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So all this time I just missed that menu item? Believable; I am pretty dense sometimes. Gotta wonder why though, with a 'flatten' option already there, there's need for two versions of 'Open File', one that screws you and one that works, but that's probably history.

I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years. It has a scripting language (ok just Lisp but with image-processing primitives) that I use to generate hundreds of images for card games. Photoshop has some arcane scripting ability but they sell it. My game club didn't want to pay, which is reasonable. So GIMP has been useful to me for years.
By way of a plug, you can 2-way connect Skype chat with a few other services: https://sameroom.io/integrations/skype-integrations
There's a limit somewhere, but in the US we've gone well beyond it. The town I live in specifies the minimum number of spots driveways must have (2), and that kind of thing is not abnormal.

What would happen to all those people if they were forced to close their home businesses and rent an office somewhere else? What would happen to traffic?
Still got those images? I've been really interested, since I first heard Torquato mentioning hiperuniform patterns, circa 2010, what kinds of natural patterns exhibit it...
Just to be clear, we do support Snappydata as a library (unfortunately, the docs don't make this clear) that can work with your distribution (upto 1.6 today). Our releases will support the latest Spark version in a staggered manner.

Everything we have done is an extension to Spark. None of the existing functionality is lost. In a sense, we have turned Spark to work more like a database. So, don't think we can turn it back into the "mainline" (assuming that is what you meant).
Ever since they released Salesforce.com support C9 has been my savior from the awful "Developer Console" and the oft buggy and janky Eclipse-based "Force.com IDE". I will be very disappointed if this is nothing more than an acqui-hire :(
There's also noti (https://github.com/variadico/noti), which I use. Just add noti to the beginning of a command you run (i.e. "noti eb deploy"), and you'll get a notification when it finishes.
rebase for lyfe! Just don't force push on master.
Between this and the above comment about interviewing practices (especially regarding language proficiency), I would so apply to GitLab if I hadn't just started a new job last month.

Still... circumstances might force me to move out of state next year, and if that happens and I can't stay with my current employer, I'm certainly going to check GitLab's openings first.
Switching search engines in 2016 is much easier than switching browsers in 1998.
I did fund your original kickstarter for DRF3 as a heavy DRF user at $job, and now might consider signing up as a recurring payment. Your code has saved me a lot of time and effort in my career, so thanks much sir!
You mean they will stop hiring Asians?
Am I the only one that is disappointed that they no longer have a native Linux app? (The original Skype used QT)
Mechanic invents 'water fuelled' car that runs for less than 2p a litre
So many clients, so much effort spent... I wish the shared functionality could be encapsulated and used within other clients (some of which arguably far more flexible and thus usable), like pidgin (which is my favorite) and irssi...
> They can dictate AdWords pricing though, no?

Perhaps; they certainly have a very large share of search advertising and its a paid market, but whether they have pricing power is a fact question that I haven't seen strong reasons to believe either way on. Its pretty clear that there are competing places for online, even search-specific, advertising, and that firms make cost-benefit considerations in choosing these; its not clear to me that there is any range in which Google can increase AdWords prices without losing some business to its competitors, even if AdWords is so attractive at its current price point that it draws the vast majority of spending.
I guess all those Senators saying just that, are probably muddying the issue for us abject morons.
How I Slack
Hello Ycombinator,

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RoR - some
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> The real issue is that the code produced is meaningless.

Sounds like something I'd code up.
Startup Partnership
But you're not serving it, you're just selling the ingredients.
I'd have been tempted to rename the file to foo.jpg.png and rely on the fact they'll have "hide known extensions" on.

Or even just rename to foo.jpg and figure the MIME type and file header would be enough for browsers to still render it like a PNG.
I'm probably biased since I can't help but type, but writing and getting feedback is how I seem to improve my writing. As for writing blind, a blog post is sort of a "minimum viable product".
> I used to volunteer teaching coding to youths (teens in highschool, mostly)

Well, I just tried to sign up to c9 to give it a try, and it asked for credit card information (it is mandatory, even for trying it out). I'm not sure if all the youth has access to a credit card. Also, I don't think it is very user-friendly, but that is beside the point.
There are no dynamically sized arrays. All memory is allocated at startup and that's it.

This is the reason why you see power of two limits in safety critical software. For example "radar is able to track up to 256 simultaneous objects".

for (i = 0; i < 256: i++) {
if (NULL != object[i]) {
// do stuff
}
}
> It's been said that his best advocates are his children

May be it is the education provided by Ivana. Who also had the good sense of divorcing Trump.
An open letter from technology sector leaders on Donald Trump’s candidacy
100% correct, my mistake. I've not run Kodi, but I used a mix of Kodi and OpenELEC docs/forums setting up my Chromebox for Lakka, so I tend to confuse the two. I should have googled it first.
I guess we finally have proof that the mandate of the deep state and CIA isn't enough to start up a bogus "khalifate", no matter how many weapons drops end up in "enemy" hands.

