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If you're into .NET and Microsoft tech, I really enjoy Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew [1], which is updated just about every morning with a curated list of blog articles on .NET topics.

[1]: http://www.alvinashcraft.com/
Might require MSE support (Firefox Nightly) or something.
Goldman Sachs Is Our Best Bet Against Climate Change
GitHub repo here: https://github.com/jaredpetersen/codeprinter
It only takes "infinite" time in that particular coordinate system, it takes finite time in other coordinate systems, such as one where you're in orbit around the black hole.
I once watched a video about languages by I believe the designer of F# (could be wrong). He talked about a graph with a horizontal axis measuring "elegance". On the right hand end is your highly elegant mostly functional languages. On the left hand side are the rugged languages like C++ very few people would call it elegant. However on the vertical axis is Utility. on the bottom are "not very useful at all", and at the top is "very useful". These languages are solidly in the upper left hand. The ultimate goal is to find something on the upper right hand side... but nothing has quite achieved it yet.
Angular is helpful because it promotes things like loose-coupling, dependency injection, modularity, re-use and the factory pattern. I agree that two way data binding was oversold. It isn't a bad thing, just not the most important thing about angular. No doubt angular itself, and other libraries, will evolve. But I don't think angular is a mistake. It encourages developers to design applications the right way.
The web platform wants to have powerful features that are dangerous and/or easy to abuse, but haven't found a good way to allow them safely.

The same problem exists on native.
Tasker can do it, but it might require a rooted phone to be able to toggle the mobile data setting.
I'm so glad they're finally putting a whipping boy on trial.

Now, I know some of you are a little skeptical about the efficacy of punishing whipping boys, but let me explain. We can't possibly whip banking executives when they do something wrong because we live in a civilized society that respects the "divine right of banking executives". Instead, we assign each executive a whipping boy and the executive then develops a strong emotional bond to the whipping boy. When the executive does something wrong, he will be forced to watch his close companion, the whipping boy, suffer for his crimes.

This will act as an effective deterrent for any future wrong doing for the executive and send a strong message to other executives their crimes might jeopardize the well-being of their own whipping boys. Some may call me optimistic, but I think this single act of justice will have the desired effect of transforming our banking system. If bank executives know they're putting their whipping boys in real jeopardy, I think that will force their hand to rethink their organization's incentive systems and institute checks and balances into their organization to reward honesty, transparency and compassion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipping_boy
How to Send Emails the Right Way in a CQRS System
You seem to be under the misunderstanding that video playback is YouTube's core function. No, the core functionality is to drive traffic to Google-owned sites, to be monetized as they see fit.

Remember, on the web, you are the product.
The grandparent noted that while we can increase the amount of currency in people's pockets, that doesn't fundamentally change the number of goods and services available to the total population. If you define poverty as lack of money, then yes, we can fiat more than enough money into existence. However, if you define poverty as lack of access to goods and services, increasing the amount of money available won't work. Look at Germany in the wake of World War I. Money was flowing everywhere, but the amount of good and services available was minuscule in comparison causing rampant inflation to the point where it was more cost effective to burn the paper currency for heat rather than spend it.
All well and good, but why talk about it in a way that's linked with your real name?
> Files. The updated layout in Files gives a better view of your files and folders, and a new view popover makes it easy to change the zoom level and sort order from a single place. You can also now move files and folders to the trash intuitively using the Delete key, rather than the Ctrl+Delete keyboard combination.

It's 2015 and it still baffles me that a basic file manager still need such tweaking, rewriting and brainstorming.

Is there no such thing as a `problem solved, let's not touch it again' in the FOSS world [0] ?

I say that as someone using Debian with xfce and awesome everyday.

[0] Don't know why I specifically mentionned FOSS. Closed source is plagued as well as mentionned bayle a child poster. Chalk it up to fatigue.
I really like sqlite, lua and luajit's "C" implementations.

For C++ I think Qt is pretty reasonable, also the Unreal Engine.

I'm using Java at work at the moment (Google Web Toolkit mainly, and learning it on the fly), but feeling the love in there. Some things are crazy (enums :)), others looked strange at the begining (dependency injection), but I really like the interface / class split - the interface "Set" vs the implementation "HashSet" (or something else).
Our modal project was part of the software engineering budget of a software product company.

I think you may think Matasano was more of an IT shop than it actually was. The term "penetration testing" doesn't do anyone any favors, since it means everything from "running Metasploit" (the kind of work we did not do) to "evaluating firmware".

This is really neither here nor there, right; the more specialized you want to say our work does, the stronger my consulting advice gets.
I've experienced job burnout, but not because of the job. I had changed roles, which meant a change of team leader.

