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As they seem to be implicitly telling you to download Firefox, you're probably not using Firefox. There's a div that covers the whole page with class "modal--old-ie" which that download button is in, but I guess they don't want anyone using anything but Firefox, since I get that with Chromium too.
I have noticed that kids playing Minecraft tend to fall into two groups:

1) Those building railways, roads, cities, redstone circuits, efficient automatic farms.

2) Those playing on "PvP" servers all day, attacking each other, fighting in arenas, clan wars, etc. (If you hear a constant "click click click" noise, that's probably them)

The ratio of type 2 to type 1 players is probably something like 7:3.

Type 2 relies on servers, while type 1 can be is usually done alone (on a server it typically ends in drama).
> "possible to make a UI that works for both use cases!"

That was what Windows 8/8.1 tried to do, but apparently people didn't like at all ( never understood that, to me is a fine OS)
What sort of analytics do Mozilla actually need?
Well, the general idea is "there are groups of people who are being discriminated against at some level, so we'll discriminate for them at this level, to even the scales out."

A better solution would be to stop negative discrimination in the first place, but sometimes that's too hard. When you pile hacks on hacks, you end up with crazy edge cases.
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Why is this down voted to oblivion? It is the hard truth, albeit he meant to say Unix not Linux. OSX is merely an "okay" OS. The points in the article about Mission Control being slow and laggy are completely true in my experience (2014 MBPr 16GB 512GB). Windows is architecturally a better OS than OSX.
I knew it! I had near-perfect SAT scores and a very high GPA, but I was rejected by many schools that accepted my friends with lower scores. Now it makes perfect sense. Except I'm white and my high school classmates were Asian and Indian. I'll never understand the admissions process.
I'm finding Mission Control a bit slow too. The whole Exposé thing was a lot snappier when they still called it that.

That said, in Task View on Windows do the iconified windows still play live content? E.g., under mission control, a video window will continue playing video live in its preview texture. Does this happen on Windows too?
Apologies for a comment that shouldn't have made it past the compose-at-night filter.
There is nothing magical about microwaves - they are just heating the wood to a high temperature where the carbon chars. You can do the same using any form of heat - the low tech and cheap solution is to use some of the waste wood to generate the heat.
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Next up - how I stopped learning how to be a real developer and accepted what framework farcebook ejected today. Tomorrow - abdicating database decisions in favour of whatever I read about on HN today.
> Getting money for not doing anything

Getting money for being a member of society*. After all, we already don't let people starve.

> The way to do it is probably paying only to the unemployed.

A lot of people think so, but this is actually a subtly terrible idea because it strongly incentivizes being unemployed.
Only for let, const, class, and function in block. Like the slide says!
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> Here's the real kicker: it's fast. It's smooth. It renders at 60FPS unless you have a lot going on. It's unequivocally better than performance on OS X, further leading me to believe that Apple really needs to overhaul how animations are done. Even when I turn Transparency off in OS X, Mission Control isn't completely smooth. Here, even after some Aero Glass transparency has been added in, everything is smooth. It's remarkable, and it makes me believe in the 12-inch MacBook more than ever before.

So much this. I really admire how performance of Windows desktop is optimized. I can't compare it with OS X, but when compared to modern Linux DE's (Plasma, Gnome Shell, Cinnamon etc.), Windows desktop still has all the same modern bells and whistles (hw acceleration, effects etc.) yet it blows them out of water when it cames to both smoothness and resource consumption.

I say I admire the effort on optimization, because things weren't that good even on Windows 7. I remember constantly having slight stuttering here and there on Windows 7 but Windows 8+ is completely smooth on the very same machine (which is now getting close to its 6th year), and this anectode shows that they must have taken the optimization seriously.

P.S: I'm not complaining on Linux DE's, they just have different priorities, and they're good deals considering their price.
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the graphics drivers under Windows are significantly better than on OSX or on Linux

An influence from its gaming heritage? I know that GPU companies definitely spend a lot more effort on improving their Windows drivers than on other OSs, because of gamers.
Given the subject, would it be amiss to point out that the title as written here is missing a comma?
I hope they fix their email regex. This kind of thing infuriates me because this really is the email I use daily: http://imgur.com/F9a2XeG
I'm late 30s and will still load up MC before resorting to TV or other entertainment. Have played consistently since the alpha. I have a Realm going with a fair few adult friends where we just play around in a long-term survival game together.

