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> When users see GIF, they have the promise of a bite size animation

This isn't always true. Many, many GIFs I see around now are longer, if not full length clips and/or at obscenely un-optimized resolutions/sizes. Due to the ease of video to GIF conversion tools like Imgur, etc users have no reason not to clip longer and larger potions of videos for GIF conversion.

> webm doesn't promise to be silent

This isn't really such a problem with a change of a browser preference or use an addon. Part of this is also the responsibility of the site to auto mute if it offers embedding for that purpose.

At some point though there needs to be more user awareness and push for the better alternatives all around so the experience doesn't devolve further into posting 10-100MB GIFs of video clips (I see this on a daily basis) just because Imgur or GfyCat spat it out and their posting platform only encourages/supports raw GIFs. There also needs to be more hosts that allow direct video clip uploads to support this.

Edit: brevity.
Reflection you need to use, whether it be with interface{} in Go or with $scalar in Perl is runtime thing. reflect.TypeOf(tst), ref($tst) - there's no much difference.

Type mismatch errors for basic types are handled in compile time, be it Go or Perl.
I predict that many men will unintentionally urinate on the toilet seats and this will cause the swift return of the urinal.
You can do it with JavaScript and Python, two other popular languages in the space.
Ask HN: Chrome packaged apps are being deprecated, what's your migration plan?
Link to the announcement: http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html
Introducing Little Flocker: File Access Enforcement for MacOS
Not appreciably. Neural Networks' job (in some configurations) is to approximate their input in as few bytes as possible. There's a vague equivalence between machine learning and lossy compression.
> Exactly. That was the point of using Po-210 for Litvinenko. The goal was to leave no possible doubt who killed him and for what. It was a warning to all future defectors.

And the proof for this theory is? I'm not buying anything main stream media or our elites are telling us.

They can't present proof for their far reaching accusations? Then it must be propaganda designed to steer us into hating some government they don't like for various reasons.

If they don't like this government and believe that they can convince us by presenting facts then I'd be fine with it. But they don't do this.

> It is also interesting that as soon as War On Terror started Putin has quickly jumped on-board and also started to claim what they were doing was "War On Terror" as well.

Russia had internal civil wars in recent memory where they fought radical Islamist groups trying to establish an Islamic Emirate in Russian regions like Chechnya, Dagestan and others. And they had lots of terror attacks before this even became a thing in the West.

Islamist terror organisations were actually so strong back then in the region, that Russia _lost_ a war against them in the first Chechen war. Imagine the US loosing a hypothetical war against self proclaimed leaders of a Texan Emirate/Caliphate and ceding territory to them. You would go nuts.

These are some pretty strong reasons why any Russian leader would support a war on terrorism as I doubt you'll find a Russian politician (even within the opposition) that is in favour of establishing a Caliphate on Russian territory.
>But we did establish specific points where music would turn to combat and sometimes play or stop for cinematic moments. And that ended up being the system that eventually got modified for Deus Ex.

I'll always hold a special place in my heart for Alexander Brandon and his work on Deus Ex's score. It still remains one of the most immersive game soundtracks ever made. Tyrian's score was equally magical.
Reading it back, I did sound overly aggressive to the poster. I didn't mean that.

The attitude I was talking about is, "I don't see how it's safe because drivers can't get past".

The way I see it, the only ones in the wrong in that situation are the impatient drivers who are breaking the law by trying to pass when it is not legal or safe.

The main reason cycling isn't safe is because drivers are overtaking unsafely when they might be delayed by a cyclist.

People seem to think that it's acceptable for drivers to break road laws just because they are being inconvenienced.

This behaviour is not acceptable, and indeed is illegal (although unfortunately not enforced - thanks for protecting our safety NSWPolice!).

The post I was replying to made no mention of the fact that drivers are meant to exhibit some semblance of patience from time to time, and seemed to be saying that cyclists are unsafe on the road because they can't maintain a 70kph speed, when in reality cyclists are unsafe because drivers are breaking the law.
From 6-8 years old. Parents in China can 'speed up' or 'slow down' their child's education by putting them in school early or late.
The people who would be willing to sacrifice having kids for climate reasons, should have two kids. You don't want to have next generation where everyone's parents don't care.
Mechanical Phish (won 2nd place at Darpa CGC) is now open
I'm German and never saw a light switch like in [1] in my whole life.
Your Brain Isn’t Wired for Consistency
I agree with most of your post, but:

> I thought dragging windows and applications across devices with a gesture would be a possibility in the not-too-distant future. Now, in 2016, this not-too-hard-to-develop feature seems almost impossible to imagine.