Previously, I'd worked quite closely with my team leader, and he'd mentored me, as well as defending me when the inevitable little mistakes come up. He also gave me the freedom to get my work done in the way that suited me best - he had a very hands off approach, provided I got the work done and on time. My new team leader was the complete opposite, and micro-managed everything, to the point of three stand-up meetings a day to discuss progress on tasks, which he might re-prioritise at any time. It was a complete nightmare, and my productivity plummeted. It took me 9 months to go from loving working at the company, and doing extra work outside of hours pro bono simply because I liked helping my boss, to completely loathing work, and leaving the company.

A good manager can make the world of difference in job satisfaction, and definitely stopped me from burning out despite actually doing more work under my previous manager.
>It's been running a massive surplus since the 80s.

When the boomers were in their prime earning years, supporting a smaller, aged cohort.
According to general relativity those coordinate systems are equivalent. Well apart from the fact that the "classical" coordinate system isn't able to describe the inside of the black hole. For an example see the Kruskal coordinate system [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%E2%80%93Szekeres_coord...
U.S., Canada and Mexico create new climate change partnership
Kinesis has an accessory[1] for their Freestyle keyboard that does just this.

[1]: https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-ascent-accessor...
I happily used a Microsoft Ergonomic for a long time, but started looking for something else a couple years ago so I didn't have to hold my mouse so far out. Basically I needed something without a numpad.

Truly Ergonomic was my first choice. I adapted to it easily enough, but pretty soon I started feeling pain in the backs of my hands---the same pain I feel after using a non-ergonomic keyboard for too long. I'm not sure what the problem was, but I do recall feeling that the TE was too "square" so that my wrists had to bend the same way they would for a regular keyboard.

The refund took a long time, and I had to follow up a couple times to finally get it.

After that I switched to a Kinesis Advantage, and the adjustment was a bit harder but still not too bad. I'm very happy with it and still using it now.
Is color actually intrinsic to the object?
To the first, yes. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lema%C3%AEtre_coordinates is one.

To the second, when we talk about "coordinates" in GR, we're talking about parametrizing a volume of space-time. Given one parametrization, it is possible to create another parametrization that blows up at any particular spot - not because space-time is weird there - but because you picked a bad coordinate system.

The existence of parametrizations that carry through the event horizon demonstrate that the singularity at the event horizon in Schwarzschild's original metric is not a real problem for GR.

However the singularity at the middle of the black hole is a spot where GR breaks down. It is widely believed that a theory that combines GR and QM will make that singularity impossible.
The deal breaker for me is always how sluggish these free, open source editors are (Atom, Brackets, Light Table). I would love to move away from a paid, closed-source tool but these just aren't as fast and therefore not acceptable to me. Close doesn't cut it for something I use ~8 hours a day.
Nice apart from that I think one point is missing -> CEO should have balls and know what leadership really means.
Why doesn't that happen now, then? The current majority could, right now, decide to massively increase the taxes on, say, the 40% richest and redistribute that money to the rest of the 60%.

In fact, the current majority can, right now, decide to implement UBI, and then do all those things you describe.

Essentially, it's a slippery slope argument, with no great explanation of why UBI would change the conditions to start the "slip" that hasn't occurred until now.
The problem with the labor shortage was less that there was insufficient free labor available, but rather that the wages that would be demanded by free labor under these circumstances would be much higher than the subsistence level required by slaves, which would reduce the profitability for the upper-class plantation owners.

Evsey Domar wrote a famous paper in 1970, arguing that slavery/serfdom may be instituted when there is a lot of available land and few available workers, citing episodes in Europe in the Middle Ages, Russia's eastward expansion, and the US South.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domar_serfdom_model
I keep hearing this argument touted, but if you view source on the HN home page it uses tables and a <center> tag.

You do not have to learn a new framework to do things on the web. The browsers all seem to support stuff that's worked for years.

The problem is that web developers feel the need to learn new things because they fear getting out of date. "oh, dude, I learned React this weekend. It's hot stuff! You need to learn this."

No, you really don't. You have a plethera of choices, and one of those choices is to rock it like it's 1999.
Thanks to this article, I've become aware of both KeyMouse [0] and Keyboard.io [1]; The KeyMouse seems like it'd be something better for me - no need to move my hand away from keyboard to operate the mouse.

[0] http://www.keymouse.com/
[1] http://www.keyboard.io/
I used to run CentOS on my laptop for couple of years, very stable and did everything I needed. It was one of the very few distros that never gave me any issues. Latest software can be a problem but nothing major.
I'm surprised that they developed a brand new time tracking tool. From my limited experience, it seems Deltek Time & Expense is the most popular time tracking application in the government / associated contractor space.
The Problem with Part-Time Work Is That It’s Rarely Part-Time
And therefore less credibility/more plausible deniability.

"Lying on the Internet" is harder to pull off when the voice is recognizably yours.

