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> It definitely, felt safe

I do wonder how much the "culture war" has affected this. I'm sure all the fighting over the election was good for "engagement" in the short term but in the long term has left people disillusioned.
The process for industrial assembly is:

Put solder on the pads. This can be done with a solder mask - a thin sheet of metal with holes cut where the pads are. Solder paste is scraped over it and then the mask is lifted off, leaving solder on the pads.

Place components. This can be done manually or with the pick and place machines described here. The solder paste is sticky so there is something to hold the components in place once placed.

Reflow. This is done by putting the now populated board into a special oven. This oven will put the board through a particular temperature curve ('profile') which melts the solder then lets it cool. The surface tension of the solder on the pads helps here - it pulls components that are a fraction off into perfect position (assuming the pick and place got it close enough and that solder is on pads where it is meant to be).
While arguably anecdotal, I see pretty much what you do. Nobody is posting to Facebook regularly any more. I can pretty much browse my entire news feed in 10 minutes once every two weeks.

What I believe keeps people on Facebook is Messenger. Even people who never post on Facebook is available via Messenger and given that Facebook makes it pretty easy to find people, it's slowly devolving to a "better phonebook".
It was not millions. Reporter did not check the smart contract. The scammer only made a few thousand.
This works for default configurations of Ruby on Rails and macOS.

Technical details: http://benmmurphy.github.io/blog/2016/07/11/rails-webconsole...
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The people I have offended this way is crazy... it's not meant as an insult, but as the article states "what do you want" is already shocking, so just imagine if anything more direct is asked. :(
I'd be interested in having subs for "cognitive science" and "linguistics". Perhaps allow users to create new subs? If this is taking off, you will never be able to keep up with requests for new subs. Like reddit, your platform should rely on self-organization to the extent possible.
You are walking past a tall building it's reasonable to expect someone out to get ice cream won't mount the curb and hit you, you mean?

Given the pleasure he's given millions, approximately on par with an ice creams I'd say.....

One million cars off to get ice cream pass by and don't mount the curb and kill you.
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Thanks for the feedback.

The site is very much an experiment and can definitely be improved. Its not designed to be a popularity contest. I am hoping old and new research is submitted and that the commenting function of the site can counterbalance articles that are overhyped.
I used it recently to edit large video files around around 1h 1080p; Shotcut is rather slow and freezes often when editing big files. But nonetheless its a great project and I hope it will improve in the future.
> Open a problem case with PayPal... response within 2 hours and item in my hand 4 days later.

Until you opened too many claims, then they'll disable your account. Source: friend who worked at PayPal customer support in Ireland.
As per the article, they'll have to pry the jack from my cold dead hands...
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It would be interesting if security forces were all aware of this and used it anyway... You'd have an effect on criminals who assumed it worked, plus it makes for great security theater.
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1.5 hours down and 45 minutes with no updates, that's really bad.
People don't care about the headphone jack enough to demand it. There may be a few people like the author here, but saying this --

> Tell them you see what they’re up to, and you don’t like it. You can say this part slightly deeper, through gritted teeth, if you get to say it aloud. Or, just italicize it so they know you are serious.

-- is implicitly admitting defeat. Saying these loudly and italicizing in rants on social media won't change profit-driven decisions!
I'm betting that's a 2 sided board? PCB process technology seems to have a fundamental time limit that's a multiple of the number of layers.

We're building prototypes of a complex bit of consumer electronics for consumer testing. We can do full industrial design, mechanical design, electronic design get the components made, assembled and delivered in 6 weeks. The fundamental limiting factor on how fast we can do it is the time it takes for the PCB to be made. From an electronics point of view, schematic capture and layout can be done in a week, and board assembly can be done in a day (if you're in a hurry) but there's nothing we can do about the 3 week lead time on the PCB because it's 8 layers with blind laser drilled vias.
> a 200-pound gorrilla mucking around

There's the AvE influence.
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This is the most important comment here. Some independent verification.

Worthy of a blog post?
What I would really like to see happening in Oil shell is a way to run a strict subset of the bash language. Ideally with a tool to convert existing scripts in that subset.
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When I saw their front page features a screenshot with only a sliver of the screen devoted to the sequencer, I knew they aren't serious about video editing.
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And why does it matter?
Apple just ripped off their design, period.
As I said, I think the page itself could be useful. It's mainly a marketing issue. Although, a point could be made that such a page should not have voting at all. Some simple one-click user feedback can be useful but perhaps don't call it "vote" which implies that the community is trying to reach a verdict on someone's research. Researchers are very sensitive about their work and may not like it.
Not really on-topic. But the same folks who have an interest in the subject might know.