Moving a running process from one machine to another, seamlessly and instantly, is not at all easy on current architectures. Not that it's impossible (well, it might be impossible to do it instantly in all cases), but it would be a hell of a lot of work, even across a single platform, and have a lot of unpleasant snags to deal with. (What happens when important app/system settings are different on your desktop and laptop?)
Not a big fan. I don't want LEDs giving off green light everywhere in the house at night.
Just, why...
> But we're not all worse off for it. In fact, only a small minority who choose to be outside the mainstream are worse off for it.

But we are. Innovative ideas from fringe software tends to find its way back into more mainstream software.

> But here we're talking about being able to enjoy certain entertainment via one particular channel.

Well, and video information in general. Part of my argument was that if the technology makes it easy to "protect" content, and that becomes the standard expectation, things that shouldn't or don't need to be DRMed will be anyhow.
"Burning massive quantities of bunker fuel. The result is a huge amount of CO2...commercial ships produce more than a million tons of CO2 every day."

Narrator is unnecessarily alarmist here, and sounds like we should be concerned about the contribution of cargo ships to the greenhouse. I would say we should celebrate the shipping industry for being so much more beneficial to humanity per unit of CO2.
> No, this will become something you pay for (unfortunately). Higher priority in the traffic routing algorithm will go to those who pay more.

Doesn't this require for there to be only one self-driving car operator? What if there are multiple competitors that all route high priority traffic in a way that ends up making a route congested?

They're probably likely to collude, but it could still be an issue.
So, you're claiming intelligence isn't heritable? Citation needed.
Three Optimization Tricks for C++
How Tools Have Shaped the Role of the Designer
Can someone explain the logic of why ships in the Pacific sail in an upward-curvature between Japan and the USA? (they move upwards and then down)?

Or is that just a flaw of 2D-mapping?
Great article.

>Implementing rfc1035 was deceivingly easy

This stuck out to me - RFC1035 is the first RFC I've read all the way through and had a shot at implementing. Then you realise it's RFCs all the way down and there's no easy way to navigate through all the overridden / deprecated parts.
It can also be because people want others to know that they're not alone when they see strange delays when logging into production systems and there's a fix for it that you probably want to know about.
How to Rip the Best DVD Movies of 2016 So Far to Microsoft Zune
That's one type of kid.
There's never an ideal time to have kids.
Deus Ex in text form
Happy to help with that (although I've uttered that phrase way too much this month). I've got a toy DNS server and I also hit the problem of specs not matching reality (whoda-thunkit).

Wireshark's DNS dissector is exceptionally useful here.

I agree that it's a project in and of itself.
Pirates are gonna love this.
The money is.
Can you crack puzzles devised by the brilliant cryptological minds at the NSA? Find out by logging in to our totally legit, completely innocuous, not in any way a honeypot that collects extensive info on you, puzzle site!
I'd probably create a Rube Goldberg-esque setup that detected when the camera dropped off wifi and power cycled (Wifi-enabled socket, it's IOT all the way down) the camera.
The new, scary face of auto insurance
I'm more of a Car Talk "Puzzler" type of guy.
Pitfalls in Haskell
To answer the question "absolutely" you need a little bit more than your personal experience.
You're right. Maybe it's not as easy as I made it seem there. It's definitely possible, if you think of VMware's vMotion (live migration). That implies a shared hypervisor _by VMware_, of course, ... but it shows that technology-wise it's doable. When I saw vMotion for the first time, it blew my mind. Now all I can think of is how cool it would be to have that among different devices (laptop->desktop->smartphone->..).
That doesn't have to mean everyone needs to have children or everyone needs to have multiple children.

I'm not proposing that people curb procreation, just that the logic you proposed does not talk about the magnitude of procreation that would be 'optimal', so to speak.
ok, dbus has this ridiculous bug, triggering crazy systemd behaviour, more proof that both of dbus and systemd are best new shiny things since sliced bread.
Now I cycle to work and recently let my drivers license lapse. But the 1m rule sounds draconian to me. It means drivers have to keep about two metres from the kerb. That's not always possible on Sydney roads.

Sure, if the cars are moving fast then I would like a wide space. But in heavier / slower traffic (which was the common case when I lived in London), then I only need a "lane" wide enough for me to ride through. And heck, usually I'm the one doing the overtaking.
I can google image search gifs, but can't google image search webms.
The 'be predictable if nothing else' advice is critical. Best piece of driving advice I ever got from my dad. I'm currently in Hyderabad on a business trip and the only reason there aren't constant wrecks and fatalities here is because the only rule in the chaos is be predictable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

"Population boom: 40% of all humans will be African by end of century": http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-to-experien...

"By the end of the century, almost half the world’s children may be African": http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2161334...

