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The article is a little short-sighted. What time will we use when we start colonizing other planets? Those planets may not even have a 24-hour day. And to make matters worse, relativity tells us that a global clock doesn't even exist (look up simultaneity).
When I was taking security classes one of the things they kept mentioning is that it's possible to increase security so much your users grow frustrated and wind up installing backdoors for themselves. For example there's a long security review before installing new software, so someone brings in their own device with this software. They're not a hostile attacker, yet have opened your infrastructure up to new attack vectors.

The same is true for voting. The more secure you make it the less people will vote. The less people vote the less they trust the system. This then winds up undermining the very thing you were trying to protect.

Edit: I'm not arguing for zero security. I'm arguing that some thought goes into what security procedures you implement on voting, and how that enfranchises or disenfranchises people.
> people found a legitimate way to earn a living.

It is not up to you to decide what is legitimate.
I am almost certain that a both non-drunk and non-obese person has somewhere in the history of the world smashed their baby and slept through it.

On the other hand, if you live your life out of 1 in a million fears, your life is not very awesome.
MS's dream of Windows on phones is as good as dead – and that's great for MS
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How do you deal with the fact that some video tracks do not provide the needed cross-frame data or the times you're cutting are at unfortunate points which would require a re-encoding because a quick byte copy of the existing stream doesn't work or at the very least will complain later about missing things like color info (although it's played back correctly by mpv)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862789
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I recall that before unification(in West Berlin) S-Bahn trains used to be older and U-Bahn trains were newer. I do not know current state of comparison between U-Bahn and S-Bahn trains.
The open source drivers aren't configured correctly, Southern islands cards are close to feature complete with Radeon. Turn on DRI 3 and glamor.
"use UTC as a convention when talking about events that happen across time zones"

For coordination of events across time zones, perhaps. Would you really want to read international events happening in UTC in the news? In the local time I can put the event in context: is it evening? morning? Middle of the night? If it were UTC, I'd have to either look that up and do some mental math (or maybe the reading device, if I were using one, would do that for me?) or the author would have to provide it for me, which would be extra work on the author.

I keep coming back to, what problem does abolishing time zones really solve?
Apple's assumption (which is probably backed up by usage studies) seems to be that "real professional users" use their laptops portably, and use lots of weird ports, but almost never at the same time. So the laptop itself can be lighter to encourage that portability, while the ports can live on a dock at a desk (e.g. the Cinema Display, an older iMac, or that multi-port USB-C dongle that will probably just hang permanently off all the cables it's been joined to.)

For those exceptions to the "almost" never—mostly IT people doing field support—they make a litany of adapters. Adapters make sense for this use-case: the target type of user already carries many in a "toolbox", and this is just adding on a few more.

And don't forget the Mac Pro. Apple's own internal "real professional users" are, as far as I know, more likely to use a Mac Pro at their desks and then a MacBook for mobile portability—but they won't bother to try to do work with the MacBook that'd be better done on the Mac Pro. Which includes plugging strange peripherals into it.
Cause 4. Too much information.

Cause 5. Multichannel redundancy (i.e., reading something to someone as they try to read similar text)
In fact most of South Asian cities are in same dire state.

I was in Kathmandu in April and you can hardly breathe not because of smoke but mostly because of dust (as construction for road and water supply is going for a while.)

I lived in India and been to Mumbai many times. Man, the whole city stinks.
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Ambassadors, frequent travellers and military officers would still rather use local time.

And they make up 0.1% of the population. UTC would severely screw up the other 99.9%.

The military will use UTC when necessary, as will computer nerds like us.

FYI - a very long time ago, I was a 'military officer'. We used local time unless it was necessary. UTC is a very counterintuitive concept. You day changes midday. Your times are always messed up.

It's more than just 'noon' and 'sunset' that's baked into your psyche: your psychology is used to what 2pm means, and what 4:30 pm means, and what 9 pm means etc..

Time Zones are not perfect, but they are a decent compromise between global/local time.

They are not that inconvenient at all. All you have to know is which zone you're in.

Jet-lag won't be helped by UTC :)
My general opinion is that mafiosos are clever and would already have figured out a way to get around such tactics.
It is a subject of analytic number theory. Analytic stands for complex variable calculus.
UTC is 'Earth Time'.
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I don't care which side we keep the clock at, but going back and forth is just plain stupid and causes more issues that it solves.
Hat tip https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aburan28 whose https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885416 submission got flagged off earlier today.

