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I hope you're right! But I think it's important to prepare for the worst case scenario. Even if we had 200 IQ humans working at max cognitive capacity, people still need to sleep, eat, poop. There are all sorts of limitations we have as biological creatures- the bandwidth of our communication is limited (this exchange takes us precious minutes, for example). It's difficult to imagine things happening at breakneck speed, but it's not impossible. And I think we should be prepared for that... We definitely don't want to underestimate it and go "oops, we thought it would take decades"! WThis seems to me like the most important thing in the world right now- or one of the most important things- that we should all be talking about. We may only get one shot at this...
An apropos quote in-lieu of comment for obvious reasons:

"Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it." ~ someone that hailed from southern Hertfordshire about a century later than in the article
Or, OS X could wait until the appropriate time to offer you the option of messing with your disk.

1. Don't ask about using the disk for Time Machine. When the user goes to Time Machine because they want to use Time Machine, then have a button in the sidebar "Use drive blah for Time Machine" for any non-time-machine external drives present.

2. Have a button at the top of a finder window in which icons have been re-arranged saying "preserve layout in this folder" (which you only have to click the first time, of course it remembers along with the layout). (Also, make it more convenient to default all folders/finders to list-with-details view, for people who have any idea what they're doing.)

3. When the user opens Spotlight, have a button in the sidebar "index this drive for Spotlight" for any un-indexed drives present.

In all these cases, it's still super duper easy to use all these things, without always bothering people who don't want these things.
I learned a new word 'cosmonaut' from this article. :-) (I am not a native english speaker.)
Something weird about this article (that I found interesting, anyway):

The author looks like a native English speaker, yet the content clearly isn't written by one. After doing a bit of poking around, I discovered she's not a real person.

Her Twitter and Quora profiles have different photos on them. She's also not on LinkedIn or any other social network. Her only online presence is a bunch of these marketing-ish articles.
That culture he instilled has been going on for enough time for him to realize that maybe it is time to reverse or change the policy. If he cared enough, they would have been looking and doing something about it.

Now as you say, would that have made the difference? It is hard to say...
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I definitely don't disagree. I'm a prime member as well and feel the 2 day shipping is the sweet spot for time waited for my stuff.
It's fun to say too!
> There are a ton of very successful opiate addicts.

Oxymoron.
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No need to contrive lame excuses.

It's just bad software design, plain and simple.
We can also do things like spend less on bombs ($500B less IMO), end all corporate subsidies (either tax reduction or cost shifting like agriculture subsidies) . Additionally we will save a fortune from how we presently treat poverty symptomatically. Someone in jail costs upto $168K a year, homeless people cost a fortune to the healthcare system[1]

The list goes on and on. Its cheaper to do BI than it is to do what we're already doing. It doesnt cost $3T _more_ it costs less than what we _already_ spend.

[1]: http://greendoors.org/facts/cost.php
This is exactly what I was trying to say in my comment regarding composability/orthogonality in FP. You've presented the point much clearer than I did : )
Bezos could refocus on DIY, hobbyists and maker culture... classes (or sponsorship thereof) would be a good direction to get the cash register filling. It's hard to compete with online, open-source, but there are some things people would pay for (and want) in-person.
Tech has a very powerful tendency to winner-takes-all dynamics. IBM's had an unbelievably long run (formed in 1911 though through the merger of two existing firms), and has taken on and disposed of other competitors (most recent Sun, though there were the Seven Dwarfs in the 1960s / 1970s).

Which is to say, the shifts are likely not unrelated, though Apple doesn't directly compete significantly in business.
Most interesting is this: Many people compare other countries unemployment to US U3 not US U6/U5 while countries with gov. unemployement benefits (unemployed are people who get money, which includes people not looking or with a small amount of income) have numbers more in tune with U6/U5 and should be compared to U6/U5.

This makes the US economy always looks nicer.

(Same for GDP with chained dollars btw.)
And even Frys has been getting worse and worse. Fortunately, Jameco is still local, even if it is a bit of a drive.
All military acts are political.
You hold that Islamist terrorists must necessarily have the (vaguely defined by you) motive of "provoking the US", when most Islamist attackers on the U.S. have consistently cited a particular political motive? [1] And yes, it would have been great if the U.S. government had treated "terrorism" as the law enforcement issue it is rather than starting convenient[2] wars. I recommend President of the CCR Michael Ratner's 2004 book "Guantanamo: What the World Should Know" for early treatment of the things being discussed in the comments here.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/boston-...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/18/david-f...
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Good point. Can two column view for a wide screen be of any value to you? Thanks.
The problem is that many countries, especially the EU and US have strong anti-money laundering efforts in place (stronger after 2001). Not to mention the draconian banking laws in some places like Brazil and India. Further, the same people who don't have documents to get an account are going to lack the knowledge and access to use a digital service for banking. So, while this optimistic approach to digital banking sounds nice, it doesn't actually work well in practice.

