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I had a dream that monitor makers released a "4kPro" resolution of 4000x2500 (16x10), but then I woke up and was sad.
I cannot believe I am reading such utter claptrap on HN. So this is become the new Breitbart/Der Sturmer comments section? Then again, it didn't take me too long to look up your little gun obsession on reddit.
Having not read the book before, shall I read it before I see the film? Or could the film adaptation be better than book?
I'm not sure what's so appealing about the novel. I did finish it though, it's not a very good book. It's fine. It hits the same nostalgia spots as something like Mr. Robot and Stranger Things, both overrated shows imo.
The only positive thing i can say about this is that it's built to be a movie. It offers nothing beyond visuals, but thankfully it looks like Spielberg got that part oh so right.
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Python is slow & CPython is ever slower because reference counting is part of what makes removing the GIL such a challenge
I guess we could, if the nobel foundation didn't keep giving out the economics prizes at the same award ceremony and put the economics prizes on the same website as all the other prizes.
Also many personal trainers don't know now to squat either, so just grabbing the nearest or most fit looking one one won't help. If one goes down this path and the trainer tells you things like to not go down all the way, find another trainer. Ideally your butt is touching your calves at the bottom of your movement.
Yeah Bilingualism isn't that rare in America. I live in Texas and there a literally millions of bilingual speakers (largely English & Spanish, but other languages like Vietnamese (~200,000) as well.)
I came to the same conclusion instantly at the moment of my first encounter of a finger magnet idea on YouTube - "Cool, but I want a ring that does that and that I can tune, replace and put on and take off at will...".

Alternatively: nanites like in DX1 and DX2.
I kind of feel like the trailer is lacking some 80s feels... Atomic Blonde's trailer drips with the 80s, on the other hand.
Once there are multiple viable forks of Bitcoin proper, the idea that bitcoins are rare assets worth investing in will collapse.
The other thing about a half-life of 10,000 years is it means the actual radiation is very, very small. If it was large, it wouldn't last 10,000 years.

The way to make nuclear waste safe is not to concentrate it and bury it. It's to disperse it in such low concentrations that it doesn't make any difference.
Funny how the biggest producers and consumers of those three things are governments.

What's scary is being forcibly taxed so billions of dollars are pumped into human misery.
I've had chronic knee problems since high school, I'm now in my early 40s. I'm an on again off again exerciser, but in those 25ish years the only time my knees aren't constantly grouchy are when I'm doing heavy squats ass-to-grass over a period of time. It's amazing how supposedly the "don't do that you'll hurt yourself" exercise is the one which fixes me.
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I read the entire book, and I didn't like it that much either. I guess it's just a subjective thing. I did, however, think it would make a much better movie than book.
Hello, I am looking for a decentralized store that lets me:

* Host digital goods (like run a server, or issue an asset ID that can be redeemed on a bittorrent style network for the file download)
* Receive payment > register an asset or return a download key to the account of the user who sent it.

I want automated digital good downloading, paying & receiving BTC. (Bitpay, Stripe etc pay in BTC but seller receives $Currency)
> The territories are land assigned to Israel by the UN

The Palestinian territories were never assigned to the Jewish state. The UN partition plan [1] assigned these territories to an Arab state.

> It's perfectly legal and "occupation" is an anti-semite distortion by those who want Jews neither in their countries, nor in their own.

The usual self-victimising propaganda. The occupied territories were never annexed by Israel. For the last 50 years (!) these territories have been under military rule. The sovereign in the occupied territories, who is an IDF general, has absolute power over Palestinians living there. Palestinians' only protection is from the Israeli supreme court, which has been legalising Israeli occupation.

Meanwhile, Jewish residents living in those same territories (sometimes on land confiscated from its original Palestinian owners), enjoy the full protection of Israeli law, and all citizen and human rights afforded by Israeli law.

Two ethnic groups, living in the same area, in separate communities. One group has citizen rights, the other doesn't. One group is ruled by Israeli democracy, the other is ruled by a military officer. This is _de-facto_ an apartheid regime.

> Some ignorant self-hating Jews, conveniently moralize from afar...

