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I agree completely.

I sometimes think that perhaps the myth of the digital native generation arose because an insanely high percentage of the population is so illiterate with computers that they think that just because the kids are spending all of their time in front of screens it means that those kids automatically "understand" computers when in fact they are just learning very specific applications of computers.

I also think it's a bit of a cop out on their part (not sure that it's the right word). The computer illiterate are so turned off by the idea of trying to understand computers that they will gladly throw compliments at any kid just so that the kids will shut up about anything relating to computers. "Oh ho ho, I'm so old you know I don't know anything about them computers and phones and what have ya. But you kids, you grew up with these things, so to you they are second nature."

Edit: Sibling commenter about millennial vs gen z has a good point. Still I think that it's mostly those of us that made an effort to learn that it goes for though, just like with the people that grew up before that with home computers.
"Authorization" should be clarified to mean requiring credentials that formally grant access. In my eyes, public-facing content on a website is explicitly available to anyone. It clearly does not require authorization.
Did you alter your running style in any way? Fwiw, shin splints with barefoot shoes sounds a lot like heel striking.

Barefoot running feels a bit like pedaling a bicycle backwards, compared to the common running style.
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I think it's interesting (in a "train accident" sort of way) how many downvotes without any counter-argument you're getting...
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Assange hosted a show that RT acquired the first broadcast license for, I doubt he had much contact with RT employees for that show. And again, why would a Russian leaker consider Wikileaks over another organization full of Russian speakers?
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> If I could work for a "regular" software company but only work 20 hours a week (and be paid 50%), I would definitely do it.

i've often wondered why this is not available more often. my guess is that hiring a person is so expensive (benefits, unemployment ins, hardware, office space, HR time, etc) that the company feels that it must squeeze as much productivity out of the employee as possible.

workers require a bunch of time/effort to find and maintain a relationship with (so milk 'em like a cow before they dry up).
I think that number one, your assumption about search volume is very hard to ascertain: do they have 200mm DAU? MAU? Total users? What's the total search volume per day? Is it ~450mm? Are all of those searches monetizable? Is the revenue per search on par with Google's?

I think there are huge gaps to fill in before we can understand what the value of monetized search on Giphy is vis a vis Google.
Sean - I'd like to see this, but the link you provided seems unavailable to me. I see only a 404 page. Maybe it's incorrect or access is restricted?
>Gives you a paper result that you can verify, and leave there for manual recounts as needed.

That's fair. I guess you could also force a recount for a random portion of the polling stations to detect anything fishy. I'm not sure if it'd be really worth it though, would it be such a massive improvement over simply counting paper ballots directly?

>Checksums and verified hardware.

Nah, that won't work. Who checks that? Who makes sure nobody tampers with the hardware after it's been verified? How can you even verify a piece of hardware, it could tell you it's running code X when really it runs code Y, no amount of checksumming will help. You could easily backdoor a processor to run a special ROM instead of the official one. Good luck detecting that.

Are we supposed to send electronic engineers at every poling station to check for any tampering with the hardware? How about people making copies of the chips that look exactly the same from the outside but are backdoored? You can't just trust whatever is printed on the package.

So what do you do? Take a random sample of machines during every election and decap all the chips to look for something abnormal?

IMO it's just too much hassle for very little benefit.
That's the origin of the phrase, yes, but in the US the phrase "Fourth Estate" has been bastardized to mean "Fourth Branch of Government".
For anyone interested in the era of other “retro” computers and companies in the 1980s, Kim Justice’s documentaries on YouTube are pretty good.
I think "non-partisan" is just code for "not partisan yet". The parties get huge sway in shaping the voting district, why would this body be different? Could it stay different going forward and different parties attack it for different reasons?

There needs to be more than this.
A better example I think is walking into a store and writing down what they price everything as, then selling aggregate pricing data to people. I can't see any reason that would be illegal.
No non-cellular Apple devices have GPS that I'm aware of. My wifi-only iPad Air certainly doesn't, but my mother's cellular iPad mini 4 does
Same here with a new XPS 13, the trackpad is awful for 2017. My 2012 MacBook Pro trackpad is working perfectly, responsive and precise as hell.

I don't get why it is so hard to make a decent trackpad today when Apple did it more than 5 years ago :(
> - less precise trackpad than my 3 year old rMBP
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> - palm-sensitive trackpad

Sadly this seems to be par for the course for non-Apple laptops. I will say that the Asus ZenBook seems to get pretty close though.

> Thankfully this old rMBP I use is still running well (despite the screen covering deterioration in weird spotty ways).

