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This piece resonated with me strongly. I am currently down in Florida with my parents on a two week break from work for the holidays. This is the first stretch of time off from work I have taken in 2-3 years which involved more than a day or two out of the lab in Boston (I have accrued 8 weeks of paid time off and in addition my employer has effectively told me I can take as much time off as I want). There is a nice pool where I am, a beach, unlimited booze, other fun amenities, and yet I found myself complaining to my best friend last night on gchat that I have been feeling anxious and somewhat bored / unhappy for most of the trip.

I feel like I should be spending this scarce free time better learning python and facilitating my career switch from bio E into data science; I don't want to eat out because that will harm my ability to cut weight for powerlifting (my main hobby); and when I am not trying to code or work on lab work, I spend many hours a day looking for gyms / in the gym. I effectively am attempting to do what I do every day (work from morning until I sleep punctuated with some time spent lifting) and am feeling miserable because I am not doing it as well as I would be able to do it at home. Last night I was checking how much it would cost for me to change my departure date so that I could go home early and use my vacation days more effectively studying.

Part of this angst is driven by the fact that while I love my family and enjoy spending time with them, I feel angry that this is how I am forced to use my special large break. I am never able to spend time with my friends. I see my best friend and close high school friends maybe once or twice a year for 2-3 days. They are scattered across the midwest and simply don't have any vacation days to spend hanging out with me. My college friends in the midwest invited me to spend New Years with them, but they admitted that they would be working the entire week and would only be able to hang out with me for about a day, so I declined. My friends from work are in the same situation as me and don't have time to go on a trip.

As this article correctly points out, I realize that I have no right to complain as these are completely self-imposed behaviors and though processes, but to be honest I'm not sure what else to do with myself or my time. I sometimes ask why I work the hours I do; is this really the best way to live my life? While I realize that the answer is probably no, I don't know what else to do, and so I keep doing it.
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Open WIFI & unencrypted credit card data...what could go wrong?
Just to check, do Apple only provide security updates to the newest OS X?
I'm a bit bemused by all of the voicemail hate on here. I'm 42, so I feel I'm in the area between those that hate phone calls (younger, in general) and those that hate texting (older, in general). I enjoy being reachable by people (family, clients, employees, etc.) and I don't want them to have an obstacle to sending me a message. Certainly voicemail is an annoyance but it's also often the best option. Just last night I was driving to the hospital to visit a friend and called another friend to let him know the status of my sick friend. I left a voicemail and it was the best solution.

I've noticed that the texting only generation seems to have anxiety about making or receiving phone calls and the real-time conversation that requires. I think some of the voicemail hate is just a reaction to that discomfort.
Starbucks employee here. That field is for a gift card number. Wouldn't hurt to make it https though.
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Or build/support the things that expose the cracks in the prevailing political/social wisdom :)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Happy Kwanzaa.
I used a 11" Macbook Air at uni before getting a rMBP. IT was buttery smooth, nothing could make it stutter on Mavericks. Great experience although the screen size was a tad on the small size. I eventually settled on a rMBP 13" (2014 edition) and couldn't be happier. Sure, i sometimes get stutter swiping through fullscreen apps or using Chrome on heavy pages but the retina and its scaling makes it so much worth it. Seriously, couldn't be happier. Reading text on this is phenomenal.

And it's not buyer's remorse or anything like that, i got it for free through a university programme and could have got the Macbook Air if i wanted to.
Literally? Wow.
And just because it's Christmas time:

http://imgur.com/n9f2SnR

(created as part of a course about simulation of ecological systems)
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> if everyone else also worked three hours a day instead of eight, then the prices of goods would change to reflect that

No, not really. Pricing doesn't work that way. You have to account for the vast price differences that occur globally and the fixed cost of production.

A more concrete example, Samsung makes (I don't know, making up a number here) 5% profit on a new Blueray player. That means the rest of the pricing is fixed. But now instead of 1 person working an 8 hour shift producing x number of Blueray players, they have 3 times the number of people working 1/3 the time. Production doesn't scale linearly with the number of people, and management overhead increases as the need to coordinate more people simply requires more effort. So costs don't scale linearly either. So now Samsung is making fewer Blueray players at greater expense.

Remember, their downward price mobility is only within that 5%.

Do they
a) lose profit to maintain prices?

b) increases sale prices to maintain profit?

The demand signal is still similar. You working 1/3 the amount of time doesn't change the number of people who might buy a blue-ray player, it only decreases the amount of money you have to spend on one. Samsung can't simply drop prices by 2/3s because you have less money. The solution is to cut production to meet the demand signal.

