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I've been running 3840x2160 on the 23.8" Dell UP2414Q for the past month, and I couldn't be more pleased. Well, I could if I had it running at 60 Hz rather than 30 Hz, but having twice the PPI is worth the cut in the frame rate to me without question. I'm using the open source Intel drivers and the on-die GPU of my i7-4770K, and everything works out of the box at 30 Hz. Patches to get things at 60 Hz are in the works, but it's pretty complicated because the software needs to treat the display as two separate 1920x2160 displays due to limitations in the DisplayPort spec.

My desktop is where I spend the most time, yet it was the last remaining device I use where there were visible, ugly, distracting pixels everywhere. Now I never see pixels in my daily life, and reading and writing on my desktop have become significantly more pleasant. I highly recommend switching to a high-DPI monitor for anyone who spends much time on the computer (which is probably almost everyone here).

Oh, most software works just fine once I manually set the DPI in KDE's system settings. Upgrading to Plasma 5, the only software I use that isn't scaled properly is Chrome. Apparently they're working on it, but I only use Chrome for Netflix, and it's not too bad having tiny browser tabs for that one use.
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In some other news, I read something about ~2x that of a Raspberry, I think it was about 0,5A. That seems to me a fair deal for much more speed.

Also you get a 1GBit Ethernet port, I think Raspberry has only 100MBit/s.
So, how'd it all work out? I mean, obviously you still work for MS, but what happened with the manager? Did he move or did you?

This is actually part of classic corporate behavior:
* Company starts small, based on people who want to get things done (and get rich)

* Small company succeeds, discovers need to expand

* Small company becomes big company

* At some point a threshold is passed: behaviors (such as are typical in middle management) begin to appear, and are tolerated, because the company is successful.

* But, the mid management behaviors are lethal in the long term. The reason its long term instead of short term is because the company success is a kind of inertia -- it takes a while before the "decelerating" behavior of mid management affects the company.

* By the time the success inertia has been countered, those mid managers have moved on, either through making a fortune, or being able to parlay their "success" into other positions in other companies.

Pessimistic, but I've observed it in many circumstances, up close and personal in one or two (including my current position).
That's a bit like arguing marketing is a force of good because it helps get information to all market participants and thereby increase market efficiency.

That's not quite how it has worked out, however.
They're never going to be awarded anything. The money isn't the point.
I cannot stand most AV vendors everything about the software seems untrustworthy, AVG and AVAST. I don't trust them really, they seem bloated and phony. I use Malwarebytes, which was already suggested and I also use SuperAntiSpyware. I also try to watch what websites I am on, and what I download, basically just common sense like someone else has stated. I haven't encountered anything major that I could not remove, I did get have a insanely bad piece of adware/spyware that affected my browsers maybe a year ago that I had to do a system restore, probably was the most annoying piece of adware I have encountered.
not everything can be taught to all people. a person of average intellectual ability will always struggle with cognitively demanding tasks like mathematics and programming.
xterm? urxvt scrolls so fast its invisible.

Also xmonad beats icewm.

I haven't used a USB stick for anything other than OS installs in many years... ditto playing music on a desktop, a thing of the past.

I do need my emacs. (edited to add, and my vnc and rdesktop clients to access other machines)

And I personally chromium although I can respect the firefox choice.

When I read desktop I thought physical desktop as opposed to laptop, but laptop users need wifi... I've personally found that setting up a wifi gui is harder than just manually editing simple and straightforward config files.

https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#WPA-PSK_and_WPA2-PSK

You probably only set up one wifi network, unless you're one of those coffee shop people.
I heard something, that the software (hardware drivers and other things) support for these not so much sold devices is sparse. Does anybody know more? I guess, they ported some Linux on it, but how about media server software (like XBMC/Kodi) and other stuff??
No, they are colleagues. You didn't become acquainted with them socially, you became acquainted with them through work, and at work the reason for your continued acquaintance is commercial in nature.
>>>>> They openly denigrate their own skills by spreading egalitarian myths like "everyone can be a programmer"... to further bolster the perception that programming is an easy, low-skill trade, perhaps a rung or two above mere clerical work.

I think this works both ways. When I was in high school, it actually seemed like everyone could be a programmer. My mom was teaching programming at a state university extension campus. Her students were getting jobs after one year of school. I was already programming at the same level. Neither my parents nor I could see any reason to spend four years in college learning a skill that anybody could do, and we expected the market to saturate.

So I majored in something else, and learned programming on my own.