I'm using a mid-2010 MBP (upgraded the RAM and replaced the drive with an SSD) and it's awesome. Still very usable, runs the latest MacOS, and still gets really good battery life. The Apples of that era seem shockingly well built.
This 'researcher' has no control group. There's more interest in a financial asset when the price of that asset (or asset class) is increasing sharply. That's all there is to it.
I actually also filed a complaint with the FTC about this program. Nobody wrote an article about me though. :( (In fairness, this appears to be an actual legal case, not just a 'complaint'.) I was particularly perturbed that Google made it clear they had access to my credit and debit card data even if I do not grant them permission to have it.

My guess is somehow I have given the credit card companies permission to sell it, but it feels like my entire purchase history attached to my personally-identifiable info enough to tie it to a Google account really shouldn't be legal to sell.

As a note, filing privacy complaints with the Federal Trade Commission is surprisingly intuitive, and I highly recommend people familiarize themselves with the system and use it liberally.
Came here to say this, I have a public "example" repository my clients use for reference that has a "fake" public/private key pair.
Unlike open source where you have a hundred choices that are unsupported (most of them abandoned), they have a few choices that are supported and work reasonably well.

Also people tend to whine about objective-C and Swift but these languages enable you to easily build things that are almost impossible to build in most other languages.
> But when you get locked into Oracle and it makes it nearly impossible to move because of the features your relying on, has a big effect on shaping your perspective on this.

I hear you. Picking a database is major decision and shouldn't be made lightly. That being said, I hear a lot of companies are successfully migrating from Oracle to Postgres these days. And in fact, this application was actually migrated from Couchbase to Postgres, but that's a story for another day perhaps :).

> That is very impressive. Mind sharing the rate of change across all of those rows?

Nowadays its about 5 million inserts / day with peak rates of 150 inserts / sec. Not too crazy, but it adds up over time :).

> Also, I'm curious. Is this all that DB instance does? Or is it responsible for other data as well?

It does a few other things, but this is the main workload.
There is a certain amount of speculation and bitcoins value has gone up a lot more due to reasons that are worth speculating on (increased adoption) than based on usage in its primary applications (Remittances and convenient value transfer).

However, simply holding bitcoin as a hedge against inflation and central bank currency risk is a legitimate use.

One of the big rallies in bitcoin coincided very precisely with the Cyprus collapse where the government simply confiscated a percentage of everyone's money in the banks.. and in places like Venezuela bitcoin is literally a life saver.

So remittances may be the biggest market, but hedging against incompetent government is not an illegitimate use of it... and I would separate that from "speculation" as a use case.

Speculation tends to get a bad rap, but remember, speculators sell when prices are high and buy when prices are low-- they tend to moderate prices.
This is a great laptop if you are not using the gpu and the cpu at the same time and you don't care about the screen response. So basically you put a game in this PC and after some minutes you see the great faults of the computer. The 4k screen has low response and it is a bit more blurry with movement than usual displays, although you will only notice this if you have another display to compare.

The biggest issue is the power throttling. When the CPU and the GPU get a bit hot, the VRMs area get hot too and they drop the CPU to 0.7GHz. You play for few minutes and you are amazed, you can play last gen games quite good. But suddenly everything is crap. The VRMs area is hot and is dropping the voltage of the CPU to cold down. Really bad air flow design. Where I said games you can say another application that uses GPU and CPU like deep learning, or maybe watch a video and compile the kernel.(Message for Dell: why do you put a great CPU and GPU in a laptop if we cannot use both for more than few minutes?)

The other minor issue with this laptop is the thunderbolt with 2 PCI lanes. If it had 4 PCI lanes it could be you all day computer as you could connect external GPUs without losing too much. But 2 PCI lanes is not enough.

As a side note some people also have problems with the Wi-Fi. I had to buy another Wi-Fi card for my router as it couldn't connect, but with others routers that it connects it works quite good.

P.S. I run Windows 10 Pro and Archlinux in this computer. The fingerprint does not work on linux yet, everything else is fine.
Here is the theory. Lean forward until you start to fall. Put one foot out to catch yourself. Note where your foot lands. This is where your foot needs to land to stop a fall. You will feel a significant jolt. You have successfully sucked up all the energy of your fall and stopped yourself. You put on the brakes. Now try this again, but place your foot short of where you did the first time. You shouldn't fall, but you will keep moving forward and will need to take another step to stop the fall. Now you have stopped yourself from falling over two steps which is less jolting. Now try again and place the second step short of where you would need to place it to stop, then the third, then fourth. Now you are running. If you want to go faster, shorten your stride and focus on turning your feet over as quickly as you can. If you want to slow down or stop, lengthen your stride and absorb your forward energy. You could overcome the braking action of a long stride by pushing off hard with your back foot but this is not as efficient and harder on the joints. That's the theory. The way to find out if it works for you is to experiment. For me, as soon as I understood this, running became a lot easier. If it works for you, be sure not to overdo it at first.
Couldn't agree more. Whenever a friend picks up a new non-Apple machine that's the first thing I try out. It's almost always bad enough for me stop there.
That is a very pessimistic view.

