good idea to spend half a million euros to power a single home.

Because it's not meant to be profitable. It's a test; an experiment. Do you think the first first time anyone ever put a solar panel on their roof to test with that it was profitable?
I don't know of any field where there is a larger gap between mainstream science's position and what the public think this position is. It's "common knowledge" among a certain educated elite that IQ has been debunked.
FYI, I am American who works for US clients but I live in Western Europe.
Or "Sort by ..."
This doesn't happen to me on an asus zenbook and linux. Two finger scroll works fine, no proprietary drivers installed.

In fact, all the functionality that you generally expect to be broken on linux (two finger scroll, keyboard lights, volume control, etc) worked out of the box...
They're totally allowed to - consumers just will not use online solutions. The example from the article was a food delivery business that takes orders by fax, and (completely legally) tried to take orders online instead. Customers just didn't pick it up.
this is pretty but man is it bad at recommending similar movies in the documentary genre. it might as well be giving completely random results:

http://www.movieo.me/14002-baraka
Breaking the Build: can be a GOOD thing
The thumbnails are coming from tmdb.org, so I guess he's using their API.
Maybe not as pretty, but more customizable http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
http://timertab.com
Damn I was running FreeBSD when Bill Clinton was getting over getting impeached. I feel /OLD/
Samsung Series 9, now ATIV. No longer sold in EU.
It just feels too much like a symbolic victory rather than actual progress. I think it falls into the same category as the plastic bag ban - bags are a very small component of overall trash, but they're highly visible so let's ban them.
So a tax that is regressive represents "progress"?

I assume your reference to "progress" is based on an assumption that the tax will produce the intended effect of forcing individuals to make healthier choices, but there's no evidence that this is the case. In fact, there's evidence that many consumers will just substitute in untaxed high calorie foods[1].

[1] http://www.rti.org/newsroom/news.cfm?obj=5C84B2F7-5056-B100-...
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According to the company's FAQ, there is more usable surface in roads than on roofs. Even if it's less power per square meter, it certainly makes a dent.

> The approximately 140,000 km of roads in the Netherlands cover a total area of about 400-500 km2, which is significantly larger than the total (suitable) roof surface area.

The FAQ: http://www.solaroad.nl/en/faq/

(Btw, I wasn't the one who downvoted you.)
“human” comes from the same Latin word as “earth”

Please... It's not that difficult to check before asserting like this.
Although Stashmarks [1] seems dead, it had a pretty nice version of this much earlier. I personally now use Kifi [2] nowadays as Kippt [3] seems to be agonizing. The recent Raindrop.io [4] looks like a great newcomer although I'm sure many will have beef with it being Russia-made. Dragdis [5] looks great as well.

[1] http://www.stashmarks.com/

[2] https://www.kifi.com/

[3] https://kippt.com/

[4] https://raindrop.io/

[5] https://dragdis.com/
10 Hours of Walking in LA as a Woman
So Onedrive isn't safe? Should I stop using it if I value my privacy?
Honestly, given that I have received circa 30 mendacious, bullshit-argument mailers during election season for this means I would be tempted to vote for E just to spite its opponents, whether or not this was workable.

But luckily, all their activity convinces me that the proposition will really work. The soda industry has spent FIFTEEN DOLLARS per SF voter on this. [1] This tells me that it's not just about San Francisco. They are scared that if it works here, others will soon follow suit, reducing their profits. So it seems they believe that this sort of tax will have a substantial impact on soda consumption. They're telling me that voting for E means a chance of improving the entire country's health. So I'm definitely in.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Soda-industry-spends-7...
tl;dr - a refutation of statistician Cosma Shalizi’s essay at http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.htm... in three parts:

(1) "Shalizi’s first error is his assertion that cognitive tests correlate with each other because IQ test makers exclude tests that do not fit the positive [correlation matrix]. In fact, more or less the opposite is true. ... Cognitive tests correlate because all of them truly share one or more sources of variance."

(2) "Shalizi’s second error is to disregard the large body of evidence that has been presented in support of g as a unidimensional scale of human psychological differences. The g factor is not just about the positive [correlation matrix]. A broad network of findings related to both social and biological variables indicates that people do in fact vary, both phenotypically and genetically, along this continuum that can be revealed by psychometric tests of intelligence and that has has widespread significance in human affairs."

(3) "Shalizi’s third error is to think that were it shown that g is not a unitary variable neurobiologically, it would refute the concept of g. However, for most purposes, brain physiology is not the most relevant level of analysis of human intelligence. What matters is that g is a remarkably powerful and robust variable that has great explanatory force in understanding human behavior. Thus g exists at the behavioral level regardless of what its neurobiological underpinnings are like."

Conclusion: "In many ways, criticisms of g like Shalizi’s amount to “sure, it works in practice, but I don’t think it works in theory”. Shalizi faults g for being a “black box theory” that does not provide a mechanistic explanation of the workings of intelligence, disparaging psychometric measurement of intelligence as a mere “stop-gap” rather than a genuine scientific breakthrough. However, the fact that psychometricians have traditionally been primarily interested in validity and reliability is a feature, not a bug. Intelligence testing, unlike most fields of psychology and social science, is highly practical, being widely applied to diagnose learning problems and medical conditions and to select students and employees. What is important is that IQ tests reliably measure an important human characteristic, not the particular underlying neurobiological mechanisms."
How Technological and Environmental Changes Affect Headphones Companies
HP ZBook series, MS Surface Pro, Dell mobile workstations and top-end Latitude machines. Lenovo used to be in the list, but I'm not sure anymore.
Mac trackpads are still the best of all but I personally can't stand OSX (and Windows/Linux is not too entertaining on a Macbook, still). However, it's only a personal preference and I can understand why people end up with buying Macs.
A Critical Investigation of Stress Management in Organisations
Cigarette taxes are regressive and definitely represent progress. They were a big help in reducing smoking, and in turn reducing smoking-related health problems.
What educated elite is that?
The article points out that this is the approach taken by the researchers who found the effect.
>Is there something like a combination of PowerPoint and Prezi? Just one continous vertical slide where you just scroll down during a presentation.

