skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking about how startups and journalists use it, then yes (and since English is what English speaking people speak, then that usage is a definition of the word).

But "disrupt" has a technical meaning, and pretty clearly defined by Christensen - a product/service that's worse for the main use of that category, but has other qualities valued by other customers for some other use; over time it improves, and while the category leader also improves it eventually "overshoots" what people need, whereas this new thing becomes acceptable AND it has those other qualities - at that point, it is dramatically replaced by the newcomer, completing the process of "disruption". Seminal example: 8 inch disk drives had (and have) greater capacity; but are bigger and less convenient, and a smaller diskdrive has enough capacity. Same thing happened to 5.25", 3.5", those tiny laptop ones, and now SSD. Same pattern. It's an industry/category event, not a company event... but some companies benefit from it.

But it's not very predictive (even thoigh the pattern seems legit in hindsight); Christensen himself famously dismissed the iPhone with about as much aplomb as Cmdrtaco dismissed the iPod. TTBF, while smartphones are disrupting PCs, it's not that absolute; about as much as netbooks did. PCs are still going strong for games, development and business. It was a different story when PCs disrupted workstations.
Not using the OS compositor locks you out of some cool stuff like backdrop blur and global lighting effects. At least on Windows, where both the native UI framework (XAML) and web platform use DirectComposition and thus can both benefit from it for effects and smooth scrolling. Which also means scrolling in apps can feel the same as scrolling in the browser.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft, not on anything related to graphics rendering or the compositor though.
Which studies? I'd like to read them.

The key to almost every politically oriented study I've seen isn't what the study includes, but what it leaves out.
Goodbye Chicago
Again, this is a long-standing protocol that many people over the years have benefited from within both parties. It is nothing new. People complaining about it today should be willing to condemn every single one of those that benefited from it. Of which, I never hear anyone doing that.
I'm just so happy the Godot is at the top of HN.
If a company spends millions upon millions in R&D to come up with something that makes their customers dramatically more productive, I think it's fitting that they should be able to patent it and reap the rewards of their investment. That's how we encourage that kind of innovation - with the potential for massive windfalls. It works.

I do have a bit of wariness in the back of my mind about the long-term ramifications of setting the precedent that companies can own genetic patterns. I don't think anybody knows quite what the knock-on effects of that might be in twenty or thirty years... but I also don't know how we can protect and encourage this kind of innovation without granting those exclusive rights.
Interesting. However, when anything, such as that video, mentions "zionism", that automatically triggers my anti-Semite radar.
> A well run company will always have more work for each employee than is possible for them to complete.

That depends.

It may do wonders for efficiency, yet there are a number of ways it can breakdown: failing to complete regulatory or contractual requirements is a big one, since they rarely allow for flexibility. Clients may not receive the service they expect, so the organisation's reputation will be damaged. In cases like that, prioritisation only really works to diminish the possibility that too much time is spent on small tasks or that efficiency is reduced by doing things out of order.

It also turn small problems into a crisis. With staff already working at capacity, there are very few options for handling the problem.
As some comments imply it was strength of or "approach to diversity" in the market that caused the failure, it should be noted the post outlined: What caused Afrostream to close is not lack of traction or market demand but lack of capital. The more subscribers gained, the more content thus, more funding required. The VOD industry has high operating costs (content acquisition, marketing, localization, tech, etc) and a longer breakeven timeline (note cited examples of other much bigger but not yet profitable companies including Netflix). Afrostream addressed a sizable but ignored niche with demand demonstrated in user growth and it is unfortunate that they couldn't get more funding.
Self determination is a human right. It is not unlawful, and a referendum about it isn’t either. If a certain law doesn’t allow for it, the law is wrong.

Of course, Spain is also calling thoroughly pacific demonstrations “tumultuous” so that they can accuse politicians of sedition, so Spain clearly doesn’t care about truth and law.
> What's the reasonable thing to do when a grow-memory instruction returns -1?

A good assumption is that your WebAssembly binary already has an implementation of malloc which calls grow_memory. It should do something sane, and you shouldn't need to worry: it's similar to having mmap fail on other platforms. What do you do when mmap fail? I usually just give up and abort, but in rare cases I'll do other fancy things.

> Are there high-quality polyfills available for older browsers?

Work had started in 2015 for a solid polyfill, but now all major browser vendors have shipped WebAssembly so that work wasn't seen as necessary anymore.

> How is forward-compatibility expected to be handled? Right now there's only WebAssembly with the core feature-set. What happens as some vendors start to add support for varying features such as GC, SIMD, threads, etc.?

