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I'm considerably older than that, and would argue from experience that the mistake is in regarding everything new as just another fad.

Often it's good to wait a while and see how things play out with a new technology before deciding whether to invest in it. But you don't want to fall into the bad habit of making such evaluations on prejudice, rather than merit.
I feel like it would be easier to walk through how the machine deals with it at an assembly level. I if you restrict to a really basic level of just pushing, jumping, and linear execution. Recursion then just becomes executing instructions, even if it means calling the same method you're already executing in.
Sure, assuming the right time as well as place. Delivery matters. Raw jokes generally don't do well. Schadenfreude generally doesn't do well. Sarcasm generally doesn't do well. Jokes based on stereo typing 'the other' generally don't do well. Drive by one liners generally don't do well.

Humor that isn't mean, that is relevant and without agenda, can work when it flows naturally within something well written and not written just for the jokes.
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It's pretty easy to get the update manually if you want it. Search for Microsoft's "Media Creation Tool" and run it. It'll offer to upgrade the PC you're on immediately, or download the installation media.
How is the website racist?
"Live their lives". Sounds like an exaggeration for something as inconsequential (as you suggest) as pronouns.
Have not read the article yet, but just wanted to say I'm really excited about Thimbleweed Park, the new adventure game from Ron Gilbert (maker of Manic Mansion and Monkey Island, among others). Pixel art and all.

https://thimbleweedpark.com/
Many MANY cities are struggling with this -- business parks outside of the city core and the only way between is commute via car.

Frankly this blows pretty hard and the only remediation is reliable public transit between the two, or more to the point, some form of light rail (with frequent all-day every-day service) or even heavy rapid transit. Sadly many municipalities find this unappetizing as the time-frame for such a project stretches past a decade and the cost into the billions, so such cities will inevitably be left to languish.

I can only hope that they start to see the writing on the wall sooner than later.

The complete and total lack of attention to bicycle infrastructure is an issue too, but that is a whole different can of worms.
Serious answer: whatever happens is none of your or FBI's business ;)
I am not a gamer, but when I play I go with indie games.
I really enjoyed the visuals of "The Last Door" and "Fez" and "Superbrothers - Sword & Sworcery" much more so than any 3d game.

The sad truth is 3D games are now cheaper to produce and work at arbitrary resolution,
so the big studios will just keep popping them out because it's just so easy.
The same barriers that try to keep people from needlessly cloning and profiting off open source projects? Review processes.
Perhaps you mean "quiche"? A guiche is a genital piercing. It would be an odd thing to eat.
> Personally, I dislike places where people are provincial and close-minded, so I'll stick to the rural countryside and leave SF to the bigots.

I like that quote. Copied it to my notes for future reference.

To expand more on the topic, I wonder if remote workers are a good way to bring some revival for smaller rural communities.

I visit some of those places and many have a beautiful setting, everyone knows each other, there is a sense of a community. It is quiet.

There is probably a tipping point where if enough companies would hire remote workers, people won't be afraid to move to such communities. Currently many (including me) even if they do remote work, would probably be hesitant to move, because if they have to jump ship, they know there is a smaller chance of getting remote work again. So staying closer to a tech center seems like a better option.
. o O (Buzzfeed version of "The Secret of NIMH" - learn about this one new battery Energizer and Duracell don't want you to know!)

And more seriously, it's sad that people weren't interested in his attempts to fix it... which sound interesting even if they didn't work either.
>Pixel art is really treble, I just hurt looking at it in some cases.

In the immortal words of Jeffrey Lebowski:

"That's just, like, your opinion, man".

(Which you admit too, but I think can't be emphasized enough).
I draw, I paint (more than draw), I animate. Daily. So, I have a bit of a different perspective on this. Pixel art is one of the hardest disciplines I've tried. It's ridiculous. I wouldn't do it again. I only spent with it a bit to see what it takes, and it takes A LOT. If it's not outstanding, it won't get noticed as well. So, it's really tough on psyche. Somewhat like animation.

There's another thing I want to mention. I have a broadcast-quality CRT with consoles of ye olde hooked up, and pixels you see on sprites, especially on the edges, aren't there on CRTs. Magical scanline blends them together and looking at the pixel art on CRT is different than on anything else. Almost like they are anti-aliased, but they're not (smudged). I think that's a key component today we are missing from enjoying pixel art. When it was dominant in game industry, you couldn't see actual pixels. Today, they are fetishised.
Seriously. Gosling says "al­most ev­ery old friend of mine is screwed", and it should be a safe assumption that he bonded with equally smart and talented engineers at places such as Sun Microsystems. It's unreal.
It may be coming to larger military aircraft next.[1] Recovery strategies for fighters can be drastic. The F-16 auto-GCAS commands a roll rate up to 720°/sec, followed by a 5G pull-up. Only fighters and some aerobatic aircraft are capable of such aggressive maneuvers.

