skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many IAPs are designed to prevent you from playing the game unless you pay. It doesn't seem unreasonable to blame that for some reduction in playtime.

Take a game like Alphabears. I'd spend hours playing this, except there are at least three differet cooldown timers that are avoided with cash.

You need "honey" to enter events. You can buy unlimited honey for $4.99 (This is fine, I see this as a demo-mode limitation with a price for the full game.)

But then you use "bears" for each round, and your bears nap after each round. You can wake your bears with coins. Some rounds need coins to enter. You can't buy unlimited coins, you eother let them build up slowly over time or pay cash every time you need some.

It's potentially a great game but the IAPs make it really hard to play more than a couple of events a day.

(I tried to buy the first IAP, unlimited honey, but it failed so I'm not sure how much difference that would make).
>I strongly disagree with this sentiment or at least I think it should be put to the test more often.

Donald Trump is proving that sentiment right now.

More seriously, there's a difference between a crowd and a mob. Notably, crowd opinions are uncorrelated - everyone in the crowd comes to their own conclusion, and then they vote. Mob opinions are correlated. People whose opinion differs from the mob, even are intimidated into either changing their opinion or, at the very least, remaining silent. Thus the mob quickly converges on a single opinion, whereas the crowd maintains a diversity of opinions.
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A difference with Tarsnap is that s3ql is free and open-source software (both the client and server), so you can also use it on your own server, your friends' servers, etc.

I used s3ql to back up my stuff on servers where I had shell access and disk space but didn't trust root.

By contrast, from what I understand, tarsnap requires you to use the official server.
So, contrary to the article, you are claiming that there are good reasons to use /dev/random some times?
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> Watson had been increasingly 'a pariah' over the last few decades because of a long series of racist and sexist comments. It was not due to "one failed joke."

Do you have a source for that? I have felt rather conflicted about that incident, and I'd like to know if there really is more to it.
Hence "modulo legal gloss". Which includes such elements as effective counsel, unbiased jury selection, proper procedure, evidentiary rules, etc. Now let's look at your link....

Yeah. Biased jury selection.

The Sixth Amendment lays out most of what comprises due process:

the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Also Art III Sec 2:

The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment; shall be by Jury...

And again, the Virginia statute clearly fails XIV:

nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...
The difference is that weaknesses were found in 3DES and MD5. Increasing computing power was not the main factor. "Only" being able to produce 2^80 random bytes is a known and expected limitation. Sure, the CSPRNG could in theory be found to have a weakness, but that has nothing to do with the 2^80 bytes and the same could be said for virtually any cryptographic algorithm.
Nods

You're very unlikely to be continually reseeding your own DBRG with new entropy, so it will be less secure than /dev/urandom, which is.

Suspiciously bad advice, there, from what I can see.
discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8661186

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7279087

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7199751

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6037929

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5922686

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994620

and more

https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page...
"because nobody watches people play mobile games anyway"

I'm one of those nobodies ;-)
A quick search on Youtube will show at least half a dozen Clash Of Clan dedicated channels with more than 100k subscribers (ie Galadon, Chief Pat, Molt, Nickatnyte ...)
I believe that very recent human evolution is favoring the abandonment of critical thinking. As N generation increases, Wisdom of the crowd decreases. There is also evidence that ""educated"" people have been outbred by ""uneducated"" people in the western world recently [0][1]

[0] https://edge.org/response-detail/23788

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence

Education, and IQ aside, which I find both rather primitive measures (one is credentialist and the other is biased) - there is a Cost-Benefit analysis involved in the decision to have children, that many are not participating in to begin with. I find the above two links incorrect in that _education_ or _IQ_in_general_ can be true measures of "real" intelligence. however, their argument still stands.

The point I'm getting at is Wisdom of any given mob in Generation N > Wisdom of any given mob in Generation N+1, during and after the modern age.

NB: these are just my beliefs. I also find that IQ is not the most reliable measure for intelligence, given Flynn effects, given the biased nature in testing itself, and given more recent cognitive psychologies understanding of differing "realms" of intelligence.
That's pretty cool.

Interestingly, most people using an Android phone can do that without the use of a computer or scanner.

The only caveat being that you may need the same QR app to decode it. I generated mine using QR Droid Private. Two other apps weren't ale to decode from the image so I'm assuming they'd also choke when scanning. QR Droid was able to decode it.

