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GMT has always zero offset from UTC. During daylight saving, the UK switches to another time zone called BST, with an offset of +1h. Other countries might call their summer time zone with a different name.

UTC != GMT because the former is not a time zone but a time standard. No country uses UTC as a time zone because UTC is not a time zone. All times in the GMT time zone are numerically equal to times expressed in UTC though.
I think this might be one of the biggest problems with this. People's days would change...in the middle of the day. It's hard enough to remember what date it is. Imagine if you had to remember two a day.
Just a link to Amazon, with an affiliate tag so the poster gets paid for it. This user has posted four of these already, and nothing else:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=technobook
I understood and I totally agree with you--web based environment would be easier to show and teach; however, our current focus is more on completing the mobile platform before moving onto other platforms.
I vote for infinite time zones. Each town picks their own timezone based on solar noon.

We have tech to map for us when traveling.

Bringin 1900 back.
I also think that it's the right solution. The important thing is to disambiguate the timezone (UTC, CET, GMT, etc) and get rid of ambiguous time as much as possible.

I think it's similar to currencies. In a local shop, the currency is often implied. But on Internet, prices without currency is ambiguous and should be avoided.
Just a question. Why would you create a new button component when the only thing it does is return a <button> html element with text inside. Why not just do {listitems.map(listitem) => {return (<button> {listitem.text}</button)}}. I think react facilitates unnecessary boiler plate logic like that. When in reality a component should probably do more in order to save code if it's going to be created at all. Just my opinion. Open to other people's thoughts on this.
> Linux is a perfectly viable option for non-lazy people, who don't complain about everything.

And that right there is the problem. Laziness is a good thing, it means the software is being more useful. And you should encourage complaints and fix the problem, which can only make things better for everyone.
Just finished Dune by Frank Herbert. Now I need to decide if I should go on with the next books in the original Dune series.
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> What's the point? This would lead to your API being comprised of blocks of HTML which are probably only useable for one product.

Only usable for one product? There aren't many platforms without UI layers that have some kind of component for rendering/presenting HTML these days. But even for those that don't:

> Why not just use REST + JSON?

Markup is as much a data-exchange format as JSON is. If you're writing/generating it well, anyway.

I'm not saying never use JSON (I have and do). I am saying it's a little weird, though, that we've somehow got to the point where anyone who's commenting on this discussion has forgotten that markup has done and can do the job JSON does, or that we're at a place where as an industry it seems weird or potentially an interop problem to serve markup instead.
I'm curious about the comment that Apple doesn't care about people that use their stuff. Isn't it possible that they do care deeply, and that they have carefully designed a laptop that is optimum for most users? Of course, that means some users don't fit this profile, but it doesn't mean that Apple doesn't care.
24h time is the normal setting in France (and I think in most of Europe). Not that weird ;)
I just install the drivers manually now. I always hated Geforce Experience anyway. Crazy amount of bloat for some drivers.
Yes but when you look at time changes holistically, the CDC and sleep experts are recommending that schools start around 9 or 10 am.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sleep-scientists-sa...

http://www.startschoollater.net/why-change.html

I'm more and more convinced that most humans just aren't wired to wake up at the crack of dawn. The tech industry owes a lot of its hyper productivity to the fact that they have flexible hours for their engineers which tend to skew later into the day and night.
Haven't we learnt several times in the past that this is a bad idea? Eg. with Android or GAE/J. This is going to require a lot of effort for every upcoming Java release delaying support for a long time, again see Android or GAE/J. It also makes integration with Eclipse difficult at best.
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It's a popular library item: http://www.worldcat.org/title/poor-charlies-almanack-the-wit...

Many public libraries now include scanners at which books may be duplicated. There are guides (a good one is on Wikimedia) for creating PDF or DJVU output from scanned images. This is also one of the best uses of a larger-format tablet (9-10"). Sadly a neglected form-factor, and sadly, no current mainstream tablet is really an acceptable user environment (Android, iOS).
The difference between your example and the article's is that in the article's example the emails are signed with DKIM and SPF by google which marks them as legit emails vs your example which is not signed.
I had a nearly full box of 36 unopened expansion packs, from summer 1994, sitting in my old bedroom closet that my dad recently found.

Very annoyingly, the glue on the packs failed after 22 yrs, causing most to open up. Bummer.

I'm curious what they could have been worth if the glue didn't fail.
If I remember right but I may not be I think I have read they found one that eats arsenic. I'm going to have to double check that though.
Those are the most elongated escape keys I've ever seen!
This is about the subway (U-Bahn), not the rapid transit (S-Bahn), the latter had serious issues with maintenance a couple of years ago.
"You and your colleagues" can pre-arrange to do as you like. An "Earth time", if it existed, would be the result of a standardization effort to introduce a Schelling point, where you can expect other internationally-minded individuals and organizations to default to specifying times in terms of UTC.

