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> If we're playing this game, we could go a step further than that and say that roads with little traffic need little maintenance.

The majority of road maintenance costs are caused by the elements rather than cars.

> Also, for the record, adding lanes doesn't reduce traffic congestion

They found that if you add road capacity, people use it. But nobody (except China) spends the money to add road capacity unless they expect it to be used. They just hand wave that away.

It's obviously true that if you add roads people will drive more, but the idea that it's physically impossible to build enough road capacity is ridiculous. As if you could build a twelve lane superhighway at the South Pole and cars would appear out of nowhere to fill it with traffic congestion.
If the video follows you down the page in a paused state, with thumbnail and "play" icon, would this be okay?

The video that follows you down the page is trying to help you, not annoy you. It gives you the chance to read the article while having the vision there too. It's only a problem if the video autoplays, which unfortunately is all of the time on all sites that do this.
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Actually:

>>Most of the time for biological intelligence there isn't an oracle describing the truth at every moment of life

This is false for most of learning of human intelligence. Most of schooled human intelligence looks like supervised learning.

Innate intelligence and other animal intelligence looks like pre-trained models and some reinforcement learning.
I wasn't allowed any TV when I was a child and I definitely had a similar experience, any time I was near to a TV my eyes were glued on it and my attention was completely held. When I was a little older (highschool) I got my hands on as much media as I could and subsequently desensitized myself to it and now don't have the same effect, but I'm not quite convinced that was the "better" option. It lets me operate in the world a little better (I'm not entranced by TV's in restaurants like when I was 12) but is desensitization and normalization of that much stimulus a "good" thing?
Beating a dead horse. Facebook won't change it. That was settled already. This issue is just noise in the React devs' inbox. The devs have no say on company policy. They've already pointed that out.
So, this company seems SUPER deceptive. I've been trying to get a hold of them to ask some questions but their chat "agent" never replies. Here are some of the things I've noticed:

When you join the waitlist you are told that:

An average social media post sends 20 visits.

But then they'll send you an email later saying:

All it takes is a quick tweet or Facebook post. You’d be surprised! An average post sends 50 visits.

In your confirmation email that you've joined the waitlist you are given a position in line:

We’ve received your invitation request and added you to our waiting list. There are currently 9509 people ahead of you.

That email has a link in it to check your status:

https://www.bliss.flights/confirmation?has_data=true&email_confirmed=true&maitre_subscriber_id=sub_22fa1b6dbcb6&points=0&maitre_code=5313-6b6c1f45&email=jeremy1026@gmail.com&position=9509

Notice the end there, "&position=9509", if you visit that link, it tells me my position is 9909 though. In fact, you can change position to any number you want, and the site will add 400 to it, artificially moving you back in line, presumably to trick you into sharing your referral link.
No wonder the internet of shit exists when people have this attitude.
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Does "stop autoplaying" also include not downloading the big media file?
Two changes lead to three failures in Chrome.

The first change is described in the 'note' at https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#child-index

Chrome is failing a test because the root node claims to be a 'first-child'.

The root node is the first sibling, but since it doesn't have a parent, the selectors 3 spec didn't include it.

The selectors 4 draft does away with the requirement that a 'first-child' have a parent, and chrome's behaviour matches.

The second is discussed here https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/319

Roughly, when interpreting qualified names, Chrome is throwing InvalidCharacterErrors when the acid test wants it to throw NamespaceErrors, in situations where you really have both. This leads to two tests failing.
Although I would not rebuild current projects to get away from the current React Licence (as the cost would outweigh the risk of being sued) – I am definitely looking for alternatives. Right now I can't responsibly start a new project using React with the current Licence. If Facebook has really no ill intention it shouldn't be a big deal to really Open Source React. I hope they do.
The idea that we can choose to ignore an attack on our sovereignty by a third-rate pariah state is beyond absurd.

The US is the super power here, not the other way around. We set the terms.
It's a hard one to deal with. On the one hand, all these alerts can make people think about what they really want a site to be able to do. I mean, you're probably a bit less forgiving of a site using http if its marked as insecure and messages get shown when you type into a password field.

But at the same time... they also make people blind to them. Get too many alerts, and people will just ignore them. Will people just click yes if every site asks to use autoplaying videos?

It's hard to tell.
Go to your bank, ask to speak with an investment specialist. Have then set up an automatic transfer every 2 weeks on your payday, to a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund.
Whales and Dolphins are finally getting their revenge on humankind.
I don’t see how Uber failing would cause wages to fall. Uber is consistently cheaper than competing services.

