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Yeah, it's a generally American politics focused news aggregator (there's also World, Science, Life, etc outside of this Politics section), and at this particular moment Trump's the story from almost everybody who's being aggregated.

But those articles importantly are a mix of left & right viewpoints in 1 place. Neither the left (panic & planning, and how the right is wrong) nor the right (touting future Trump accolades, and how the left is wrong) are shutting up about him, because it is a very volatile moment in US politics.

However, there's also the attack in Turkey, other post-election matters, Saudi Arabia, common core education, campus echo chambers, and other non-Trump topics represented in the front page list. The overall variety will return back to normal in time.
No. Because the lender knows your AirBnB investments could easily be regulated out of existence. I suggest you live super frugally and save up cash for your real estate purchases. (We did this and so have many of our friend.)
If anyone has found a TeX template to print ~8 LaTeX flashcards on a single a4 sheet please let me know. I did find a template for 3 flashcards on one a4 but haven't had the time yet to change the template to accommodate 8 of them. Any other suggestions to quickly create flashcards are also very welcomed.
Curious to see the this team's approach relative to the TBD Chris Urmson company... https://twitter.com/theAlexLavin/status/808230259078402048
My comment does not contradict in any way the article: the problems of mathematics searchers are very different than the ones of students. I just disagree with many of the comments about this article: for me mathematics does not require a good memory. Perhaps a bad memory means the brain store more high level data instead of raw data and that may be useful for higher level of abstraction ???
Don't like it, lack of proprietary drivers is a no-go for me and my cheap hardware.
The dining halls had all-you-can-eat lunches for $6 when I attended a few years ago. The price is up to $7.40 or so now, I believe. Not a bad deal given the food's high quality and variety.

Still more expensive than cheap groceries, of course, but not too bad if you can manage eating just once a day.
It's not superstition or FUD to be concerned that given the long track record of the big food producers prioritizing profit over their customers' health, letting them use even more powerful food engineering techniques than the ones they already have might not be a good idea.
Processed cheese like that block of cheese in the meme contains quite a bit of sugar it's added to make it "taste better".
The current ideas I heard are based on the assumption that most work has been replaced by machines/robots/far less people; that means that the money those robots make now replaces the actual humans that made it before. The largest issue is that the owners of those robots (big companies) use tax havens and/or keep most money in the hand of a few of their wealthy owners.
This is also the style advocated by the standard library. See for example the helper functions for io.Reader: https://golang.org/pkg/io/#Reader

For example, `io.TeeReader` returns `io.Reader` (the interface). The underlying type that implements the tee functionality is left private because you don't need to be able to see it. It really drives home the point that the return value is "just another io.Reader".
> Rather I am frustrated by my lack of violation, I am not making a conscious choice to remember or forget; the decision is made for me by my flawed existence. The inability to exercise my will and make a meaningful decision over what I remember frustrates me.

You think your existence is flawed. Have you concsiously choosen this? You just happened to like the idea that you can be better than you are when you first heard of this. And after multiple tries and fails it feels/looks like something is flawed. But I think it's just a downside of that idea.
Your observations clearly show that you cannot control your mind.
It's just that sometimes visions of better me are in line with what's happening and sometime's are not.
Solar energy is a very long-term goal if you include a dyson sphere in your calculation. And even less long-term, it is not that bad for space travel as you have more and especially 24h coverage without an atmosphere and a planet to block the view. Even on earth, cheap wind and solar power may be used in the near future for (more) long term storage solutions like power-to-gas etc. With 3ct per kWh as currently planned in Dubai, that is entirely feasible.

Nuclear power (I am not speaking about fusion as that is still down the road) is to the contrary rather short-term as the sources for uranium etc. are somewhat limited. And it wont get cheaper anymore. On the contrary we are still detecting down-sides of nuclear energy like it was detected in recent years that around nuclear plants there are significantly less female life birth and increased child tumor rates. Not much but for still around a thousand girls for a normal power plant over its life time. Of course, coal is not better in that regard but wind and solar are or at least will be.
@trome I don't know, I usually buy new hardware, never thought of that, and I find it bulky, I like to carry a 11.6" in my backpack everywhere and a Lenovo 100s is so light. I don't know really, it's my fault anyways...
> Another thing which I don't personally love, but I do because I understand industries have differences is just exporting whatever can be exported into .csv files or .xls files where applicable.

