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Funny how the advice to hire people smarter than you, doesn't work out in real life. Meritocracies are rare, and only seem to emerge out of necessity. That applies for tech companies as well.
Right, this is more or less in the 'announcement of an announcement' bucket, the gold standard of baity unsubstantiveness.

We've edited the title above to be more accurate.
That may have been turbosuper pedantic.
There's been a pervasive meme that JavaScript is terrible jQuery is a spaghetti factory. Which is it?
I recently saw a comment on HN linking to a company that creates very neat animations of how various things work [1] and they happen to have done one on turbo vs superchargers [2] -- it's a pretty good way to see it.

[1] https://animagraffs.com/

[2] https://www.tyroola.com.au/supercharger-vs-turbo/
For what it's worth, they do grow along the West Coast (and other places) naturally. Without people doing anything.

At what point do they become illegal? When you pick them? When you dry them? When they start budding out of the ground?

You can't see me laughing, but it's pretty absurd. Yeah, I know, you CAN grow cannabis. But you have to TRY to stop mushrooms from growing.
For just about everyone, the best thing to do is shut the fuck up and do your job.
Interesting.

Wonder what a creosote fed Oryx steak tastes like? And presumably free from brain ameoba as well!
This is a great idea! I'm going to use this myself.
stopped when it became easily possible to build a car that was simply too fast for a human to drive.

That's true of almost all auto racing today. Powerplants can deliver more power than anyone can use. Now it's all about keeping the wheels on the ground.
> Recently picked up a story that was adding a simple confirmation modal to a page: "Alert" text in the top, body with some warning text, and a yes/no button.

> By the time all was said and done the PR for this thing had 27 files in it.

Can you not just use a library for this and do it in a few lines...? I found Angular 2 verbose but I don't see how the above is common. I just did something similar in Vue today and it was about 4 lines to load the library and call it. You shouldn't be implementing modals yourself if you can avoid it.
What happens when the things you enjoy doing either aren't financially supportive, or you're not good enough at them to compete for work where they are financially supportive? Like drinking beer, playing video games, and jogging? None of those are particularly valuable, unless you're able to wrangle a beer reviewer job or get on a tournament team. Half of all people are below average.

'Balance' in this respect doesn't mean 'give equal energy to work and play'. That's what the article is wrong about. 'work-life balance' means 'don't let work take over your life', which many people do. If you can sustain yourself by doing your joy, then 'work-life balance' is a meaningless phrase for you, and isn't intended for your consumption.
"all vehicles are becoming more difficult to repair as computers and software replace what used to be handled by mechanical systems."

Don't forget John Deere tractors!
Pardon my rudimentary understanding here, but I sort of assumed in such a wide scale auction, pricing would reflect acceptance of a certain level of fraud, and that the price would balance out at a point where these fake clicks were part of the equation.
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I feel worse for the me of eight years ago maintaining an SPA codebase where everything was thrown on window with dozens of global stylesheets.
Some of us tried to sound the alarm on fake traffic before Google IPO'd and WSJ or some other major news source wrote about it at the time days before their IPO, but no one cared at all. Everyone wanted Google to become the greatest in history based on a business model that acknowledges fraud but regards it as mere noise as opposed to mortal threat. Well, the whole point of warning the public before their IPO was to prevent the giant economic disaster that this can lead to. But Google was clever and managed to find a profitable business with Android and maybe other streams of revenue. I wonder how this will play out.
Whether or not it's equivalent is pretty irrelevant to the law
It can be a pain getting the build system up and running but once you're writing typed JavaScript code with modern features like async/wait and ES6 modules along with live + hot reloading, it's impossible to go back. It's really trendy to complain about JavaScript changing too fast right now but the last few years have brought some great changes to JavaScript.
With the way callbacks work in Javascript and jQuery, you lose some flexibility in organizing your code. It is true the types in Javascript make it difficult to build large projects. These drawbacks can be overcome, of course, but this is all orthogonal to the main point......

If Javascript and jQuery truly are bad (though I would claim they are not, they are mediocre but workable), it's because their creators didn't know history, not because the problem is unsolvable.
Chargeback deadline appears to be 120 days. For many kickstarters, this isn't enough time to get a product out.

For me, I've never considered Kickstarter to be a pre-ordering platform. More of a platform for helping things get made, that otherwise would be developed.
"I said that would be very strange for Microsoft to invest in VR..."

The fact remains they are selling very VR capable helmets with display and optics which block the view completely. Maybe Microsoft is displaying a different page for you from the page I linked?