None of us can commit the time we used to commit to games (a few of us have kids), but I reckon we each probably put in half hour to an hour every day or 2, and the occasional 2-3 hour session per week while doing work on another screen or on hold on the phone.
I hope we all will be able to target evergreen browsers sooner rather than later. Microsoft seems to go into the right direction at least.
You can switch between them, usually using the control panel setting of the discrete graphics card (Nvidia in my case)
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What you describe is worryingly reasonable, however I don't see how it leads to the conclusion that the basic income ship has sailed.

Current US politics is still very "job creation" centered. Some think tanks need to start churning out pieces to shift public opinion that the number of over all jobs has permanently decreased and separate that from the idea that this is an indicator of our economy doing poorly. From there it is fairly simple to start convincing people that with a good economy and not enough jobs to go around we need to still ensure that everyone has the basic necessities of life.
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He used Jewish surnames. His analysis, IIRC, did not control for the fact that top American universities foreign enrollment had been increasing steadily for a long time.
The ship has sailed, in my opinion, because these people who could/should be behind it right now, will have no leverage, and people who don't need to get behind it now, but will in a few years, will lose that leverage before they realize what happened
People didn't like it because it wasn't adaptive to the present use. The tablet and desktop views were the same regardless, which made for some poor UX. Square peg, round hole.
The problem with basic income is that idle hands do the devils work. Without labor of some kind, kids get into trouble. What we need is basic income in exchange for going to school. Get rid of welfare / foodstamps, but if you can prove you are educating yourself (relative to your education level) you can get a minimum income.
Those are some very sweeping claims and they'd need some explanation of why this time will be unlike all of recorded history. Labor protection, minimum wage, a 40 hour work week, etc. all happened after long periods of misery for people who would have been just as erroneously dismissed as not really having the “power, knowledge, will nor money to push the BIG agenda”.
Has anyone tested linux on the 12-inch macbook yet? How straightforward is it (or isn't it) to install?
There is no BDFL any more, so nobody will be replacing him.

There will be a Technical Steering Committee in charge instead.
I don't like the idea of finding a soulmate, like there's only one person who you can be truly happy with.

You find someone, and then work your guts out to be lovable and to love, and you become soulmates.
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I 100% agree. My Mac Pro is an amazing machine to run Windows. While I still prefer the workflow on 10.10, I am far from unhappy when I have to switch to using Windows.
I was definitely talking API design choices. A lot of libraries achieve the same tasks, sometimes more, than jQuery with more thought-out APIs.
Such strawman, very shill, wow.

The information google gathers will never go away. If google collapses, that data will be slurped up by governments and the private sector alike, and there's absolutely no way for you to predict how it will be used in 40 years time.

The optimum strategy is to never let them get an ounce of information about you.
True. I think that if basic income is ever implemented, it will happen simply to control the masses.
Environment variables are automatically shared from a parent process to its child processes, so typically you'd want to set up your environment in ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile) so you only have to do the work once. This includes things like setting $PATH, $LESS, $EDITOR, $LS_COLORS and so forth.

On the other hand, things like shell aliases are not automatically shared to child processes, so you need to set them up afresh in every shell you launch. Therefore, ~/.bashrc is the place for those things.
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> But there's something to be said for having a single template file for a single page in Angular, versus having JSX scattered among 20+ components for that same single page in React

I'm not sure what you mean. There's nothing in React that would prevent you from making your pages just one huge component. You can split the code any way you like.
check out noscript then!
Responsive web design tip: make sure your map doesn't take up full height or width of the screen. Scrolling in that area becomes difficult.
What do you propose to do about the idle rich who inherit large sums and thus never need to work? Or people who marry rich spouses?
> People didn't like it because it wasn't adaptive to the present use. The tablet and desktop views were the same regardless, which made for some poor UX. Square peg, round hole.

I think the whole thing is very subjective. I have a way better UX with Windows 8/8.1 that I had with Win7 and with OSX.

The change resistance effect should not be dismissed too, people tend to be scared when a change is dramatic.
I hope it's not as bad as PL/R. Seemed like a good idea, but the performance was so terrible that it was essentially useless.
You want to look at the DOM structure of the page as it exists in the loaded page and have I got a treat for you! Figure out how to open the web inspector for your browser; the keyboard shortcuts are ctrl-shift-I or cmd-shift-I or cmd-opt-I on a few (platform, browser) pairs.

