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These kinds of things ignore the premiumization of things. Sure you can roboticize and 3D print cheap crap, but someone will make a slightly higher quality version with slightly better materials and charge more for it. People will flock to the better version for their own reasons. Capitalism fits in very nicely with our own vanities and desires. Robots won't change that. Does everyone reading this drive the cheapest Kia or Hyundai? If not, why not?

With premium goods you will need marketing staff, support staff, etc. Jobs will continue to be created. We'll just lose manufcaturing entirely, which seems to be a net good considering how horrible those jobs are. New jobs will take up the slack, or if it not, we'll see a trivial uncheck in welfare and less work hours for workers. Not exactly end of the world scenarios here.

These robot scare pieces really are out there. We've had industrialization for 100+ years. Its no different than what we're doing now. If anything, advanced and cheap robotics and replication will help with a lot of inefficiencies in the market. Why does it take a $90/hr guy to do some basic plumbing in my house or to replace a door? This kind of blue collar stuff should be automated/roboticized. Or why is Chicago on the hook for billions in pensions for meter maids, janitors, bus drivers and other low effort/easily roboticized jobs? We're paying millions per person in pensions for a mere 20-25 years of labor. Robots will solve the inefficiencies that need to be solved. They'll make things better via lower tax loads and better outcomes.

We need more robot optimistism here. I'm ready for the low work, low tax, low hassle leisure society.
Exactly, I quit and started a project. Found the domain had some really hard problems, got bogged down in the impl. Started wasting time, burning thru my savings. Faced the cold hard reality it wasn't happening, and went back to work.

All I have to show for it? A 9 month gap to explain in my resume.
I bought a Garmin Vivosmart a few months back now, and that's basically what it provides. It vibrates when I get calls, texts and other notifications on my phone, and tracks my steps for the day. It's also pretty thin/light, and is water resistant enough where I can take it swimming.

The Garmin Connect apps are, well... crap really, but I spend almost no time in the apps.

A couple of weeks ago, my boss asked me if I would wear an Apple watch if he bought me one, my answer was basically, yes, because he bought it for me, but I honestly have no real desire to have the Apple watch.
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Interesting. I'm working on a multi-gigabyte mixed codebase (c#, c++, etc) on a 32gb workstation.

I've never managed to exceed 10-ish GBs memory usage when you exclude OS caches, which strictly aren't needed to complete the build.
I've got 16GB in my MacBook and right now, with a browser, Spotify, Slack, an IDE, mail client, calendar and Keynote open, I'm using 9.05GB. If I need to start a VM that usage is going to shoot up.

Those applications are crucial to my workflow.
I also swear by my Eco-Drive. Never off my wrist, great water resistance, can see it in the dark without pressing anything - a little tough workhorse. I also can't see wearing a watch that you have to charge every day, or every x days. However, many people are different from you an me, mand people won't mind taking it off and charging it at the end of the day, and won't bother much if one night they come from a party and forget to charge it and find out the next day it has no battery to handle till the end of work. Many people are more used to a smartphone than to a quartz watch (young people, I guess who they're aiming the iwatch for).
I think it won't fly, as it's too geeky, a la Google Glass. Regular watches just look way better/cooler/nicer. Not the case with phones, where you didn't have anything to compete in the looks/style front from before. We'll see.
How do you get notifications, particularly on your phone? With e.g. AIM I have an equally lightweight experience on the laptop (just browse to the URL), a functional app on my phone, and, crucially, push notifications that alert on my phone.
Your question is the part that is messed up. An ambiguous question leads to ambiguous answers, not the other way around.

"Is it true you don't like cigars?" Yes, I don't like cigars. "Do you like cigars?" No, I don't like cigars.

In either properly formed question, the answer will always be "no", if you really don't like cigars.
Some "hi-beat" watches tick 10 times per second (still well below 60). Seiko's Spring Drive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Drive) offers continuous movement, but it's not completely mechanical (a quartz oscillator controls the escapement). I would rather have one of these than an Apple Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m-5YpNUwgc

(Edit: only now have I noticed it was already mentioned in another comment)
Lastly, I don't quite understand why any serious developer would want to run their dev environment in a VM to begin with.

