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I sense some wishful thinking here. WA will supplement JS not replace it. You'll have a canvas and that's it, but with the JS interface I can see how some people will try to abuse it.

You can get rid of JS's shortcomings for years now with compilation. That's not really the goal here. What I see here is low level access for raw power. Most of the JS apps don't really need it.

Edit: I take it back. According to this note, I don't see what would stop anyone avoiding JS at all.
http://webassembly.org/docs/gc/#webidl-integration
The site guidelines say the opposite, basically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You might infer that the tone he uses in some emails is for a specific purpose, not because he isn't aware of how to be polite.
>“One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash,” Brazile writes in the subject line of an email to Jennifer Palmieri and John Podesta. In the body of the email, she adds: “Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint.” The description matches what Flint resident Lee-Ann Walters asked at the debate.

Couldn't the question be reasonably estimated based on the fact that the woman is from Flint and that her family has lead poisoning?

Imagine somehow Brazile gets the drop not on the question itself, but the name of the person that the question is coming from. She Googles this person's full name. What comes up when you google "Lee-Ann Walters"?

http://michiganradio.org/post/mom-helped-uncover-what-was-re...

Gee, I wonder what she's going to ask at the debate?
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The major difference between trump and clinton is that she tells pretty lies and he tells ugly ones.
Quite a lot of automotive microcontrollers (e.g. for engine control, body control, gateways, ...) from Freescale are based on PowerPC. However you won't find Linux on these.
> No Mac user has ever thought "gee, this third party design is so much more tasteful than something that follows the HIG!"

Apple stopped following the HIG a long time ago. Even Gruber admitted it back in 2011. http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/uniformity_vs_individualit...

That article, by the way, is about a good counterexample to your point (Twitter for Mac).
they took away the Esc key and all the Fn keys. Apple's HIG is dead to me now.
Not letting the drivers see a location and trying to force them to drive into ghettos where they might get carjacked will probably not go over too well, especially with female drivers.
> Clinton _is_ a poor choice

I agree, but the other choices are even worse.
I lived in an HOA that took their rules way too far. Here is an example - paraphrased so your head doesn't explode: "You can't have any wireless devices without written permission, except a garage door opener and TV remote."

Right. Nice try. I joked with neighbors that we should all send one letter to them on the same day. A letter for each cell phone, wifi router, satellite dish, bluetooth speaker, etc.

This was in an area where many people were on wireless ISPs, there were a handful of ham radio antennas, etc. I asked someone on the HOA board why they didn't update or remove the garbage about wireless devices. The answer - it would cost to much to update the documents, so they don't try to enforce it. It is still crazy that they ever put it in there.

This HOA says no solar, but now that it is popular they also ignoring that.
...and that's when you [metaphorical you, not you personally] learn that political parties are made of individuals, and the ally of your ally is not necessarily your friend.
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Just wanted to say I appreciate your honesty about your experience. It's probably not entirely uncommon of an outcome and it's good for people wanting to go down this path to see something other than the glamour of multi-million dollar funding rounds and a bunch of buddies changing the world together. That's not to say there aren't plenty of examples of healthy entrepreneurship but human nature is a fickle beast and managing a handful of highly intelligent people who suffer from the same common character flaws (selfishness, discontent) we all do will probably prove to be too stressful a task for most. Congrats on letting go, I hope you can find healing and enjoyment in life after entrepreneurship.
You have a point in that it's hard to predict the future. On the other hand, I think freedom of the press and freedom of speech are pretty central American values. (Which doesn't mean they can't be eroded.)
I would totally buy a laptop with the weight and a bit thicker than my 2012 13" MacBook Pro, if I could get:

nvidia 1060/1070 GPU able to run VR headsets, without sounding like a hairdryer

Commensurate or better battery life

More than 16GB RAM

Easily upgradeable SSD.

More durability

Apple is not making this laptop! In fact, I have no inkling if they're going to make that if I wait another year, or ever. So why should I remain an Apple customer? I don't think Apple is interested in me as a customer. What kind of customer am I? Basically, a dev.
I should have mentioned - I don't mind Netflix (and Plex) not being included.

Maybe it's a big jump in my head, but the apps that I want grouped together are the "traditional" (cable station) apps that are usually low quality and require a multi-step 'activation' process to work on every device.

I can deal with a few standouts if it means I don't need to remember what TV station x or y is on.
Today you can get these tray servers with two trays in 1U (or 4 tray servers in a 2U chassis, typically), where each server is a standard 2 socket Xeon(-EP?) thing. So surely if you suddenly have twice the width you can cram in a few extra DIMM slots without having to go wider than the usual 19" racks.
I am not American, but really feel for you guys.

Here in Europe they advertise Trump as the Devil and Clinton as the best for the job etc.