The GTX 1080 is $550; Vega 56 is $400 and Vega 64 is $500. With decent cooling, the vega gpus can be overclocked to give significant boost. Also the freesync monitor is cheaper than gsync. Vega56 + FreeSync will save you around $350. That is ~ 25% saving if you are going for a 1.2-1.5k$ rig.
Good point. However, BuzzFeed's record on plagiarism is also being painted here with a very broad brush. The real occurrences of plagiarism at BuzzFeed is not out-of-keeping with normal attrition at major media dailies in the US media. Every news organization has had issues with it at some point or another. BuzzFeed is no different.

That said there's definitely always room for improvement.
Eh, I don't know PureScript but IMO you just added another reason why it isn't production ready.

Unless they are really really good at keeping backwards compability in both language and build tools.
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I'm a father and I know exactly what it's like, but good job assuming.

I think you misunderstood the point I'm making. I'm not saying every single parent who leaves a child in a car is a bad parent. I'm saying that some are, and making it a crime will deter them. I'm also saying that it can deter even good parents.
There's a good flag to make "Read data from all websites" more reasonable.

chrome://flags/#extension-active-script-permission

It requires a "deliberate, explicit user action" to run the extension on the page each time even if it asks for that permission. And if you really do want an extension enabled 24/7 (such as vimium), then you can select a check box in the extensions page which allows the extension to run without specifically enabling it each time.
What about he whole "Gawker lost the trial" part? That seems to be rather neglected in this explanation...
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I'm a die hard social libertarian and free speech advocate. Your (and the medias) attempts to frame this as a free speech issue is comical, bordering on delusional.

If you want to defend free speech, you'd be better served talking about what's currently going on at college campuses.
Your thinking is exactly where I was in about 2012. The network effects is why bitcoin has remained so valuable in the face of, say, litecoin which is arguably better technologically.
Previous discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406583

Opt-out (I believe) happens at the credit-card level, per [0][1].

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/23/google-track-shopping-tr...

[1] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0222-privacy-choices-y...
Quick question.

> Want to measure the height of an element on the page at the moment a user clicks on it? Hard, in order to do this we had to make heavy use of event bubbling and writing JSON decoders for the native event.target object that is produced by an onclick event.

What would be considered best practice?

Is it best practice to re-implement this sort of thing? Seems one could easily find vanilla JS code and encapsulate it, or add a helper lib?
Are you sure it's not just because it's impossible to find things so people search more?
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Why would they get something is the question? I doubt Wikileaks is that well known in Russia, most Americans have a vague idea of what it is already.
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Based on what I've read, the big advantage of a SAFE is that it facilitates transfer of capital from outside investors to the corporate account quickly by putting off valuation until later. If the money is already in the company, then speed is not an issue.

Parsing your lawyer's comment, there may be something there in that SAFE probably makes less sense the further one gets from Silicon Valley style investment strategies and Silicon Valley's connotation for "startup". On the other hand, if you don't like your lawyers advice or don't think it reflects applicable experience, find another lawyer.

If the money is already in the company, there's probably a bit of a legal mess regarding assigning value to that investment after the fact. Personally, I'd be more in favor of considering a sunk cost and simplifying the cap table on paper. The future preferred equity that would come from conversion later can be provided to the founder as common options now. A founder with preferred stock immediately has interests that are less aligned with those of employees and future cofounders in regard to structuring a liquidation event. In the case of a typical outcome where the startup is worth $0.00 there's no benefit for the additional cap table complexity. In the case of a great outcome, there's no benefit to the either, it's just a matter of which of the founder's pockets the money flows to.

Making the investment a loan seems like a simple solution. In the event of liquidation where there is some but not much cash, a loan would be a liability on the company's books that gets repaid before preferred investors divide the rest. It also avoids a potential problem terms that provide early investors with options to follow on their initial investment...the ways in which a founder would tend to get the capital for follow up investment don't seem aligned with company success...at the very least it is an additional distraction.

Finally, worrying about this is the sort of distraction SAFE's were intended to solve. But the applicable context is sophisticated investors operating with a mindset similar to that in Silicon Valley and not to address founder cash infusions.