(This will show you the actual DOM, not the React components... but since you were talking about 'view-source', this might help you too.)
But not on the client side.
It's a really neat article. Thanks for explaining this stuff. I have no patience for it :)
Well, not really, I was just stretching my brain to think of criticisms you might have been alluding to. I still don't know what is overly explicit about Rust's generics.
I have to confess as well. My 8.1 machine is the first windows in 10 years I haven't either completely wiped or dual booted. I live in linux, but now use virtualbox on this machine. I bought it to be a travel rig- my main development is still done on a dual-boot (that now never boots into windows), but I'm liking it. I wish the virtualization was a bit smoother but it serves my purposes for now. I just like the win 8.1 experience enough that I don't want to deny myself easy access to it.
>AWstats is not that hard, and the AWstats output is quite good for most purposes.

You haven't done any serious web analytics at scale, have you?
bingo! Extra storage for all the resized images that never get seen, lack of flexibility to introduce new sizes, plus requirements for watermarking and attribution on images are the main reasons why we are moving away from pre-conversion to dynamic image resizing
I'm not sure even a 100% forest coverage could deal with the amount of CO2 we dump in the atmosphere currently...
I don't see the OP counting out "misery." Mincome will happen when the rest of the people start eating the rich.
Your understanding is incorrect, too. append() only returns a new slice when "the capacity of s is not large enough to fit the additional values", in which case "append allocates a new, sufficiently large underlying array that fits both the existing slice elements and the additional values. Otherwise, append re-uses the underlying array."

[-] http://golang.org/ref/spec#Appending_and_copying_slices
I agree that this point is somewhat weak but with fuel it's not so far-fetched to imagine that there will be changes: with a human driver, you have hard limits on the maximum time in motion so there's an upper bound on how much fuel it's worth carrying since you're going to have to stop after a shift anyway.

If you have a robot that can drive 16 hours straight, however, it's easy to imagine the incentives pushing companies to explore larger fuel tanks so they can use corporate depots where they can save a few percent on the operating costs.
On Writing Well is available online.

https://archive.org/details/OnWritingWell

It helped me go from low 70s to high 80s at Uni.
What you describe is inflation. But that would require more money in circulation, wouldn't it? Basic income would just be redistribution.

Obviously, economy is vastly more complicated, and there are correlation effects between everything, so I don't know...
You're doing Weber something of an injustice here, I think.

On the first hand, as the series goes on, battles tend to occur between combatants who are no longer at or near parity with one another, as Manticore and Haven are at the start of the series. Across several books, Weber details how first the SD(P) project, and then Project Apollo, result in a massive qualitative improvement of Manticoran weapons, such that their navy becomes the most powerful in known space despite its relatively small size.

On the second hand, if the attack you mean is "Oyster Bay", then Weber's at some pains to make clear that, while the current stock of missiles is sufficient to defeat one major attack on the scale of Filareta's, the wholesale devastation of Manticore's military manufacturing capabilities will result in a severe force imbalance against any further such attacks, and the sheer size of the Solarian League's navy will come to count for much more than their units' individual weakness against Manticoran ships -- a weakness largely predicated on qualitative differences in missile capabilities, which ceases to be an advantage when Manticoran ships' magazines can't be reloaded.

Granted, the end of Mission of Honor and the events of A Rising Thunder make clear that the manufacturing deficit isn't going to end up being the fatal blow to Manticore that it initially appears to be. But you really can't claim with accuracy that Weber just breezes past it as such, not when he spends such effort (and page count) making clear to the reader that, all else equal, Oyster Bay would necessitate Manticore's surrender in relatively short order.

And on the third hand, Weber's been getting a lot of trouble from his fanbase and others, since the start of the series, for his infamous habit of "infodumps". He's done a better job of taking to heart that criticism since he accepted that the series is no longer one which can be picked up and started from any book. For I think the same reason, he's also started allowing the reader to infer the actual events of a given battle, choosing to spend words on its prelude and ramifications rather than spewing monotonous chapters on battles whose details are a foregone conclusion.

Not to say, of course, that Weber as an author is beyond reproach -- nothing of the sort. And his work is certainly a niche taste. But if you're going to criticize him, you'll do a better job of it if you concentrate on problems he actually has.
You might be pleasantly surprised to learn that python by default caches the parsing results between runs. If it makes you feel better, you can think of it as ~partially compiled :) But there is an inherent trade-off between having a lot of flexibility at runtime, and having aggressive code specialization and optimization at compile time. Well, I suppose you could combine those into one language, but you couldn't do both on the same piece of code...
> Self-driving cars will never happen.

"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense." [1]

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/442305-you-would-make-a-ship...
All those eliminated bureaucrats are now on basic income. What have you saved?
Why would cost go down?
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This isn't about aliasing, as the specification notes "If the capacity of s is not large enough to fit the additional values, append allocates a new, sufficiently large underlying array that fits both the existing slice elements and the additional values. Otherwise, append re-uses the underlying array." [1].