On the other hand, fighters are expected to fly fast and aggressively close to terrain. The goals of the F-16 auto-GCAS are

1. Do No Harm (don't initiate a maneuver that causes a crash)

2. Do Not Interfere (the pilot may be in an aggressive combat maneuver)

3. Avoid Ground Collisions

The conflict between 2) and 3) is tough. The rule of the F-16 system is not to interfere until a crash is less than 1.5 seconds away. This was established by flight testing with fighter pilots flying aggressive profiles that might be used in combat.

Larger aircraft are seldom flown that aggressively. Nor do they have the power and maneuverability to get out of trouble in 1.5 seconds. Today's GPWS and EGPWS systems provide up to 60 seconds
of time from the warning to airplane impact. The FAA says "The GPWS mandate reduced CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) accidents from about 9 per year in the seven years immediately preceding the mandate to about 4 per year after. This rate has remained fairly constant". So there's room for improvement through automated recovery that isn't last-second.

[1] http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a618503.pdf
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The Wall doesn't even prevent Mexicans from working for a US employer. Any willing employer can invest in Mexico.

And if Mexico's economic problems are self-inflicted then it makes perfect sense not to invite people who inflict such problems.
What is the consequence of memory randomization on VMem footprint? Is it a page-granular process invisible to the kernel?
Oh, sure. And one will be faster than the other in any given scenario. Not "faster like c++ is faster than ruby", though, it's "faster like this c++ compiler is faster than that one".
Except everyone has .Net installed, or at worst you have to install the runtime once yourself, which you still need to do with C++ anyway. Java's failure wasn't technological, but marketing.
So that when they remove it and there is outcry, they can push back on the negative press by releasing their survey results.
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The only part of that documentary I don't like is that they purposely don't mention that they boil the pond water while brewing with it (like you would normal water when brewing). It would have been way cooler if they had shown that yeast alone was enough to kill off other bad organisms.
> That does NOT apply to "all public employees"

Yes, it does. (Well, arguably not to legislative branch officers who are not themselves legislators, though AFAIK both the federal government and all states actually do have such officers make a similar oath or affirmation to the one required by the Oaths Clause.)

> That apples to Elected Officials, Judicial Officers.

No, it applies to:

(1) All federal and state legislators,
(2) All executive officers, and
(3) All judicial officers.

"Executive officers" is not the same as "elected officials". The oaths clause use of "officers" has similar breadth of that in the Appointments Clause (Art. II, S. 2, cl. 2) except that the Oaths Clause expressly applies to both state and federal officers, and the Appointments Clause only to federal officers.

> Further my state has no such clause in its constitution

The main additional effect of state oaths clauses (whether Constitutional or statutory) is to require an oath to the state constitution in approximately the same class of state officers that are covered by the federal oaths clause. (They often also reiterate the federal requirement.)
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They are pushing for it, but it might take some time. IIRC their new V8 architecture is going to bring some big memory and battery savings in that area, but that's not going to be done until next year at the earliest (complete guess on my part).
Hi I'm 32. I noticed some candidates show visible displeasure when being interviewed by younger interviewers. I know many interviewees and interviewers who have experienced this.
Ask HN: Automatically download components that can't be distributed?
There are many freely available components/programs/etc (from Microsoft for example) that anyone can use, but which cannot be distributed with a product. Is there any guidance on whether it's OK for your product to automatically download the component for the user in the background?
Author here. We know 128MB codecache was not enough and 256MB was sufficient. I think we could have gotten by with less, e.g. 200MB, but we stopped experimenting once we found a value that worked.

We don't have a complete understanding of why this app uses so much more codecache than other apps we've switched to Java 8. Now that we expose the codecache size in Datadog, I may try plotting code size vs codecache size for a variety of our apps.
The F-16 system doesn't rely on radar, although it can use it, because fighters often fly with radar off. It tells the enemy you're coming. It's based on INS/GPS and a terrain database obtained from radar scans of the Earth made from the Space Shuttle in the 1990s.
> elontesla@yahoo.com

Oh, man
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Really? So mobile support, change detection revamp, TypeScript, the removal of $scope, and all the routing changes are all just "meh" to you?
>Because, like it or not, the majority of people's education is the means to obtain a job in a related field.