I'm really surprised to hear this; I spent enough years working on a local dev environment to know the pain. Heck, I've seen the bugs that come from it as well.

Now that Docker's around, and you can run a production-equivalent environment on your local machine, I'd never go back to the bad old days.
units is nice, but there isn't much help, and the syntax isn't always easy to remember. It was fun to play with for a while, but wolframalpha.com is better.
I understand the reasoning behind curating a community to promote the kind of discourse users desire, but the type of self censorship that this comment promotes unsettles me.

I feel like the "negativity" that HN is so concerned about could be dealt with through down votes. The "gratuitous negativity" edict feels Orwellian, and I question its value vs unintended consequences.
Honest question: why run all that stuff locally? It looks like you're looking for a portable server.

I'm working on a Macbook Pro w/ 16Gb of ram but I'm not doing anything I couldn't do on a machine with 8 or even 4 Gb of ram (replacing Intellij w/ Emacs, as I'm planning to do anyway.)
I think the usual response is virtual hosts. On Mac, run windows or linux, on Windows, run linux, etc.
> still genuinely curious how 8GB is repelling a significant amount of people for a development machine.

If I'm only remoting into the machine, then it doesn't count as a development machine. I could remote in from a machine running a P4 with 512MB ram by that logic.
> You can manually install extensions

Not on Chrome stable. You have to use beta, dev, or a Chromium build for that.
Well, if Apple succeeds, we get a brand new wearable market. Lots of money will be thrown at it. Either Pebble, Microsoft, or Google will gain the 85% market share that Apple tends to leave. It doesn't feel like it now, but wearables will probably revolutionize healthcare, for example.

Throw in an optional tricorder:

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-07-03/star-treks-t...
Voltage doesn't matter at all.
> No hair obscuring the face.

Welp I guess my beard disqualifies me. I wonder how many HNers have the same problem?
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I'm guessing massive Java projects.

More memory is always good, but I'm pretty good with 8 for the Erlang and Ruby on Rails hacking that I do.
you should join us over at the Thinkpad gang... you know, with coreboot and laptops that can actually go to the moon ;)
yes, its usually IDE's emulator's for me. Put xCode and Android Studio on there and run an emulator.

Also, I've had a similar experience running Visual Studio + SQL Server.
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Virtual machines and especially smartphone/tablet emulators can really be voracious about ram. Also some ides with big projects/solutions
the alternative is firefox, and that's just as bad.

the issue isn't necessarily chrome, chromes only crime is correctly jailing tabs.

the issue is in certain sites adding an absolute metric tonne of javascript and javascript libraries.

my previous workplace had over 10MB of javascript on the home page alone, new devs reduced it to 1.5MB or so, but that's _still insane_.

and a 1.5MB download isn't 1.5MB in memory, it's much more. we need to tone down the "richness' of our sites.. your users aren't _only_ using _your_ site!
I think it's safe to say, any browser with 50-80+ tabs open will gobble up ram. Especially if it does tab-process isolation (each tab having it's own memory space, etc...)
Really interesting article. Chilling, as always, to think about what it takes to be secure.
you forgot 2 more points

h)... i)PROFIT

;-) now serious!

Refactoring!

Sometimes I learn something new, then I revisit any project I started and refactor it.

If you want to get some numbers to compare, you might look on lines of code removed, or timing the operation took. If it gets better, you can smile and say, I'm smarter than myself in 2014
Are AI scares cyclical as well? Much like market adjustments
You can request a title and more and more libraries are leaning on patron driven acquisition (PDA) for collection development. The library I am employed at buys almost everything that comes in via recommendation.

That said, limited availability is a much more complicated problem than budgeting or selection. With print books there's a very well established workflow and discount model. Wholesalers who sell to libraries provide steep (up to 40%) discounts and a very polished workflow for selecting titles (we have standing orders for best-sellers, top authors, big series, etc, that save us hours of work). Ebook vendors don't offer discounts because publishers control prices and the selection model is not nearly as polished.

