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...And where is Shillary's invoice? I have to give Shillary credit, at least she is honest about wanting to destroy what's left of (White) America.

How much has America lost so far in terms of material costs due to what Shillary caused in Libya and Syria, and in terms of funding various rebel groups (read: ISIL/IS/ISIS).

As for Trump, he's just been dishonest so far. That's nothing compared to the destruction Hillary Clinton has done and will do when (or if) she takes office. I am almost actually hoping for Hillary to win — the faster everything breaks apart, the faster we can build up something great from scratch. And a lot of weaklings will be sent to /dev/null and never return.

All thanks to Hillary :)
...this is clearly the last time I will comment on HN at 1 AM.
Alternately, if the probability of liking the shows are completely uncorrelated, then with 20 shows you'll have 64% of the market watching at least one of your shows.

(and of course there's the worst-case scenario where all 20 shows appeal to the same 5%!)
Yeah, they won't go away, but they probably won't change to use a USB C connector. Instead they will stay at 3.5 or 6.3mm. That means you need an adapter anyway to connect those headphones to the device.

Now there's the valid question why you want to produce a passive adapter that is only working with devices that support analog audio on USB C instead of producing an adapter with a DAC that works on all USB C devices. I guess the answer is as usual: Price. The manufacturers might be flooding ebay and co with supercheap adapters. And the end users will as usual have trouble to find out which ones will work with their phones and which not.
In theory yes, but sadly i have never seen that promise realized in any consistent fashion. Same goes for Java's escape analysis. Although the principle is sound i think the engineering required is horrendously difficult to make it robust. In a very narrow window of variation it works, but should you step out of that zone it fails pretty badly. I think it will take many more years, till then pgo and metaprogramming it is.
"you only need one jack for charging and audio"

How are you going to do both at the same time? What a stupid statement. Oh yeah, let's turn our "thin, elegant" phones into a Christmas tree of idiotic splitters and dongles. And don't forget any of them on your vacation, or you won't be enjoying music in your rental car! Or watching movies on the plane with your girlfriend! Or... basically getting VALUE from what you paid for.

Spineless apologists allow shit like this to happen. Thanks.
Firefox started from a Navigator code dump, but KDevelop was developed in the open by volunteers, along with KHTML, which is how WebKit was then born. Back then it was completely possible to compete with IExplorer as an open-source project, because the expectations weren't that high.

I don't know what the situation for Linux is, even though I'm a Linux (Ubuntu) user at home. But traditionally Linux distributions have been building their own packages. I can understand such concerns though, I care very much about Linux.
Really interesting project. I did not know the method but am willing to give it a try. The code on github looks nice. Congratulations on releasing a side project.

I did not know what hot spots are, and the post doesn't mention it. Here's an introduction: http://www.30daysofgettingresults.com/2011/10/day-5-hot-spot...
Surely you would have to compare these with shows that were not cancelled? Firefly received a lot, but was it enough/more than others? Presumably something else should have been cancelled in its place?
It is worth pointing out that the title used here is nothing like the title used on the original article, which makes no claims about what anyone should have done.
Would installing Qubes 3.2 on a Thinkpad X220 with 16GB of RAM provide sufficiently good experience?
How the hell would your phone not have a DAC? It MUST have a DAC to drive its own speaker(s).

Which is what proves that this entire headphone-jack-removal scam is bullshit with zero excuses.
Nature certainly seems to be clobbering nurture as of late, if the recent spate of behavioural genetics research is correct. Parenting, deliberate practice, 'grit' - all seem to be superseded or confounded by genetics. Although it's probably irrational of me, I find this somewhat disheartening - as more of human behaviour is rationalised, the Calvinist picture that emerges is ... less interesting. A very weak and nerdy analogy would be that of an RPG where the dice rolls on the character creation screen led almost directly to the final dungeon. The prospect of more elaborate dice-rolling with the advent of genetic engineering does not make the game that much more appealing.
Also, viewer preferences are irrelevant when it comes to whether a show should have been canceled or not. That would presume that television networks are in business to produce quality content rather than to make money.

Advertiser preferences are far more relevant. One could argue that Advertisers usually want to advertise in shows that people like to watch, but there are nuances to that and IMDB ratings aren't broken down by demo, so we can't even know in hindsight.

The reality is that Fox's decision was likely based on being able to charge more for ads on some new show, which makes it correct both at the time and in hindsight.
And yet, shipping something that works and is performant while at the same time reducing development effort is apparently more important for Mozilla than using Rust or Javascript.

