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> a highly-configured Emacs can easily reach levels of integration that I think is worthy of the “Integrated Development Environment” label

I disagree. I've _never_ seen an integration into emacs that comes close to a _good_ integrated debugging experience. Similarly, the navigation/refactoring integrations tend to feel bolted on, rather than integrated. (you're using projectile and irony mode? They both have different representations of what your "project" is, so you have to keep both up to date).
Again, actually "building" from emacs is something I've never seen done well. You've inevitably got the compile command which you have to write yourself, but my IDE can parse its own project file, generate a list of targets and configurations (predefined compiler flags for optimisation/definitions) and build those in one keystroke. I've also never seen any integration of any autocomplete that works with configurations either.
Wasn't what I had in mind, but thanks for that! I'm interested in the history of UI experimentation, and this looks interesting.
I just did 3 searches on there and 2 times I got a server error. I will try Qwant now as default, but it already feels bad.
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The argument seems pretty damn clear throughout my post. The point is made by the difference between CP and piracy.

One has support from a significant amount of people and is drawn more and more into the darknet (although clearnet + closed registration also occurs more and more), the other one is both very underground as well as it doesn't have support from a significant amount of people. A large enough group of people who operate the darknet make sure there's no CP to be found and they'd do things like snitch, destroy content, maybe even operate fake sale with BTC address, etc. Yet that very same group supports the notion of piracy. That's why you can find pirated content on the darknet with ease.

Its a given that the clearnet will become more regulated. Ever since I've been on the Internet, it has become only more regulated; not less. Its a given that darknets will rise within the clearnet. We can and should oppose this trend, sure, but we should also take action with more anonymity and privacy. Which is possible on the darknet.

Its a cat and mouse game with outliers where the cat is massive and the mouse has no movement space versus a cat and mouse game where the mouse gets help from the powers that be.

If you're interested in the philosophical side of the matter I invite you to read Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone.

Another point all my 3 posts make is that even on the darknet there's censorship (ie. even there's no absolute freedom of speech). Why? Because we, the vast majority of people, do not like CP, and do not want to have the darknet as a platform spreading it. A lot of people draw the line there. Maybe you personally don't. There's only so much you can do. For example do you want a CP site to be part of an index? Maybe you do. I certainly don't. And as long as a significant majority of the people who frolic around on the darknet actively hamper CP (such as in the way with the examples I made), it won't be easily found and therefore stays underground instead of being easily spread.
In bitcoin you don't get paid to run full nodes. Only the miners get paid for verifying transactions. Verifying transactions is done by the users themselves with iota, so there is no need for miners and no need for fees.
> First of all it's too loaded and it doesn't seem to work at all without Javascript enabled. Give me a text field, I don't care about the news.

I genuinely don't understand this hostile statement. Why do you complain that a website isn't functional in pure html in 2017? do you want the web to look like it's 1998?
It's not just microcontrollers that are amazing: using a cheap phone can give you a screen, a battery, 3G and sensors.
iirc the original pagerank algorithm was based on weighting page value by how often other pages linked to it, with higher weighted pages lending greater to weight to outlinked pages. Obviously google's extended it greatly since, but that core behavior of lowering unpopular blogs in search results should always be there; in terms of linkage, they're not much different from spam/trash
Pretty sure I would count as a "Giver" and a fairly average one.

There are knock-on effects of living in a system with less desperation such as lower crime rates, better infrastructure, and more opportunity which is enjoyed by everyone. The "givers" in your example would in all likelihood not have been givers their entire life. They will have been educated at a university, gotten their first job when someone was off for a year on maternity leave, etc.
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I was hoping to see a project which allows users to collaboratively train an AI model, so that open source projects can compete with corporate clusters of 100 GPUs. (e.g. to create useful speech recognition engines etc)
I think this is to do with the barrier to entry. You have to have a certain level of sophistication to get into Ham, just like you did with Internet in the early days. Then came the long September ...

Facebook, twitter had the same feeling of "exclusivity" for a while. Twitter lasted a bit longer because the capability to compose your thoughts in < 140 chars demanded a certain level of sophistication but then came #winning and shit-posting.