You got me!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_...
Why is this on HN? Just an ordinary scifi movie, no? Based on a kind of mediocre bestseller?
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thought it was terribly written, and I'm a fan of 80s stuff
its fine if there are such distributions. i just dont think they should be the main distribution. by this i mean: i think the distro you get when you click the 'download editor' button on the site of the author of the editor or enter apt-get install editor, should eliminate these extras to avoid intimidating people too much and achieve a nice cleaned up aesthetic.

editors like emacs and vim are already have a steep learning curve without any extras and experts who need the extras will find them.

i am a great admirer of what stallman did for free software and i really like the idea of emacs. however i am also aware that its usage is declining. so i do believe taking a more critical look at his decisions is worth it.
They may also be having load-balancer issues assuming they have front-end servers that are checking whether accounts are supposed to be directed to a specific set of servers. Assuming that they normally load-balance based on geographic location, the check for specialized server connections may be something that they never actually load-tested before after confirming that it worked for their staff in testing.

I asked earlier and have asked again whether anyone at the location but not officially attending is having better luck connecting, that would help to narrow it down between carrier issues, Niantic server issues and Niantic server-for-this-event issues

Edit: They expanded the area for special/regional spawns to 2 miles around Grant Park but still only for people who "checked in" at the park, and people who've left are reporting much better luck when they're away from the park. That may indicate that most of the issue was insufficient networking.
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A payment system. You want to send someone money or receive money without giving any third party an ability to censor the transaction.

There is a reason that before all the "blockchain" BS it was called "Bitcoin".
Thank you — this is exactly what I had in mind.
The fact that Austrian Economics is not mainstream doesn't mean it's wrong.

Normally you have two types of deflation, by increasing productivity that reduces prices and by lack of demand where prices are reduced to incentivise buying one is good the other is bad.
From the article:

The better wearable devices get, the less sense it makes to permanently modify your body. Things like exoskeletons, smart glasses, and external brain-computer interfaces are safer and much easier to upgrade than their implanted counterparts. Plus, you can take them off in inappropriate situations: you won’t get stuck trying to swim with a metal limb, for example, or wearing a permanent version of Google Glass to a laid-back dive bar.

I really think wearables make vastly more sense for enhancing ourselves than this kind of body modification.
> The basic idea is that not only is reference counting a form of garbage collection..

Oh, how this leads to debate. The confusion is whether having automatic reference counting without a cycle detector is considered GC by the masses (what language publicizes a GC and does this?), and if people question GC to be a form of automatic memory management, where other forms may exist.

Briefly looking at the article I think the authors opinion on this matter is pretty clear that an additional algorithm such as a cycle collector is required to be considered GC.

edit: "Reference counting" itself also isn't even necessarily 'automatic'. Just find it odd the way this gets phrased. GC can use reference counting, not the other way around..
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Parts of the operation are contracted out to Capita, who act as agents for the BBC under the "TV Licensing" trade name.
I disagree, our body is pretty limited. Pretty limited field of vision and weak detection of dangerous gases and liquids, for example.

Also, flaky sensors too. My mother recently had a couple of episodes of BPPV[1], and in the process I found that a lot of people have it at some point in their lives. A friend of ours had vertigo for almost a month(!) and was absolutely incapacitated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_paroxysmal_positional_v...
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The heart literally defines the rate at which oxygen and other molecules are distributed through your brain and muscles.

If you're using those molecules to think or move, wouldn't it be nice to have a sort of tachometer?
> The bitcoin fees would still exist but presumably would be lower than 2.9%

Potentially, but Bitcoin mining fees are currently sky high. I made a couple of purchases recently for about $60 worth of Bitcoin, and the mining fees ended up being about 3.5%. Of course, mining fees are pretty much unrelated to the size of the transfer, so for high dollar amounts the fee is negligible, but ends up being a huge amount for small $5-10-$20 purchases. Hopefully mining fees will go way down after "the great Bitcoin split" in a week or so.
Of all the topics in which HN has provided me immensely deep insight, its userbase has failed equally immensely in economics. Comments from people who took just one Economics 101 class in college baselessly trashing the field making it to the top of the comment list disappoints me.

You know someone has no credibility on the matter when they mention homo economicus, as if it was the keystone.
One hope is that batteries and electric engines open up and make economical varying kinds of vehicles, especially because gas-powered engines have tended to favor cars.
> Do you like writing in-depth articles? Ocalog is a platform to help you get paid for it so you can afford to spend time doing it. Consider joining!

Do you really think a reddit/aggregator where you pay-per-upvote (via a subscription service, instead of fiverr like a normal person) is going to encourage long form articles?

I don't think I would pay to be part of a pseudo-oligarchy, but I would pay for an aggregator that couldn't be gamed by bot accounts. This... almost does that.
No I quite enjoy the threatening letters, they tend to repeat after about 6 months but every now and again you get a new one.
This is one of my blocks writing I feel to vulnerable and exposed
Funny how the biggest consumers and producers of those three are governments.
uggghh, it's not necessarily true. At the least, your butt has to be parallel to the floor and at the most you can go all the way down. You can stop anywhere between that and it is still a perfectly proper squat.
I started StrongLifts a couple months ago. Can't recommend it enough. Starting each exercise with an empty bar helps me to hear my body. As I go down for those first couple empty squats, I can feel which muscles are tight, then take a couple minutes to loosen them up before adding weight.