(If you entertain these stories about ISIS or whatever name they call it these days do yourself a favor and research 1400+ years of Muslim history to see if anything remotely close to this bunch ever existed. Heck, look back to 70s and see what what was the resistance ideology du jour. Hint: it was not Islam.)
Sure ... whenever ...

I love to interact with like minded HN users/developers/entrepreneurs... and these days have developed an interest in the Twitch eco-system and how it works.

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Isn't the appeal of a strad much more "I am playing an instrument which was built in the 17th century, one that has been played by hundreds of years worth of masters, played for kings and queens, played almost exclusively by people who have dedicated their lives to the same thing I have dedicated my life to", and not "sure sounds better than the other ones!"?

If I could sit down at Da Vinci's desk, in his library...don't you think the importance of that would be the history behind it, and absolutely not that somehow the lighting in the library made reading better, or the sound of the birds outside made retaining information easier or some silliness like that?

Strads, like really anything else related to art, are about context.
At least you have mobility in the U.S. as a means to reduce your tax liability. By simply moving 250 miles east, your rate would drop to ~35%. Many people leave California for this reason while others feel the extra 9-13% is worth it.
Are you positive there is no precedence? I can think of countless examples of manually augmented reality.

Let's say someone publishes a book of addresses or GPS coordinates. They claim these are hotbeds of paranormal activity. Or ley lines. Or something. People are going to visit these locations based on fictional claims. Possibly they might even get something they value out of visiting the location. (Information from the dead, positive energy vibrations, whatever.)

AR that claims to be authoritatively non-fictional has been done too. Think of a tourist guide book, saying what is worth visiting around town.

I don't see how "the app told me I would find something there" is different from "the book told me I would find something there".
There are geographical regions in League kinda, they're just country/continent size. I enjoy watching the American teams try to compete with other regions (Europe, Korea, China etc.) People generally just root for their region to do well.

As far as rooting for teams within a region, it usually boils down to finding your favorite personalities like that other guy said. Most of them stream on twitch for hours every day.

Also, all of the local regular sports teams I grew up rooting for never win anything so having no ties and getting to be a bandwagon fan in eSports cathartic for me haha
First glimpse of Kotlin 1.1: Coroutines, Type aliases and more
Is satya stupid or something? What is wrong with microsoft? Why does it take so long to bring it to chromebooks and its still Beta? Chromebook doesn't run useless operating system like "Windows" and doesn't have any complexity. Why do you need people to beta test? Are you really that stupid?
> They can dictate AdWords pricing though, no?

It's an auction model. The buyer literally sets the price.
Information comes directly from the Chrome graphics team:

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-acc...

(I actually spoke with them personally about this while I was still at Google, but there's the design doc. It's been 2 years, so perhaps the internals have changed, but this was also the situation in WebKit at the time as well.)

And you do see weird pixelation effects - try rendering some text to a div and then animating 'transform: scale()'. You lose font antialiasing during the animation, which is why many sites that do this will fade out the text first, animate only the bounding box, and then fade the text back in.
heck, I barely follow eSports at all and I assumed Cloud9 the team when I read the title
> Cyberspace isn't real.

You could argue it's just as real as the other fairly arbitrary borders that define public vs private property.
Fwiw, a few UPS devices (for battery backup) could help out in this scenario.
> HTTPS has been around since 1996

A blog post about spending several years updating to a protocol that's been around for 2 decades and has been standard for full sites for years. This makes me feel like anyone who has an account on BBC should be afraid of their security practices. Calling a plaintext password leak from BBC right now.

EDIT: People are taking this comment more seriously than I intended. I don't actually think you should distrust BBC's security practices because of this, but I do feel that major websites should have side-wide SSL by now. It is clear that a lot of people below me disagree with that, that's okay, I'm glad I spawned a debate here.
How much is the grant? Is it bigger than the $3 million from DARPA in 2013, or the $24 million in Series A funding one year ago?

https://www.continuum.io/blog/news/continuum-analytics-secur...
You are betting on the people who joined ISIS in the first place to make rational decisions?
These organizations never die, they hibernate or morph into something else.
If they'll lose in Iraq and Syria they'll go to fight in Africa or Afghanistan, there is never a shortage of world conflicts that would lure these types of people.
I don't think that's the way radical groups like this work. Promises are edited from the record, "facts" go unchecked, and followers are already so emotionly invested they are incapable of changing their minds any more.
Any IDE that doesn't support Ctrl+W, fk you IDE!!!!
Nginx 'If' is Evil
Just curious if someone could give the tldr version of this vs graphql. I'm familiar with django, but not the rest framework, and have a basic understanding of graphql but am not really sure how they compare.
Then don't sweat it! :)
That's roughly the response time for Comodo customer support.
Hey! Thanks. I'll definitely reach out.
It's definitely worth trying!
I have used akka-stream once, and always expect something like that in erlang world. Finally, here it is. Thanks for the Elixir team.
I use flask for a few applications.. it works, but even in my cases:

Any sufficiently complicated flask application contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of django.

