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>its simply best practice.

Some of the times. What I am bitching about is that I can't get around NPM/Bower and other bullshit, I have to use it for a lot of these libs, regardless of me needing them.

I am the only one who should judge what are the best practices for the project I am working on, not some clueless Javascript hacker (cheap shot I know). What I'm complaining about is that front end "developers" seem to all be unaware of a few staple principle of software engineering: keep it simple and right tool for right job. I've used NPM, Bower, Gulp, and others, when it was needed but from over a decade of experience in the web I can assure you that 90% of the time, it's superfluous.

It generates developers who don't know how their own code works or interact, and who for the major part end up over engineering everything they touch for no goddamn reason.

Plus I always end up spending more time dealing with those stupid tools than coding, and if Java taught me anything it's that this is the clear sign of a very ill and insane dev culture.
>This is unpopular opinion because it's rather stupid

That is very insightful, you have convinced me to completely change my entire world view...

>Businesses hire humans, not robots.

1. Some of those humans have children, some do not, as I believe I stated in my post

2. For now they hire humans...
Why have you added redux for such a small and simple project? What are you getting from react-router-redux - why do you feel the need to sync the the browser's URL into the data store?

You didn't 'have' to do any of these, especially for a project of this size. I can now understand why people might feel fatigued when they needlessly create overly complex solutions.
If you believe taxation is theft you're on the wrong planet.
Not only is it OK to use a real phrase like "gentleman's agreement", it communicates better. People will more easily understand what you mean, and they won't be distracted when you attempt to be gender-neutral by calling attention to gender.
You're missing the point. You're talking about what you used for your project. I'm talking about learning skills so I can walk into an interview for a job that says "we need React developers". They may use any number of these things I mentioned, or are thinking about using them, and will bring them up. As a "React developer" I have to be aware of the ecosystem. So it's not just "learn an API with a few functions".

And, as I said, it matters not whether I learned these things on my own: to Get the Job you need to demonstrate real-world experience.
To clarify, FMLA doesn't even cover six paid weeks. It covers twelve UNPAID weeks wherein the law guarantees your job, if you're working at a company > 50 employees. That's it. The six paid weeks was a component of a short term disability policy your company carried for your employees, and NOT part of FMLA or part of any federal requirement. US requires no paid leave at all.
> Then that would be unexpected behavior in the same league as that of Php's.

Can you provide any argued examples? I think not.
> VR presents a radically different, superior experience of immersion which no other current technology offers

Well VR covers and has covered for many years a huge number of different technologies. I used a CAVE system decades ago, and I'd still call that VR. If there were some technology that provided a superior experience of immersion, we'd call that VR too, so that statement is pretty close to contentless.

Whether or not a 'superior experience of immersion' is something that is worth paying significant chunks of money and the inconvenience that go with all hardware you need is the real question, and I tend towards suspecting that for the normal consumer with the hardware where it is at the moment the answer is still no.

I still enjoy breaking the VIVE and the Oculus out on occasion, particularly to show people who haven't tried VR before, but neither of them have a huge chance of becoming something that I'll use frequently.
That's completely idiotic. Communities are completely within their right to dictate terms of their community. If prospective owners don't like the rules, they shouldn't purchase.
For people interested in how hard it is, I recently read this [1] NYT article providing a comparison of synthetic speech that IBM experts tested for Watson in the Jeopardy competition.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/technology/creating-a-comp...
In that case, tunnel your VPN inside of a public VPN.

Trusting a remote VPN service not under your control, defeats the purpose of communication channel encryption.

Calling it "VPN service" makes it look appealing, without realize that you are breaking the "P" in "VPN".

If you want the "P", the master keys and certificates, and the systems where they live (client/server) should be under your control. Dot.
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I strongly disagree with the idea that you need to know how to use react-saga or react-redux-router to walk into an interview that name drops React.

Like, it would be a huge plus from a candidate if they even knew the name GraphQL/Relay, but I wouldn't want to work somewhere that expected me to know it completely.
Maybe a company that has good parental leave policies will also do well in other policies that might affect you?

Bob may not have children, but does have an elderly parent with dementia that he cares for, and that means he sometimes needs time off with little notice.

Or Bob breaks an arm and wants to know he's not going to lose his job. Or worse his arm is amputated, and he wants to onow his company is goingto make an effort with reasonable adjustments.
> What I am bitching about is that I can't get around NPM/Bower and other bullshit, I have to use it for a lot of these libs, regardless of me needing them.

