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The hackernews headline really needs to not say "the UN".

All the article says is the ICANN, based in Los Angeles, is no longer under the Department of Commerce, but instead will be an "organisation that answers to multiple stakeholders". It does not go into detail as to who those stakeholders are.

It literally has nothing to do with the United Nations except for a paragraph that said the UN tried to take control in 2012 and the US (and others) shot down that idea.
I think they're treating Daala as a research platform these days. AV1 is the future for video on the web and code from Daala has been contributed to it. AV1 is based on ideas from VP10 and Daala:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOMedia_Video_1

2. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netvc/charter/

3. http://aomedia.org/

4. https://aomedia.googlesource.com/
No Shit. News at 11. Is this only surprising to SF folk?
I think a better word than privilege would be network. Networks confer priviledge to their members. That's less personal than saying you're priveledged. Out groups would like to be included in prosperous networks. Who wouldn't? I don't believe networks are just about providing value. If they were, women and others would already be included. Networks are also very much about identity and loyalty and fitness signalling. My limited understanding of women's issues around this appear clustered around fairness. Essentially this amounts to a recess argument that the boys are having more fun and that's not fair. Obviously a gross oversimplification, but the vernacular of the argument will fall on deaf ears more likely than not. It's not that you are wrong you just aren't playing by the "rules".
The orginal title is, "US ready to hand over the internet's naming system" . The edited title here on HN, "US to hand over ICANN to UN" is wrong.

ICANN is already independent and sending ICANN to UN, if it happens, might only slow down their decision making (cause there will be too many parties to satisfy).
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Oh I get that, but I'd expect some sort of hack on it.
Wow! You really know what you're talking about. How many zeroes do I put on the end of the check again?
Sure, however, if you do this, then maybe you can also supplement with Astaxanthin (2mg-4mg?) to help protect the body against sunburn (and other sun exposure related issues). Also, if you go this route, you should definitely get blood tests to verify that sun exposure has in fact increased vitamin D levels to the desired range (40-60 ng/ml, with 50 often being mentioned as an "ideal").
You act like the choice is "Send Granny on an iceberg or we won't have Nerd Rapture for Everyone". It's not an either/or here and there's plenty of money (government or otherwise) to do both. Also, hundreds of millions of voters would disagree with you, so I guess the choice is "pay SS tax" or "move to sea-topia". Godspeed to ya.
Is this news to anyone not in silicon valley?

Also, the majority of software developers are not in the United States.
That's a really good point---Cython doesn't have the same issues, it's basically Pythran except it compiles to C. Yeah, no clue.
That assumption was unstated because I wasn't making it.
Her post used aliases and didnt name specifics....they cant legally do anything becuase others played detective and figured out who was being slandered.

As a marketer this is brilliant since its good exposure. Plus the shame means she probaly will get paidor at least score payback.
It's undeniable that the euromaidan protests had a strong right-wing nationalist component. They were violent and essentially terrorized the country.

This essentially led the president of Ukraine to resign. That right-wing faction then controlled Ukraine's government, and is still very strong in Ukraine.

We immediately recognized that new government and provided them with aid. That is insane! In the west, their only saving grace was that they were anti-Russian.
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Clear and tight. Contrasting example at the end is hilarious.
This is, of course, ancient news. If anyone misses the old wargames, I invite you to come to Board Game Geek (aka BGG) [1] and check out the scene. While they cover a lot more than wargames, the wargame community tends to be very active. War games are alive and well, though perhaps a niche hobby. The companies mentioned in the article are still alive and well, in particular, Multi Man Publishing continues to publish games for the Advanced Squad Leader rule set, however irregularly [2].
[1] https://www.boardgamegeek.com/wargames
[2] http://www.multimanpublishing.com/Products/tabid/58/Category...
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My specific problem (and the reason for the +1 above) was that I did submit a PR that would be very easy to merge and the maintainer has been sitting on it for months :(
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This is not new. PHP3 already had it, but not many people actually care enough to use it.