I tried the new Asus devkit headset only last week. It's not the hololens. It's sold on the same page, though.
It's mostly based on studying reinforcement learning (machine learning subfield). It opened up my eyes with regard to a lot of psychological issues.
Won't Kickstarter be not happy about the chargeback? I know many sites will kill your account if you do it.
Should California spend $3B to help people buy electric cars?
If everyone did this it would sure blow some smoke up these people asses. All those chargeback fees coming like a tsonami on the horizon!
Content can't cost more than its advertising, or it's a loss. You're probably attracted to more-valuable articles, which likely cost more than their ads generate.
It shows a lack of empathy.
I suspect a lot of these bugs, especially those related to timing, were not intended specifically as anti-piracy/anti-emulation; given that the games are developed for a single platform, it's common that programmers would naturally explore and exploit the full capability of the platform, whether officially documented or otherwise. Relying on instruction, CPU-GPU, and even cartridge access timings is thus perfectly reasonable.

One way to get "perfect" emulation is to completely reverse-engineer the system down to the transistor level, wherein the timing relationships between all the components are revealed. I believe this has been done only for a very small number of game consoles, of which I'm aware of are the Atari VCS/2600[1] and NES[2]. Even a GameBoy hasn't been analysed to this level, much less a GBA or DS.

Also, this: https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-al...

[1] http://blog.visual6502.org/2014/10/atari-2600-simulation.htm...

[2] https://github.com/SourMesen/VisualNes
The Clearinghouse has developed a 24/7/365 network and is currently testing - rollout is expected in 2018
https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payments/real-time-payments
Agree on the point of cutesy bullshit marketing/PR fluff when your team or service fails to deliver. I'm really tired of the infantilization of communication. I think this is a West Coast thing. It seems to have originated there but it doesn't translate outside of SF.
You got the business part wrong. Google is like 88% ads. The rest is barely profitable or run at a loss.
That gets me thinking. The touch screen launcher system is a throwback to even before Windows 95, and to Windows 3.x or even earlier, never mind the likes of Mac or Amiga.

Back then you didn't have menus, you had nested folders (kinda made more sense on the Mac and Amiga where you were browsing actual floppy content rather than a HDD).

The Windows 95 menu was basically a translation of that folder tree into a menu (you could even right click the start button and have explorer open the root folder of that tree).

Never mind that back in Win95 the root menu would cascade in columns rightwards based on screen height (and resolution). I think it was either the IE addon pack or Windows 98 that gave us the scrollable single column pr depth menu.
Yes, it's seen as, probably correctly, the only way to do anything that'll affect Google. Outside of getting laws changed, that is. It probably won't be effective - the people handling ad fraud are probably not the ones pushing their censorious politics. But hey, unlike most slacktivism, this causes them real damage.
I imagine the response will be to ban people's Google accounts, for those dumb enough to sign in while using AdNauseum. (Anything more forensic might be a target for trolls.) We'll see if Firefox caves to pressure like Pale Moon did.
This VR cycle is dead
You think Google can't detect this? Enough advertisers have conversion tracking that Google can detect if a person is clicking a zillion ads and never actually converting, in addition to the other multitude of ways they detect fraud. I'm sure in the battle between fake traffic producers and Google there are probably tricky ways you can fool Google, but a person clicking every ad is not one of them.

Also... this doesn't actually hurt Google. If the percentage of fake traffic goes up, the cost per click will just go down over the long term. And what, advertisers are going to lose faith? Give me a break. It doesn't matter if the traffic is 0% fake or 90% fake, all that matters is if the traffic is making you a profit or not.
I always thought it was funny that Google's billion dollar revenue model essentially relies on a trusted client.
This might mean paying 3x as much for a flight. I don't care.

Must be nice to have that type of cash.
Cool... looks like Mithril:React;Moon:Vue, as they're only 1kb different. Wonder if Moon also benefits from low-latency like Mithril does.
And yet, here we are, talking about a service that has become known around the world... maybe it does work outside of San Francisco, it's just some people it doesn't agree with?
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Maybe different in the UK but my card issuer has returned funds from up to 2 years ago when I was being unnecessarily charged for something.
Agreed. I think the perception comes from lots of people who are using heavy frameworks for simple, mostly-static webpages. Yes, they add complexity to my life, but the experience of working with React/We pack/Typescript is unparalleled -- especially considering what I was working with only five years ago.
Both ASIC mining and the arms race were anticipated as early as 2008:

"[As] the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware." https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09...

"We should have a gentleman’s agreement to postpone the GPU arms race as long as we can for the good of the network. It’s much easer to get new users up to speed if they don’t have to worry about GPU drivers and compatibility. It’s nice how anyone with just a CPU can compete fairly equally right now." https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12.msg54#msg54
Similar here, I used to do Perth to Copenhagen via Singapore. I actually stopped flying Qantas & switched to Singapore Airlines when they stopped flying via Singapore.
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Question.. All my device lithium batteries seem to lose ~70% of their ability to hold charge after 500-1000 cycles, however the tesla car batteries/powerwall claim to give a decade+ of use despite being built of the same cells. How does that work?
This one is better: http://www.thrunite.com/thrunite-c2-3400-mah-compact-portabl... I asked for old laptop batteries from my relatives/friends, so I have currently around 30 of them. I also use it a lot for my bike light and hiking light.