Man, that's got to be the largest QR code I've ever seen!
Your argument about IAP is true and I also think it's hated too much. It's not a problem in itself. But there are really too many games which focus too much on just increasing IAP instead of delivering gaming content. My interest in playing mobile grows every day. But I see less and less opportunity for it. Hearthstone and maybe Fallout Shelter are the only two examples that are playable in my eyes, and both also try to convince you to spend unreasonable amounts of money on IAP content.

I hope it's a learning process for the development community.
Anecdotal, but I use btrfs on my laptop since august 2014, had a good number of hard power off not related to btrfs and the filesystem never failed me once.

I had some problem with space though using intensively docker: in some situations btrfs thought that the free space was finished and I had to manually rebuild the metadata.
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Or Multiple Sclerosis.
Thank you for that factoid. I actually forgot about this. :)
Physical computers can only compute because the electrons flowing inside them compute. If they didn't, we wouldn't even have computers in the first place. So yes, everything computes. After all computers are only tools that make computation convenient and controllable for humans.
> Watson had been increasingly 'a pariah' over the last few decades because of a long series of racist and sexist comments. It was not due to "one failed joke."

I assumed he was talking about Hunt (although strictly speaking he's a biochemist).

You're right that journos have always had quick access to the public ear, but the internet makes this available to pretty much everybody else at zero cost. "Everybody else" outnumbers "journos" thousands to 1, with no editorial oversight or regulatory control. The Hunt story blew up because of Twitter. Imagine what Twitter would have looked like during Krakatoa, or the contemporary Jack-the-Ripper murders.
I really hate private, protected, sealed and such. At least few times I found myself in situation that I needed to use some library in ways author haven't anticipated or create workaround for a bug there.

I had to recompile it and duplicate large parts of the library code just because somebody put private, protected or sealed for no apparent reason in few places.

In JS keeping classes only as local variables not exposed in any way to user of the library has the same effect. Please don't do it. If you want me not to shoot myself in the foot then create good api, not just try to hide the gun in the closet. I'll find it anyway and the more time I spend looking for it, the less time I'll have to understand how to operate it safely.
Title seems misleading.

with a newly developed technique for wirelessly
powering *implanted* devices

This is not a method of remotely hacking the central nervous system. Rather: "Stanford engineers develop method to wirelessly power implants that stimulate nerves in mice"
I'm not trying to argue either way here - my argument is above - but do you think Twitter and social media in general favors the mob over the crowd?
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Works okay on Chromium too, no need to use the Google-branded one.
Why not use a UserTesting on Peek to figure that out? :-P

Sounds like a great opportunity to drink your own champagne.
There are physical limits to our reality and it's very unlikely those limits can be broken (eg, speed of light). Given those limits, 2^80 is large enough that the limit cannot be surpassed without fully breaking reality (eg, timetravel).

If you can break reality, all bets are off though and trying to defend against attacks that break reality in the future are impossible.
> Which language is easy enough to compile, and pleasant enough to write a compiler in?

Why write a self-hosting compiler? Use Haskell to write a C compiler, if you must.

(If you want the identity there, use a Scheme to write a Scheme compiler.)
Like a certain conference you and I have both attended whose name is carefully omitted from its website?
I think free speech can't survive the internet for a different reason - because everything is someone's backyard.

You can say whatever you want in public space, but nobody has to let you write in his newspaper, post on his notice board, put passages in his book, let you speak in his living room or broadcast what you say through radio. That's okay, because there are public places.

There are no public places on the internet. You can't say what you want on Facebook, because it's Facebook's property and that's like speaking in someone's living room or in someone's newspaper. You can't say what you want on Google+, because that's Google's property. If you want to create your own message board, hosting provider can refuse you service - it's their property. If you make your own server, the ISP can refuse you service, because it's their own property.

There are no truly public spaces on the internet, everything is someone's backyard.
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What I don't understand is why they felt the need to come up with their own implementation of Bootstrap? Don't get me wrong, I agree that it looks well thought out but why not just use Bootstrap for layout rather than reinventing the wheel? (Apologies if this is a stupid question.)
Fallout shelter isn't much of a game.
Auto-update preview on edit, preview highlight of elements selected in code, desktop/mobile preview, all seem to work well. No other options, bells or whistles. I like the fact it does one thing well.
SQLite supports multiple readers when Write Ahead Logging (WAL) is enabled. This mode is so good and transforms the whole operation of SQLite that it is shame that 1) it isn't the default, 2) more people don't know about it.
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I might be mistaken but I believe that feature refers to the ability to make a bit of your file system read only. It's just there so you don't accidentally wipe out a backup you meant to keep.