But apparently the real problem is white, college-educated westerners having too many children. Thanks NPR.
> [3] http://media3.siemens-home.com/Product_Shots/915x515/MCSA006...

I will say this much: that seems totally intuitive to me. You tap the button for the burner you want, then tap the +/- buttons to get your temperature, right? I like having each burner's setting readout all together in one place, as well.

Everything else about it is terrible. Oven controls need to be tactile, they need to be immediate, and they need to not be three inches from a hot pan. That'll cause enough burns just from fumble-fingering in normal use--now imagine that your pan has caught fire and you're trying to select the left front burner and press - 8 times while your hand is showered with flaming grease. Who could possibly have thought this was a good idea?
I could refute this by bringing up the carbon footprint of India vs. the US.
I know we are supposed to be commenting on the article, but why is this headline "* is dead, long live *" so overused[1] on hackernews. It is so tiring.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22is%20dead%20Long%20live%22&...
> I think I know what a radio phone might do

It's just a mobile phone.

> I'm not sure I'd care to fly in a radio-controlled airplane.

They're unmanned and called drones.

> Radio clocks even exist (though a networked NTP timekeeper is more useful)

A radio clock costs few cents and works pretty much everywhere. With NTP you need to have a full IP stack and some internet reception.
A home is a massively illiquid and spectacularly undiversified asset, and the same benefits can be gained by, say, investing in a spread-out housing cooperative with a diverse set of owners.
There are many satellites doing AIS these days. Some commercial and some operating for governments. It has a huge impact on coast guard activities as you can imagine.
All vessels over a certain size is required to transmit an AIS beacon, and traditionally reception was from land-based stations with limited range. Coast guard can now correlate the information in the AIS beacon with satellite imagery and verify them, and can focus on vessels that does not emit the beacon or is falsifying it.
It can also be used to find the culprit of oil-slicks.
Xen demonstrated this (for hypervisor-managed running processes) prior to 2005. It was one of the selling points of their virtualisation process, though it turned out that live-system migration had a few additional hiccups in it. Mostly works now.

If you're looking at back-end-mediated stuff, this is pretty much what happens when you synchronise browser sessions across devices, modulo the rate of transfer. The key is managing state intelligently.

This is also done, mostly, on server-side infrastructure, where front-end systems have little to no state on them -- individual client requests come through, state is managed usually in the datastore itself.
Examples that bother me sometimes. YMMV of course.

Writing to a closed channel panics, but writing to a nil channel blocks forever.

Appending to a nil slice works fine, but inserting into a nil map panics.

If you have a function that returns an error struct, and you wrap it with another function that returns the error interface, nil returns from the inner function will no longer test equal to nil.

Defining a method with a receiver type of Foo, rather than <star>Foo, means all modifications to the Foo get silently dropped. This can also happen to methods that correctly take a pointer receiver, if their caller incorrectly takes a value receiver.

Maps are not threadsafe/goroutine-safe.

Expression evaluation order is not defined, and varies between compilers. (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15905)
Would additional space for bikes hurt bikers? I think it depends. If there is enough room to add better bike lanes without affecting car traffic negatively, the it will probably help. But if cars are forced into smaller spaces, I think more cars "in a hurry" will disregard the lines in favor of a clear road. Sure, they will be in the wrong, but it won't help the dead cyclists any.

And places like SF, with their already bad car traffic and limited land? They would definitely fall in the latter case in my book.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying, except for the claim that our parents' and grandparents' generation took the obsolescence of job categories with noble foresight. They were pretty much just as in love with bailouts and protectionism as we are (if not more).
If you're the kind of person who thinks about these things, then yes, we'll probably be better off with your offspring existing.
Yes, here's a picture & explanation: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/6822/why-is-the-strai...
Yes, that is in fact why I submitted it. It took a while to figure out it wasn't happening just because my server was overloaded.
If you don't mind tiny apartments and the smell of hot garbage, move to New York City. Many apartments still use gas stoves
Do cis males opinions and inconveniences matter less than other demographics? In this case a (presumably) very small group of people that's bothered by gendered bathrooms.
True, native + nonnative speakers of Chinese > native + nonnative speakers of English, but the relation I'm talking about is:

nonnative speakers of Chinese < nonnative speakers of English

If the vast majority of Chinese speakers are native, that means that not that many non-Chinese people are learning the language compared to English, and thus English is more attractive for interlingual communication.