This is the Forbes version of the submitted Reuters story ( http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-audi-... ), both originated with apparently leprous German newspaper Bild.
What kind of military officer? I was mostly picturing the kind that did long-haul submarine excursions and had no sense of local time anyway. :)
Cool. I looked for it when they launched the last season and couldn't find it. Would love to watch it again.
They don't. I wouldn't say that people boil in the Berlin subway, but 40 degrees Celsius is often reached in the underground on hot summer days.
There should be a strong hint to web devs that just about every browser out there comes with a easy to reach reading mode these days...
I searched the thread to see if anyone had mentioned inside out. I found that quite a powerful movie, with an important message. A lot of time and money has been spent trying to prevent people from feeling any kind of negative emotions. Most recently in the form of medicating these emotions away.

There are a few issues with medication, as I see it. Should we try change a person? Are you the same person if you medicate how your brain responds to certain events? There are risks involved of course, people react differently and increased anxiety levels are often associated with some anti depressants. There is also the problem of dependence and the search for the "perfect pill" to make them feel perfectly at peace.

And finally there is the question of whether or not these negative feelings are actually a key part of who we are, and trying to lock them away, and contain them just prolongs the suffering we endure. I think sometimes you just got to embrace what you feel and go with it.

Let me stress though, I completely accept that for some people medication is absolutely vital to ensure they stay well, and for many others it can be completely life changing in a totally positive way. I just think it shouldn't be the first thing your doctor recommends when you present with depressed or anxious thoughts.
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Great news, I should live forever then.
There's one key piece of knowledge that finally helped me understand all the conflicting advice I got from other parents: Knowing a little bit about the psychology of superstitions and how they tend to develop.

Long story short, if you're in a stressful situation where things you really want and care about (e.g., sleep) seem to happen randomly, then you're going to be actively hunting for any pattern that you can grasp onto. You're also going to be in a situation that's chock full of spurious correlations.
Exactly what I wanted to say. At one point I almost thought that this was a copy-paste job from some other, more clearer site.
Does this have any affiliation with Netflix? It doesn't appear to. Video streaming for kids looks more accurate.
Beat me to it!
That's why I said go back to Canada...
It's probably off-topic but I'm still curious... Which vendor's drivers that was?
I wonted to mock "grown up" companys inserting the milk cow into every product, because senior management now knows it better. Like for example inserting SEARCH into Amp.
UTC+8 has the largest population by far:

http://artscience.cyberclip.com/world-population-by-time-zon...

Therefore that is what everyone should use rather than Greenwich time as it would provide the least disruption.
> This would lead to your API being comprised of blocks of HTML which are probably only useable for one product.

Because for probably the majority of developers there IS only one product.

Here's what I think is happening. A bunch of us are working on websites that need to scale across multiple users and adapt to multiple clients and will have to grow and pivot as the business needs change. And they've learnt the hard way about building scalable systems.

But what is going horribly wrong is that their war stories and best practices and tools and processes are being used by a bunch of us who will never face those problems. And we're paying the price in terms of complexity for problems we aren't ever going to face.

If you're building a SaaS for a startup that might reasonably expect exponential growth, unfortunately your advice is being taken to heart by people building blogs and small web-shops and we're seeing some terrible technical decisions being made because everyone wants to do things 'right'.

We need a healthy dose of YAGNI drilled into people. Whatever happened to progressive enhancement? It still suits the vast majority of web projects perfectly well.
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This is by far the #1 thing. Humans are adaptable. If you (and partner) stay 100% committed to something kids will accept it as reality and move on. Waver for a moment and they see an opening. Just last night there was a stream of whining and fussing over dinner. After 5-10 minutes of us calmly saying no, sit down at the table, no you can't have something else, no you can't get up and go play they both just gave up and ate dinner with no complaints.

At times it can be a delicate balance between enforcing the rules that are truly important, being sensitive to their needs/capabilities, and letting go of things that don't really matter.

#2 thing is offer perceived choice, or give them a "win". Don't ask if they want to get dressed, offer them a choice between two outfits. Being stubborn about dinner: Do you want a fork instead of a spoon? Put it in a bowl? Some ketchup? Soooooo many times just giving them something to feel in-control about works wonders.
Actually, Apple products were always almost a 1:1 USD to GBP translation, which doesn't really make sense. If anything, I'm surprised that Apple hasn't increased their prices to match the depreciation of the sterling.
I work from 9:30 or so to 6. The reason is that it overlaps with co-workers' working time.