These days I find as a developer even, as that segment expands there's an increasing amount of noise but I've gotten into emacs recently and can appreciate the marked increase in tranquility there. Nobody's trying to make a buck off my questions and answers. Nobody has a commercial (or other) interest in keeping me clueless.
I remember the days pre-google when Yahoo was king. And most sites were filed under a topic/category. That was the default way to find a group of somethings. It's also a little suggestive and explorative, whereas keyword based search engines relied more on you being more specific. Crowd stoked search results and AI have bridged the divide these days. What the author failed to mention was web rings. Basically authors with like minded material would link to each other. So once you found something you could hop to something else and bypass the search engine. These days you are almost crippled without the search hand.
There were no hardware wallets in the days of MtGox, which meant that it was extremely hard to secure Bitcoins. It got easier since then, and many people learned from MtGox (though many people haven't). Also companies take bigger care of securing their cold wallets.
I would never recommend BitFinex to anyone though (GDAX and BitStamp have VC money / long history)
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Oh god yes.

The other day I saw a marabou bird in a wildlife documentary and was surprised by the hair-like stuff on its gular sack (the pink bag hanging from its neck). Wikipedia doesn't mention it and if you search for "marabou feathers" you only find that the world apparently obsesses about the fuzzy white crest on its neck that inspired fashion some decades ago. "Marabou hair" and "marabou hair feathers" likewise only yield information about fashion accessories. Even if you explicitly include "gular sack" Google unhelpfully tries to lead you towards information about the crest feathers.

This is definitely a case where even if you think you know all the relevant words you're unable to phrase a search query in a way that convinces Google you're not interested in the generic results everybody else is likely looking for.

And this isn't even a case that matters much. I was just trying to find out whether those feathers are actually a different type or just look more hair-like for some reason. It reminded me of a video I once saw about primitive proto-feathers we now know some dinosaurs had (affectionally called "dino fuzz").
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Yep, I loved this one.
G+ communities really shine for this kind of thing. I suggest subscribing to the various communities that take your fancy and make a point of checking once or twice a week.
Narrow-band-amber-LEDs and SOX would avoid the blue light problem.
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It fails the "only" criterion (it costs more than $2.20, whereas the author had a strict $1 cut-off precisely stating that a huge field opens up above that price range.)

Fom "the rules":

>While some projects that come across my desk are complex enough to require a hundreds-of-MHz microcontroller with all the bells and whistles, it’s amazing how many projects work great using nothing more than a $1 chip — so this is the only rule I established for the shoot-out.

>I wanted to explore the $1 pricing zone specifically because it’s the least amount of money you can spend on an MCU that’s still general-purpose enough to be widely useful in a diverse array of projects.

>Any cheaper, and you end up with 6- or 8-pin parts with only a few dozen bytes of RAM, no ADC, nor any peripherals other than a single timer and some GPIO.

>Any more expensive, and the field completely opens up to an overwhelming number of parts — all with heavily-specialized peripherals and connectivity options.

Of course, the ESP8266 is precisely this "hundreds of megahertz" chip (160 Mhz) with "heavily specialized connectivity options" and peripherals (wifi and, in the case of ESP8265, a full megabyte of flash memory). While all this is interesting, at the $2+ price there are "an overwhelming number of parts."

So the author chose $1 as a very hard cut-off.
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Those two have nothing to do with each other. Someone in that thread purely speculated and now there are 'rumors'.
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Graal is a native-code compiler for Java, implemented in Java. It can be used as a JIT or an AOT compiler.

Truffle is a framework for implementing languages in Java, implemented in Java. Truffle can use Graal to automatically produce a JIT for languages implemented in it.

SubstrateVM is a JVM and AOT compiler using Graal, implemented in Java. With SubstrateVM you can take a Java program and produce a single, statically-linked executable with no dependency on the JVM.

Sulong is an interpreter for LLVM bitcode (so C, Fortran, Rust, etc programs) using Truffle, implemented in Java.

So together you can start to see how it's a system for 'one VM to rule them all' - all languages running with high performance in a single system.

It would be possible to write a Java bytecode interpreter, in Java, using Truffle, which would be JIT compiled using Graal, and to AOT compile that interpreter to a binary using SubstrateVM, which would give you a complete high-performance JVM implemented only in Java, yes.

Today enough of these components are available to produce a standalone high-performance Ruby or JavaScript VM, written entirely in Java, that has no dependency on the JVM.
That will change now that it's at the top of HN, but I agree - it's currently very obscure to search engines.

My guess is that it's a new site? Only a few articles, and Open Site Explorer reports a Domain Authority of 18, which is approximately equal to zero :)

However, if the author keeps writing these articles at this level of quality, chances are in a year it'll dominate relevant SERPs.
Nice. The guy with the Swiss accent's channel is a very good start: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu7_D0o48KbfhpEohoP7YSQ
Good list! Also, if you work with databases (particularly PostgreSQL) and want to work with them from Vim, check out dbext: http://jonathansacramento.com/posts/20160122-improve-postgre...

