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Metaphorically, Pokemon Go grinds with jewelers' rouge, while Pocket Mortys grinds with coarse emery.

The reward to effort ratio is lower.

Besides that, when you put free-to-play players in direct competition with paid players, and give the latter an enormous advantage over the former, that's when people start griping about pay-to-win.
Math vs. Speed: The Secrets of High Frequency Trading
More like 3-5 mins.
Just to clarify: Are you suggesting that mammoths were bigger than elephants are now? That would be interesting
Do you think the Paris climate deal was/is potentially an effective way to limit emissions?
I used to see a fox around my old house in Nagoya, but never when anyone else was around.

Then I started seeing a young girl walking a fox-like dog in the area, and she always seemed to be caught in the act when I came upon her, and again no one else was ever around.

I said hello to her once and she just walked right past as if she didn't see me, which is pretty odd behavior in Japan. I will go to my grave believing that she was a shapeshifter, even though I'm not usually in for such superstitious nonsense.
Dies immediately when launched on Debian Jessie:

Error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.ibqKoR)

$ strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep
GLIBCXX_
...
GLIBCXX_3.4.19
GLIBCXX_3.4.20
GLIBCXX_DEBUG_MESSAGE_LENGTH
>> If someone chooses to vandalise a cable carrying 7kW, they're likely to experience very swift karmic retribution.

Which brings up another interesting point - if you do any work in UK and have to run an electrical cable across the pavement, you have to mark the area so that people won't trip over your cable or electrocute themselves.

In the picture I posted, if you had a charging point on the wall of the building, you would absolutely have to run it across the pavement to get to your car - so how can this be allowed? What about wheelchairs riding on the pavement? Or prams? Or people who trip over the cable?

Can someone else who parks in front of your house use your cable? If not, why not? The street parking is free for everyone, anybody can park there, electric car or not.

>> (a definite minority outside of London)

You mean outside literally any city in UK. Terraced houses are bread and butter of living in the UK and they all have the same problem - you usually don't park in front of your own door.
> just twice as many

Half. Epyc gets 4 MCM[0], ThreadRipper gets 2 (with each MCM containing 8 Ryzen cores)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-chip_module
Ok, but first I have to clean it up a bit :-) I get back to you.

Spoiler: The state is stored in a GenServer.
The actual headline is "Trump 'poised to quit Paris climate deal'"
Main Steps to Implement HR Technology Successfully
Current post title is: "USA pulls out of Paris climate deal".

Article title is: "Trump 'poised to quit Paris climate deal".

More than likely it's going to happen in the next few hours but until then the title is inaccurate.
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How would you collect a mileage-based tax? Collecting it on the spot on toll roads seems like the most straightforward way to implement it.

Here in Japan the majority of the highway system has been privatized and they all have tolls, and it seems to work just fine. Driving solo between two cities 4 hours away is often more expensive in tolls alone than taking the bullet train.
EU agrees to fund free WiFi for European towns with no internet coverage
Can the Amazon Echo and Google Home interact and be used together?
You can easily get 60 FPS on a Pi 2 with Qt
Can the civilized world do this in Syria as well? Its appalling that the slaughter and destruction has gone on this long
Why so many great scientists came from early-20th-century Hungary
Since they're just static files, that should be pretty easy to do :)
>you should get your oil changed every 2.5k

Now you're just making stuff up, right? To support the narrative of the major hassle of oil changes, right?

(FTR I change my oils every 18,000–19,000 miles, or maybe once in 2 years, and while my city living and driving tends to focus not on churning on grid-locked centre but rather a bit more flowing sub-urban areas – still a far cry from countryside driving – a necessary 2,500-mile oil change scream nothing as loud as a garbage engine, vintages be excluded. Perhaps I should avoid talking about cars with Americans, they seem to live in a complete wacko-world when it comes to many things driving.)
Trump 'poised to quit Paris climate deal'
Regardless of the deal itself, pulling out of this is a huge move as far as foreign policy and the U.S. relation to the rest of the world is concerned.

This most certainly sets the U.S. in a new light/new orientation on the global economic scale, and reiterates the sense of growing detachment Merkel recently espoused.
It was better than nothing. It's better to have less progress than necessary than regression.
As a non-american that was my main worry about the Trump presidency. Well here we are. I wonder how much more time well waste not actively fighting climate change because of this.

At least I hope that the rest of the world will stay true to its word, but if america gains an unfair economical advantage by not following the rules I can't really imagine how it could work out. Could Europe and China impose sanctions on the USA for pulling out of the deal? Seems very doubtful.
No, there was also no word on official/validated ECC support, only that Threadripper will launch this summer. But people hope for something between 999$ (since it is two Ryzen R7) and 1499$ for the 16 core CPU. 999$ would be awesome, but 1499$ sounds much more realistic, maybe even more, since it has a much larger socket, high end platform bonus etc.
IP+Camera+Viewer+v4.0.4+Latest+version+is+Here+[x64/x86]
PSA

This webpage from 2007 is the first place I saw the same fundamental board design: http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/

Direct video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A

The design in the two links above is fairly simple (I'd hate to see the patent office decide it was unique[ly patentable], for example), and so I doubt that this person from 2007 was the first to build it.