Cutting production means they've let go much of their production staff (which lowers the managerial overhead) and helps keep prices low. But the blue-ray player still costs what it costs to produce. Your ability to pay for it doesn't change the laws of physics.

Now let's make things worse for Samsung. China doesn't have a 3 hour work-day policy, they have an 8 hour work day policy. So, even at exactly the same per-hour wage, Foxconn can outproduce and price undercut (by realizing the greater efficiency of fewer workers) Samsung on the same product.

Fewer workers producing the same amount of stuff as more workers increases productivity and realizes efficiencies that can be used as competitive advantage.

Simply cutting everybody's time to 1/3 isn't the same thing.

> It's similar to the issue of dual income households. How was it that in the 50s and earlier very few families needed two incomes to afford a nice middle class lifestyle?

I think there's a very good argument that the definition of "middle-class" has continued to veer upwards over time. The kinds of homes and lifestyle my parents grew up in are nowhere near the quality level of what I've grown up with. The world my grandparents grew up in would be considered poverty levels today.

Lots of families could go single-income today and realize a lifestyle not too different from that single-income lifestyle of previous generations. But having two incomes means more TVs, more internet, more cars, nicer cars, nicer computers, multiple computers, bigger house, granite countertops, large en suite bathrooms, expensive overseas vacations, more expensive schools, more resource to put into your kids, etc.
Finally! I was sure they would never fix it. I'm actually considering downloading the beta now. Any other improvements?
Honestly, I think it's simply because they tried to do way too much for this release. And everyone said that after WWDC. I remember thinking, "Wow. They just announced a TON of stuff, way more than any previous year. I wonder how they'll be able to execute on this."

Turns out, they can't.
I suggest the opposite.

The reason you can't work just 3 hours a day is that you need to make money for other people as well. Too many governmental jobs that has really no real value, but exist due to socialistic idea, governments want to give work to people for votes and for statistics.

And you must pay for those jobs yourself, be it through direct taxes or by the fact that products you buy cost more, because companies are obliged by regulations to hire someone to do something that they have to pay for.
I could agree about prospective juniors with extremely low rates. But, a SUPER DUPER FULL-STACK DEVELOPER with a decade of experience for $20/hr doesn't make much sense. Most probably he has no idea what he's doing. His communication skills and the results of his work won't be impressive.
> So why are we still writing JS frameworks? I think a large part of it is inertia, it's habit.

I'd say it's need.

> Q: You can’t do ____ in HTML5, for that you need a framework.
> A: First, that's not a question. Second, thanks for pointing that out. Now let's work together to add the capabilities to HTML 5 that allows ____ to be done w/o a framework.

Great idea, but what do we do in the meantime? It's not like features get added to HTML 5 overnight.
My next laptop won't have a fruity logo. I need something that Just Works.

I'm right there with you, but the trouble is, I'm not sure anything satisfies that criteria any more. :-(

Not so long ago, I was expecting to go the other way, with our next laptops here having that fruity logo precisely because we expected OS X to Just Work where Windows 8 was just nasty.

However, right now, neither of the major commercial platforms is at all appealing, and anything Linux-based still has the fundamental problem that there aren't enough professional quality applications available to meet our needs yet. Relying on SaaS to break the OS strangleholds is also a questionable business move that we are increasingly glad we haven't made as the stories of broken "upgrades", sharp price increases, and outright cancelled services pile up.

I'm holding out some hope that either MS will come back with the next version of Windows and promote some sort of very-long-term stability and support (which is something they have historically been good at, but it seems unlikely with their new choice of leadership) or the FOSS work will finally start to take over (but this probably requires changes in the law, specifically making clear that patents are not enforceable anywhere that matters on things used for interoperability like data formats, communications protocols, and algorithms necessary to work with them).
Adium still lists 14% of their users on Snow Leopard.

https://www.adium.im/sparkle/#osVersion

It's painful to support these days but I'm still trying keep my apps compatible with it.
It's tricky with HIPAA, given that emailing almost anything interesting is a violation, since they can't control whether your email provider discloses it or not.

The right way to do it is to email people and inform them that a secure system has Very Important Information for them and that they should sign in using pre-arranged credentials to check it. Even that email can be a HIPAA violation if you do it wrong -- for example, "Hiya Jane Smith, Dr. Foo OBGYN has important information for you" has been held to be a violation since Foo should have reasonably anticipated that some patients would be living with family and sharing email with them and disclosing a non-minor's pregnancy/etc to their parents without their consent is a per se violation.