I wasted years of time in the gym doing leg extensions and leg curls -- single joint exercises and seeing no results before I embraced squats.

Before StrongLifts (which eased me into squats with the +5lbs ever lift day, of which there are three per week) I was squatting on the Smith machine. That was bad for my jointsbesause it restricted my range of motion. Also, I through I needed the bar pad, but it turns out I can bear a lot of weight with the bar across my shoulders.

Because I have poor join flexibility, I only squat to horizontal thighs, not deep squats like some people can do. Maybe the biggest difference I can tell from the squats (plus the other four exercise) is that the ROI on my metabolism is huge! I used to have to run to keep the weight off, but that was bad for my knees.

I'm about to level off at my first set of eight goals, and start incorporating the rowing machine for cardio into my weekly workout. StrongLifts recommends to eat a lot of protein, and not to do any other exercise while on the program, so you can keep progressing through the weight increases by giving your body all the rest it can get between workout days.
As a former Twilio engineer he might be somewhat biased. Full disclosure: I am also ex-Twilio.
There's nothing rethorical about saying that something that currently works at a small scale can reveal fatal flaws when it tries to reach a large scale.
It's just like Napster->Kazaa->Gnutella all over again! In 10 years there will be iTunes.
We said the same about piercings, and tattoos, and a variety of body mods before this. What makes bringing technology into the mix pathological?
Two problems with your argument:

1- You imply that only one camp wants to scale. Actually, both camps want to scale. The only difference is that the "big blocks" camp do not think a user's ability to validate the blockchain is worth keeping.

2- The size of the network is irrelevant to the government's ability to censor transactions. The only thing that stops them from having power over the network is decentralization. If you as a user have no say whatsoever in what goes into blocks, you are forfeiting your power and handing it over to the miners. Then, the miners become transaction validators that can be compelled to censor certain kinds of transactions by their government. As a user, you will have no means to stop this because you can't even validate the chain they are producing (because it costs you too much to transmit, store and validate it in computing resources).

I'm not saying the argument for the "not-big-blocks" camp is to never increase the block size, but it is to try everything they can to keep the power in the user's hands while growing the network. The minute you give up on decentralization for the purpose of scale, Bitcoin loses its value proposition as it looks less like digital cash and more like paypal with central transaction validators and a central database.
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A lot of the goto's were used to use a common sequence of code followed by a return. With nested functions, the nested function contains the common sequence of code, and you just:

T common() { ...common sequence of code... }
...
return common();

instead of:

goto Lcommon;
...
Lcommon:
... common sequence of code ...
return result;
(4) and that Twilio agrees with this argument.
Direct youtube link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtwpjnuaVTE
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There have already been concepts shown like this, the prior art will be very sticky for anyone that tries it.

It looks like Pioneer already shipped something much cruder but of similar idea, and I swear I saw a Microsoft concept video with something more refined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZ4lHenItE
... with a Latin phrase.
Aren't most alts a fork of a fork? How many of them have truly original codebases? (obviously operative word in your comment was "viable", but at a minimum, Litecoin is one viable fork)
There are always alternatives. The issue is how naughty or nice they are.
I'd much prefer nanites that silently aid you and can be controlled and repurposed and replicated easily and turned on and off like in DX1 and 2 (especially) than hunks of gross metal like in Bionic Command or DX3.

Want a stronger arm: get nanites programmed right that will aid the body in the natural strengthening process: helping repair the fibers, removing carbon dioxide and lactic acid, carrying in more oxygen and nutrients, etc.

In Deus Ex it actually went through mechs (who ended up being despised and ostracized) first to nanites then with nanites being more powerful (thus making mechs also obsolete) and seamless (you couldn't tell who had nanites in him just by looking).
40% claim is ludicrous
In Brazil the Kwid will be sold for 10kUSD, even worse than India.
Super nitpick: I would say "density restrictions" in #3. Weight, unfortunately, remains a largely unsolved problem.
I've been using my packaged version pretty extensively (mostly in virtualenvs) and haven't encountered any issues yet myself, but would definitely be interested to hear (either on GitHub or here) what issues you encountered and if they occur with my packaged version as well.