But I wouldn't be surprised if this particular design and video served as some serious inspiration for the linked product.

To clarify, I recognize that this system far surpasses the basic wooden adder I've linked. But the similarities are there.
Yeah, I used pdftex for my thesis in 2012 for this reason. When I use Tex now I use Luatex as it also gives good results but with easier font management.
That may be true, but the world of academic Physics and Computer Science people is still a relatively small one.

Anecdotally: in the 20+ years I've been out of school I've sat through hundreds of presentations. I don't think any of them were created with TeX (unless TeX is the underlying technology of PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, Impress, etc...).
Tesla’s direct sale effort in Texas fails complicating things for Model 3 buyers
Another person then suggests that maybe it's a good idea that CS majors have some experience programming before they enter the program.

Why not offer two tracks? People who have never programmed before have to take a 6 month intro to computers course, that people who know how to program can skip. The people who skip the course can then either use the extra time to take other courses or graduate earlier.
That's a different bug then, the one I'm referring to was introduced in 5.9...
A little funny like Silicon Valley episode , saw the news from GitHub CEO yesterday saying our goal is zero downtime and now it's down
Subscribed ! There's a lot of fun things we could do
Thanks, very helpful
More details from the NYT, in which it was noted that things are not final, as President Trump is set to meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this afternoon. Tillerson has been advocating on behalf of sticking to the deal:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/climate/trump-quits-paris...

> And Mr. Trump has proved himself willing to shift direction up until the moment of a public announcement. He is set to meet Wednesday afternoon with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has advocated that the United States remain a part of the Paris accords and could continue to lobby the president to change his mind.
Agree. Why even bother changing the title? It's already pretty clear what Trump's intentions are, there's no need to embellish anything.
Lego for the Internet of Things
Because it's not about real outcomes, it's about being seen "caring" about the environment, or whatever. The marketing people have the buyers figured out or it wouldn't be that way.

I still chuckle when I see a Prius, especially that newer one that looks like a Batmobile. People are daffy suckers.
Can they actually even pull out ? Deal was signed, US can easily choose not to apply but pull out I'm surprised.
Can somebody ELI 5 what is the benefit of WebAssembly vs Asm.js?
Exactly what happens in Portugal and Greece with most of the money from the EU and the IMF, sadly...
Not hours. Trump tweeted earlier today he'll make the announcement "over the next few days".
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/86990345951191859...

So the title is purely speculation.
> Betamax was superior to VHS.

Actually, that's a myth.

One of the reasons why Betamax lost is because a tape could only contain one hour of film, so you needed at least two tapes for a single movie. VHS didn't have this limitation.
> burning through all available lanes on a Kaby Lake CPU.

Don't you also get something like 4x via the chipset through DMI?
MEAN WEB RESPONSE TIME - 262ms

98TH PERC. WEB RESPONSE TIME - 1134ms

4.3x?
Even if it is true in theory, it is not practically true, as the information required to reverse such a transform rapidly exceeds what you can collect even in theory in a single coherent system. While this is by no means the end of your problems, one simple question you can ask yourself is how exactly you intend to re-collect the photons that the snowflake emitted while melting as they head off to the ends of the universe at light speed?

If the universe is externally a pure value, it doesn't matter to us on the inside. The universe is impure from our point of view.

Also, a pure data structure doesn't just imply that you have a puddle of water that you can put back together into a snowflake; it practically (that is, in practice, not in the colloquial sense of the term) implies that you have both at the same time. When I'm working with pure data structures I don't have to laboriously translate back and forth, I have them both in hand. This is partially because pure data structures simply have no concept of time at all in them. And you can't save this argument by claiming you can transform them back and forth at will, because as I mentioned, no, you can not. Common sense can be clad with solid mathematical arguments here; you can not, in our real universe, ever do that, so even the superficially appealing theoretical answer must give way to a more sophisticated and correct theoretical analysis in which in fact you can't reverse arbitrary transforms in practice. (You can do it at a small scale for small numbers of qubits. You can do it for a constrained number of qubits specially set up and isolated for just such an occasion, aka "quantum computer".... and note how hard even that is, we've still not managed to isolate very many qubits at a time that way! But you can not do it in general.)

Whether an entity external to our universe could do it is something you'd have to take up with them.
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I see nothing inherently more efficient about PNaCl. Both it and WASM expose an architecture-agnostic 32-bit virtual instruction set, then rely on the user agent to apply good optimization. WASM’s performance will improve.

