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I had the same problem. Used nothing but a microfiber cloth. No liquids and the screen coating started coming off. Took it to the apple store and had the screen replaced for free. My MBP Retina was still under warranty. Had it for 11 months before the issue with the screen.
http://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html#idp32166576
Based on that list, 18.61% of pin codes can be guessed before the 3 attempt lockout, no fancy power tricks required.
"Yes, the actual savings of water from restaurants only serving on request is negligible. But it reminds people we're in a fucking drought. Maybe — just maybe — that awareness goes home with them, and they don't run the tap while brushing their teeth before bed that night. Or they take a 3 minute shower instead of a 10 minute one the next morning.
"

Which in turn does literally nothing to help.

If you were to take all urban water use in california to 0, we'd run out of water in 10% longer a time period.

So instead of a year, a year and a month.

Of the 10% of total water used by urban folks, 53% goes to landscaping.
So uh, killing all the sprinklers wouldn't even buy you an extra month if you were going to run out of water in a year.

(there are other issues, like most homes in sacramento not having water meters until recently, and in fact, the state has only mandated that water meters exist everywhere by 2025, but ...)

But sitting around pretending that conservation by urban people is going to make any difference in this drought, is just a silly game politicians are playing because most people don't understand where the water is going.

Meanwhile, we keep paying taxes to build tunnels to divert more water to unsustainable agricultural use.
Jewelry/gold, when used as financial instruments, form one more "system in place to squeeze." (We may have to agree to disagree regarding to what extent that system is created by poor people.)

A $500 ring that is repeatedly used to secure pawn loans to cover short-term cashflow deficits is a lot like a savings account which seizes 80% of value on deposit and charges a $15~25 convenience fee on withdraws.

bafflingly detached from reality

You'll find alternative financial services, including voluminous material on jewelry as a store of value and collateral for pawn loans, well-represented in the academic literature. Would you like citations?
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Kind of a tangent but I looked up one of the buyers in the story. Incredibly fascinating guy: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer
Only if the phone has a signal right?
I don't want to have to use an app to unlock the car but I don't want to have to carry bulky keys around either.

I want to walk up to the car.
The car recognizes me because I'm carrying my phone (or watch)
When I pull on the door handle it unlocks because of the proximity of the phone.

This is similar to how my car and keyfob work now but I want to carry one less item.
How many people do you know with a >2 year old MBP? I would wager a substantial fraction experience this. I personally know several who get this issue wiping their screen only with water and the cleaning cloth it came with, per Apple’s instructions.

... In addition of course to all the ones experiencing this effect after using a tee shirt, tissue, paper towel, or other cloth. The guy you’re responding to definitely shouldn’t be using a paper towel to clean the screen.

Still though, that doesn’t cause a problem with most other Apple laptop/phone/tablet displays, so people who now have scratched up screens didn’t ever expect this could happen, and weren’t trying especially hard to be careful about it. Apple should at the very least do a much better job warning their customers.
>Emojis with skin tones, something every human can use, that have arrived before a character that only Bengalis use is taken as an "outright insult"?

Who cares if emojis can be used by every human? Bengali language support is something people actually need to to function normally in the digital age without jumping through a million hoops.

Emojis with skin tones are a joke.
To add a little more detail, through 2008 they were entirely made in Durham, SC. At that time Cree purchased a factory in Shenzhen to do the packaging.[1]

[1] http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?185936-Wh...
Nobody is suggesting we stop (yet).

But uh, how about instead of trying for "the absolute most lucrative crop that happens to use 10x as much water as the next most lucrative crop", we say that this 10x isn't worth it.

Here's california 2008 GDP broken down by sector:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Gro...

(The data is similar for newer years).

So 2% of our economy is using 80% of our water.

This seems like a bad tradeoff, even if it meant a 30% increase in food prices or whatever.

(Since california exports the vast majority of it's agriculture, this isn't likely)
I tried in past and I can tell you that pdf2htmlEX don't have acurate rendering, even if is based on Poppler, because generates HTML code at absolute position that looks different in every browser and have problems with index of layers.
no matter, it is unacceptable!
The expected lifecycle for a ring can span generations (or used to, at least). A car will last you a decade and you'll be eyeing others in half that time.

If this kind of gift is made to be symbolic of your relationship, then a car (or any other heavily depreciating asset) isn't the best symbol.

One of my friends got an olive tree for her 25th wedding anniversary. I thought that was a great gift.
How much of municipal water needs to be fresh water?
Like if you showered with salt water, bathed in salt water, flushed your toilet with salt water etc. Then you wouldn't need to desalinate so much. So maybe, tap salt water could be viable for apartments. Then you'd have to have some domestic desalinator for those few liter's per day you actually drink. Well or buy bottled water.