I encourage anyone who writes Go to read the specification. I found it very digestible and my code has improved a lot as a result. In this case, for example I can do things like pre-allocate a slice of given and then append to it several times without re-allocations which I sometimes find more semantic when dealing with binary data -- and the reference to the slice doesn't need to change.

[1] http://golang.org/ref/spec#Appending_and_copying_slices
The only "nasty allegation" toward a "specific person" was that Lucas Duplan is a sociopath. And if you wish to call that choice of wording out specifically, fine. Neither the chicken-hawk nor I would know enough about him to make any valid psychiatric judgment.

I can say: from the way he runs his business, he seems like a psychopath. (That's not hard proof, but more than "a shred of evidence.") I can only make a superficial impression, because that's all I see: his actions, not his psychological state. But his appeal to a chicken-hawk is also based seeming like a sociopath. So perhaps I should replace "chicken-hawks seek young sociopaths in order to live vicariously through them" with "chicken-hawks seek young people who seem like sociopaths in order to live vicariously through them", but I thought it was already implied that an investor-level chicken-hawk is not qualified to diagnose psychopathy per se and therefore is, quite obviously, making such determinations based on impressions rather than (illegible, at that level) facts of psychological state. I thought that this was so obvious that I didn't have to say it.

My assertions about the motivations for funding him are not directed at "specific people" since I have not named specific backers, and have neither the intention nor the requisite fine-grained knowledge to do so. However, as a general explanation for why people like him get funded, chicken-hawking is very often correct. I know it, you know it, and as long as I'm not calling out investors by name and saying "I'm 100% sure that this is what's happening in this exact case", I don't see any harm in drawing attention to the fact that it exists and is pervasive, and that, while I don't have the fine-grained knowledge that would be required to call out specific investors by name, I can be over 99.99% sure that it was a dominant contributor to his rise in Silicon Valley.
Yeah, I think achieving this - or even coming sufficiently close to achieving this - is impossible. Tracking discrimination is very difficult.

A person is an incredibly complex array of both discriminatory and nondiscriminatory features. A tall, poor African American with a really great support network might actually face less discrimination than a fat, middle-class European American who has that one goofy ear. It's just impossible try and rectify this after the fact. Stopping negative discrimination in the first place is not just a better solution, it's the only solution.
They left out police.

Police depend on traffic ticket and parking ticket income. The whole CJ system depends on traffic stops to make drug and other minor crime arrests. That's going away.
So you can just put a couple of cones across a highway and stop all traffic for a few hours? Cool! I'll bet you can even camouflage the transmitter so that no one can figure out why all traffic has stopped until they come out with a really sensitive detector and realize that there's something stuck 30 feet up in the tree branches instructing all vehicles to go into emergency stop mode.
There was a lot written about this by smarter and more articulate people, and I'm sure you can google it, if you really want to know.. From myself I can only add my observations, as someone who works in automation.

It's simple really - technology to automate a lot of jobs it already here. In most cases it's very economic to automate the jobs, and doesn't really take long. Many more companies are moving in that direction. However, some government contractors are required to have a specific number of employees. They get tax incentives to keep people working. That's holding back automation.. And there is one more reason - a lot of small companies, which are still majority of the economy, are run by older guys that are afraid of big changes, and afraid of technology. Their businesses work, and bring money, and they will not implement any changes until they absolutely have to. As the demographics shift, and people who are more open to automation come aboard automation will speed up.
Except they heat by increasing molecular dipole rotation which, while not magic, is different to conduction. Which means the heat can penetrate more efficiently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating

I want to be convinced this is better than simply producing charcoal by burning some wood to dry out other wood.
Also a video of Samy demonstrating why the attack works here: https://youtu.be/qkolWO6pAL8

It's interesting that the first digit of the combination can be found due to a design shortcut taken by Master. The inner and outer discs are manufactured identically which means that there is a redundant protrusion on the outer disc which causes detectable friction when it hits the shackle collar. If Master manufactured the out disc separately, without that protrusion, the first digit would be much harder to discover.
Spreading that fictional "parody situation" is fuel for real discrimination. At best, you've got it backwards.

People of colour & women who are perfectly competent at their jobs fall under more suspicion, have to prove themselves more, and are assumed to be less competent than white men doing the same work. There are so many studies affirming this.

It's pretty ugly behaviour to hold onto the idea that a single PoC might be an incompetent "diversity token" rather than just ... someone doing their job.
As a bonus, you can't enable them for things like ELBs where you don't control the box.