Non-portable NaCl did have the advantage that it could specifically target and optimize for one CPU architecture, and it had the beginnings of 64-bit address space support. These were nice, but not widely used. And we both could conceivably make it into WASM in the future.
This is a classic case of survivor's bias. You're explaining away the failures as people who must've broken the rules too much. But that's circular reasoning. A simpler explanation is that rule-breaking has little to do with financial success.
Yes, we must focus on the real issues here
Im sure its better than nothing. Also when Trump pulls out of it, its effectiveness is not a factor.

Reminder: He thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax.
Unless you're targeting the Harvards and Whartons of the world, either should be fine. Graduate schools aren't too picky, they just want to know that you have the ability and are going to follow through and finish. My point was really that you should know for yourself why you want the MBA. Honesty works well in interviews.

Now, if you're targeting a top-10 program, understand that for those schools it's all about the rankings. MBA programs are ranked on things like GMAT scores but also on starting salaries after graduation. What's the best indicator you'll get a high salary after graduation? Answer: you have a high salary before entering the program. If you want to get into a Harvard or Wharton MBA, tell them about your job making six figures at a Fortune 50 company and that you want the MBA so you can get promoted to the next rank of management. Acing the GMAT would also help. No matter what the brochure says, they don't really want dreamers who want to change the world. For those top-10 schools, the full time MBA program is really kind of a showcase to keep them up in the rankings. Then they can cash in with undergraduate tuition, executive and part-time MBA programs (companies usually pay for these for their employees), publishing, and other side ventures.
>> and enforcement actions like that are the only reason that people make the loans in the first place.

And also that delicious interest. You forget that the lenders already intend on getting something out of it. The reason they are getting interest at all is that there is a risk. If there was zero risk, there would be no need to pay interest.
BMW lost its soul? They just keep shitting on the enthusiasts in an effort to win over the soccer Mom demographic. Sad, really.
It's a shame I'll never get to use features past Qt 5.4 after their insistence on LGPLv3 and royalties per device sold..
Patent Holders will step around this nuisance by "leasing" their products using a contractual lease whereby they maintain full ownership of the property. A large payment up front approx. the same price as they are collecting now, with scheduled micro payments just to insure the lease is legally a true lease.

If the micro payments are not ponied up, they will have preconstructed further legal pitfalls for the lessee in the terms and conditions with skyrocketing interest, etc. (The "double dip").
China has limited power over the US because it relies so heavily on US consumption and because the US owes Chins a staggering amount of money.
Insights from 250K US-Based Job Listings
I can see that. I wish I was in a more self contained environment. But most of us have to glue many different systems together and then FP is harder to pull off.
America first! Planet Earth second.
Desktop YouTube shows a preview when you mouseover on the timeline. You can get through a 1-hour talk in 20 seconds or so with that.
I copied my quote from the linked page. You are likely right, though.
Sounds like an interesting programming project and a reason to acquire programming skills. Even if it is not successful, maybe you will learn something. The journey might even make for a series of interesting blog posts.

Information about developing for Facebook, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/

I am not sure that Facebook allows custom programs to run on pages.

Good luck.
So this is how America becomes great again... Wow, I'm impressed.
Yes that's the joke.
Was it ever ratified by the Senate?
Yuji Oshimoto: Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4+ or Explorer 4+
Redis Monitoring with OpsDash
Just curious - why do you think PuTTY is annoying?
The craziest part to me is that they've got some of the fastest developing countries on the planet, the ones bringing millions of people out of rural poverty every year committed to this - but a country that's so much further along than that is bailing out of it. It just doesn't add up. If India and China can do it, the USA has no excuses.
Yes that's what I meant thx
The same question goes Escher Infinite Circle. I know it has something to do with Poincaré Disk Model but can't figure it out
Really thorough article! thanks for sharing.

I'm wondering how long before the cache digest is used as a fingerprinting mechanism.
I've worked in offices, now working from home. A few hours a day is enough to be considered exceptionally productive in terms of coding for me, this leaves a lot of time for other productivity, family, work around the house. In an office environment the rest of the time is spent looking busy. A surprising number of people will not admit it and will very adamently deny that they are not being productive, yet output shows differently.

But then there are meetings. Factoring in meetings takes a lot of time. Endless talk about improving process...

The flip-side of focusing on productivity and less so on actively participating in meetings or scheduling them is getting stuck in a coding job, being remote and not active in pursuing promotions the companies I work for usually fall back to relying on me for good code and meeting/exceeding planned output and that's it.

In my experience, if you have the goal of moving up a company hierarchy, you have to put on a show that you are a busy which has little to do with output (code) and lots to do with appearences (lot's of talking).
Show HN: How HN Caused Revival of a Popular WordPress Theme
It started with this link (thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14440507

When I visited the link posted (http://danwang.co/), I found the site/theme to be quite elegant. In the footer, I found:

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Manifest by Jim Barraud.