I'm looking for a timeline editor in javascript which allows me to build an object to pass to ffmpeg to inject content at certain intervals.

Much like what gifs.com [0] does.

I have found this [1]: but it's not really what I am looking for.

If anyone has come across something similar, let me know. Thanks

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/G1MyBOG.png

[1]: http://marcinignac.com/blog/timeline-js/
Damn. My fault then. Completely missed that.
> Maestro is compatible with MasterCard though so should work anywhere a credit card does?

Not for online shopping. My debit card with maestro logo on it can't be used for online CC payments because it's not a credit card and doesn't have any of the details on it that you'd need to fill out for a CC payment.
I actually used the swot database for the site. If anyone is interested this gist will download the swot repo and generate a dictionary of the email --> school/university in python:

https://gist.github.com/danielecook/19793d2faad66d83cef2514c...
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For short video editing it is perfect. For large projects I prefer Blender.
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I've been using Kdenlive for moderately complex projects (now editing an action short and my first feature film!), and I've found it surprisingly good. It does crash every once in a while but generally does what it's supposed to do.

It's a shame that interop with Shotcut isn't great, even though both save their projects as MLT XML. I think there's just one property that you need to add to a Kdenlive XML to make it readable by Shotcut (something like shotcut="1"). That said, I think Shotcut makes much cleaner XMLs.

Tried Davinci Resolve as well. I generally like it, but find it less intuitive to use than Kdenlive (surprisingly, given one is commercial and the other is open source).

One thing I'm working on in my spare time is a MLT <-> FCPXML converter. I collaborate with people who use Final Cut Pro or Premiere, so it will be necessary to exchange projects both ways. I'm surprised that none of the open source video editors support this natively :(
A prize for thrillers with no violence against women? That’s not progressive
> insurance operates best at more scale, not less: first and foremost, the larger the pool, the more risk can be spread, as well as obvious efficiency gains in administration.

This may be true from the perspective of the insurance companies, but it does not mean that premiums will be lower with a larger risk pool. The global risk pool includes elderly and disabled people whose risk is paid for by healthy people. Smaller risk pools of more homogenous populations can result in lower overall premiums since they do not need to cover the highest risk individuals. For example, a corporation is comprised of employees almost entirely under retirement age, many age 20-30, and in relatively good health. This is why companies are able to offer HMO plans, because by isolating their risk pool they can more precisely model actuarial risk and thus save on premiums.

It’s not how large a risk pool is that determines premiums, but rather the distribution of risk within that risk pool.
From the description, that is just the app.. not the dependencies... So the snap doesn't really add anything (other than confinement) compared to the tar.
My comment wasn't too clear. I'm not talking about just running docker cli on Windows or using windows 10 containers. Am yet to see a coherent story on how to write say a Java application containerize it, deploy it on Windows and Linux without having dealing with differences in each OS container solution.

If there is, I'd like to learn about it.
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Just to clarify: this refers to monthly salaries. Salaries in Sweden are generally discussed in terms of monthly compensation. From my experience it's yearly in the US.
i see ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop )

that was not possible when i tried it, thanks for pointing it out
Yeah, they would both be good examples qualify.
>"Wat mag het zijn?" which is something I hear a lot when going out

I don't recall ever hearing this in the NL. Maybe it's a Flemish thing.
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I recently acquired a pair of high-end earphones, and while the audio quality itself is excellent, there's noticeable background noise on low volumes or during track skips, not to mention the microphonics effect. It's likely coming from the cable itself, which thankfully I can exchange, but the fact that a high-end product exhibits this behavior is concerning.

I'm very much in favor of keeping the headphone jack, but we'll look back at these analog issues the same way we currently think about needle static from record players.
I'll have to try this. There's a big gap for the "I just want to make a few cuts to this 10 minute video and fix the audio levels" tool. Until now I've been using avidemux which isn't really ideal.
Thanks for the feedback. The thumbnails could definitely be made smaller and/or substituted. I'll be making some sort of change but not sure exactly what yet.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16279300
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You're under a false impression. The culture you're talking about is rooted in maximizing profits and cornering a market. Logic and reason are only ever established in that framework.
What has stopped me from using the Boris bikes is how unreliable the payment system is. It seems like there's a 25% chance that any given bike station will reject my card for an unknown reason.
I worry about phoning home if the company goes offline. When phoning home, sniff the packets. I wonder if mother China is sending exactly the same authorization packets back to the device every time? If so it should not be terribly difficult to spoof the DNS on your own network and set up a small server to provide the necessary answer to turn on the machine.
> It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops. They will shoot you in the face in front of your infant daughter. They will choke you to sleep for selling cigarettes.

