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OS X 10.3.3
Mac mini (late 2012), MBP 13 (2014), at work imac 27 (2014)
I use mainly vim with plugins (notably youcompleteme, syntastic, ctrlp) for programming in various languages. Python, C++, OCaml, Erlang, Go. I try to keep everything synchronized with unison and git.

I like Mac OS because it works out of the box and I really hate spending time configuring things. But mostly, I'd be fine with any OS. The only thing that ties me to Mac OS is music recording. I couldn't get the same experience with Linux or Windows (not last time I checked a few years ago).
Einstein as a Jew and a Philosopher
Ok, I'll bite. Tell me the differences, besides "engineers build things while programmers write software". Honest question on my part.
>If it were a responsible financial institution

Are you under the impression that it's an institution at all?

The whole reason Bitcoin is interesting is that it's not under the control of a company, group, or government.
Main system is current Ubuntu on a system assembled from parts from Frys. Core i7 3770 with 32GB of RAM (the most the MB can take), using Intel graphics and a 3 monitor setup. Development is mostly Python and C.

There is also a similar laptop, a Mac mini, VMs for Windows, dual boot for Windows (games), and a large collection of various Android and iOS devices.
Not enough is being said about this, there are still no really energy efficient receivers and on a per-station basis DAB is also a lot more expensive to transmit. DAB only becomes energy efficient at the transmitter end because it's always transmitting a multiplex of many stations.

A few years ago I bought a battery-powered DAB radio so I can listen to Radio 4 in the bath. It will zip through a set of high capacity AA NiMH cells in around 2-3 weeks, the old FM radio used such a small amount of power that Alkaline cells made more sense and would consume around two sets per year.
There are differences. Some people derive their identity and esteem from their work. Some don't.

For a primitive example of the above in action, try to deprive a German shepherd of a working role. Then do the same with a pug and observe the differences in responses.
OS: Windows 8.1

Hardware: Dell XPS 15 (2014), custom build desktop.

Toolchain: C#/Xamarin/ASP MVC w/ VS2013, Git for SCM
There is only one ultimate solution: Basic Income. We need to end the division between those who receive welfare and those who don't. We can do this by having everyone receive the same amount regardless of means.

For the last few decades we have been making up for job loss due to automation by creating ever larger bureaucracies. Consider how much paperwork is now involved in healthcare compared to 50 years ago. While we might be able to continue this foolishness for some time (after all, what's 100,000 pages of tax code compared to 100,000,000?) we only hurt ourselves as a whole by doing so.
Actually the vast majority of unbranded/generic Android smartphones - which make up a significant userbase in East Asia - have FM radios. Some of them have FM transmitters too.

As the grandparent comment says, it's because the combo IC includes the functionality; here's an example of one that's quite common:

http://www.mediatek.com/en/products/connectivity/wifi/mobile...

Many of these handsets are based on the MTK reference platform, and since that includes the FM radio app, the companies that produce them see no reason to remove it - after all, it allows them to have "FM radio" as one of the bullet points in the feature list.
It seems to me the 'tinfoil hat' thing has become the way of shaming people into not questioning the government, so now every time someone like you would like to say something critical about the government, you first have to excuse yourself from it. It almost seems like people have been brainwashed tinfoil hat on.
I'd first seek the advice of wealthy industrialists like Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Bill Gates. Gates especially would be helpful in having effective ways to spend money for the benefit of humanity.

Then (depending on the advice given by others) I'd probably fund NASA, SpaceX, various clean energy companies, disease eradication programs, and development projects for poor countries.
In this case AM or Shortwave is many times better than FM.
> Isn't "Do they respond to ADHD medication?" our only test?

No, absolutely not. It's a common internet myth that response to ADHD medication is indicative of ADHD. In reality, nearly anyone who takes ADHD medication acutely will experience increased focus and productivity (again, acutely) due to the acute (pre-tolerance build-up) effects of the drugs. Additionally, new users experience a short-lived euphoria that convinces many people that they need a stimulant to feel "normal," when in fact they're just experiencing the initial euphoric effects of the drug. Be warned that the euphoria fades and, more importantly, does not return without abusing dosing schedules.

ADHD marketing materials combined with pop-psychiatry have stretched the definition of ADHD to encompass nearly anyone. It's trivial to find low-grade internet forums in which users believe that anything and everything is a symptom of ADHD. You can even find a large number of people who believe that something called "hyperfocus" (being able to focus very intently on one thing for a long period of time) is a symptom of ADHD, believe it or not. Of course, the term "hyperfocus" does not appear in ADHD medical literature or any ADHD studies.

ADHD is a complex disorder, and the modern world can (and does) drive people in to ADHD-like states with all of the distractions available to us. The single best approach to dealing with this is to pursue constant discipline and self-monitoring, in order to train yourself back to a healthier mental process. ADHD medications can help people implement those disciplines and healthy processes, but they don't actually substitute for proper habits. It's not uncommon for people to pop Adderall expecting their ADHD to disappear, only to be drawn in to extended video game or web-browsing sessions that are in no way productive.