Other languages have LSMs and seccomp (linux), pledge (bsds), chroot (all *nix). It doesn't need to be built into the language itself.
Those look a lot like creosote rings [1]. Creosote's native to southern Nevada and grows in clonal colonies that end up looking like rings, and that looks like a nice wide place where water would gather.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrea_tridentata
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People expect the sources to have some sort of marketing scheme behind them. Examine.com is the exception by having well researched suggestions backed with actual studies and a status of being a reliable third party. I understand their skepticism, because of how much learning it takes to actually do supplementation safely and effectively. Most supplements just help based on placebo effect anyway, I aggregated the supplement effects studied on examine.com and 50% of studied effects were neutral. Only 8% of the supplement effects they investigated were more than minor, the numbers can only get worse when you consider publication and selection bias! So there is good reason to be critical, because the odds are against supplements helping enough to be noticeable beyond what a sugar pill can do.
This is well juxtaposed with Cast being added natively into Chrome: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12383367
For quite a while I worked in an environment where something like npm wouldn't even get out of the proxy, let alone be installable (thanks, AppLocker).

Basically, if it's not a single exe with a valid code signing certificate, it ain't working in a lot of enterprise environments.
Thanks. That cleared it up :)
Sorry, I meant "now that Rust exists", not "as tooling currently is".
Nice story, I could relate with a beach bamboo tent, but there's a level up :)

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https://www.quora.com/If-a-plague-wiped-out-most-people-on-t...

https://www.google.hu/search?q=Action+Mobil+%E2%80%9CDesert+...
Barring adding a build step, why couldn't you compose a function that returns JSX?
AKA the project productivity death spiral
RuneQuest was hands-down my favourite pencil-and-paper gaming system ever; one thing I think it suffered from was that the world of Glorantha, while very much true to Bronze Age mythos, was a conceptual reach for people used to thinking of D&D's action-movie worldview.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12311433. We also reverted the editorialized submitted title to that of the article.
Maybe you're new, but anxiety and depression is a topic that has gotten a lot of discussion on hacker news in the past.
The 10% programmers number is for Silicon valley, not Bay Area. So, to compare apples to apples, we should take the % of US population for Silicon Valley, not Bay Area.

Which is about 1% of US population (3M people according to google).
Also a good reason to call their helpline ;-)
There are quite a few eink readers these days that have Google play preinstalled. Most are at android 4.2 though. With eink the oem's only update to the latest version of Android when new eink tech comes out.
Nook latest eink reader is on 4.4 but need to root it to install Google play.
At the small scale, the world is unpredictable. As the scale grows, for well behaved linear systems the law of large numbers kicks in, and you get predictable, mathematical behavior. For complex nonlinear systems, however, the unpredictability of the small scale can "propagate up" and render the system at the large scale completely unpredictable.

Remember that mathematics is just a model, not the territory. For starters, you have incompleteness; for any formal system you can make true statements that are unprovable. Additionally, two constructs which are central to mathematical analysis, infinity and truth, don't exist.

For hundreds of years epicycles were used to model the orbits of the planets. Now we're elevating grand theories that embed the universe in an 11-dimensional manifold.
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> I can't see why they would lie.

To encourage a workaholic coworker with an overinflated ego to leave so they could replace him with someone they like better?

Not saying this is the case, but from what you've said, the possibility is certainly there. Also, how do you know what they are/aren't saying to HR?
Am I reading a tech related article or a political hit piece that spins numbers to fit an agenda?
What is Fox news? The wall Street journal?
I completely agree with your comment.

It looks like the Ducato is not available in the U.S. Presumably the author could fly to Europe, purchase one, and ship it back for less expense and labor. But I think part of his venture was to have some measure of self-reliance / DIY. "How I bought a great van from Europe and now I live in it" doesn't have the same novelty and escape-from-society appeal.
If each person just guesses a random number you succeed the same amount of the time. You have a 99% chance of guessing wrong. The chance of 100 people guessing wrong is 0.99 ^ 100. So the chance of at least 1 person guessing right is 1 - 0.99 ^ 100, which is 63.4%.
The worst thing about H.265 is the patent licensing situation. There are two separate patent pools and you need a license from both:

1. http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Ar...

2. http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Pages/Intro.aspx

3. https://www.hevcadvance.com/

It's much simpler and easier to use formats which are licensed under royalty-free terms, which is what VP9 offers now and what AV1 will also offer in future:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOMedia_Video_1

To me the important result from Netflix's test is that VP9 is better than H.264, almost as good as H.265, and absent the patent licensing problems. I think the simpler licensing makes VP9 the better choice today and AV1 the best choice in the future.
>What does it matter? Are you saying there is no other way? Why don't you give it a try yourself, it's not hard. For starters, just try replacing "they" with "F".