Now that I think of it: Maybe you could make the hot water salt, and the cold water fresh. You aren't supposed to drink hot water anyway since it contains more dissolved nasties. And you wouldn't water your lawn with hot water because that would be like super wasteful. Although I can see how hot salt water could be somewhat corrosive so maybe you'd need to switch up the plumbing at a huge cost.
All great points. What baffles me is that in Spain, the world's second largest almond producer, almond trees are largely not watered. I suppose production suffers, but still...
Why does iOS accept entry of that PIN over the cable and not require it to be "input" on the screen?
There's a great article on how the current system and perceptions surrounding diamonds came to be, from The Atlantic in 1982[1].

It is appropriately titled, "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?"

1. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
I have to agree, the first thing I did was roll my eyes at the choice of name.

"Screencoatening?"
"1 - the lawns in ruby hills and atherton are still green;
"

These lawns are 50% of urban use, which is 10% of total water use.

While it is not a great sign of conservation efforts, The problem is that by pretending that it's a real problem, we keep avoiding the real problem - our agriculture is simply unsustainable in it's current form.

IE it enables people and politicians to avoid the real problem, by selling a line to people that it's their non-conserving neighbors that are the problem, when it simply isn't. California needs to have a long and hard discussion about what should be happening in agriculture. Not a long and hard discussion about lawns in atherton.
The oft-repeated "well, it helps people understand they need to conserve" is clearly false. It not only doesn't do that (hasn't for years!), it enables a smoke screen over the real issue. Now, instead of hearing on the radio that "politicians are seriously considering what to do about our agriculture issues", i hear, "politicians have enacted lawn watering restrictions to help ease the drought".

That's what focusing, at all, on urban usage, does.
> IMO there is still no keyboard that has anything on the Kinesis Advantage

There are lots of keyboards that don't have the sticky modifier bug though.

There are dished wells too. Have you looked at the Maltron 3D keyboards? They also come with a numpad in the middle so you can play roguelikes.

There are multiple models, but this gives you the idea: http://www.micwil.com/images/gallery/maltron_keyboards_dual_...
Drip irrigation uses as little as 1% the water of traditional irrigation methods.
Looks pretty smooth to me in the latest Firefox (Debian testing), but if somewhere it's a bottleneck, to improve that Firefox should fully implement OMTC.
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Perhaps the government could post "suggested" prices online that way people could easily check if they are getting ripped off.
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As an artist, introversion has its benefits too. Extraversion reduces time spent pondering, employing imagination and intuition.
Kids can ride bicycles, too. And I see a lot of bicyclists have a covered trailer behind their bike for the smaller children. You just have to have safe, separated bike paths rather than just painting a line on the road.
According to Wiki, the US gets 10x+ the almond yield by weight per hectare versus Spain. (Not saying it justifies the use of water, just providing the numbers).
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Aside from the obvious ones -- Medium, Tumblr, WordPress, etc.
Not sure there is a great advantage for that use case than from using C/C++ with threads and lockless queue of some sort.
Ask HN: How come restaurants are still using food menu full of text?
I think that it will be more convenient for customers if they can see photos of food on the menu before they decide what to eat. Are there no companies that are trying to solve this problem? I mean it would also benefit restaurant owners too because they can update the availability of food in real time.
Honestly, just about anything is going to be faster, productivity-wise, than C++.

I don't think that's been true for a while. Boost went a long way towards making C++ much more productive, and now that's gone even further with C++11 and 14.
This style guide is depressing... The author's complete oversight of for-comprehensions, the convention of using apply, the insistence on using API-leaking side effects for error handling (read: throwing exceptions), makes me weep. Spark is a Java project maintained by a company filled with Java engineers.
Well there are other options: Q2/Q3 2015, mid 2015, etc.
Yeah, a lot of people are hung up on the "takes 4 days to brute force" part.

I'd be willing to guess that most phones have a passcode that's like "1234", or between the numbers 1900 and 2100. 300 tries can easily get a vast majority of 4 digit passcodes, let alone 4 days' worth of tries.
Absolutely. So i/ı/I/I do have their own codepoints. But the rest of the letters, which are the same, don't. Just like han unification. Letters which are the same are the same, and those which are not are not, even if they look pretty close.
Yup! It's called scalariform. I use it 24/7 as an sbt plugin: https://github.com/sbt/sbt-scalariform
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Also try using apps which use flexbox intensively — FF triggers exponential slowdown when handling deeply nested flexbox layouts[0]...

[0]: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs/issues/8
The article is specifically about the widespread myth (which you're repeating) that elite schools are too expensive for low income students.

If you'd actually bothered to read the article, you'd note that most elite universities actually provide extensive financial aid to low income students. In fact, probably the easiest way to afford an Ivy is not to have oodles of money—it's to have very little money, as families making under $60,000 annually typically receive a full ride.