Of course, there is a lot of hope for new mobile money, like M-Pesa, but even with it the reality is fairly slow adoption rates. There's some good articles on the subject via Microfinance Gateway, could dig them up if anyone is interested.
Ephebophilia isn't used to describe the presence of sexual attraction to people ~15 years old, it is used to describe primary or exclusive sexual interest in people ~15 years old. Pretty much everyone has some level of sexual attraction to people ~15 years old (the 'term' for that would be 'average').

Paedophilia is also often misused as a term, because it means attraction to pre-pubescent people, generally younger than 11, but sometimes as old as 13. Not 17, not 15, not even 14.

The laws we've universally passed to for pornography (actors must be 18 or older) to protect vulnerable <18 people from exploitation have bled into the public having an opinion that having sexual attraction for people less than 18 is equivalent to paedophilia, which is pretty strange (I know that I would personally view someone who is attracted to a 15 year old differently than someone who is attracted to a 5 year old). Laws of consent obviously differ a lot per country, but are for the most part 16-18, sometimes as low as 14.

There's even more to it, because our laws regarding age of consent do not exist exclusively to protect against paedophiles: they are in place to protect young people from exploitation. Public opinion is sort of confused about this, again.

If a media outlet says 'Person X accused of sexual relations with a minor', they have not in any way said that person was a paedophile, just that person A had sexual relations with someone considered a minor (as old as 17 in some places). The public often takes this as 'Person X accused of paedophilia', which is incorrect.

There's also the issue of viewing all pornography of people <18 as 'child pornography'. This is basically a legal grey zone, which is silly, because a person who forces a 5 year old to take sexual pictures is pretty different than someone who asks a horny 15 year old for pictures (in my opinion, again).

To go back on topic, Prince Andrew being accused of having sex with a 17 year old has nothing to do with paedophilia (at least not with the legal or psychological definition of paedophilia), it has to do with exploitation of a minor.
My take on this is that either make it free for everyone or don't do it at all. If you only allow the rich to have this treatment ( is there a better word for it) then you are artificially inviting a whole new brand of racism and social inequality into the system.

Also everyone should watch Gattaca, it is one of best movies that shows how social inequality can arise in situations like these.
Why don't you use the "Who is hiring?" thread, or at least mention here what profiles you are looking for. Also, as arenaninja asks, have you tried remote? There are some inconvenience coming with it, but you will have access to a larger pool of candidates who will cost you less than SV engineers.
In a followup post to my original January 2012 rant, I suggested the following[1][2]:

- A major release every 5 years

- A minor release every 4-6 months

- total focus on the major release for essentially that entire 5 year period

Obviously there are more details than that, but the point is, it's not the five year number that matters - it's the number of branches floating around simultaneously that is the real problem.

"Instead of having a legacy branch and two production branches, you would
have legacy (8) production (9) and ... nothing. Or if you need to have it
out there, 10 is the development branch. Minor releases come out 2-3 times per year, which gets you to 9.10 or 9.15
at the end of the cycle."

So ... in looking at this new announcement, it seems like they are addressing some points that I have brought up in the past, but in reality I think they are addressing completely different issues, especially with regard to applying security errata, etc.

The problem I see is the (short) two year embargo on a new release, which means that over the five year lifecycle of a release, potentially two other releases come out, which is basically what we have now. Bug fixes and driver updates get written and applied to the sexy new tree[3], and the "supported" release that's all of two years old gets none of it.

That's great that it's around for five years, and I appreciate the clarity there - but there is more to support than the ports tree and security errata. True support is the developer community working in and with a release for years, and that hasn't happened since 4.x.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Jan...

[2] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Jan...

[3] bank on it.
I'm not sure I agree with the author. It's not like React for the web is going to go away, if anything this is lowering the barrier of entry for web developers to develop native mobile experiences for their web applications.
I see. The table thing is a bit hard to solve at this moment but may try to solve by applying a bit of responsive table stylings.

"Back Button" is also a bit tricky. ^^ As the other commenter said, it may be better to record URLS per articles instead of page unit. Will that be more natural? Thank you again.
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I mentioned Haskell above. It has nested block comments which should be balanced. Thus CFG.
It wasn't just the USG; the United Nations listed al-Awlaki as a terrorist in 2010, one year before he was killed: http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/AQList.htm. The UN isn't exactly known for being a hawk...