Lol. It does matter because you are bitching about using they when you don't even say what on earth are we supposed to say instead.

Replace they with the name? "If the light is on when Franklin gets to the room, Franklin turns the light off, and Franklin increments his or her counter." Yeah sounds perfectly natural. Pronouns are for losers.
At least it's supposed to be fiction.
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Yes, the FTSE is a unitless figure. It is divided by a divisor which is denominated in GBP, which cancels the GBP in the numerator. However, the divisor was set at the beginning of the index (t = 0, with updates being made when there are splits or other corporate actions) in GBP at that point in time and is not adjusted for GBP currency fluctuations.

Nor should it be: The problem with the FTSE 100 and Brexit is not an arithmetic currency conversion topic (which would not be relevant as FTSE is unitless). The "problem" with the FTSE 100 is that it is mainly composed of global corporations for which the British market (and hence the British pound) is of little importance to their daily business but whose shares happen to be traded in GBP.

Take BP as an example - their main product is oil, which is usually traded in USD, they source their oil from around the globe and their assets (infrastructure plus proven resources, which are really future oil revenues and thus USD assets) are also not UK-specific. Thus, it would really make more sense to have the value of BP be expressed in USD. So, let's say BP is worth 100 billion USD (it isn't). Prior to Brexit, that amounted to about 68 billion GBP. After Brexit, BP is still worth the same as before as it is not really affected by any UK-specific economic shock, so 100 billion USD. But now, this translates to 76.1 billion GBP (as the GBP has lost value).

So you end up with an about 12% increase in the value of BP as expressed in GBP. And this is what is relevant for the FTSE 100, so if this happens to all the stocks in the FTSE 100, it will rise by 12% even though nothing changed for the companies in it. Yes, the FTSE 100 is calculated by diving by the index divisor in GBP, but this divisor was set as the market cap of all firms in GBP (at that time) at t = 0 and will not be re-computed based on currency fluctuations.

This isn't "wrong". It's just that it doesn't make sense to point to this specific rise of the FTSE 100 as a sign that the U.K. economy is doing great. The problem is also quite specific to the FTSE 100 - for companies that sell most of their products and services in GBP and that incur most of their costs in GBP, being valued in GBP is the "correct" measure (meaning that their market value in GBP should remain unchanged when the value of the pound fluctuates given that there are no other effects on their business).
On the contrary, I always find it refreshing to see companies use each others existing tech - particularly, when they don't have anything new/worthwhile to offer end-users (in this case, a dev audience) other than introducing an unnecessary inconvenience or dependency.
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My (admittedly vague) understanding is that ICE can't take down non-US domains like, say, .ir or thepiratebay.se but major TLDs like .com, .net, and .org are under US jurisdiction.
The cabin comment was specifically in response to the talk of buying a cheap house out in the middle of nowhere.

The problem is the same as the cabin, it's more difficult to be a developer when your Internet is slow and shitty. It would be really hard to go back to dial-up.
Do we have any idea what occurs if a young star and an old star merge? Of course my first thought on that line of thinking is that would cause some type of explosion or ejecta that would be noticeable, but maybe not.
This is the kind of study I would like to see replicated by an independent lab.
I agree with you completely.

The web became an OS because there's a huge demand for cross-platform zero-install software applications that run in a sandbox without dangerous user level access to your machine.
A permissive license would allow Android phone manufacturers to legally keep their kernel closed-source. Not so good for custom ROM developers.
>Long before that is the case, there'd be no incentive for the manufacturer to sell the car at all; they'd make more money just pushing the button themselves the minute the car rolled off the assembly line.

So there will be many tens of millions of people who want to buy such a car, plus car rental agencies, but no car manufacturer will sell to them? That seems pretty unlikely. Can you think of any similar case?
You could argue just as well that the number two purpose of an organization is to generate profit. Profit is a necessity to achieve your primary goals. People need to eat, but you'd have to be a pretty uninspired person if your number one purpose is meeting your caloric expenditures.
For one, both stars are dead.
Buy put options expiring far into the future if you really think these individual stocks will crash.

