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> I mean it literally shows how copying something makes it worthless.

How's that? If the same copies were legally bought they would have had value, but now that they are illegally created they are worthless? Is it the law that gives them value, instead of something intrinsic? Is value the same thing as cost?
You missed my point, which was that the example was supposed to show how changes in hue affected whether something would look good, but the example showed dramatically varying lightness and chroma, in addition to the hue differences, thus making the comparison useless as a demonstration of the claimed effect. To make an example showing what the author of these examples wants to show, it would be necessary to keep lightness and chroma consistent from one set of color combinations to another, so that viewers can see the hue differences instead of being distracted by lightness/chroma differences.

If the “Müller formula” worked the way the author of these example images thought, then the color combinations at the right side after my lightness switcharound should still be “good looking”, but to me at least, with low lightness contrast, they instead start to look very muddy. Likewise, in my opinion the color combinations at the left of each example are improved dramatically by the increase in lightness contrast, even though they still have low chroma contrast and aren’t exactly my favorites.
To add to Gracana's comment. M:Tier provides openup tool which will update your base system and packages to match -stable. That way you don't have to patch and compile your kernel yourself.
For trustworthiness of M:Tier, several project developers are employed by M:Tier.
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Except Elon only gets the kids for only half the time (shares custody with his ex-wife) and has a current wife and nannies taking care of the kids when he has them. He mentioned in videos that he doesn't get to spend that much time with his kids.

Just because it's possible for executives to work long hours, it doesn't mean it's healthy for their family life to.
For what it's worth, he's done this before.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/13/technology/dorsey_techonomy/
Should have done a proper experiment :p
And also a Troll. (Refer to his pre-2015 mint.com editorials on Gujaratis)
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Apt is quite slow on a Pi running OSMC so I'm hoping this makes it downstream at some point
> Personally, I think there are better ways than this. For example, he would build these products and give them away. Oh wait ... that's work.

People are already doing that: https://creativecommons.org/music-communities
Interesting, does poor performance hold true using JVM? I'd expect MoarVM to have some performance issues since its new.

Is the multi-vm approach anything more than a novelty or is this expected to be a feature, i.e. a common spec and intermediate layer with support for different backend VMs?
Or hit F12 to access the developer console and type:

document.body.style.backgroundColor = "white";
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what about delivery truck as drone carrier?

when the truck is close to destination, drone(s) are detached to drop/pick package(s), only to return to the truck after finishing the work. this eliminates truck stops.

imagine a flying bee hive
Oh man, I wish the OscilloscopeWatch project would finish:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920064946/oscilloscope-...

Then maybe there'd be two open source watches out there ..
I will say that it depends on the person... I've taken from learning how to do simple scripts in the 80's/90's and actually done reading on lower-level CS, and although I don't write C/C++ day to day, I do understand the concepts. And while I don't have to think about such things.. understanding memory constraints and how caching and process swaps work in the CPU has come in useful even for higher level language projects.

But isn't that why we're supposed to have "Junior" and "Senior" level positions? I think that what software development really needs is a loosely structured guild system where you gain rank not by attrition or seniority but by reputation, where you gain/lose reputation based on who you back for seniority and how well they do. It seems that beyond CS education, it's a constant learning process. You cannot make a career only with what you learn getting a degree in CS.
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The author makes no mention of friends. The 90% figure comes from the frequency with which he currently sees his parents and sisters.

The title is link-bait-y, but I think there's actually some substance there: by 30, you've seen 90% of the days you'll spend in person with siblings and parents.
then:

sigh

apt-cache search somepackage | grep '^somepackage'
Only if you're the kind of moron that would do it to begin with. At no point is anyone saying you should use weird quoting in comments at all. The parsed comments are used to populate dynamic documentation related to functions and classes that you can inspect at runtime. What's so bad about that?
There is a natural right to freely copy information. Our civilization is based on our ability to tell young people the stories we heard from our elders. And we are part of nature.
how do you implement any sort of nontrivial authorization scheme w/out middle tier? how can you share any code between different UI platforms? I also don't like exposing data layer directly to the client. *or worse yet storing business logic in the data layer
Furthermore pdiffs were introduced in ~2006: https://www.debian-administration.org/article/439/Avoiding_s...
Attackers might target the link between you and ISP, which isn't secured to an adequate degree. Servers ought to be harder to reach, but lack of hygiene displayed by offering only unauthenticated http downloads in 2015 means that even if people running those servers switched to https we know they are probably incapable of securing them. In a way it is better http stays as a red flag.
Charisma is orthogonal to happiness, at best.