Its very controversial, while I believe that Trump says things that no human being should be saying, you have Clinton on the other hand that seems like she should be in a pending trial for breaking the law.

It will be very hard for you to choose in between, I think though that whoever comes out to be the winner its not going to be a good outcome.
If this was accidentally 'found', what are the chances of 'zi Russians' deliberately stumbling across something by accident? More likely to be lowest common denominator? Attribution is difficult, but it seems people who should know better are running with the Russian hypothesis.

eg: toddandclair Premise connection is deemed obviously a misdirect, yet Guccifer 2.0's blatantly Soviet era metadata and Cyrillic type is not? I mean, if anything, at least with the Premise connection, they made it 'seem' like a mistake.

And the phishing email in Podesta's inbox, when multiple people already had his password/access to his inbox. So the conclusion is it was the Russians that leaked? Wouldn't it make sense to use Podesta's emails to increase the attack surface size for more targets?? Why would you want to relinquish that access when there was a good chance Hillary would get into power? And then all these other people with access, why couldn't they have leaked it? Hillary's campaign's attrition rate and cynicism was high even within ring of closest advisers. All you have to do is read the human side of the emails to know there are many, many, many, much more likely sources for the leak.
First, your F keys already change binds based on what's on screen. Second, you are ignoring all the things that are worse. You can't really touch type any more, you have to take your eyes away from the screen, and you get greatly reduced tactile feedback.

It is a gimmick, but in my opinion it's not an improvement, it's counterproductive.
Based on "The question of whether powerpc remains an architecture in the main archive
or moves to ports is one for FTP masters, not the release team."

That would imply to me you can continue to apt-get update upgrade into eternity as long as you're following unstable or testing. They'll just never be a new stable again for PPC. Someday the FTP masters will remove PPC as an architecture, everything ends someday, but thats not the topic of this notification.

There's a process where the release team freezes and grabs a "testing" and polishes it and cleans it up until it feels its a "stable" and that's never happening for PPC again, just too many release critical architecture specific bugs or the autobuilders are too slow or nobody wants to own PPC as a release arch or ...

The people and teams who generate binaries for unstable and testing are not changing their behavior per this press release, this is a release team announcement.

Needless to say this has nothing to do with stuff like online documentation or mailing lists WRT all the "Debian drops support" type of stories. All the release means is unless something very surprising happens you're not getting a 9.0 install disk. ftpmaster isn't rm -Rf ing the arch, nobodies shutting down nothing, etc..

I mostly hang out with the freebsd world but I hung out in Debian world for a bit less than two decades, so I might be a little out of date, but probably not much.
I think this is absolutely true; and you'd want to show drivers locations - I can't think of any way to obscure this, and it does leave a source for discrimination ("don't drive into the dangerous neighborhoods").

I'm not sure I have any good solution to that particular problem, but surely perfect is the enemy of good, and the human anonymization approach is reasonable low hanging fruit?
For example AirBNB talks about 2000 web servers with Rails. I bet they could be 200 web servers with Java. So because of Ruby, we have 1800 servers burning coal in a datacenter somewhere.
Eric isn't "Google". He's the executive chairman of the company. He's one voice of many on the board. Plus you have Sundar, Larry, and Sergey that also have a fairly loud voice still.
But maybe they'll make it hard or even impossible for apps outside the MAS to use the touch bar.
I'm tempted to call you a cynic, but the same thought crossed my mind.

We hear about "male privilege" so often these days, but the most privileged people of all (in terms of opportunities available to them) are young, attractive women.
Maybe Peter Thiel Is Just a Crank
Can you point me to your software so that I can hold you to that?
Well the reason I asked is because you did explain how you see it, but the only use I can see is the emotional manipulation of connotation management. I guess I just have this particular viewpoint.
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Can you provide a source for that? How is Ted Nelson's work Heraclitean?
I think there are a lot of HN users who are flagging political/US election-related topics in general, especially those that don't have a strong tech angle.

Just for clarification, as I understand it, "flagged" is a result of users marking it flagged. I'm not sure how a submission gets marked dead (for example, if it's moderator-only or can be marked dead if there are enough flags)

There's been a lot of discussion on other similarly politically-charged threads as well. For example:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12839742

Those are just the first couple occurrences I found. I don't intend them to be representative of any particular bias.
Thiel is an interesting that character I would like to know better, but he is not the best speaker. I wonder how comes is he so successful despite not looking very convincing, neither dominative or confident person.