Additionally, all major publishers have some limitation on their ebooks. For some vendors we pay up to 3x the cost of a retail hardcover and for others we are limited on the number of times the title can check out (26 or 52 times, depending on the vendor). Still others simply sell on a 1 or 5 year lease model. Libraries are still trying to adjust their budget models and workflows to fir these new limitations we've never had to deal with before.

So yes, I love libraries, but it's not nearly as simple as "your library has ebooks" and that's a sad state.
Why is a job a good thing??? I don't need a job. I need income. The two don't have to be necessarily connected. If robots doing all manual/farm labor replace humans, that's a good thing - it frees us up to pursue more interesting pursuits.

Now, all of this wealth that will be generated, if it's concentrated in the hands of the top 0.5%, then yes, we're screwed.

But some form of basic guaranteed income would go a long way to make sure we're not turned into serfs.

I love programming. But if I could focus on the projects I wanted to write instead of what I'm forced to write, why is that horrible?
It has been a paranoid hypothesis of mine that the best programmers wind up programming people instead.
Perhaps they're working with a large data set? I've 4gb on my office PC and was trying to create a CSV of millions of records and got an OutOfMemoryException from my app.
Well... String formatting already sorta breaks the "only one obvious way to do something" rule. I dunno about you, but we have string formatting all over the place in our code. I would wager that every single module in our codebase has something that looks like this:

cache.add_message("Hey, your {zoop} is {boop}".format(zoop=zoop, boop=boop))

That that call to "format" just kind of sucks -- it repeats what's already pretty obvious by looking at the string. It's specially crappy when you have strings that need lots of variables. We've taken to doing this recently, which I'm usually okay with:

cache.add_message("Hey, your {} is {}".format(zoop, boop))

The downside of that is you have to make sure that the order of the arguments matches exactly with the order of the empty brackets. It's kinda error prone... But generally not that big of a deal.

We could also do this...

cache.add_message("Hey, your %s is %s" % zoop, boop))

Or this...

cache.add_message("{1} alert! Hey, your {0} is {1}".format(zoop, boop))

So yeah, I would argue that string formatting in Python is ALREADY in a kinda nasty place. There's ALREADY a bunch of ways to do it, and it all just kinda sucks.

IMO, Ruby-style string formatting is probably the nicest I've seen. If it were in Python, it absolutely would be THE way to do string formatting, I bet.

cache.add_message("Hey, your {zoop} is {boop}")

So much nicer.
Virtualbox/vmware and java apps/IDEs probably.
Virtual machines on any platform, Windows dev with Visual studio etc.
Spring Drives are pretty rare outside of Japan. Most mechanical watches today tick 8 times a second. On a small watch it's pretty smooth to me.
The old thinkpads that is... Was looking at an X250 as i'm tired of the macbook battery life however that's now 8gb max (unless you fork over $350 for 16gb and put it in yourself), it's also an ultrabook. Still good battery life but... I rather have a bit thicker (but not wider) but better keyboard, more battery, more memory...
As jellicle already mentioned, those distances are quite small for pollution to travel.

Have a look at this recent map of particulate matter concentration during a recent pollution peak for example : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAr9obuWkAAQgjq.jpg:large
I just want the older style Lenovo keyboards back. I'm sad they switched to island style keys.
There are also Python template strings: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/string.html#template-str...
Here are some random bits from my perspective:

1) Don't worry too much about what others have done because in some way you are still ahead of the curve if it matters.

2) Focus on the work you can somehow find interesting. The work does not have to be challenging to be interesting.

3) Don't work too much but when you work block your time for one or two hours sprints. Try to put some music on auto-replay.

4) Reward yourself every few hours like by taking a walk or just stepping back to reflect.

5) Remember if you have a problem there are tons of other people who would have the same problem.

