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I can relate to your point in general. The Internet is indeed quirky and glitchy, while TV generally works even for the elderly. However...

> My TV always works - it never buffers, shows glitchy video, or requires a page refresh (or god forbid a reboot).

... I guess you haven't had an IPTV setup, yet. :) I did (I have FTA DVB-T now) and buffering + glitchy video is a reality more frequently than I'd expect. Reboots are also necessary and were really deal breakers, as I didn't have RF overlay.

One could argue, though, that IPTV is more Internet than TV, or at least has the bad part of the Internet leaking to the TV realm and adding quirkiness. It's true. However, as mentioned above, now I have DVB-T and, god, buffering and glitchy video are even worst (but that's politics and clientelism, which is different matter for another discussion).

My point being: considering that TV "just works", nowadays, isn't really so clear-cut. Digital transmission and encoding, all these apps and added value with the extra capabilities of set-top boxes, yadda yadda, actually made it worse! Talk about having technology pushed down our throats (and to no advantage!). We just got a worst experience - it's a great example of how much telcos (IT in general, I'd say) aren't customer-centric.
5×1028 was almost certainly intended to read 5 times 10 to the power 28.

ARIN's original announcement can be found via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276711, by the way.
What is your opinion of https://github.com/markfinger/python-react ?
Ok, so how do you send Ctrl-Break (or the equivalent)?

Tried to do a loop that breaks automatically but there might have been a bug
Out of control memory bloat on vital apps like my stock trading platform forced me over to Chrome around the FF 4 days. Missing the great Add-ons, I returned to Firefox about a year ago, and can't believe the difference. The MemShrink team has done a fantastic job. Thank you!
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I have one of those power strips. It's really great!

I usually keep it in a simple tight circle. Right now it has a couple of MacBook Pro AC adapters, another AC adapter for a network switch, and a few regular AC plugs.

It's super easy to arrange it to fit all kinds of power plugs without them getting in the way of each other.
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In the Netherlands, where I am from, at least (I think it is less so in the US?), you are a complete failure/loser if you are a coder > 35 y/o (I am 40). You are supposed to be a manager then. My path was different than that but I cannot help thinking this attitude which is pushed in university and by (a lot of) parents influenced some decisions I made. Coders over 45 are considered sad and when you meet them in companies they are usually in the basement and treated like idiots. We were hired to give this mobile app development course to a large company in the Netherlands; it turned out this was just to fill out the training responsibilities the company had with their employees. All of the trainees were over 45, most over 50 and the company didn't care what we did and they would never use it there but apparently their employees expressed interest to learn about app development. Sad.
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This[0] should work.
[0]: https://reportaproblem.apple.com/
use tor, the latency is pretty low (at most it adds 500 ms)
If you require cars to use the bike lane, it's not a dedicated bike lane anymore. You bring cars and bikes together, and risk collisions between the two. It works only if car drivers are very aware of the presence of bikes, and trained to watch out for them. I think this is more likely to work in cities with an established bike culture than in car dominated cities.

When cars dominate, give bikes their own bike path.
Developers are an optimistic breed. Hard bug to fix :)
In general I agree with you. Technically though, youtube didn't have any revenue source initially, including ads. Basically they built a giant user base, then let someone else figure out how to make money with it (unsurprisingly, with ads).
I was 'shocked' to discover a few months back that, when I made the horrible mistake of starting a job that wasn't easily Ctrl+C killable and dumped a lot of output to the screen, I was better off paging to antoher desktop and waiting for it to go away, because the limiting factor to the data-dump wasn't the bandwidth between my machine and the remote, nor the buffer size of the terminal, socket, or whatever else in between, but the speed at which my terminal rendered text, which was rendered moot by being on another desktop where the text didn't need to be rendered and the xterm (or also iterm) session could page-past that text without disturbing my desktop display.

It makes a lot of sense. Much goes into your text rendering beyond what was necessary in your VT100. Every screen I see is anti-aliased, horizontally and vertically aligned, with 'lines' of text that can wrap or be colored or myriad other things according to the byzantine and arcane standards of the escape codes and ones that have come after. Re-drawing even a fairly large amount of text is fairly non-trivial cpu and gpu time. I found I got way better performance and less lag from my machine if I disabled the alpha transparency on my terminal windows. Processing power is very high, but still far from unlimited.
Here: https://www.gjopen.com/
IIRC The Economist is involved in the project
bet is not unconstitutional to force someone to give up pw of PC though? :/
Hi! I'm the developer of AdMop. The reason why you're being ask to login is because app needs access not only to iCloud but also iCloud Drive. This is for downloading new rules, which I publish as files over iCloud Drive. I'm planning to change that mechanism in the next version of AdMop; the current approach was the fastest "quick and dirty" solution to have a working implementation. That said I do want to keep using CloudKit as a backend - which requires iCloud access - so I can use it as a place for users to store their own white lists; something quite a few have asked me for. Anyway thanks all for trying AdMop - thanks to your feedback I'll include a note in the store description in future for why the app needs iCloud access.
specific field would be machine learning. I regularly follow Karpathy's blog and his convnetjs library [1], and also Harthur's brain library [2]. yes, I also found a lot of papers cryptic and hard to follow

[1] https://github.com/karpathy/convnetjs
[2] https://github.com/harthur/brain
I was going to propose rocks, paper and scissors, best out of 15. But that can be gamed [1].