So far, anyway.
Why Guardtime Believes It Will Replace RSA Security Standard
It's interesting how you can recognize an Anarcho-Capitalist viewpoint when you see one, but can't recognize that being an AnCap basically just boils down to being moral, sane, rational and consistent.

Most self-proclaimed "Anarchists" I come across are actually something like Marxists, nonsensically railing against evil capitalist oppressors, without wanting to even discuss what capitalism means.

I went to one of their gatherings once, and out of around twenty people, only one seemed rational and open-minded.

The rest were intent on figuring out what kind of "activism" they'd engage in, and didn't want to discuss whether what they were doing actually made any fucking sense at all.
I suspect that this has more to do with hiding his compensation than anything else. They want to keep his compensation private to prevent competitors from trying to poach him. (It makes it harder if they don't have that information.) The SEC requires companies list the compensation of their top 5 executives. By naming him Chief of Design it is easier for them to keep his pay private.
Show HN: Withdraw cash, buy online and pay bills with Cryptocurrencies in Mexico
Appknox Architecture – Making the Switch from AWS to the Google Cloud
Immutable.js is a project also from FaceBook that brings immutable data structures to your JS applications including those using React.

Since Clojurescript compiles down to JS, wouldn't it be possible to use Immutable.js and a slightly different app design (a single Flux Store for the entire app) to get the same benefit of using React with Clojurescript?
Not "attempting to fork", MSX is a JSX fork that outputs Mithril-compatible virtual DOM JS objects.

It works as advertised :-)
There are minimal tidal forces for very large black hole. You would not be torn apart approaching or crossing the event horizon then. You would be unable to leave or signal out of the hole.
If your job is typing lots of words in minimal time, then that certainly makes the most sense. However, in my experience, very few information professionals are truly limited by their typing speed, no matter what that speed is.
For those unfamiliar, Geeknet had one of the wildest IPO rides in recent history, at the peak of the dotcom bubble:

"It was the first time an IPO has ever finished the regular session at above $200 a share on the Nasdaq Stock Market. It meant that in an instant, the stock of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company went from small-capitalization territory to large -- $9.5 billion, or more than half that of Apple Computer."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB944749135343802895

"VA Linux Systems took its stock public in an initial public offering (IPO) on 9 December 1999, under the stock symbol LNUX. The IPO offered shares at $30, but the traders held back the opening trade until the bids hit $299. The stock popped up to $320 later in the day, and closed its first day of trading at $239.25—a 698-percent return on investment."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet#Initial_public_offering

And another good story on it:

http://www.cnet.com/news/10-years-gone-the-va-linux-systems-...
Thanks. In that case, isn't someone taking on risk by moving coupons around?
I don't see the frustration so much about job security as about not being able to really get the most out of a technology before it becomes obsolete. It's one thing to be able to simply use some technology to get the job done. It's something else to deeply understand it and to become fluent in its paradigms and write code that is idiomatic and elegant. When a developer has to spend half the time learning new frameworks, it isn't so much about the loss of job security, it's the loss of craftsmanship.
I recently read someone saying that there exist so many interpreted languages built on top of C because no one really wants to write C, they would rather have a language built on top of another language.

After starting to learn pure C myself, I have to agree.
Can we talk about the Nokia 8210 candybar phones? Circa 1999 this thing was indestructible and had battery life that would probably outlast 3-4 iPhones.

I think there is a market for these types of phones again. Even if it was ugly it was durable and functional. There is definitely a market for a phone that can be dropped and still function.
The HR department exists to protect the company from the employees. They mitigate health risks for employees by buying an insurance policy with the company as beneficiary, rather than addressing any potential risk factors introduced by the company itself. In doing this, they have plausible deniability, unless the employee comes forward to complain. Complainers are subtly encouraged to move on, in a way that is non-actionable in civil courts.

All HR sucks. If the HR at your company does not, treasure and cherish your unicorn. But also watch it carefully, in case it is just a goat with one horn sawed off, that has been dyed pink and dipped in glitter.

Do not rely on employment law to protect you. Anything that can be traced back to you may be used against you. The lack of anything traceable back to you may also be used against you.
The reasoning is very simple - If space does indeed exist, it must be somewhere, because everything that exists is somewhere, but space can't be anywhere, because if it's somewhere it must be contained in space. How can something be contained within itself? It can't.
I use two apple bluetooth keyboards and some software called Karabiner that lets the keyboards share modifier keys like shift, option, control, and command. My hands tend to be 2 feet apart most of the time.
> There might even be a sort of Zeno's Paradox inside, where once you cross the event horizon, there's another event horizon beyond that, such that anything that much closer to the singularity than you are can never communicate with you, in the same way that you can never communicate with the universe outside the first event horizon.

