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I'd think there are plenty of reasons to give software an air of "out-of-date"-ness. In this particular example, its a stigma to browser developers if it takes them until 2023 to implement ES2015.

It's a common thing in language standards to version by the year the standard was ratified, especially for ANSI languages such as C and C++, but there's a long history of it in language design including the ur-example off the top of my head of ALGOL68.

As for Windows 98. Would you seriously with a straight face want to admit to using a version of Windows that is old enough to vote? If anything, it's too bad they stopped that pattern with XP as it would have been a lot easier to shame people for still using Windows 2001 in 2015.
Maybe I misunderstood him but I thought he was saying that as long as there were solid cash flows despite full capital expenditures that the stock would reflect those cash flows.

Less of a quibble and more of a core misunderstanding of what cash flow means in that context.
> regardless of how much they eat and how little they exercise, never put on weight?

If I had to choose between thermodynamics and medicine being wrong, and people not being able to accurately estimate how "much" they eat and how "little" they exercise, I'd bet all my money on the latter.

The simple reality is, people have vastly different appetites. I eat fast and am always hungry. I have two coworkers, one eats quite a bit less than me (often struggles to finish a standard portion), the other eats mich more but quite slowly.

3 different people, 3 vastly different eating habits. The reason people gain different amounts of weight most likely isn't in the differences between our bodies, but the differences between our minds.
Each bitcoin block takes 25 BTC (11000 USD at time of writing) worth of electricity to mine, because that is the maximum that the sum total of miners can afford to spend and still break even. Currently it's only possible to fit somewhere around 2000 transactions in each block, because there is a hard-coded limit on the size of a block (1 MiB). So each transaction costs 11000/2000=5.5 USD, which is indeed the approximate value of 1.57 days worth of average per household energy consumption in the US. This is a big reason why it is important that the 1 MiB limit is lifted soon, the artificial restriction on transaction volume pushes the cost per transaction far too high. As a side note, when the block reward halves to 12.5 BTC in a few months, we will either see the value of bitcoin double or the hashrate (and energy consumption) halve - probably a little of both.
(note: this post is not directed to you, I'm sure none of this is news to you. rather it's for the benefit of the audience)

ULA is safe for a while due to the DoD's requirement that they keep two domestic methods for space access alive.

Previously this was met with the combination of ULA's Atlas V and Delta IV. Now it'll be the F9 and Atlas V, with the expensive Delta IV being phased out (it's still occasionally needed as it's the largest booster still in operation worldwide).

However ULA's in trouble if another SpaceX shows up. I assume that's why they're working so closely with Blue Origin, better to capture that player now and get a cheap engine provider out of it.

Another input: cost isn't everything; the Atlas V has never lost a payload, while the F9 has. An extra $40m doesn't look like much if your payload is a half billion dollars, for example.
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Honestly, in many cases NGOs actually have a far higher physical and digital security threat environment than corporations. Partly that's one of the things I love about my job.

I mean yeh, it's cool if you can get paid loads of money for a 9-5 job to throw a ton of resources and people at protecting your Pied Piper software company in suburban USA or Europe....But now take the exact same advisary (China gov for example) and try to think up ways to minimise their threats all while driving around with a hobbiest sysadmin (who the local gov may arrest, torture or disappear if exposed) with very little English in the middle of the night in darkest Africa/Middle East/Asia...The pay is crap or non-existent, it can be high stress but you get to make a real difference, which is rewarding.
RMS takes the polar opposite position to proprietary software. Is his viewpoint always practical; maybe, maybe not.

But by creating such polar opposite he gives space for a lot more "lessor" free, more practical solutions and options.

So he plays a very important guardian kind of role; which a lot of people will chalk up to paranoia.
"dictate" is too strong a word for my taste. It seems to me more like these people have a certain view of the world and they're trying to convince people of their opinion. Like campaigning.
As pointed out below, technically "ECMAScript® 2015" is "ECMA-262 6th Edition", so the numbers still exist in some form. It's a really difficult balance between readability, matching most-common usage in the community (e.g. Kangax still uses ES6), and trying not to mix nomenclatures in the process.
This is the realistic solution to fighting encryption. Not banning encryption.

I don't know why this took so long to be clarified in law. Even though they've been doing it for quite some time.

The "Going Dark" thing was always bullshit. They just have greater difficulty doing passive surveillance now... and actually have to do targeted searches of peoples computers now using warrants. Things like Stingrays can't be used to warrantlessly intercept SMS (as people move to WhatsApp) and most internet traffic is becoming HTTPS. Additionally, warrant-based wiretaps on ISPs and mobile traffic is becoming less useful. Mostly thanks to Snowden.