You can try to elevate it by calling it engineering, but it's not. Most programming (truth be told, most product design, not just programming) is done by trial and error. Of course there may be a level of computer related activity above programming, that deserves to be called engineering, that is vital for critical tasks. This is not to denigrate the market value of content knowledge, such as knowing a complicated API inside and out, or the different processes for making things out of metal, that allow a good designer to come up with better designs.
The assertion big banks aren't trying to innovate payments because we are in a "risk averse" period after the housing crisis is a stretch. I'm not sure if that's something the author concluded or an argument banks are actually using.

Mortgage loan risks were motivated mostly by greed. Improving money transfer systems would carry the risk of fraud, with a very long-term payout of improving customer experience. Bank CEOs nowadays want there quick buck and then parachute into retirement. There's no incentive for long-term thinking. And if you're dissatisfied where are you going to go? Another mega-bank with the same incentives...

Seeing as how banks just used their lobbying power to cripple Dodd-Frank, the argument "regulations get in the way of innovation" also hard to believe. When regulations got in the way of highly lucrative derivatives sales, it seems the banks were able to overcome.

I really hope these small guys can make a major impact.
One of the main objections to the pilot-wave theory of QM is that it brings us back to the idea of a "luminiferous aether" that was famously disproved by the null result of the Michaelson-Morley experiment. What would the substrate be? The article gives a very brief hand-wavy mention to it being "space-time" and I've heard this before, but I have yet to hear even a good suggestion for how this might work.

A related problem is that both De Broglie's and Bohm's pilot-wave models leave open the possibility of "empty waves" that carry no momentum or energy and are not related to any particles. Even if we assume that it is space-time through which they propagate, this gives us another piece of math that we need to just throw away, similar to the non-observed probabilities after state collapse, which runs counter to the goal of creating a formalism where the math corresponds to something real in the universe(s).
I never fully "got" emacs even though it was the popular editor during university times and I occasionally use it for quick server admin stuff.

Today I feel it has missed its boat with good looking and user friendly stuff available like Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse and even cloud IDEs.

I cant help but to laugh quietly to addons like this.
Lobbying is okay, as long as it doesn't also turn into "campaign donations" or "paying for parties" (like MPAA did for state AG's, in the fight against Google).

Lobbying + campaign donations should be automatically considered bribing. But this is America, the land of the free...to pay bribes legally, I guess.
I tried to find more data. I read http://enigmedia.es/en/rdi/encryption/ and the Spanish equivalent. It has very few details, I classified it between "too good to be true" and "too many buzzwords".
According to the Technical Detail tab : "5V2A DC input	: This is for 5V power input, with an inner diameter of 0.8mm, and an outer diameter of 2.5mm. The ODROID-C1 consumes less than 0.5A in most cases, but it can climb to 2A if many passive USB peripherals are attached directly to the main board. "
Unions aren't the panacea you think they are. My experience with unions has been that they cater to the lowest common denominator. My salary increases were built into the union contract as was my "work out of class". I could only get a 5% pay differential when I did a work out of class, rather than having the ability to negotiate that on my own.

Then when I became a manager and was no longer a union member, the union attacked my management position so hard, that I rage quit because I simply couldn't take it any longer.
sysvinit also has no notion of services at all. If you've got a system that's sysvinit-based, take a look in /etc/inittab sometime - that one small file is essentially everything that sysvinit knows. Setting up the system, mounting filesystems, finding and starting/stopping services, etc is all started by a handful of somewhat standardised distro-specific scripts that are run by sysvinit and hardcoded in /etc/inittab.
A bit off-topic, but what CTF team do you play on?
it is not the same writing or simple arithmetic for most people. this sort of comment is exactly what the original post was talking about -- programmers are often unable to imagine other people will struggle with tasks they take for granted.
Neat. I sold my TI-84 Plus in favor of a HP RPN calculator:
It's not really comparable, but there are more open source projects around calculators like the WP34s[1] project which turns a cheap HP business calculator (HP 20b/30b) into a RPN calculator with a lot of features.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/wp34s/
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> Now I never see pixels in my daily life

Just wait for a bit and that problem will solve itself handily. And then you'll be wishing for the time when you could see pixels.
Not when you're trying to monitor a lot of data. Even on my dual monitor setup, One monitor has 4 terminal windows for informational purposes. It would take longer to move to another workspace than to just simply take a quick glance to the left.
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Absolutely. These guys are basically on one and the same party, constantly covering each other's asses and continuing each other's policies (except when it's politically expedient not to do so, or when there's a power struggle).
The trick is not to suppress a story, like you would with less sophisticated propaganda, but to frame it in a particular way. You can spin negative stories in a way that they either become tedious to the public quickly or by focussing on more or less irrelevant details and statements of officials about the story. There are probably a multitude of other tricks and techniques that are well known in the public relations industry and by now huge offices with many smart people whose sole job it is to direct a story in a particular way.
most of the work GPs do is far easier than bog standard web or mobile development
I haven't checked the data, but being a pintle injector engine, there's potential for the Merlin to throttle quite deeply. Maybe they haven't done that yet.
I'm doing pretty much that right now with my 5-year-old daughter with a raspberry pi. She can currently boot it up and check her email by herself (using claws-mail). One of the big things that I think we can do today that wasn't really available when I was a kid is robotics. For a couple hundred bucks and some time invested, you can make a robot platform for them to play with and get them playing with super low-level stuff without any kind of pretense (limiting her to just the r-pi with a BASIC repl would be pretty artificial in today's world, but the state of hobby robotics now is much like the state of computing was 25 years ago). I'm working on a robot repl right now so that she can get the instant feedback like we had with BASIC, but it's slow going for lack of time.