When Uber leaves a European market taxis generally profit from it.
Mastodon will never take off. It has a shitty name that doesn't roll off the tongue easily, and the name doesn't have any light or positive connotations.
"The 17 intelligence agencies, including the Coast Guard Intelligence has irrefutable proof Russia overturned our election results?"

how is this relevant to anything? russia can have many aims in hacking during the election, besides actually overturning the election results. I am always amused by this zero or 1 logic.
Those jobs are still there, how much they pay has gone down due to importing 10+ million illegal immigrants. Construction, farm work, meat packing all used to be a middle class jobs. I know people from the 70s who made $50+ an hour inflation adjusted with benefits and pension cutting meat, those same jobs pay maybe $15 today. It's just supply and demand. The main issue is that corporations are keeping the profit rather than passing it on to consumers, which is lowering standard of living.

Funny thing now is that techies are sounding pretty similar to blue collar people a few decades ago, who were saying chinese and mexican made stuff couldn't compete with American. Now programmers say the same thing about Indians.
There is no reason for any individual to have a high energy particle accelerator in their home.

35 years later...
Forget the stars, I'm partial to space colony art of The High Frontier '70s variety.

https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art.html
Well that's odd. Why would DoL need names and email addresses and phone numbers of employees? Didn't they already claim to have a statistical analysis of salaries based on previously-gathered data?

Is this related to the thing where Google says getting the data would be too hard (i.e., do they want to do their own analysis of competitive salaries based on scraping LinkedIn or something)?
Chrome should be abandoned. This corporation controls way too much.
"- Does the CIA provide a net positive or negative effect on the globe?"

As the CIA is an American intelligence organization, responsible for American interests, the correct question would be: "Does the CIA provide a net positive or negative effect on American power and stability?"

Now, we can debate that question all day long, but AFAIK the CIA has no responsibility to "the globe".
Yet it's the only strategy that we're absolutely certain produces intelligent life.
I'd agree with you if this was a domestic actor and not a foreign actor that presumably wishes to do Americans harm.
On behalf of Linux users who use this to open Terminal... NOOO! I use this key combo constantly and it would take ages to unlearn it. Ctrl+Alt+T = open a terminal window, dozens of times a day every day.
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Wait, WASM disallows all dynamic code gen? That sounds really disappointing. How do JITs work on WASM?
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Ask HN: C# DocGen like Javadoc?
There's an internal team at my job that's trying to get people to use a framework they built. The problem is there's no documentation; this despite the code being well commented in what appears to be a structured fashion. An example looks like this:

/// <summary>

/// Waits for the Page's DOM to fully.....

/// </summary>

/// <param name="classInstance">The PageObject instance to be populated.</param>

does anyone recognize this format and, even better, a tool used to turn this into usable HTML documentation?
Are you absolutely certain we qualify as intelligent life?

edit: This comment isn't a joke, I mean this seriously. Modeling a system after ourselves may not be the best idea if we're not the best possible system.
What react-specific patents do they have? Preact only borrows concepts like VDOM and the component lifecycle (which isn't new), it's not implemented the same. They share the same API but that's just a name against common events in a component lifecycle, and is mostly for interop and developer ease. I don't see how they could do anything to shut down Preact, though IANAL.
Ask HN: Could iphone X support lip reading?
I've always wanted a device that could "listen" to me when I speak silently. I am hopeful that the iPhone X and the TrueDepth SDK could support creating such apps.
Doing reasonable encryption and authentication on interfaces with MTUs on the order of tens of bytes (which is common for various low-power IoT radio interfaces) is actually pretty complex problem.

Essentially all widely used and safe cryptographic constructions have overhead (IV and MAC tag for example) that would consume significant portion of your packet (or in some cases is actually larger that the packet).
I know some people strongly disagree but my toddler learns tons from her tablet.

She has Amazon Freetime and can pick and choose whatever apps she wants to play (we can remove apps and control what age range is available). The apps on it have taught her about animals, letters, words, problem solving, and tons of other things she otherwise would've had less exposure to.

We also play together with her on the tablet and of course do lots of playing/learning without electronic devices at all. Books, blocks, play figures, the usual stuff.

But tablets are an extremely powerful tool for learning so it seems silly to me when people completely cut them out for the "good" of a child.
As demonstrated by the modest results (population growth from a few hundred thousands to 7.5 billion). /s
All restrictions and regulations of bitcoin will result in distributed trustless solutions. We aren't that far from distributed, non-custodial, trustless crypto-crypto exchanges, and crypto-fiat are not that far behind.

More regulations will push the innovation outside whatever country passes the regulations.

Since bitcoin can be used in any crime that could also use cash, the idea that it can be used in crime doesn't justify these regulations-- unless you ban cash effectively the same way.
I think this is a good thing but I'm curious why the same reasoning isn't used towards preventing ads and trackers. They're both unwanted unless the user expresses an interest and as a bonus they also degrade performance or consume power and data on mobile devices.