You would still do versioned backups and then make one a month immutable. Or whatever your strategy is.
There;s a pretty good chance this is the answer, but even if the child couldn't see the table from above but only reach and see things near the edge, if they could interact with objects on the table at all they'd still have some kind of mental model of the objects on the table and their positions and orientation. That could be enough to be able to generate an impression of seeing the table from above.

When my eldest was about 6 or 7 she woke us up because the was wandering around upstairs opening all the doors. I lead her to the toilet and when she'd finished took her to bed and tucked her in. The next morning she told me she'd had a weird dream that she'd been going around the house opening all the doors looking for something, but had no memory of me or going to the toilet.
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Alternatively to save you some time, you can download the (unofficial) ARM tarballs for Go from here:

http://dave.cheney.net/unofficial-arm-tarballs
There are very specific use cases, where the concern is not about entropy in the series (because duh!), but from having a small seed value that is intrinsically not cryptographically secure but unpredictable (not quite the same thing) even in a controlled setup like a the start up of a VM image.

I would agree with the article that the right way to fix the problem is to seed each instance of the image on startup, but that will also avoid you having a problem with it blocking.

That's a special case though, where you aren't in the middle of a cryptographic handshake, you don't have real time constraints, and the fix to the real problem will also mean there is no problem. Don't use it for a network service's source of randomness.
The CMS improvements I've mentioned to are being contributed by a 3rd party. Based on the mailing list posts[1] I think it was google.

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2015-J...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Provocative_comme...

> On October 25, 2007, Watson was compelled to retire as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island and from its board of directors, after he had been quoted in The Times the previous week as saying "[I am] inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa [because] all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really." He went on to say that despite the desire that all human beings should be equal, "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."

There are many similar essays describing his sexist and racist views.
To be fair most people who claims to have psychic power also claim that, even if not perfect, have a statically significant success rate.

I mean if you really had a psychic power that worked 1 in 800,000 trials, a single life wouldn't be long enough to discover it. By comparison, we only live about 30,000 days.
I would not hire a water diviner finding water with such low success rate.
> of a long series of racist and sexist comments.

It doesn't matter if you say things like that once or a million times. "Quantity" forms no part of the wording that defines free speech or limited speech.

> what is the appropriate way to respond that cannot be described as a "shame mob"?

Technically or practically? Technically nothing should be done (up until the point of fighting words): that person should be left to spout their vitriol as much as they please. People will dismiss him as a crazy racist (a natural consequence) but that does not mean he should be punished/disciplined for being what he is (an additional synthetic consequence).

Practically a friendly hand goes a lot further in changing people's opinions. The only thing these "shame mobs" are doing is inciting more anger: their behavior is as bad, often worse, than the people that they are criticizing.
The property owner is the victim. Property owners have the right to deny entry/use of their property for any reason or no reason at all.

They can say "No one wearing blue shirts", or "No entry after 5pm" or any other rule they want to impose, if you violate that you have violated their property rights.
Centrally controlled and switched systems are ripe for censorship.
How do you view it if you live in a country where all higher education is completely free, no matter if you study liberal arts or law?
Why is GPS a free service?
I would have loved to check the repo out, but to my bad, I haven't worked with python ever ... and might not have the time as well.

However, I would checkout salt. Thanks a bunch.
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FF 40.0.0.3 22-23fps 23fps

FF nightly 2015-08-31 24fps

chrome 44.0.2403.157 (64bit) 26fps

MS Edge 20.10240.16384.0 30-33fps

(i7-4770k igfx)

The differences weren't visually very apparent. None of the browsers seemed to have periodic GC lag, which in the past certainly was an issue.

I'm curious: which browser did you develop this with/optimize on?
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I think I disagree about the observability -- vtune is a lot easier to use when just tuning straight C++ rather than java
Maybe a play on Google's "Material Design" ?
>Your scenario doesn't handle the case a market order does, i.e. close my position now.