The thing I've found interesting is how she goes back and forth between the r-pi and the iPhone pretty seamlessly. I don't think she realizes that they're fundamentally similar devices. To her the iPhone is just a black box with some fun games on it, but the r-pi is a lot more like an adventure.
Hey. Glad people are enjoying this old thing again.

Some notes:

- Source code: http://eblong.com/zarf/ftp/lists.tar.Z

- The Scheme engine that this implements is really small -- about 10k of heap. (This is a Z-code game, and the Z-machine is a 16-bit architecture.) And the garbage collection sucks. So you can't do much with this beyond toy problems.

- You could port it to the Glulx VM (32-bit architecture) without too much trouble, and then you'd have a couple of gigabytes. Feel free. :)

- As an IF author, I never intend players to guess a verb. But I do expect players to be familiar with the common IF verbs -- the stuff on the PDF sheet, basically. This was more true in 1996, when the IF community was tiny and all read the same Usenet group. I wrote this thing for enthusiasts.

- Today, I'd put more emphasis in the help docs on the difference between the two input modes (">" and ">>"). And I'd check if the player typed a line starting with ">" -- display an appropriate explanation of why that's wrong.

- But I'm not going to update this thing, because yes, 1996 was a long time ago.

- The era of the text adventure is dead the way the era of home-brewed beer is dead. Nobody makes it and nobody drinks it, except the people who still do.

- Is it silly to write a text adventure in 2014? I put one up for sale a couple of months ago (hadeanlands.com) and it's doing pretty well. Yes, for actual money. No, it's not a gigantic indie success, but the niche still exists and there are still fans. So that's my past twenty years of work justified.
You know, that position on rights is fascism.
The guard's story that told the band is interesting.

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/industrial-acti...
But didn't you hear? He "wants" to close Gitmo.

He only has the best of intentions, but darn it, those obstructionist Republicans always stand in the way.
People who care about the points you have raised should continue to be able to hail yellow cabs. People who don't should be able to call Uber. I don't see why the two options must be mutually exclusive, which is what regulators and owners of taxi medallions seem to be saying.
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A lot of people in the HTPC community are buying these things for just that purpose. This board should be excellent as a HTPC.
With that chip you should get around 2.5x faster single-thread performance (mostly due to the higher clock speed), and 3 more cores inside as well.
Can Sublime Text/Atom do all of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8639804 ?

I want to jump to any file at any time regardless of where I am in the project instantly, can Sublime do it? And even if a project has 30-40k files, it must be fast and make me jump instantly. See the demos in this guide for details: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-projectile.html

Atom has a limit of 2MB text file which is worse than Vim in the 90s.
+1 for urxvt

And even if you are a "coffee shop person" - or simply use your laptop at work/college/parents house/friends house -, you can write a wpa_supplicant.conf file with multiple networks, and it'll connect to the one it can see.
We lost EOF. It's partially there in Core Data, but a lot of the functionality is lost.
"It's about making sure lawmakers understand your narrative."

Agree. And what most people don't realize, that I have found out personally, [1] is that lawmakers (and/or their staff) are more than willing to listen to informed opinions and thoughts by individuals who are not "lobbyists" and don't represent "money". That the impediment to lobbying is really not always money but the ability to form and back up your argument or point of view and to sell your idea. There is no doubt in my mind that you and many other commenters on HN would make good "lobbyists" if they decided to take the time to make sure lawmakers understood their point of view.

[1] I've personally been down to Washington and have discussed issues in person with not only congressional staff but with members of various agencies. All it took was a letter asking to have meetings. Plenty of time allotted, they listened I have received letters back with further thoughts and questions from congressional legal staff. And a congressman that I met (that I didn't even have a meeting with) asked me why I was in DC. When he heard the reason his staff followed up literally 5 times after that to see if they could help further.
Supply and demand was implicit in that you were able to hail a cab.