For sites that are just a few endpoints, it's great. I use it on an application that uses redis+gearman to spawn docker containers on demand. django would have worked too, but I'm not using anything other than routing and templating.

On the other hand, I have an application that I built on flask that I needed to shift the timezone of the dates.

in django you change TIME_ZONE and you're done. My flask app I had to fix it all myself, it was a nightmare.
Artillery is in testing at the moment and has landed a publishing deal with Tencent (along with an investment): http://blog.artillery.com/
IoT Analytics Platform
I dont think so... Maybe you were funneled into the free trial? I also use it with my students and it is free...
So why is it that Carleen Hutchins managed to improve on violins and she actually filled in the gaps of the range they have.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/building-better-violin...

This view that high tech produces instruments that sound an play like machines is highly reductionistic. If we understand how things work, we can improve it through that understanding.
You haven't been on many cross-atlantic flights on economy seats if you think so
Interesting. I wonder if there will be any trademark issues with the IT consulting company that uses the same name ( http://cloud9.net ).
The traditional game console solution for PAL consoles was to just have letterboxing with the extra 100 lines blank, with everything vertically squashed a little. Games usually didn't compensate for the lower framerate, so just ran slower.

PAL console gaming was a GREAT experience, as you can imagine.

Things got better from the Dreamcast onwards as they could software switch to 525 line / 60Hz modes (usually with PAL encoded colour for composite video, except for the PS2 which used pure NTSC), and it's all now moot with HD.
That has to be a new development. I'm a student and I signed up for c9 about a year ago without a credit card.

I just tried it myself and you're right, they just added it.
Lets tone down the rhetoric, I have immense respect for Thiel, he is a smart man, man of ideas and vision. But he is not infallible. As Gandhi said, right to err is a basic right. He is a known libertarian and for his own reasons supports Trump, so what?! Also remember, you are not infallible either.
How Privy Gets Users by Building Integrations
How Nginx “location if” works
lawyer whores say all kinds of shit they don't believe in order to "win".
Good example. First I've seen, and it doesn't apply to me so I will continue using them as I have, but good example.
Klinging to Keynes
The ones I've seen included with MAME (or maybe it was a MAME front end) are pretty easy to configure to get the look of a nice CRT display. Maybe because of the focus on emulating high-end arcade hardware instead of the sort of television set that the typical NES was plugged into.
The Wizard of Oz used this in the sense that they saved the change (from black and white to color) for a later point I the movie (about 7 minutes in, iirc). Rather than the movie starting in color the transition was used to ad splendor to the world of oz.
This implies airlines compete on customer service, which, with very few exceptions in niche areas, the most certainly do not.
Distributing fish shell
True. But it depends on your width/height.
You _assume_ that, at AWS re:Invent, you were a victim of racism, but you don't really _know_ that is so. Nonetheless your default stance was, and remains today, to _assume_ racism.

Also you speak of "constant racism". So, even when you're alone, do you feel the pressure of "constant racism"?

You cannot change the past and you cannot change how others act, but you can change how you think. Is it good for you to have a base assumption that you will be racially discriminated against? Are those the color of glasses that you want to wear in this modern world? What will it gain you?

There have been studies that show that it best to take the optimistic assumption: e.g., in this instance that they indeed were limiting the number of wristbands. Being a "realistic optimist" is a healthy frame of mind.

And really, if a denied wristband is the worst instance of perceived insult that you have experienced, count yourself lucky. I've been treated far, far worse at conferences, not because of racism, but because people can be jerks.
Agree. I closed the tab after reading iOS in the headline.
I'm not sure that the Ingress comparisons are accurate. Pokemon is the secret sauce that is making this ingress clone 'stick' for millions of people. I, like you, have questions about it's longevity, but the simple addition of Pokemon is not so simple, and makes this an entirely different beast imo.
You don't need cheap land to get cheap housing. It is possible to build buildings with many floors.
Science doesn't tell you what is valuable. Any form of government is inherently going to rely on a set of moral axioms to tell the government what to value. The difference between a rational and an irrational government would be that the rational government would be more likely to get results that match what is valued by its set of moral axioms. None of that changes the fact that a government guided by a bad set of moral axioms is going to get bad results, whether it is rational or irrational.