I covered that. If you really, truly, want to sell at any price(and I can't imagine why, that is terrible trading), then you set your limit to zero.

That's all a market order is - a special case of a marketable limit order (immediate or cancel/fill and kill/etc) with the limit set to zero (in the case of a sell) or infinity (in the case of buy).

Banning vanilla market orders just forces people to acknowledge that fact, which is a good thing.
.. while keeping in mind that for some workloads GC is a large chunk of the app's work. For example, 10 Xeon cores worth of GC throughput (out of say 24) would be a pretty tall order for a FPGA, and as a fixed resource it easily becomes an Amdahl's law bottleneck.

It would be a cool thing to try still, and maybe doable with COTS hw:
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/technol... + http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc21/...
It's especially important for blog posts like this to have a very obvious timestamp on the page somewhere. This is a contemporary post but I couldn't verify that until I went into the archive view.
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>The mob is inherently irrational, stupid and over reactive

Any type of democracy relies on trusting the public to decide for themselves.

It is an old idea that education is the solution to this problem: "The commonwealth requires the education of the people as the safeguard of order and liberty" -- inscribed outside the Boston Public Library, 1895.
> what is the appropriate way to respond that cannot be described as a "shame mob"

here's an algorithmic solution:

https://github.com/neyer/respect

we could give louder volume to people who we are more likely to respect.

rather than some the person, just give them a negative edge, and lessen their volume towards people that respect you.

i have an implementation running on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/respectmatrix?fref=ts
One must have a very poor set of ears if is unable to detect the difference between those hi-end digital honky tonk pianos and the niche piece of furniture I have in the living room.
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She was apparently the first: http://www.workingmother.com/most-powerful-moms/marissa-maye...
I don't use Safari, not because of privacy concerns, but because

1. I hate the address bar how it partially hides the URL

2. It adjusts colors. Not only for images with an embedded color profile, but many colors defined in CSS are brighter in Safari than in Firefox or Chrome. This messes up my web development.
The article uses the plural in 'recent scandals involving Nobel biologists'. There are only two such cases I know of.

If the essay is only referring to Hunt, then it should 1) be clear about the distinction, and 2) describe why the reaction to Watson's well-known racist and sexist remarks, including those printed in The Times, which caused him to lose his chancellorship of the Cold Springs Harbor Lab, were not due to a 'shame mob'.

By "editorial oversight", do you include the yellow journalism of the 120 years ago as example of how editorial oversight in the newspapers helped keep things from being blown up? Or the many publications of the xenophobic nativist presses? Page 3 girls? The influence of people from Hearst to Rupert Murdoch on politics?

Because I don't see why the newspapers as a category deserve special praise for good 'editorial oversight or regulatory control'.
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This will also work when the site's servers are down. It serves offline content from the local cache if the original fetch fails - it can fail either due to your device's connection, the server, or anything in between.

However, since offline content is served after trying the network, it's still going to be slow in flakey network conditions as you wait for the original request to either succeed or give up.
>>>yes family members are absolutely "victimized" by their loved ones' self-destruction.

They may be traumatized, but they are not victimized

>>>Some proponents of drug prohibition would argue that people (particularly teens) are not using drugs of their own free will

those same people believe that nothing is "free will". That free will does not exist. You should ignore those people.

>>>It's certainly not a property of the universe - just 400 years ago there'd have been no question that the lord of the manor owned all your labor,

Using unethical policies in history to justify more unethical polices today is ridiculous.

>>>Failure to help your fellow man obviously has victims - thousands of people die of circumstances that could have been alleviated by your money.

You keep using the word victim to describe tragedies, I do not think you understand the difference. Humanities failure to help people in need is not victimizing them, it is a tragedy.

"It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we’re compassionate we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint." -- Penn Jillette
IMO you're pretty naive if that one box really is going to stop Google from tracking everything you do in the browser.
I imagine the Open Connect box would do automatic bitrate tuning for all users on that network for immediate mitigation and notify obviously Netflix and the open connect ISP for long term capacity management.
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Ok seems I was wrong about that part.
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Well PV domU support is more invasive, but HVM is not (it is just like kvm), and Amazon supports both. The middle ground is the pvhvm mode which requires some Xen drivers for additional support, rather than the virtio drivers that kvm/bhyve use - Xen has a different driver model.