I bought the latest version of the C2 and it charges perfectly.
Ugh. That gets me thinking about how Gnome seems to play games with this.

Take File Roller for example. Their git repository is names thus, the tar-balls are names thus, even the resulting binary is named thus.

But the desktop file insists on calling it Archive Manager.
>Why?

Probably because it's one line in Vanilla.js:

confirm("Message")
You'd hope that Google would be better at such... Oh well, everything is compromised eventually.
Shaarli personal bookmarking service

https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/en/master/
That's fine, it does everything I need it to already.
Not compromised... But you know what I mean.... :/
> But your comment doesn't substantiate
> what isn't modern about HN UX;
> anything other than lack of
> an advanced editor with live preview?

maybe i'm missing some things.

how do i tell it not to show me comments i displayed earlier?

or show me comments made since a certain time?

or arrange the comments in chronological order? or reverse?

these are some functionalities that i would like to have...
Sounds interesting
What is the cost per transaction? I know stripe charges 85bps.
Very much so, a very good read:

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?141137-In...

And also: http://budgetlightforum.com/node/45314
I doubt their downtime communications were a factor in their huge success.
looks like they just need to start clicking a lower random percentage.
I wonder if this is in response to firing of that dude that said women are biologically disadvantaged at coding LOL. It probably is. What a pity that it took sympathizers/supporters of a sexist asshole to standup to Google.
You're trying to hurt the economy or something? You're supposed to throw your stuff away at least once a year and buy buy buy!
It's in the paid lounge (you don't have to pay for entry to the lounge though). Definitely recommended as well. Or if you're there for long enough, try the swimming pool.
To be fair, France currently has more forests than it did a century ago.
That would not be a problem except that the DEs seems to want to wrap their specific named binaries in generic sounding .desktop files...
I've seen many professional programmers typing with two fingers while looking at the keyboard.
The people regularly reading CMO today has to be a very valuable audience -- they probably make a ton of money selling that data as anyone selling into Marketing departments would pay a lot to be able to target those folks.
I work in the same space as you. Would you buy a MacBook Pro again for your work? If not, what would you buy instead?

My Mac is in the process of dying and I am
struggling to commit to buying the lower end non-touch 15" MacBook Pro. I think the feature is stupid because I am a touch typist. I don't want to be hunting for an ever changing soft key. Fortunately I have a back up machine that works okay-ish but I don't like it in the same way as I enjoy working on the Mac.

Would enjoy your input!
Why can't we all use FOSS? Oh yeah, people are greedy...
Wow, Safari Mobile only gained support in iOS 10. That's September 2016, and leaves out iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and iPad 3, devices from 2011 and 2012.
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They might be unhappy but a higher frequency of chargebacks (and possibly bank/card issuer responses) may be the kick they need to re-evaluate and overhaul their current system of maker accountability.
And yet, in the Drivers Championship standings, Max is well behind his teammate Daniel Ricciardo (who is of course, driving the same car).
Miners consume an amount of energy comparable to Christmas decorative lights in the US (alone) I never see anyone refer to these lights as "absurd" or "infeasible" :) http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/

Also note that BECI overestimates the consumption: http://blog.zorinaq.com/serious-faults-in-beci/
Agree. It's an interesting technical challenge to ask for planes that can fly these long routes at present speeds, but I think we're solving the wrong problem. The problem is speed, not fuel efficiency.
I think balance will mean different things to different people, so this question is going to be nearly impossible to answer. I also think people have different personalities and happiness gradients.

I'm going to use a hazy definition of balance here, meaning that you do not forget your friends, family, health, hygiene, ethics, beliefs, secondary hobbies, leisure.

> Nearly all of the great performers I’ve gotten to know — from athletes to artists to computer programmers to entrepreneurs — report a direct line between being happy, fulfilled and at their best and going all-in on something.

The vast majority of people are not great performers, so this seems like a poor sample to draw any conclusions from. Combined with survivorship bias, likely this is just finding that the people who are most positioned to reach what this society calls "greatness" tend to be those who are able to hyper-focus on one thing without it draining them. There are often fairly serious consequences to disregarding balance in one's life, but when it comes to the "great", those consequences are often forgotten, forgiven, or written off. But the "greatness" label is not absolute, it's assigned. We could have chosen to value something else. I think the fact that we dropped ethics in favor of "greatness" is a huge, costly mistake.