[1] - https://www.google.de/search?q=winning+at+rocks,+papers+scis...
Is there stuff like this for more 'modern' events? These suggestions are great and I like stuff like HH but was wondering if there was anything that covered like 1920's events or cold war or something in that same period (up until maybe 80-90's or so?)
AdMop is quite good, and it has a very decent level of support (disclaimer: given by me, I am the developer)
> you would have $213,474,546,813,934,272 today

That's only assuming zero risk. An investment with risk so low to survive two millennia can safely yield 0%.
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This is alarming:

"According to Transport & Environment (T&E), a green pressure group, the gulf between stated fuel-economy figures (and by extension carbon-dioxide emissions) and those achieved by an average driver has grown to 40% in recent years [in the European Union] (see chart 4)"

So on average the fuel economy of cars is 40% worse than what the EU testing finds. Bending rules and optimising to unrealistic tests.

"The cars that are tested have generally been modified to be as frugal as possible. Things that add weight, such as sound systems, are left out. Drag is reduced by removing wing mirrors and taping up cracks between panels. Special lubricants make the engines run more smoothly. Low-resistance tyres are overinflated with special mixtures of gas. Alternators are disconnected, which gives more power to the wheels but guarantees a flat battery in the end. The cars may be run in too high a gear, and conducting tests at the highest allowed ambient temperature—another efficiency booster—is commonplace."

Also:
"The NOx emissions from new diesel cars in Europe are on average five times higher on the road than in tests; some cars run at ten times the limit"
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That's awesome that you're enjoying it! I'm just saying, they spent a ton of time/money on vetting ideas, R&D, and manufacturing, just to have it knocked off for $5 to $15 [1]. Why did they make such risks by manufacturing before gauging demand? A simple pre-order or crowdfunding campaign where fix batches were pre-sold and repeated until steady orders came in would make sense.

[1] http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Universal-Surge-Pr...
Is it? I thought all of Silicon Valley was pretty densely populated, and that's more than just San Jose.

In any case, biking works best when distances aren't too big. Amsterdam is probably the bike capital of the world (more bikes than people), but biking from a suburb on one side of the city to one on the opposite side is pretty rare (except for the more dedicated biker, obviously). You're a fool if you take a car into the city center (many people don't even own one), but around the edges, cars work fine.

Although my wife, who is not a dedicated cyclist at all and usually commutes by car, has had a time where she regularly cycled 17 km to Schiphol.
Incidentally, what you would get for $1 in year zero would differ hugely from what you'd get today.
Is 25 days a year considered generous in the US? I am in Europe and receive 26 days a year (Not including public holidays of course) and I consider that to be a fairly standard amount for tech workers. Do Americans maybe have more public holidays that offset this?

My partner on the other hand receives, what I consider a "generous" holiday package of 6 weeks a year. And no, not as a teacher, she works in a creative field.
If you're using Linux, I'd advise you to use a fast terminal like Terminology; it even has GPU acceleration, but I doubt you'd need that. The only one that comes close on CPU-rendering speed is urxvt.
It's a great audiobook too.
I highly doubt anybody can make such a study, because nobody can get such an experiment? What did they do? Measured talent in infants, forbade them to practice and compared to practiced individuals? Heh :) Don't be ridiculous. The studies you supposedly read are junk.
Minor clarification: what i meant below is I plan to build a portal with major feature being CMS, not planning to rewrite an CMS from scratch, instead I will source in Github for the module that can be ported/plugged in right away with some modification.

-----

Right now, the web frameworks that are on my radar are: Laravel(PHP), Phoenix(Elixir), React+Meteor(JS), and RoR(Ruby). This list is by no means exhaustive, just that recently they caught my attention and I am contemplating to choose one for an upcoming CMS project.

Would like to know if these frameworks each has its own segment or/and sweetspots, or they kind of compete against each other and the choice is mostly personal preference?

The goal is to hear what people like/dislike on a particular framework. Inputs from those who have worked with multiple frameworks will be awesome.

