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most modern apps use fontconfig to, well, configure fonts, and afaik ignore these Xft X resources.

So something like this is needed in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba"><const>rgb</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Haha this is the biggest BS I read in HN for life. Congratulations, sir.
I think this idea that Trump is anti-establishment is a play right out of the Game of Cards show.

Look at Obama, he had the Hope and Change rhetoric going, they even gave him a Nobel Peace Prize.

What did he actually accomplish? Medical costs are 5x what they were in some cases. The middle east is still in disarray. Police and protesters are clashing.

They talk a big game before getting elected, but the reality is that they have very little power once they are elected.

They would be better off reading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt then working off improving minor things.
A metrix where windows does not look like a failure has to be created first. Not even them are able to do so.
Apparently SpaceX call it a hover-slam, for a detailed explanation: http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10307/what-is-a-sui...
Is a relational database really all that much different from a file system? At the end of the day isn't a directory pretty much like a table? And you tie data together with their common id, or file name?

I think there is a difference, especially in practice. Relations are a first class citizen in relational databases. Integrity is enforced. Most types of operations can be bundled up in transactions.

That abstraction differs from non relational data stores and you have to design your application to fit it.
"Got us wrong" implies a fundamental inaccuracy in the concept. There is not a fundamental inaccuracy in the concept. Clarification is need to explain the nuance.

In regards to interpretations of their own work. They have largely spoken at arms length from what I'be seen and the book was popular enough to have lots of comments made via reporterst etc. I'm not claiming some coBS piracy, just the nature of these things.

Gladwell addresses this two years ago: http://www.businessinsider.com/malcolm-gladwell-explains-the...

To specifically address criticisms. One of then claim that deliberate practice is only 1/3 of the result. Gladwell, in his clarification, and original statements did not claim that deliberate practice was the only component. That was the misunderstanding from his book, not his intent.
"Got us wrong" implies a fundamental inaccuracy in the concept. There is not a fundamental inaccuracy in the concept. Clarification is need to explain the nuance.

In regards to interpretations of their own work. They have largely spoken at arms length from what I've seen and the book was popular enough to have lots of comments made via reporterst etc. I'm not claiming some conspiracy, just the nature of these things.

Gladwell addresses this two years ago: http://www.businessinsider.com/malcolm-gladwell-explains-the...

To specifically address criticisms. One of then claim that deliberate practice is only 1/3 of the result. Gladwell, in his clarification, and original statements did not claim that deliberate practice was the only component. That was the misunderstanding from his book, not his intent.
I don't really get this. It looks like they jumped on someone who submitted a pull request with a ridiculously harsh "code review", which inevitably provoked a defensive reaction. Way to go discouraging contributions to your project. The funniest thing about this is that the (alleged) code review is so detailed that the time taken to write it could just as easily have been used to actually modify the damn code. This was purely a hazing ritual.

Also, making generalizations about a country with a population of 1.3 billion based on a single interaction is really stupid, and pretty offensive.
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I get your point, but a pedantic remark:

The price of 30 year coupon-only bonds have increased by 30%+ in the last three years alone, because a constant coupon stream becomes more valuable if interest rates are lower. (The parallel to a rental real-estate investment is obvious.)
I keep getting Ads about cars (probably because I'm 30 years old male) despite the fact that I've never even learned how to drive or been interested in cars in general...
I assume their target grouping just isn't fine grained enough.
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I believe Steven Pinker has something to say about this, let me see if I can find it. Ah yes, here it is:

Also distorting our sense of danger is our moral psychology. No one has ever recruited activists to a cause by announcing that things are getting better, and bearers of good news are often advised to keep their mouths shut lest they lull people into complacency. Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.

It seems he was right in this instances as well, as evidenced by the down votes being applied to your comment.

Actually, everything, at least in my local area, is pretty good. There's no food shortage, we have medicine and vaccines, I voted recently and, at the polling booths, there was no one with guns telling me where to mark the ballot paper. The employment rate is pretty good. I feel safe and secure in my home and on the street.

What is it with everyone trying to scare the crap out me everywhere I turn.

Sure, things could be better, but I don't recall the last time the marauding hoards of barbarians came through and took all the women and children and burned all the crops, so can we all just relax for a moment? We might get along better that way.

We're a pretty persistent pest, we've even learned to write things like "Deliberate concentration and inhalation of contents of can may prove harmful or fatal" on the back of cans of fly spray - that's pretty impressive for a species who posses The Bomb.

