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To be clear, this is not my project.

Yes, it is absolutely a barrier to contribution. That's part of the trade off a maintainer makes when choosing to use unstable features. It also means getting into distro packagers won't work; as they're all packaging stable only.

Most users are on stable, and with 1.15, the next release, the most used nightly feature is being stabilized. We're working on it!
Hey, nice project :) I do have a question: you mentioned that urxvt is difficult to configure (because of .Xresources format?), but then you also say that "GUI-based configuration is unnecessary", so how exactly is Alacritty easier than urxvt?

One feature that I really miss in rxvt is an easy/fast way to change the color scheme, or at least reverse colors (like with xterm, which if correctly configured it's just ~3 times slower than urxvt). This is something really important when your screen receives direct sunlight.
I spent some time in embedded space after high school and really miss it in these days of drawing pretty pictures on whiteboards to attempt to explain exactly why management can't have what they want when they want it, political negotiations with people that hold the keys to the kingdom (e.g. salesforce admins) to try to be allowed to do my job, etc.

Do you have any recommendations for someone trying to get into tech engineering and out of Enterprise IT in regards to credentials they should seek out, groups in their city they should look into?
Any reason your not using conrod?

Browsing the sources it looks like you're re-implementing a non-trivial part of it.
Since the iphone was released was posible to use the headphones with computer I don't get why this change.
Great advice for a new marketing director who hasn't had to deal with PR before!
I hope your daughter doesn't suffer from boredom after the initial novelty.
Gradient flow due to chain rule is the reason. Also that last part is lecun a analogy ;
The Apple Watch doesn't use a pad charger - it uses a magnetic puck which attaches fairly firmly* to the device. Right now the puck is fairly large and thick, but I can hope that in the next 5 years Apple can manage to reduce its size a bit and provide an interface for it which works with the iPhone.

Given that general design I imagine sleeping with the phone next to you in bed or in a cup holder shouldn't be much different than it is now - if anything the rotational flexibility provided by the magnetic puck charger would be advantageous in both situations.

Jony Ive has a thing for reducing devices to their core-most functionality. It's a design trait picked up from the likes of Deiter Rams. One of the easiest ways to reduce a device is to reduce or eliminate points of ingress. An iPhone which has no port for charging and the updated speakers from the Series 2 Apple Watch designed for waterproofing would be more ideal.

* Firm enough that you can pick up and move the watch about using only the puck as leverage.
Hey, I remember reading that Atlantic article and being curious to see other things you'd written! Pity you don't have an easy-to-Google name...

A question regarding the spreadsheet: have you found it better to just list every pitch you do in order, even if it's the same story? What I do is have publications as columns and stories as rows, so I can easily keep track of where I have or haven't submitted something, but I'm curious if you see an advantage to the straight list.
A truck (lorry) driver ideally in the states. I found something oddly relaxing about driving, full throttle, 18 wheeler down the road through Rocky Mountains or Alps. I actually have lorry driving licence (C class here in EU), I need only one class higher (C+E) to drive a proper 18 wheeler.
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My boss installed 2 camera DVRs a year or so ago. All I did was provide 2 external IPs for the DVR and didn't worry much about it. The password was the default "123456" that comes with these things, but since we don't care much about who sees the footage. At worse people will change the password and we need to factory reset (never happened).

Last week the internet for the whole office was going down. Weirdly I could remote in, but the DNS was not working. I first thought our DNS server crapped out but it was working fine. After some investigation, the firewall was not responding. After rebooting the firewall, it would work fine for a while, but go down shortly after.

Long story short: the DVRs my boss got (unbranded) come with telnet access on some nonstandard port. A botnet got access to it and was making thousands of dns and telnet queries, overloading the firewall.
PrivacyBadger blocked his Disqus embed. I think a good test of whether your site/blog is privacy conscious is to see if PrviacyBadger reports any tracker.
Youthful Brains in Older Adults:  Contributes Youthful Memory in Superaging
Incidentally, it also looks like a Berlin underground railway station. ;)
Why is there over 1000 !important's in bootstrap.css? I always thought 1 !important was a big no no.
I've thought about this, as well as forensics. How did you present yourself to your first potential security employers?
Been there the last 5 years. Here a few small tips:

- Plan your interesting talks before (via iOS / Android-App)

- Be early in the rooms (some rooms are _really_ crowded, e.g. when an engineer of Youtube presents something in the Go devroom -> Popular speaker, popular topics / technology)

- If you want to meet people there for a chat / beer / coffee, get in touch with them before via twitter, slack, you name it

- Want to make the best out of it and come from abroad? Events before FOSDEM: GRIMOIRECON EU 2017 (https://grimoirelab.github.io/con/) and Git Merge (http://git-merge.com/) and after: Config Management Camp (http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/)

- Get a hotel near by or with a tram station near by. Location is quite good reachable by tram.