Thanks in advance.
Suddenly Musk's cameo line in Iron Man 2 seems a touch prophetic despite being intended as ludicrous at the time.
I can no longer tolerate TV. Using the Internet has made me a control freak. Even with buffering etc, the TV user interface is primitive.
Thank you! When I filled in this form, it said I can cancel a purchase within 14 days of making one. Is it the case with all apps that you can get a refund, no questions asked, within 14 days?
It's a really good question in Bassel's case. It's actually one of those areas where "raising awareness" can have an effect -- if you look back on previous successes, it's often a chain of improbabilities: meeting an individual who recognises the name, or an opportunity to use the public recognition to get to see someone in charge at just the right moment. So just more people looking at the problem, and talking about it can help. (It may not be you who knows the answer, or even someone you know, but someone who heard from the person who heard the story from you might be able to help.)

I know this is a bit vague, but genuinely Bassel is in a very fluid situation right now. The attack on the prison was earlier this month, and we're still trying to understand what's going on and how to address it.

If you join the campaign at http://freebassel.org/, they will keep you updated. I'll be writing more about Bassel and the other cases at EFF's Deeplinks, too.
Why do serial primetime comedies use laugh tracks? The writing is base and the jokes often not funny, but when we hear other people laugh we're psychologically driven to feel more joy/humor/whatever and join in.

Why do people keep clicking obvious linkbait articles? Because there's certain social-inclusion triggers we're wired to respond to, logic and conditioning be damned. The content isn't popular. The forcing function used to drive that traffic is playing on social addictions.

At some point you have to put aside the "data" and think about where the cause and effect really lies.
Skating isn't a big form of transport here. Most skaters are recreational and stick to the parks. Though I did encounter a (remarkably fast!) skater in bike traffic recently, and people always give them a bit more space. (Actually it was a mixed bike/pedestrian path still in a park, but bikes try to dominate it and use it as their main thoroughfare.) Bikers would probably get annoyed if skaters try to claim their extra wide space in the most crowded bike traffic, though.
yes it is true JS is not a popular language among researchers. what I aim is to have a research experience in the process of contributing to build research-oriented libraries, since I am new into the research domain and want to develop an active research interest. I read papers, but mostly they are quite cryptic or maybe I lack the basic knowledge for understanding them. Developing and contributing to a research oriented open source project will help me into properly understanding the research being done
> choose one for an upcoming CMS project.

Thing is, none are CMS's. If that's what you need, why would you start with a framework? Sure it's fun to build and I always think I can do better than the existing CMS's do, but it's never a good use of my time - or good for the client.

Please, if you need a CMS, use a CMS. If you need a Content Management Framework (CMF) one of the above could save time. If it's an application surrounded by managed content, your choices are different again. But please don't reinvent the wheel if you can avoid it.
Strange. I often send 100MB+ dumps into terminal. Konsole from KDE or even my Java IDE has no problems to process it.
Some of them do. But you have to remember that many MOOC's are created by non-technical people.

While it is easy to dynamically change the integers in a math question such as "2+2", it is quite difficult to change the integer values in a history question such as "When was D-day?"

You can shake up the order of multiple choice questions, so that you can't distribute answer sheets in the form of "ACBADE...".

You can also try and make 4 questions for each question and show them randomly, but then you have quadrupled your workload and it is not very certain that this instance of the test is equally difficult to the next.
... is secondary news coverage, whereas this item is the original ARIN announcement (also submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276711).
Wait, what? A good electric motor is already ~90% efficient. How are you going to double that?
They may be right. But the good news is: You don't need investors (plural)... you don't need all the Angels in Silicon Valley to fawn over you. If all you need is 50k, then you just need one good relationship with one good Angel. What the masses of investors think about you doesn't really matter, just try and find the one who's the best fit.
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I think it's far more likely that the author is a Strauss fan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_Transfiguration
Yep, I totally agree with you. This changed for me since I switched to TypeScript. It really makes your code "look" and act more professionally.
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I agree with the above. That said, even if you are doing something new, you don't need to reinvent the wheel – it may be worthwhile taking a look at https://www.contentful.com/ (not affiliated, just an interesting service) and utilising their API to build an application which purely delivers the added value.
Unfortunately the code is not open source - I'll try to open parts of it in the future.

But please do check this simple gist I found some time ago that helped me understand how powerful asyncio is:

https://gist.github.com/gdamjan/d7333a4d9069af96fa4d
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<pedant>

> My TV always works

TV's can suffer hardware failure too. And if you actually want to watch more than the basic few channels offered on terrestrial, you'd need a freeview / cable / satellite set top box or equivalent built into the TV, and those devices can occasionally crash.

> it never buffers

Technically digital stations (satellite, UK terrestrial, cable, etc) do buffer, albeit tiny amounts.

> shows glitchy video

That can and occasionally does happen. Particularly with satellite or terrestrial signals during really heavy storms. Albeit it's a rarity rather than the norm. But then it's also rare that I have glitchy IPTV / internet streams too.