Not that satisfying an answer, but https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FeatureTes...
I don't know if it's different on the east coast but I have never met a single person whose gotten any severance. About the nicest I've seen from companies is them saying "we won't dispute your unemployment claim"
He didn't directly say, "You have no idea what you're doing," he said, "Google [as a company] has no idea [in which new verticals] how to invest its money, other than advertising, [and therefore] Google is no longer a tech company, [in the new technology sense of the word]."

He goes on to say that an investment in Google is a bet against new search engine technologies. Eric Schmidt rebuts by saying that there have been many business process technological innovations within the company, such as Chrome, which represent Google being a tech company.
There is no way to avoid steep grades, but the pass he took is much more difficult to drive than taking the Eisenhower tunnel due to sharp turns. It can be stressful in a car, I can't imagine doing that in a semi.
The currently understood source of ADHD is a mis-wiring of the brain. Currently we don't know of a better way than meds to alleviate such a condition. CBT helps to a degree, CBT + meds works much better for more severe cases.
Sometimes conspiracy theories are correct.

https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-round...

And Monsanto overdoes it with their shilling on Reddit to the point where it is so much in your fact that it hurts. I guess they do it in house instead of contracting? They aren't very good at it.
How can a company's monopoly destroy humanity without the protection of an AI police force? Are you expecting the population to go along with it?
Stupid Solutions to Stupid Problems: Hardcoding Your SSH Key in the Kernel
Nate Silver: The Media Has a Probability Problem
I think the mechanism might work like this (disclaimer, I'm not a doctor, I'm just making a theoretical guess):

What can an antibiotic do? Kill bacteria that are not resistant to it. If a bacterium is resistant to it, it will be unaffected. Now, if you stop taking it "early" the antibiotic didn't have the time to kill 100% of non-resistant bacteria. You leave your body in a mixed environment where non-resistant and resistant bacteria have to compete. If you keep taking it once you feel better maybe you killed all the non-resistant bacteria. So you leave your body in an homogeneous environment where only resistant bacteria live, don't have to compete, and can prosper undisturbed.
Leave it to stackexchange to shed some more light on the matter[0].

The original limits appear to be for units available for export, but I would guess manufacturers didn't want to deal with the headache of producing different models for import/export and just slapped the restriction down on everything. The poster does claim the original restriction was indeed an OR[1].

And current restrictions may only be 600 m/s? [2]pg 58

[0]https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/14687/current-situ...

[1]https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/corbin/class_description/5700-5800V...

"Immediate access to satellite measurements and navigation results is
disabled when the receiver’s velocity is computed to be greater than
1000 knots, or its altitude is computed to be above 18,000 meters. The
receiver continuously resets until the COCOM situation is cleared."

[2]http://mtcr.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/MTCR-T...
I also had this happen trying to open a PDF in Firefox recently.
I'm in ArcSight/HPE now under Micro Focus. Does this news still affect us?
Also, no one had said here that the actual Catalan government didn't completely won the popular vote. They were quite benefit by the D'Hondt method.
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/nestle_evart_wet...

This is exactly the point I was making. What are the odds.
I downloaded it and tried it on Scribd and I can't tell what it is doing.
Godot 3.0 has been one year in development (since the release of Godot 2.1 in August 2016), and I wouldn't say it's in a "very early stage".

It's almost feature-complete, tons of bugs have been eradicated already, and the stable release is should be 2-3 months away.

As for slow developments... I don't know where you're taking that? Godot has dozens of commits every day, and the pace at which 3.0 features were implemented is honestly impressive (I'm obviously biased as a Godot dev, but check the GitHub repo [0] and the monthly progress reports on the devblog [1]).

Godot has been in development since 2007, open sourced in 2014, and has had 400+ contributors [0] over 3 years vs 32 [2] for Atomic over 2 years. On the other hand, young Atomic is an overlay on the mature Urho3D project with 100+ contributors [3] and over 6 years of development.

Both Godot and Atomic have their strengths and weaknesses, and are IMO two great open source game engines - but as far as maturity goes, I think the sheer size of Godot (both in terms of community and git/issues/PRs activity) compared to Atomic says a lot.

[0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot
[1] https://godotengine.org/devblog
[2] https://github.com/AtomicGameEngine/AtomicGameEngine
[3] https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D
The Mughal's did bad things too, but some of their kings like Akbar at least tried to integrate society and not cause religious strife. The Mughal Empire did a lot of bad things in India, especially nutcases like Aurangzeb, and Indian people recognize those bad things.

The problem, as I understand, is that a lot of British people don't know all the bad things the Empire did, or don't learn about it the way German people learn about the Holocaust and the Nazi's. Same thing might apply to Belgium - I was appalled to visit Brussels and see a park called "Leopold Park" [1] in the center of the city.

