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I couldn't understand why. I found this article echoing your experiences:

http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/11/26/beware-usb-c-hdmi-adapte...

Note that it ends saying "The Good News: DisplayPort Works

I purchased a couple of USB-C to DisplayPort adapters from Monoprice and am pleased to report that they both work just fine. As hoped, these simple adapters natively and passively attach Alternate Mode DisplayPort from the MacBook Pro’s integrated AMD GPU through the Intel Thunderbolt controller and connect perfectly with the monitors I’ve tried."

I then Googled "active displayport hdmi converter" (to find one with a little chip inside, that actively really outputs true HDMI.)

I found this page:

https://www.startech.com/eu/m/AV/Displayport-Converters/Disp...

Which says "Connect an HDMI® monitor to a DisplayPort® Video Source".

Since it's active, the Mac should see it as a DisplayPort device. The device then takes that signal and outputs HDMI. So while the resolution might not be perfect, I would expect this combination to work and let you connect your Mac to any HDMI device, period.

Since it sounds like you have this problem a lot, if you did end up buying that device I'd be keen to know if it worked! (email in my profile.)

Thanks.
The Alien part is a ... totally unsupported speculation. Can we change the title? A good candidate is: "Six new mysterious blasts of radio energy are detected from deep space"

From the article:

> Instead, they [the researchers] say that flares from a young neutron star – the dense core left behind where a star explodes – are a promising candidate.
I think you are misunderstanding the point that is being made. The point is that inheritance belongs to everyone NOT just a single family. Its not about forcing everyone to begin anew by banging two rocks together, its about allowing the common whole to inherit, not just a select few.
Will do in Spring, as it becomes more feature complete. (search, articles, user blogging, etc..) All compounded by the fact that I also do the content for the site.

Anyone want to turn this into a platform product?
have you actually read the article?

It was a very specific study on elderly care, not general out patient and very suspect.

I would not even remotely conclude female or male doctors are better than each other from it.
If it's self contained then wouldn't / shouldn't it be a react component without redux? Redux is designed to manage state passing to properties in many components organized in your app, but you're asking about a single component.
Ever heard of cynicism?

The thing is, programming and managing people are professions that don't need
any training that is difficult to get (unlike mechanical engineering, civil
engineering, or medicine), don't need any special credentials (unlike law,
medicine, or various sciences), and don't need manual skills nor physical
force (unlike construction jobs), so the sole education is not a show-stopper
for entering them.

On the other hand, the professions you mentioned are not generally well paid
or especially respected, even though they (most of them) are very important.
A cynic could draw some conclusions about today's equality only working in one
direction.
I use VK which has almost every song i want to hear, even non-English songs. no ads, no limitations.
Dad On Demand?

Father As a Service?
> you can't just close it and open again

Actually, you can if you declare bankruptcy.
Actually, it isn't.

Let's suppose we want to solutionize our criminal problem. There are 1000 people in the population; 90% white, of which 5% are criminals and 10% black, of which 10% are criminals. (I rather doubt the difference in criminality is 2x, but....)

So, there are 900 white people and 100 black people; if we finalize the black people, we'll have put a big dent in the criminal issue, right?

Well, we reduce our criminals from 55 to 45 while injuring an innocent 9% of the population.
What do you actually do? (If you don't mind describing it)
emojis, badges, whatever dont motivate me. just the intrinsic feeling of accomplishing something. and occasionally lots of money.
"This actually seems to be moving in the other direction..."

That's not supported by the link you provided. That page says they're 'about as likely'. If it were moving in the other direction, it would instead say 'more likely'.

Moreover, the last sentence you quoted gets that info from a paper[0] which found no significant correlation of attitudes with age.

Even if it had found any correlation, the manner in which the survey was conducted wouldn't demonstrate that GP in incorrect. 99% of survey participants had graduated high school. It sounds like, though the authors claim the survey participants reflected the mix in the 2000 census, they've restricted their analysis to adults (18+ ?).

So it says nothing about what teenagers think.

[0] http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20sommers.pdf
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Treating changes more like emails/outgoing order forms might be useful here.