Ditto putting similar information into voicemails / SMSes / etc. Technical violations of the rules are rampant and enforcement actions are comparatively rare, particularly at smaller medical providers.
As the other commenter said, there was also "classified evidence" that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

Why would you blindly "just trust them" when there's enough history to show that skepticism is a much healthier attitude.
Cool! And it meets the 'multiuser' qualifier too: "UZI180 is a multi-tasking, multi-user operating for the Zilog Z180 family of microprocessors.", from https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/tree/master/Kernel .
>where everyone is expected lean back, to sit still and be calm.

Now that's Christmas magic
The quality is also much, much worse.
If its not a credit card that should be made more clear. I thought I should submit my credit card before posting this on HN to see if I was being delusional.

1. The language just says "Card number" and that they ask for security code I would think most people would assume means credit card number as one wouldn't think a Starbucks code would have a security code.

2. Many people only use the Starbucks app so most of their interaction with a Starbuck's "card" is using their credit card which they use to refuel the app.

Having many people mistakenly enter their credit card into this form is very, very bad and can be easily avoided by adding one word to the page: "Starbucks" vs "Credit" card. In general, a pretty terrible oversight.
I believe part of it is that in Brazil, at least for cell phones, only the caller pays, not the receiver of the call as well (as is the case in the US). It's pretty common to leave a short message of the form "call me back", or just a missed call - a longer message wastes your minutes.
This seems very different from basic income discussed today. What they essentially describe is an expanded need-based assistance program. US provides a tax credit for very low income that essentially results in negative tax.

The Swiss referendum called for unconditional payment. To me, the unconditional nature is the preserving factor that incentivizes people to earn more, while knowing they are protected. A needs based system results in fear of losing what little you have. Low income housing in extremely desirable areas works in similar manner and traps people, instead of incentivizing them to seek higher paid employment because that higher pay will make them not qualified for the subsidy, yet not able to afford the area.
I live in Finland and we do the same thing here.
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To understand the language situation in Korea, let's imagine that we divided the Italian peninsula in half just north of Rome. Does it follow that now there are two dialects, North Italian and South Italian? No. Italian has a bewildering variety of regional dialects, and our arbitrary line doesn't correspond to a genuine dialect border. Similarly, the DMZ cuts across the central dialect region in Korea.

More importantly, Italians will continue to write and be taught in Standard Italian, which was developed based on the Tuscan dialect long before our artificial division of the peninsula. It won't be as if they would start from scratch and create new standard languages based on the Milanese dialect in the North and the Roman dialect in the South. Even independent countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland find it useful to use the same standard German as each other, even if it's not necessarily based on a dialect spoken wothin their borders. There will inevitably be differences in vocabulary and spelling, but the differences will be far less than if we imagined a naïve model where each country creates its own standard (which is what basically happened in Scandinavia).
IIRC, a lot of the evidence in the Saddam case came from a defector from Iraq that spun a story to tell the Americans what they wanted to hear. No one bothered to do enough verification of what they were hearing because it was what they wanted to hear.
Name some examples of no-value governmental jobs? It's easy to say someone's job is unnecessary from the outside.
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For those unversed in economic theory, care to explain why a basic income--analogous to the one presented in the article or otherwise--is not a sustainable solution?
T Mobile actually sells service for $30/mo that includes unlimited data and texting with only 100 minutes a month of voice. That service is basically designed for data only.
Flash is dependent on GTK2 and for Wayland GTK3 is required. So ideally Firefox for Wayland shouldn't have any dependencies on GTK2 stuff (since mixing them together in one process isn't really a good idea, plus even if you manage to mix them somehow in separate processes GTK2 would still require X to function, so you'll have to fall back to XWayland in that case probably which is already not ideal).

So Shumway can solve this (at least in context of Flash) replacing the Flash plugin altogether.

For more details, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699
> Too many governmental jobs that has really no real value, but exist due to socialistic idea

Data on that?
In the demo wombats code, shouldn't 'miles' be in a constant somewhere? That seem messy.
From what I remember, the main differences between the DPRK and ROK in terms of language are that the North doesn't use Sino-Korean words ("pure" Korean tends to predominate), and the vast majority of post-war loan words obviously aren't used.
I've seen more authentic replies on here get lambasted for being unprofessional. That bit of phrasing did make me twitch, but I can see how he might've thought he needed to put on his 'corporate communications' voice before posting here.
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That is assuming the fax repairman has the motivation to do all of those things you have mentioned. Considering that life ideally leads to a comfortable retirement for most individuals (i.e.: doing nothing and spending one's days leisurely is the ultimate goal as opposed to creating value for society). I think it is safe to say that most people, given the opportunity, will opt for this "lazy" style of life.