Working on an in-house application, this has been one of the most common types of requests. "Can we add this field here to the CSV export?" It's a three-minute task for me, but a huge time-saver for the manager of the team using the application and thus highly appreciated.
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Sharing secrets with remote co-workers. It's easy enough to use that I can expect pretty much anyone to be able to figure it out in real-time.
Not sure if spaced repetition is the best resource we have. I haven't researched it, but the question I have is: how much of everyday's information is stored in the unconscious. Using hypnosis people can remember long forgotten things(assuming these are actual memories and not produced by imagination).

I have actively tried to use unconscious processes to remember some trivial stuff. Easiest way to experiment this is when you can't remember someone's name. You know the feeling when you almost got the name, but it still manages to escape your mind. What I have done is just say to myself: This name will pop into my mind once I stop trying to remember it. And more often than not, once I have concentrated on something else(it usually takes few minutes), this name will pop suddenly into my mind. Same technique can be used with lost keys etc.

I find it interesting that we can schedule some tasks in our minds. A la "Start searching my lost keys, please". And upon completion it will trigger a notification.
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It's nice to see a group of people with the resources to potentially make something happen take an approach to this issue that doesn't involve politics, fines, incessant regulations, or taxpayer money. This initial $1 billion will likely burn up fast, so I'd also like to see them open the fund up to everyone and see how many of the people that made climate change such an enormous political issue during the Presidential election actually put their money where their mouth is and try to get something done instead of just complaining. As an added bonus, if the fund eventually produces a clean energy company that can achieve price parity with conventional sources, they'll get an enormous return on their money.
> some uber-billionaire might say, "I'll write the 100 billion dollar check to make this happen" (Assuming an expensive technical solution exists without a good short term P&L)

Good but expensive technical solutions do exist, namely carbon capture and storage, together with more renewables, nuclear and fusion power, perhaps some hydrogen production etc. But the financial requirements are unfortunately more towards OPEX than CAPEX. This means even if some uber-billionaire pays for the CAPEX, us regular people will shoulder the largest cost.

A proper solution would be a functioning carbon tax that negates the currently externalised cost of emissions. But in simple terms that means "making everything more expensive", on the order of $0.5 more per gallon of gasoline overnight, large increases in taxes on new cars, everything made from plastic 50% more expensive, cement and steel prices increasing by at least 20% so new houses are 30-50% more expensive to build, etc. In short, political suicide for anyone who enacts it.

Sic transit gloria mundi.
Those tools are very close to silicium level design tools.
I guess the smartest application of FPGAs on EC2 would be for FPGA design tools, they are incredibly slow.
The definitions will vary, and imho even having these titles is useless. If you don't know who is senior without having to print it on business cards you are in trouble.
To me being a senior developer means, when faced with a hard problem I prefer to

- not solve the hard problem. Make it go away instead.
- buy an existing solution to the hard problem.
- make a simple solution to part of the hard problem

Making a "simple solution to the whole hard problem" is of course the end game, but most of us never reach that level. Seniority is basically just a measure of battle scars and cynicism ("experience" also a nicer ring than aggregated cynicism).
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Point 5 is really significant, there has been a lot of noise from politicians on both sides and the media about the negotiations, in reality we have such a weak hand it looks like the negotiation is going to be rather one sided.
Hey, just to give you a trailhead into a service that I've used before for automatic ad-placement optimization, try Ezoic (ezoic.com). They did very well for me (150% increase in Adsense revenue) and their site says on average they double Adsense earnings. It's totally legit, they're a publishing partner with Google, which is eventually what made me sign up with them after some initial skepticism. But they delivered for sure.
Our clients tend to be blown away by map widgets. If we showcase an application and then bring up the embedded Google Maps view, e.g. with different kinds of overlays, most clients are completely blown away.
That's why I keep my Pentium box. Never forget what 24MB can do.

Spoilers: everything.
Today we have modern dynasties based on money - even at the micro-level, wealth promotes greater power and wealth for its descendants.

A large segment of society hate the very concept of a monarchy, but their inheritance is actually far more constrained than a typical dynasty's, as the state retains ownership of all of the monarchic portions (they of course have significant private wealth as well).

I, personally, feel we would be hypocritical to dismantle the monarchy before we dismantle inheritance wholesale. i.e. 100% inheritance taxation (though I don't propose this is absolutely straightforward; there are many complexities).