6) Find a meetup that you can really find your place in and regularly go to the meetings. Focus on the quality of friendships you can make.

7) Nobody is genuinely happy in whatever condition they are in. Everyone has a story. And that's ok.

8) If we all would be genuinely happy there would not be much to live for.

9) Try not to hold grudges. We only have a limited number of our brain CPU cycles. Try not to waste them especially at peak time.

10) If you have a lot of interesting ideas to work on that's super cool. Don't get too carried away with the popular notion of being focused. It sounds good to say but nobody knows what they are talking about.

Last but not least, don't read too much especially the blogosphere. Write your own story. Get a blog up. And it's OK to be in conflict with oneself.
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That is the kinds of machine I was looking for when I bought my MBP. I was asking for a few things :

16GB of RAM
An SSD drive
An FHD display

Unfortunately, most of the products available with these features were either similarly priced as the MBP but with clumsy trackpads reputation.
Then I don't want one :).
Yes we are in the midst of a transformation and most people are new to this. And those with previous experience with scrum teams had lots of bad experiences elsewhere (hour long stand-up meetings and inconvenient times, etc.)
I don't understand how I'm supposed to not do that with a Linux laptop? I need to develop Windows apps. Without a VM....dual-boot? No thanks. Don't have the patience for that. So what other options do I have?
You're right that it's not suitable for sleep tracking. But 'extremely short' is a gross mischaracterization.
Charge times, safety, and cycle durability are important. Even if direct competition with Li-ion is absurd at this point, the comparison isn't useless as it gives context.

For example, if you compare to Lead-acid [1], it has about twice the energy density and is probably less harmful to the environment. Also, 7000 charge cycles is excellent compared to existing types.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_battery_types
My laptop has 8GB, which is sufficient for most stuff. But, when I've got a lot of tabs open in the browser, if I open either Android Studio or one or more virtual machines, I start bumping into memory constraints.

In fact, Android Studio shocked me with how large it grows, even for very simple projects (which is all I've ever attempted thus far). And, I moved my Mac OS X and Solaris VMs over to my desktop machine, which has 16GB of RAM and more CPU cores, and I connect to them remotely. Running either would make my machine just sluggish enough to where I'd notice when scrolling or changing windows, etc.

Anyway, I've ruled this machine out, since it seems to max out at 8GB. Otherwise it is very nice, and I have gotten over my grudge at Dell (now that I've tried alternatives and found they're often even worse), so the XPS line is definitely a contender. But, my next laptop is going to have 16GB of RAM.
It sounds like there should be a way to limit your cell phone to "trusted" towers. Is this possible?
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I've got 4999 requests remaining now, so I should be fine for a while again. Go easy on her ;)

If anyone knows if there's a way to increase this number please let me know :)
http://lao8n.com/2015/04/05/if-technology-growth-does-lead-t...

the flaw in your reasoning i think is that there will be zero-sum fight to have the limited number of companies in your country so that you can tax those companies and support the massive number of unemployed people. there will be a race to the bottom in the automation regulation that you describe because companies will just move if they are not allowed to lower costs through more automation... thus i think the result is that some countries will have very high employment rates because all the high-skilled, unautomatable jobs are located there (e.g. the US) and some countries (e.g. spain?) will have really high unemployment... this will lead to extreme tensions internationally followed by god knows what..
Long ago, Dell initially had plans to develop their own version of Linux, hired a bunch of Linux developers. Most of them are still there and things like DKMS came out from that team. But Dell will never ever have their own customized OS and definitely not like OS X.

Dell focuses heavily on Profit & Loss for each team and that drives the investment. Their focus is to keep OpEx as low as possible.

Unless the company culture changes heavily, which I dont see happening, esp. with Michael back at the helm, things wont change. They make good cheap hardware and thats about it. Everything else, including some hardware, they push work upstream to vendors.
PCI requirement (and good security in general): never run any radio equipment inside your datacenter.
Nothing? Isn't that the point of open source software?
That iPhone Simulator is an insane memory hogger.
It travels all over Europe depending on the wind. There is just extra pollution around Paris (mostly because of traffic) so the two of them combined can make it exceed noticeable thresholds.