Now I'm not saying this is inherently a bad thing. When technology and automation improves to the point where laborers are made obsolete, could society potentially adopt an egalitarian system where through taxation, society can afford to let the laborers live in complacency with a satisfying slice of the pie, while the more ambitious (those who continue to push through with scientific and technological advancements) are rewarded with an even bigger piece of the pie? With increasing advancements, will society reach a point where there's more than enough pie for everyone?
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People with mental problems don't usually possess the hacking skills demonstrated in this case.

Depends on the mental problem. The category is far too broad to make a sweeping statement like that. Anything from being slightly narcissistic to being a paranoid schizophrenic can be considered a "mental problem" under one definition or another. Most of these do not involve any diminished technical skills.

In addition, I could cynically retort that anyone who orchestrated such a reckless and damaging attack as this isn't exactly the most mentally stable.
Yeah, of course the bosses didn't want it. It hurt them and their profits. But back then, the people wanted it. The difference between then and now is, now when the bosses say "you don't want a union", the workers actually believe them.
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A possible, though minor hack with this arrangement would be:

- You have 0.1 BTC and wish to protect against BTC value loss vs USD
- You make a payment to your own Stripe account of 0.1 BTC, say 10 USD
- After BTCUSD falls, you refund the payment
- You receive 10 USD, say 0.2 BTC
- End result: you can keep your Bitcoin constant at 10 USD, redeemable into BTC whenever you make the refund request

Of course it would be just as easy to keep the money in USD/your stable currency of choice in the first place and convert when you want BTC; and Stripe won't lose more than BTC conversion fees (unless Stripe decide to hold BTC as a corporation). Out of curiosity, do you have a time limit for refunds?
Why wouldn't you want to give your customers every opportunity available to get in touch with you?
If it was marketing, Sony would not have revealed the private emails of their executives. Obama would also not have stepped in, there is plenty of vetting that goes on in the federal government.
I was comparing with ULA, and should have clarified I meant Falcon 9h ($85 million). The domestic competition for that is Delta 4 Heavy ($435 million).
When I was in college I worked at a regional Wal Mart competitor where I made minimum wage (not enough to live on) but got a nice discount if I bought from the store itself (which made my wages about enough to live on). It's as close to the old "company store" as they can legally get away with these days.
There's no reason that the Nationals need be North Korean. There is diversity of political opinion in the South and not everyone loves Japan or has forgiven them for the long and brutal occupation. The film could easily be seen an attack on Korean sovereignty for any partisan of a unified Korean State. That a Japanese corporation is behind it certainly doesn't help.

On the other hand, historically the view of Japan as the important enemy is more strongly associated with the North. Fighting the Japanese occupation was probably a more important part of Kim Il-sung's political life than socialism and much of the divide between North and South was based on collaboration with occupiers than on a love/hate relation with capitalism...most Koreans in both countries at the time their civil war was hot were agrarian peasants.
Well I have't the faintest desire to work for Oracle but their decision to make their building look like (old-style, enterprise) disk drives does redeem them slightly IMHO.

What's wrong with a bit of whimsy and/or promoting a bit of esprit du corps? And in a F500 consumer company, if you can make something iconic always be used as a stock photo in articles about your business, sector, or region, it probably is a bonus.
If this floats your boat then the inimitable Vi Hart has done a series of videos about space filling curves and related matters:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc8sWN_jNF4
Aside from the obvious and major performance and stability issues Here's another one, which I've been experiencing: https://discussions.apple.com/message/27289663#27289663

I don't know why WindowServer keeps crashing in this fashion.
The hologram server is privileged and should run behind a firewall. It will only hand out keys to successfully authenticated (using an SSH challenge-response) clients, so it could be publicly accessible, but why go to that risk?

The hologram agent that runs on your laptop, and could potentially be exposed in a cafe, attaches to lo0, so there's no way somebody on your coffee shop wifi could get the creds.
Any medium will create pseudo-communication. How many times did I get POed by endless email exchanges (particularly the "Thank you" kind). So the problem is pseudo-communication not the medium.
I suspect that CC thing has more to do with time management than technology. The 100K/year mentioned probably refers to hardware and maintenance. Now if you factor in the wasted minutes you might get a different number.
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From what I've seen in the South Korean media, no one is talking about North Korean involvement in this separate hacking incident of nuclear reactors. The codes seem to be different from those used in previous attacks blamed on North Korea.

Note that linguistic evidence doesn't come into this, just as one wouldn't usually be speculating about which English-speaking country a hacker was from simply based on the code.
Yeah, when we spoke with Amazon, they already had a couple of labels for what hologram is, so it sounds like we at AdRoll are not the only AWS customer who has had to roll it ourselves. Hopefully we'll be the last!