- If you join by car and want to drive to FOSDEM directly be early every day. Parking spots on the campus are very limited. There are some near parking spots at the street here: https://goo.gl/maps/4gf2Ag2YktA2 (dont park on spots reserved for goverment persons)

- If you love books, get some money with you, i think O'Reilly has a big booth there and sell books for lower prices

- If you love to met new people (FOSS, tech people) and don`t fear crowdy places and drink beer, join the Friday beer event in the city: https://fosdem.org/2017/beerevent/. But be aware: If you don`t feel well joining crowded places (i mean really crowded like a music festival in front of a stage), don`t join. Personally i love the event. Every year i meet know people. Last year some people from the VLC project. The year before some people who running big public accessible networks in a private college from Scotland with support from the goverment, and so on. Nice chats

- If you are part of a technology / community / project that is represented there (e.g. Go, MySQL, Jenkins, etc.), get in touch with them before on the mailinglist or slack and ask who is there. Often those groups are going for dinner on friday, saturday or sunday evening to meet people they know often from internet only. Most of these groups are open to join, just ask before

- According to your behaviours on breakfast: There will be a small booth where you can buy belgium breakfast (mostly crossaints). If you more like bread, buns with cheese or sausages or whatever, have breakfast before you join the event in the morning. Do it in a bakery, hotel, or in a rush on your way.

- According to your behaviours on lunch: There are small foodtrucks there who sell food like sandwiched, fries, noodles, etc. Mostly fast food related things. If you a more used to salad and eat in a calm location, go outside (you have to leave the campus for this)

- Get your notebook charger: There are hacking rooms available

- Hold a few bucks / euros back to buy a FOSDEM shirt and support the organizers.

These are a few tips that comes into my mind.
If you have dedicated questions, feel free to ask them. I do my best to answer them.

PS: I will be joining this year again. Starting with a car from Düsseldorf, Germany. ~2h ride.

// Edit: Only formatting
Fair enough. Post said "(text only or limited images)", which I thought this site, especially being a fully featured ecommerce site, fit well.
I guess the idea of no scrollback is taken from st [0].

[0] http://st.suckless.org/
Had to cut title to fit into 80 char limit :(

Youthful Brains in Older Adults: Preserved Neuroanatomy in the Default Mode and Salience Networks Contributes to Youthful Memory in Superaging
https://tinyapps.org/blog/
Well, if the "how many" is < 1%, I'd consider that equivalent to not moving.

Still no sign of movement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming/ is all about stuff like that. Not much traffic there, though...
How's that joke go? Everybody has a testing environment, some people are lucky enough to have a separate environment to run production in?
It's still called USB-C (or more correctly, USB Type-C, but nobody says that). Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB-C connector.
Well one kind of big bet is "Let's make 1 TB of RAM standard on all Mac Book Pros" and another kind of big bet is "Let's remove keys and connector ports", so I would have to say I prefer the first kind of big bet.
Is Bootstrap still the most popular CSS framework?
I know the HN protocol is to use the headline, but the sciencebulletin article headline is pretty broken. Negative differential resistance (NDR) in tunneling diodes has been understood for several decades, and is pretty far from a mystery.

The original article is about an I-V curve from a structure involving a single-atom + a scanning-tunneling microscope (STM). That such a system would also exhibit NDR is not particularly surprising. Tunneling to a structure with discrete energy levels will have current flow when energies line up, and less current flow when energies don't line up. So even the "mystery" isn't much of a mystery.

The interesting results imho are:

1. The team got reproducible single-atom tunneling with an STM tip, and

2. They measured the time-response of about 10 microseconds.

fwiw.

Edit: Resonant tunneling diodes used to be a hobby of mine: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/38419
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I've had a couple dozen keyboards dating back to the AT over the years, and I can't recall any with a non-fixed cable. That'd be pretty cool. :-/

It's more that I can carry my 2014 macbook anywhere in my house or office or anyone else's and probably connect it to anything I want or need to, without an adapter. Works, say, 99% of the time. With the 2016 it would work 0% of the time today (well, audio equipment excepted I guess, since they weren't courageous enough to remove the headphone jack on the MBP, fortunately), and it would take a half-dozen dongles to come even close to that 99%. I don't expect the success percentage for a dongle-less 2016 MBP to go up much in the next 2 years. That makes stretching my 2014 for another year or two, or switching to another vendor, way more appealing than it might be otherwise, especially with the non-trivial price hike adding insult to injury.