You do realize that downloading the CSS/JS for these libs is trivial, nothing is forcing you to use Bower/NPM/<insert lib management tool here>.
It is not really interesting, see: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/i...
I've been attending conferences talking about the awesome applications of VR and AR for 10 years or so and even then it was a 'mature' research topic. I remember playing in a VR-CAVE as an undergrad years before that and listening to presentations about how this technology will be 'everywhere' in just a few years. I've seen (and worked for) companies invest stupid amounts of money in cutting edge setups only to have them collect dust. I'm just fatigued and disillusioned I guess, and just don't really believe any more. Wake me when it is more than a neat, yet niche, gaming peripheral.

...All that being said, I'm definitely planning on buying a VR headset, as a neat, yet niche, gaming peripheral.
Anyone have a link to the new UI? Couldn't find any screenshots of it and am still running a rather old version of PS.
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I always find the it's the physics that break the feel of the game, not the visuals.
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This would be fantastic for reading to the kids. At the moment I have to scan ahead to work out which voice to put on.
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PIA actually performs rather nice with bittorrent. It is slower than a bare connection from your ISP of course, but fast enough for most purposes.
Go to the Github repo --> find the minified file --> download

Not that hard right?
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If I'm going to be living in a van (down by the river), I would at least drive it to a river in a warmer climate.
One with a higher exchange rate, lower taxes, and faster Internet, say.
Fixed link.

https://youtu.be/eN3PsU_iA80?t=1266
Companies will never stop wanting better tools to build apps. The software industry is highly competitive - If tools didn't keep improving, established players (big companies) would have the upper hand. New tools allow increasingly small startups to compete against big companies - Being able to start fresh with the most cutting edge tools is a huge competitive advantage for startups.

I don't think progress will stop at React. Soon enough, we will have drag-and-drop web app builders - They will allow us to build web apps where all data will be live-bound in realtime. Adding new pages/functionality will be trivial.

Software developers won't stop until the tools become so convenient that they take over our jobs completely - We will be replaced with app designers and entrepreneurs.
I didn't find any good repositories with Nginx 1.9.5+ and OpenSSL 1.0.2 statically linked that I found trustworthy enough. Going with Debian Stretch/Unstable was possible without making any changes to our provisioning scripts (all targeted at Debian Jessie) and has proven to be more than stable enough to function as a gateway.
You should not look at 'life' as single organisms but as a system of organisms and as such it is very reliable. Once it started it lasted for billions of years, and over time managed to exhibit an extreme shift in complexity using roughly the same basic mechanisms.

The only things we've made that are more reliable than life are buildings that don't move (and are still prone to catching fire every now and then), anything with moving parts needs constant maintenance to get even a couple of years of use out of it.
+1, I love the simplicity of Caddy Server! Just a few lines of configuration and you've got a reverse proxy with SSL.
It is great news to see some companies taking small steps towards what is considered normal in the rest of developed world, but it's actually very sad that in America it's the corporations who are taking the role of defending citizens rights, but only selectively.

Etsy defends the right to maternal leave, Apple defends the right to privacy and so on, but at the same time, it is the relation between corporate power and political power that has made the US move forward so little in social rights.

Free health, education, maternal leave, striking... This should be rights, not company privileges. Congrats to Etsy employees, and condolences to everyone else.
This is no way to live for more than a few months, though. It's not really an environment in which you can raise a family.
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That was what mainly put me off, it makes no sense. First the robot starts off breathing like he'd been under water for 3 minutes and came up for oxygen, what? A robot running on oxygen? Then he breathes and moans, what? Vocal cords on a moaning robot? Stumbling because his robot muscles haven't been used in a long time? It made no sense, they took a human's motion, behavior, appearance and sound, and then just exchanged flesh for metal, which makes no sense to me. And then you say that it's only the acting that made him human, come on, everything except his skin made him appear human!

I mean, anyone can come up with some convoluted ideas that explain why the above does make sense... like the robot breaths because there's an organic brain in there that needs oxygen, they moan because it's still a human brain and the machine is sending his brain an overload of sensory data that is hard to deal with, the robot stumbles because his brain is new to interfacing with its machine parts etc. But I personally didn't like it and kinda roll my eyes when they go overboard with the anthropomorphism. Still it was hella cool, hope the full version will explain away my doubts neatly :)
It is sad when hire salaries for programmers are to be had in mainland China (e.g. Beijing) than Taiwan. There are just tech friendly places and those that are not, with the USA being at the top in terms of pay.
I agree with you 200% here, but the HN crowd don't seem to be able to even conceive that once cash is gone, it only takes a glitch, a bug (in software? Surely not!), or a malicious action by bank or state, and then you are left in a rather desperate state.

