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I bought the PS4 recently to play Crash Bandicoot, great game. Other than that, I just don't understand how people play anything else other than racing games with a controller, that thing is absolute trash for actually "controlling" anything.

I build a new PC approximately every 7-10 years and so far my computers handled everything fine. My current one which I'm about to replace has a first gen i7 and a GTX480 and they worked perfectly with pretty much any game. I'm about to replace it, probably with a 7700k and 1080Ti which should again last for quite a while. The only reason why I'm replacing it at all is because some random component on the motherboard started overheating so I finally have a good reason to upgrade.

> spend a bunch of time and energy researching

This is a terrible argument, I know jack about hardware yet am able to build a relatively decent computer. It's not rocket science, a couple minutes of looking through your local computer shop should give you a good idea what sort of components are good or bad. You can also throw your build into PCPartPicker which will generally let you know if something is wrong.
What's with all the Hip-Hop/Rapper quotes with all these VC blogs? Is this their way to seem "hip and relevant"?

Seems pretty forced and out of touch to me, and have being seeing this trend more and more (I think Dave McClure loves Beastie Boys lyrics?!).

I guess it's a way for the ultra-rich to seem more "street" and equate their hustle of VC investing w/ the street hustle?
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Brilliant, that detail was news to me, even though I had tried versions of that.
blue origin is private.
At the risk of being "that guy on HN who just quotes poetry":

Tell all the truth but tell it slant,

Success in circuit lies,

Too bright for our infirm delight

The truth's superb surprise;

As lightning to the children eased

With explanation kind,

The truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind.

Emily Dickinson
That link is giving me problems.

> Secure Connection Failed

> The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
I wonder if this coincided with them joining the Ethereum Alliance?
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I would guess it's more real estate. Between South Draper and Lehi there is tons of room for new construction (especially now that the prison is moving). There has been a huge amount of office construction there over the last ten years and continuing today. Office space in SLC proper has to cost a fortune by comparison. Building/renting there gives you good geographic positioning to attract employees from both the SLC valley (about one million people) and the Utah county valley (about 500,000 people).
Indeed, sugarcoating the story is lying in some places, de rigueur in others.

I come from California, where newcomers usually have difficulty telling true opinions from meaningless pleasantries. (The locals of course can tell.) And I spend a lot of time in Germany, where the imperative towards honesty often leaves politeness strangled in the dust; but also in Hungary, where honesty has a lot to do with who's speaking to whom.

But so far I don't have much business experience outside the US, and I wonder whether the interpersonal and/or political norms apply to business.

Any insight into how that differs in whichever East you're referring to?
It's not about how the bytecods is compiled. It's about the paradigms the language encourages.

Look, even PHP has frameworks to do evented programming: Kraken, amphp, ReactPHP. But it lacks an ecosystem of modules that actually do things in an async way and work with the same framework.

It's the ecosystem of modules and the ethos that matters.
Many "farms, industries, and construction sites" would not require a 50 mile daily range. Many such situations would have access to electricity, and a truck like this might reduce required fuel deliveries.

Even though they seem sometimes to be the majority of pickup truck owners, those who use pickup trucks for commuting or driving the kids on vacation are doing it wrong.
If you give out voting credits, influencers will call for votes on many small, but hot, topics to expend all votes and then ram through what they want. It's too easy to hack.

In most western democracies, not necessarily America. Representatives can be held accountable and any corruption is usually exposed with dire consequences for their party.
That's not particularly true. I am one of the most vocal dissenters when it comes to Elm. Dissent is welcome, as long as it's constructive. Saying "I don't like 4 spaces" is about as constructive as saying "I don't like Emacs". There are reasons as to why every piece of Elm is how it is. It is an opinionated language, that is very true. If you try to do things that don't fit well into Elm, you are going to have a hard time, simply because of those opinions that are built in. The community is eager to discourage people from falling into those common pitfalls. Everyone is welcome, however.

Come say hi on Slack! People there will help you judge if Elm is for you. If it's not, that's a shame. If it is, great!
My favorite post-race report is from the infamous Andrew Thompson run of 2005, in which a promising young runner headed into the fifth loop with a good time and then completely lost his mind from sleep deprivation, spending the next hour vividly hallucinating and wandering aimlessly through the woods.

http://www.mattmahoney.net/barkley/2005/andrew.html
Yeah it is gross and you're really not supposed to say it in a work environment.
The execution of this visualization was rather disappointing.

I didn’t like the overly cute text (the description of the Simpleton algorithm was almost incomprehensible), the low-contrast captions and colorblind-unfriendly color scheme, and the limited navigation (there was no way to go to the previous slide within a chapter, for example).