Link to dbext here: https://github.com/vim-scripts/dbext.vim
Good point, but the way I see it there are two parts to a gambling game: (a) the physical rewards (blinkenlights, twinkly noises etc) and (b) the monetary rewards.

If the physical rewards were enough of a draw in and of themselves, I think we could reasonably expect there to be a market for games that don't involve money. For instance, I could imagine smaller, cheaper slot machines sold directly to players, to take them home and feed them coins all day, just to see the pretty lights (I mean they could get their coins back at the end of the day).

The fact that there doesn't seem to be any serious interest in that sort of game machine tells me that the monetary rewards are the primary purpose of play.
I come from less a practical side to this, more from a persons side who is reading history books.

Every page yells, at you "decentralize" prevent destruction, prevent information control, prevent fortress paranoia and pride by delusions.
I don't know about other users wasting away, but I remember Chmeee (of the tiger-like species) destroying the droud when they were travelling to the Ringworld, so Louis Wu was without an option on quitting it.
Their claim of 0 fees will not last. It means DDOSing will be trivial, and their network will be crippled.
100% agree. Living in berlin for 4 years and I was shocked reading that comment.
This seems like a VERY shallow analysis of the benefits.

Forking an industrial-grade tool means the entire lifespan of the entire product becomes your responsibility to your client. Tracking the major upgrade changes might be a pain in the arse but they're nothing compared to tracking every security and data-loss fix that bubbles around the Postgres community.

It's not just developer time that's the cost here. They had to compile the whole Postgres+Citus database, for every platform they support, in a timely manner, test it and distribute packages. Think of all the CPU cycles and bandwidth they're saving by only having to compile as an extension against public headers.

Functioning as an extension means Postgres and its distributors (eg Ubuntu) are the people responsible for keeping Postgres alive and secure. Citus only have to support their thing.

Why aren't they talking about how much this move is saving them in day-to-day? There's no shame in being efficient.
> Will anyone really notice 2gb of RAM vs 3gb of RAM?

The "man on the street" possibly not, and the is the larger part of the audience in most cases so both advertising and reviews concentrate in that direction.

A slightly more demanding user who multitasks (or at least task switches a lot) with their phone will definitely notice though because switching between apps is where the lower active memory will have most effect on the responsiveness particularly with larger apps (MS Excel especially with a reasonably chunky workbook loaded, many games, ...).

The "man on the street" type user will play those games and may use the office apps too, but is less likely to care as much about task switching time as they won't do it as often. Most of their use is making calls, sending texts, and using facebook/messenger and its ilk.

If you want more technical review, then there are places out there that still produce them, but it isn't what most people want (they don't care about the technical details, they are looking for a judgement on the overall feel) so there is less of it out there.

Back on RAM: the difference between 4Gb and 3Gb is much smaller - a friend has the 3Gb version of the same phone and there is a difference that is noticeable in artificial tests side-by-side but not more generally (I went for the larger device not for the RAM, but for the greater internal storage (64Gb over 32Gb)).
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> Unfortunately for me today is 2017 and I do realize that I don't have any exciting future at all.

You do. Today you can play with Keras or Scikit-learn to do magic that was undreamed of back then.
People doing this really annoy me, especially as it's often half the flight trying to avoid paying for a checked bag.

I'd like to get on the plane, put my small backpack out of the way in the overhead storage, and depart.

Instead, we'll spend 15 minutes with people trying to cram their huge bags into insufficient space, and my reward for waiting until my row was called for boarding is to have my backpack jammed between my feet.

On short routes with good transport connections at either end (for me, London to Copenhagen) it's the biggest difference in experience between e.g. EasyJet and BA.
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Why is it a problem to have page functional without Javascript? It's the number one tools for spying on users, so especially if you're a privacy focused search engine, you should except people to have Javascript disabled, until they choose to trust you.

There's no real need to javascript on search engines or news sites. There might be some additional features, like polls that will require Javascript, but the base functionality should work.