This is a deeply unpopular view, but if we hate this kind of power and wealth inequality, we should really deal with it, not make some silly gesture about an artefact of history.
From the Wikipedia page on the JVM: "[code verification]...allowing the JIT compiler to transform stack accesses into fixed register accesses. Because of this, that the JVM is a stack architecture does not imply a speed penalty for emulation on register-based architectures when using a JIT compiler."
My biology lab instructor (she was a grad student at the time) started the first day of class saying "don't worry there are no dumb questions." About 30 minutes into the lab someone asked a fairly unintelligent question and the instructor goes "well that was a dumb question.." I think she learned her lesson after that though. You gotta start somewhere!
In general but I'm not sure this movement is that significant, we really need to go on a huge house building spree to solve our housing problems and it doesn't look like this is going to happen, largely because of political ideology.
How could they do otherwise with the messages they are getting from extremely partisan media and representatives?

The people are compelled to recycle, change their lightbulbs and so on but their representatives OK a fracking scheme or gas plant that cancels out all savings. There's no insulation, combined heat and power or even removal of fossil subsidies or sense of urgency coming from the representatives.

The few "people" who are scientifically aware seem very keen to see this change, but unfortunately are still a minority.
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another point: coal can only survive in most developed countries because it is heavily subsidized.
> Chrome is the most targeted browser for 0-days

When was the last time you saw a Chrome 0-day?
Obligatory mention of Michael Abrash and his cult book:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=abrash+book&ia=products

For anyone getting into programming or with a sweet tooth for this era, a nice code thriller.
No, you're not. After getting caught with like 3 backdoors, it would unreasonable to think you can still trust Lenovo after that.

I wouldn't trust any Chinese company product or service, especially after the recent "cybersecurity law" that allows the government to force companies to install backdoors in their products (both local and foreign).

Perhaps all of this will change in the future, but not anytime soon. People should boycott Chinese products until that happens. It would also set an example for the US and everyone else that it's not acceptable to put backdoors in your products.
Insulting people as shit slinging monkeys and quibbling about yet unknown iotas reads like a transparent deflection from losing the argument. Look, I agree that outrage signalling and unsubstantiated imputation of value systems on specific people are generally toxic -- but how does this help? To any normal person not caught up in some weird startup death cult the quotes proffered suggest that Max Levchin is probably not about maximizing your physical and mental health at expense to your economic output. This seems fair to point out, even if it could have been formulated better.
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No, the mainstream explicit, self-proclaimed position is that these positions should be allocated on a meritocratic basis, not on the basis of racial quotas.
> What's really really scary to me lately is all of this talk about "fake news", which originally referred to outright lies that were part of click-farms, but is now being talked about as if CNN and MSNBC are somehow the only source of "real" news.

I am surprised by that too. This whole "fake news" thing appeared out of thin air around the US election and is reportedly a new phenomenon - as if most of the "regular" news coverage wasn't already of various degrees of fakeness.
surely this assessment introduces false positives? Someone that implements a poorly specified feature exceptionally well suffers rework, not because their code is poor but due to outside factors. Someone who cherry picks easy items is reflected as prolific where a perfectionist might just be given more difficult problems.

Idk, I worry that people will interpret this backwards and rather than having characteristics of a good developer ape those characteristics to appear as a good developer.
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This is actually a good thing. It means Microsoft have the means to remove badly behaving extensions.

And no, you don't need to sign in (on PC, on mobile you cant event start the phone without signing in)
You guys maintain an excellent blog - I would really like to keep up-to-date, but I don't want emails sent to me.

Can you guys supply an RSS feed link? If you have one, I wasn't able to find it.
Serial entrepreneur here. Love your attitude. You play to your strengths and keep it chill. Not my style but a rock-solid strategy nonetheless.
Thanks for the encouraging words! I think Sun Surveyor is undisputed the top app in the space. It's really quite an instructive and interesting process to publish an app, try your hands at marketing, answer requests, work around at intricacies of different Android versions and device models. Coming from a background in academia and research, it's very fulfilling to see your app (even though it's comparatively simple) used by hundreds of people.

Regarding IAP: I'm not using in-app purchases. At the beginning I thought it to be too much of an effort to implement and now it's too late. So there are two separate apps available, the free version (shows data only for the current day) and the paid version (shows data for any day). I think this is similar to your app(?). I thought it would be easier to get users to try a free app and than upgrade instead of having to buy a paid app without getting to test the app beforehand. However the rate of people buying the pro version is rather low (around 3-4% of Lite users purchase the Pro version; I don't know what your experience is?)

Send me an email (contact@genewarrior.com) to compare notes, I'm definitely interested!
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Sorry for off topic, but this text is illegibly huge. It reads nicely after zooming out until 50%, or at least 67% (though that's still a bit big). I think 55% or so is close to the text size that my task bar, tabs and hacker news also uses.
Other options - like team password managers?

