mos_basik

>There's a cultural vibe of individualism [where?] preventing overwatch of kids [whose kids?] by adults which has led, in part, to the prohibitive [prohibiting what?] autonomy that I had as a kid.

I don't quite understand what you're saying here, but I'm genuinely interested. Could you clarify?

Active listening: What I thought you said is that in, say, the Philippines, there is a culture of individualism that prevents adults from hovering over kids (not sure how that follows), which leads to the kids having significantly more autonomy than in the U.S. (and maybe you used the word "prohibitive" incorrectly?).

I was also raised by American parents in a village in equatorial Congo--thus my interest.

That's not part of the new design.

You're probably used to seeing a maximized Chrome windows, which don't have that space.

The space is present in free-floating windows to provide space for the mouse to grab and move it around (because grabbing on a tab would split the tab out into a new window).

At least, this is how it works in Windows, and (iirc) quite a few *nix window managers. Can't say for sure; I'm currently on i3 with window decorations disabled and my floating windows don't have it (and I can drag using any part of a floating window with alt+drag). Don't know how OSX behaves.

Tool is not on Spotify or Google Play Music. I'm not sure if they are on Apple Music or Tidal. If anyone knows for sure, please do comment, I'm interested to know.

Also, Spotify has 3 Volor Flex albums, but is missing the one I usually want - "Unlit". I'm pretty sure that specific album is on Amazon Music though, oddly enough.

This isn't a particularly substantiative comment, just some datapoints that irk me about Spotify's inventory.

Eve Online. If you dare - it's a commitment. See some discussion in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16027146

As an (erstwhile) Eve player, most of your assessments ring true. I, too, was thinking "I'd love to see what this author would accomplish in Eve's sandbox!" :)

You sound like you've done quite a bit of reading, but in case you haven't seen it and for anyone else who is interested, this a great write-up of an economic scheme the Goons (players from the SomethingAwful forums) pulled off to the tune of ~4 trillion ISK (between $80k-$120k US at 2012 prices): https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/message/1512212/

A couple of thoughts I had on your comment:

>As far as I can tell, pure arb is hard to come by given all the fees and most mkt mkrs make money taking a combination of inventory, production and transport risk. now if Eve standardizes chartering freight...

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by pure arbitrage, but certainly it's impossible to buy something from a sell order and immediately turn around and sell it to a buy order in the same station for a profit (if someone tried to post a sell order with a price lower than the price of the highest buy order, the sale would immediately take place, filling the topmost buy order(s) automatically)

Transport risk wasn't very large for the regional trading I was doing. The player-run freighting groups have excellent coverage and reliability in high-sec, and because freight contracts use a collateral system, they were the ones shouldering the transport risk, not me. All I had to do was find goods selling in one trade hub for less than people were buying them for in another trade hub, buy up some, have them shipped, and put them up for sale. Of course, I was shouldering the inventory risk you mentioned, but my strategy was to invest as widely as I could and only keep a couple items of any given commodity in my hands at one time. This worked for the items I was selling (i.e. relatively small numbers of high-value and low-mass manufactured goods) but you'd definitely need a different approach for selling, say, minerals (huge amounts of low-value and high-mass raw materials).

Also, there are definitely ways to make transporting goods (even in dangerous space) nearly foolproof - if one is willing to put in the legwork. A lot of the loss of goods that occurs is due to player ignorance of game mechanics and/or laziness "well, I know I should [scout this gate|use an instadock bookmark|switch to my armor implants] but what are the odds of [bad thing] happening this one time and besides, it's almost downtime, I'll be fine." Of course I'm not complaining! This sort of thing keeps the prices high for the rest of us. :)

I assumed (forgive the macabre topic) that "kicking the bucket" referred to the action of kicking over the bucket you are standing on in order to hang yourself.

I wonder if Mr. Safire has written about this.

>Quantum tunneling will become relevant in 2016-2017 and has to be taken into account from there on. New materials and "insulated" circuits are required to make everything work from here on.