This is a good sign IMO, which means that encryption is finally becoming widespread enough that law enforcement has to up their game. It means law enforcement will be forced to do targeted searches, similar to searching houses, and dragnets become less effective.
Not only it is slower and takes piles of RAM, it still doesn't support the NDK properly, which keeps being experimental and lacks the majority of features that Eclipse CDT and ndk-build have.

Eclipse CDT with Ant + ndk-build finish a build before Gradle manages to parse all its configuration files.
Is MML(miner money laundering) a viable concept? I thought that the transaction blocks were randomly distributed so it would be hard for a launderer to "target" a miner they trust. If someone has a bit more technical insight about whether this makes sense, or is viable I would be interested.

I would also contend that even if it was trivially easy to do, it would probably make more sense to just route transactions to various wallets and then to some exchanges and into other currencies, ect. I don't know if the miner thing makes sense
It renders perfectly on my iPhone 6 using Safari.
The one that proves my point... :)

Honestly, if you are implying that math is a philosophy that is just as fallible as human emotion I am very interested, although very, very skeptical.

PS - Please do not ruin math. It serves as my only foundation with reality.
The more detailed post is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11598245
I too find the claims that he can just glue two spinal cord stubs together highly suspect. If this glue worked this well, why are we not trying it on para/quadriplegics? Maybe it has, but I would think this sorta news would have been shouted from the rooftops as it is kinda like curing cancer.
In the 1990s, the FBI and NSA did a lot of good work persuing organized computer crime operations around the world. Back then they also seemed to care more about the security of US infrastructure.
Google I/O is in a few weeks - is it possible this is a precursor to something more involving Weave and other IoT systems?
I'm a little bit puzzled by your statement, "These were the only jobs the teenagers were qualified to do."

Surely there's other work, possibly more of it these days, for teenagers to do. For instance, with an increase in the percentage of dual-income households (as opposed to the single-income households which dominated in the past), there are more families in need of babysitters or tutors.

When I was a teen, there was a high demand for tutoring services, dog-walking, and minor web development work to be performed by teens. And wouldn't the teenagers for whom this bagging gig isn't a permanent sort of job be better suited in a position that offered more educational opportunity (e.g., tutoring younger students, or learning some web dev and making a website for a local SMB).

One could argue that the employees with disabilities are freeing up the teenagers to do work that gives them more educational benefit, like the power looms freed up textile manufacturing workers to find more economically valuable work in the long run.
> The calorie restriction groups lost more weight than the group the dieted and exercised.

Yes, and anything else would have surprised me. Exercise leads to muscle build-up. Muscle is heavier than fat.

The right metric to use here would have been body fat, not body weight. Similarly, the fitness goal should not be to "lose weight" but to get into good shape overall and feel healthy.
The FSF has had a massive impact on the world. The constant discussion of how they should be presenting their message should be in the dictionary under bikeshedding.

Maybe it isn't the way they're presenting their message; maybe you just don't agree with them.
I really don't get their hype around Gradle, if it wasn't for it, most likely no one would care about Groovy any more.

Since my focus is the NDK, which keeps being half-done in Gradle, I keep using Ant + ndk-build and have migrated to Visual Studio 2015 for my Android hobby coding.
This Incredible Organization Just Ended Illegal Fishing in Antarctica
Pray tell, security updates for what?

My router has all WAN-side management features etc. turned off, WPS is turned off and it has a long random WPA passphrase. Unless someone breaks into my apartment, there just isn't a significant potential for security risks that I'm aware of.
To me it would seam this boils down to a philosophical issue regarding what is information and what is code, and i guess ownership of information.

If someone gives me something directly (like a book or information in a conversation) without a disclaimer or some sort of contract. I would assume it is now mine and i assume the law does to.

And from my perspective getting a response from a http server is the same thing as being given something.
Has there ever been any sort of success at a spinal fusion anything remotely like this? In any vertebrate? This is way past crazy.
Rackspace seems to like to hire lovable losers. They claim they are exceedingly selective, but they never go into details about what traits they value. They seem to value people who are not as driven as others. Those that'll hang around for average wages. People who won't be bored and want something better. They frame this as being 'more selective than Princeton' but that can mean a lot of things. My friends coworkers were a bit lol. Everyone was likeable but they all seemed flawed personality-wise.
There is "I'm hungry" and then there is "If I don't eat something, I'm going to crash." It is not success, it means something is really imbalanced in your diet, and if you have the mental power to successfully ignore it, well, isn't that just an eating disorder?
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Question for you, what company do you work for? I've really wanted to break into NGO security in particular for a lot of reasons. Spent a lot of years working in NGOs, and now do internal corporate security. Pay's better but it feels different. Could you possibly reach out to me? pdoconnell at gmail
Might be something like this:

http://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/23/why-do-cats-lick-...