So my advice would be to make efforts to structure your life in ways to minimize distractions and hold yourself accountable for your results. Realize that everyone is distracted in modern life, but that's not necessarily indicative of a disease. Stimulant medications are not to be taken lightly, and you're best avoiding them long-term if possible.
Why did you make all the text images? They're highly compressed as well, making them blurry. If fonts are a concern, there are a ton of freely available web fonts at http://www.google.com/fonts.

You should also make the remaining images on the page retina resolution since almost 100% of your target market is gonna be on one.
I used to think basic income was effective poverty-welfare. No I realize that basic income is a bulwark against enslavement of the masses by the elites.
A Closed-Form Argument about Climate Change
I use Mac OS X at work and on my web dev laptop (MBP). I use Windows 8.1 on my gaming PC. I have a Chromebook (CR-48) lying around collecting dust. Most other PCs in the house run Windows 7.

My dev stack is... complex. I use PHP, MySQL, NodeJS, JS/jQuery, Python, and Mongo at work. On personal projects I use Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, and raw JS. In both worlds I use Sass. I use a lot of Ansible.

Go is very interesting, and may become important to me in the future.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402336

Other submissions, some with a few comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394364 : 4 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397675 : 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394147

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394147

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9403338
Everyone is different, of course, but after 10 years it would be reasonable to assume that your brain was well-adapted to many of the effects of the Adderall and that you were taking a reasonable therapeutic dosage with a proper, healthy dosing schedule.

On the other hand, those who abuse Adderall for the initial euphoric and energetic properties with sporadic dosing schemes are likely to experience unpleasant withdrawal as those effects disappear.
I don't see how your comment is a counter-argument. Those who will work will indeed be paid more than a welfare check is worth. But you should still be able to live decently on a welfare check.
Switzerland is not a self-contained repeatable model. Switzerland has incredible wealth (some of it ill-gotten) and extremely tight immigration rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugio_Cent
OS: OSX 10.10

Hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", late 2013 r.)

Tools: Depends on a project I'm currently working on. Mostly MacVim for my editing needs (with a heavily modified config and a bunch of plugins: NERD Tree, Command-T, linters, etc.), but I also use XCode from time to time for iOS work. I do projects in Meteor, Angular JS and PHP.
Mass use of credit cards must be an American thing, here in Europe we actually do have descent consumer friendly payment methods (beside cash) in most countries and also fairly efficient Small Claims Courts.

Visa/Mastercard must absolute hate the EU and its consumer friendly policies that actually focus on making lives easier and cheaper for people here.
>Every time they ask me that question - I do a quick mental checklist, always mention that my luggage did leave my control when placed in the boot of the cab - which they always understand is an acceptable loss of control.

I'd bet that a fair number of the people who thoughtfully answer that question give an answer that is calculated to produce the least amount of hassle for themselves, even if they know that their luggage could have potentially been tampered with. Most people probably aren't aware enough of their surroundings to give an informed answer. I'd like to know out of the number of extra checks that have been initiated due to this question, how many have yielded anything useful.
I'd start with the DSM-V criteria for ADHD [1].

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html
Benefiting the payee is not always productive. If I pay you to steal from Paul, that is not net positive work.
My observation of Europe is that:

- a surprising number of businesses are cash only or strongly prefer cash

- when they do take cards its the superior chip & pin system (though we've never had a problem with our crappy American cards)

- Europe tends to have strong consumer protection laws in some ways

- Credit is harder to get because of these laws

In the U.S. building up and managing credit is a life skill that starts sometimes in high-school, but almost always by 18, usually with low-cap high-interest "starter cards". Most of the U.S. is virtually cashless at this point, I can start a month with $40 in my wallet and still easily have $30 in it by the end of the month. There are some places (and some milieus) where there are exceptions. But I've recently been on several long-term trips to wildly different parts of the U.S. and don't remember using cash except in very rare circumstances, usually as tips of some sort or to make very small purchases (gum).

Credit development is strongly encouraged (for better or worse) and it's expected that everybody has at least one major credit card.

The problem really comes in with lower income levels, credit is often used to buy things above the means of that level, creating a vicious cycle that traps people into long-term revolving debt, or playing a credit game of shifting the money around endlessly between cards and debtors. Consumer protection laws in the U.S. for this kind of thing are not very strong yet for a variety of stupid reasons.
OS: FreeBSD

Hardware: Desktop (custom build)

Tools: The usual Unix-tools
OSx(Yosemite) in Macbook pro late 2013
IDE : Intellij, Atom
Git
Very interesting story.