Good luck.
TOTP is a specification and there are many free software implementations. U2F is also a specification (but generally they aren't free software implementations).
If it's hot (say, above 70 degree F), a well-trained man can out run a horse over a long distance. If it's cold, the horse will win. The horse's cooling is largely dependent its breathing which is constrained by its pace.
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I'm assuming most GPUS are mining ethereum and that this will change. (not the airplane load, I don't think the airplane load even exists)

But you are right there's a huge number of GPUs out there. My main point is there is going to be a big shift to the others from ethereum when ethereum becomes less profitable...
Yes but since it is owned by Google I'm afraid that they will shut it down on a whim
Seriously..someone needs to get fired to use such profanity over slack channel in an office environment
There were two charges, one specifically CFAA for bypassing the captcha...scraping.
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All the people I know in their 60's 70's still running are doing like 2-5 miles per day maximum. Few ran marathons more than casually. All of them wear shoes. But all of them had to iterate a lot to find shoes that work for them.

Running two marathons per week strikes me as way beyond excessive, if the goal is just to be running later in life.
Just like hoover or xerox, the would gif has transcended its "technical" meaning, and today it simply refers to a looped video without sound.
It really depends on what your definition of 'best' is, doesn't it?

This article seems to suggest that Apple was the better computer in 1996 while Windows was dominating. But Windows was dominating because it was the platform of choice for business users who had trained on it, built custom applications for it, and networked their offices with it. It was the best solution at the time for the customers who needed it.

Path dependence is not evidence of the market not working; just the opposite. It's evidence that products the author of this article likes better aren't necessarily as successful on the market as products most consumers know how to use.

The irony is, that Apple eventually triumphed because it invested in more intuitive design, using path dependence in its own favor. Hence their famous saying: "You already know how to use it"
On the other hand I'm not sure how this essay's viewpoint would help in this regard. From my vantage point, Thiel doesn't seem to have much respect for the opinion of other voters who don't share his philosophy, with two groups ("women" and "welfare recipients") called out specifically. It seems like there is little attempt to figure out why not every person is enthralled with Thiel's brand of libertarianism, and much of the essay is devoted to dreams of tribal utopian colonies (which historically often end in disaster). The impression I get is that he views himself as better than almost everyone else, to be honest... that's not a very likable trait if so...

Oddly enough, I personally find that Thiel's support and stances in relation to Gawker vs. Hogan a bit contradictory to this dream. This is less a commentary on the lawsuit (I found Gawker detestable personally) but more how Thiel's Gawker vs. Hogan lawsuit embrace is a dip into the very same complex American legal system that usually is harshly criticized by libertarians.

The Economist's description of him as a "corporate Nietzschean" (https://www.economist.com/news/business/21699954-tech-billio...) to me seems more on the mark these days.
I use an x230 as my primary as well... but I can't seem to suppress my desire for a FHD screen. Do you know if any of the newer X-series are worth the money?
I'm in my 20s. What's amazing is that his commentary on politics, economics, and international relations is just as relevant now as it was back then.
> Right now I'm sitting behind 4K (Dell P2715Q) monitor connected to rMBP (13", 2015). What I'm supposed to miss? What exactly is not displaying correctly and I didn't notice?

I use the same monitor as well. Until recently, I had the 15" version of that laptop, and now I have the latest 15" Macbook Pro. Both use 2560x1440 on the external monitor even though it's capable of 3840x2160, because that's what OS X defaults to, and every time I try increasing the resolution, I only make it a few minutes before I can't stand how terrible the experience is and end up switching back.

> Also, exactly what applications do not use Cocoa?

I'm saying that native Mac applications look really bad on OS X when set to 3840x2160. The UI and text don't scale consistently, and that's true both of the system-level UI and of application UI. The situation gets even worse when you're talking about applications designed for X11[0], which I could forgive, but on the other hand, those applications scale just fine on Linux.

By contrast, all of this works out-of-the-box in (for example) Unity. I don't have to deal with dialog boxes that are out of proportion with the system bar, or text that's impossible to read unless I squint on some applications but perfectly readable on others.

[0] We could get into a debate about whether XQuartz really counts as "cocoa" or not, but I'd rather not.
Probably because that pattern makes more sense with a touch screen keyboard.
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100% they are willing to lock out NAT networks, have been subject to this more than once browsing normally.
> Writing decoders in Elm is not hard.

At some point, after enough people tell you that they can't figure out how to do something, one should admit that it is difficult.
Unfortunately, credit card companies/banks/etc have been selling purchasing histories, to pretty much all comers, for years.

It'd be really nice if we could stop that instead of caring about the particular people they sell it to.

IE It's not "better" when they sell it to someone who isn't Google, and I honestly could't give a crap about the complaint, which mostly deals with antitrust.