[EDIT] OK, half-dozen was a slight overstatement. At least 4, maybe 5.
It's only partly a jobs program. Really, the jobs are mostly a side effect. Jersey people love their full service stations and are very protective of it. In and out, don't get out of the car, don't mess up your precious hair and hands dealing with the elements or the pump, back on the road. I don't identify with the attitude at all, but it's a real part of the culture. I've been chased back into my car by attendants more than once in Jersey. Nowadays I typically fill up before crossing state lines and drive across the state nonstop, even though the gas tax is lower in Jersey.
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I spend all day writing SPA code and would be fired if my boss saw me do anything like that
Agree about the hubris, fecklessness.

I've been terrified of nuclear war, terrorism, accidents, pollution since I can remember.

Don't pretend this is a new concern.
Would an action potential traveling backwards be able to block the neuron from properly firing, briefly? In other words, could this effectively act as a short term inhibition?
> Welcome to nginx!

> If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.

On jwilm.io -- Just wanted to let you know
that looks great! I like how the buttons are originally grey, which is a clear visual indicator that they are not enabled.
Cargo isn't in charge of selecting what rustc you use; that's the job of Rustup.

In general, _some_ feature like this is desired; nobody has put in the required work yet.
It is a little unfortunate, but Rust isn't blind to the problem. The community is converging on everyone using rustup (e.g. as of a few weeks ago, the install page recommends it https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/install.html ) because it makes managing things like cross compilation[0] and upgrading stable compilers much easier. It also makes working with pinned compiler versions smoother: run `rustup override set nightly-2017-01-05` (or whatever date is recommended) in the project's directory, and that single command will both install that compiler and ensure it is used for the project (and only that project) when one invokes cargo or rustc. (I think it's great that Alacritty even helps people with the process, as I guess you noticed: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty#prerequisites )

In any case, the nightly split is Rust deciding that it is good to allow people to use experimental features (i.e. working out if they're good/bug free) while also resisting infecting code that doesn't want to risk breakage---such projects use a stable compiler meaning even their dependencies won't be able to accidentally rely on something unstable---and thus hopefully avoiding defacto stabilisation of low quality features.

[0]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/13/rustup.html
This comes after October when they had let go half the company (340 people were let go then).
At the time, most of the human workers were doing things that required significant dexterity beyond the ability of the robots.

Taking a wiring harness;

https://i.imgur.com/H3XVf92.png

Routing it through the firewall and then making a dozen connections is simple for a worker, but extremely complex for a robot.

That factory was turning out 1 car/minute, so the $30/hr guy plugging harnesses in would add maybe $0.50 to the cost of the car? When you're selling vehicles with MSRPs over $40k (this was a large SUV assembly facility), the threshold for automating something is higher than you might expect.
Another example would be automobiles. Manufacturers do recalls and provide replaces more many, many years.

Ford isn't on the hook for the Model T, but it does do recalls for decades-old Saturns.
Awesome! This is exactly what I've been hoping for. The state of terminal emulators on macOS is particularly bad, at least when it comes to speed. Both the built-in term and iTerm have a lot of features, but really start to lag on big screens with a lot of text. I used to run urvxt under XQuartz for this reason, but there's scaling problems with retina screens these days.

Nice work. Hopefully this can fill a particular void for folks that want no-frills fast terminal emulation.
iTerm has https://github.com/ravenac95/sudolikeaboss. Integration of your 1Password passwords with your terminal, which makes life amazing. Typing and copy/pasting passwords(not to mention copy/paste is not exactly secure) is a major time-suck. I'd love generic support for this feature in something like Alacritty.
FWIW, there was a BBC article about always-on audio detector apps. Describing an Android proof-of-concept app: "The battery drain during our experiments was minimal and, using wi-fi, there was no data plan spike."

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35639549
And in many ways that is how the early Church started. It provided social services that the failing states of the time could not.
No. That would be reckless and would compromise Tor Browser Bundle from the outset. By default, the NoScript plugin disallows JS from running globally
I think the word is out - I've talked to several candidates from there in the past week.
> She cannot connect her phone to her computer to charge without a dongle.

Is it still a valid point once USB-C to Lightning Cable is out?

http://www.apple.com/us/shop/product/MK0X2AM/A/usb-c-to-ligh...
The distinction he's trying to make is that (working) drawings are exploratory, while finished works are reproduction. The artist draws the subject in the same way that a developer prototypes something: to see what will work, to flesh out requirements and risks, and to capture data about the project; the full build that follows has a clear spec/goal. The author of the piece could have observed that painters often do colour studies as well as prepatory drawings for the same reason: capture data, do a trial run, experiment a little.