I'm still a firm believer in progressive enhancement, even if it's no longer trendy. Modern Javascript framework however seems to be firmly in the "Javascript or die" camp.
In my experience, the ESP8266 is fine with 5V, I have yet to burn one even with 5V on its pins.
I have to go ahead and completely disagree with you there. It's certainly more complex under the hood but:

A) Education has never been this accessible - see https://www.coursera.org/, youtube, MOOCs, blog posts etc. which did not exist anywhere for free even 10 years ago

B) APIs and abstractions make a lot of this quite accessible (e.g. AWS, tensorflow etc.), yes these are "magical" APIs, but you could make the same argument regarding a C compiler going to binary, all the way down to logic gates and electrical pulses

33 is young in terms of education, I would highly doubt you're progressing slowly due to your age, probably more your attitude that is holding you back.
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I couldn't agree more, I'm amazed by every single one of their post. They are doing a great job at communicating and giving rich insights on Postgres.
I personally feel that's just you. I'm genuinely happy for you that you can be unfazed, but many many people can't -- it costs them and taxes them. Someone not sticking up for those latter folks makes for a world where only folks with your brand of relating can cut it. That's kinda needlessly limiting, when the cost of things being better is just setting our collective arbitrary bar a little higher :)

Holding people to a higher standard doesn't make the world any worse -- it just means those people have to adapt, but that makes for a world that more and more of us (even those without your sorta soft skills) can navigate. That seems healthy?
This is reasonable when machines list a maximum reward of say 10,000$ and then it says has someone win 2000x that. After all, the players did not make the bet thinking such a payout was possible.

IMO, it is a sign the machines are not setup to follow the states rules. But, people are suing for the amount listed not trying to shut the casino down.
I can vouch for the D1 mini also. It's the one you want, by far. It has an on board programmer so you can power and program it from USB, while being the smallest board in size out of the popular ones.

The actual smallest I've seen is one I made: https://github.com/skorokithakis/tiny-ESP8266-breakout
People forget that especially in the business world PowerPoint presentations are not only used for presenting content but also as a medium of distribution.

The author presumably does not see need to assamble two sets of the content and just uses the same slides intended for presentation also as handout - resulting in eiter an overloaded presentation or useless handouts.

I try to avoid that by integrating all necessary background info in the presentation but skip that during the presentation and only display it if asked for.
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> uid-owner hasn't worked properly for a long time

Please say more. Cites would help too.
Some of the learning to learn models do much more than fine-tuning parameters, they can even discover novel architectures. On the other hand, using meta-learning can be a way to check if human generated solutions are up to par, because random search can be more thorough and even try absurd ideas that might work out.

In programming we have tons of automation as well and we haven't ditched the programmer yet. Programming is auto-cannibalizing itself since its inception, each language automating more of our work. Even in ML, 10 years ago it was necessary to create features by hand. This required a lot of expertise. Today it's been automated by DL, but we have more AI scientists than ever and the jobs are even better paid.

So I don't think meta-learning is a fluff idea, and we don't have to fear it replacing humans yet. Instead, it will make AI more robust. The only minus I see is that it requires a lot of compute, but we can rent that from the cloud (make an architecture search for a few thousand dollars), we don't need to fork millions of dollars like the big labs who own their hardware. And we don't need this kind of intensive DL all the time, just once maybe, for a project. After we find the best architecture and hyperparameters, we can use that and train normally. By collating meta-learning data across many projects, we can make training faster and cheaper, reusing insight gained before.
The author fixed it.

That is, TIL that wordpress replaces these things on output, and there is not even a switch to prevent that. I had to install a plugin to fix this.
He probably also knew what to focus on, which helps tremendously with any presentation.
I've had the best overall experience using an ATTINY85 [1]. It almost serves my purpose for every use case I've had in the past couple of years - Running steppers, basic home automation, wireless, etc.

If you buy them in bulk, you can get it down to less than $1 per MC. [2]

You can even install Arduino libs on it and the Arduino interface has quite good support for it as well.

Some of my projects with it include a DSLR camera slider [3], wireless home automation (turn off lights when I'm not in the room, communicate with my air-conditioner to maintain the room temperature using IR, etc.)

[1] http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATtiny85

[2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/5PCS-ATTINY85-20PU-IC-MCU-8BIT-8KB-...

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/1AscllHDQ0/?taken-by=discovery.d...
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I am sure people agree with you here and there will be plenty of people who find the casino industry distasteful but I would avoid projecting your own value set onto this.

For every person whose life has been ruined by gambling, there are many who are able to enjoy it responsibly. Same goes for any of the other classic vices such as tobacco or drinking, or even food. I am sure there are plenty of people who are comfortable distancing themselves with the responsibility of the impact these products have on users but take pride in their ability to improve upon the metrics that warrant success in their field.

If it were so soul-destroying, no one would do the job... (unless the pay was phenomenal)
This is not the entire field of AuotML or even the entirety of Google's published research.