Today the bank can, and had recently, make mistakes, but o can still buy food on the way home thanks to cash.

Life can go on, even when "computer says no".
"marginal improvement" was the key phrase
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Theft is the involuntary taking of a persons property, money, or labor.

Taxation is the involuntary taking of a persons property, money or labor by government

simply adding "by government" does not magically transform it into something other than theft...

Allow me to quote one of my favorite political philosophers

"The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful." --Lysander Spooner
Security is not binary. (I'm becoming boring, most of my comments start like this.)

The question is what are you trying to protect against? If you are trying to protect against the local network, any VPN does the job. If you are trying to protect against tracking, ONLY a public VPN does the job (having a static private IP is a disaster in this scenario). If you are trying to protect against any organization seeing your traffic, then your argument might make sense.

However, unless you can run that "private" server on metal you own on a network you own, there will still be a VPS provider and an ISP that can see your traffic as much as the VPN provider would. So you might want Tor a at this point.
Yours seems like a valid use case, but the underlying issue appears not being able to trust and administer your own computing device. From what I can tell a local firewall is possible (with iptables), but you need to install a custom Android build and 'root' your phone.
It's up to 1440p, played 1080p by default on my rMBP but I may have set that as the default a long time ago so perhaps you saw 1440p.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44M7JsKqwow
Bitcoin (or some other altcoin/cryptocurrency) would be the answer then.
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Correct, but "undefined behaviour" sometimes mean "defined by machine"

I mean, pretty much the same way as int or size_t has a machine type size dependency
I get 'Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL' on Chromium Version 37.0.2062.120 Ubuntu 12.04 (281580) (64-bit)

The live demo doesn't work for me
It's an interesting idea to highlight English. However, I believe it needs to be a little more intelligent than highlight.js.
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> If you want to truly inspire people you do so with honesty and good intentions.

No-one is being dishonest. No-one in this thread claimed Parks was the first. You're attacking a strawman.

> You don't grasp at straws and tell people they can be Rosa Parks if they do what you say.

Um what? Doesn't the history - the fact that Parks' act wasn't spontaneous but was in fact planned and organized - exactly align with that?
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Ever had to find the current playing YouTube tab among thousand of different tabs/window just to move to the next song? Nextube to the rescue!

(PS: Please refresh YouTube tabs after installation)
Yeah, but why would you do that? What would warrant considering that it would just be pure coincidence that the 7 best performers happen to have below average empathy scores? Of course there will be outliers in data. You must consider that there are also outliers on the bottom end of the math scale who seem to score above average on empathy.

What if the math group would have been up in the upper right hand corner? Would you then have made the same observation?

I don't really buy the "my children aren't good at everything but not bad at everything either so lets pick one", which was mentioned earlier. The questionnaire considered both SQ-C and EQ-C, and correlation was found between only one of them. You'd think both would have then been found to correlate.
> It doesn't matter a bit for applying for a job.

Sure it does! When I interview people, I tend to give a fair amount of weight in their side projects, because it's something they were actually interested in.
Salk was a university researcher, and his polio vaccine had its research and trials funded by public donations to a tax-exempt non-profit organization which was founded by FDR, the US president.

I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at. Are you suggesting that scrapping government funded research in favor of letting tax-exempt charities handle it instead would lead to just as much innovation?
I've never been to Victoria before but remember seeing it from the Olympics @ Port Angelus. It didn't look that far from on top of one of those mountains.
Don't think that is a case - https://vsee.com/blog/google-hangouts-dropped-vidyo/
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Pretty trivial to write it all from scratch.
This is why I use ember. It may not be the fastest or the greatest, but its more than good enough (what I can build, stability, longevity etc.) and it's opinionated to the point where I really don't have to think about all of these pain points.
This thread highlights exactly why using Bitcoin for this purpose is tricky for outsiders. Buying a gift card with cash is a process I can understand, but with Bitcoin the amount of knowledge needed to get started safely and anonymously is quite large, and there seems to be a lot of conflicting information going about.
There are actually companies that have a policy like this so that time off is granted to long-term employees who do not have children, while using the same time off as additional maternity/paternity leave people can "use early" (& above the state-mandated 2 weeks of parental leave) if life circumstances end up with them having a child earlier. I know this because I run one such company and helped develop the policy -- the company is http://parse.ly btw :)

We call it a "sabbatical", and it is five weeks of paid leave, meant to be used all at once after 4 years at the company, or used early by parents when they have children.