With such a standard in place, it would be allowed to assume that when a person you've just met (i.e. not someone you've pre-arranged an idiolect with) says "I've got to meet a colleague at 3PM" that they mean "3PM UTC." If you based your actions on that assumption, and then that assumption turned out to be wrong, that'd be their fault for specifying a time-zone-less time in "globe-trotting company" when they meant anything other than UTC.

In short: an "Earth time" would be a matter of international etiquette, a social more of the cosmopolitan culture.

(The most obvious effect of this change in etiquette would be that, when you went to an international airport, all the times on the departure/arrival signs would be specified in UTC rather than relative to the local timezone the airport exists in. You'd be expected to do math to work out what local time that is, if you cared.)
Why will it give you sleepless nights? Are you planning on moving to Japan and you're worried about that now?
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12879179
In California over half of ballots are sent in by regular, old fashioned, snail mail via the USPS. I have no handshake saying my ballot was received, no proof that someone at USPS or with easy access to USPS shipping infrastructure (e.g. the mail trucks that don't get locked when the mail man goes out) doesn't swap in a different ballot, or any assurances that again someone isn't correlating my name and address with the ballot I mailed in. All these problems are mostly solved just by using something like HTTPS.

Now the biggest problem is how secure people perceive the voting process to be. And since most people don't really understand how these things works there will be huge room for conspiracy theories to arise about vote hacking. This in turns undermines the democratic system. I've talked to many people who actually feel more secure sending in their credit card details over the POTS or by mail, not understanding that these systems are even less secure, even after explaining to them the vulnerabilities.
But the current concept of time is also based on the outdated industrial age concept of a 'working day' being 9-5.

I doubt many of the people on HN for instance, work those set hours in this day and age. Nowadays it is purely a convenience factor to keep the worker drones in the same hive so they can gather for the next interminable meeting.

With the rise of remote working, and other forms of communication tools, no one has to be constrained by those arbitrary work hours any more. I personally do my best work late at night and well into the early hours, and have indeed had remote meetings with overseas team members at 10 or 11 pm my time because it actually suits me better than 3pm my time, which is when I usually try and sleep off my post lunch lethargy. (Note: I see the irony in 'post lunch' - The concept of 3 set meals a day is also another byproduct of the agricultural/industrial age that is not really as relevant in modern society where families tend not to dine together at a set time any longer).
Says a website with hover share buttons and distracting color choices. I had trouble focusing on mobile because this site had so much going on.
Your copy is pretty bad. For starters, take away the multiple exclamation points concerning not needing to give payment info. Second, change this:

We would love to hear from you. If you have any comments or queries, please leave us a message.

Both of those things signal that you are desperate for attention. You need to hit a note of being available for the needs of your customers, but not sitting around twiddling your thumbs, hoping against hope for the phone to ring.

Perhaps something like "For your convenience, you can leave us a message via this form any time of the day or night. We will get back to you as soon as we can."

You also need to change how you talk to your customers. You want to describe the features of your product in a way that makes it clear what the tangible benefits are. This usually does not come from giving "specs." You need to make that info available too, but that cannot be your primary means for explaining your value position.
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Often, depression is actually an avoidance of the underlying emotions -- very often anger. Unexpressed anger goes inward and is directed toward the self, which becomes experienced as depression.
The author likely neglected to mention Swatch .beats for a reason: only a tiny handful of people used them.
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Yes. If you want to be more happy, be willing to feel more sadness ;)
Funny enough, SF Muni's trains were built by AnsaldoBreda and they're huge piles of shit too.

They are over the design weight and have shoddy brakes so they're downrated from their specified top speed. The increased weight makes them much harsher on the tracks and transmits way more vibration to neighboring houses. The doors have overly complex mechanisms prone to jamming. So do the rising stairs. The air conditioners leak condensation. Overall they get far fewer miles between maintenance windows than they should - by less than half - resulting in a lot more cars stuck in the maintenance yard reducing an already over-stretched capacity.

They also can't be coupled more than two cars at a time (where I'm calling a car the joined halves with the flexible part in the middle). Even if Muni had enough cars they couldn't run three-car trains with the Breda units.