The community college system is more than enough for those who view postsecondary education as a mere vocational program and doesn't require going "tens of thousands of dollars into debt".
Maybe "saving" would be a better word.
you're responding to the wrong poster. but seriously, you need to learn to educate yourself when you want to engage with an issue with some depth. others have pointed out to you the various ways in which you are ignorant. it's not anyone else's job to inform you.

if you want to just admit that you're not well informed on the issue and move on, that's fine. but you're coming in here with a strongly held and deeply controversial opinion, which you have expressed with language that is filled to the brim with weasel words, assumptions, and ad hominem attacks. expect to be challenged when you express yourself like that.
>what isn't so well known is just how that works

What isn't well-known to me is what you'd accept as an explanation of "just how that works" - are you looking for a psychological explanation? A biochemical one? An anthropological one?
I'm not sure that it good for fine tuning of multiple parameters because it's easy to move hand in a wrong direction. But I can't say it for sure because I haven't use it. The fun thing is that the process of controlling would probably remind playing on Theremin.
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I'm a professional brewer and fermentation technologist, formally trained in Brewing Science and Technology, also in Microbiology and Microscopy. I'm in early stage development of a new software solution for breweries of any size and eventually expanding to wineries and distilleries. Prototype is already fully functional, it consists of constantly updated database of commercial raw ingredients along with its analysis, specifically for accurate recipe development, it will also assist and manage all of your operations from "grain to glass". Another big feature is the new and way more affordable technology the we are implementing of remote monitoring and eventually control and automation of all operations, both Hot Side, Cold Side and Storage. We also want to extend the software for management of Brewery QA & QC and Yeast Lab operations.

I'd love to discuss the project with whoever is interested, feel free to comment below :)
I asked around at ng-conf earlier this year, and nobody outside of the speakers were using Angular 2. I did some proper digging again a month or two ago and still couldn't find any examples of large NG2 projects in the wild.

Not very promising...

React on the other hand, I stumbled upon looking at the source of the Wall Street Journal the other day. It is everywhere now.
Install IPvFoo in Chrome and watch how many servers have embraced IPv6.
Taking screenshots at exactly the same time when the observant is typing something into the very same laptop makes for undeniable evidence to the judge.
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"But since addiction is defined as compulsive behavior that continues in the face of punishment, punishment is clearly not the best way to deal with it. Dozens of studies show that shame, confrontation, and humiliation are ineffective and can backfire when used in addiction treatment."

I suspect this is case with many things, that punishment is ineffective. Punishment ultimately assumes people are acting rationally, and they often do not.
This is the equivalent of someone making a job site for black people to get jobs, and saying "be careful not to discriminate against whites!".
This poster[1] might be interesting. English spelling-pronunciation mapping is really complex compared to Italian for example. I wonder if Italian would be a better language for speech recognition. Most of speech recognition research is targeted at English, but with similar effort, maybe Italian would enable lower error rates.

[1]: http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/ML3/84.pdf
It's amazing when you consider the abundance of heavier elements in our universe today, that virtually all of it was created in stars, isn't it?!
Sure, it might be an unfair comparison, but the results will be far more meaningful to the end user.

Take a Macbook Pro / Surface Pro 4 with stock settings, put Edge / Safari under the same paces and see which one uses more energy.
I find it weird we consider over 30 old when legal protection doesn't kick in until we are over 40.
A complete theory which can predict behavior and the correct responses to behavior, and which stands the test of time. I'm not sure how to label that... scientific?
Alternately you can use the tool on this page, I think it skips some of the messing about you get with the other methods.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Thank you for detailed answer and especially a note about two hands. I didn't think about it, but actually it could be a problem.

Right now a MIDI controller with faders/knobs seems to be the most simple and reliable solution and it can be used with one hand as like as with two.
I wonder what evolutionary pressures caused humans to have these qualities? Surely the dopamine response in a crude way - but can we link the actual 'gambling-like' elements to human behaviours that might have been beneficial?

'Fear' keeps us away from Bears and cliffs ... but risk and gambling? Tricky one.
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Im on my cell now, so I cant verify, but is it not possible to do ?<query> like in chrime?

You have to excuse the browsers now that the consept TLD has been watered down so much. How would you want them to do it? Whitelist of valid TLDs in the browser? What if a new TLD is released and the users browser for policy reason is not autoupdated? The domain name is not supposed to work? No, it basicly has to be like it is now.
I'm 5 years on the other side of 50 and similar story. Did 8 years in the game industry, 3D and technical art, then as a co-founder of a small (22 employees at height) game studio, coding since then. Still love it - and yes I have a plan :-)
Honestly I would be completely fine with just about everyone doing away with the 3.5mm jack but only if there is a good plan to move onto something just as universal like, say, USB-C AND there are already compatible headphones out there for it. Yes it will suck for many who have older headphones but if it truly helps in the miniaturization effort of technology I would be willing to bite the bullet if it's universal.

Wireless right now kinda sucks. I've gone through 5 different pairs of wireless headphones ranging from cheap $30 Amazon ones to fairly expensive $150 ones* and pretty much all of them have connectivity issues regardless of the phone I use even when they're in my pocket. Plus battery life isn't very good. So we need a good, wired solution here.