I wouldn't really expect any issues since it doesn't replace `/usr/bin/python3` (it just adds a `/usr/bin/python3.6`), but it's definitely possible I just haven't run into them.
To be fair, I would still say the same thing about all of those, too.
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I'm looking for suggestions on creating a good developer career track at our company. Something more detailed than the typical "junior" and "senior" titles and, ideally, with descriptions and criteria. I haven't been able to find anything substantive "open-sourced".
Litecoin is the oldest fork of Bitcoin, and arguably it adds value (with shorter confirmation times)
Well sure, but what's the point of learning another language if you're an American if you will almost without exception not ever need to speak anything other than English in the United States? Even if English wasn't the lingua franca what would the point be? Conversely in Europe you're surrounded by a ton of other languages, of course it makes sense to learn them. If they spoke French in Oregon, Spanish in California, and Dutch in Colorado Americans would be just as bil-/tri- lingual as Europeans are. It just doesn't make sense to be.
I like the layout etc. and I signed up to beta test.
Some would think when we are trying stuff or planning for a project is not getting things done,but the act of planing the right path could get you to point B faster than if you just heads down code and feel productive.
The scale of this event is bigger than any Ingress anomaly until now. Also, all players seem to be concentrated into a smaller area than Ingress events, which further complicates things. I think the main issue they could not control today is that Verizon ran out of bandwidth and people simply couldn't connect.
Another difference with Ingress events - the Go Fest is a closed venue with security and ticket validation at the gate. In Ingress, you usually validate your ticket beforehand and don't have to worry about queues in the hours before the actual event stats.
Yeah, all I need to do is concentrate and I generally can feel it. Helps to be somewhere quiet for me.
In what sense? This is not a file sharing platform. Also, money is exchanged here.
> If you're committed to living in the States

I think you have to be insane to not travel. The learning opportunities it presents are unparalleled.

The world would be a much better place if every person living in a developed country were forced to spend a year living in a different one during high school, for example.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime

- Mark Twain
Sure, currently it is. But that's not written in stone. Lots of medical procedures used to have huge mortality rates and extreme side-effects, and are now much better, often even just a couple of decades afterwards.
That may have been my issue with it. I stopped reading somewhere within the first chapter because I couldn't bring myself to care. Maybe I'll give the book another shot with this in mind.

Reminds me of the show Parks & Rec. I tried two episodes during the first season, disliked them, and moved on. A couple years later, I came across the recommendation to try again, but skip the first season. I gave it a shot and truly enjoyed most of the rest of the show.
This is based off a monitor from LG that is over a year old and is not 4K.

I have a 34 inch flat LG thunderbolt screen right now on my 3 year old MacBook Pro. Great screen

I plan to swap the computer to the MacBook and get a LG 32ud99-w when they finally ship (4K, USB-C from MacBook). I fly 100K a year so I want the smaller laptop. I hate giving up on the thunderbolt. I have been waiting for a decent USB-C monitor.
I've had a competitor with a new "vanity" tld come in and very quickly outrank my .org site. And the new tld is being used as a keyword itself, as opposed to a representation of the subject matter or industry.

So, anecdotally, it certainly didn't hurt this sight. I guess it would also mean, and support the building belief, that exact match domains or utilizing keywords in the domain name is also no longer helpful(in the eyes of search engines). If the tld doesn't matter, then I could scour all of them until I found an available exact match.
Try Virtual Display Manager. It can easily split the screen into various configurations.
It was terrible. Just an endless avalanche of 80s pop culture references loosely strung together with a horribly cliche plot and characters.

The references weren't even interesting either. It'll just be something like, "Then, I traveled to planet Bueller, where I played through the plot of Ferris Bueller's Day Off--", and then a page and a half literally describing various scenes from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. That's it. It adds nothing. Unless the idea of scenes from 80s movies and TV shows and video games that you are familiar with being described back to you is inherently amusing, you will probably find that this gets old very fast.

Then again - this might translate much better to the screen, in a way it didn't to the page, because A) film is a much better medium, I think, to delight the audience with familiarity than writing, and B) from the trailer it looks like the film will expand beyond just 80s pop culture, and intermix the references a little better than "I went to planet Star Wars and here are some scenes from Star Wars I played through". With Spielberg at the helm, I have pretty high hopes. Just don't expect, if you like the movie, to read the book and like it even more. If the film succeeds, this will be one of those very rare instances in which it's better than the material it's adapted from.

If you want to read a good novel about VR, pick up Snow Crash instead.
The escrow fees are only charged if there is a dispute too.
If you are a fan of 80ies nerd culture and you want to read a well written but not very deep science fiction book, it is a quite entertaining read.
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