We'll make it through these troubling times, just like we've made it through the past, what? 40,000 years?

Just chill the <expletive deleted> out.
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"This seems slightly off to me."

You are correct. GP gave an example of absolute advantage. But Ricardo is more famous for demonstrating that comparative advantage can be enough to make trade worthwhile.

Your field may be 1/3 as efficient at making cotton than mine. But perhaps it's 1/5 as efficient as mine in growing olives. So, assuming we both want cotton and olives, it would be worth you growing more cotton, and swapping for some of my olives. I get a little more cotton than I would have alone. And you get a few more olives than you would have.
I would bet there are a number of insurers willing to do so, if only to get their foot in the door for suture launches. They may require some sort of data sharing to allow them to develop actuarial models, which would then mean they could offer truly competitive insurance rates...
I hope he has his own Thoros of Myr standing by ready to breathe life back into him if he keels over at the keyboard... We don't need another Robert Jordan situation
I've observed that often the people screaming "respect my right to do <thing x>" are the ones who are intolerant to my right to think <thing x> is wrong/stupid and say so.

You see this particularly with religions who think that belief in something unprovable should give them special rights.
Not quite. Have you seen the demographics for Barking and Dagenham?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Barking_and_...

It's actually been specifically mentioned in a BBC article on the same subject:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21511904

On the other hand, Havering is the least ethnically diverse area in London. Upminster has the lowest Simpson Index in the country.

Maybe it's places with the highest and lowest amounts of diversity that voted leave and those in the middle that voted stay?
36 years ago they wrote every popular iPhone game ever.
The biodiesel was meant to be equivalent to regular diesel, so it could be sold at the same price, but more expensive to produce. So a "previously non existent or previously carbon neutral industry" wouldn't have any reason to switch to biodiesel, unless it was already good for them to switch to regular diesel.
Why not? Because they can mate it to a 2nd stage that costs about $10-15 million and then sell a flight for $40+ million.

Not only is that a hefty profit margin, it's a full-scale, live-fire, "all up" test of reusability, all on someone else's dime.

This has been SpaceX's genius move since the start, they've been developing reusable rockets which normally would be a multi-billion dollar R&D effort. Except they've been able to fit that development program into a commercial launch business, so that the vast majority of the costs have been subsidized by their customers. Instead of being chumps who spend tens of millions of dollars per flight of their own money to test hardware, they get the same testing, or better, while turning a profit. And that's why Blue Origin is still working with incredibly small sub-orbital boosters that are not even in official service yet while SpaceX has been making money hand over fist for years and has also managed to pioneer reuse of orbital launcher stages (while at the same time doing R&D for manned capsules, next generation methalox rockets, Mars colonization, etc.)
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My pet theory is that the rise of automated testing was/is a big factor in the rise of dynamic languages.

Test suites guard against most things type safety does, so if you have a test suite anyway, the type safety becomes a net burden.
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But that is irrelevant to the customer. They just care about their own replacement costs (including time).
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I'm sure Trump will profit the most from that in the upcoming election.

Makes you think about how much in control of its own government the current leadership really is.
would you like to describe the problems you had with the existing solutions?
Vulkan graphics and compute API tutorial
Great initiative. Good job.
As far as I know real-estate prices in almost all of the cities are going up, even after adjusting inflation. Rents are low because of really high supply. Wages have gone down post inflation. Most people attribute the ever increasing prices of real-estate to illegal money/back economy, there are estimates that 23%-26% of Indian economy is unreported/black.
That's a depressing pattern in general. A lot of people like democracy... up until something or someone they don't like gets the majority of the vote.

It's especially interesting to see all the political figures against brexit talk about more referendums and reconsidering whether to leave the EU. Think it's time the Labour Party and the likes accepted the results and started thinking about how to make the best of it rather than trying to ignore the results of a major vote like this.
You certainly deserve a bug bounty bonus from all these companies.
It wasn't a reflown rocket.
I don't believe your comment to be a thorough counter argument to the opinion that the likelihood of an exchange of global proportions practically [is] nil.

The fact remains that even a misinterpreted signal has not lead to the trigger of retaliation.

I'd even go as far to say that nuclear weapons have never been used in an act of aggression in a time of war. The war was already over when the US blew up Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what the US did was just ass-hattery.

But if you find it helps your moral psychology to worry about it, by all means, go right ahead. I'm going to continue to feel more concerned about being involved in a motor vehicle accident, if you don't mind.
Rent control and protectionism are different, and immigration for instance, a hot subject in today's politics, is another thing altogether.