The Etsy policy of 26 weeks is certainly generous but honestly quite difficult for a small startup to offer. A big company like Etsy has a much smaller probability that several people on leave at the same time means an "entire department" is no longer staffed, whereas that would be a real possibility on our small team. We want to be fair to parents and non-parents alike, but we have to keep the lights on!
> msn.com, nytimes.com, aol.com, nfl.com, theweathernetwork.com, thehill.com, zerohedge.com and more

http://digiday.com/publishers/new-york-times-adblockers/

The New York Times begins blocking a 'small amount' of ad block users
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Since when some random website on the internet dictates "proper" configuration of TLS?

Hint: "A+" will make sure a lot of old clients which do not support fancy new encryption schemes will not get your content. If you don't care about that, it's fine, but do not call that "improper". It simply isnt.
Not even malicious. Just a mistake or law misinterpretation. Banking software systems may seem relatively logical (spoiler: they are very NOT), but legal structure around payments, compliance, taxes, insurance etc. is a mess. Tax returns are commonplace (this means that mistakes in taxation happens all the time).

Currently, if there a mistake, you can challenge it, then pay. What governments want is taking money first, then you can try to challenge it. I'd say no thanks.
Because it's a recording of a real-time render.

As opposed to a recording of a 1 minute video that took a few hours to render on industry hardware.

They ran it on a pretty beefy consumer PC that would cost thousands of dollars, definitely not feasible for ordinary gamers. Point is, it ran real-time on consumer hardware. It's sort of a showcase for what might become mainstream in the future, and what is already possible if you're the type of consumer who buys graphics cards that cost $1k for gaming.
The above is all true but only because gender-neutral words are not yet used widely enough, and the only way to change that is to systemically prefer gender-neutral words. Isn't it part of hacker mentality that one should fix broken things and one should not be afraid of change?

(I guess this is largely culture related thing, but e.g. among my peers (high educated 30s Europeans) gender-biased words actually cause more distraction.)
>The next time terrorists use encryption to hide their communications,

Has there been a first time? From my understanding to date there has not been any proven evidence that has been "hidden" away by encryption by terrorists.

In this case they have most of the info, obtained from apple under court order via the iCloud storage which Apple has full access to and can provide to Law Enforcement

In Paris the Terrorists used normal non-encrypted SMS

This entire FUD about "going dark" seems to be completely in the minds of the FBI and Prosecutors likely brought about by watching too many Bad Movies and TV Shows
>>> My ATM daily cash withdrawal limit is 75000 Fr. (not a typo). I dream of hitting it once, but I'm not that rich.

Isn't it a bad idea? Default limits at my bank are around 1000Eur in withdrawals a day but I have reduced my limits to what I might typically need (around 100Eur), just in case I get my card skimmed/stolen to limit the damage.
So... people who want to sell autonomous driving argue that human behavior and the organization of public space should adapt to accommodate the unsolved problems of autonomous driving.

The emotional appeal regarding 3000 deaths every day is a bit cheap considering the fact that many of those deaths are cause exactly by bad attitudes and bad road infrastructure.
> in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" and other celebrities

Many of whom work equally hard at what they do, and bring a lot of joy to a lot of people.
forgot Orwellian: "1984" has a strong theme of standardizing namespace conventions to make things clearer. They call it "Newspeak". A terrifying idea.
I don't know if it is a horror story, but I bought a kindle edition of a reference work to use on my iPad (it was a kindle-fire book, apparently optimised for tablets) and the app is so slow that searching or flipping pages is useless.

There are cracked PDF's version of the book, which I can search in seconds and flip pages fast, copy content into a google search and use my build-in dictionary to look up words.

The PDF version is everything the kindle version is not: Free and useful.
Usually anyone who does that would pre-make a different selection of food each day to give people variety, though.
Thanks for the enlightening view from the inside. Maybe you should submit it to HN as a blogpost and get more attention for Mise.
Fair enough but this one's been around for more than a decade and is a staple of game dev engines.
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That's been a common theme among people talking about the rising house prices in Australia as well. That Chinese people just buy property to park their money overseas.

But when someone looked at the numbers the number of houses that were bought by Chinese people were in the low single digit percentages.

While this could create some upward pressure on prices it cannot be the only factor. For instance in Australia most of the blame lies of negative gearing (where any money paid in interest on a property can be claimed against all income).
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