Isn't every step in from the event horizon effectively an event horizon? If all the mass of a black hole is effectively at the singularity in the center, and escape velocity is the speed of light at the event horizon, won't there be no point within the event horizon where escape velocity is less than the speed of light, such that at any point within the event horizon, no point farther from the event horizon is within the future light cone of that point.
These articles aren't about speed though, right? I've just started getting the first signs of physical hobbling in my hands from 25 years of programming. I'm worried what will happen to me in another 25 years.
I'm running Mini-DP monitor off Thinkpad's T430s Thunderbold port with exactly zero issues (in Ubuntu 14.04).
The part at the end amused me, so quick poll:

How many people thought the Better Business Bureau was an actual (that is, governmental) bureau until I asked this question?

How many people were unaware that the BBB sold good ratings until I asked this question?
An Uber driver doesn't have the cash from fares, wheras a taxi driver does, though.
I've wondered the same, found this:

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/21319/how-can-any...

"The objects that can be very similar to black holes are called collapsars. They are virtually indistinguishable from actual black holes after a very short time of the formation. They consist only of matter outside the radius of the event horizon of a BH with the same mass. This matter is virtually frozen on the surface like with actual BH, due to high gravity level.

Such collapsars possibly can become BHs for a short time due to quantum fluctuations and thus emit hawking radiation.

Astrophysicists do not separate such collapsars from actual black holes and call all them BHs due to practical reasons because of their actual indistinguishability."
World already reaping benefits from ozone treaty: study
I think people get emotive over the term 'junk'. It was always just a phrase rather than a technical description. We know that ~80%, maybe a little more, of the genome does not show conservation. If the function was important to the survival of the organism it have been selected for and thus evolutionarily conserved - hence the 85% "junk" figure. This does not mean that it isn't entirely biochemically inactive, or that there are some longer range periodicities in the sequence that are not elucidated. And as another commenter has noted, about half of the genome is composed of remnants of the Alu element, which jump about occasionally, but mostly degrade into total inactivity (sometimes being reactivated by recombining broken parts together).

What has gained a lot of attention was the massive ENCODE project, which sought to provide a detailed atlas of biochemical function in the human genome. The headline figure from there has been that 80% of the human genome has some function. There's a lot of controversy (understatement hat on) on the basic experimentation done for ENCODE, the structure of the project, the usefulness of the data produced and how they define biological activity.

The debate possibly got a bit out of control - the most sarcastic peer reviewed article I have ever read stirred the pot a bit (for more info: http://www.scilogs.com/next_regeneration/the-encode-controve...). I think most biologists (warning, personal opinion) would still hold that 80% of the genome is not meaningfully biologically functional.
Well, there are some security restrictions, yes. But for most web applications they are not an issue.
This is my current keyboard/trackball setup. I have been tweaking my configuration for a number of years and this is the most comfortable option I have found for my particular body ratios. I think the best layout may vary somewhat from person to person.

https://plus.google.com/107061065248858824293/posts/S7X6x9kA...
Quite simply because longer-life phones would get trashed even more for not having the features they traded to get longer battery life.

Imagine what the reviews would be if the next iPhone is twice as thick and double the weight. That it goes 3 days without a charge for most people would be a footnote to an otherwise poor review.
Why Men Kill Themselves
Well considering they were looting really old Indian Air Force drones for parts at the beginning, and they have giant self-sustaining luxury habitats at arbitrary points in the Solar system at the end, I'd say energy utilization has increased a bit.
> Is there no such thing as a `problem solved, let's not touch it again' in the FOSS world ?

Is there such a thing in the closed-source world?

Because Windows 1... err, Windows 3 (now with tiling windows!), uhhh... Windows 95 (now semi-3D!) uhhh... Metro! That's it!... is certainly a case study in how nothing changes and UI is a solved problem, right?

Oh, and I've used WindowMaker across multiple distros, from Red Hat (pre Fedora) through Slackware and now Ubuntu. (Yes, Ubuntu without Unity. Shock and horror and "Can such things be?!?!" line starts on the left.)
Going Past Capital – A Modified Argument for Universal Basic Income
I really can't recommend that book enough. I tried to learn Erlang last year with another book, but eventually I got bored and moved on. This year I decided to give it another try, so I bought Programming Erlang and I absolutely love it. The material is presented with the pacing and skill of a master craftsman teaching an apprentice. Joe's writing style is flowing and entertaining, but not silly (cough), so I really enjoy reading every chapter. And the exercises at the end of the chapter are perfect. If there's not a lot to really do, he doesn't throw filler in there. But if there's important things to understand, there will be plenty of unique problems to solve.

Such a great book, and such a fun language.
Impressive that it sells for $25 given that I just (yesterday) paid $60 for a Fujitsu MC700 10,400 mAh battery.