Edit: Turns out this park is named after King Leopold I, the first king of Belgium, and before the Congo atrocities. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314232 for the person who educated me :)

On a more personal level, as an Indian person who grew up in the US, I always thought Churchill was a badass dude and a good wartime leader. It wasn't until Middle School that I learned about the WW2 famines and all the stuff he said about Indian people. He hated Indians and was extremely racist. His decisions directly lead to the death of millions of people in India. He's no better than Hitler or any of those dictators in my view, and it's mind boggling that people idolize him as the Lion.

Tangent aside, a lot of people did bad things (globally), but saying the Ottomans are bad or the Belgians are bad doesn't absolve the British Empire of its crimes. I don't think we need reparations or blame anybody today, since we all understand bad things happened, but more people should be educated about what happened and how to make sure it never happens again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Park
Betsy Devos reinstates “innocent until proven guilty” for college sexual assault
And there's also quorum commits too! Point is, these features aren't on by default, so you really have to know what you're doing, and not just assume you're safe because of the magic word "ACID".
Aesthetics are not as subjective as you seem to think. I am not sitting on a high-horse here; I argue closer to the opposite.

My assertion that contemporary web design is affect-laden has proof in the pudding. It is ridden with commercial "trend" and "delight". Contemporary web design lacks concern for either content or form. It is a maze of 'interactive expressionism'.

I would go as far as to say it bears some responsibility for the current ICO bubble, for example; the "whitepaper" being the only lucid concept (form of content) in a sea of slivering serpents. Of course technical whitepapers are not new but their declarative function is being psychologically undermined by their symbolic form. How is this possible? It is a function of decadence, a delusion of form and meaning.

>I believe it is quite possible to have a site thay is both well designed and which hosts content of high intellectual value.

You won't find anyone on the internet to argue with this statement, of course. I agree. I think hackernews.come has done about as good of job as any by acknowledging 'form' as necessary context for intellectual 'content'. Your issue is with what "well designed" means. See above.
As someone diagnosed with ADHD in their mid 30's, I've had plenty of environment changes over the years (including with a Psychiatrist who understood my then-reluctant view on meds); honestly none helped me nearly as much as meds.
I was an engineer at Apple for a while and I never got the feeling that this was malicious behavior. New features and ever increasing codebase always makes things slow down, and speed of old devices was never the top priority; instead, new power hungry features were often released to take advantage of new hardware speeds, so it's not surprising to me that the biggest iOS slowdowns coincide with new hardware releases.
> I understand there's no way to avoid steep grades in the mountains.

Sure, but your original post assumed he took the more dangerous route. The interstate through the tunnel is no picnic either, and I'd argue it's a tossup whether going through there with all of the cars and other trucks is actually safer than Loveland.

You made an assumption based on experience you don't have that was critical of someone who does this for a living -- in fact, suggesting that the choice made by said person should carry a penalty! That is why you're seeing downvotes.
Hello there, jumping in the conversation as I am one of the early adopter.

This is how I implemented it on my side project Thread Reader.
See an example on: https://tttthreads.com/t/907445479826448385 bottom of the page

My implementation use 1 thread max with 35% of the CPU max.
I've done it this way because it is what I'm ready to give as an user

Also it does not start (and show a Paypal donate instead) if:

- you are on a mobile device (tested with user agent)

- you are on battery (tested with the browser.getBattery API)

If the miner starts: you get an info box at the bottom of the page,
with an user accessible explanation (should be understandable by anyone)
and a STOP button (that stop it for 90 days)

Also before using the miner I took some time to communicate about it,
even if I did not get much user feedback (I use my project twitter account to do so)

If you get the Paypal donate box it means that the script decided not to start the miner for some reason.
no demo available yet... sorry!
There's a network and system activity monitoring tool called GlassWire[1] with good visualizations and intuitive reports. When it was first shown here couple of years ago [2], I was very impressed. I don't use Windows anymore but hopefully the tool's still as good and maintained well. Maybe you can run it for a few weeks to either convince yourself there's no mischief from the old firm, or take more targeted actions.

[1]: https://www.glasswire.com/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8222652
No more than your neighbors constitute an elected government.
Right, but that's happening _now_ so we (well, the people who are doing it) have the power to prevent it.
If westerners think that, I can understand. Unfortunately, lot of Indians think the same way, that the British invasion was good for India since they gave us the railways and some other stuff. I don't know much history, but seeing how they destroyed India and killed millions (through famines), I can't wonder how brainwashed these Indians are.
Farmers decide if they want a future or not every time they pencil out the profits for the coming crop year. Its a commodity business. Grain farmers have zero pricing power. They can increase their top line by increasing yield. They can reduce costs to increase margins.

It's not a simple problem to solve. Moralizing about someone else's business without understanding the fundamental economics isn't going to solve it. It's a public policy question in the end.