But this is probably a bad idea. Meanwhile, I'll be selling premium.
"Available At Participating Dealers In California, Oregon And Maryland In Limited Quantities"

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I remember reading about this several days ago & that the article said how the US had decided not to let the UN run ICANN. When I saw this at the #1 position here titled "US to hand over ICANN to UN", my first thought was that this is real news, being a reversal of what had previously been decided. I immediately wondered what was behind such a decision. But then I see it's just an erroneous title, & it's the same as what I read previously. I agree the title should be changed- this is alarmist in its current state.

EDIT: Seems the title was changed as I was typing this comment. Good.
There was a "what about the men" comment that appears to have disappeared before I could respond to it, but here's some useful info about calcium https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Calcium-Consumer/ in particular check out those RDAs.
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VRML was way ahead of its time. In the bad way, where the technology totally sucks on the machines of the era and people think it's a joke for years afterward. I've been wondering how long it takes till someone reinvents it now that VR goggles are finally starting to become affordable and broadband is common.
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>"Even if signals in the chip were moving at the speed of light, a chip running above 5GHz wouldn't be able to transmit information from one side of the chip to the other".

That's almost completely misleading. Except for the clock itself, nothing that happens inside a processor takes a single clock cycle. And clock distribution delays need compensation anyway.

That's also true of memory. No one has ever seen 1-0-0-0 CAS RAM. (And no one ever will.)

It's true that pushing up against distribution times makes topology more complicated and lowers the maximum possible speed.

But that's actually the difference between electronics and photonics, which promise to run many orders of magnitude faster than EM-based silicon design. (I've seen "millions" quoted, but that may turn out to be hyperbole. Even so - optical fibre can run at tens of Tbps.)

Of course there's a difference between transmission speed, which is a function of the speed of light, and maximum data rate, which is a function of bandwidth.

But unlike electrons-in-silicon connections, photonics may not need to be 100% serial. It's entirely possible to get multiple data channels down a single line with frequency multiplexing, and perhaps also by phase rotation.

That has huge potential to change the packing density and the speed of processor designs; potentially you could have processor elements that were massively parallel but connected with single lines.

There's also some hope that because power dissipation shouldn't be such a problem, it will be easier to make 3D designs - although that's probably more speculative.

Bottom line is silicon is nearly done, but photonics is just getting started. Like fusion power it's probably a couple of decades away, but when it arrives it will be huge.
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This is an aside, and not at all meant to diminish the product - which looks neat. But why is it that so many new front end generators, frameworks, etc feel it necessary to describe things as "beautiful". For some reason this really gets to me (I could very well be alone here).
ceo is probaly a con man or an idiot rich guy who inherited his money. Do a background check on him or search his name to see if any crimes come up.

Chances are VERY high he kept your $200k. He will be the only one on that burning plane ride with a financial parachute....

I suggest suing him or threatening criminal charges. he might magically find the lost payroll money and reimburse you....poor h-1b visa dudes will get jack shit.
Torrents and mesh networks were breaking out to be the future of internet during mid and late 90s (Also why Skype was P2P and why it was successfull). I'm not sure what happened to it though.
And if you do need dangerous user or system level access there is always Flash and its everpresent zero days.
Having corporations in a capitalist society clearly correlates with things like reduced infant mortality, better health, etc. They do this by creating value that people want to buy and providing jobs that people want to have. Sounds representative of the aims of society to me.
Haha, thanks for the chuckle. The ability for the US to focus entirely within their own borders is both depressing and amusing to observe at times. I get that people will naturally gravitate to caring about their own nation, but Americans' ability to don blinders that completely disregard the other 95.7% of the world's population is astounding.
That's pretty funny, I was just this morning looking up Quest bars on Amazon, and the comments were all furious that they had switched the fiber source in them to soluble corn fiber

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Maybe a good change overall, although it clearly wasn't driven by this study.
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I would be curious to see the percentage change over the years. With the growth of tech everywhere (note on the map there's lots of big circles) and cost of living sky rocketing in the Bay Area, Boston, etc...What's the influx like of people moving to Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, etc...
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Realistically it will probably come down to what's implemented in hardware. Youtube's 4k video in chrome is really a terrible experience when you don't have hardware acceleration for vp8. It pegs your CPU at nearly 100% and god help you if you're viewing a 4k 60fps video.

Luckily it looks like most hardware manufacturers are getting on board with VP9 these days, but the current support for encoding at least is abysmal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9#Hardware_encoding.2Fdecodi...
Thanks Matt, i shall take a look.