Supporting rent control doesn't make you stupid/uninformed, but the only other option is evil.

Protectionism is a complex topic in a world with currency manipulation, labor laws variability and geopolitical conflicts; it's only simple (and evil/stupid) in a world without these things.

And immigration is not just about economics, it's about who you want to live next door and vote. Here, people can disagree regardless of economic views.
36 years ago? That would mean 1980, but the code says "1981, 1982" in its copyright info.
True, but at least the artist has complete control.
Thanks for the comment. Matroschka is the German transliteration.
People voted for change (Brexit?) in order to keep things unchanging?

Not sure the theory fully checks out, but it seems very clear indeed that the policy narrative that's all about economics is not something normal people can feel connected to. It's just that it's easy (?) to measure and thus has taken over the debate. But if I'm a German or Dutch worried that TTIP will bring America's 'chlorine-soaked chicken' on my plate you can tell me as much about job gains as you want and i won't hear it - statistics and numbers don't feel real. Policy has to find the reconnect with reality, that means probably to purge the lawyer and economist thinking that pretty much dominates all ministries and government.
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Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but I find this incredible.
Wouldn't mice be everywhere humans are? Dogs too? Except the iss of course.
It doesn't necessarily need accurate timing under emulation. The emulator is god: it can play with time as it likes.
The Atari ST 1040 was a great gaming platform.
No, of course not.

And, of course, Hacker News is a really bad name for a community of software entrepreneurs, for a number of reasons.

First, it encourages people who understand the correct meaning of the term to associate this place with the art of computer programming, leading them to submit articles about Haskell as though they belonged here. There are a lot more people who care about that sort of thing than people starting software businesses (startup or otherwise), so we get a bit lost in the noise.

The big one, though, is that "Hacker" doesn't mean what computer folk know it to mean. To anybody but us (meaning roughly 100% of people), it means "Criminal Who Breaks In To Your Computer". That's what we associate ourselves with by naming this site the way we do.

I'd much rather go back to being "Startup News". At least then our only concern would be convincing people to stop posting general tech news here.
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A lot of new gTLDs were “just” delegated
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You could say the frustration of interaction is already apparent. The fact I cannot cut in right after a cow is so lame yet so familiar as a Windows user of the 90s.
It's quite possible to do these deals in short time.

For one, the young investment bankers and lawyers are accustomed to staying up late when there's a deal on. I used to live with one, and it was simply part of the job that the job was everything, all the time. Staying up an unhealthy amount is what they expect.

Also, this isn't a completely out-of-the-blue deal. Everyone in the M&A space would have given some thought as to which firms would potentially merge, and they would have made presentations to the bosses of the involved firms airing the pros and cons, the possible financials, the antitrust side, and various other issues.
For the same reason they haven't switched to ARM for macOS yet - compatibility. If Steve Jobs was still alive, he would've probably switched macOS to ARM by now, despite all the hassle. He's done it before. I'm not really seeing Tim Cook pull a move like that anytime soon.
So basically, any project which politics cancels can then be assumed to be completely unworkable? Basic income can now be rejected since the Swiss considered it then rejected it? Ok.

Incidentally charter city like policies have been tried. Hong Kong. Singapore. Gurgaon. But I guess all the successes should be ignored because Honduras cancelled their project.
"No doubt, my recent $8000 35mm camera investment was a safe one."

Ouch!
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Finally, a hardware-related acquisition that is more expensive than the Whatsapp acquisition.
There was a thing called [left-exit] that a lot of us voted for. There was also a good [green-exit] argument which made a lot of sense. Just because these are both almost hopeless...
It might be because it is a donkey.
It's not hard to do an FX trade of this size. I've written programs that trade billions of FX a day, and that was for a teeny tiny fund.

For large amounts, you call the broker, which I suppose whatever investment bank is running the deal will have figured out how to do.

But 24B is a drop in the ocean.
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Super cool!

When input validation doesn't stop at ";&' and similar :)
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This could be great for RISC-V's prospects, especially if Softbank decides to be more partial to which customers it gives the license, or if it increases prices, and so on - basically anything Softbank might do in the future that would piss customers off, could be a win for RISC-V.