> or requires a page refresh (or god forbid a reboot)

...unless you're running a set top box of some description. My Sky+ box crashes about once every 2 or 3 months. I can imagine smart TVs would be subject to occasional software glitches over the course of their lifetime as well.

</pedant>

However I do see your point. But to have equivalent features of IPTV without the internet, you need the extra stuff (satellite / cable, DVR, etc) that can be just as error prone as IPTV. And you still miss out on a few niceties like "on demand" services (BBC iPlayer et al).

Personally I could go without a normal TV subscription and go 100% IPTV, but my wife loves Sky (satellite TV - for anyone not UK based). I do realise I'm a nerd so will have biases towards IPTV, but I think we have a good mix of watching 50% "normal" TV and 50% internet TV.
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Text rendering has typically been the limiting factor since the early to mid 90's. Paging away is a good old trick. I usually run most things under screen, and so just switch to another screen. Obscuring the window is also often enough.
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What have you done so far in terms of learning machine learning? There's quite a few resources for getting a good foundation, if that's something you might need.

Ironically, looking dennybritz's comment, JS is particularly ill-suited for this, as, as far as I'm aware, there are no libraries for working on the GPU, which is tremendously useful for working with machine learning algorithms which usually are crunching lots of data.

However, I don't know much about karpathy's specific implementation and experiments, so there might be a reason he choose JS. I'm thinking its more likely to make visualizations easier rather than any computational reason though, so you might be stuck in a niche there.
Yes, it is a single process application. But to utilize all cores I use Gunicorn to spawn multiple processes.

http://aiohttp.readthedocs.org/en/stable/gunicorn.html
You have to consider the system as a whole. The kerosene tank with kerosene, plus the motor and gearboxes = X kg.
The battery + The electrical motors and driveline = Y kg.

Example take a small aircraft as an example:

- Combustion: Motor 150kg (1kW per kilo) fuel 100kg (43MJ/kg) = 250 kg, 4300MJ

- Electrical: Motor 20kg (5kW per kilo) batteries 230kg (1MJ/kg) = 250kg, 230MJ

The amount of batteries carried is more than twice the weight of the fuel, so the difference in carried energy between those planes is now no longer 43x, its < 20x. Still a big gap, but the point is that it's much smaller when all things are considered.

Now consider any additional weight we didn't count here (gearboxes or other drive line components), the complexity of those planes, e.g. the number of moving parts. Also consider noise level, fuel economy, environment, reliability. For multi-engine craft it becomes even more pronounced. I don't think batteries will ever need to come close to the energy density of combustible fuels for electric flight to be viable.
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There's no problems with it, it's just slow.
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I just wanted to take the time to thank you for fixing that bug. Since I keep dozens of tabs open all the time, the memory consumption of FF has caused me a lot of pain (the browser gets really slow if it crosses 2.5GB real RAM consumption).

So, you just made my life better, thanks :)
The number doesn't matter, but your lifestyle and risk-tolerance does.

If you're 40 with a high standard of living, and mouths to feed, and a mortgage and car payment etc, then startup life might be rough on you, and outside of your risk profile.

But if you're prepared to live the lifestyle of any other startup founder (at least during the first few months), and assume the same risks as everyone else, then I don't see why age would be a disadvantage at all.
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Veteran gentoo user here. I've learned the joys of --quiet on many an old laptop for exactly this reason. There is no other process that I know of that is more likely to bottleneck a terminal. Accidentally cat some-binary-file? ctrl-c that sucker asap, hope you didn't have anything else important going on in there.
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That's the thing. These are basics. If an exceptional team couldn't figure it out, maybe they weren't exactly an exceptional team...
Here might be a good place to start learning: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/

Much of what research is, is understanding what you're working on in the first place. Getting a solid foundation is a must, or you risk being very lost for some time, and will be fundamentally limited in what you can contribute.
I did not mean it that way, the post seemed aggressive.
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My "Smart" TV takes an infuriating amount of time to "boot up". To change the video input, I probably have to wait around 2-3 eternities. At least that's how it feels when I already have in my head the instantaneous experience I grew up with. Recognizing external media is just as slow. We picked our set because it had great marks for input latency and motion blur (gaming focus). I wish we had just gotten a simple display with a separate KVM switch, but we found nothing well-reviewed and in-budget like that.
Now is that a victory for TV or Internet?
Please check aiopg [1]. There's also an interesting list of packages for asyncio [2].

[1] https://aiopg.readthedocs.org/en/stable/

[2] http://asyncio.org/
Open source project: https://github.com/predictionguru/webhook
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Thank you for this list! I'm reaching the end of THoR and it's indeed amazing. I find his style very relaxing, and while walking to/from work its great company.
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