But more importantly: If you are going to design an entire interactive exercise like this, graphs are a much better way to explore the effects of varying different parameters. Trying to experiment (as instructed) with different parameters by watching animations in the various chapters and the "sandbox mode" included in this simulation was not only tedious, but prevented effective comparisons. If you just run each iterated tournament (from chapter 4 and onwards) by pressing the "Start" button, there is too much going on simultaneously at a high speed to follow along – I would recommend a sorted table or bar chart rather than many multi-digit numbers arranged in a circle – while stepping through is too slow to keep everything in your head.

I noticed that some of the other "explorable explanations" by the same creator include graphs; I think omitting them from this visualization was a mistake. http://explorableexplanations.com/
In a few European countries (e.g. Germany, Austria, Switzerland) you pay a yearly tax for each car that you own that is meant to fund road maintenance/development. This is about 350 USD in Germany.

At some other countries (e.g. Portugal, Italy, France), they have tolls for the highways so only the cars crossing that road pay for the cost.

And a new option is automatic tolls, where you don't even stop. They just take a picture of the car with license plate and send you the accumulated bill to your home (e.g. Portugal). Personally my preferred option is the German approach where you know that this is a fixed price. Paying by usage ends up being abused, in Portugal they leased the highways to privates that now hiked up the prices like crazy since it is basically a monopoly (no other road to reach your destination).
Seatbelt with no airbag is still better than no seatbelt.

Also, I think the shoulder belt brake tends to work better than you imply (I had a big scratch when I collided with someone that crossed the centerline, I didn't hit my face on anything, despite the lack of airbags).
This is undated, but contains a video from 2010, an update from 2011, and a comment from 2008.

I feel like if this product were going to make it big it would have done so by now.
Oops, yes of course. That's what I meant. Typo. :)
What I have read is that with small dies solder will eventually start to fail. On larger dies it's less of an issue.
That strikes me as so obvious that I don't understand why this is the case. Could anyone with more knowledge on the matter elaborate?
> The main problem is that web apps have a huge surface of attack, a huge part of any web application is handling untrusted user input.

That's not actually true; not all web frameworks work by having pages that parse query params on every navigation. Callback based frameworks like Seaside let you write apps where form input is the only attack vector and messing with URL's will only make you lose your session. That pretty much removes the largest attack vector in most web apps.
The title of this post should probably be renamed to reflect that its from 2009 or 2010.
Insightful comment. Question for HN: Who are the most successful CEOs in silicon valley tech from East Asian families, and how do they compare to Western ones?
I don't think that is a fair evaluation of that comment thread. I explained with links and resources _why_ elm-format is how it is, and _why_ it is considered a feature to not have flags. I also backed this up by showing how many of the users enjoy elm-format. This is not saying "don't dissent". This is saying "this argument is a strawman"
> On other hand, we can still leave such decisions to relevant professionals and pass laws to gauge their work.

Why not do this for everything? In fact, politicians already have armies of expert advisors that they just choose not to listen to when their analysis does not conform to party lines or personal agenda. This is what should be fixed instead of trying to pass such a huge reform.
> In fact around 40% support gay marriage:

So the majority republicans support bigotry. And we should accept that?
> GNU cryptocurrency project

GNU Talor is not a cryptocurrency. It's value is entirely derived from the mint (which operates as an exchange for other currencies). You can use it with BTC, USD or sheep.

> aims to give the State the power to tax the users of the currency

Just like ... any other currency? Seriously though, what's your argument? That nobody should be taxed? That BTC should be used for tax evasion?

Also, you're not correct. Only vendors are taxable and auditable under this system. As a business owner this should be seen as a benefit -- you have cryptographic proof of income which can be used if you ever get audited. If you're a business owner who avoids taxes, then it's entirely your own fault.

> How can you trust anything with the GNU label after that?

GNU projects are maintained separately and have wildly different views. The requirements to be part of GNU are mainly related to how you treat users on GNU platforms and probably some management-related things. Emacs is not going to tax you just because Talor is also under the GNU umbrella.

Stop spreading FUD.
Every piece of info about this and Intel's answers confirms how prepared AMD is for the entire line up, and how rushed Intel's answer is.

I can understand them not wanting to let these new lines/prices be the norm too fast and lose money on margins, but I certainly did not expect them to be caught in what can only be total surprise and unpreparedness.
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I remember that server! It's really cool stuff, and select() can definitely be used in C++. But there is no real evented ecosystem for mysql, pgsql, websockets, and all the other types of I/O unless it is all done through sockets. I think all languages can do an event loop, it's just a question of the ecosystem. Javascript is designed around async and Node.js was heavily promoting it from the beginning. So the default pattern is async. That's what I meant.