He wrote this in 2015. Was he correct? I don't really know where to start researching something like this; is there anyone here familiar with the field who could comment on it?

I use Waze on my daily commute not because I don't know the way to work, but because I would like to be routed around traffic as well as possible.

Setting audio to alerts works when a traffic situation develops while I am driving and the optimal route changes on the fly (generating an alert). But, if there is a pre-existing situation when I start that's changing the route in a couple of places from the "normal" route I get 80%of the time, alerts will only notify me of it about it five seconds after I miss the unusual exit, when it starts finding a new route.

Of course the simple fix is to get a phone mount and just look at the route whenever you want - but then you're leaving the screen on constantly, or unlocking it at arm's reach while driving.

I think GP is referring to this sentence near the end of the article:

>Cooling Yellowstone in this manner would happen at a rate of one metre a year, taking of the order of tens of thousands of years until just cold rock was left.

And I think that sentence is vague enough that any argument using only it as a basis will be pretty weak.

What? He cited a failure rate of 18%, which the article supports and you quote as the "typical" failure rate, taking into account that condoms do break and are used incorrectly at times.

If a manufacturer says their manual transmission car gets 45 miles to the gallon, and Fuelly says that same car gets 39 mpg (averaged over a million user mileage submissions), is it intellectually dishonest to use 39 as the working figure when budgeting for gas?

What you interpret as a troll answer, I interpret as a reasonably clear explanation of why he chose the figure he did.

It's from Orwell's 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

>nobody loses their job for wrongthink

By definition, to use the term to describe a behavior at all implies that someone (specifically who depends on the wording, of course) considers that behavior termination-worthy.

[Edit: I'm having trouble putting this into words. Let me try again.

The point of using this term is to remind your listener of the novel and imply that the situation being discussed is similar, i.e., that there exists an near-omnipotent authority that is willing and capable to punish you for actions that any reasonable person would consider innocuous.

In 1984, it would be Ingsoc punishing people for thinking party-proscribed thoughts. In the current context, it might be BigCo punishing people for expressing their thoughts about hiring practices.

One could go on all day about there being a difference between thinking a thought and emailing your company, whether that difference is quantitative or qualitative, and whether the comparison to the novel is valid. But then one would be missing the point, which is simply that whoever used the term considers the comparison valid.]

May or may not be completely relevant, but seems like it's in the ballpark: a couple of months ago, a conference sponsored by GitHub was postponed because the authors of all the (blind) selected papers were male.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/6f8u2s/githubs_...

You just made me remember the tracking extension I installed a while back that now allows me to answer OP with a conscience clear of self-censoring and false memory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872769). Thanks!

Incidentally, StackOverflow is in 8th place for me, behind Youtube (6th) and the Chrome New Tab page (7th).

Had to scroll halfway through the thread to find a 4chan.

My Time Tracker Chrome extension says these 5 are the top for my past 30 days of browser activity on my personal laptop:

  2d 22h - 9.63% |===================> Discord (friends from an Eve Online corp)
  2d 12h - 8.24% |================>    4chan (mostly the motorcycle thread on /o/ the past few months)
  2d  1h - 6.71% |=============>       Google
  1d 10h - 4.75% |==========>          Hacker News
  1d  7h - 4.34% |=========>           Google Music (last.fm has 522 plays total, 17/day avg over past 30 days)

+1 for Obsqr, great app. And I use Talalarmo from the same devs as my daily alarm. Love that team's no frills style.

I've seen several people who like PS say its discoverability is actually pretty great compared to Unix shells - for instance, the convention for cmdlet names is always "verb-noun" ("action-object") and (maybe, don't quote me on this) the set of blessed verbs people are supposed to use in cmdlet names is fairly small. So, when you want to do something, you try the verbs that seem closest to what you want to do and the names of the (usually application specific) objects you're working with and that gets you quite a long way down the road.