I want something like uBlock running in Chrome on Android. I can do it in CopperheadOS or with Firefox, but it blows my mind that Google recognizes these types of issues but won't deal with perhaps the most egregious one.
The RAD750 might be flight proven but I wouldn't call it the 'current state-of-the-art' in radiation hardened computing. Its technology is over a decade old.
Love those stories. Read some similar ones in the past. First time when debugging - I'm looking into the cache.
The human brain sits in a cavity of fairly specific volume, rigidity, shape and contents (mostly salt water). One could estimate (or better and easier, test for) the resonant frequency of such a cavity (fasten a sound-wave generator to a similar cavity and test its frequency response)[anyone want to volunteer their brain for science?]. But the human head consists of of a number of cavities (cranial cavity, the sinuses, the mouth, nasal cavities, ear passageways, eyeball, etc.) various bones (jawbone, tympanum, etc.) and collections of liquid (connective tissue, tendon, cerebrospinal fluid, etc.). Each part has its own resonant frequency and sensitivity to damage.There will be at least one resonant frequency for each cavity/object.

One could use a loudspeaker or sonic device at those frequencies (and multiples thereof) to remotely create resonant oscillations inside someone's head. Since you'd be using air transmission, the source would probably have to be powerful, but if the frequencies are out of the range of human hearing then they might not be noticed by someone other than the target.

If this is a weapon, likely lots of effort has gone into finding those parts of the human body most subject to failure.

Best bet for Cuban spies: get a dog. The dog will let you know when he's affected.
I think Unsupervised Learning is fundamentally connected with the mission/goal of the AI. Whatever the mission is give to AI, it need to start learning information landscape by itself and make classification and use that knowledge to make predictions and act accordingly to optimized the outcome of the mission its given.
As all these things, it should be a setting!

And maybe some hints during the second time you open a tab.
> the name of the game is leveraging explosive, unsustainable growth into a high rate of return into cheap capital into a big payday for founders

I've come to the conclusion this is the case. Has anyone written on this?
Even these guys: http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/hundreds-rescues-orchestrated-... ? What about these guys: https://www.army.mil/article/189021/new_york_national_guard_... ? How about them: http://journalstar.com/news/local/911/person-nebraska-nation... ?

Last I checked, the National Guard is part of the US Military.

Care to revise your statement?
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Gizmodo is running an article about how THIS is the dangerous thing Google that will destroy the web.

http://gizmodo.com/chrome-will-soon-block-autoplay-videos-wi...

I can't stop laughing.
I live and work in Toronto.

Is the view of IT being seen as a cost an East Coast Mentality though? Stemming from the days of Arthur Rock not being able to get any investment money in New York.

The West Coast has always been more of a 'dream land', where even far fetched ideas could see the light of day vs. here in the East Coast.

On another note, I heard rumours that the Liberal Government may tax small corporations (up to $300k a year) as much as personal income?
Pinterest reports 40% growth YoY, now at 200M monthly active users
How to safely remove both dual-booted windows and ubuntu and reinstall ubuntu?
I have both Windows 10 & Ubuntu dual booted on the machine with 2 empty drives. I want to clean format the entire machine and remove both windows and ubuntu. Then install ubuntu back from scratch. How to safely remove both of them?
>People put money into Bitcoin because it's simple to understand and to do.

If there are really people that are using Bitcoin as an investment because indexing isn't easy enough the situation is scarier than most people thought. Both because investing in index funds is very easy and because you have to be extremely bullish on Bitcoin to consider it more than a small percentage of your total retirement investments. If that really is the case then that's a reason to consider Bitcoin to be overpriced. The value is being propped up by the buying pressure of people who don't know how to do a simple stock purchase and have finally found a way to invest again after their experience with beanie babies.
There's a lot of inertia for some people to stay in one place, much less to change countries.

Judging by Facebook, about ninety percent of my high school class in a small town in Texas stayed within a half hour's drive after 30 years.

One of my coworkers in the 90's moved from Canada to Austin and eventually moved back to Canada. It was just cheaper to live in Canada with a family for him at that time, even with the pay disparity - and he was super talented in a niche field, I think the other major option for him at that time was California.
I don't think they have a monopoly on smart people, but they do have a head start and the advantage of economies of scale.
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I'm a US citizen that would prefer that US government entities have a net positive impact on the globe.