> And I don't put much credence in something said by someone who's on the payroll of an institution poised to benefit from them saying selective schools benefit people long-term.

I don't even understand what you're trying to imply there. Why do you think that an NPR reporter would benefit from (accurately) reporting that elite universities are affordable? If anything, she'd probably get more pageviews from repeating the tired myth that elite universities are unaffordable.

Not to mention that financial aid isn't something universities can lie about. It's pretty easy to demonstrate the elite universities do in fact give fantastic aid packages. I know this anecdotally from the packages I received (including a full ride), but you could also note that the average Princeton graduate has a total of only $5,000 in loans.
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I'm personally very excited about the Matias ergo pro : http://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/

Smallish, cut in half, great switches, no staggered columns (I want to stay "compatible" with my laptop keyboard).
It looks just like my old kinesis freestyle but of better quality.

I did try an ergodox for a while, but instead of biting the bullet and using for a while I would tweak the keymap to infinity hoping to find more compatible memory muscle to what I already know.
Probably for compatibility with peripheral devices.
Brendan's performance in the cloud/enterprise book is super solid. Not only does it give information on performance analysis, but it's a very solid primer to the systems involved. It's not specifically Linux - lots of solaris/illumos stuff in it too - but it's definitely a starting point.

Not a ton on ftrace in it, though. Maybe we'll see a new book more focused on Linux specifically with some ftrace stuff?
As an owner of a huge number of Apple products, but not an exclusive Apple-user, I think some of their products are extremely practical.

The problem I've always had is that blemishes and usability issues have been common for their hardware, even going back to the easily-scratched metal backs of old iPods. It seems like every generation of iPhone has had some major defect.

None of these things are that big of a deal. If Apple is using cutting-edge manufacturing processes, I'd expect these things to happen.

The problem is that Apple has (in my experience) systematically denied that the problem exists, is widespread, and is their fault. It really takes something like staingate.org before they'll own up to something they should be willing to fix.
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The ending was explicitly foreshadowed in Ch. 1, including advance quotes. And, like, all the other early chapters. Nobody familiar with HPMOR could possibly take seriously the notion that this was a retcon.
Humans like rituals for the important moments in their lives. Buying a ring is one of many rituals around weddings, but for a lot of people, there's something viscerally satisfying about marking events ritually.
More like the way they think Linus acts. Yes, sometimes Linus has outbursts, and I think it's fair to criticize him for that. But 99% of the time he's listening to ideas from all sides and deferring to other people on the things he doesn't know. I think a big reason for Linux's success is Linus' skill as a mediator, and that's something these imitators don't seem to grasp.
Wow. $2. Wow. I thought a carat of CZ was more than $2.

I guess the raw materials just don't cost that much. :)
First Post. I'm just curious how you guys think about a ring made of gold or silver. I remember my parents didn't buy a diamond ring. I know you need to be careful when buying gold and silver too and always have a look at the spot price, but a gold ring would have some resell value right?

Another reason not to support the diamond business is how blood diamonds are mined.
> matte

Exactly. The fact that this is now a rarity in laptops pisses me off.
What is the goal of internalizing it?

What is the goal of personal responsibility here?

There are fantastically profitable cash crops that the Central Valley is rapidly desertifying itself to produce, because that is what the regulatory framework incentivizes. They will do this regardless of whether half of LA feels shame about how long they spend in the shower.

These things are ridiculous debacles that connect the well-meaning with the entrenched money to completely avoid the real issues. They're an attempt to get some people who don't use much water to point the finger at other people who don't use much water, and have a bitter culture war about it, and distract from the few people using most of the water.

Water could and should be put into easy sustainability range by pricing it in accordance with how bad the local situation (reservoirs or water tables) has gotten. Instead it's doled out as a strange mix of feudal fiefdom and public service.

And that includes pumping groundwater - which seems to be completely unregulated and unmonitored at present.

California's problem is that it hasn't brought itself to manage water effectively, and it has erected obstacles to doing so during eras when water was neither heavily used nor well-understood.

https://www.c-win.org/water-rights-primer.html
I offered to post pre-written chapters at a higher speed (1 per 2 days instead 1 per 4 days) if a medium-sized charity I cofounded many years earlier made its annual donation target during a matching grant. Beware that HPMOR has a hatedom, and don't believe everything you're told about it.
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That's really soon, which fills me with dread. The UI as seen in the most recent pre-release builds is atrocious and it seems to be getting worse, not better, with each build.

Just look at these icons: http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-10036-83-updated-icons...