Also I think PS commands aren't case sensitive, though for readability one would probably want to keep the camelcase anyway.

On phone so unsure if it's been mentioned in the thread already, but I've been enjoying learning a js library JSONata [0] after finding it included in Node-RED.

I remember finding jq a few weeks ago and thinking "wow, this will probably come in handy for a specific kind of situation" and filing it mentally for later use, but I haven't used it for anything yet so I'm not super familiar with the extent of it's features.

I have been using a lot of JSONata one liners to replace several procedural functions that were doing data transforms on JSON objects, and I'm very impressed. It's a querying library but it's Turing complete - it has lambdas, it can save references to data and functions as variables, etc.

It also seems relatively new/unknown; I've found hardly any blogs or forums mentioning it. The developer is active - he fixed a bug report I submitted in less then a day.

I'd love to have that kind of functionality in a CLI tool. Maybe jq is equally powerful, I don't know.

I haven't had time to run any performance analysis on JSONata and haven't found anyone else online who's done any yet. I'm very curious how its queries compare to efficiently implemented procedural approaches.

0: http://jsonata.org/

>5mph below limit, left lane

Horrifying! :) But yes, the left lane is much nicer to camp out in on, say, a long commute - as long as you can handle maintaining the speed.

I live in the Dallas area and the lanes usually seem to be, from right to left: "the limit", "+5-10” and "+10-15". 15mph over is my cutoff, more or less, so I keep an eye on the mirror and try to shift over if someone is clearly coming up fast. Besides, don't want anyone tailgating me at those speeds tbh.

Does get a bit aggravating when what I consider "safe following distance at speed" is considered by the driver behind me as "this dumb econo-box being slow" and they whip around me. Doubly so when all it achieves is the two of us swapping places because there are no open avenues forward, lol. I'd have given it to him if there was one.

But "everyone else is a bad driver" will always be with us (myself no exception) so what can you do but grin and turn the music up.

>When the speed limit is correctly set at the 85th percentile speed, the minority of drivers that do conscientiously follow speed limits are no longer driving much slower than the speed of traffic. The choice of the 85th percentile speed is a data-driven conclusion -- as noted Lt. Megge and speed limit resources like the Michigan State Police’s guide -- that has been established by the consistent findings of years of traffic studies.

>This is important because, as noted in a U.S. Department of Transportation report, “the potential for being involved in an accident is highest when traveling at speed much lower or much higher than the majority of motorists.”

Best guess would be other large, more or less general purpose internet forums (in the classical sense) that people use to exchange ideas and socialize. Reddit, 4chan, Slashdot, maybe Tumblr and Twitter.

OpenSolaris, OpenSSO, OpenOffice...

I can hardly imagine this working well, but I'm driven to install it and give it a try. Thanks for the link; maybe it will be magical!

>it's actually a bit shocking to see some of the landmarks in person for the first time

I vividly remember my first drive from LAX to campus when I started undergrad in the area. First time there in the flesh, but I recognized overpass after hillside mansion after chain link fence after palm tree boulevard... from GTA: San Andreas. Déjà vu is hardly a strong enough term.

I would have been more prepared to recognize things if it had been, say, Jerusalem or Rome and the game Assassin's Creed, since one thinks of those cities as exotic, iconic. But LA has made its particular brand of "lack of distinguishing features" the default in a huge swath of media, and that was when I realized it.

My case was also a sqldump, actually. I forget what I eventually did. I think it had to do with hitting Ctrl-C to stop the entire file from loading up front, and only load the page I was looking at.

The link to this SO question was purple when I Googled this just now: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/908575/how-to-edit-multi-...

In retrospect, I do remember also messing around with disabling syntax highlighting and splitting the file up into more manageable chunks that I loaded into separate buffers.

For my purposes, I was trying to delete certain portions of the dump - so vim was the perfect tool to do something like "delete everything from line 850 to the next time this regex is matched", with a minimum of scrolling around and rendering things unnecessarily. iirc, Sublime just locked up and refused to scroll.