In other words: market realities are more important than philosophical arguments about programming languages.

They took the right decision IMO, they can't afford working on irrelevant side-projects when they're losing the browser war.
So what would be the workflow for committing (and perhaps pushing) partial changes in that case? Say you've made a lot of changes and they don't all belong together.
One season was enough. I don't know about the rest of you, but I quite like small one-off or short-lived TV runs because they often set out to tell a story and once their story is told, that is it. No tacked on extra seasons.
There is a lot value and money to be made in the long tail. Simply taking a black box approach and measuring what is easy to measure in the short run is not really useful to predict how many people and how deeply people will engage.

Distribution channels for narrow audiences (amazon for books/dvds, netflix/torrents for video) combined with social network dynamics have changed the game. Of course there is also the case that a world event changes the game. One of the most famous failed shows - not in the list - is Startrek. Moonlanding ignited that boom.
I am not sure why they would call it out as a bad thing.

It is a bad thing when it is used as a way to belittle someone. As a way to smugly dismiss their argument without having to actually examine it. That's bad, and it's common, and it's often done with a childish, passive-aggressive meanness of spirit. There's nothing inherently wrong with helping someone communicate better; it becomes a bad thing when it's used as a way to belittle someone and dismiss their argument on grounds that have nothing to do with the actual argument.

In this very thread, clifantic makes it clear that s/he will ignore what someone has to say if they are bad at expressing it.

one of the most valuable pieces of feedback?

Not nearly as valuable as feedback about the actual message, I would say. Even Shakespeare couldn't turn falsehood into truth by beauty of expression.
> and have to be used every time complicating even the simplest cases

Take a look at `git commit -a`. I sometimes teach this one to beginners if I feel that the idea of staging is confusing them.
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I don't really see the value in this. If git confuses you, then you could just use a UI like gitkraken. GL's syntax is basically the same as git anyway, so learning full git would be like 15 mins extra.
That's all fine. I don't care about that environment or use case; it's not harming anyone. I'm talking about PDF being considered an important part of web browsers. That's what I think should end.

I was unaware of the issues you bring up about SVG; it's not a problem I've seen in a while (though I remember it being an issue many years ago going back and forth between Inkscape and Illustrator, and of course browsers had awful SVG support for a long while). But, professionals in specialist industries can use whatever tools they like, without making the rest of the world carry around that baggage. So, carry on using PDF for this purpose, just don't ask every browser to support it. It shouldn't be a part of the web anymore, even if PDF still has a place in pre-press, or something.
> ...it's 10,000 hours of practice the right way and ideally with an effective teacher.

There are a few problems with this.

One is that it's unfalsifiable. For any given case of failure you simply say the practice was not deliberate enough.

Two is that we do not have that ideal environment for deliberate practice. There are only so many music conservatories. That's a resource problem.

Three is that we do not know what actually constitutes proper deliberate practice, and that the informational component of the practice is a lot more important than the hard work component. In the common regurgitation of this phrase and the principle, it's typically told the other way around - as if we have already figured out how to deliberately practice, and you can just go do the work. See my rather large post above.

Finally, practice even with the best information can't compensate for motor problems and other related issues, at least, I don't see how. There are most likely genes that code for various degrees of the quality of the physical apparatus, and then there are people whose body is more messed up than normal in general.

> There are probably thousands of people who studied piano from a teacher who was a professor at a music conservatory in Russia. They can't all become world-class.

This is an important point. If you have thousands of people trying to do something, they can't all become world class. Even if you have the absolute best methods, if they are more or less equally practiced, you'll get a homogenization effect and the best practitioners would be purely random. The more this happens, the more inappropriate it is to tell someone that they can become the best, because it requires some weird negative assumptions about all the other participants. It's not even work or genetics at that point, but just general randomness. This is not a problem that necessitates solving, it's an artificial one.
I order from Amazon about once a month, possibly more. UPS is usually okay, but it really depends on the driver. One of the drivers is actually stellar, others are average, and I've had drivers who just put up the couldn't deliver sticker despite the fact that I was home all day and didn't get buzzed.

Purolator was terrible, but the last time was during the whole Canada Post upheaval and they were swamped. It was "Out for Delivery" for about 5 days.

Canada Post is much like UPS in that it depends on who is making the delivery. I've had some excellent ones, some average ones, and others who just put up the sticker without contacting me.
This is what the Django ORM does when used with some degree of care.
Tried kdenlive just a couple of days ago and on Ubuntu 16.04, it's as crash-happy as ever
Thank you!