Another example of a recent particulate matter concentration map : http://www2.prevair.org/sites/prevair.org/files/styles/scald...
I think the Apple watch will, ultimately, be a success, but only once Apple lowers the price. They're trying to price it as a luxury watch, but it's evident that, as a first-generation tech product, there are clear areas for improvement in future versions. Unlike the luxury watches that it is competing against, it will be obsolete in a year or two.

For example, in the video linked here, the reviewer demonstrates how sometimes the watch won't turn on the display when raising the watch to look at it. The only real way to permanently fix this is an always-on display. However, that will almost certainly require a hardware revision, not a software one.
I prefer http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3693 :)
well the kernel has no trouble :)

i would consider the file explorer nautilus to be part of ubuntu and it's broken too.
Thanks! I'd edit my post if I could
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Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qh2y61o...
Run two Android emulators at the same time.
virtual machines. For custom kernels, clusters, both, and other reasons. Having more than 1 vm running gets to be a pain with 8gigs or less.
Can the world economy survive without fossil fuels?
I wouldn't worry that you didn't get in on the Kickstarter. You could've saved like $20 on the final price, but I don't think that's a big deal when the Pebble Time finally comes to market.
>but we really need to think about the _length_of_time_ these technology transitions of the past took

This is the critical difference between now and the previous technological revolutions. They are moving too fast now for people to keep up and the skills required are more challenging.
Why oh why does it have a buttonless clickpad? I've got a ThinkPad T440p and it's terrible. I despise every minute of working on it and have to bring a mouse around. Is this just copying Apple for looks?

I'm dying to buy a laptop that's as good as my X201 (and keeps 12" format, though thickness doesn't matter much), but with modern specs. I'm probably gonna break down and get an X250, which is limited to 8GB of RAM for no good reason, but I've heard newer processors can handle IM's 16GB SODIMM, so that particular problem might be solved. The X250 is the first gen ThinkPad after Lenovo partially realized they had destroyed the ThinkPad line and started, albeit slightly, listening to customers again.

Any other suggestions? I've tried using a macbook, and the screen is great, but the keyboard, clickpad, and hot metal are very uncomfortable.

I'd spend hundreds on a conversion kit to drop new guts into an X201. (And to mod it with mechanical switches... I'd spend a lot.) It seems you can't spend as much on a ThinkPad these days. My X201 was over $2000 without WWAN, but the X250 tops out around $1600.
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Just as a counterpoint in the "group of friends" pool of data--I know several people in the last few years who went on unemployment. Not one sat around doing nothing. One started a whole new business (and is on the verge of hiring an employee, go job creators!), one joined up with a startup, one went to work in the nonprofit sector, and the few others looked for jobs until they found them.

So..to me, free money seems like a real net positive. It lets people maintain a quality of life while they go on to do bigger and better things.
You can quick charge about 2/3 the capacity of a lithium ion, right? And that's still 2-3x the capacity of this tech.
In the United States, our military spending and antipoverty aid mostly flows from high-productivity states to low productivity states, a de facto transfer payment between the rich regions and poor regions of America.

And even so, the politics of the poor regions have gotten so toxic that many of us in the rich regions wish we didn't have to carry them anyway.
What do you think are a few of the top earning blogs? Not the whole hundred, but I'm curious what I'm missing.
I noticed it when http://genius.com/5104616 was broken where John included the <div> tag.
How exactly this resemble a Macbook in any way ?

It is not unibody, it is not aluminum, the screen is basically without bezel.

This is the first non-Apple ultrabook that is genuinely interesting to me, design wise.
Why is charging electronics such a problem? Do people wear watches while sleeping? Why is setting it on the charger on my nightstand actually a problem? This seems like an absurd nitpicky thing to complain about.
My response would be: Let me take a selfie.
They charged the guy who killed Eric Garner, and look what happened there.
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