When I worked remotely in the UK for a company based in California (normal time difference 8 hours), I'd work into the evening for exactly the same reason. It's far more efficient; it makes IM possible, and changes email threads from multi-hour conversations to multi-day conversations.
For those of us that will not buy a Macbook anytime soon(the one I have is working just fine), show us the youtube!
S1E1 feels like an entirely different show. It doesnt really show near future tech it just shows something that could happen today. Try the rest of the first season. Very worth re approaching.
Yes, the author indicates he filed a report with Apple about one month ago, and hasn't received a response:
https://twitter.com/bufferovernoah/status/795275327962484737
It's mostly a matter of deliberate gerrymandering. In years like 2012 and soon 2016, a large majority of voters pick a Democrat for Congress. In order to keep control of the body, Republicans have arranged the districts so that they are guaranteed to keep a majority regardless of any plausible scenario of how the people may vote.
I don't think watmough was using the term depression in a clinical sense. What we are discussing would be more accurately called learned helplessness if we want to be technical.
Google wants to produce AI. An AI that people would be interested in interacting with is one that has a face. Machine Learning needs data about a given domain to accurately replicate human performance in that domain. Snapchat is a rich field of video/picture facial data, that Google would love the data from.
Ok I looked on Wikipedia and I stand corrected. In-fact farmers opposed DST.
> There a $50 budget deck can readily beat a $2000 deck.

For more info on that, including what percentage each archetype makes up of the total Commander metagame and what each costs: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/commander/full#paper
There's a trivial test to check whether your theory is correct or not: plug a new Macbook Pro, with a closed lid, into an external monitor but don't plug it into power. Current models require power to display on an external monitor with the lid closed; if the new model doesn't, it would all but confirm your theory.
But being at work/school by 8am is part of the disease. Do you think a 7:40 am sunrise is really too late for a 9am arrival? As long as it's not super dark by the time you're in transit, it seems fine to me (and yes, I realize that sunrise in December would creep up to 8:20).
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I've heard rumors that keeping the battery topped off (plugged in) also decreases battery life :) If someone would like to google that for me, much appreciated!
Don't know, but it doesn't really matter. Player segregation would be a clause in a contract between Activision and Valve first and foremost. How it's technically implemented is secondary.
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> When you're dealing with someone internationally, you know not to call them at midnight their time because there's a high probability they may be sleeping.

If we all used the same time though, instead of looking up what their time is now, you'd change to looking up what their time is when they'll be sleeping. Doesn't seem a huge difference but not saying either is better for that.
SmartGit is wonderful - I've used it for years - and it works on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
So far you have the most levelheaded comment I've seen (out of 4... not a big sample size), but just wanted to agree.

We all need to get off our high horse and be more specific, at the risk of smaller readership. For global teams that are making software, GMT / 24 hour clocks are great. But lets not project our reality onto the rest of the world. I love that comment!
I'm legitimately pissed off by this. Electron apps are always annoying to see but this one is genuinely offensive. I hate the culture and ecosystem Electron has allowed to flourish. This project is an insult to computer science.
Raising social skills to get more dates. What I learned so far:

Step 1 : Be attractive
I don't really see the benefit to reading books on investing. For the middle to upper middle class, it's extremely straightforward. Avoid taxes wherever legally possible. Invest in index funds and bonds w/ low fees. Don't panic when there's a downturn.
It's a really pernicious myth that homeopathy can't do anything harmful. Skeptics love to talk about the extremely high dilutions because it makes a story that suits their purposes well. But doing so is a bit dishonest; homeopathy generally doesn't use extremely high dilutions, but it doesn't always use extremely high dilutions. Nor are production standards particularly well regulated or enforced in many countries.

As a couple others just pointed out, homeopathic teething drops in particular have come under recent scrutiny in the US for having dangerous concentrations of belladonna.
Appreciate it. I try to stay evidence-driven. :) For extra data, Google Gernot Heiser with "L4," microkernel, or OKL4 terms + "evaluation" or "performance." He published lots of comparisons as they put it on lots of phones.
Propietary, requires an account and mergetool is behind a paywall (although this is not as significant). Ouch.
> That’s like buying a game from Target and learning you can’t play with people who bought it from Best Buy.

From TFA.
This sounds awesome! Is there a link to your project or source code you could share?
My first thought was that if we close our eyes while programming, that will force us to really understand the code we write...

As someone put it, it feels like "broscience".
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I've developed cross platform services for games. Out of the box, sure, it works for everyone.

But you can easily block and segregate your player base based on system type, or anything else.
As someone who is starting a new relationship where we are literally 10,000km away, this is my new normal. I feel intense jealous, anger, sadness when we are away, and we are close I am filled with pure bliss. Pure emotion.
$400 is about $350 more than I would have thought reasonable to spend on a card game when I was a teenager (15-16), and my parents would have thought $50 too much.

I spent about £25 on cards, and was probably given another £25 or so by a wealthy friend. The game was fine when played against others who had a similar investment, but the group stopped playing because of eBay: our friends with real money could buy what they wanted, and the rest of us could never beat them.