This is not the case for the other 99% of the population. Why does Western philosophy insist so much on this insane focus on the "great"? They're not most people. They're never going to be most people. And, frankly, they're not very important. Why do we want to compel the person to just zero-in on one thing? If you ask me, that sounds incredibly boring. Cue Heinlein's famous quote.

As for me, I can observe a distinct increase in day-to-day happiness when things are more balanced for me. When I have a solid schedule and routine, when I eat well, when I exercise regularly, when I keep my area clean, etc., I'm generally much more content with things. If I have to super focus on a given thing for a long time it usually wears me out and winds me up and not in a good way.

This doesn't mean that aspects of balance don't need to be sacrificed at times to get something done (after all, extra things require extra resources and sometimes your resources are limited). But I didn't really enjoy such times.

But I've never been a thrill seeker, I've never been a hyper-specialist, nor do I have a very obsessive personality over any given topic. This seems a very personal thing, but current society definitely has a preference for the hyper-specialized. I think that's a pity.
I suspect it's something wrong on your end, I have no lag at all with mission control on a 2015 MBP. I do think however that Apple hasn't been innovating much on macOS for years. All the resources seem to go to iOS.
The thing that sucks about going 100% on something difficult isn't the thing being difficult, it's when you fail relentless for an extended period of time that makes you burn out.
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There is more battery in the box than what they advertise/offer up for you to use.. I.e. there are spares built in. Also they have spent a lot of time/energy/hardware making the environment the batteries live in, as close to ideal as possible (i.e. thermal cooling, etc).
I suspect i tested the same one, and best i recall it didn't mix well with other extensions that added stuff to the right click menu.

Best i can tell, radial works as long as you have a small, fixed set of action that you want to do repeatedly.

But once you have a situation where the user can add arbitrary new actions it breaks down because it relies on the actions being sorted and fixed in location.

The result, as best i recall, in the Firefox extension case, was that extension added menu entries would dangle of in some "misc" entry at the bottom right of the radial. Effectively turning it into a traditional menu dangling off a radial one...
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I believe most of the physical damage done to a battery occurs either near 0 or 100% charge, and assume that automotive batteries are less frequently fully depleted.
Show HN: How much developers earn in Europe? Dashboard
https://affliction123.github.io/euDevDash/ << link to Dashboard

So in response to survey of EU Developers earnings published on HN few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15088840), I made a v1 of a dashboard and would love to hear some feedback on what info would You like to see on first sight, dig deeper.. or whatever is Your prime interest from this survey (like which country pays the most, or smth else?)

I worked on this around 5-6h, and I am curious what are some tricks to improve it overall or make some things slicker, please share Your thoughts..

I am planning to build a portfolio of few real data visualization cases, so any help is really appreciated as to how to improve overall skills.

https://github.com/Affliction123/euDevDash << link to Code (v1, please :))
Who's ready for the next one?
Well it's pretty easy to spend an asset that's consistently increasing in value... the real test of it's utility as money is how many businesses and people have started accepting Bitcoin recently.
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Yup. Converting old promise based code to using async/await and fixing all the places that give "variable could be undefined" type errors is so satisfying. Recently I did a huge refactor of some TypeScript code without running the app and just being guided by the type checker errors for several hours and it worked almost first time.

We pack = Webpack?
With Xcape for Linux or other alternatives you can use it for both with escape on Key up if another key isn't pressed
It's not "stealing", it's "adapting"

And honestly: with as old as Plan 9 & Lisp are ... can you really call using any of those ideas "stealing"?
I've tried to visualize Your data with this dashboard

https://affliction123.github.io/euDevDash/

please let me know how to improve and what info is interesting for You to present/focus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109316
desktop files as an idea seems fine, but as usual with Freedesktop stuff it seems to have wandered off into its own world of bike shedding.
>Almost every other President has only pardoned people who asked for a pardon

Nope. Try again. Famously with Clinton & Ford.
The reason is very clear and simple: because he is a Muslim and terrorist attacks by Muslims are very common nowadays. The real question is how far are we willing to go to prevent terror attacks. Are we willing to let innocent people get harassed on a regular basis?
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Someone sent me a link to this question and I recorded a podcast episode answering it. Listen to it here: https://anchor.fm/yelluw/episodes/c36f40

Hope it helps you level up :)
Fuel efficiency tests in a road car aren't performed by driving flat out for two hours.
Good lord, the bit about the company failing to remove the [insert video here] section of their website featuring Codi's review... the whole video is worth watching, he starts out trying to keep it straight business but the tale turns more kafkaesque by the minute. Brutal.
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Exactly, you can have these extreme moments in your life and still be balanced. The behavior the author is advocating is reactionary.. overly negative, relax please!