SF finally learned its lesson; Siemens is making the new cars. The first ones should start running end of this year. They can be coupled into 3-4 car trains, have good German engineering, working brakes, etc. Muni will also end up with more of them (~120 in the current fleet, vs 240 in the new one) so there will be a lot more capacity.
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The thing nobody really talks about is that the agency in question is a "domestic" security intelligence agency. It has no foreign intelligence mandate (unless that's changed recently.)

Reporters call it "Canada's CIA," but it is mandated by the government in canada to spy only within the country. They are not a police force and cannot arrest their targets. Canada has a bunch of police intelligence agencies. It is hard to see what democratic function a domestic spy agency plays. Maybe there are good arguments for them.
The steam API allows servers to verify a player owns the game and provides a server list. Actual networking once players are connected isn't part of its scope iirc.
In comparison, I took the pic at 4pm :( Not dusk yet.

In my poor design vocabulary, I pointed out at the Sun, and joked to my designer friends that one of them put a vector mask on the Sun.

I couldn't go around much after the friend's wedding. I wanted to do a 6am jog at Rajpath and India Gate. But a friend joked that it was pointless to look at "India Gate as a silhouette". At about 1pm when going to Humayun's tomb, I passed by Rajpath and realized it wasn't a joke. I was scared to venture out anymore after a day of roaming. I hope to visit again sometime.
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As someone who has helped people get off heroin, booze,toxic relationships, etc.. That jumps out as a red flag that the parents were sending signals that the kids were ONLY allowed to feel "happy", so of course they would be primed for addiction, not having learned the beauty of their entire range of emotions.
Fair points, though removing the fixed header, setting font to solid black, and a darker-blue link choice would help.

As things go these days, it's not so bad. The bar is set very low however.
https://www.marketplace.org/2014/07/14/sustainability/we-use...

> It took decades. Los Angeles had its first real smog attack during World War II, a smog strong enough that some people suspected a Japanese chemical attack. But it wasn’t until 1975 that the U.S. required new cars to have catalytic converters, “the key piece of technology that allowed everything to change,” according to Mary Nichols, chairman of California’s Air Resources Board.
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Pacman seems in incredibly simple at first but as anyone who has created a clone knows, it contains a lot of intricacies that give it a unique character to it.

It's amazing that the developers were able to put that kind of thought and design into it given the tools and technology of the time.
People on the West Coast would start their work week on Sunday around 11PM, and finish it on Monday at 8 AM. Then they would agree to a Wednesday morning meeting, and miss each other by a day.
That the Mafia can buy people to vote for their preferred candidates I think shows a failure of the political class. Why haven't politicians been able to deliver a government where what they're proposing is more valuable than a few dozen to hundreds of euros?
Here's a link to the original paper:
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/AcademicAre...
I'd go even further and divide every human settlement into multiple districts with schedules shifting gradually between them.

Like, in one "district" of the city most people would be sleeping, it would be quiet and somewhat dead, while at the same time a few "districts" over in the same city businesses would be open, including banks, offices and other stuff on extremely strict schedules currently. Yet in another district it would be leisure time, where most people would be doing whatever they do between sleep and work.

The point is, you could always find the appropriate district for whatever you want to do, be it business, leisure, sleep or anything.

Also, with digital timekeeping devices (watches, calendars, digital presentation of business hours, etc) schedules could all be dynamic. Instead of "2016-11-09 16:00" you could schedule things like "3 days and 2 hours from now" and all devices would dynamically keep track of how much time is left until the event.
Impressive work on the rooting procedure, but...

>For the TL;DR crowd: I wanted to run a Debian chroot in my tablet;

I'm sad that there aren't more people looking to run a mainline kernel + Linux distro on their tablets. It's definitely possible but a lot more difficult.
The working day is based on when humans naturally want to be active. Remote work, while increasing, is a fraction of work that's actually done. Humans are wired (in the majority) for the day, and our time conventions match that.
> I'm more and more convinced that most humans just aren't wired to wake up at the crack of dawn.

But ending Standard Time would make everyone get up one hour earlier all winter long.
Safe spaces disable free speech so you do not upset others.

Crocker's rules state you cannot be upset to enable free speech.
I prefer doing this with 'git gui'. It's standard and is very simple to use. What is important you can easily select chunks or lines to stage or unstage.
IMO improved battery life and standby time have reduced the need for a feature like MagSafe. When you're charging less often it's easier to avoid charging in hostile conditions. The break away adapter seems like a good solution for the people who still need it.
As long as it has a touchbar, sounds good!
>> I think most there don't really understand the health hazard or how bad it is for them because it's all they know.

Its not just that. Even if people are aware of health hazards, they think they can make exceptions for themselves because one person isn't gonna make things worse.