Old master drawings are these amazing things to see in person just because they're obviously working documents of the subject and incredibly detailed and polished in certain ways. They're among the most beautiful objects I've ever stood in front of. They have an aspect of egolessness that gets at what you identified, I think: the artist wasn't thinking about style or final presentation or their role in it, but about pure intake of the subject.
Maybe they're from the future and it's long since been changed to prevent individuals from bringing suit against corporation. So in that future "tort reform" means repealing the previous reform.

Honest timetraveler mistake.
Whoa, looks like it'll take way less effort than I imagined to port my extension to Firefox. I think I'll do that next week.
I just want to say that this project is amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think Rust is the most exciting thing that's happening in computing today. This sort of project that plausibly replaces software traditionally written only in C/C++ with something that has performance parity, but is in a language where contributions are relatively accessible and safe, is the most exciting thing even within the bounds of an intriguing ecosystem.

As someone who is especially concerned about the performance of my tooling these days due to what seems to be a generally infinite willingness to accept web apps that are slower than desktop apps from decades ago, and which seem to continually demand more resources year over year, I really appreciate that such a distinguishing eye has been given to Alacritty's speed and resource usage. Some contemporary alternatives like Electron-based terminals are academically interesting, but are programs I'd never want to use due to the huge step backwards in these areas.

One question: do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally? e.g. Displaying images, richer interfaces that don't depend on ASCII bar characters, graphs, properly tabulated results, etc. This is a direction that I wish we were going, but it's not clear to me how to get there without many sacrifices.
Awww hell yeah.
Feel free to email me to bounce some ideas around. I do this too. No bs or strings.
How does one go about re-registering abandoned claims?
All I can suggest is you try rereading my comments with an open mind.

I did not say bundling+compression+minification is "obsolete", I said things had shifted in how front-end development uses those things as tools in their toolbelt. It's a very different world these days in JS and lot of "must" best practices became "when needed" best practices. All I was trying to point out was that you don't start with bundling+minification+compression, you pull in those tools as and if you need them.

As for JQuery, I'm not the only engineer that sees it as a problem. It's the second sentence of the Wikipedia article summary on the Singleton pattern, for instance:

« There are some who are critical of the singleton pattern and consider it to be an anti-pattern in that it is frequently used in scenarios where it is not beneficial, introduces unnecessary restrictions in situations where a sole instance of a class is not actually required, and introduces global state into an application. »

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern

Google for "Singleton anti pattern" for many pages of articles on the subject, if you care.
"Voids the warranty" comes to mind.
> Both the utf8parse and vte crates that were written for Alacritty use table-driven parsers. The cool thing about these is that they have very little branching; utf8parse only has one branch in the entire library!

From a simplicity point of view table-driven parsing is pretty neat. However, it does mean you'll be getting a lot of branch misprediction in your single branch, since it's harder for the CPU to predict where it will branch to. You could probably go faster with some handcoding in the parser.
I understand Facebook chose to use trademark law to threaten to block the Heise app id and even their entire domain (any sharing of the paper's content on Facebook).

Facebook continues to use every tool at their disposal to protect their expansion of the privacy invasion of their product.
As someone how has to lug their MacBook from office to home everyday, i'm really looking forward to upgrading. As for the ports, a good 5k screen will work as a dock for the assortment of USB devices, headphones etc that I currently have to connect one by one each morning.
You mapped all ports from the external IPs to the DVR?
Still this sucks for all of the people she lured to work for her earlier on before it was realized to be (the edison blood tester) fraudulent / incorrect due to the low sample size.

I can only imagine being one of the researchers or engineers there really believing you would be able to change the world and getting crushing news like this. It would really suck.
Sadly VR is useless for reading :( I wish it wasn't so. You're much better off with a high resolution screen with the ability to zoom in and out between landmarks. Maybe a head tracker to make navigation more intuitive.
>“hard-coded” login credentials integrated into D-Link camera software -- such as the username “guest” and the password “guest” -- that could allow unauthorized access to the cameras’ live feed;

This doesn't seem to be a complaint about future support, but security at the time it was sold.
what was your job? what did you automate?
Seems to sell just fine in the current market, I haven't seen a huge move away from Diesels as a result of its introduction.
Cortana requires a mic attached to Xbox or the controller. But I never use one. It would be nice to have a mic built into Xbox, which would act like Alexa or Google home.
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I think that this is the layer where this problem should be dealt with at.

What we are in for right now is burdensome, expensive and vague regulation that amounts to security theater.
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