When the (boring) interviewer asked about the Gawker sex tape, he was literally sweating and looking for water with his shaking hands. Other answers were kind of dull, it's difficult to understand his ideas.
It depends if the Clinton campaign encouraged her or ignored her. It changes it a lot for me how Clinton actually responded to the emails. Those questions seemed kinda obvious so it doesn’t look like it would’ve made any difference in the campaign but if she was actively trying to cheat then it’s a big deal to me. It bothers me that the article doesn’t really give context to the situation.
Use of that phrase was my nice way of saying, being an asshole. Which is why I couldn't believe he wrote that. I guess that's what fame, and power gives you.
This is being downvoted. I guess it's people who don't trust Drudge, especially without sources, which certainly isn't unreasonable.

However, there have been some very disturbing items involving the press other than this story of the CNN leaks. For example, here's what appears to be evidence of an illegal joint fundraiser between the DNC and the Washington Post:

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/wikileaks-emails-clinton-berni...

Note how the DNC lawyers are against this plan.
Bye bye, native app developers...
As much as I love HackerNews, questions like this are simply offensive, unacceptable and ridiculous.
I've read a TON of pushback on HN about the new touch bar. After reading this article it dawned on me -- the reason I hate the touch bar is because it isn't tactile. Instead of feeling for the volume up/mute/lightness up/down buttons, I'll have to stick my face into my keyboard to know what I'm pressing.

My solution would be allowing individual pressable physical keys to be changed via LED display, so that I can still feel them, but developers can modify what that key means. Yeah this would disable "sliding" which I don't care about.. is anyone with me on this? I hate having to look at things.
Best-case scenario: in 5-10 years you can use any language you want for building apps on the front-end, just like you currently can for the back end.

Existing, widely-used C libraries can be used in front-end applications if desired, and libraries in varying languages can all seamlessly interact with both each other and the DOM.
You probably mean Putin's advisor e-mails:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/26/kremlin-puppet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov#Personal_advi...
There goes my pong controller.
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Like it or not, they're voting for the "feeling" that something will get done on this measure or that measure, which has been studied frequently to be the primary driver of the majority of people at the voting booth. This just skips the middleman of having a coherent intellectual base. And if you think about it, so much of our economy is based on feelings rather than facts - "Market sentiment" is one of the larger economic indicators of future growth..

Of course, you have no way of knowing what someone will do, OTHER than to not betray the feelings that they've put out. If a large part of the country will not engage on hard facts and intellectualism, if you want them to come around to you you have to meet them where they are. They're not going to suddenly realize that everything they're constantly listening and engaging with isn't workable.

Thats why I think the actual left will start to rise again (taking some of the trump voters with them) - there really hasn't been a good hard villainizing of the wealthy in a long while, but there's a huge sentiment for it and it can only continue to grow.
The primary reason for this may not be that Apple does not want you to do it but it is probably the hardware and software that powers this feature is probably not robust enough to handle that creative potential. In short this is a substandard piece you are buying.

I will be surprised if someone does not hack and if apple does not provide a proper API support to modify and have fun with this feature.
So... because some developers might use it tastelessly, no one should be allowed to use it creatively at all?
Granted, people are often unnecessarily rude about their criticism and dismissive attitude, but -- they're the default because, frankly, almost all projects are not actually worth much (monetarily or otherwise), irrespective of how much time and enthusiasm the creators put into them. There's no need to be rude as a critic, but false praise is even worse than accurate criticism as it is actively deceptive. We are not in kindergarten. Stroking people's egos and making people think they did a good job when they didn't is not why we come here.
Now, admittedly, some of these things could be annoying or pulled off poorly.

This is one of the things that Apple has always been serious about doing right. Generally, devs who complain about this class of things are proved wrong in a few years. (Remember all of the outrage about background processes from the 2nd gen iPhone era?)

That said, even Apple is getting less Apple-y in this regard.
Peter Thiel defends $1.25M donation to pro-Trump campaign
I have stopped responding when people simply ask for citations. Saying "citation needed" is a low-value comment, and I have better things to do than look up studies which I've read, and you will probably dismiss out-of-hand. If you have good evidence which contradicts my comment, please post it, so that myself and others can learn.
Today yes since it's breaking everywhere. During the Wikileaks -- no. Despite it would be a hit to write whatever you find from the documents.
Link to the actual quote.
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/8509031
An Introduction to Vue JS
I think it's not a perfect replacement for a traditional car yet, but it's an incredible leap forward towards that goal for EVs. We are legitimately close to seeing widespread adoption of EVs by regular folks.

My takeaways:

1) Lease! EVs are evolving so rapidly that buying one outright seems unnecessarily risky. Or wait and buy one used for cheap.

2) We really do need standardized charging. If it's free, as I have heard, why doesn't Bolt and other forthcoming EVs support the Tesla Supercharging technology? Being instantly able to leverage that network would be a big deal.