China is big enough to be a world in itself, and for most of history has been so, but globalization means that it is part of a greater whole and competes on that level.
I don't see how it's alarmist to note the fact that they are by far and away one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gasses as a group. I think they could do better, and we wouldn't pay that much more as consumers for a lot of the goods, unless the biggest overhead really _is_ with shipping.
No they are not. They are demanding money, but they don't care if you inherited it, worked for it, found it, etc.
It's copyright 1989, but has "House Speaker Trump" as one of the villains!
I'm just amazed someone still gets content from Digg!
Ava always guesses the same color as Bobs forehead. Bob always guesses the opposite color as Ava's forehead.
I think it's a bit different here because most of the places where we have separated cycle lanes tend to have driveways with enough space to park a car without sitting in the cycle lane.

I think that it is safer overall in that when you do get doored, it's a lot safer. Sort of like how red light cameras reduce fatal accidents, but increase fender benders.
I get NSA jokes, but did you actually go to the link? Seems like a decent periodical.
Any word on whether Madagascar has closed its ports yet?
I've seen some of the results of what you guys teach -- you do good work.

This is also the first year that I've regularly had senior executives and C-suites (as opposed to tech) ask me about agile as a qualifying or competitive factor. I'm always nervous when process becomes a qualifier (due to the "best practices are no magic bullet" expectations management it requires, often in the face of the competition's unwarranted claims), but I'm happy to see plenty of F100+s thinking about how to effectively innovate within their core markets without throwing $20m waterfalls at the problem.
Color happens entirely in the brain. Particles have energy transitions and emit light at certain wavelengths, but this is not color.
> It's surprisingly easy to cross the border of native z/OS and the USS border. In fact, there's no border there at all. z/OS is one operating system with two different interfaces. So apart from normal problems and hiccups, you'll probably find that the biggest problem accessing the various services will be getting used to the difference in vocabulary between USS and native z/OS.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-bordercross...
A rotating knob is a lot more intuitive.
A Drawdown in the War on Drugs
Would your company like to sponsor TeenHackathon.com?
So has somebody fed all (i.e.: JS) github code into a neural network yet?
Mozilla started a new bug (take 3) for WebP support, so you can see the progress here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490
Saitama and Gunma, mostly. I think one in Tochigi.
Nearly 90% of San Franciscans cannot afford a median-priced home in the city
It's not "on the flip side" at all. On a highway, a cyclist and other slow vehicles are obligated to use the turnouts. But in the city, there are no turnouts or "slow vehicles must use turnouts" signs. So cyclists and other slow vehicles are not obligated to use non existent turnouts there. Why don't you complain about giant slow trucks not using imaginary turnouts in the city as "the flip side"?
That's called a destination control system, and it works that way because of the massive efficiency gains of letting the elevators work out who should go where.
I'd mow my lawn and everyone in my neighborhood's twice a week for a year (and snowplow the sidewalks / Michigan) if I could take a break from the kids for a couple days.
Though I'm sure everyone is aware, `systemd-mount` is merely a tool that generates systemd mount units, which have been around for a while and are a helpful concept for building dependencies between services and the mounts they depend upon.
"they are by far and away one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gasses as a group."

Wrong. Shipping is the most efficient transportation of mass-distance per unit of CO2. Shipping's CO2 contribution is only %3-%4 of total CO2 produced by humans.
Tyrian and Jazz Jackrabbit remain two of my favourites for music.

As an aside, anybody know the best way to get Tyrian running on a modern win machine with modern gamepads? I tried tyrian2000 and open Tyrian and no dice.
Your full IP stack and Internet reception will set you back about three-fiddy: https://www.amazon.com/ESP8266-Remote-Serial-Transceiver-Wir...
This is a long-solved problem. Stoves have dials to turn the burners on and select the temperature. Done, solved. This is one of those things that a simple, mechanical control is best.
That's why Microsoft stole all of the key people from Delphi team.
Oracle Application Express
> I saw a video about 6502 hardware emulation where the guy said his was half-cycle complete. Looking forward to understanding all of that.

To give you a little head start on that, where many digital circuits are clocked (or make one step) on just the rising edge of a clock cycle (where it transitions from low-to-high), the 6502 clocks on both the rising and falling edges; certain parts (like the hardware that initiates a memory access) will fire on the rising edge, then the part that needed that information will fire on the rising edge half a cycle later (like making the ALU start adding the value that was just fetched from memory to the accumulator)[1].

If you've ever heard someone say that a 6502 of one speed is roughly equivalent to a Z80 clocked at twice the speed, now you know why: the internal logic is essentially clocked twice as fast as the input clock.

[1] IIRC this isn't completely correct, and external memory is allowed to take up to 3/4ths of a cycle to perform a memory access to accommodate slower ROMs, but you get the idea.
I don't think all browsers support 4:4:4 vp9 webm with alpha, so so the lowest common denominator is chroma subsampling and no transparency, which is bad for pixel art.