If it's a rainy night and no cabs are available, the effective price of a cab is infinity dollars. Uber's surge pricing reduces infinity to a mere 1.5-5x.

I can appreciate your interest in the anonymity provided by cash, but study some economics :P.

Try these two EconTalk episodes:

- http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2006/04/ticket_scalping.htm...
- http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/01/munger_on_price_1.h...
rayiner isn't saying that it's a good system; just explaining how it works in reality.
Why Om Malik is excited about the visual web
I might have some Irix programs I wrote somewhere.
Have your parents come around at all on this, or do they think you're getting paid to do things they don't approve of now?

Please don't restrict mediums. Restrict activities.

That's a great way of putting it.
> Take a moment to educate yourself

Said someone who does not even know what functional programming is. Hilarious.

I already told you that you can only prove correctness with total languages. Guess you not qualified enough to find any arguments to counter this point.
>What were the AA batteries for?

Some motherboards from the 286 era used 4 AAs as the CMOS backup battery.
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interviews for graduate legal jobs in biglaw are mostly focused on "fit".
THD+N.
the code is kind of a mess, but here it is, if anyone's interested - https://github.com/asafdav2/colorayz
Importance and Opportunity of Metadata in Entertainment
Probably you have never seen a good emacs setup, that turns it into powerful customized IDE with great usability. Emacs is like minecraft for editors, you never stop building on it.
But you can't fuel up the solids on the pad. You must cast the propellant into the casings at the factory, potentially on the other side of the globe if that's where you have the nearest capable industry.

This means you need fire safety everywhere, and heavy ground equipment too for lifting and attaching and assembling the solid rockets.

Meanwhile, you can fuel a liquid rocket at the pad, meaning it's empty and light and can not explode or burn during transport and handling.

So solids cause heavier rocket ground infrastructure and more danger.

Of course, with liquids you need the fueling infrastructure on the pad. It probably comes to a question, not only of scale, but also of launch rate.

In theory you could have mobile trucks fueling missiles here and there. That's how you do it at ship ports where you don't want to invest in ground infrastructure.
It's because your comment didn't really add anything to the conversation. I didn't down vote you by the way, but HN frowns on such comments.

In this instance though, when someone is showing the community their work, I feel it's a bit unfair to expect everyone who comments to have detailed and constructive feedback. Some people just want to say "awesome!" and I suspect the people submitting their work also want to hear that. Alas, it's a shortcoming. Perhaps up votes are the way to say "awesome".
Others might have scratched the surface on this, but based on my network's experience and my own, don't even try the startup route, it's not worth it. Outside the US, you'll either get
a) no sponsorship
b) non-competitive salaries
c) mentor roles
and that's being on the real top of your field.
I'd go for a bigger company which has
a) the resources
b) the legal expertise
c) the demand

Given you do Python, Dropbox comes to mind, but you can always Google or stackshare.io for targets.

Good luck.
This is an echo chamber for people who all agree with each other. I wouldn't waste your time taking the opposite view.
At no time in any of my experiences with various psychotropics have I ever wanted to jump in front of traffic. In fact, while dazzling, that bus is goddamn terrifying in that state.

I would worry more about the folks taking stuff like Ambien and Chantix, as those are legal and have well documented horror stories of people losing complete control.
Having a poorer eyesight is not going to make fonts comprised of ten or so square pixels (in a direction) a bigger joy to read. Reading off a low DPI display is not only slower, but it also tires out your eyes faster.
Ok, I was exaggerating a bit just to contrast it with stuff that really needs experience - "Hello world" vs. Linux kernel, so to speak. But really, programming is something people can pick up while doing something else. Not systems programming, mind you, but Python, Matlab or such they pick up from labs or programming 101 which they find after graduation is employing them while extending a one domain specific system or another.

Let me rephrase this, anecdotally STEM inclined people can pick up programming at an adult age far easier than they would e.g. reading and writing or playing a musical instrument.

Can everyone do this - I don't know.
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If the methods to obtain them quickly either cannot or will not be used by most people (as is the case here), then they are inaccessible to most people.
I have the Odroid XU3 (which I think runs the same version of their Ubuntu). XBMC/Kodi runs on it, but I get a crash intermittently when fast forwarding a movie. VLC works perfectly. Chromium and Firefox runs superbly. I was unable to get Flash working so Amazon Instant Video and HBOGo don't work. Wireless with the $8 usb dongle they sell works perfectly.
One thing that wasn't mention by the article is that drug prohibition is (at least partly) based on racist beliefs[0], here is a famous quote from Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (an early predecessor of the DEA):

> There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others. [...] its effect on the degenerate races.

[0]http://io9.com/anti-marijuana-laws-were-based-on-racism-not-...
Why air breathing? Rockets work very well. The propellant cost is not much.