You could popup a /failure/ message and leave a little indicator icon that takes them to the queue and lets them see the items that failed. If retry is an option they can see it, if retry is not an option they can be told why.
I am sure this will be fixed in a future iteration. In exhange you never have to flip a USB or HDMI cable around three times (turns out the first direction was right after all :) ) to plug it in, because USB-C can be plugged in either way. Worldwide, this literally saves multiple seconds every year. Have a little faith :)
What about when you take a jumper (pullover) off or put one on?
Fork it as a submodule in your repository, then change the Cargo.toml to point to the path by using

[dependencies.somepackage]
path = "./somepackage"

Sorted.
GitHub Pages doesn't handle SSL for custom domains. The usual workaround is to throw Cloudflare in front of it, but the Cloudflare->GitHub link is still out in the open, and unencrypted.
If your hours are 4a-3p then those are your hours and you shouldn't be put in the position of having to defend them. Anyone who interacts with you should know that, should schedule meetings accordingly, and that's kind of it. If people are expecting you to do things after 3p then you remind them that you work a different schedule. If they still press you then that's on them for being unprofessional and you can escalate up the power chain as you see fit.
If you program your own keys into the Yubi, then you know them and can archive them for reprogramming on another device. You can do this with the Yubi Personalisation tool [1] for a few modes the device supports.

[1] https://www.yubico.com/products/services-software/personaliz...
True, and it's actually worse than that--we finally have a national marriage equality law, but we don't have national employment or housing equality, which should be even more fundamental. And God help you if you happen to be trans.

There's a great deal of bitterness from poorer GLBTs that they've been essentially thrown under the bus by the gay rights movement. Marriage is important, but there's a lot of fair-weather activists saying "mission accomplished" when the basic survival needs of millions of people are still completely unprotected.
Its not spin. Here's a quote when the shoe was on the other foot:

"Former Democratic Senate leader Robert Byrd explained it well in a 2005 speech endorsed by then-Senator Joe Biden, among others:

There is no stipulation in the Constitution as to how the Senate is to express its advice or give its consent… The Senate can refuse to confirm a nominee simply by saying nothing and doing nothing"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

Quite simply, stonewalling Merrick is more destructive partisanship, but its not without "modern (or historical?) precedent".
Fifteen years ago one of the primary theories for equality was treating everyone equally with no distinction to race or gender. Liberty and individuals own ability to control their life was the agenda, and benefits of liberty should have been rather obvious for anyone that its not a zero-sum game. The abolishment of single-gender profession like that of the article, Rosa Parks and abolishment of racial segregation, and burning of gender specific clothing can all be said as a product of this theory and described as equality of opportunity.

The dominant theory today seems quite evident to be focused difference equality which is based on politics of action based upon treating people of different races and gender different but equal. Here local liberty and individuals freedom of choice can and often is sacrificed if the end result is predicted to provides less lower power differences in society. Affirmative action, diversity quota, and single-gender activities are all strongly associated with this under the concept of equality of outcome.

Trying to convince young white men to have less liberty and choices in life compared to others in order for society to have more balanced power distribution in the future is a quite hard sell, and I agree with those that describe that as discrimination. Trying to convince them to treat everyone as equals with no distinction to race or gender is not that hard, and by what I have seen in the last 15 years, already achieved in the age group that libeclipse mentioned. The observation in that linked article simply fails to acknowledge the different tactics used from 15 years ago vs now.
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I can't imagine what would make Emmanuel decide to stop doing radio, but I am quietly installing a hidden system of personal restraints into his favorite chair in the studio just in case.
Impressive! You can do some more front-end stuff to improve the speed too, like adding a good CDN and optimising your images. For example, [1] is ~790KB which is great for viewing on a 5k iMac, but is probably unnecessary when someone is viewing your website from a low powered phone on a slow 3G connection. There are various tools like ImageOptim or Dexecure (which I work on) to solve this issue. See [1] and [2] for a comparision on how this single image can be compressed further.

[1] https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8380/29778359335_f59e0b4fcb_k...
[2] https://bigdemosyncopt.dexecure.net/https://farm9.staticflic...

Note that [2] varies in size and format depending on your user agent and it becomes ~70KB when viewed from a chrome mobile device.
I think we may be talking past each other. I understand you believe
downvoting in general is a bad idea, in particular downvoting without
also providing an explanation. Further, I think it's likely that you'd
rather there be little or no downvoting at all, with all interaction
happening via comments. That's a viewpoint I've heard others espouse
as well, and that's a discussion that interests me, though not one
I'm interested in having right now.

In my initial comment, I've only described the voting behavior of some
HN members, not expressed any opinion on it, in the hopes that the author
can take that into account when commenting in the future. Separate from
voting behavior, the HN guidelines specifically call out mentioning
downvoting:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

My second comment is specifically in response to your assertion that
mentioning downvoting is not detrimental to the conversation. You've
continued to discuss downvoting mentioning downvoting, while apparently
missing that I've been doing exactly as you recommend: commenting
explicitly on what I believe the commenter has done wrong.

Thank you for sharing more of your thoughts on whether to downvote and
how you think comments should be evaluated. I'm purposely not addressing
them as that's too large a discussion which will go too far afield (even
more so than this has already gone), and as I mentioned above, not one
I'm willing to have right now.
When being too productive can be counterproductive
Go's standard library is excellent. I've found Gorilla Mux to nicely augment net/http and not feel like I'm wrapping magic around idiomatic Go. The only other 3rd party package I routinely use is sqlx.

http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/mux

https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx
> 2/3 LIGO detections imply one of the merging pair of black holes should be a naked singularity.