It was kind of ad hoc thing; it's free and was easy to setup.
"most applications should store it in a cookie"

Why do you think that most application should store JWT token in the cookie? Both approaches have their pros/cons.
uBlock Origin on Edge is a dream come true, but this port was not made by the original author.

Who is "Nik Rolls" and why should I trust him with ALL my browsing data?
I remember reading about bufferbloat related patches in 4.9 that would make network quite a lot more efficient. Curious to see in practice.
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The non-free repository is well maintained, it is not as if Debian is Trisquel or something, the Debian Developers are reasonable people.
Other comments are querying the relevance of fsync() as a 'lag' benchmark, but I want to query whether fsync() is even meaningful at multiple calls per second.

I know fsync() ensures data gets written to disk, but why does anyone care that it can happen so often? When a device crashes, some data (prior to the sync) may be lost, but do we really need multiple checkpoints per second to ensure only sub-second data loss?

I'd be content with a couple of minutes worth of loss even on my main PC, with its lack of battery backup. To enforce rapid syncs on a phone seems utterly pointless.

Keep the syncs for meaningful checkpoints, like buying something in an app or marking a message as sent. Multiple fsync() calls per second are a total waste.
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Agree, as a dev on a large distributed project(include software/hardware), I don't recommend any team to use distributed storage system in production IF they don't have lots experience on it..especially opensource system.
I don't see the hard link between GUI smoothness and io. You can have perfectly smooth 12000fps rendering and crappy IO, everything will just be "loading...".
Millions of routers allegedly backdoored with malware that can’t be removed
Omg yes, any kind of background hum or distorted comfort noise is the absolute bane of telephony, having experienced it on a few messed up landlines before.
Interesting! Thanks for the tip
Where does 9600 bps come from?
fsync benchmarks are stupid.

(neither a Pixel fan or hater here)
> you're unlikely to try and game your own metrics I suppose?

You'd be surprised.
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...compared to those outlets where is not that evident ?

Because I cannot think of any publication that I would call completely impartial (it also would make for pretty dry reading).
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Especially since the EU has every motivation to make sure that they get the much better end of the bargain. If it looks like the UK has 'won' in any way by Brexiting, other countries are more likely to follow suit. Crushing them at the negotiating table likely makes the rest of the EU more stable, and probably wealthier.
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At my place (me, my wife, 6yo and 1yo daughters) we have done the same (got rid of our TV about 5 years ago).

We watch the occasional TV show via on demand streaming (guilty pleasure="The Voice", food for thought="several long form journalistic features, tv documentaries etc")

The improvement to our quality of life at home as been significant. In the little free time our daily chores still leave us, we simply play with our daughters (lego, board games, silly play) or read a book with them.

The only concern I have is with the kids growing up. Is the lack of exposure to daily news going to make them less aware of the "world out there"?

After all we could make the choice to live without TV/News after growing up with it. All that news noise is part of our accumulated view of the world. How will this affect someone growing up?
njharman quoted the part about "existing inhabitants" in North America, not conditions on ships. Recommended read: "1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus; Charles C. Mann"
is this a sign that they are preparing for GA ? What is known about the status of the project?

(i asked this in a previous submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130017 , asking again as the topic hit the front page)

Maybe this is related to the new laws in Michigan that allow self driving cars - http://fortune.com/2016/12/09/michigan-self-driving-cars/ . Now they have a potential market - doesn't matter how large, they count on it that other states/countries will follow.
It's inefficient design, with the same space we could be doing so much more.
Yes, it has to be flushed from time to time. Normally this happens automatically when it is needed. fsync() just forces a direct flush.
I can't really get onboard with this. A lot of the comments here, and the commentary in the article itself, talk about how depressing the news is, how biased it is, about Gell-Mann amnesia -- and they're all right. But from my own experience, the people I know who don't follow the news (either at all, or extremely minimally) are spectacularly ill-informed; they get their news either third-hand (which suffers from all of the aforementioned problems plus being re-reported poorly), or not at all, and operate with only the sketchiest understanding of what's happening in the world. They aren't going to "read three books on a topic" (from the article), they're just going to remain oblivious. And that's far worse, in my opinion.
I particularly like the fact that the core spec is a hundred pages and they commit to keeping it small. The minimal architecture RVI32 is even much less than that and will probably still be useful in real life.
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You can learn Russian to be exposed even to more lies and propaganda :)
Source: I know Russian.
Unlikely, at peak times most alternate routes are already at or above capacity, energy & navigation dropping in cost will not make more road capacity suddenly appear, and the point of diminishing returns with road capacity is very low. When you try to ignore that you end up like Atlanta, which is no joy.