Thomas has already covered this quite well, but I'll briefly summarize again. al-Awlaki was actively at war against the USG. Killing him is roughly equivalent to killing US citizens who fight for other foreign governments. The drone strike was not carrying out a legal sentence, it was simply the use of force in a global conflict.
Jesus. When the company I worked for (here in Australia) was subsumed by another, all the contracts were renegotiated specifically to include our years spent at the old company. Going in the opposite direction is pretty awful.
If you're going to use page up / page down, give me home/end as well.

DO NOT take my left/right keys. I use those to center text on page, not navigate.

If you navigate me off of an edit dialog losing work-in-progress I will hunt you down and pickle your petunias.
I'm including a VR boom within that estimate.

And to be clear, there's still plenty of opportunity. Something like 3 billion people are supposed to come online in the next decade, there will be tremendous opportunities to create solutions for problems we can't fathom. But my point is those solutions can be implemented by a fraction of the programmers that used to be needed.

And while there will lag between VR becoming popular and its design process becoming automated as well, it will still happen.

I also don't think this is necessarily bad, I'm just trying to point out that the conventional wisdom of "if we send people to STEM fields we'll keep the traditional economy intact even with automation" is not a long-term solution. The logical end-result of current tech trends is you imagine something and it appears in front of you almost instantaneously, no coding required.

As others have said, raw creativity will take precedence over technical skills, and most realistically we'll need a basic income and severely reduced workweeks.
"For instance, antivirus provider Quihoo 360 was one of the targets."

I think they mean 'Qihoo' rather than 'Quihoo'.

"It’s not likely that these companies are marketing their services via adware, however."

Really? Not if you believe '9 Evil Tactics Used by 360 Safe Browser to Beat IE in China': https://www.techinasia.com/360-safe-browser-malware/
But Windows 98SE was one of the best versions of Windows. So good in fact that it was a very long time after Windows 2000 came out that I made the switch. Linux on the desktop still had far too much catching up to do back then. Additionally, I would say PC gaming was at a peak around that time, and that meant for a sizeable chunk Windows was the only option.
It's HN -- this should be more of a pull request and less of a whiny comment.
In order to be successful, as mentioned in other comments, such a project would need more end-users as active co-designers / field testers. Otherwise, it's a pure "design for design's" sake that won't get used. And that would be sad if some extra attention were the difference between a large, branded product company that would be able to reduce the damage and discomfort to millions vs. a concept on a shelf.
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I had heard of such projects back in the day, but didn't know if they were still in service (and I didn't take the time to research it). I had some skepticism about whether IKVM had kept up with the rapid moving target that is the JRE, but after seeing that it runs Minecraft[0], I'm guessing it'll likely be alright :-)

But holy shit, who in their right mind still uses CVS?!

0 = http://weblog.ikvm.net/default.aspx?date=2014-12-01
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I listed MySQL as an "exception" because of it not being a Sun product, regardless of whether or not it's dead.

However, there are still plenty of environments using MySQL (and I'd know; I maintain quite a few such environments). MariaDB is an obvious migration path, of course.
I don't. Trips can move gradually, and a therapist with the patient can move them in a positive direction. The remarkably positive results of these controlled tests indicate that yes, you can keep a person from having a bad trip if you have a trained guide with them.
What I find interesting about news reporting here is two technosocial trends:

1) The proliferation of dashcams is giving footage of lots of things that used to have no video material, like plane crashes or a meteor in Siberia - in addition to the actual point of dashcams, recording what happened in traffic accidents

2) You hear of major incidents first through social media, not traditional news. I watched this in Youtube before it was in CNN, BBC or other major Western news sources. However, what's in Youtube seems to be captured from local TV broadcast.
All of these Wikipedia browsers miss a very important point: A web page is not a book. Wikipedia "pages" already suffer from skeuomorphism: the presentation of data reflects offline materials to the point where the online functionality is compromised. "Pages", "articles", "page turning", lists of "references" are not well-suited for the web. More about Wikipedia's UX issues here: http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedias-13-deadly-sins/
I’m in agreement. The pricing is quite high for a new product, and there is a lot of competition out there.
I'd probably lump "obscured by snow, leaves, or who-knows-what else" into the inclement weather category :)

I'd be curious to hear what the insurance industry makes of all of this too, they must be preparing for it in some way or another.
The problem I see is the (short) two year embargo on a new release

If support for a new device can't be merged into older releases because it relies on ABI/API breaking changes, do you want to be told that you won't be able to use your shiny new hardware in a FreeBSD release for the next five years?

Two years is a compromise between "don't try to support too much at once" and "make sure that people don't have to wait too long to access new features".
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This looks cool. I’m going to give it a “check” on my Mac.