I wonder if I could have used Vintage to do what I wanted in Sublime?

...as a sublime user, I go back to vim when I have to open really large files.

I've never used vscode, but this makes me wonder how small a file has to be for vscode to manipulate it quickly.

Interesting concept! I'm enjoying playing with it. Reminds me of a Pepsi-challenge page Microsoft set up comparing Google and Bing search results when they were launching. I went into that one expecting to be able to tell the difference, and I was right. Similar feeling here.

As others have pointed out, the internal similarities of the specific translations mean it doesn't take long for a user to be able to make calls based on style rather than content. Maybe randomizing translation as well as passage would help remove that loophole?

The UI could use some love - "input" components should be separate from "output" components. As it's designed now, I can't simply memorize blue/left means "pick Bible" and green/right means "pick Qur'an", because I have to remember that for every other click, blue/left means "get the next question" and green/right isn't a button right now; it displays my result.

Atm this feels like those implicit social cognition tests from Harvard (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html) Round 1, a pic will pop up, as fast as possible without making errors, press left arrow if it's a happy face or right arrow if it's a sad face. Round 2, keys reversed. Round 3, left for light skinned person and right for dark skinned person; Round 4, reversed. Round 5, left for a happy or light face, right for a sad or dark face. Etc. Every time the rules change, your responses slow down for a while because you have to actually process things instead of acting on instinct.

I don't want to have to think about whether the button I'm about to click will perform a "Bible" or a "Continue" action, nor do I want to look for whether or not my answer was correct in the area of the page I've mentally allocated as "Qur'an".

UI wishlist:

- Neither choice should be colored green or red; those colors have semantics attached to them. (I'd probably make them both blue, but making them different colors from each other is probably fine too)

- Ability to use the keyboard arrow keys to make a choice, for the sake of speed

- If the choice is wrong something big and red should appear (but somewhere that's NOT one of the buttons or where the passage is displayed)

- If the choice is right, something big and green could appear (but doesn't really need to - season to taste)

- No continue button at all; when will a user of this page ever not want to continue getting passages? A continue button only really matters if there's something to lose, like (for instance) using up limited time or scoring low points by getting a passage before you're ready to start

Adding to that - all the cool kids these days are saying "baiting" instead of "trolling". The concept (and metaphor) hasn't been lost.

I sent dozens of applications to companies in my area while looking for summer employment, no success. Started going to meetups just to be able to talk to some programmers from time to time. About two months in, met someone at a meetup who said their team needed Python/C++ devs. I talked a little bit with them, got their card, sent them a resume later that week, and eventually got my first proper development job.

Only one person's story ofc, but I'm happy! Face to face stuff is so much more valuable than submitting online forms, and tech meetups are stimulating, fun, and pretty common in cities.

If I understand correctly, the extension of the argument (in light of your objection) is this: assuming two equally sized and skilled pools of employees, Company Diversity will spend less on salaries than Company Bigot - meaning those funds are able to be spent elsewhere, giving Company Diversity a competitive advantage in the market. Eventually Company Bigot goes out of business (or lowers their salaries).

Of course we assume, in this thought experiment, that all the other things Company Bigot could do to become more competitive (invest in more employee training, better infrastructure, etc) are also available to Company Diversity. This isn't always the case. Maybe Company Diversity's hiring practices have alienated it from potential suppliers or clients who prefer Company Bigot's views.

Specifically I'm thinking of Japan, where (apparently; source: this site) the cultural emphasis on the salaryman paradigm means that hiring from the significant pool of contract labor can hurt your company image as far as working with the established corporations is concerned.

>umatrix

Apt name. Had never heard of it before your comment. After some looking around its github wiki from my phone, this looks... powerful. Wow. Same maintainer as ublock origin, right?

+1 to my list of things to check out when I have a moment.