His relationships didn't seem to generally go very well, but beyond that, I just find his extremely selfish worldview pretty sad and shallow. Not the world I want to live in.

Many people I know in person and online would disagree, but that's ok. I don't generally think of many of them as very happy either.
At work there's often new tools and processes being built and used and I've been noticing that many of my co-workers struggle to figure out the new stuff. Its frustrating to have them go back to old ways when we're in a time crunch too, since it means that new tool isn't taking shape. I've long abandoned the "brown-bag meeting" as a way to share with my peers, because it never seems to work. What's been much more effective has been one-on-one time with others, when I can carve it out.

Obviously this isn't very scalable to a larger group though. I'm depending on the grassroots effect to take hold at some point and for others to spread that knowledge. Its effective, but not as quickly as I'd like. I may have to try some sort of workshop style like this in the future to get us to the point faster.
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I would imagine that has more to do with less societal pressure to get married young, or even at all.
China officially ends three-decade-old one child policy
Original: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

Check out Tim's other articles, they are great.

Some of the favorites I have bookmarked:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-opi...

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-u...

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/11/life-is-picture-but-you-live-i...
It's kind of obvious the reasoning behind it... The unicode is the mathematical or good choice for the operator character, but the majority of people have no idea how to type it. I have yet to see a keyboard with most of the unicode maths operators on.
Better would be an e-ink display. OLED consumes too much battery. Using e-ink and writing power efficient code such a watch weeks or even months on battery.
One problem is that keygen is either deprecated or not supported. So you have to create the client cert on the server, then have the user download it (including private key). Or the client has to create a signing request and then upload it to the server, and then download the certificate.

Once that is done though, client certificates works pretty well, the browser will pop up a "what certificate to use" dialog when entering the web site. And the server (nginx) will send all the details like name, city etc to the web-server application.

Another problem vs passwords, is that the user has to copy or download the certificate to each computer device. And just like passwords, you need to have a process for identifying the user in case he lose the certificate/key.
Ask HN: Spritz speed reading apps – did they survive the test of time?
Way back in March 2014, Spritz [1] and a load of open source clones [2], like openSpritz generated a huge amount of buzz.

At the time I used it on a dozen articles or so and found I could read the words fast enough, but my comprehension dropped as I put up the WPM.

I still really like the idea of being able to get the words off the page faster.

a) Does anyone use a speed reading app like the aforementioned or bookmarklet on a regular basis still?

b) Are there any other better techniques out there for reading and (crucially) absorbing information fast?

[1]: http://www.spritzinc.com/
[2]: https://gun.io/blog/openspritz-a-free-speed-reading-bookmarklet/
Same here, but it works fine with the current Android version of Firefox.
" I cringe every time I see a senseless/useless DI/IoC system in JS that adds nothing but indirection and complexity (looking at you Angular)."

Isn't it supposed to make testing easier? (Personally I never managed to get the Angular hype, but I am a Python dev mainly).
"Sales of digital goods, like any other sale, are about me trading a portion of my time/labor for someone else's time/labor."

No it's not. If anything, that is a ridiculous opinion. It has no basis is society, law or discourse. There's little relation between labor and copyright. A more apt analogy is something like land rights. But that is still not talking about the real issue. Chefs puts significant amount of labor into their creations, they are not covered by copyright.
apt-cache policy <somepackage>

does that work better?
Agreed on certificate synchronization... especially since a certificate isn't the same as an account, it's just a key for an account... Having each device have its' own cert allows you to disallow a specific device without disallowing all devices for a user account.
Why? I long made a point of only running "insecure" network layers at home. I sincerely believe in the stupid network, and that any security belongs above the transport.

Using the term for wireless networks at home really drives the point home that you're supposed to get your personal connection and buy your own access point, so that IP addresses finally can represent identity. That is not a coincidence.
I'ld add that drone delivery for takeout would be a nice win, given that most restaurants that deliver are already limited to nearby locations and speed is desired.

With a proviso that it might be easier in a suburban situation to begin (given a lawn to drop off the goods).
Let them do that then. It's not as if it would be easy.
Prohibition showed how effective legalization can be (and I don't mean just marijuana). Legalize everything across the board. That means pharma-grade cocaine, heroin being sold without prescription (and taxed) to any adult that wishes to buy them.