3) The holy grail is going to be 500-700 miles of range, where you can do road trips (goal being a reasonable driving distance per day, not swapping drivers).
An older project I haven't seen mentioned on Hacker News yet. One of the few trying to do Win32 API, too. I figured some of you might find it interesting or useful.
Smaller buyers want features that get stripped out like HP or Dell's management tools. They always want easily replaceable hard drives in caddies you can reach from the front of the rack. Some designs use a 21-inch instead of 19-inch width rack. 277 volt power connections instead of 120v.
Would vim be fun/useful to use on an iPad? Because, I think that is what your argument really says...

>But this is more dynamic; what if the test re-run buttons were only visible after having modified a file, and replaced with a deploy or commit button if tests succeed?

More dynamic in that you have to look away from your work to trigger a re-run? Or more dynamic in that its completely worthless if you use an external display and external keyboard? Or more dynamic in that it's another avenue for show-stopping macOS bugs?
These are just guidelines. You can submit apps to the App Store that violate them if it makes sense for your app; people do it on iOS all the time.
It's not like they're going to ban apps that do this. They're just saying, "These are the best ways to use this thing."
Actually, tools are not that different across platforms as long as you write code, use version control and so on. As per topic - if you chose any of JetBrains product as your IDE of choice, it's cross platform (linux/windows/osx). And everything else you need from web stack is cross platform. If it's not (looking at you, windows), you can always go for ubuntu on windows via WSL, which is somewhat flawed with a few annoying bugs, but it'll come around.
Doesn't holding down the "fn" key bring them all back though?
Well, OK, but don't you always come out ahead flying on anything longer than 200 or so miles? (hmm a coincidental number?) I mean even Amtrak is faster than driving, if its direct and no transfers.
"Context-aware" as in the applications you use will decide what to do with the inputs, I guess, sure. The applications you use being able to create their own inputs is an entirely different thing and what I meant by "context-aware".

I agree, though, that the lack of feedback was a mistake.
> Goodwill is the amount you paid beyond the tangible assets

Wrong. For example "Hewlett-Packard purchased Autonomy for $11 billion in 2011. The purchase price represented a greater than 65 percent premium over the price at which Autonomy was trading at the time of the announcement. Hewlett-Packard recorded $6.9 billion of goodwill and $4.3 billion of other intangible assets in connection with the acquisition."
I'm betting the location thing alone would still keep 99% of the present discrimination.

At some point the question should probably change from

"How can we force Uber drivers to increase risk of losing well-being, wallet, and car in the name of fairness to customers?"

to

"Why are these neighborhoods/people/demographic so scary to working class citizens, and what can we do to fix it?"
A stock ticker or Twitter feed sound just awful to me. Hopefully when developers find a way to ship features like that, I have a way to remove that crap.
How long before some application hijacks focus by only pretending to give it up, just so it can display ads? (Also, maybe record keystrokes.)
It wasn't a matter of privilege, it was simply a matter of timing. 2014 was a year of "why are there so few women in..." including the DJ world. She saw an opportunity and knew an agent. Not really that tough to figure out and nothing wrong with it.
hey `lordnacho`, you made a good comment, but it's dead and invisible to people who don't have showdead.

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I agree that unsubstantiated intuition can be a reason for bad decisions, but the real culprit here is the idea of the visionary. Because the visionary legend is why we even have the word "strategy".

Society, through unhelpful renditions of history (think of any historical movie), lauds people who are "strategic thinkers". Big picture people who had the guts to follow some grand plan.

Well, I call shenanigans.

We're all told (I went to business school, but don't hold it against me) to be this sort of magical thinker type who comes up with grand schemes. It's unhelpful.

The reason is that, amazingly, we can all think up grand schemes. 20 years ago everyone dreamt up a world where all information was available all the time, anywhere. Everyone would have a camera in their pocket. You could work from home. And so on.

The people who actually deserve credit are the ones who can actually make one of the big ideas happen. Everyone is already looking for a way to make fusion happen, cure cancer, and so on. We know that we want a world like that, and normally when someone has a vision of the future, it's quite familiar to everyone.

As a coder, it's actually easy to see this side of the story. It's the BSers we tend to work with who have a hard time seeing why talk is cheap. I recall building an app with a guy like this where every suggestion was some sort of revelation. I told him to stop masturbating, and he got quite angry at me. But that's what it was.
I am bashing on Linux, absolutely; that massive bleeding wound is very raw and painful. I have no reason to bash on Netflix; I merely pointed out that, in my view, Netflix's problem domain is very narrow, and a luxury: most IT departments don't have only one (however massive) application to worry about.

As for you personally, I have nothing but highest respect for you. You are one of the reasons why I still haven't quit this industry. In fact, I still cannot believe I've actually communicated with Brendan Gregg. To me personally, you're a living legend. If I believed in personal heroes, you'd be one of them.