Now moving it to lightning? Absolutely no way.

* Surprisingly the cheaper the bluetooth headphones the better audio and connectivity I've had. Go figure. My latest $70 LG headphones are MILES above the $150 ones I bought and broke a few years ago (can't even remember the brand at this point).
I'm sure philosophers also like to think that they're better at math than programmers.
It'd be amusing to have a little Faraday cage by the door for them to deposit into. :)
That's what mortgages and, really, all loans do. It's why wealth trickles up. The pattern you've recognized is a popular criticism of usury and capitalism in general.
> have a broadcast-quality CRT with consoles of ye olde hooked up, and pixels you see on sprites, especially on the edges, aren't there on CRTs

What about the thousands of games for hand-held consoles, which have always used LCDs, and were using pixel art for much longer than their counterparts elsewhere out of sheer necessity?
Yeah, mostly just javascript, with the occasional bit of jquery thrown in. Like I say, I've been quite deep in to various front end frameworks and scripting libraries and learned what is useful and what to avoid.

Turns out you can get a lot done when you don't have to constantly fight with terrible 3rd party javascript.
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They kind of did rebuild photoshop. And Acrobat. And pretty much every one of their products after the Creative Cloud move.
Yup, this is a major strength of the front end frameworks. It can't be understated in my opinion.

I work daily on a large Angular app and a growing React app, and my React app, while being more pleasant to work with, is also much harder to keep standardised and clean. I'm also already experiencing perf issues because of not using immutableJS, which is quite annoying...
Historically I believe F# was the first project Microsoft open sourced. I'm not sure the current incarnation of the project reflects the entire history, but the language has active community contributors, with Don Syme of MSR acting as benevolent dictator. https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/graphs/contributor...
See my response to "alzoid" about separation of concerns and bandwidth/processing benefits.

Simplify server logic

Use less bandwidth
> Everyone knows someone

No they don't. And your solution to not being stuck with closed and insular groups is join some closed and insular groups so that your name can be passed around as one of the group.
- http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/25/how-to-disable-windows-defe...

- http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-turn-off-cortana-windo...
I guess it is slightly better that the foreign owner pay security guards American Dollars to protect his property than for it to sit empty.
Come work for the government. Help to save tax payer's money and get paid well. Yes, the pace is slow but you can get lot accomplished in-between things.
I think this critique is just plain wrong on its face. A huge number of both game reviewers and players recognize good pixel art as great, and don't assign it a "pixel tax".

Look at Hyper Light Drifter. Every one who's seen that game agrees that it looks amazing, among the best looking games of the year (a year which includes technical powerhouses like Doom, Uncharted 4 and Overwatch).

In previous years, games like Fez, Superbrothers and Hotline Miami have gotten similar accolades. Even a game which is adheres to super-strict arbitrary pixel art restrictions like Shovel Knight was highly praised.

If people didn't particularly appreciate the art on the author's game, I'm going to say that it has very little to do with the fact that it used pixel art. The "pixel tax" is fictional.
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There is no "Xamarin for Windows" there is only UWP. Xamarin spreads in the other direction giving Android and iOS a more UWP-like .NET development stack.

For Desktop, probably still a better idea for new development to be in UWP directly instead of converting a Win32 app.

This isn't the "death" of UWP, this is a stopgap bridge to take the long legacy of old Windows apps and give them a new life in the UWP era, including making it much easier to migrate out of classic Win32/.NET for newer UWP APIs, one screen at a time instead of porting the whole thing at once.
It doesn't work that way. The hashes can simply indicate proof of tampering, so instead you get (some) assurance that there was no tampering in the evidence.

Attackers can still modify the data. For example, if they modify the feed before the hash of the feed is introduced into the blockchain.

Edit; Security at that level is extremely difficult as their adversaries are much more powerful and well funded. I can understand in that respect why DARPA would want to invest a large amount into that area.
"making the website effectively racist regarding devs"

Just so your communication skills improve, discrimination is not the same as racism.
Hey, nlp.stanford.edu has been down for 2 days
Almost every "store" requires an account. Try to use the Play Store without a Google account. That being said, since UWP itself isn't tied to the Store, as UWP expands, there will hopefully be third party sites to get UWP apps. (Eventually even Steam I presume will offer UWP apps.)

If you know where to look, pretty much everything in a UWP app can be opened via file explorer. Check out the C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Packages folder
I would trust a physical sliding camera cover a lot more than some internal "trust us, the hardware kill switch works" kind of production.

Although, I suppose if they were lying about such a thing it would become obvious quite quickly when someone takes it apart, and the PR shitstorm would be popcorn-tastic.
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