The implementation of hot spots in the app is something I almost pulled out. I think there are better ways of doing it. You are right though, I should have at least explained it :) Thank you!

Edit: I added a small section on Hot Spots on the blog (also used the link you so kindly found).
There's one of these in Perth Australia. Reportedly has a wireless keyboard for manual control...
For me, how we write is as important as what we right

I see what you did there, and it suggests a playfulness that means a question I was crafting about the literalness of that statement can be dumped. If anything, you've demonstrated that the wrong word in the right place can carry an enormous subtext. This, though, is a layer beyond merely correct spelling.
Indeed. Another issue is that java semantics is too rigidly defined. Compilers of many other languages have a lot more room in deciding order of evaluation, vectorization etc
"Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent", my music teachers say.
There were some studies on chess that seemed to imply that some people reach a certain level after 3k hours and some don't reach it after 30k.

I don't have the link on hand right now but I could find it tomorrow...
The NES Classic has a CRT filter to make games look properly old school
> Users should not downvote comments they simply disagree with

The site founders have explicitly stated that downvoting to disagree is fine. There is also the 'flag' mechanism for toxic comments.
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Do we really respect our daughters?
After the initial exuberance when it seemed that OSs could be implemented in Javascript the harsh reality sets in that the language is not even adequate for implementing a pdf renderer, nevermind a Flash VM.

Any sensible person could have figured this out, but Javascript developers are arrogant enough to think that they should use JS for everything and succeed.

This is a more than welcome wake-up call.
Lawyers aren't so funny when they sue you for trivial things.

There are so many instances where people try to take advantage of things. This is just protection. And it's not like they're providing nine images. It's nine million.
Of course. It's part of the PDF standard and PDF government forms and similar that you just fill out and print are very common.

So switching to Pdfium means added user friendliness and convenience for users and significantly higher performance (when we last evaluated PDF.js, it was far from fast).
There's nothing better about designating a class of people to sweep floors. The loss of power and agency is the problem.
> there's no way to make code "test-generic"

Sure there is. Stop testing random bits of internal functionality, start testing huge modules with well-known (semi-public) APIs, or your entire program, and combine that with a ~reasonable~ type system. You want full-system testing. You don't need a whole lot of tests to be sure "it's basically working", and it's a lot easier to turn repeatable bug reports into tests.

When you inevitably break a piece of functionality despite your types, you might not know precisely how it broke, but at least you know it's broken without a customer calling you up. And every time a customer does call you up, you can add a full-functionality test - "this is what the user did, and this is what I expect from that".

Every other engineering branch backs up good practices and solid math with lots of testing. So should we, types or no types.
Uh, you can easily see it in the Chrome source itself? Google actually maintains the fork itself here: https://pdfium.googlesource.com/
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I know it uses lazy results, but can you actually loop over the results without triggering a query? Could you write something like:

records = ORM.search(type='X')
for record in records:
record.a = record.b + 30

and only trigger a single UPDATE query?
It's neat that young people are learning to code, and doing it via personal projects rather than rote learning.

However, I think that this app would be used to brand someone as a 'target' for bullying.
I realise this is true for all social networks, but it's clear that the effect would be amplified greatly with an app that specifically targets kids with no one to sit next to.
Also, a bully could say that they are "open to sitting next to others" and pick on those that take that invitation.
I realise I might be a bit pessimistic but to be fair, most high schools are not nice at all.

The idea is not bad, but humans are pretty good at sucking.

Edit: Alright, went and downloaded the app to check. If a 16 year old made this by themself, I need to reevaluate my life. She would have needed to make a frontend, images, and a backend. The app does chatting too, and stores login data (not just oauth.). To top that all off there is a website[1]. They're also registering as a nonprofit. The website blocks right clicks, and in the keywords there are 3 names (presumably the other 2 people that made the app, presumably parents because of last names). The main page is 283K (before allowed to phone back home again to get images, etc)! <head> alone takes up 4.8k lines, and ends on

<!-- START SHOPPOING CART -->

Which is a bit odd.

<body> ends on

<!-- INCLUDE FLASH EMBED SCRIPTS -->

Which indicates that this was probably copied from another place with little to no editing.

It also phones paypalobjects for some reason, though I can't find a donate button. Also, the responsive design has been commented out? Though I can see why after uncommenting it, all the images don't scale at all.

I swear I'm not bitter.