I guess I'm not the only one.
"...my mother told me she thought he’d known he was having heart attacks but chose to ignore them as a way of killing himself. This, I think, is putting an overly heroic sheen on it, but the interpretation doesn’t surprise me. My mother worshiped my father, and there’s something noble about a slow, plausibly deniable suicide. "

I find it to be an extreme form of cowardice. I had a couple of close family members who always used to 'emotionally blackmail' when something wasn't how they wanted it. And it wasn't manipulation - they genuinely suffered. It was horrible. Like an inescapable black cloud.
My uncle did it for so long, ignored his health issues on purpose that he eventually died. He wasn't even too old. I don't even remember exact cause, but it was something simple, couple of days in hospital and some pills would have made it go away.
I had similar inclinations, but adopting stoicism helped me curb it.
This is pretty beautiful, good job. Would love to see an app using this haha.
Key point: "The better those relationships are, the better your own work will be, which is why it’s so important to treat others with empathy and respect."

I want to highlight empathy, especially when interacting with colleagues who are not technical. There are a lot of things developers know that are second nature, but to many others, it's not. Meet them halfway, help them understand, don't dismiss someone because they don't know how something works.
"In addition, the company is required for 20 years to implement a comprehensive software security program for most consumer software preloaded on its laptops. The security program will also be subject to third-party audits."

So basically. . .Lenovo laptops have to come with anti-virus? I'm curious what "comprehensive software security program" entails, and whether or not it'd be free for consumers.
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a fraud or stupid, bad either way. right?
Also see Treesheets:

http://strlen.com/treesheets/
And how many of those actions, aside from My Lai, were initiated by rank-and-file enlisted men or low-level officers?

Because those men and women make up the bulk of the so-called "evil" US Military.
I'd have thought of the Avro Lancaster or Vulcan instead. The Vulcan in particular was part of the "V bomber" effort in which the UK government commissioned 3 totally different supersonic nuclear bombers in the hope that one of them would work and be delivered on time.
Okay, and anything from the umm.. past 20 years or so?
I guess a very big German Telecom objected to 'Magenta'?
An interesting question, but if we make a program that makes wry jokes about what it means to be alive or argues persuasively about its own freedoms, the world will notice.
I don't think there will ever be another jQuery. Just like there won't be another Michael Jackson. The world is balkanizing, different people use different tools and listen to different music in a way that wasn't typical 10 years ago.
Why isn't this more at the top ?
People prefer to complain about it -- but clearly its a pretty permissible license.
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I think innate intelligence/ animal intelligence is developed by evolutionary algorithm. You don't need to do back prop for it. If the network is wrong, the animal just dies.
The answer seems pretty obvious.

Make notifications and autoplaying vidoes OPT-IN. A site requests the feature, and a little icon pops up on the far right of the URL bar. The user has to know to click that button to allow notifications, or auto-playing, or other exploitable features like Javascript message popups.

Now, if they want people to use those features, they simply have to write a message on their website telling them how to click that button. "Want videos to autoplay? Click here!"

But the truth is, we all know what this is really about. It's not about features, and it's not about user experience. It's all about getting more money from advertisers by telling them you've got X more "impressions" from your users even if they're not real interactions with the ads.
I mean I don't think being able to write in a way that can be read is some obscure, useless skill. I had to go through a lot of extra instruction in penmanship when I was a kid but it was totally worth it because a life where nobody could read anything I wrote would have been needlessly difficult.
Then, who do you work for? Apologies for prying, but I couldn't help notice the "wouldn't dream of working for any companies located here" and "SE living in Canada".
Educational TV has come so far too! Daniel Tiger is amazing at teaching social skills compared to any show available in the 90s.

From research it seems the biggest issue with kids watching TV is just that it takes time away from other forms of learning. Which means limit it but no need to get rid of it.
Aws Sqs write only queue for external facing servers is what we do. What worries me is not servers... It's admin/Dev machines...
As @Ineentho mentioned in another comment, I don't use username/password for ssh. I don't allow username/password for any system which I have responsibility (not even my local VMs for consistency's sake). I use ssh certs. My certs are passphrase protected, I enter the passphrase once at the beginning of a shell session and allow ssh-agent to handle subsequent logins. If I'm on a laptop at a client site in a cube or something, sometimes I don't use ssh-agent and retype the cert passphrase each
time I want to use it.

This WSL process is no different than I would do with a Linux desktop. On the windows side I do essentially the same thing except I use pageant and plink. This is only for tools which use ssh to access remote services and not for terminal access (as I mentioned I'm using WSL & SSH for that).

Does this feature exist in WSL? Not to my knowledge, but that could simply be that I haven't looked for it. I suppose if you're doing that sort of stored login credential thing, you could just write a little shell script which answered the appropriate prompts without too much trouble... I wouldn't recommend it, but you could probably get it to work.
Optimization to explicitly initialize undefined object members in JavaScript
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