Alas, let's not pretend that the 'good guys' (at least the americans) want to solve the drug problem. It results in lucrative profits that can be kept off the books and fed into various "programs", and has also led to the establishment of a massive bureaucracy that will be hard if not impossible to dislodge.

Someone else mentioned the movie Sicario in this thread. It's pretty bad in terms of plot, but one line comes to mind:
One of the characters that plays a CIA agent says: "If only 20% of the population could be pesuaded to stop smoking and snorting that shit..." in order to conveniently shift the blame towards the populace. As if that worked with alcohol, or cigarettes or anything that can short-circuit the pleasure/reward neural pathways.

But I'm digressing here. A bad movie does not a point make. The real CIA knows full well I imagine that legalization is the only real solution to the problem (even if it comes with its own costs) but of course the real CIA also needs endless suitcases full of dollars to fund its operations.
Edited my comment, because I did not read the parent comment.
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...but what's the great news part?

It will be great news if this widespread official larceny is actually reduced, but that's yet to be seen.
I would think that once you're sending out trucks anyway, there isn't much even potential win in layering a complex air delivery system on top of that. In addition, you're adding another source of latency and, to the degree that drone delivery makes any sense at all, I expect it would be used for very time sensitive material.
Expected very much to be a feature. Someone is working on emitting JavaScript from Rakudo too for Perl 6 in the browser :)
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I've turned it on for all of my projects.

But I think the real benefits will always be in framework code.
If you like stories like this, check out the movie Sicario for a very eerie telling of cartels and the police.
Offtopic question:

Is there any FDE software that supports keeping decryption keys on a network server? You would still need to enter user authentication to obtain the decryption key of course.

Use case: We are a HIPAA environment, I want a hard drive to be useless if it is removed from the building.
I have been trying to find a way to use the `<keygen>` tag in production for a very long time, but I am consistently thwarted by the browsers simply not supporting it well enough. Where does the generated private key go? How do I sign things with it again? It's never clear, and browser support is terribly inconsistent.
`try` is bad for a number of reasons.

Because itll never throw an error, you see it hiding issues.

And I keep seeing colleagues writing `hash.try(:[], :some_key)`

`try!` is better.

But I'll stick to `&.` from now on.
Yes, sounds like congress defunded because of journalism and constituent feedback not Department of Justice ended the abusive program.

Current HN title is more accurate.
It's surely too late for your project, but: I was a committed Debian user for ~10 years (I even have the shirt from staffing a booth at a conference!), tried out Arch Linux, and have been delighted and am even a cautious evangelist for it. With Arch you still get the binary packages and huge coverage of Debian's packaging system but the tools are super simple and super fast. I hadn't realized how much time I spent waiting for dpkg until I had a system that didn't use it.
Because this reads like feel good bullshit and horror is scary and not at all feel good.
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This is essentially Seattle's version of Boston's Big Dig.

There are zero guarantees that this won't happen again, no one is willing to say who's on the hook for cost overruns, and there's still no plan about what to do if the viaduct happens to collapse while they're working on the tunnel.

Fwiw, I voted against this project, and I will be amazed if it is finished.
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Think through this. How many other high-margin, high-volume products exist that can be moved through Mexico?

Sure, they'll continue existing, probably get into government. But they'll be nothing at all like they are now. It will be a huge net gain for all, even the gangs themselves.
Thank you... I was surprised there was no mention of light pollution in the article itself.

My parents now live in Wyoming and the sad thing, to me, is that the few times I've been out to visit, it's been overcast the whole time. I remember as a young child in rural Arizona seeing many more stars in the sky than I ever see today... I just don't get out far enough to really see a more pure sky. Only thing that might get me on a cruise in fact.
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Years ago, my impression was that the goal of the Volt was to be fully-electric with a range-extending flex-fuel generator that recharges the batteries (rather than a hybrid approach with a separate internal combustion engine to extend range).

Is this idea just totally dead for some kind of innate technical challenge? It seems that mechanically, the cost of a generator and one drive train would be preferable, if it were feasible performance-wise.
"Equitable sharing", that's great.
With mplayer and vlc you can manually adjust the cache size.

8mb worked quite well the last years
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But drones are much more range- and speed-limited than trucks are. It might very well make sense to drive a truck from New Jersey to Manhattan, or from Irving to Plano, and then let the drones spread out.
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I think it very much depends on how much interaction as a father you want to have with your kids.

If you want to be cooking some nice meals for them, coaching sports, attending events, assisting with homework, tucking into bed, dealing with illness, prepping for holidays, having fun together, taking vacations, etc. then you have to devote a substantial amount of time. I suspect that most of these busy CEO dads don't spend all that much time doing these things.