Yes, sure you can do the web server and even middleware as async, but there are many services (redis, memcached etc.) and having async modules for them all is the key.
I feel like the potent smell of wasabi can make it through even the most irritable of blocked nose.
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My great-grandmother was deaf (since she was 10), and she knew if someone arrived after she went to bed (she was a farmer for much of her life, so she slept early).

How did she do it? Vibration. She could detect movement throughout the house. My great-uncle has a pretty good story of trying to sneak out/in after curfew.

So attach a motor connected to a smoke detector to the baseboard of a bed. For safety's sake, you'd use a pretty big motor. You'd also want to test it randomly.
Solder between IHS and die means that there is a through and through metal connection. This results in a low thermal resistance, allowing better boosts and overclocking and/or lower temperatures. (This is the best we can currently do with flip chips; in power electronics direct bonding to a metal substrate is used instead, which results in even lower thermal resistances, and thus higher power densities).

However. Soldering these is quite difficult with smaller dice and thermal cycling can result in cracks which impacts reliability, because silicon, the solder and the IHS have different thermal expansion coefficients. There are multiple processing steps required and the solder used is of course special as well. (In fact, in the article you can see the gold plated areas on the nickel-plated IHS where the dice make contact).

TIM (i.e. thermal paste) is very easy to apply and has a predictable lifespan pretty much regardless of die size. The thermal resistance is much worse, though.
Isn't a result of pentest a direct measure of defensive security as well?
It's not really the amount of energy dispersed, it's the time it takes it to happen.

It's usually the kinetic energy of the body that needs to be dissipated, modestly increasing the time it takes that to happen dramatically decreases the forces involved.
I love how this VC whiteboy thinks quoting rappers is cool. So embarrassing for a16z. His book is also one of the worst I've ever read.

The article is not bad however, I agree it's more relevant to Western culture, although Eastern cultures have their fair share of lying and not disturbing the peace ;) Some of these themes were explored in a book called Radical Honesty, which is kinda awesome, but I do think one needs to think in terms of probabilities about this. If the odds of anyone finding out is low enough to not be worth the cost of coming clean, then maybe you shouldn't necessarily divulge all the info. Just use common sense is the main takeaway.
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nope they're trying to project or imply that their Brand products bought on Amazon is likely to be fake.
I'm not deaf but I do routinely sleep wearing ear plugs. I currently use an Apple Watch as an alarm - it vibrates while the alarm is going off.

Before that I used to wear a Casio watch with the same vibrating alarm feature.
Just negotiate that factor into whatever salary you get. I feel like firms in the city proper realize they need to add a couple thousand to compete with suburban firms
survivorship bias. Yes, airbags can have faults that can cause injury. But having them is still safer than not having them. Just because you survived in a car without airbags and some other individual (even many) got injured or killed by an airbag is not evidence that people in general are safer without airbags. You need to assess risk/benefit based on a statistically valid sample size.

The statistics are pretty easily google-able so I'll only bother linking one article here: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5410761/ns/us_news/t/around-saved-...

That's not to say we shouldn't work on safer airbags, especially for children, or hold manufacturers accountable for faults/failures; of course we should. But saying cars are somehow safer without airbags flies in the face of the available evidence.

[edit] I realize you didn't explicitly say that airbags are not safe ('good idea or not is debatable', 'may or may not'), but you strongly imply that with 'Airbags are a false sense of security'.
Facebook messenger has a round profile photo with some kind of circle with a coded pattern in it around the photo. I never tried to scan one but I assume you can.
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For deaf people? How about using light?
It's been done in the past. OS's come to dominate mostly for marketing rather than technical reasons. Much like startups. Integration with legacy systems and rapid development increase chance they'll get uptake. The existing stuff is mostly C, C++, etc. So, the new stuff that dominates tends to reuse that. Redoing it all in a safe language will be a lot of work. That's why high-assurance security has focused on redoing the smallest, most-trusted parts of the stack or working on transformations of legacy code like Softbound+CETS or CHERI CPU that address root problems.

Although I doubt we'll see a big one, there's already smaller projects that do useful stuff with safer languages. ExpressOS comes to mind given the kernel is C# and Dafny running Android apps that are Java. The L4 kernel and Linux remain in the system with L4 replaceable by safe stuff like Muen in SPARK language. Replacing Linux will be a lot harder. ;) However, if wanting mobile or other apps that aren't Android compatible, one might be able to use work like Redox, JX, or Oberon to eliminate unsafe language entirely.

https://haohuim.appspot.com/static/pubs/expressos-asplos13-s...