[1] http://sitwithus.io/#!/About
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Plus, pdfium is actively updated, patched and maintained by Google.
I hated Dollhouse, despite being a nearly obsessive Whedon fan. I loved Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, and also loved Dushku and Acker in their roles on earlier Whedon shows. I kinda forced myself to watch it based on my love of all of Whedon's other shows, and the hope that, like Buffy, it would find its stride in the 2nd season. But, no, it was just bad. I didn't make it through the second season.
Fox tried so many crazy things. Brisco County Jr., Dark Angel, Alien Nation. They'd stand by shows that did ok, like x files or fringe, and constantly try random new stuff.

Yeah, i'm bummed with the rest of the internet that Firefly got canceled. Some browncoats still have some hate for Fox. But really without fox churning through random ideas, it never would have been made.
Zombies?
If somebody sends a pdf invoice then i can save the invoice. An html invoice on the web needs to be printed to paper or pdf in order to be part of a financial administration.

If it stays on a webserver, the document likely dissappears.
> Why would you want to add things piece by piece and not commit them?

It provides useful checkpointing, so in practice I find that there are lots of things that I will add to the index even though I am going to keep working on them. Committing these intermediate changes is annoying because it just creates extra work when I make the final (squashed) commit.

This strikes me as one of those disagreements that simplifies to, "That's not how I do things, that's horrible."

The other half to this is that commonly, during an interactive commit (git add -p or hg commit --interactive), I realize that I missed some small change. Being able to persist that state means I can add the small change without redoing the interactive commit.
Why is this on the front page? Okay it's mildly amusing, but it doesn't belong here.
And some species of frogs can survive freezing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_frog#Cold_tolerance
This argument, which was everywhere when apple launched the 7, seems like such a straw man. How often do people actually do this? Me: never. If you are charging your device, odds are good that you are within a foot of your desktop of laptop.
Underpaid according to people with sense. For one, market forces do not dictate reality. They are an artificial construction WE created and WE are responsible for. If they result in someone's mistreatment we should see it as it is and not wave our hands and say "well, market forces". Perhaps the mistreatment is not obvious to you but it is obvious to plenty.

For another, the "market forces" aren't really market forces because there are too many other things involved because we don't live in a vacuum of perfect capitalism. There are things like collusion, there are things like threat of loss of shelter and health, etc., that corrupt it. Proper market forces would require extremely powerful and knowledgeable agents that can freely accept and reject products. We're nowhere near close such a reality.

For an obvious example of immoral effects of "market forces", see googamooga's post over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12553936

If you don't see anything wrong there and your reaction is just "well, market forces..." I think you need to take a step back and think about what we humans are doing on this planet.
IKVM, the Java VM for .NET converted Java bytecode to .NET since a while, and crossgen/ngen can be used for .NET AOT(Mono also has AOT)
... I wonder what the human brain and body does in one second.
Is this it?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616...

Highlights
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Gf, Gc, Gsm, and Gs all correlated positively and significantly with chess skill.
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The relationship between Gf and chess skill was moderated by age and skill level.
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Chess skill correlated positively with numerical, visuospatial, and verbal ability.
Abstract
Why are some people more skilled in complex domains than other people? Here, we conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the relationship between cognitive ability and skill in chess. Chess skill correlated positively and significantly with fluid reasoning (Gf) ( = 0.24), comprehension-knowledge (Gc) ( = 0.22), short-term memory (Gsm) ( = 0.25), and processing speed (Gs) ( = 0.24); the meta-analytic average of the correlations was ( = 0.24). Moreover, the correlation between Gf and chess skill was moderated by age ( = 0.32 for youth samples vs. = 0.11 for adult samples), and skill level ( = 0.32 for unranked samples vs. = 0.14 for ranked samples). Interestingly, chess skill correlated more strongly with numerical ability ( = 0.35) than with verbal ability ( = 0.19) or visuospatial ability ( = 0.13). The results suggest that cognitive ability contributes meaningfully to individual differences in chess skill, particularly in young chess players and/or at lower levels of skill.
Reavers, I think he means.

[I'm tired of the trope. Probably my least favorite thing about Firefly]
Most of us on this site don't work for YC. I suggest emailing them if you must know.

I'd imagine one person saying rejection would be enough, but more than one has to accept.
Since food does not need to be reanimated, I suppose the benefits will be minimum

(Though the Sushimen in places were freezing is mandated might like it - even though this type might not work since the objective of freezing is killing parasites in fish)
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