EDIT: Appears to be working peachy on OS X 10.10.2 with zsh.
Yes, there have been people who want to reduce the support timeline. There are also people (mostly vendors who build products on FreeBSD, but also companies which run lots of FreeBSD servers) who wanted a longer support timeline.

Like most things, five years was a compromise. :-)
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ports has already had this for some time:

I think he meant branches which are supported for an extended duration. The quarterly branches are (currently, and as far as I know this isn't going to change) supported only for the quarter in question.
> I'm sorry to point out to you but a large set of computing devices are black boxes and it does not hurt their marketability.

Free software should be looked on from the point of ethics, and not from financial gain. Proprietary software is immoral, and that is the reason you shouldn't be building it.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Repurposing a flag should be spread over two deployments. First remove the code using the old flag, then verify, then introduce code reusing the flag.

Even if the deployment was done correctly, during the deployment there would be old and new code in the system.
"React.js aims to call itself as the “V” in MNCS"
What??

Definitely something fishy going on here.
I wasn't really referring to the ELF or related groups. I was referring to specifically Canadian examples of activits, often native with land right claims, protesting unsound industry.
Workforce participation, median, minimum, and bottom decile wage are in many ways vastly more informative than unemployment numbers. Yes, even the expanded U6 values BLS provides.

Participation tells you how many people are working. Minimum wage tells you how well the worst-paid fare (and as Adam Smith notes in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, "A man must always live by his work" -- which he expands to mean: wages must provide not only for the laborer, but for a spouse, children, and the education of those children to provide for the next generation of workers.

Median wage tells you where the typical worker is. It's not skewed upwards by a few highly-compensated individuals as mean would be. If you and I are at a bar and Bill Gates walks in, the mean wealth has just jumped tremendously, the median not so much.

Bottom decile tells you how those at the bottom rung of the compensation ladder, though not necessarily at minimum wage, are doing. Smith has a considerable amount to say on this as well.

The biggest problem with unemployment (and other economic / econometric metrics) is that once defined they become political, and an change to more meaningful statistics tends to make the administration in power look worse.
> then have a button

> Have a button

> have a button

That's your problem right there.
The much bigger problem is that browsers out there are crap and won't let you re-map your keys as you want them.

How is it that we're well into the 2010's and I still can't get (my own) emacs keybindings in Firefox/Chrome without some silly extension that doesn't work 100%?

I can download uzbl, dwb or any other browser like it and edit my keys as I see fit, for emacs/vim keybinding behavior, without limits.

I don't know about Medium, but I also find that most websites have these hidden shortcuts and you can't even re-map those. Why is there no choice in all this? Browser developers and websites can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on UX/UI research, but can't figure out that I might want to re-map some keybindings.
This hard-crashed my browser (Firefox 35 Window 7). Not the "script is taking a long time" or even the "(Not responding)", but some obscure little Windows fail intervention box that I can't say I've ever seen before.

If I open it in Chrome (where I have cookies enabled), then it's about the experience others describe.

I keep thinking that I've hit the bottom of how bad the cookies-blocked experience can be on a web site, but this is actually a new low.

With all that said, I think alternate front-ends to Wikipedia are a great idea, and I happen to be working on one right now, notwithstanding that I am here.
Why not transfer employees from the unperformant areas to trending ones?

I see this with our US had office too; they let people go when a project ends and then rehire them two weeks later in another department. Whereas in the UK office staff are shifted around to fill needs.
I am sure I can only imagine. :)
Thanks for the info!
The government's argument in court was that liability for his assassination is not an issue the court can decide. They specifically avoided countering the argument that you find to be misleading, the same argument made by the estate of al-Awlaki in court. The court agreed that it didn't need to address that issue and dismissed the case for other reasons.
Very informative link. Thanks.
I am aware of at least approx $500mm company that extensively uses Google Earth/Google Earth Pro for its modeling, analysis, and data presentation needs. In terms of data set sizes, typical sizes range up to approx 3mm-5mm data points per project. The engineers that use GoogleEarthPro also have experience with MapInfo, but frequently chose to use Google Earth, simply because it's easier.

I'm not suggesting that Google Earth will ever replace MapInfo/ArcGIS - but don't underestimate how much of the "lower end" GIS market that GoogleEarth took away from them.
That's like getting a matchbox car and thinking you suddenly own a full-blown porche.
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That's happened to aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593
Yep, same experience -- google’s been completely mute about it too, which is all the more frustrating
May I ask you what your 'particular domain' is? I'm interested in F# but due to lack of a real use case for me I didn't yet start investigating.