I started my MSc thesis on palynology, but for reasons unrelated to pollen, I changed the subject of the thesis after a few months.
(I could not get comfortable working with HF)
So we need basic income collected and delivered by a government bureaucracy to prevent further growth of government bureaucracies?
OS: Windows7 on a Zenbook

OS: Ubuntu/ChromeOS on a Acer C720 Chromebook

Tools: Angular, BS3, PHP, slimPHP

Agonizingly close to being able to use ChromeOS but primary client uses a VPN that ChromeOS refuses to support.
Build an API in your Rails app now
Sadly, its "happy ending" is still quite bleak.
Depends on whether you need a separate carrier plan just for that. Most people already have a decent, unlimited data plan on their mobiles, which at least in Finland start from 5€/month. Although, that only buys you 0.5Mbits connection, so upgrading to 10€ plan for 2Mbits might be required. On the other hand, a separate SIM with no calling or SMS functionality will get you 10Mbits for 10€/month.
Make a playlist on Spotify. They are actually not bad at suggesting reasonably similar artists and that way you get all songs and no filler.
work: windows 7 i7,32GB ram, notpad++, netbeans, visual studio.
personal:QubesOS/windows7 dualboot on a Thinkpad T430s i7,16GB. Netbeans,nano,notepad++.
my business: pfsense for the router. servers are running XenServer and/or Opensuse but I intend to switch some of the infrastructure to free/openBSD.
As with anything, it's never black/white and there are thousands of factors. I'm sure you already know the answer what you asked.

But, for exposition: It mainly comes down to your intentions.

1) NoScript is tampering with how a website is presented. If that includes tampering with their ads, then possibly. Definitely so if you're using it for that purpose, like adblockers.

2) If you're using a client that cannot support javascript because that is all that's available to you or all that you are able to use, that might be considered fair but actively doing so to skirt advertisements would be stealing.

3) Not everything will work in every browser, and sure you can take advantage of that. This isn't stealing, it's just how compatibility works. Tying back to the other points, there are sites that use text-only messages as advertisements to still show up for people without javascript/using text-only. Some publishers don't feel this is worth it. That's for them to decide.

Yes it might sound subjective but this is no different than going to a store and taking stuff... only there they can stop you before you take it. The internet by its nature is open and accessible, meaning there are very little controls to selectively stop people. For example: there's no easy way for a website to block NoScript users so they have no control. But just because they can stop you doesn't make it right.
That has always amazed me about people. It seems like for every one person that can see the positive possibilities, ten more only see the negative, and in fact will go out of there way to make sure their negatives come to pass because more than anything they hate being wrong.

I think man might be doomed because of this. We are naturally apocalyptic, and will make sure it comes about one way or another. As a case in point, consider all the sci-fi movies. What's the last movie you've seen that depicted a really great future for mankind?
I would add Peter Singer to the list of advisors.
but the important thing to remember is that kind of setup requires OPEX to run.
I think HD support is now just a given, they don't bother mentioning it.

I also feel FM is a superior format to HD in most cases. The compression required by digital to fit into the spectrum is just too excessive for my taste. The only reason the stations are into it is so that they can sell the same commercial time multiple times for each of their digital sub-stations.
I'm paying 300 NOK(€36) for a 5000 MB/unlimited call/sms/mms within the nordic countries. The 1000 MB package is 200 NOK(€24).
Which is again paid for by my job, but many more have this option than a FM receiver without switching equipment or plan.

I have yet to exceed the 5000 MB limit, but the provider I use also have a 8000 MB option for another 100 NOK.

In comparison, if you order a beer in Oslo you will probably pay 90 NOK for half a liter.
And that's the right way to use credit cards, as an alternative to cash, paid off every month. Don't buy what you wouldn't/couldn't have bought with cash, and you'll be fine.

The trouble is people who use credit to try to live above their financial means who end up getting trapped in a cycle of trying to pay down debt that accrues interest faster than they can pay it off.
There will be no bureaucracy to deliver basic income.

Same amount to everyone unconditional. Thats basically a large part of what the bureaucracy normally spend their time on. Further more it will always be beneficial to work since it's unconditional.
While Bitcoin use is currently small the actual concept of a working "electronic cash" that negates the need for the credit card network with the use of cryptography and maths must be a serious threat to Visa/Mastercard since it provides yet another alternative to their duopoly when it comes to commerce. No wonder they do everything in their power to spread fud about bitcoin, seed doubt and make life difficult for cryptotechnology related startups. Some banks (especially in UK) are in a similar boat.

Somewhat how traditional car companies were schizophrenic when it came to electric cars and have done everything to kill them despite posing little threat being such a small market until Tesla came along at shown that electric cars are 1) better in many ways and 2) actually profitable
And security for the elite that there is in fact a mass market for them to sell their products to.
With the US for some reason behind the proprietary HD Radio with DRM instead of any kind of DAB open standard, I think we can rest assured that analog FM broadcast isn't going away anytime soon.
Many of the jobs that help people out don't scale well, like social workers: they tend to have a high stress, high workload, poorly compensated job.