This is the tone and conclusion of this article. If you want the actual story, read the original report here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gun...
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Cool article. The future was correctly predicted here - this is how modern graphics works:

"I've had discussions with people that suggest that an accelerator for Pixar's Renderman architecture is possible. (This is the technology that brought Toy Story and A Bug's Life to the silver screen.) The basic idea is to describe object surfaces programmatically by both perturbation and texture content with subroutines called shaders. Renderman is probably the most advanced rendering system today, but cannot be done in real time with today's technology because of the enormous compute power needed."
I like the idea of integrating the sub/field similar to what r/askscience has.
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Ask HN: Thinking of starting a software training business – can you give advice?
Hi there.
I'm thinking of trying to earn money by doing in-person training on software development to software developers.

I'm wondering is there anyone on HN who knows the software training business, who would be willing to share the mechanics of what works and what does not?

How to find customers? What to price the training? Tips on making the training a success?

If you're willing to say how much revenue your business has earned approximately that would be amazing.

It would be greatly appreciated. Finding the answers to these questions is time consuming and risky and hard and I'd love it if someone with experience would be willing to share their hard earned knowledge.

thanks!
I witnessed a funny exchange in the train recently. We were not in a "silence" carriage, but for whatever reason, nobody was talking, except this one guy who was talking to someone on the phone about cars, among other things. Out of nowhere, an elderly lady cussed him out for his "dirty talk about cars" and his orange jacket. He told her quite bluntly to mind her own business because they weren't in a silence carriage, so he could talk all he wanted. She shut up, he continued talking, but a bit quieter this time. Everybody was happy.

Mostly people tend to be fairly quiet and ignore other people while traveling, unless they already have a conversation partner.
Right, but 60km/h is inside the speed limit for many roads without barriers, which is why I used it as an example. In fact, if you take a slightly heftier car like a CR-V, it can be within urban speed limits (48km/h - 30mph) and still have an higher kinetic energy.
>We have some of the worst waiters; our (Dutch people) views of equality as being one of the most important things in society, render us unable to serve people, or to be served by others in fact. There always is some awkwardness with regards to the position of the server and the person being served.

I was once with an Icelandic friend who absentmindedly snapped while attempting to get a Dutch waiter's attention. While my friend meant nothing by it and certainly didn't intend to offend, he got a very direct "don't ever do that, I'm not your servant" rebuke from the waiter.

The waiter's rebuke would never have happened in the US for example. If anything they might have apologized for being inattentive.
I'm happy when solutions for cancer are found. A little less when the way is genetic engineering. From my ignorance I imagine the genetics like a big complex self programming software and the genetic engineering a way to change little variables in a wide enviroment. In other words: Butterlfy effect, you're welcome.
There's definitely room for innovation - fish is for me but I'm always impressed with the work being done on both new and old shells. One thing fish doesn't do is get much into the semantics of how processes interoperate, and I'm interested to see if there's a new idea that can gain some traction in that regard.
Perhaps it's a result from our long history as traders

That was my thought as well. Trade languages are always intentionally simplified and essentially impossible to use for dropping indirect hints. I believe this is very much a feature, not a bug. It substantially reduces opportunities for cross cultural misunderstandings and faux pas.

Apropos of nothing, I really liked the Dutch proverb in the article "Just be normal. That's crazy enough."
I was actually positively surprised to see the Telegram application is qt based. Not sure which one is it of the two you mention, it's just called "Telegram", and is same on both Windows and OSX.

Explains why it doesn't take a minute to start and doesn't need a gigabyte of memory.
> the same way we currently think about needle static from record players.