Don't expect any major shakeup over the next 3 years though. Even if some customers decided to drop ARM right now, it would still take 3+ years before they come up with a strong RISC-V alternative. First, Android would have to give RISC-V its blessing (support it), too, but Google is a member of the RISC-V foundation, so I assume that's not an impossible task.
Wow that's news to me I thought this site was for tech news and Haskell was welcome
Just look at any recent Android phone. Font rendering is basically solved, all it took was making displays dense enough. What you are talking about is legacy software that doesn't scale properly.
Hopefully they remain true to their word about keeping ARM independent. Their licensing strategy has worked pretty well so far.
> Fuel up the stage, send it off and recover it again.

For first stages that land on a barge, they are already planning on returning them to the mainland by partially refueling them and boosting them back under their own power.
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what does softbank bring to the table? how is arm helped by becoming part of softbank?
Keyboards got cursor keys and mice, so the Wordstar diamond wasn't as great/needed anymore for the general user.

It has its fanbase, but then again, a lot of dead word processors do. Especially amongst journalists, where Amiga word processors and XyWrite still are being kept alive artificially...
Well, the predecessor to DB2, IMS, is basically a database in a file system. Sure, IMS is hierarchical and not relational but it is a full on database with fields and indexs. In fact, Mongo (and other NoSQL solutions) seem to have a lot in common with IMS including the lack of a proper schema and referential integrity.
Also recommended are the two other articles in this series:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/large-counta...

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/large-counta...
Because you need npm to install bower.
IIRC, Word Perfect was a peer/competitor to Word Star back in the day.
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Walid Phares wrote 10 years ago that Europe was going to experience a wave of attacks, and also foresaw the Arab Spring.
Regarding 1, Perl 5 copied the CLOS in Moose.

Perl 6 has that and a lot more of the goodies (multiple dispatch, etc), from parent and the brother comments.

But sure, I'd love to find a job where I can use Lisp or start with Scheme.
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> firefox is really sluggish

Statements like this are very hard to quantify in a meaningful way. Especially on Windows, over a time interval I can notice a definite performance degradation of programs. Often times, completely deleting all program data and reinstalling seems to fix the problem. On GNU + Linux and macOS systems, I've noticed that Firefox is usually snappier to render pages.

But I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that one browser is sluggish -- there are too many environmental variables to have a good discussion on this subject.
There are a few. Always Sunny in Philadelphia (arguably), King of Queens (NJ USPS driver), The Wire, Sons of Anarchy, Bob's Burgers. I'm sure there's some others; most of the street-level police procedurals are pretty blue-collar.
Also, every shuttle flight is human-rated. I would guess that SpaceX wouldn't use "refurbished" engines for manned flights, while they could cut down on the thoroughness of checks for lower value payloads.
Really, why not replace them? Its inevitable they will be replaced, the company which does replace humans at a low cost will beat the one with humans in it.
For those wondering: GRB = Gamma Ray Burst
> The ARM instruction set might well take over

looks around himself

It hasn't already?
That is a PR release but it is far from vaporware. They have been working on the systems, procedures, and logistics for years. You might want to look into their progress and the industry coverage.
You can't go to Google and say "I want to buy a dataset (anonymous or otherwise) of males aged between 18 to 34 who likes cars and drink beer".

You can go to Google and say "here's an ad I want you to show to a group of people, none of whom will ever be identifiable to me in any way, who are male aged between 18 to 34 who like cars and drink beer."

That's what I don't understand about all this outrage - nobody, not Facebook or Google or Amazon or Apple, is selling your personal information to anyone for any reason, all they're doing is providing a platform that lets advertisers specify broad categories of people to show ads to. What's the problem with that? Ads will be slightly more relevant to my interests? So what?

To be clear, I completely understand why people don't want Google collecting their data in the first place, and that's a perfectly legitimate concern, I'm saying that once the data is collected, what difference does it make if that data is used to refine which adverts you see?
I think a Chrome sync passphrase will protect you against that. Because (theoretically and I hope also practically) only you know your passphrase Google will not be able to analyze your history etc.
More interesting to me is to connect a real Gameboy to an emulator, probably with the BGB protocol - http://bgb.bircd.org/bgblink.html
"It invented numerous features including overlays, later to develop into DLL’s. It was the first product with dynamic pagination and even help levels among other new features. All modern word processors owe their existence to Wordstar — perhaps one of the greatest single software efforts in the history of computing."

I imagine he never saw the word processors developed at Xerox PARC, nor their OSes dynamic loading capabilities.
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Maybe you already have but try adjusting your cleartype settings if you have not. It makes a real difference for me.
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message ids, so that your irc bouncer can replay missing messages (after a reconnect) when the client requests them.

afaik there's already a proposal to add those
http://ircv3.net/irc/3.2.html