I'm sure there are plenty of people with an interest in helping people out in similar ways that aren't willing to put up with the low pay.
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You should always make your own copy in cases like this.

Archive.org will delete everything on request. For example if you add a robots.txt file blocking them they will automatically remove the entire history for your domain
I'm pretty tech savvy, and I honestly can't find a reason, other than tinkering, to buy a 3d printer. In almost every case, the thing the printer would be making for me, at huge effort in time and materials, is solvable with a cheap, sub-$1 Chinese made part or some other more convenient alternative.

The lack of real use-case is what's killing consumer-level 3d printers. Most people just don't need to run off a couple copies of a 3d trinket or toy with enough frequency to make it worth it. And the subset of those people with useful 3d-modeling skills is some tiny fraction of that number.

Whenever I see somebody using a 3d printer at the consumer level for something useful, it always seems to have just been for a one-off Arduino case or something like that. That's really just not incentive for me to spend the time and money to get setup with 3d printing, when I can just buy a case off of Amazon or whatever and be done with it.

The cost of the parts is the cost of your time + materials + setup costs (the printer). Is an Arduino case really worth $1400-$6500? That price only comes down if I print off more stuff I suppose, but at what point do the trinkets and dodads I'm printing off start to make economic and time sense? That's pretty far down the production chain, and I simply don't have that much stuff to print.
I agree it's a trade-off, it always is :) But if the goal is to write performant code, there's a few more variables to consider.

An important one, IMO, is experience and practice.

Optimization can be found in the weirdest places. My latest experience is not with C or assembly instruction crunching, but with Processing/Java. If I weren't minded to tinker with and optimize my inner loops, I might have never discovered that the java.lang.Math routines are a lot faster than the equivalent Processing functions (functions like abs, max, etc).

Back when I was messing with 80x86 assembly code, I did the same. It's all about having a somewhat accurate model of what goes on inside. With Processing it's the model that the functions are probably wrapped in something. With assembly code it's (among other things) the model that the order of independent instructions matters for purposes of pipelining and preventing AGI-stalls (I dunno if those are still relevant, this was the 386 era).

When you get the hang of it, it's not really hard to experiment, measure, experiment, a few times and end up with spectacularly more performant code.

And really, if the optimized result took a few days to calculate, and an hour of tinkering might save you another day or two, isn't that (often) worth it?

Then there's the fact that I think it's fun :) Getting the code to work properly first, is a whole different process than spot-optimizing certain critical parts. I think it's refreshing to switch between these two different ways of looking at the same code.
Dammit! Sorry, carry on!
Once it's in there, it's in there. It's like a candle melted into the carpet, you can't just remove it.
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Basic Income would reduce bureaucracy significantly b/c it is not means-based -- means testing is the source of almost all the bureaucracy in our current welfare systems (of which there are many). We can eliminate (almost) all means based systems and replace them with a single Basic Income system.
Ask HN: How would you design the best Cloud Computing company ever?
Laravel 5, AngularJ 1.3 and Foundation 5.5 starter kit
Why the project Ara Android is posing a massive challenge for developers
I struggled with motivation for many years, primarily because I did not know who I was and what I wanted.

I read books like "Drive, the surprising thruth about what motivates us" and many more, but it was not until I read "start with why" by Simon Sinek I understood my "why" and finally became truly internal motivated.

Now I am more motivated than I have time and energy, but luckily I also have a guidance tool that helps me put energy into stuff that fuels me more.
(assuming) 10-20%, compounded over as long as you can sustain it. It can make a huge difference.

Also, they make most people feel fantastic and like they can conquer the world. Is it really any question why people would find that appealing?
Get a new doctor.
And as long as those few bad actors are allowed through, users will be justified in their use of Adblock. Most people don't use Adblock because they think ad networks are actively malicious -- but not being able to be confident that NONE of the content they carry is malicious is a damn good reason to block ads.
Actually most android phones DO have FM radios, but they are disabled by the carrier-branded versions of the OS.

I'm pretty sure the reason they do it is because they have deals with iHeart Radio.
Today we use AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc. Each one of them is based on principles that were innovative 8-10 years ago.
If you were to design a brand new Cloud Computing company, what would you do?
Which problems of today's platform/services would you try to solve?

Examples of what I've heard over the years:
1) Cloud computing becomes expensive at scale
2) Lock-in
3) Inability to run the same Cloud Computing platform in-house
> and it harms just as much as alcohol

While I agree that marijuana should be legalized, note that there is some consensus that alcohol causes more harm (societally and to the user) than marijuana [1]. While the societal damage would change if it were legalized, marijuana is still less harmful to users than alcohol.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...