HTML?
You've got some sound logic there, particularly on why the US is a popular place for investment. That is definitely a factor as to why T-bond yields have stayed low over the last few years. But, is inflation really that big a factor in determining bond yields during auctions?

With regards the '70s, you emphasized "normally" in your reply. Why was that? Weren't the '70s a time of unusually high inflation and unemployment in the US?

And thank you for the book recommendation! It looks really nifty!
> What better way to prove or disprove the idea?

One word: Mathematics.

Sorry. Not trying to be clever or condescending. There are lots of ideas in business and engineering that can be evaluated to a reasonable margin of error with simple math on a single piece of paper or, at worst, a spreadsheet with equally simple calculation. This is one of those things.
this is pretty and looks pretty nice to use. I filtered by "France", and the list actually got only 1 french movie out of 5-10.
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Not in some states of India, where drinking age can be as high as 30 in certain districts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_India
> you should highlight why you like your OS

I'd be happy to! ZFS, DTrace, pf, Bhyve, Capsicum, Jails, GEOM/geli, the userland is part of the base system, and the core team is elected.

For the buzzwords: I like that my out-of-box install has AES-256 whole-disk encryption, software mirroring (that doesn't require identical disks) and snapshots; I really love pf for managing traffic and port remapping on my server; Jails are great added security for services exposed to the internet.

Through and through, I just like the design more in nearly all cases. rc.d works great for my needs, I like devd, I agree with FreeBSD's philosophy difference on the behavior of /dev/random, I like the more laid back licensing, etc.

And to flip things around ... I think Linux does a massively better job at out-of-the-box simplicity in setting up and running a desktop environment. The BSDs are server-oriented and that really shows.
The trouble is that the cost of a packet is a function of its entire route, not simply size or quantity.

The more packets that flow through a congested hop, the more that flow should be charged (whether to the sender or recipient). Peering with a network where the packets are not due to go through heavily contended routes shouldn't be a big problem, and nor should peering with a network where the routes for packets being interchanged have similar constraints.

Probably, a totally fair system would involve so much accounting that most of the cost would be dominated by it.

Let's not also forget that Netflix et al. don't always rely on peering. They can give their customers a better experience by directly attaching hardware to the ISP's network, i.e. edge caching, which itself involves contracts and negotiation, independent of any network neutrality concerns around packets swapped at peering.
Who said they were about reducing total landfill volume? My understanding is that they're mainly about reducing litter. Which they've certainly done in my city.
I don't believe the jealousy argument is correct. I've been in a position a long time ago early in my career where I was severely underpaid. I found out when me and my colleagues shared salary information. It didn't cause me to become jealous, or change my perception of them the tiniest bit, in fact, I was grateful to them to have hard facts on how much more I should earn.

Their salaries gave me the incentive to demand a big raise from my employer. Which I did and didn't get, so I quit and got myself a much better paid job.
As a multi-lingualist, I don't agree. Languages should stand for themselves without tooling.
For the non-US, could somebody please explain what W2 and 1099 are?
What technique do they use to obtain "Internal IP"?
Marginal effect of tax != average effect of tax. Also, every objection you raise could have just as easily been leveled at cigarette taxes in the middle 20th century. In the long-run tobacco excise taxes have been a huge public health victory. I'm not accusing you of shilling for the ABA but you have pretty much repeated their talking points in your post. It just amazes me what an effective job they have done of distracting everybody from the obvious parallels to tobacco.
Ah, I just realised what you meant. No, we're not affiliated in any way with the application server.
"Cantonese and Mandarin split roughly 1000 years ago, whereas the difference between Shakespearian English (which is considered Early Modern English) and Modern English is only a few hundred years."

While I think (second hand - I have no deep familiarity with either language) that your broader point holds, this particular bit is weaker than it might be read. While the split happened longer ago, there are more day-to-day attempts to communicate between native speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin than between native speakers of Modern and Shakespearean English. I could see this having an effect on the ongoing development of each language in a way that might leave them closer together than they would otherwise be. (Shakespearean English probably does have some continuing impact on Modern English, but I think we can be fairly confident that there's no influence the other way).
I keep hoping Travis-CI will add support for FreeBSD, but it seems there's some blocking issue due their use of OpenVZ as a containerization layer: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1818

Does anyone know if there's been more progress on this? It'd really be a boon to FreeBSD (and BSDs in general) if travis-ci supported it, since it'd make it easier for devs to write portable code (between Mac/Linux/BSD) from the get-go.
I occasionally have to use an HP laptop and I concur. It is really a completely different experience.

I need to use two hands to accomplish something like moving the cursor to a folder icon and right clicking on it. On a Mac this can be done with a single finger and without even engaging the brain.

This model of HP laptop is used by everyone at this one company. They don't even know how awful it is. It's really like that 1984 Mac commercial.
What I would find difficult to explain (or program) to a machine is that human right ends with certain frontiers. One meter at one side the frontier your life is abysmally important, one meter at the other side your life is of utmost importance. I wonder where the machine would put the frontier if one day they have to assess the value of our lives.