I think it was the first thing we did which showed who had money and who hadn't. We could take cheap plastic Warhammer figures, paint stars on them, and declare them to be powerful wizard-mages. Computer games were easily copied, it didn't matter who owned a board game. M:tG ruined the equality...

I looked into the game again about a year ago, but there were so many new rules (new abilities, new card types) -- I decided I didn't want to spend that much time on one game.
I'm arguing that dimming them makes them easier to see. Code and comments are interspersed, and are each harder to see when they're the same color.
Imagine buying an app from Google and being unable to run it on a device from Apple.
> It's an UNKNOWN problem because we refuse to effectively detect it. It could be huge, it could be tiny, and we just don't know.

The sources I provide clearly demonstrate that it is not an unknown problem. I would agree that it is a problem whose scope is not fully understood, but when you have something that doesn't seem like a big problem to most people, it's hard to argue that you should spend lots of time investigating it/divert resources to it. Since people's perceptions of the system are changing now, maybe that'll change, too. It would be one of the few good things to come of this election cycle if so, provided the money spent and time invested are reasonable/proportionate.

> After all, why allow doubt about correctness unless you actually are doctoring the results?

Like another poster said in this thread: Because you don't know better. Because you don't care. Because you don't think it's necessary. Because you can't afford to. Because it's not what the law says to do. Malice should be the last, not the first assumption.

You use the term "refuse" a lot in your comment; I don't think this is a matter of "refusal," so much as it is a matter of "nothing/nobody is telling us to." The government doesn't do things unless the people force it to do things, or unless those things are absolutely and unquestionably in the best interest of the people in government (and even then, it doesn't always act until the law compels it to).

Generally, I just think this issue is less sinister and more typical of the American political system than people think it is these days.
I've spent the last several years developing applications that have calendaring at the core, where users collaborate across timezones, and where proper timezone handling is expected.

Just try to explain to everyday people just how hard the problem is, the technical in and out, the practical miracle that it all works in almost all the cases, that all the error prone complexity can be eliminated by acknowledging that it's the same time everywhere all the time. They will not understand and they will not care. They will most likely consider you crazy. Like Don Quixote tilting at windmills.

We implement technical solutions to hard problems in order to simplify daily life for the 99.9% of people who do not care about things like timezones. Not withstanding the elimination of DST, this article is asking for the opposite. Furthermore, behind the scenes we already deal with time in the agreed upon standard.

If your dates are not stored in UTC in your database, you are doing it wrong. If your API and client software do not deal in dates in UTC, you are doing it wrong. If your dates are not localized when displayed to end users, you probably have very unhappy users.
Doing work for somebody does not automatically grant you the right to compensation. He did this on his own accord, without petition from Google. Google has no obligation to pay him at all.

The reason bug bounties exist is to reward hackers for reporting severe and/or difficult-to-find security issues, so that they don't publish it before it's fixed and so the company gets good PR.

In this case, the bug was clearly not that severe, and thus Google presumably decided it was not worth it for them to issue a reward. There is no right to compensation here, nor should somebody think they will definitely be paid if they do a company's work for them.
> You have the API inflexibility and UX restrictions of a pure-HTML approach

I don't see this. Can you elaborate?

> combined with the overhead

In what sense? Bandwidth? Rendering? Conceptual?

> and need for graceful degradation of a full-ajax approach.

I've found intercooler suits a 'graceful degradation' approach rather well. It is a small evolution of on from pjax/turbolinks - which itself epitomises progressive enhancement/graceful degradation.
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I honestly don't know how often it happens, and I'm not saying its common, but none of these are the least bit convincing. They just say that there aren't a ton of allegations of voter fraud or a bunch of prosecutions...absence of evidence and evidence of absence and all that stuff...
I was a Field Engineer.

People in submarines ... they live on 'rotation schedules' and the entire crew might be divided into 3 different 'sleep shifts'.

And as for time - who knows.

They can use UTC, surely they do for many things - that's why UTC exists - for those who need it.

For 99.9% of the real world, we want local time.

FYI - the '12 hour' thing is a little arbitrary. Napoleon, who instituted a vast array of reforms in Europe that are still in place today, including to a great extent the 'metric system' - tried to institute 'metric time' as well, i.e. 10 hour days.

Didn't go so well, the people revolted/laughed away at that one.

Some things are pretty 'backed in' to culture.

Time is one of them.

Granted I will admit one thing: I live in Montreal, and like the French, the use a 24 system. So coffee shop closes at 19:00. Which means '7 pm'. Which is hard to get used to!