My cat is mad for a good lick and a sniff of a plastic bag. She doesn't actually chew them but does this strange chewing motion with her mouth, a bit like when cats practice their kill bite or chatter when looking at potential prey from a window.
> you're being deliberately obtuse.

To me it sounds like codemac is being entirely sensible and pragmatic about what the limitations are. Pervasive "piping of bytes" is all well and good, but if you don't understand what the bytes mean, it doesn't really matter.

> you wouldn't want your tv tuner card to talk ascii, but with 9p and a plan9 kernel you could access any tv tuner on the office network as if it was connected to your own machine

Office network? Sure. Not try it over a WAN and suddenly it doesn't look so hot.

The thing is that once you're going over the network you really need to start thinking about the effects of latency and how to compensate for it or hide it. Network transparency is a foe in this (very common) scenario.
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I would really like if Unicode properties were implemented. I'd also like to see a RegExp escape function. String padding sees common enough usage that it should be added.
From wikipedia:

"Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of unremittingly growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws"

Essentially, life as a squirrel is an 'unremitting' quest to chew s%%t up.
If I would be on the Android team, I would feel ashamed that Microsoft in less time that they have introduced C++ support in Android Studio, already has a better developer experience than Google will ever managed to do.

On the other hand, I guess if they had a choice, the NDK would probably not even exist.
Recommended by a coworker, this looks excellent for keeping your development branch history presentable for later review once it's merged into master.
Jeff Jarvis Will Go to War for Free Speech, as Long as It Doesn’t Mock Him
I totally agree with honoring commitments. I strongly disagree with the idea that committing to 9-6 or 8-5 in a rush hour commute is the definition of being an "adult".
They have performed this surgery on monkeys already (although without attempting to fuse the spinal cord).

The doctor and his colleagues will have performed more attempts on primates before a human attempt, which is why he has an estimated year of operation at 2017.

While I do agree that the doctor may be being selfish in search of fame (or infamy), but shouldn't the human be given the choice to make his decisions? He can't perform basic human functions without assistance much less enjoy other pleasures in life due to his disease.

The candidate's decision-making process isn't impaired and many other people with late-stage cancer often undergo controversial treatments that are not fully tested all the time, even outside of clinical trials [0].

[0] http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/cli...
Why do you find it unethical and selfish? The patient is volunteering for the procedure, are you ok with removing his autonomy by making this decision for him? Is it ok to let this patient essentially rot away in a wheel chair for the rest of his life, knowing that there is a treatment that might help him?
Ask HN: How do you think this site works?
For those who haven't read the short story The Library of Babel by Borges, it's about a fictional universe consisting of an infinite library filled by books which contain every possible combination of letters from the English alphabet.

In the story, people wander the vast Library for all their lives, seeking books which hold anything recognizable. Statistically, the odds of finding a book with even one intelligible sentence is next to nothing. But in theory, if every story is written there, then somewhere is a book which predicts your whole life, and another which tells correctly the location of any book you might seek, and so on.

This website reproduces that fictional universe in digital form. But if you look at the About page, it explicitly says that they do not simply generate and store each page as it's requested.

So how could this work? Click "Browse" to enter the library, or "Search" to find any text you can imagine somewhere in the library. The "Search" function confounds me more than any other aspect of this. Try a lengthy sentence describing you, even use your own name, and it's there, of course.....but how can it find it so fast?

https://libraryofbabel.info/
> So each transaction costs 11000/2000=5.5 USD

No, each transaction costs at most $5.50 USD. You haven't established any lower bound in your calculations. A better approach would be to calculate the average number of hashes required to mine a block and the power efficiency of the latest generation ASIC miners.

Also, for what it's worth, $5 is much cheaper than a Western Union or SWIFT wire transfer so even this upper bound doesn't mean Bitcoin is uneconomical compared to modern banking.
Can you explain this further? I'm running pfsense now and it's rock solid. Always has been. So, in that case are you saying that onhub is faster somehow?
> Unsure of exact licensing compatibility so I can't say it's all Free Software.

Open source and free software mean the same thing, or at least they intend to mean the same thing. There are very few obscure examples where they differ (for example, the NASA license). You are very unlikely to run across a difference.

https://opensource.org/faq#free-software

https://lobste.rs/s/lexyz5/why_open_source_misses_the_point_...
This is what I was responding to.

I happen to think occultists are wrong (as in: factually incorrect in their beliefs). But they are entitled to think whatever they want, so that's not a problem. What is a problem is objecting to data being collected and published.