Where did you get this impression? All of the LIGO results are consistent with "standard" GR black holes whose event horizons merge.
I generally dislike the little things that beautify things. I don't like the decorators for routing in Flask, for example.

This is why I like CGI. I can make an effort to understand it.
I would have agreed with this article until the forbes story broke.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dail...

It makes snopes look worse run than a college newspaper.

I also agree with the forbes article in that we need much much tranparency and openess from our fact checkers.
From an Erlang/OTP vantage point, what Elixir ended up being famed for is its relatively good tooling.
and for those to young to remember.

Rewson, SAFE, Waihopai, INFOSEC, ASPIC, MI6, Information Security, SAI, Information Warfare, IW, IS, Privacy, Information Terrorism, Terrorism
Defensive Information, Defense Information Warfare, Offensive Information, Offensive Information Warfare, The Artful Dodger, NAIA, SAPM, ASU, ASTS,
National Information Infrastructure, InfoSec, SAO, Reno, Compsec, JICS,
Computer Terrorism, Firewalls, Secure Internet Connections, RSP, ISS, JDF,
Ermes, Passwords, NAAP, DefCon V, RSO, Hackers, Encryption, ASWS, CUN, CISU,
CUSI, M.A.R.E., MARE, UFO, IFO, Pacini, Angela, Espionage, USDOJ, NSA, CIA,
S/Key, SSL, FBI, Secert Service, USSS, Defcon, Military, White House,
Undercover, NCCS, Mayfly, PGP, SALDV, PEM, resta, RSA, Perl-RSA, MSNBC, bet,
AOL, AOL TOS, CIS, CBOT, AIMSX, STARLAN, 3B2, BITNET, SAMU, COSMOS, DATTA,
Furbys, E911, FCIC, HTCIA, IACIS, UT/RUS, JANET, ram, JICC, ReMOB, LEETAC,

etc etc.
> Windows is becoming nicer in many ways, MS and other PC hardware is getting better, Linux desktop is steadily improving, etc.

Since moving to the NT kernel the underlying technology keeps getting better. But personally, I don't think the Windows UI is getting better, and the ecosystem sucks (app store, package manager, permissions system, etc).

Linux desktop is awesome, but laptop is tricky. Battery life can be abysmal without tinkering, although blaming Linux for shoddy drivers isn't exactly fair.

Non-Apple hardware+software always seems like a compromise, and we've been spoiled by Apple by having our cake and eating it. The most frustrating thing is that everything is a compromise now. Ironically, even though Apple is accused of not innovating anymore, I think many people would have preferred less innovation and more iteration.
I haven't heard anyone wishing it were more like Java although Google does have a Java to Javascript compiler that they use for some of their web applications. I'd guess those people in some way wish Javascript was more like Java or at least that they could write Java in places they'd otherwise be writing Javascript. It probably makes a lot more sense if your backend is also written in Java so you can share code between them.
> The Republicans and Democrats both think they're doing what's best for the nation.

Again, I disagree. IMHO, speaking generally, the Republicans seek only power to an unprecedented degree. Again, see my examples above. They've undermined the White House, Congress, and Supreme Court, as well as the military, and many other essential institutions. They openly deceive the public on climate change; that does nothing for the country, it puts the nation and world at great risk.
Google works with a subsidiary of the Railways called RailTel. A lot of the infrastructure / backbone was supplied by RailTel which allowed the project to move fast.
This comment is a tautology. "Article about subject not relevant to people not interested in subject".
> Who's saying that?

Bigots, mostly. And a lot of really naive people. But especially bigots.

After the 2008 election, I saw an article called something like "Racism is Dead." The author was saying that, with a black man in America's highest office, it's clear that black people are now fully equal and unimpeded in America.

So at this point I'm thinking he's just a naive, blinkered idiot. But he goes on, in a rambling and insinuative way, to basically say "Therefore, any black person who claims discrimination either has a persecution complex or is maliciously lying."

Open racism/sexism (and to a lesser extent homophobia) is very much out of fashion now, but there's still a major audience for people willing to vaguely imply (but never out-and-out say) that minorities are trying to snatch power from straight white people and need to be slapped down. It's very popular among people who want to enforce their bigotry while being too cowardly to say so outright.