So I checked out Jim's site: http://jimbarraud.com/
and from there, went on to the WordPress theme repo to find that the theme has been retired and no longer available for download: https://wordpress.com/theme/manifest

Luckily, Jim has the theme up on github:
https://github.com/jbarraud/Manifest
so I downloaded it from there and tried to install it (via WP dashboard) but WordPress threw an error and aborted the installation. Manual (upload, extraction and) installation didn't work either.

Then I found Jim's post
http://jimbarraud.com/2016/01/21/an-update-on-manifest/
followed by several comments requesting an updated/working version of the theme but apparently Jim is not able to work on this presently.

Looking at the huge popularity (200k+ downloads, 20th most popular theme on WordPress repo according to Jim) and continuing demand for the theme, I thought of fixing it.

Turns out, there is just one line of (commented) code that needs to be added to the style.css file of the theme, and its good to go:

/*
Theme Name: Manifest
*/

I have now made a working version of the theme available for download:

http://webpub.online/download-manifest-theme/

I think the WordPress community should thank HN for causing this revival. :-)
Our dear President Macron seems to have his mind in this echo chamber though
Is China following the rules? Eastern Europe? Genuinely curious- here's your chance to convince a USian that this is more than trying to drag the US down to everyone else's level.
Aggregate Function: Count

I've seen that COUNT is implemented for numeric values; but not for text. There's no reason to limit COUNT to numeric (unlike AVG and SUM).
LibreOffice Quality Assurance: six months in statistics (part 1)
Good job the post wasn't titled "The browser bugs and edge cases of HTTP/2 push are totally the problem browsers have today. Not the damn CPU usage, not the enormous RAM consumption"
Show HN: 1000 Slack Groups Online – in a year this number increased by 2.5 times
PuTTY is annoying as hell to help a new person get working

Seriously?
There are like 12389127381789 how to guides about how to do it, and it is literally like 3 steps.

Do you really think the person who has problems starting putty is going to thrive in a CLI environment?
I'm all for knocking on predatory bankers, but that's not a very compelling argument.

The borrower sold a bond at par -- so they got their $1. As the entity who bought that bond, you're fucked... the borrower isn't making interest payments and the debt is looking like a bad debt. So you sell it at a distressed value, in your example $0.53, losing half your principal investment + interest, to cut your losses.

The entity buying the distressed asset knows it's junk, which is why they buy it at a steep discount. The fact that they may make a significant profit if the borrower starts making payments is irrelevant.

At this point people start whining about predatory Goldman Sachs, etc. Notice that there was no outcry when places like Greece and Venezuela were happily borrowing and squandering money based on German credit (Greece) or temporarily inflated oil revenues (Venezuela). In the case of Venezuela, they managed to also kill the golden goose by deferring critical investments in oil infrastructure and making dumb political decisions.
We gathered 1000 Slack groups active at the moment. Would love to get your feedback and add more Slack groups if we missed something. You can see the full list at http://bit.ly/1000slack
What suggestion would you make for them to be able to make a living off of open source software?

EDIT: also, it's LGPL or $80/developer-month, not and. I don't see anything about royalties. And considering the GPL doesn't apply until you start distributing the software, you don't need to spend that money during development. You can wait to license when you release and start getting revenue.
I'd use "set" instead of "bind" and be consistent that assignment leverages the vanilla equality operator (since we're already talking about that for "let") but yeah, it sounds like you've been thinking about the same stuff I have.

It sounds like you've been pondering the same problems I have.

In my case it's because I've been working on a rules-engine for scientists and currently we're using SQL for the rule language and some of the syntactic warts of SQL are tripping us up.

I keep meaning to learn enough Racket Scheme to experiment with implementing such a language in macros.
Telling 199 other countries that you can't commit to something is just generally a bad move on its own.
“Architect” should be a role, not a position
Gamers might the most vocal high-end PC users out there but they are not the people with the most money.

The threadripper is not targeted at gamers. It is targeted at people who make money from using their machines, these people can, therefore, afford to upgrade.

Consider a user who does video work. (most modern films and tv is filmed in 8k know) if this is in Raw format as it comes off the camera for a 90 min episode that is 6000 GB. Working on this data (tone mapping, cutting, etc) needs all this data to be fed in and out of the (CPU and or GPUs) so all these PCI lanes are there so you can have very fast access to the raw data and still have space for 2 or 4 full speed GPUs to do that work for you.

Forget games no game developer optimizes their games for 4 GPUs these days even Nvida have said that they dont realy want people to do more than 2GPUs in SLI.
You could just stop using all the other features. Ignore tag requests, ignore comments, disable notifications, etc. That's pretty much what I do at this point.
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