At the moment there seems to be a group of people thinking about it with nostalgia.
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I don't think there is any cryptocurrency involved.
Well, with the completely unexpected addition that the mysterious flattened copper sheet may well have been left by a ham radio operator who made an expedition to the island just for the purpose of making radio contact from there.
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Unrelated to the main discussion, I’ve been wondering how to approach this UI in a document processing product I’m working on. What is the best way to “preview” a document with a thumbnail?
Any idea what they are patenting exactly? While the idea is interesting, the app in the video doesn't seem to use anything new UI-wise, except the category selection bar above the keyboard.
> certain DNA bases can shape-shift for a thousandth of a second, transiently morphing into alternative states that can allow the replication machinery to incorporate the wrong base pairs into its double helix

I find this fascinating. I had always assumed that it was the shapeshifting of the polymerase that caused replication errors. Clearly that's not the whole story!
Prepaid mastercard / visa is not accepted everywhere where non-prepaid is (notably car rentals, hotels).
C++ is the only language that is compiled to binary, compatible with many compilers and OS, and can do both low and high level constructs.

It is true that it is a complex language, but this is true for every tool that allows you to do so many different things.

The complexity is not a goal in itself, it's just that it can do all of those things if you need them.

Simple tools are great and will save you a lot of time, but the truth is that you won't always be able to do everything with them. C++ allows you to do everything, and it is true that the cost can be very high and requires a lot of thorough knowledge and expert learning of what happens, but there are projects and cases where you just need to use C++ because that's the only choice you have left.

I agree that an alternatives like rust or D would be great as replacements, but the problem remains: if compilers are not mature on most platform, and if you don't have a large programmer base because the basics of the language are not simple enough, the language won't grow.
I wonder if regular prolonged fasting could reduce the risk of this, or make it worse. Prolonged fasting causes significant changes to the stem cells the article discusses: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102383/ (previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831739 )

If CHIP is as serious and common a risk factor as claimed, and there is no known prevention or treatment, then testing anything that could interact with it is very important.
I was just looking for a replacement phone, and was told by multiple techy people that I should give up looking for a phone with a headphone jack, customers clearly voted with their wallets and it's a done deal now. I'm like....when did this happen? Two years-and-a-half ago, when I bought my last phone, there were no phones with no headphone jack - now, barely any time later, it's a "done deal"?? Are you kidding me? When was I supposed to "vote with my wallet", even if I wanted to? I guess I did in the end, because I bought the OnePlus 5T almost specifically because of the headphone jack, but this whole thing is beyond stupid.

I'm normally not a fan of conspiracy theories, but I wouldn't be surprised if the removal of the headphone jack on the iphone was actually an attempt to make sure more people have bluetooth on so they can be tracked in shops using the bluetooth beacon tracking.
> This is the tone and conclusion of this "article"

Why on earth did you put "article" in quotes. Are you questioning whether it is, in fact, an article? Because that seems quite self-evident.

You might disagree with it but be assured TFA is, in fact, an article and putting the word in quotes just makes it look like you don't know what quotes are for. Hint: quoting.
Yes, please, physics and astronomy. Maybe the same subdivisions as arXiv?

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I'm not sure if I understand fully this babel <-> typescript integration. Can you help me understand this?

What's the point?

So in future babel would be able to parse TS file and output JS file with all the transformations it supports? So it's useful if you want to use some new EsNext feature currently not supported by TS compiler?

Is this the main advantage? Because for me it looks like a pretty weak reason (TS has improved a lot when it comes to supporting new ESNext features). Anyway, from what I understand TS provide API that for example webpack loaders use (like https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader and https://github.com/s-panferov/awesome-typescript-loader) and it looks that those can be integrated with babel.

Or is it mainly to support tools that depends on babel for parsing AST? And microsoft is willing to maintain this babel integration for next versions of TS?
So non-microsoft community developed tools can easily add support for TS (instead of only supporting JS), like Prettier did (https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/13)?

But are everyone using babel for JS parsing? I'm not that into JS tools community, and am a bit confused by all this ESTree, Esprima, recast, jscodeshift projects and relationship between them. You mentioned `recast` TS support and it looks they want to use babel for this too. So it's microsoft bet that all future JS tools that need to parse JavaScript AST will use babel for that, and hence they will add TypeScript support because it would be easy?
I recently learned that the homicide rate in Japan is lower than the rate at which police are killing people in the US.
Right, the comment was meant somewhat ironically. Less directly I might have said:

I agree there are often situation where it would be helpful if people would be more direct.

However I think there are situations where it’s better to either avoid the issue entirely, or take a less direct approach. That might be the case with those who have radically different views to us, or are members of a minority where taking a direct approach might be misinterpreted as overly agressive, or could make them feel otherwise unwelcome.