You only have so much time in the day and available time that corresponds to the time the child is available and active is in very short supply.
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The thing is that quick, low-price takeout delivery to a limited radius of households is pretty much a solved problem. I suppose one could imagine more industrialized takeout-only restaurants in suburban locations but, again,one could create such a chain today and indeed we have them for say pizza. They're not very good but they're big businesses.
Skip about 15 minutes to get to the talk.
They didn't shut down the asset forfeiture, they shut down the sharing of seized assets with local police forces.

Their budget was cut, so they said "we need ours, pony up."

Likely, police forces which relied on federal statute to get 80% of the seized resources will now resort to state statute to maximize what they can take from seized assets.
It will be reduced. There are states that already prohibit asset forfeiture, but the this was a loophole. The police could team up with the feds, the feds seize the assets and then give a percentage to the police.

5.	That’s crazy!!! This can’t happen in my state.
It might be crazy, but civil asset forfeiture happens in every state in the union. Even if the state has laws that limit it, state and local law enforcement authorities can still seize property by partnering with federal law enforcement officials in a system called “equitable sharing,” and payouts to state and local agencies have increased nearly 250% over a 12-year period.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/civil-asset...
I don't like his first conclusion. I don't want to live where I grew up - I don't want to stagnate in my rural hometown. Playing it safe by staying near your family and high school friends means you take fewer chances, and you get fewer changes to make new relationships.
Quantity vs. Quality should have been considered.

I've found keeping certain people I love at arms length by interacting somewhat infrequently actually makes an otherwise unbearable relationship great. Somewhat like living on the ocean or in the mountains one slowly loses the appreciation of what once was spectacular to the unseen eye.

Take with that the loss of any new gains by doing something else with your time and you will find none of the salient points have much value.
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I did the same for my classes last year - beginner/intermediate Python, SQL, web development at a part-time night school for adults. Wrote a long detailed tutorial and let the students self-pace, with a bit of an intro at the start of most classes. Then the TA and I jumped in to help when students needed it, mostly by looking over their shoulders - I like the post-it idea.

A couple of issues with this approach:

- Make sure your material is good. Bugs in the material led to me repeating myself 1:1 a lot, and having to pause the class occasionally. Which leads to:

- Pausing the class is hard! People are at different stages of the material, so it's hard to find a good stopping point, though I did it a few times when something was either not resonating, or folks were going too fast and I sensed they were copy-pasting rather than fully understanding the point.

- The solution to this is to have 'core' material and then 'extra credit' stuff, but people feel behind if they haven't done all the material; nobody's happy only doing the core. In general, fear of "not keeping up" was a big issue in my class.

- Finally, some folks do learn differently, and you have to account for that. I spent a lot of time 1:1 with a couple particular students who weren't getting the tutorial format. Another felt like class was just "doing homework" and dropped out. I got around this by sending videos in a flipped-classroom approach between classes, but my students didn't have a lot of spare time and I couldn't rely on them doing anything outside class.
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> How is this not just positive spin on a doj money grab?

While the _best_ case scenario would be the entire notion of any asset sharing program be made outright illegal [0] because it has been shown to be corrupt, etc, etc - simply having it shut down is a good thing even if not for "good reasons" because at the very minimum, it means that if and when the program is reinstated, it will force conversation of the issue, something that has gone largely un-discussed in the American political landscape.

[0]: I personally would argue it should be illegal regardless of conviction, otherwise it incentivizes police forces and DAs to only go after high payout crimes
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I guess the 3-4 copies of jQuery are my point; that's generally indicative of a misunderstanding of how things work.

Taking my own learning as an example, I want to build a single-page application, so I decided that I needed a framework to manage it, since that's what all the cool kids were doing. While sipping on a frosty beverage, I was comparing Backbone and Angular, and then realized that Parse (which I'd already decided to use) built their JS API on top of backbone. That quickly simplified things for me, but I still see people that are trying to bolt together angular and parse.
With this type of stupidity, along with the string of failures when it comes to Wifi security (WEP, WPS, the clusterfuck that is Probe Request frames, etc.), shouldn't we stop listening to the IEEE and get someone who understands hardware AND networks AND cryptography AND software to start writing the next generation of standards?
It removes the federal loophole and it makes it a state problem. In the past, police would team up with feds to get around state laws.

Yes, it's still a problem but it's much more manageable now.