Also see my response to Vertex-Four below. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13248096
At least in Canada, a lot of the cultural lore was destroyed through systematically sending native children to religious schools where they weren't allowed to speak their language or practice their culture.
Whatever Byrd said, the Senate never did it before. It is a matter of fact.
Note, that this is not how anyone should actually write web applications in Go. Standard library doesn't have production ready defaults, in some cases even lacks options for that, and generally offers bad choices in terms of abstractions and performance. And as complexity of your app increases you are going to suffer the consequences.

Safer road for a webapp is to start from a net.TCPConn kind of server with your own tiny HTTP/1.0 parser and a tiny templating engine, your own or a 3rd party one (it's absolutely not hard). Pay attention to synchronization, packages that do implicit synchronization are better left to their owners, avoid unnecessary accidental complexity like that.

(Go user since Go 1.0, speaking from the experience)
Yeah. They have gone through a schooling system full of 'positive' discrimination. As amusing as it is to say that I only have negative things to say about positive discrimination I actually feel that it is often terribly implemented, and that those who run round spouting such labels are often (though not always) the wrong people to be involved in enacting positive discrimination.

Before enacting any form of discrimination ask yourself this - is the group I am discriminating actually the group I want to target, or are they a proxy group?

It is all too easy to cite a gender paygap on the assumption that men and women both want the same things, but this isn't true. If you go to the wikipedia page [0] for 'Gender pay gap' you will find that direct discrimination is a very small part of the pay gap, and if you follow through to the EU links [1] you will find it is littered with the assumption that men and women should want the same things (work/life balance, family life, etc.).

To my mind the category of 'woman' is not a good one for assesing pay discrimination. It is an interesting proxy group yes, but it doesn't provide a useful means of going forward. You need to identify causes and treat the causes without discrimination from your proxy, only based on your member group.

Teaching negotiation strategies is a good thing to do, that treats a real problem. If you only teach women (as 'women in work' groups do) you create problems for men who aren't good, as they are now very likely to be the worst negotiators. If instead you use a real metric (say an evaluation for poor negotiation skills) as an entry requirement for the program you aren't hurting anybody and you are reducing one of the real portions of the gender pay gap.

In other words actually solving problems is hard and net positive, but using prejudices to simplify your problem is easy and can be zero-sum or even negative.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap

[1] - http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/gender-pay-gap/c...
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> I am a bigger fan of the keep it simple approach, which is my way of saying I prefer to write web applications in the web technologies directly intended for the given task.

Web applications is the task that Go was directly intended for. It was intended for some other ones as well but Web applications was the main one.
it takes literally 10 minutes to wipe it, download an iso burn it to usb, stick in the jab drive and reboot and click next a few times..
That is not tautological. Interest and relevance are different things.
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I significantly reduced watching Youtube after the Youtube channels I watched started optimizing for revenue.

I gravitated to YouTube in the beginning because it felt disestablishment, and less commercialized. Now, it is the establishment. I don't know much about Youtube's payment / incentivization structure, but from the outside, I see YouTubers valuing quantity / frequency over "quality" and things that are not necessarily profit maximizing.

For example, there is one channel that originally produced funny skits. Now, they just talk about "news" and current events. Each of their video nowadays gets less views, but they're able to release more videos because it requires less planning, filming, post-production. They claimed they were producing the news videos as a stopgap to free up time to work on their feature film. 2-3 years later, they've made no progress. Their fanbase complained in the comment section as this happened, and their videos suffered a higher amount of dislikes than likes, in the beginning. Now, their news videos have bounced back to a high high like-dislike ratio. I don't think it's because these news videos inherently got better. I think they've successfully "pivoted" to this content category, attracting the right audience while their original fanbase, myself included, stopped caring enough to go dislike the video.

I see this trend with the majority of channels I watch, too. Here are some examples of "fluff" content to gain views:

- stretching out a simple topic into an unnecessarily long video

- providing a "novel" / hipster / contrarian opinion on something already well covered for the sake of being different

- An unboxing channel that goes from unboxing things people want, to things that are just ludicrous

- Covering a topic subscribers wouldn't otherwise care about. Take my brother for example, whose Youtube channel has 10 million+ views. His channel was originally teaching people English, then he started making VLOGs about aspects of American society such as going to the DMV or buying a used car, and recently he made a video about Gingerbread houses. As someone who traverses Wikipedia, I still think the audience interested in learning English have many other things they find more entertaining than the history of Gingerbread.

- "I'm quitting YouTube"
Perhaps none of the young people that you hang out with are bigots. Don't let that become a convenient excuse to ignore all the bigotry happening just outside of your sight--and, especially, far from progressive urban centers.
Give unique groups liberty and complain when they do different things with it.
i understand your argument but if you look at <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13246361>, it seems clear to me the use of syntax extensions created an awesome developer experience that would be otherwise impossible (sure you could use the built in typesystem but then you wouldn't have human readable routes in the source)