I have skin in the game. I own row crop land in Iowa and Minnesota that is operated by local farmers. My leases require good land stewardship and I only lease to farmer/operators that are willing to meet the conditions. For the majority of farmers, good stewardship of the land and environment is part of their ethos. There are obvious exceptions. We should do something about the exceptions, and that is where it becomes a public policy question.

IMHO, herbacide drift is fundamentally a form of trespass when it drifts out of your own field. Let's start with treating drift as trespass. Cattle breaking the fence is treated that way, the maintainer of the fence is liable for damages. Keep your chemicals behind your own property line.
This. Not sure where OP is located, but in the UK and The Netherlands, there are plenty of agencies who are looking for freelancers to place at their clients.
I build travis CI jobs on Mac OS because that's the easiest way to get a reasonably modern c++ compiler. I'm glad somebody realizes there's life beyond c++-03
> Very few people in the West, for example, even know about the ethnic cleansing of the Greeks under the Ottoman Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide)

Fewer still know about the "Turkish Genocide" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_genocide) but that's more to do with cherry-picking "historians" such as yourself.

Of course that Wikipedia page redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Ottoman_Muslims which kinda proves the point that for some reason we can't use the term "Turkish Genocide" and must use quotes and softer language like "Persecution".
Neural Optimizer Search with Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
I just wanted to say that your post implies that the East India Company could be thought of as fictional and that shocked me. I mean, I've learned about it in school, so I also had no idea it existed before that (I'm not English), but it's concerning that it isn't taught.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Lay Off 10% of Its Staff
I don't think "perfect" was meant to be taken literally.
Mobile App Advice from Some of the Best SaaS Product Designers
It's full of Javascript trackers. So actually John Snow must know a lot.
> The British East India Company was actually much larger.

Do you have any sources for that? Most things I can find mention the opposite. For example, from Wikipedia[1]:

> Between 1602 and 1796 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted for their efforts more than 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods. By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882,412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the British East India Company (EIC), the VOC's nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2,690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
Wouldn't that, in turn, depend on how much energy was put into the system by the original blast/splitting?
How Not to Lie with Statistics: Averages
Expecting a big publicity drive from Mozilla soon, because if Firefox 57 ends up as snappy as Nightly is right now, it could win back some of the people who want to support Firefox but eventually moved to Chrome for performance reasons.

Then once WebRender lands, well, who knows? I assume Google are planning something in response - the continued dominance of Chrome is worth considerable $billions to them...
Designing Websites for iPhone X
Not quite.

Bluetooth was originally encrypted, but gained the option of non-encrypted channels with version 1.1.

On top of that Bluetooth use frequency hopping.

Until recently there was no real hardware for scanning/sniffing Bluetooth traffic, at least not anything easily available compared to a wifi card in promiscuous mode.
I just had a round of antibiotics for an infected spider bite (no super powers) and the prescription amount and duration was extremely arbitrary - 2000mg/day of something for 10 days. I'm guessing not only are they not hitting the sweet spot, but they're prescribing multiple times more than someone would need, just to be safe, considering they don't know the strain of bacteria or anything relevant about me besides my weight.
Report: Peter Thiel Is Funding a Totally Shady Offshore Herpes Vaccine Trial
That was not the point though. I am a permanent resident, and when i was on visa i was constantly sent through secondary inspection. I had to get a redress code to fix some of these issues, but hey, it was a price i had to pay. That is how i think about it.

Now, us is working on programs to enable expedited travel like global entry, or nexus, and more people are eligible for it (like indians). While it is really hard to see how phones can be dangerous in this day an age of internet, but still...
To fix Sacramento’s housing crisis, blame Bay Area refugees
> Firefox stopped supporting ALSA, so I had to install PA

PulseAudio emulation for ALSA https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
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> I've always loved assembly, since it gives you the bare minimum of concepts and tooling from which you can build everything.

Well... modern assembly is monstrously complex. Probably more so than your favorite high level programming language. Modern assembly is generally not a bare minimum, because it's designed to give compilers the interface to run code fast, not to be easy to program by people.

And WebAssembly is a bit of a misnomer since it's not quite your processor's assembly; it's designed to be assembled fast on the client side, while also being memory-safe. Ironically that makes it simpler than actual assembly.
How to make a paper gun – Papercraft gun – Origami gun
I hope not as HTML has accessibility built in while canvas doesn’t. No need to take a step backwards on this. I’m okay with rendering to canvas but long as accessibility is taken into account. (Hint: most of the time it is not.)
Alsa has had dmix for quite some time. The thing was that until something like a decade ago it had to be manually enabled via a .asoundrc edit. These days Alsa will enable it automatically on any device known to not have a hardware mixer.
You have no idea. Travel to usa from turkey, and im not kidding, you need to go through around 6 id checks and luggage checks even for us citizens.
Wow, that packed truck section is a thing of beauty. Like real life Tetris.