But it seems that his speech-to-text translator wasn't accurate and that's not what he meant.
I can't speak for squirrels. However, owning a rabbit, you quickly learn that rabbits like to "clean up" the cables (roots) in their den—so you have to carefully guard the cables so the bunny doesn't get fried.
Babies destroy things. You only have to scoop vomit out of a shoe, cheese out an electric window mechanism and fish DVDs out of the inside of a DVD player 6 or seven times to begin to get it.
Wouldn't the MML leave lots of traces in the blockchain, a miner collecting unusually high fees over time?
Crunch is Failure
Much HTML and CSS nowadays is not really readable, but minified or obfuscated. It's not the 1990s where reading other people's static HTML was a good way to learn how to make your own websites.
Why would such a thing be more ethical if performed on a non-consenting monkey than if on a consenting human?
Yes, and maybe that was the main obstacle to implementation.

Reading some of the original literature, and glossing over the textbook, it seems like many of the issues involved with double spending and counterfeiters are _eventually_ resolved with someone going to jail, rather than being able to resolve the financial payments in order. A naïve solution - which might save some energy - what about using signed timestamps from an adequate authority?

Here is the article from 1991 for those interested in the original idea: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-46766-1_27
Reminds me of how leftPad and rightPad were added to D a day or two after the npm story exploded and I thought it was poking fun at the situation but the pull request was actually created many months prior and the person who merged it was unaware of the npm drama. Just a humorous coincidence.
Yeah we do that about once a week and it helps.It's not really pizza but whatever it is is pretty good.
Move fast, break all the tutorials.

Android has a problem with churn in tooling.
> Calling methods with the square bracket notation
> If it includes something like the above [...] and it doesn't have a free license statement, should people really complain about it?

Why on earth would this project concern itself with the coding styles of the JS that the author prefers? Even if the site and/or JS is free software, why do things things matter?

I mean, I get linting your own code, but linting the code of sites you visit just seems pointless.

This, banning AJAX requests and with the arduous process of getting into the 'libre' whitelist, makes this project a complete joke.
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The whole tank? Or did you mean it can make a teeny tiny hole all the way straight through it?
Everything is "scientific" so long as it is subjected to unbiased skeptical experimental evaluation. That's all it means to be "scientific."
Amazon is pushing very hard to increase Fulfillment by Amazon coverage across the catalog, and is also releasing new products such as Seller-Fulfilled Prime. The customer experience is tightly controlled in both cases.
Nah, I agree. I was mostly being facetious :)
Eh. HTML and CSS is the easy part - you can't really obfuscated, only minify it to remove whitespace, which is easily reversible. All great browser dev tools have built in ways to unminify web assets. And it's even easier for HTML and CSS as they're easily viewable in parsed form (DOM).
I keep saying this. People keep ignoring me, but it really does matter in this case. This only happened AFTER nest was no longer a Google property. To me the timing seems somewhat suspicious and I believe Nest pushed for more autonomy. They were never really integrated into Google proper. Their stuff runs on their on servers & software stack and their HQ isn't on the Google campus.
Abs are made in the kitchen, but as someone who went from 22% bodyfat to 11% they are pretty puny abs if you don't pair it with some pretty frequent exercise.
For one: if you live in a place with unreliable power supply (as I do), it dictates how much backup time you get from your UPS.
I somehow misread that as 'use Lojban' and was momentarily both confused and delighted :\
Presumably the high fee transaction could be withheld from the network until the block was mined.

I don't know if that is possible, but if it is it would ensure that a given miner was getting those fees.
This works, but then if you have a job with free soda...discipline is still needed.
So in looking at the Kangax tables when the next Safari comes out, it looks like all major desktop browsers will have support of the big ticket ES6 features (arrow functions, destructuring, default params, Map/Set/WeakMap, Proxies). Unless you're doing JSX, type annotations, or upcoming stuff (async/await, decorators, object spread, class properties) you can drop transpiling from your dev workflow and only do it for prod.
Pentagon Denies War Crimes Allegations in Kunduz Hospital Killings
I appreciated the candor of this note in "What's The Catch?"

HyperDex does not have anywhere near the market penetration of MongoDB. This means that it's easier to find a developer who has used MongoDB than one who's used HyperDex
Stick this in your ublock origin filters

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Unicode properties are behind an experimental flag: --harmony-regexp-property
That's kind of a 0-sum outlook on the role of businesses in society (gather wealth to distribute to employees). Most of the businesses we're talking about are benefiting society not through job creation but through technology creation. Google is not important because they employ tens of thousands of engineers, they're important because Search benefits general knowledge and decision making of everyone with an internet connection. Likewise Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX are pushing humanity forward through invention.
I think what many people might find objectionable is that they believe this doctor is essentially offering false hope to someone who is very desperate.
Hey,
you may not need much maths for this.You just need to be familiar with python and ready to work.It is pretty straightforward
http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index...