I lived first half of my life in relatively cleaner Himalayan regions, and when I moved to Delhi, I was almost always sneezing. I already was miserable living there, and now its worse. :(
> What strikes me is how everyone I talk to has a different experience.

Every kid is different sadly and especially siblings. My only advice is make sure you get a developmental screening from an expert.

// here is one example of the Denver II http://drhart.net/clinic/forms/denver%20ii%20developmental%2...
I attended elementary school in California in the late 70s/early 80s. We would have smog alerts when the air quality was so bad we couldn't go outside during recess.

California has been working on this since the late 60s. They were the first state to require better emissions controls on cars, they have tightened regulations on businesses and industries that would normally negatively contribute, and the push the problems of dirty power generation into other states.
For those who live in our Ivory Tower of the software industry that may be true, but the 9-5 concept is not outdated for a vast majority of working humans on the planet. Lets not project our reality onto the rest of the world.
Same. Hopefully by the time win 7 is not supported gaming on Linux will have total parity with windows.
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Here is another site that you might find helpful: https://metacademy.org/
People who live in states with strict absentee voting laws and who have to work on election day. Now perhaps the solution is to make election day a national holiday (and a real holiday where everyone but safety-critical workers are given the day off -- and no, cashiers at Walmart or car salesmen working for "our big election day sale" won't count as safety critical).
Kudos for just releasing instead of handwringing over anthing more complicated. I find that it's surprisingly hard to do!
Thanks for the tip. Install 4.8 now to try it out.
Remember, that the Apollo program was initiated before anyone had performed an orbital rendezvous of any kind.

And, yet, that became part of the plan rather quickly, it and EVA (extra-vehicular activity) were the big flashy parts of Project Gemini, during which I started following it all in real time.
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Bezos definitely makes sense since he is also a pioneer in the private space industry, a major philanthropist, and Amazon is a very large and non-traditional company pursuing a wide variety of goals in hardware and software.
Archived version: https://archive.fo/oZVQ2
This is a questionable review, bordering on dishonest.

It makes no mention that the new machines provide almost no performance improvement over last year's models, despite the significant price hike: http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/apples-newest-macbook-pro...

Edit: If the folks downvoting me would like to dispute the benchmarks, please feel free to contribute some new data to the conversation.
My Dad & Mom did that with my nephew and niece and couldn't understand why my brother had such a hard time getting them to go to sleep. I think active grandparents that are willing to take the grandchildren for a night or two often are a blessing on any parents.
Technically, it's not a compiler plugin - it actually replaces javac by extending JavaCompiler, wrapping it and applying additional verifications without altering the output. Effectively it's introducing its own API for compiler plugins, with those being the checks, very much akin to APT.

See https://github.com/google/error-prone/blob/master/core/src/m... for the entry-point.

I'm very close to getting out of my depth here though :)
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Can you share your email?
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Outdoors: prevention. Eliminating major pollution sources is what matters most. A good rain helps.

India's major population centers face a similar problem to Los Angeles: they're backed by a major mountain range (the Himalaya) which tends to bottle-up pollution. The second problem is that there are are roughly 30x the people living in that area (~500 million vs. ~15 million for LA).

Indoors: it depends on the specific threats you're looking to eliminate. Generally these include:

1. Particulates. A HEPA or electrostatic filter should help.

2. Ozone: Houseplants.

3. Other contaminants, including sulfer oxides and nitrogen oxides: possibly activated charcoal or zeolite.

See: https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/indoors/air/ozone_ge...
On the power charging thing, the 15" draws 85W and the 13" 60W, I believe this is at 20V, so we're talking over 4A, the USB-C charging cable they come with is rated for 5A.

My point is that most phone chargers will give you less than 1A, that means they would charge one of these laptops very slowly, maybe not even providing enough power to keep the laptop running if the battery is low.

You're still going to want to bring the laptop charging brick wherever you go.
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Only one of the laptops has an Nvidia card, and I've used `bbswitch` to disable it.
True to that. But ones opinion should be shaped by others, not acquired.

My rule of thumb is to never turn more than 90° based on one single feedback/fact. It's far from perfect but helps with the overload of mis/informations. Instead of questioning everything and researching on my own, I just moderate the "intake".
Fill out a Mafia-friendly ballot, take your picture, then spoil it and request a new ballot.
That is not what I meant.

I meant using the same version of ffmpeg as the shared lib linked with Electron and linked with the binary.

So, your bundle would have libavutil.so somewhere in a `lib/` folder, and in the `bin/` folder you'd have `ffmpeg` and `electron` (or equivalent) both dynamically linked against the `lib/libavutil.so`.
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