On the whole, I think liberal democracies have come up with a relatively good set of moral axioms so applying rationality would be more beneficial than harmful.
It was gutsy (and insightful) of them to publish to the world their upgrade experience. I wish people would be a little more positive about that instead of pointing out how much they suck.
This is a cool project. I did something similar with LSTM in Tensorflow to generate Reddit comments. The biggest problem I found in my experiment is that the comments generated had not real meaning, nor even tried to deliver a message. Real Reddit users identified this right away, resulting in my Bot being banned. I think the author faced the same issues here.

Does anyone has any suggestions on papers that try to solve that problem?
Relevant article by a violin maker who is interested in innovation: http://josephcurtinstudios.com/article/innovation-in-violinm...

"It must be remembered that the violin is a cultural icon as well as a working tool, and iconoclasts – those who smash of icons – cannot expect a warm welcome at the temple gates."

He won a MacArthur grant. More articles: http://josephcurtinstudios.com/article-category/innovation/
I've heard that native DOM interaction (no JS middle man) is on their radar via WebIDL. They don't want people reinventing the DOM via custom canvas rendering and such so making DOM manipulation painless is a priority.
The Last of the Earthquake Predictors
Creating a WordPress Site Visualization Plugin with PHP
Indeed. And how far did Rome fall during the Crisis of the 3rd Century? In those provinces that were unaffected by tribal incursions (Hispania, Africa, Egypt), life was golden! OK, Auson wrote his Mosella a century later, but it's required reading in this context. That poem tells of peace, peace since time immemorial.
A countervailing – and edifying – view from Boethius, who is always worth reading: http://www.cengage.com/music/book_content/049557273X_wrightS...
Exactly, the difficulty is not really in producing valid code but meaningful code. Same with text generation - while a recurrent neural network might produce grammatically correct sentences, I don't think we're close to it producing an story with an actual plot, discernible characters etc.
This article has been written a million times already. It's another holy war. Vim, spaces, rebase. The sad part is that IMO merge people are on that side because they are afraid of rebase or don't understand it.
Distributed Runtime:
Django can be minimal if you want:
https://github.com/rnevius/minimal-django/blob/master/minima...
The sort of software these rules are intended for run in constrained environments. The other question besides "Will this loop/recursion terminate?" is "Will we blow up the stack?".

Ignoring the time required to establish a new stackframe (versus a mere jump for a loop), the creation of a stack frame uses more memory. The less memory you can use, while still producing maintainable code, the better. And an easy way to assist with this is to remove recursion.

You could make the case for tail recursion, which a sufficiently advanced compiler will/can/should turn into a mere jump, like a loop, because it is. But this isn't guaranteed in the C standard and so should not be relied upon.

And then there's Rule #2. Loops are bounded, the index variable is supposed to only be altered by the loop structure (so: `for(i = 0; i < MAX; i++)`, that increment is the only place `i` should be altered). By providing a compile-time max, and incrementing (deterministically) the index variable, you ensure that static analysis of the loop terminating (or not) is possible.
Nest Relies on New Outdoor Security Camera as Comeback
This isn't a better/worse comparison. It's a differentiation-on-feel-and-sound comparison. The only thing this proves is that it's now possible to replicate the feel and sound of a Stradivarius to an impressive degree.

Double blind recorded audio tests often produce the same result: Listeners can't tell the difference between two DACs, two codecs, two amplifier mains cables(!) but as soon as the difference[s] are audible above a threshold, preference comes into play.

However a modern violin is produced, and however it is objectively 'better' than a Strad (if that's even possible to quantify) it will never be subjectively better for all players or listeners, if there is an audible difference - and therefore Strads will always be seen as the 'best'.
"Date: May 14th, 2016 at 2:45:08 AM PST"

Uggg. I know this is a lost cause but in May this would be PDT, not PST.
Up to 70% of people in developed countries 'have seen incomes stagnate'
I force push master when I know it's safe. If you aren't confident, don't do it. Don't piss off your coworkers. But this dogma is ridiculous.
Ad-tech company Tapad uses improv for team building
There's an important qualifier here, which is that the tools in question have to be nearly as good as each other, for their user's arbitrary decision making to become more important than the actual differences themselves.

I.e. as long as the bikes have two wheels etc, you will choose the one that makes you feel good.
> Yes, I chose an extreme example, on purpose to illustrate the point: there is some level above which almost all of us will agree that what you do on your property is a public concern.

This is the crux of the question. I think it's very arguable that we've swung too far away from letting people do what they want with their property in the US, though.