Perhaps they're pulling another 'Watercolor' (the pre-release decoy Windows XP theme that was replaced by Luna at the last minute), but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Kind of like how most in the U.S. actually pay all their taxes as required without cheating, but we all hear about those few that cheat and so assume we're the only ones playing fairly.
Free by the standard, yes. In the average stdlib, not any more. In particular, Linux web servers would be safe, which would have rendered Heartbleed more of a "edge case platforms" kind of bug.
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My partner and I have been having an argument about rings for a long time now. I have told her that I'm willing to buy a man-made diamond, but she won't have any of it.

"I'd rather have nothing than a fake".

It doesn't matter how much information I provide her about the scam, it just upsets her. It's so very frustrating, and it's not entirely her fault. The idea is just so firmly implanted by the world.
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Aren't twitter posts, you know, public by default ? What is the big deal if these students intended to share this information with everyone. Or did Pearson somehow played tricks to subvert their trust ?
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Using unique_ptr correctly is memory safe. For example:

std::unique_ptr<int> p(new int(1));
std::unique_ptr<int> q = p;

Should fail.

You can strong arm it into break but you can also reuse a pointer locally in Go after it was sent over a channel.
(FYI: If you follow qrendel's above link to /r/XKCD you'll see a detailed list of the false claims in the RationalWiki article as they existed at that time. After repeatedly being provided such lists, David Gerard claims every time that no list of false claims have ever been provided him. Checking the XKCD link will show you that this is outright and verifiably false.)
I'm not sure why it's reported somewhere on Github and not in Firefox Bugzilla. If reporter cared about the bug he had to report it in the right place.
I don't think you know anything about Linus beyond his widely publicized outbursts (Which also means you have no idea how smart, or not, he is).
That is true, mainland China writes "中华民国".

But I still do want to be able to write texts that are like this discussion: mainly in English, but contain fragments in Chinese, and so that I can use both the traditional and simplified characters.

And it also makes total sense to me that 日本 is Japan, both in Japanese and Chinese, using the exact same Unicode characters.
This is a frustrating problem, especially since MacBooks have such a high price tag. However:

"The stains start to appear after 12 to 18 months."

That's beyond the warranty period of the MacBook. When you purchase a MacBook, Apple makes it very clear that the warranty will expire after a year. I don't think it's reasonable to hold a company accountable beyond their warranty period if the price and warranty are clearly defined at time of purchase. If Apple products continually fail just outside of their warranty, the market will adapt to reduce the amount people are willing to pay for Apple hardware.
I faced a similar dilemma when purchasing my (now) wife's engagement ring. We were both familiar w/ the con, but she likes the traditional ring, so I wanted to find a diamond I could live with. Ended up with a vintage diamond ring from the 1940s (original papers and all). I was happy to avoid a greater contribution to the insanity of the diamond trade and my wife loved that the ring had a story stretching back a couple of decades.
Check-out this "moster" post on SEO for photographers: http://www.foregroundweb.com/blog/seo-guide-for-photographer...

Hope it helps.
Please not the "awareness" argument again.

All things that fall under the "raising awareness" umbrella do, is make people feel like they're doing something meaningful, when they aren't.

"Hey, I didn't ask for water at Olive Garden, this drought is being caused by the rest of these people"

Why don't we all go pour buckets of ice on our heads to show people water is really important?
Selection bias. Only the best and brightest get to run companies. Much easier for men to run companies. Which obviously says something bad about our society - but it does not mean that women run companies better than men.
I searched for "white" and of course I found a few, as expected.
Why would people want to necessarily go to a selective school? The evidence supplied that selective schools make a difference was Caroline Hoxby of Stanford-- the most selective school in the country. She might have just a little bias.

When you're ultra-selective you're not picking losers or incapable people; those people had a high chance of success before they even went to college. So saying people who graduated from selective colleges do better is really a hard thing to measure unless it's a formal study, which isn't mentioned.

All of the evidence supporting any reason you'd want to go in the first place is either empirical and provided without data, and/or from someone with strong bias. Can you explain why smart people would want to pursue this kind of thing anyhow?

Most people of limited means are reasonable and don't "need" things like a fancy name on their diploma. Maybe it's just me, but I think selective schools are overrated so the premise of the article is a little ridiculous.
You missed my point. Symbols are cryptic.
The prices are already out there for anyone that wants to look. $1150 spot, 28.35g per ounce = $40.56 per gram. Avg 2.5g for a woman's solitaire ring = $101.40 for pure gold.

14k Gold = (14/24) = $59.15 in gold. -25% for the store and the refiner and you are at $44.36 to buy that 14k gold band.

I just looked up that same ring on a wholesaler website and retail is $245.49 plus shipping to get it to the store.

That's how a ring you paid up to $250 for is "worth" $45 when you try to sell it for scrap. No one tried to screw anyone, it's just math.
looks like a fun project, but unfortunately wind will unlikely to make the impact needed on the shift from fossil to renewables.
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