Another in alternative OS's is A2 Bluebottle from Wirth's people at ETH written in an Oberon dialect. Main Oberon OS is designed for simplicity and teaching. A2 is a batteries-included OS with a GUI designed to be useful. When I tried it, it ran snappy fast with networking, editor, compiler, and so on. Very minimal given only a few students worked on it but it is usable and extendable. Below was first link I found in Google so I haven't vetted it.

https://github.com/Ignat99/a2

Redox OS in Rust can do a lot currently. They plan to expand it more. Already has a GUI, shell, networking, and the standard library of Rust.

http://redox-os.org/
But the way the rocket works is creating a continuous explosion behind it. The propellant explodes, pushing the rocket. It's not just the rocket equation, but the explosion from a central point BEHIND the rocket that pushes it further.

Having a nuclear explosion for example behind the rocket would surely be enough to push it into space... even on Jupiter.
Not affiliated, by just found out that's compatible with Arq and when I saw the prices I was stunned.
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Bitwarden (OSS password manager) adds premium membership features
Ben loves Rap and he has always used Rap quotes.
No, you could also store the private key encrypted with the users password in the blockchain. The only difference to a central server is that you lose the ability to regain access to your account if you lose your pw.
That doesn't align with the actual history at all. One of the extremely well known, defining characteristics of Microsoft in the 1980s and 1990s, was releasing a weak product that they then improved substantially over several versions. Your premise is they didn't improve products as a means to conquer, when that's exactly how Windows took its market share after a horrible initial release that flopped: it got a lot better; ditto for plenty of other examples such as IE vs Netscape.

It applies to at least: MSDOS, Windows, Office and most of its products, Internet Explorer, SQL Server

In fact it was so well known that's how things worked, it was a saying that they only finally got things right by version three.
Looks like this is inspired by the famous Mercedes G/Puch G.

For more then 3 decades it is well known for its boxy style and its benefits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_G-Class (scroll down for pictures)
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Thanks for the info! Do you perhaps have some suggestions for what a good 'next step' is when it comes to understanding all this in more detail?
So where does a reply to 1.1 go?
Saying "hate is everywhere, it's life" isn't the right approach. If I were you and if this story happens to be true, I'd simply pick up the phone and call their office. I'd ask to talk to Mr. R directly. Then I'd simply tell him that someone butt-dialed you the other day and that you heard racist comments about you. Ask him if he's aware of that.

What does it do? Well, next time Mr. R will make racist comments, he will always remember this embarrassing moment. Racism will be tied to an embarrassing moment and that is exactly how you want him to feel like. Who knows? Maybe he'll think twice next time before opening his mouth. React and go straight at the source of the problem, don't be passive...
OP here:

Just published this book on Amazon, and it's also free to read online[1][2].

It covers ES6 in a comprehensive and practical manner, focusing on how features can be used to write better code. The book also goes beyond ES6 to explain things like async/await, async iterators and generators, Intl.Segmenter, proposals to improve regexp's unicode support, and so on.

[1]: https://github.com/mjavascript/practical-modern-javascript

[2]: https://ponyfoo.com/books/practical-modern-javascript/chapte...
No, it's not. It's just a desired skill, not a required one.
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Nice one. Starred :)

Also opened two issues..
Thanks. It's a good reply :).
I don't have faith in expert advisors. They often live in their own bubble and resist reality with impunity.

Society should be able to command them on issues that raise enough attention. "So what if you think that you should scan everybody at airports, admit 2M immigrants annually and log all phone calls? You're not doing that, effective immediately."
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A large proportion of rappers who are rich and famous now started literally at the bottom of the barrel - growing up on food stamps, without heating/electricity, etc, and that's what they rap about (there are exceptions of course).

This is in contrast with VCs, who grew up (again, with exceptions) in privileged, upper middle to upper class environments, with a silver spoon in their mouth.

Hip hop resonates deeply with them because it is the life story they'd like to have (from rags to riches only with a pen and a mic), instead of the one they have (from Stanford to Sand Hill Road only with daddy's checkbook and address book).
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Yeah Cooper Press are fantastic, particuarly JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly and React Status.
And yet, that's how you get from point a to point b in many places! The lack of safety is a HUGE concern, and drag causes safety problems in high wind areas (think: the midwest).
Reconsidering the Linux scheduler's wake_wide() heuristic
If you're curious why this guy is being indicted in California in the first place, IIRC it appears that he laundered some of his money at the now-defunct San Francisco based exchange Tradehill.

As well, BTC-E did business with Americans which is a big no-no if you don't have KYC and AML compliance.
I built that list to prevent information overload - I realized I was burning huge amounts of time inefficiently re-checking large numbers of sites throughout the day (refresh the HN page often?). Having trained myself to hit just these sites for my news, I've recovered a great deal of time and flow back into my day, because unlike the HN page or Reddit these change more slowly and more predictably, reducing the need to constantly scan through tons of titles in a page to look for what's new.
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